[NTLUG:Discuss] Built a big box

Jim Wildman jim at rossberry.com
Fri Jan 24 12:11:57 CST 2003


For starters, you can throw the lmbench suite at it.  And at something
else.  That is a 'no load' type of benchmark (how fast can I write to
RAM, etc).

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Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE                                jim at rossberry.com
http://www.rossberry.com

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Chris Cox wrote:

> The bad news is that there isn't really a good set
> of standards for benchmarking Linux boxes... so nothing
> to compare it to.  Also, I'm interested in anything
> you would like to see run on it so I can offer feedback.
> One of the problems with spending money on HW/SW is the
> lack of practical information (some reviews, but nothing
> very tangible).




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