From: Nathan Straz <nstraz@sgi.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.2 and 2.4 performance issues
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:10:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020621171058.GA27100@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1024678560.879.27.camel@lpinto>
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 05:55:55PM +0100, Luis Pedro de Moura Ribeiro Pinto wrote:
> I was asked (i'm a company freshman) to perform some tests between
> kernel versions 2.2 and 2.4, and after awhile searching i found a good
> set of benchmarking tools (aim7) from Caldera linux.
Benchmarks are evil. Sure they are useful at times, but for the most
part they get misused. IMHO, aim7 is outdated. The I/O it does it all
very small for today's systems. It's like poking the system with
hundreds of needles. You have no idea how the system will react to a
golf club, baseball bat, sledgehammer or a wet noodle. Sure, some
people really like it and swear by it. Benchmarking is better done with
an application set in mind and best done with the application set
itself.
> Are there better way to perform the test besides using benchmark tools
> like this?
Run the applications you really care about. There is also a good set of
benchmarks, including application specific ones at
http://lbs.sourceforge.net/.
--
Nate Straz nstraz@sgi.com
sgi, inc http://www.sgi.com/
Linux Test Project http://ltp.sf.net/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-21 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-21 16:55 2.2 and 2.4 performance issues Luis Pedro de Moura Ribeiro Pinto
2002-06-21 17:10 ` Nathan Straz [this message]
2002-06-21 20:13 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-23 15:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2002-06-21 22:58 John L. Males
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