Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:14:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:14:18 -0500 Received: from zooty.lancs.ac.uk ([148.88.16.231]:47781 "EHLO zooty.lancs.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:14:13 -0500 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:12:47 +0000 To: Rik van Riel , nbecker@fred.net From: Jonathan Morton Subject: Re: regression testing Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >- automated heavy stress testing This would be an interesting one to me, from a benchmarking POV. I'd like to know what my hardware can really do, for one thing - it's all very well saying this box can do X Whetstones and has a 100Mbit NIC, but it's a much more solid thing to be able to say "my box handled the official Foobar stress-test in Y hours, handling Z widgets per second". The lmbench statistics are nice, but most of those numbers mean absolutely nothing to all but ?bergeeks (what they say to my partially-trained ears is that my gateway box sucks, but then again it's five-year-old Intel hardware so that could probably have been predicted). Are there already stress-testing kits for user-level processes I could play with? What would be *really* interesting would be to make such tests as portable as practical, so that at least some of them can be run on "rival platforms" (such as *cough* Redmondware) to see if they stand up to the challenge as well. However, if the focus is on *kernel* stress-testing, portability might be a little difficult to arrange for many tests. The basics could probably be written portably or ported easily, though - things that lmbench already (briefly) benchmarks, for example. -------------------------------------------------------------- from: Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton mail: chromi@cyberspace.org (not for attachments) big-mail: chromatix@penguinpowered.com uni-mail: j.d.morton@lancaster.ac.uk The key to knowledge is not to rely on people to teach you it. Get VNC Server for Macintosh from http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/vnc/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.12 GCS$/E/S dpu(!) s:- a20 C+++ UL++ P L+++ E W+ N- o? K? w--- O-- M++$ V? PS PE- Y+ PGP++ t- 5- X- R !tv b++ DI+++ D G e+ h+ r++ y+(*) -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/