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FREEWARE: Sysbench 0.9.4 now available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trevor Hemsley)
Sun Mar 29 11:28:09 1998
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 29 Mar 1998 11:02:00 -0500
From: Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com (Trevor Hemsley)
Reply-To: Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com
Reply-to: Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com
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The latest version of the OS/2 benchmarking tool, Sysbench, is now
available. I have uploaded it to ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu in /pub/incoming
directory. Its final destination is /pub/os2/util/benchmark and the
file name is sysb094.zip.
Sysbench includes various tests for Graphics, CPU integer and floating
point, DIVE, File I/O, Memory, Disk I/O and CD-ROM I/O. The latest
version includes new information about the web site for results and
fixes for various problems. Major changes in this version:
1) Disk I/O test rewritten to perform multi-track reads. This should
increase the benchmarks of most modern hard disks. The results of the
three throughput tests that were performed to determine the average are
now listed individually as well as the overall average.
2) Added large amounts of code to attempt to detect the hardware the
benchmark is running on and when it has changed. This attempts to
detect CPUs, disks, CDs, storage controllers, and PCI devices. Also
added the /nodetect switch to bypass this in case it goes wrong!
3) Bug fixes of various descriptions
More information can be obtained from the readme.txt and changes.txt in
the ZIP archive.
The Sysbench web page is now at
http://warped.cswnet.com/Sysbench/index.html.
Trevor Hemsley, London, UK
(Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com or 75704.2477@compuserve.com)
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