Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:18:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:17:59 -0500 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:57096 "HELO postfix.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:17:51 -0500 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:29:20 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel To: Horst von Brand Cc: Jonathan Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: regression testing In-Reply-To: <200103231500.f2NF07xY001127@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Horst von Brand wrote: > Jonathan Morton said: > > >- 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". > > Which would tell you exactly that, nothing more and nothing less. But if we get 500 people to test _different_ things on a regular basis, we might be able to get more meaningful results. regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com.br/ - 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/