> On Thursday 13 February 2003 11:28 pm, Sam Leffler wrote:
> > > At 4:36 PM -0800 2003/02/13, Scott Long wrote:
> > > > - the classic 'worldstone'
> > > > - webstone - /usr/ports/www/webstone
> > > > - Fstress - http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/fstress
> > > > - ApacheBench - /usr/ports/www/p5-ApacheBench
> > > > - netperf - /usr/ports/benchmarks/netperf
> > >
> > > Are there any other benchmarks that are being considered? What
> > > about LMBench? RawIO? Bonnie++? Other disk benchmarks? Do we care
> > > about application-layer benchmarks for other protocols, such as SMTP,
> > > POP3, or IMAP?
> > >
> > > Just curious. Thanks!
> >
> > This can quickly turn into a bikeshed, but suggest ones. We're looking
for
> > good benchmarks. lmbench, rawio, and bonniee are rather "micro" in
nature
> > (not bad, just limited in their usefulness).
>
> SpecFS (NFS ops/sec benchmark)
>
List price on SPEC SFS97 R1 is $900. And my recollection is that it was
involved to setup and run.
Benchmarks must be unencumbered; be easy to setup+run by one person; and not
require lots of equipment. For the most part we are looking for benchmarks
that will help tune system performance; not generate press releases.
Sam
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