yellowdog-general digest, Vol 1 #1014 - 11 msgs

[Howie Modell]

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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:46:36 -0400
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> From: Daniel <nospam@drlock.com>
> Subject: Re: benchmark
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
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> At 11:16 AM 8/12/2003 -0700, you wrote:
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>>hopefully this will be neater than my previous clumsy post.
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>>I'm afraid I don't have a better response than "general performance" 
>>benchmarks.  We know about some of the standard "-stone" ones .. anything of
>>that kind ..
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> What are you comparing this to other Linux's?

no, we're simply evaluating the general performance of YD Linux.  Basically, 
"gathering statistics".  I'm sorry to be so vague but I'm working under 
constraints here ..

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> You might try the time(1) command line tool.  Pick programs that run on all 
> the systems you are comparing and are representative of the operations you 
> want to do, then write a script to run the programs using 'time', the 
> script can capture all the times and compile them for you.
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> Check out this guy's website: http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/
> He was comparing languages, but you could do something similar.  You could 
> even use a lot of his code.
> For instance take all of his C code (C++ would be a bad idea, because 
> compilers vary widely in C++ optimization and implementation) then compile 
> and benchmark it on each system.
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> If you are looking for benchmarks that have already been done, you will 
> probably have to specify what you are comparing to or what aspects (ie. 
> disk usage, I/O, SMP) that you are interested in.

all those, I suspect, at least.  I'm trying to help someone else out, and even 
he doesn't have the clearest Directions From Above.

> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:48:10 -0400
> From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
> To: YellowDog Linux General <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Cc: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: benchmark
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
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> Hi Howie,
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> On Mon Aug 11 2003, Howie Modell wrote:
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>>> I need some pointers for benchmark software that I can use to measure 
>>> performance of YD Linux.
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> In the past I have used nbench and lmbench (check google).
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> 					-Bill

thanks, Bill.


> Message: 11
> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 23:21:31 -0700
> Subject: Re: benchmark
> From: Ron Smith <ronsmith@ydl.net>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
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> I have heard a lot of good things about "bytebench" from x86 Linux 
> users. I don't know if it is easy to compile for PPC or if anyone else 
> has it available as an rpm or apt-get, but it might be worth checking 
> out. If you don't find it or something else that does what you want, 
> ping me about it in about a month. Right now compiling it is about 
> 10463 (yes, that is a prime number), on my to-do list. =(
> 
> -Ron

thanks, Ron.