NAME = 'Unix Bench' AUTHOR = 'adrianbg@google.com' TIME = 'MEDIUM' PURPOSE = 'Measure system level performance.' CRITERIA = 'This test is a benchmark.' ATTRIBUTES = "suite:hwqual" SUITE = "hwqual" TEST_CLASS = 'Kernel' TEST_CATEGORY = 'Benchmark' TEST_TYPE = 'client' DOC = """ This test measure system wide performance by running the following tests: - Dhrystone - focuses on string handling. - Whetstone - measure floating point operations. - Execl Throughput - measure the number of execl calls per second. - File Copy - Pipe throughput - Pipe-based context switching - Process creation - number of times a process can fork and reap - Shell Scripts - number of times a process can start and reap a script - System Call Overhead - estimates the cost of entering and leaving the kernel. For more information visit: http://code.google.com/p/byte-unixbench/ """ job.run_test('unixbench')