How to benchmark performance?

digicosm · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 90

Hello fellow Gentoo-ers,

After spending a day tweaking with the CFLAGS and finally getting my kernel to boot, I find myself sitting in front of the bash prompt and wondering, "what now" (besides the hundreds of ebuilds to install)

How do I quantitatively determine whether the tweaks I performed are good or bad? Is there any kind of benchmarking tool that you guys use? Or is it largely a subjective thing?

Obviously I realize that benchmarking one PC against another is silly, because of the different CPU/memory/etc. architectures involved. But I would like to benchmark my PC against itself with different kernels, CFLAGS, etc. etc.

Thanks!

masseya · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 7:34 pm Post subject:

You might be interested in reading the Linux Benchmarking HOWTO. I don't know of a gentoo specific document or tool.
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