Re: Good MM benchmarks utilities?

Alexandre Hautequest (hquest@linuxbr.com.br)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 18:38:04 -0200


Hi.

I've found lmbench, from www.bitmover.com/lmbench, who maybe can do what
you want.

> I've been doing some benchmarking of the 2.2pre kernels and various
patches in
> development. I am looking for memory management benchmark utilities.
Something
> like Bonnie for vm subsystem benchmarking. I'm concerned about the
> comprehensiveness of my own simple tests. What I'm finding is that while
2.2 is
> outperforming 2.0.36 in some situations, it is falling far behind in
others.
> Particularly the very low memory case (6M with X running) 2.0.36 performs
far
> better (Even though the overall 'available memory' as reported by top is
> actually slightly *greater* for 2.2. Andrea Arcangeli's recent patches
have
> improved things a great deal but I still haven't found anything to beat
2.0.36
> in very low memory. It would help to have a suite that gives a more
> comprehensive view of mm performance.
>
> Also, no matter how good the suite is, it will only tell me about the
> performance of my particular hardware layout. The more people who test
and
> submit results, the better 2.2/2.3 mm will be.

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Alexandre Hautequest
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