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While true, setting up a (near) full scale environment for benchmarking politically difficult to do. :-( - -- Pat Mark Post wrote: >>>> On 2/5/2010 at 07:04 PM, Patrick Spinler <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'd plan to do all this testing on an up to date install of rhel 5.4 in >> a single IFL guest, ... > > Comparing the performance of one instance of Linux for System z to one > instance of anything else is likely going to make the System z look anemic, > or at the best, have equivalent performance at a much higher cost. System z > will shine only if there are multiple instances running, and performance > doesn't degrade all that much because your guests are set up properly. > > Second, artificial benchmarks are typically oriented towards midrange system, > single instance performance. That includes iozone. You would be much better > off getting your hands on something that will drive real workload, > repeatably. That way, when you compare 50 Linux guests running against 50 > distributed systems, you'll have a reasonable comparison. > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAktwS4sACgkQNObCqA8uBsxjpgCggABp2XIUrP1jNSjwmGOH4kQj 6YMAnjSORdrFE8610am7oDwBr26SMAIJ =oXgA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
