what are good benchmarking tools

[dmartin at LanCity.COM (Derek Martin)]

On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Brian Conway wrote:


> I think both top or xosview would do a fine job of monitoring what you're
> looking for (cpu, memory, swap).  If you want a more high quality
> benchmarking test, you could always search freshmeat.net.  As for my
> opinion on the IPC, I think you might be better off finding a low-end 486
> to do the same job, though neither might handle the full DSL speed
> incredibly well.  I ditched my IPC in favor of an IPX w/ 64MB memory and a

The bus of either should handle the data just fine... CPU doesn't really
enter into it unless you're doing a lot of complex filtering.  I have a
P75 doing filtering for my network at home, which never sees a load of
over .02 unless I'm actually running something on it.  

As for how busy it is, I play quake through it so it will see thousands of
packets per second for extended periods of time.


-- 
Derek D. Martin   |  UNIX System Administrator
derek at netria.com  |  dmartin at lancity.com

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