UnixBench is the original BYTE UNIX benchmark suite, maintained and revised over the years to provide a broad indication of Unix-like system performance.
Rather than concentrating on a single component, UnixBench combines the results of several tests covering processor arithmetic, process handling, system calls, files and other areas. Results are compared with a baseline system to produce index values.
On multi-processor systems the suite runs workloads in both single-task and parallel configurations, helping show both single-process performance and the benefit from multiple processors.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides a broad system benchmark rather than testing only one hardware component.
- Includes the Dhrystone integer benchmark.
- Includes the Whetstone floating-point benchmark.
- Measures process creation and
execlthroughput. - Measures file-copy performance using different buffer sizes.
- Tests pipe throughput and pipe-based context switching.
- Measures system-call overhead.
- Runs shell-script workloads with different levels of concurrency.
- Produces individual benchmark indexes and an overall system index.
- Runs both single-copy and multi-copy workloads on multi-processor systems.
- Offers optional 2D and 3D graphics tests.
- Supports modern Linux compiler toolchains while retaining its long-established benchmark workloads.
Website: github.com/kdlucas/byte-unixbench
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Developer: Kelly Lucas and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
UnixBench is written in C and Perl. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn Perl with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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