At 2005-01-14T20:19:42+1300, Robert Fisher wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:04, Nick Rout wrote:
> I was just about to upgrade. Can someone suggest a test which I could
> do before and after?
If you're not already set up with a benchmark suite and experienced with
both the benchmark and with benchmarking in general, the results of any
sort of tests at this late stage would be of dubious value.
If you just want to play, take a look at lmbench2 (you need around 25
runs on each kernel to get enough results to find variance with any
reliability), bonnie/bonnie++, iozone, dbench, AIM7/AIM9, chat, Postal,
etc. Also, performing 'real world' tasks like (if you're a kernel
developer, or an obsessive tweaker) kernel compiles, desktop startup
times, etc. can be interesting.
Be prepared to spend a lot of time on this and careful document
everything you've done if you want to produce any useful results.
(I'm a little surprised to find a Gentoo user interested in performing
benchmarks, instead of the usual wild speculation. :-))
Cheers,
-mjg
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