From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 17 12:48:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA27155 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 12:48:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (etinc.com [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA27150 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 12:48:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp-082.etinc.com (ppp-082.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA06355; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 15:49:54 -0500 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 15:49:54 -0500 Message-Id: <199602172049.PAA06355@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Heikki Suonsivu From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: BSD/OS 2.1 Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >In article <199602151844.NAA00492@etinc.com> dennis@etinc.com (dennis) writes: > I've finished installing the new release of BSD/OS....which by the way is rather >... > I'd like to benchmark it against freebsd and perhaps publish the results (if > they're > favorable, of course )...can anyone point me at some good, portable, widely > accepted benchmark utilities. Obviously network-related stuff is of interest > >Allow 50-100 users to log in and use anything they want, including >installing new software (non-root) and run it, and tell us how long the >thing stays up. For large site use, it is the one and only benchmark. Benchmarking and reliability testing are different animals...we're selling routers and small-medium corporate web server/routers....I don't think how it handles huge loads is an issue. Its kind of like someone telling you that the wheels will fly off a particular car when you hit 150MpH....If you have no plans to drive that fast its not going to keep you from buying it. dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX