The BYTE benchmark suite tests several aspects of system performance.

An article, which describes the concepts and helps understand the results 
can be found in the doc directory (/usr/local/lib/bytebench/doc if you use 
a PREFIX of /usr/local).

This benchmark is quite prominent among Linux users, and there is a patched 
version available from some web suite, from where results are made available, 
too.

Since they offer some results of non-Linux systems for comparison, they might 
be interested in FreeBSD reports, too ;-)


Quoting from "README.submittal" of the Linux version of this benchmark suite:

% Please e-mail test results along with platform info to:
% 
% results@silkroad.com
% 
% Included CPU info, speed, RAM, and host adapter and bus
% info as well as any special compilation flags.
% 
% See TEMPLATE Below....
% 
% results will be included in the URL:
% 
% http://www.silkroad.com/bass/linux/bm.html
% 
% 
% Thanks,
% 
% Tim Bass   (bass@silkroad.com)

Example:

CPU/Speed:   	Pentium 100
Ram:    	32M EDO Ram
Motherboard:    ASUS blah blah
Bus:		4 PCI, 4 ISA
Cache:  	256K sync-burst
Controller:	PCI - Adaptec 2940W ctrler
Disk:   	1.08 Gig Fujitsu SCSI-III (Wide SCSI)
Load:   	1 user, running pppd and httpd
Kernel:		FreeBSD-2.1R
pgms:   	gcc 2.6.3 compiled;
        	options = -s -static -O -m486 -finline-functions \
				funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer