Seth Arnold wrote: > * jmjonesat_private <jmjonesat_private> [010501 08:57]: > > Before I devise a benchmark program to do so, does anyone have > > any thoughts about exactly *what* you would like to see tested? > > The first two that come to mind: lmbench and kernel compiles. (lmbench > can be downloaded from www.bitmover.com.) I STRONGLY second that motion for lmbench: it is an outstanding microbenchmark for measuring the cost of core OS system calls and services: context switch, process creation, networking, and IPC. Linus strongly respects lmbench results, so its important for us to use this benchmark. Kernel compiles are a fairly good macrobenchmark. It is not exactly a typical server workload, unless your server is a compile server :-) but it pretty heavily exercises the machine, and it's easy to run frequently, because kernel hackers have to run it frequently anyway :-) Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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