Start with lmbench.
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 07:03:27PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> Because of the recent performance problems with the latest kernels and all
> the discussion around, mostly based on "the machine feels sluggish"
> instead of "this version has a 13.5% drop in large writes to [...]", I
> feel that a standard Linux kernel benchmark suite should be made. I've
> already seen people using programs named "bonnie" or otherwise, but those
> only test specific features of the kernel. Besides, I wouldn't know whom
> to send the results of those tests too if I were to help and run these
> benchmarks on my machines. So I suggest creating LKBS:
>
> - includes test programs the kernel developpers have written
> - runs somewhere early after booting (perhaps by starting it instead of
> /sbin/init, or in a seperate runlevel)
> - records all relevant data from the machine (kernel version, config, cpu,
> memory, drives, etc.)
> - puts all data together in easilly parsed (both human and machine
> ofcourse) file and sends it to a main benchmark repository
> - should be free for download from a natural place
> (ftp.kernel.org, package for your $DISTRO) and easy to install/run.
>
> I don't know what you think of it, or if there already are such things. If
> not, I'd happily volunteer to start this project.
>
> Met vriendelijke groet,
> Guus Sliepen.
>
>
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