Bench Linux/ Intel Vs Aix/P5

[Gloups]

I'd like to execute some benchmarks between two different platforms.

I'havent found any bench that is usable on all unix / linux platforms . Few years ago i used unixbench but it's too old now and never maintained for years.


Have you heard about a good bench that doesn't take two month to prepare the test platforms ?

 

[clonny2]

Look at IOMETER. I dont know about other unix flavors but there is a linux version.

 

[rzs0502]

We recently benchmarked Solaris on Sun/Futitsu, AIX 5.2/5.3 & Linux on Power5, Windows 2003 / Linux on Intel but gave up on tools and used a large Oracle database on each.
By the way, AIX came up tops (price & performance), and soon Power5+ will be out running at about 3Ghz!

"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."

 

[bbScripter]

Filesystem benchmark based on the classic bonnie:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/bonnie/

A newer filesystem benchmark that I have not tested:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/iozone/

Single threaded CPU benchmark:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/nbench/

If you would like a multithreaded benchmark, let me know I have a quick threads program i use that can work for ya.

 

[Gloups]

Thank's for all your answers but i'm looking for a more general bench to have advantage and disadvantages of all architectures.

unixbech i used was able to test mono thread, multithread process, disk io with diffrent type of ios, full arithemetic with integer of float performances ...