VolanoMark 2.1.2 - Software Configuration

VolanoMark 2.1.2 Benchmark

VolanoMark 2.1.2 can be downloaded from http://www.volano.com/benchmarks.html

For each VolanoMark loopback test, we run the benchmark 11 times, discard the 1st run, and take the average of the remaining 10 runs to produce a result.  We calculate a confidence interval of the remaining 10 runs and the series of runs is ccepted if the 95% confidence interval width is less than 5% of the mean of the runs.  If this standard is not met, the entire series of runs is repeated.

IBM Developer Kit for Linux®, Java™ 2 Technology Edition, Version 1.2.2 (20001026)

This JVM was extracted from a Websphere download http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/download_linux4.html

IBM Developer Kit for Linux®, Java™ 2 Technology Edition, Version 1.3 (2001?????)

This JVM can be downloaded from http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux130

Linux Kernel

The linux kernel was downloaded from from www.kernel.org

The linux kernel was built with default options except for :

1. 4GB support on
2. IBMServRAID on (module)
3. aic7xxx on (kernel)
4. SYM53C8XX off
5. For UNI kernel, APIC on

1. mem=
2. idle=poll (SMP only)
3. maxcpus=N,  where N is the number of CPUS for UP, 1P, 2P, and 4P tests

SGI Lockmeter

    The SGI Lockmeter tool can be downloaded from http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lockmeter/
    When we run the SGI lockmeter tool on the VolanoMark test, we use the following script :

SGI Kernprof

    The SGI Kernprof tool can be downloaded from http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kernprof/
    When we run the the SGI kernprof tool to collect an ACG, we use the following script :