Thank you for downloading lsbench, we hope this will be a usefull program for many people who have been looking
for the perfect small multi-talented benchmark. It runs at the console, or with a gtk interface, for now and has several different tests
it can perform. lsbench uses about 64MB of memory and even less than that in disk space. 


The project has multithreaded capability, if you have dual core, dual cpu, HT, or any combination  
you can check if your compiler also supports this implementation by typing:

Please note, no tangible benefit would come from adding cpu threading support to the memory benchmark 
part of the tests, and the compile, media, and compression tests are multithreaded as well in a preliminary 
fashion. Just use the supplied threading Makefile with:   make -f Makefile-threading (see below). 
This will enable the threading in the C code for you.

For the media tests please note that it has 3 dependencies:
	mplayer 
	lame
	oggenc
if you don't have these installed you'll get artificially high/erroneous results.

For the Compression tests dependencies are as follows:
	tar
	bzip2 
	gzip


There are many different Makefiles now. Here is a list of what they do:

Makefile - Default makefile builds everything, just without threading.
Makefile-threading - Same as above just with threading enabled. 
Makefile-cmd - No gtk frontend, but does build the graphics benchmark (requires a proper opengl environment, libs/drivers, etc.)
Makefile-threading-gtk - uses threading and builds everything except the command line version.
Makefile-cmd-no-gfx - no gtk interface, no threading, no graphics test (best choice for boxes without X or headless/remote runs)
Makefile-threading-cmd - threading enabled, no gtk interface built
Makefile-threading-cmd-no-gfx - theading enabled, console lsbench, no graphics
Makefile-gtk - builds gtk interface. no command line interface, no threading.



enjoy.


ps.  if anyone can assist in setting up gnu auto build tools with this project let me know.
Soul_keeper - linuxsociety.org