LMbench - Tools for performance analysis

What is LMbench?

Suite of simple, portable benchmarks

Compares different

systems performance

Results available for most major vendors (SUN, HP, IBM, DEC, SGI, PCs including 200 Mhz P6's)
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

Larry McVoy,lm@bitmover.com

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