lmbench | Utilities to benchmark UNIX systems | Mehr ...
Lmbench is a set of utilities to test the performance of a unix system producing detailed results as well as providing tools to process them. It includes a series of micro benchmarks that measure some basic operating system and hardware metrics: . * file reading and summing * memory bandwith while reading, writing and copying * copying data through pipes * copying data through Unix sockets * reading data through TCP/IP sockets
lmbench-doc | Documentation for the lmbench benchmark suite | Mehr ...
This package provides all the documentation included in the lmbench benchmark software. This includes: . * references to published articles * presentations made by lmbench authos * the rebuttal of an article claiming lmbench is flawed