LMbench - Tools for Performance Analysis

Stuff about LMbench lmbench is a suite of simple, portable, ANSI/C microbenchmarks for UNIX/POSIX. In general, it measures two key features: latency and bandwidth. lmbench is intended to give system developers insight into basic costs of key operations.

• What is LMbench?
• Why do I want another benchmark?
• How do I get LMbench?
• How do I run LMbench?
• Results summary as of January 1996

LMbench documentation

• January '96 Usenix paper
• June '98 Usenix paper on Mhz
• Manual pages

Visit the authors

• Larry McVoy
• Carl Staelin

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Larry McVoy lm@bitmover.com

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