hilditch@unmc.UUCP (11/11/85)
*** why should i REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** My boss has requested some effort be put into benchmarking our Vaxen (3 780s, 1 750, 1 uvax1, etc) for the purposes of finding obvious anomalies (one 780 was not using interleaved memory which showed up in memory i/o rates) and to increase my intuitive understanding of UNIX (yours truly is an IBM refugee) to help during upcoming combat with vendors when we go out for more capacity. Currently, we have used the AIM II benchmark, 'gprof'ed the kernel on one bsd4.2 machine, and have started putting together a homegrown test stream. I have also gleaned the Dhrystone source from the net and will be trying that out soon on our systems to compare with the results posted on the net. Question: is that all there is? What do other sites do for this task? Has anyone profiled the kernel on the ELXSI's version of UNIX? Has anyone successfully profiled the kernel under ULTRIX (DEC is unable to help at this time)? Does anyone have a benchmark that relates to networking functions instead of straight kernel crunching (I suspect that is a tough one)? Your information will be much appreciated and, of course, we will share our humble store of results if I can successfully get this posted. Bruce Hilditch, UNM Computing Center 2701 Campus Blvd. NE Albuquerque, NM 87131 505-277-8034