lmbench automated testing

[Nathan Dabney]

> On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:23:14AM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> > kernel for specific applications.  I'm curious if there is a collection 
> > of lmbench results of hand configured and compiled kernels vs the vendor 
> > module based kernels across 2.0, 2.2, 2.4 and recent 2.5 on the same 
> > uniprocessor and dual processor configuration.  
> 
> If someone were willing to build the init script infra structure to 
> reboot to a new kernel, run the test, etc., I'll buy a couple of 
> machines and just let them run through this.  I'd like to do it 
> with the cache miss counters turned on so if P4's do a nicer job
> of counting than Athlons, I'll get those.
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> Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           

Larry,

  We already do that and provide 1, 2, 4 and 8 way machines for our
testing targets.

  Lmbench is already available as an automated test on the STP system.

http://www.osdl.org/stp

-Nathan Dabney
Open Source Development Lab