Re: power and performance testing

[Jo Shields <Jo.Shields@comlab.ox.ac.uk>]

fai amd wrote:
> hi,
>
> i am supposed to be doing a benchmark testing of 3 different system
> configurations of amd64/xeon emt64 systems. the benchmarks should
> include power consumptions at various loads of cpu/disks/memory usage. 
>
> i am was thinking of using bonnie, iozone, cpubench, lapack etc and
> measure the power consumption using a power strip.
>
> it would be great if members could suggest some better ideas or other
> benchmarks that are there to test the performance and power consumption
> of systems. which would give better statistics.
>
> thanks
> john.
>
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You won't get meaningfully different figures from running different 
benchmarks - as long as the system is under "normal" heavy load, then 
you'll get approximate figures (and there's no sensible way to get exact 
figures)