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