On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Justin Conover wrote: > What are some good test to run to benchmark OS's on the same hardware? > > Not trying to flame Solaris or anything, but I'm curious because I run > several *nix's on my box, and Rawhide always seems to visually/perception of > running the fastest, and Solaris(nevada/opensolaris) seems to perform the > worst. > > So I would like to run some test to find out if my perceptions are all > biased :) Thanks for not cc'ing this to perf-discuss @ opensolaris.org and thereby kicking off a massive inter-OS flamewar ;-) Seriously, check out the list at <http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/testing/perfbench/> for a starting point on some tools you might use lmbench and / or libmicro are probably good starting places for what you're wanting There are a lot of factors you can't really control that are going to bias any tests you do though. OpenSolaris isn't buildable by non-Sun internal people in a non-debugging mode yet, for example, and the debugging factor on Rawhide changes periodically.... later, chris -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list