At 8:28 PM -0800 2003/02/13, Sam Leffler wrote:
Well, I would submit that webstone and ApacheBench are rather "micro" in their nature as well -- they cover only one protocol, and/or one program.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).
LMbench is, to the best of my knowledge, the very best low-level benchmark around for looking at things like system call overhead, process creation, signal handling, memory read latency, L1/2/3 sizing vs. speed trade-offs, TCP, UDP, and RPC latency & bandwidth, etc....
Since a lot of these things are likely to be changing with all the kernel changes in FreeBSD-5.x, this would seem to be a good candidate for the toolbox.
The ATA & CAM drivers are getting updated too, not to mention additional work on softupdates and other filesystem-related features, so it would seem to me that you're really want a lot of disk benchmarks.
RawIO is the only benchmark anywhere that I know of that looks at the underlying hardware performance for disk drives (by-passing all the OS caching, etc...).
Bonnie++ is one of the better medium-level disk benchmarking tools, so that you can compare the raw numbers returned by RawIO against the "cooked" numbers returned by Bonnie++.
If you want higher-level benchmarks, you could look at IOStone, IOZone, and/or IOBench. Postal is an interesting filesystem/disk benchmark, because it tests a very specific type of application load which is typically found in mail & news servers.
If protocol-specific benchmarks might be of interest, then you could look at postal & rabid (SMTP & POP3), smtp-sink & smtp-source (SMTP transmit & receive), mstone (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, HTTP, etc...), or perhaps others.
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