Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: tool for testing how fast your kernel can rename files :-) | Date | Mon, 20 Jan 2003 12:36:19 -0800 | From | Cliff White <> |
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> Hi, > > This night, while half a-sleep I thought it is usefull to have a tool > which creates a number of files in a directory and then starts to randomly > rename them. During this, it should output how much it has done and how > many renames per second it did. > 5 minutes back I programmed such a program, you can download it from: > http://www.vanheusden.com/Linux/rename_test-1.0.tgz > > But now, fully awake with at least 8 cups of coffee in my system I cannot > think of anything usefull this program is actually doing. > Well, maybe to test if something gets corrupted allong the way? > > Oh well.
Here's a suggestion: Take one Very Old Kernel (say, 2.4.2) and one Very New Kernel (2.5.59 ??) Run your test on both, and see what differences you see. If you see a change greater than 10%, that's a sign your test is useful...or not. cliffw
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