Hi, Debian repo contains many stress and benchmark tools. Some of them have duplicated functionalities. So I guess not everyone knows how to pick from those packages to form the most comprehensive hardware benchmark tool kit, when you're buying a new computer or checking an old one.
If the problem baffles you as well, please join me petitioning DDs to provide an integrated hardware benchmark kit, that can check everything that open source benchmarking tools can check. I know the hardest part might be to define "the best of open source benchmarking" tools set. Luckily, according to an article that I stumbled upon recently [1], this is done, by the Inquisitor testing platform [2]. The Inquisitor testing platform is a set of shell scripts that wraps around the best of open source benchmarking tools such as Bonnie++, IOzone, UnixBench, and BYTEmark. The current Inquisitor, version 3.0, contains "25 tests and benchmarks for testing hardware devices such as processors, hard disks, and removable devices like USB and CD drives." I hope that we can have such integrated hardware benchmark toolkits soon. What do you say? Thanks 1. http://www.linux.com/feature/149774 2. http://www.inquisitor.ru/ -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
