Best tests to measure Kernel Performance

[Victor Rodriguez]

Hi

Despite the fact that this is not a well formulated question. I wonder
what tests could be a good subset to measure the performance of the
kernel . I have some approaches like phoronix does here :

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-41-byt&num=1

I am sure postmark/ John the ripper/ Apache are good candidates but I
want to ask the community if there is some specific test that you
recommend

Thanks a lot for the help

Regards

Victor Rodriguez