LMbench - Tools for performance analysis
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Suite of simple, portable benchmarks
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Compares different
systems performance
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Results available for most major vendors (SUN, HP, IBM, DEC, SGI, PCs including
200 Mhz P6's)
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Free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
- Bandwidth benchmarks
- Cached file read
- Memory copy (bcopy)
- Memory read
- Memory write
- Pipe
- TCP
- Latency benchmarks
- Context switching.
- Networking: connection establishment, pipe, TCP, UDP, and RPC hot potato
- File system creates and deletes.
- Process creation.
- Signal handling
- System call overhead
- Memory read latency
- Miscellanious
- Processor clock rate calculation
