Filebench [PSARC/2007/448 FastTrack timeout 08/16/2007]

[eric kustarz]

On Aug 2, 2007, at 1:55 PM, Joseph Kowalski wrote:

> Danek Duvall wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 04:38:08PM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Given that it's a segregated collection of software,
>>>
>>
>> Is there a good reason that it be segregated?  I guess it'll be  
>> nice that
>> the man page will be found without path-twiddling, but why not  
>> just have
>> the executable(s) in /usr/bin?
>>
>> Danek
>>
> I'd **guess** that the potential of name-conflicts between  
> benchmarks is pretty
> high.  I think I've seen objects called "report" in more benchmarks  
> than not, and
> a lot of benchmarks don't have a single object to control everything.
>
> That said, I'd like the project team to say more.
>

We had originally planned on putting the executable 'filebench' in / 
usr/bin.  After talking to Bart and Michael, we decided to go with / 
usr/benchmarks.

This would give us a clear way of delivering reliable (compiled  
correctly) and meaningful benchmarks to our users.

I think its a big win to have users go to /usr/benchmarks instead of  
www.google.com to do performance analysis.

eric