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diff --git a/benchmarks/dbench/DESCR b/benchmarks/dbench/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e388ca42323 --- /dev/null +++ b/benchmarks/dbench/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Taken from the dbench README file: + + Netbench is a terrible benchmark, but it's an "industry + standard" and it's what is used in the press to rate windows + fileservers like Samba and WindowsNT. + + In order for the development methodologies of the open source + community to work we need to be able to run this benchmark in + an environment that a bunch of us have access to. We need the + source to the benchmark so we can see what it does. We need + to be able to split it into pieces to look for individual + bottlenecks. In short, we need to open up netbench to the + masses. + + To do this I have written three tools, dbench, tbench and + smbtorture. All three read a load description file called + client.txt that was derived from a network sniffer dump of a + real netbench run. client.txt is about 4MB and describes the + 90 thousand operations that a netbench client does in a + typical netbench run. They parse client.txt and use it to + produce the same load without having to buy a huge lab. They + can simulate any number of simultaneous clients. |