Re: [gentoo-server] Benchmarking & Stress testing tools?

[Thomas Geiger]

hi Sébastien,

gentoo is a great system for server use. 
performance - depends on how much time you have, kernel 2.6 (due this month) 
may be of interest for you. looks quite promising, also on multi processor 
systems: http://developer.osdl.org/craiger/hackbench/ 

this test does measures on process scheduling.

kind regards,
tom

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On Tuesday 09 December 2003 16:46, Sebastien Arnaud wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After using gentoo for almost a year now on 4 different desktop
> systems, I decided to give it a shot as a server. A company I perform
> some work for as like 6 old DELL 6350s quad Xeon systems that are about
> to be taken out of their Windows production environment so I decided to
> try to demonstrate that switching to a linux platform (Gentoo of course
> ;) could squeeze a little bit more performance and stability out of
> those and hopefully avoid a costly upgrade for a year or two.
>
> Gentoo is currently running on one of those 6350 and I haven't' had too
> much trouble setting up (apart from the lack of scsi raid support of
> the smp kernel on the 1.4 livecd). Anyway, I would like to know what
> type of tools any of you might have used to benchmark/stress test
> properly your Gentoo servers. The goal being to try to optimize as much
> as possible performance while monitoring stability of the system under
> high level of stress.
> Also, if anybody went already through all this process which kernel
> will performance best on a multi processor system?
>
> Thank you in advance !
>
> Sébastien Arnaud
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