Enhancement Advisory lmbench enhancement update

Advisory: RHEA-2005:874-4
Type: Product Enhancement Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2005-12-20
Last updated on: 2005-12-20
Affected Products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
OVAL: N/A

Details

A new suite of system benchmarking tools, lmbench, is now available.

lmbench is a series of micro benchmarks intended to measure basic operating
system and hardware system metrics. The benchmarks fall into three general
classes: bandwidth, latency, and "other".

Users who require system benchmarking tools may install this newly created
package, which adds this enhancement.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filenames]

where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those
RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are
not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you
can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory *only* contains the
desired RPMs.

Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. Many
people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
lmbench-2.0.4-1.EL4.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0174
    ec4efd63a08802458e1d09abb82cd7ec
 
IA-32:
lmbench-2.0.4-1.EL4.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0174
    9f21e8b0323d796b396dc9215a4992b9
 
IA-64:
lmbench-2.0.4-1.EL4.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0174
    2269d679c679b302d50e21f0921243f2
 
PPC:
lmbench-2.0.4-1.EL4.ppc.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0174
    16d73bc3de8a6db64bdc54057b55505b
lmbench-2.0.4-1.EL4.ppc64.rpm     4af466c59ee7177e1717471a7219fde0
 
s390:
lmbench-2.0.4-1.EL4.s390.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0174
    82dc20f7b763ea89b61e7255dbe3516f
 
s390x:
lmbench-2.0.4-1.EL4.s390x.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0174
    13c1b6559c13da820a3988340b0d9b93
 
x86_64:
lmbench-2.0.4-1.EL4.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0174
    57485a30f3f680b284a7508b1c5ee9d2
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

175883 - rhr2 should use lmbench



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