On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Sharninder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Are you looking to measure performance of IO intensive workloads or
> CPU intensive workloads ? I haven't used sysmark and the other tools
> you have mentioned, but I'd guess that even these tools measure
> individual components of a system, assigning them relative values to
> come up with a value which they then label as the performance of the
> complete system relative to some other arbit. system.
>
> IO benchmarking tools like iozone or bonnie would help you. There are
> other similar tools for measuring samba, NFS, apache and database
> performance as well.
>
> HTH.
>
> --
> Sharninder


Thats all right. I wanted to have an evaluation framework such that I
can develop a score so that I can rate a set of vendor equipment.
Intent is to be able to develop a crieria for procurement.

Thinking of this I thought about BogoMIPS, but is'nt suitable for the
purpose. Dhrystone and whetstone are'nt valid tools for todays
environment. SPECmark may be good but the following paragraph about it
from wikipedia isnt encouraging:

"In order to use a benchmark, a license has to be purchased from SPEC;
the costs vary from test to test with a typical range from several
hundred to several thousand dollars. This pay-for-license model might
seem to be in violation of the GPL as the benchmarks include software
such as GCC that is licensed by the GPL. However, the GPL does not
require software to be distributed for free, only that recipients be
allowed to redistribute any GPLed software that they receive; the
license agreement for SPEC specifically exempts items that are under
"licenses that require free distribution", and the files themselves
are placed in a separate part of the overall software package."

I was thinking of arriving at "some score" using a FOSS based tool,
handy for anyone to find out his score and a third party to verify the
same.

Individual application scores viz: Databases; Webserver; Mailserver;
Graphics etc are a matter of detail. Problem application at hand is a
standard desktop benchmarking.

anand

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