benchmarking utilities

[yossarian]

does anyone know of any benchmarking utilities and temp monitoring programs for linux?

[nerd4life]

good luck,

i asked the same question awhile back and noone ever answered.

maybe someone will this time:)

[Thelemac]

Try something like freshmeat or rpmfind.

Maybe even google. :)

[David]

xbench - X benchmark
bonnie - filesystem benchmark

If you want I'll post my scores and we can compare?

[engjohn]

for temp and voltage montoring install and configure the "sensors" package. Then install "gkrellm" to read those sensors. I like it better than MBM5. Gkrellm reads every thing from Internet, Lan, time, sys name, voltage, temps, email.... and on and on and on......

I found on my default install of Redhat that the sensors package was already installed you just run sensors-detect and answer yes to everything. Then install gkrellm.

[nerd4life]

thanx alot guys,

im bout to reinstall linux on a few computers, and ill have to keep these things in mind

preciate it

[robshagwell]

Hiya guys... I have some more information on the sensors thinggie.

In Red Hat 7.1, the sensors package is named lm_sensors. In Mandrake 8.0, it's called lm_utils or something like that. If you installed it, there should be a script in /sbin called sensors-detect. Run it and follow the steps... be sure to also probe the ISA bus for the sensors. It will then give you instructions on what to put in your initialization files. BUT, do not put those lines in before you fully test them... because sometimes it might cause some annoying alarm as soon as the sensor monitor is enabled. Log in as root and execute the lines one at a time.

Then, run "sensors" to get a report from the sensors. It's a text-based program. gkrellm is a GUI one and it looks very neat.

... there's something i'm forgetting... oh well. have fun. =)