Greetings,

 I was thinking about writing an application to test the performance of the SmartServer FPM capabilites.  One could test timers, computational power, and file read performance (I'm not particularly interested in burning flash just for performance testing...).  This could give a better intuitive feel for what the SmartServer's capacity is.

For timers, it seems that one could setup a snvt_switch toggle (on/off/on/off) and internally bind it to the relay on the iLON.  The FPM application could then slowly ramp the timer duration from say 2 seconds down to 0.00? seconds.  One would expect the relay to respond faster than the FPM right?  There are probably more intrecate approaches here.

For computational performance - I suppose calculating prime numbers or cubic roots would give some sense of computational capacity.

For File I/O, one could build a really large file and use fseek() for some tests?

Anyway, suggestions are welcome.  I would like to place another FPM with source on-line for those of you who would be interested.

Richard

Hello Richard,

It sounds like you are working on a very intriguing challenge, and I would be very interested in your results (and source code).

I'm also curious about the SmartServers capacity and capabilities, specifically its' ability to handle multiple FPMs and large amounts of data points, so it would be incredible to have a good application to provide some standard benchmarks, which could then be tested under different configurations.

Thanks for attempting so useful,

-M