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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!walter.cray.com!fido.asd.sgi.com!neteng!lm From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.arch,comp.benchmarks Subject: benchmarking discussion at Usenix? Date: 4 Jan 1997 18:36:40 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5am7vo$gvk@fido.asd.sgi.com> Reply-To: lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: neteng.engr.sgi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33613 comp.arch:62166 comp.benchmarks:18644 (I posted this before, I thought, but it seems to have disappeared into a black hole...) I'll be at Usenix and I thought I might put together a little BOF to discuss benchmarking issues, if people are interested. Topics could include . lmbench 2.0 changes - finer grain accuracy - web benchmarks - scaling/load - multi pointer memory latency . osbench - Steve Kleiman suggested that I (or someone) grab a big hunk of OS code and port it to userland and call it osbench. This is an interesting idea. . freespec - I'm unhappy about the current spec. I'd like to build a freeSpec97 that is similar to spec (uses the same tests) but has lmbench style reporting rules (cc -O/f77 -O) and is free of any charges. Any interest? . others? Let me know if you want me to find some space so we can talk at Usenix. -- --- Larry McVoy lm@sgi.com http://reality.sgi.com/lm (415) 933-1804