Re: recommended benchmarks

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.