Re: Benchmarking

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gary Thorpe wrote:

> Ivan Voras wrote:
>
> > Some time ago I had a plan to benchmark several OS'es for 
> > fun&learning. As it turned out, due to the lack of time the process 
> > was very slow. I intend to do DragonFlyBSD next, so I'm asking: what 
> > would be the best way to install it? Download the bootable ISO (from 
> > http://www.dragonflybsd.org/main/download.cgi) and then upgrade to 
> > -current via cvs? Is there a somewhat step-by-step walkthrough of the 
> > process since, as I understand it there is no install/setup program?
> >
> > Also, if anybody has some performance-related patches, now would be a 
> > good time to commit them to CVS :)
> >
> > (Current results are in 
> > http://geri.cc.fer.hr/~ivoras/osbench/osbench.sxc; Summary: FreeBSD 
> > 5.2 is slower in synthetic tests but appears surprisingly better in a 
> > "real-world" test than 4.9).
>
>
>
> What format is this file in? I just view the binary source when I browse 
> it in Netscape 6.2.

	It is an OpenOffice file.  I would prefer if Ivan could put up
	some souped up PDFs once the whole benchmarking stuff is done.
	;-)

	-Hiten
	Hiten Pandya
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