Re: Unices are created equal, but ...

Roman Gollent (roman@portal.stwing.upenn.edu)
Mon, 15 Apr 1996 15:35:51 -0400 (EDT)


Linus Torvalds wrote:

> If somebody wants to do benchmarking,I'd suggest using at least
> - lmbench (nice microbenchmark)
> - bonnie (reasonable disk performance benchmark)
> - webstone (or something similar. But use "apache" as the server, not
> some braindead horror like NCSA).
> - ???

STREAMS seems like a pretty good bench that should be added to this
"Suite". What about a crashme based test to verify stability? This
brings one to the philosophical question of whether or not one can truly
quantify stability. :-)

Roman