Free benchmark suite that software for linux

Easy Benchmarking Suite is aimed at testing and benchmarking sites. Basically, the suite can:
- Issue requests to a URL. A benchmark typically consists of a given number of clients that concurrently issue a number of requests. A request can be any HTTP request (GET, POST, HEAD etc.) with all necessary HTTP header information (session cookies, basic authentication information, etc.);
- Get a quick overview of the results of a benchmark: how many trials succeeded, what are the average times for connecting and processing, what is the standard deviation of these times;
- Prepare a GnuPlot command file so that the obtained results can be plotted.
This document describes the suite. Furthermore, manual pages are provided for the separate parts of the suite: sitebench, sitecollect, and siteplot.

Benchmark is a Perl module with benchmark running times of Perl code.

SYNOPSIS

use Benchmark qw(:all) ;

timethis ($count, "code");

# Use Perl code in strings...
timethese($count, {
Name1 => ...code1...,
Name2 => ...code2...,
});

# ... or use subroutine references.
timethese($count, {
Name1 => sub { ...code1... },
Name2 => sub { ...code2... },
});

# cmpthese can be used both ways as well
cmpthese($count, {
Name1 => ...code1...,
Name2 => ...code2...,
});

cmpthese($count, {
Name1 => sub { ...code1... },
Name2 => sub { ...code2... },
});

# ...or in two stages
$results = timethese($count,
{
Name1 => sub { ...code1... },
Name2 => sub { ...code2... },
},
none
);
cmpthese( $results ) ;

$t = timeit($count, ...other code...)
print "$count loops of other code took:",timestr($t),"n";

$t = countit($time, ...other code...)
$count = $t->iters ;
print "$count loops of other code took:",timestr($t),"n";

# enable hires wallclock timing if possible
use Benchmark :hireswallclock;

The Benchmark module encapsulates a number of routines to help you figure out how long it takes to execute some code.

timethis - run a chunk of code several times
timethese - run several chunks of code several times
cmpthese - print results of timethese as a comparison chart
timeit - run a chunk of code and see how long it goes
countit - see how many times a chunk of code runs in a given time

Soma is a suite of programs that let you play and schedule audio files from the Web.
Soma suite supports extra utilities using run-time loadable modules and includes a broadcasting scheduler, a tool to control it via TCP/IP, and an utility to check configuration file syntax.
Soma project started in summer 2003 to manage the digital version of an activists radio old spools.
The first release just gave just the chance to play random some audio files in a directory using an external program (at that time mpg123). In despite of that this software was never used, i kept on thinking about soma project for some weeks, until i started directly to work with a group called Reload, which was experimenting at the time a project called "eterete" and creating a place for a web radio at Pergola Tribe (a selfmanaged house in Milan).
We used, of course, a release, which was a little bit better to manage the radio-playlist and of course we implemented the software itself. From september till december soma became a software suite, configurable through file and (remote administration...). Thats thanks to the relationships and the inputs that such a community like Reload can create.
A group of passionate activists was able to make broadcastings and broadcast schedules, to find out new problems and to give implementation advices. They also suggest me the idea that soma (originally a simple play-list manager) could become a programs suite, which has a player, a software for deferred broadcasting, a more user friendly admininstration, documentation and distribution.
Some time after came somaplayer and somaadmin. The player was still very behind compared to my implementation ideas. Somadmin was straight away on line and advertised on radio.inventati.org/somadmin/
In January 2004 we showed Soma at the first italian (web and air-waves) radio meeting in Naples.The meeting was technologically and politically profitable and it was an attempt to build up a real radio-network.
Radio.inventati.org was actually the only example od direct cooperation among even very different people: individuals, improvised groups, very old and movement radios and experiences from overseas countries.
On the web site there are occasional streamings, weekly streamings, and 24hrs music flows.
The object of the technical research was a digital environment, which could let individuals or whole communities gain access to a common schedule with resum?s, repetitions, deferred programs, live broadcastings, regular broadcastings as one national and international network.
Soma could satisfy this need and could be easly managed through the web thanks to somadmin, which could update the soma admin in real time.
The developments went on. Somaplayer is now reality. The only music player which can stream directly an mp3, an ogg vorbis, a wav, a track from an audio cd or a streaming directly on an icecast server (icecast 2 or shoutcast) or just play it on a computer using sound drivers or sound daemons.
At the moment more other people work at this project, who debug the software, write docs, work at the website and make installation packages (for debian).
Enhancements:
- This release fixes three bugs related to group permissions, the 31st of months, and an error in libsoma related to buffers and protocols.

Benchmark::Forking is a Perl module to run benchmarks in separate processes.

SYNOPSIS

use Benchmark::Forking qw( timethis timethese cmpthese );

timethis ($count, "code");

timethese($count, {
Name1 => sub { ...code1... },
Name2 => sub { ...code2... },
});

cmpthese($count, {
Name1 => sub { ...code1... },
Name2 => sub { ...code2... },
});

Benchmark::Forking->enabled(0); # Stop using forking feature
...
Benchmark::Forking->enabled(1); # Begin using forking again

The Benchmark::Forking module changes the behavior of the standard Benchmark module, running each piece of code to be timed in a separate forked process. Because each child exits after running its timing loop, the computations it performs cant propogate back to affect subsequent test cases.

This can make benchmark comparisons more accurate, because the separate test cases are mostly isolated from side-effects caused by the others. Benchmark scripts typically dont depend on those side-effects, so in most cases you can simply use or require this module at the top of your existing code without having to change anything else. (A few key exceptions are noted in "BUGS".)

FunkyMD Suite aims to provide Linux users with tools to title minidiscs using a portable Sony minidisc recorder and a self-made interface for the parallel port.

The project is currently run by Thomas Perl and was inspired by the great MDCOM interface (see links below for more information).

Openwall tcb suite package contains core components of our tcb suite implementing the alternative password shadowing scheme on Owl.

It is being made available separately from Owl primarily for use by other distributions. Note that you need to have the password hashing framework introduced with crypt_blowfish patched into glibc to compile and use this.

The package consists of three components: pam_tcb, libnss_tcb, and libtcb.
pam_tcb is a PAM module which supersedes pam_unix. It also implements the tcb password shadowing scheme.

The tcb scheme allows many core system utilities (passwd(1) being the primary example) to operate with little privilege. libnss_tcb is the accompanying NSS module. libtcb contains code shared by the PAM and NSS modules and is also used by user management tools on Owl due to our shadow suite patches.

The Coldtags suite is a collection of custom JSP tags that provides 90+ custom JSP tags for common programming tasks faced by JSP developers.
Coldtags suite also includes custom tags similar to the Web controls in the .NET framework.
Enhancements:
- New components were added, so the total amount is over 305 now.
- Features were updated for the existing taglibs, docs, and examples.
- Enhancements were made for many controls.

Procbench is a multiplatform information tool and CPU benchmark for x86 processors. This application tests memory transfer and math capabilities of your x86 processor.
Main features:
- Identification of CPU by CPUID.
- Approximation of CPU MHz.
- Benchmarks.
Installation:
type:
make install
try:
./procbench -h
for information
Enhancements:
- DB of CPUs added.