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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:28:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Nigel Gamble <nigel@nrg.org>
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Subject: Re: Don't use dbench for benchmarks
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > It sounds like you are describing the Aim Benchmark suite, which has
> > been used for years to compare unix system performancem, and was
> > recently released under the GPL by Caldera.
> >
> > See http://caldera.com/developers/community/contrib/aim.html
>
> That sounds good. Have you tried it? Does it seem to provide the
> kind of data that will show the effect of various trade-offs?

The last time I personally used it was over 10 years ago, but we got a
lot of use out of it to test system performance after making kernel
changes.  Of course, we used other benchmarks and microbenchmarks too.

Now that it has been GPL'd, I think it would be a useful addition to
Linux benchmarking.

Nigel Gamble                                    nigel@nrg.org
Mountain View, CA, USA.                         http://www.nrg.org/

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