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 OpenBSD/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: OpenBSD-2.2
pgms: gcc 2.7.2 compiled;
options = -s -static -O -m486 -finline-functions \
funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer
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