Re: [ANNOUNCE] VM Regress - A VM regression and test tool

[Rik van Riel]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Mel wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > On the other hand, if somebody could code up some scriptable
> > benchmarks that approximate real workloads better than the
> > current benchmarks do, I'd certainly appreciate it.
>
> This looks like an overall system benchmark again and while it would be
> great to have, it is not what I aim to provide here with VM Regress.
>
> > For web serving, for example, I wouldn't mind a benchmark that:
> >
> > <Benchmark snipped>
>
> That benchmarks like it would be more likely to test network throughput
> than VM performance although I could be misunderstanding your benchmark,

The thing is that the indivual 'users' will be downloading
files at modem and adsl speeds, meaning a LOT of apache
daemons could be sitting around on the server.

You are right though that this is more of an overall system
benchmark than a pure VM test.  On the other hand, the VM
doesn't function on its own, it really needs to be part of
a larger system ;)

> In VM Regress land, I would be much more likely to provide a benchmark
> that did something like the folllowing. (Remember that VM Regress aims
> to provide more than been a pure benchmarking tool. Benchmarking is just
> one aspect)

That might be a useful test.  How useful it would be we can't
really know until we've tried, but it definately does sound like
it's worth a try...

> > Volunteers ? ;)
>
> Not for that particular benchmark, but how useful would the VM Regress
> equivilant be?

I can't say in advance how useful it would be, but my gut
feeling is that it might help getting things right.

regards,

Rik
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