| NAME = 'Unix Bench 5' |
| AUTHOR = 'adrianbg@google.com' |
| TIME = 'MEDIUM' |
| PURPOSE = 'Measure system level performance.' |
| CRITERIA = 'This test is a benchmark.' |
| 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('unixbench5') |