Best tests to measure Kernel Performance

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 06:45:51PM -0600, Victor Rodriguez wrote:
> 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

It depends on what you want to test, specifically.  The "kernel" isn't a
very specific thing, what most of those tests test is the speed of the
hardware, not specifically the kernel itself.

good luck,

greg k-h