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Diffstat (limited to 'benchmarks')
| -rw-r--r-- | benchmarks/bonnie/pkg-descr | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | benchmarks/bytebench/pkg-descr | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | benchmarks/iozone/pkg-descr | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | benchmarks/iozone21/pkg-descr | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | benchmarks/nbench/pkg-descr | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | benchmarks/tcpblast/pkg-descr | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | benchmarks/unixbench/pkg-descr | 4 |
7 files changed, 15 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/benchmarks/bonnie/pkg-descr b/benchmarks/bonnie/pkg-descr index b93807f2ffc0..0e9085194e41 100644 --- a/benchmarks/bonnie/pkg-descr +++ b/benchmarks/bonnie/pkg-descr @@ -5,9 +5,11 @@ It does reads and writes of blocks, testing for the limit of sustained data rate (usually limited by the drive or controller) and updates on a file (better simulating normal operating conditions and quite dependent on drive and OS optimisations). -The per character read and write tests are generally limited by CPU speed -only on current generation hardware. It takes some 35 SPECint92 to read + +The per-character read and write tests are generally limited by CPU speed +only on current-generation hardware. It takes some 35 SPECint92 to read or write a file at a rate of 1MB/s using getc() and putc(). + The seek tests are dependent on the buffer cache size, since the fraction of disk blocks that fits into the buffer cache will be found without any disk operation and will contribute zero seek time readings. I.e. if the diff --git a/benchmarks/bytebench/pkg-descr b/benchmarks/bytebench/pkg-descr index fb8474c491f6..4ae39f7ee232 100644 --- a/benchmarks/bytebench/pkg-descr +++ b/benchmarks/bytebench/pkg-descr @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ The BYTE benchmark suite tests several aspects of system performance. -An article, which describes the concepts and helps understand the results +An article which describes the concepts and helps understand the results can be found in the doc directory (/usr/local/lib/bytebench/doc if you use a PREFIX of /usr/local). This benchmark is quite prominent among Linux users, and there is a patched -version available from some web suite, from where results are made available, +version available from some web suite from where results are made available, too. Since they offer some results of non-Linux systems for comparison, they might diff --git a/benchmarks/iozone/pkg-descr b/benchmarks/iozone/pkg-descr index b113b7353e50..b62141378c87 100644 --- a/benchmarks/iozone/pkg-descr +++ b/benchmarks/iozone/pkg-descr @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Iozone: 'IO Zone' Benchmark Program Iozone tests the speed of sequential I/O to actual files. Therefore, -this measurement factors in the efficiency of you machines file +this measurement factors in the efficiency of your machine's file system, operating system, C compiler, and C runtime library. It produces a measurement which is the number of bytes per second that your system can read or write to a file. diff --git a/benchmarks/iozone21/pkg-descr b/benchmarks/iozone21/pkg-descr index b113b7353e50..b62141378c87 100644 --- a/benchmarks/iozone21/pkg-descr +++ b/benchmarks/iozone21/pkg-descr @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Iozone: 'IO Zone' Benchmark Program Iozone tests the speed of sequential I/O to actual files. Therefore, -this measurement factors in the efficiency of you machines file +this measurement factors in the efficiency of your machine's file system, operating system, C compiler, and C runtime library. It produces a measurement which is the number of bytes per second that your system can read or write to a file. diff --git a/benchmarks/nbench/pkg-descr b/benchmarks/nbench/pkg-descr index 5f6ae2f57145..fba3ca2051ae 100644 --- a/benchmarks/nbench/pkg-descr +++ b/benchmarks/nbench/pkg-descr @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ - BYTE Magazine's native benchmarks (also called BYTEmark) -designed to expose the capabilities of a system's CPU, FPU, -and memory system. +BYTE Magazine's native benchmarks (also called BYTEmark), which are +designed to expose the capabilities of a system's CPU, FPU, and memory +system. diff --git a/benchmarks/tcpblast/pkg-descr b/benchmarks/tcpblast/pkg-descr index 152de12ce398..91d4bffc40dd 100644 --- a/benchmarks/tcpblast/pkg-descr +++ b/benchmarks/tcpblast/pkg-descr @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ -TCPBLAST measures the throughput of a tcp connection -It was written by Daniel Karrenberg <dfk@nic.eu.net> +TCPBLAST measures the throughput of a tcp connection. +It was written by Daniel Karrenberg <dfk@nic.eu.net>. diff --git a/benchmarks/unixbench/pkg-descr b/benchmarks/unixbench/pkg-descr index fb8474c491f6..4ae39f7ee232 100644 --- a/benchmarks/unixbench/pkg-descr +++ b/benchmarks/unixbench/pkg-descr @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ The BYTE benchmark suite tests several aspects of system performance. -An article, which describes the concepts and helps understand the results +An article which describes the concepts and helps understand the results can be found in the doc directory (/usr/local/lib/bytebench/doc if you use a PREFIX of /usr/local). This benchmark is quite prominent among Linux users, and there is a patched -version available from some web suite, from where results are made available, +version available from some web suite from where results are made available, too. Since they offer some results of non-Linux systems for comparison, they might |