From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Best tests to measure Kernel Performance
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 17:32:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151202013207.GA14106@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK5mtezBJhOCfOq3KaZvBDr7kSFtOa5h5b+ATcEHo_6Xcy76mw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 06:45:51PM -0600, Victor Rodriguez wrote:
> Hi
>
> Despite the fact that this is not a well formulated question. I wonder
> what tests could be a good subset to measure the performance of the
> kernel . I have some approaches like phoronix does here :
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-41-byt&num=1
>
> I am sure postmark/ John the ripper/ Apache are good candidates but I
> want to ask the community if there is some specific test that you
> recommend
It depends on what you want to test, specifically. The "kernel" isn't a
very specific thing, what most of those tests test is the speed of the
hardware, not specifically the kernel itself.
good luck,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-02 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-02 0:45 Best tests to measure Kernel Performance Victor Rodriguez
2015-12-02 1:32 ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-12-02 23:50 ` Victor Rodriguez
2015-12-03 0:36 ` Greg KH
2015-12-03 8:10 ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-12-03 16:57 ` Victor Rodriguez
2015-12-03 16:51 ` Victor Rodriguez
2015-12-03 17:00 ` Greg KH
2015-12-02 1:38 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-12-02 23:57 ` Victor Rodriguez
2015-12-03 0:44 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
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