Benchmark your system

[Marcelo De Florio_1]

Anybody know, how can i to benchmark my system (tools,etc)?

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MDF

[harry d brown jr]

With a stopwatch and your application is the best way!

Seriously, I'm not a believer in "published" benchmarks, as the only true test is your applications and the mixture of users and tasks.

I would suggest you purchase glance/measureware and perfview, which will help you "monitor" existing performance.

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harry

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Marcelo


Couple of ways to do it


1. basic stuff is to time the procees or the shell takes to run you can do a man timex and it will tell u how it can be used .

2. scope the appilcation in the measurware agent and get the stats for the application in the perf view.

3. Stop watch

4. applications pretty much have logs which can be used to scope it .


Manoj Srivastava

[Ken Hubnik_2]

Use sar and take different snapshots at regular intervals.

[Vincent Fleming]

What kind of benchmark are you looking for? CPU performance? Memory performance? Disk performance? Network performance? Overall performance?

Generally, there are multiple types of benchmarks for each of the above. For example, in disk performance, are you looking for raw disk performance or cooked (filesystem) performance? Random or sequential?

I agree with Harry that benchmarks are really of limited use - for every system or device there's a benchmark that will make it look great, and at least one that will make it look terrible.

Overall performance is best judged in an apples-to-apples fashion using YOUR application.

Good luck!