Re: 5-STABLE Roadmap

[Brad Knowles]

At 6:53 AM -0800 2003/02/14, Sam Leffler wrote:

 $450 for educational organizations.  Wouldn't the FreeBSD
 Foundation qualify?

 The point was that they cost $$$.  Not an option for many developers.

	Fair enough.

                                    Microbenchmarks are valuable here and
 have already been heavily used.

Good. Can we get a more complete list of the microbenchmarks used, and perhaps get some consideration for some of the benchmarks I've mentioned?

                                  We're at the point where we need something
 that exercises the system on a bit larger scale.

This indicates to me that LMbench might be a good choice for internal O/S & networking things, and that perhaps one of IOStone, IOBench, or IOZone might be good choices for exercising the disk subsystem.

                                                   Eventually we'll get to
 the point where large-scale benchmarks are worth running.

	Large-scale, as in?

 Of course what we really need more than benchmarks are people to actually
 follow through on the results and fix the problems...

I hope to be able to help in a more material fashion by being able to run some comparison benchmarks on my test system here, but I fear that I would not be able to help fix any problems that might be identified.

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