[CentOS] measuring kernel speed

This is an interesting topic.

So, how does one compare the kernel "speed"  from RT and Stock kernel?

Is there a benchmark I can use? For example (I know this is wrong):
can I look at /proc/cpuinfo and look at the bogmips and compare and
contrast?



On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 7:38 PM, JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 16:17 -0400, Ross Walker wrote:
>> On May 8, 2010, at 8:35 AM, Mag Gam <magawake at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > At our Physics research labs we do a lot with low latency networks. We
>> > have been using Centos for over 3 years now and its been great! We
>> > would like to tune and optimize our setup by removing unneeded
>> > packages -- kernel modules to be specific. I was wondering, how does
>> > one measure the speed of the kernel. Is that even possible?
>>
>> Use oprofile.
>>
>> -Ross
> ---
> Ross, never mind I just yummed it onto a machine there faq is inheritly
> wrong.
>
> John
>
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