The BYTE benchmark suite tests several aspects of system performance. 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, too. Since they offer some results of non-Linux systems for comparison, they might be interested in FreeBSD reports, too ;-) Quoting from "README.submittal" of the Linux version of this benchmark suite: % Please e-mail test results along with platform info to: % % results@silkroad.com % % Included CPU info, speed, RAM, and host adapter and bus % info as well as any special compilation flags. % % See TEMPLATE Below.... % % results will be included in the URL: % % http://www.silkroad.com/bass/linux/bm.html % % % Thanks, % % Tim Bass (bass@silkroad.com) Example: CPU/Speed: Pentium 100 Ram: 32M EDO Ram Motherboard: ASUS blah blah Bus: 4 PCI, 4 ISA Cache: 256K sync-burst Controller: PCI - Adaptec 2940W ctrler Disk: 1.08 Gig Fujitsu SCSI-III (Wide SCSI) Load: 1 user, running pppd and httpd Kernel: FreeBSD-2.1R pgms: gcc 2.6.3 compiled; options = -s -static -O -m486 -finline-functions \ funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer