freebsd-ports/benchmarks/postmark/pkg-descr
David E. O'Brien 13c6273970 PostMark is the benchmark used in the NetApp Technical Report TR-3022,
"PostMark: A New File System Benchmark" -- Existing file system benchmarks
are deficient in portraying performance in the ephemeral small-file regime
used by Internet software, especially: electronic mail, netnews, and
web-based commerce.
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PostMark is the benchmark used in the NetApp Technical Report TR-3022,
"PostMark: A New File System Benchmark". The paper fully explains how
to use this tool.
From the paper's Abstract:
Existing file system benchmarks are deficient in portraying
performance in the ephemeral small-file regime used by Internet
software, especially:
* electronic mail
* netnews
* web-based commerce
PostMark is a new benchmark to measure performance for this class of
application.
WWW: http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3022.html
-- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)