On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 13:14 -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > Hi all, > > I still have an dual dual-core opteron box with a 3Ware 9550SX-12 sitting > here and I need to start getting it ready for production. I also have to > send back one processor since we were mistakenly sent two. Before I do > that, I would like to record some stats for posterity and post to the list > so that others can see how this particular hardware performs. > > It looks to be more than adequate for our needs... > > What are the standard benchmarks that people here use for comparison > purposes? I know all benchmarks are flawed in some way, but I'd at least > like to measure with the same tools that folks here generally use to get a > ballpark figure. Check out the OSDL stuff. http://www.osdl.org/lab_activities/kernel_testing/osdl_database_test_suite/ Brad.