Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 12:27:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 12:27:38 -0500 Received: from 10cust182.starstream.net ([63.205.212.182]:19866 "HELO 10cust182.starstream.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 12:27:27 -0500 Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 09:27:21 -0800 From: Ted Deppner To: jarboui@laas.fr Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Regression testing of 2.4.x before release? Message-ID: <20011104092721.B16083@dondra.ofc.psyber.com> Reply-To: Ted Deppner In-Reply-To: <3BE4E835.CF85035B@kegel.com> <20011103231503.A16083@dondra.ofc.psyber.com> <3BE52ECB.DFE7B040@laas.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BE52ECB.DFE7B040@laas.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 01:04:27PM +0100, Tahar wrote: > Just a newbie question: where can we find such stress tests, and what > are the kernel parts targeted by these tests ? A few searches for "linux benchmark", "unix benchmark", or perhaps just "benchmark" on Google and Freshmeat.net should turn up plenty to keep you busy. Linus and others have said in the past thought, that YOUR usage is the testing they want... So it's best if you install the kernel and use it normally, whatever you'd use a kernel to do. I am concerned about lots of I/O and multiprocessing... So I test by doing CD-RW burns to two drives (12x and a 4x), NFS data moves (using bonnie, dd, and cat), while listening to MP3 streams, reading my email, and watching extace, with some of my mysql data loading scripts running. These are all things I do normally, and I'm the best able to compare new performance to past performance. Sure, I don't do all of those things all at the same time _usually_, but that's the main body of my 'test bench'. -- Ted Deppner http://www.psyber.com/~ted/ - 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/