mark@hubcap.UUCP (Mark Smotherman) (02/18/89)
For what it's worth, Dr. Dobb's Journal in the Feb. '89 issue reports
goals for a real-time benchmark, a project spearheaded by R.P. Kar of
Intel Systems Group, Hillsboro, OR. The article asks for suggestions
for improvements in order to produce a Rhealstone standard benchmark.
Suggestions are requested (in writing) by 1 March 1989, so that a
"final version" can be published in DDJ's June issue.
The items of measurement currently identified are:
task switching time
preemption time
interrupt latency time
semaphore shuffling time (signal => waiting process activation)
deadlock breaking time (transfer ownership of critical resource
from preempted low-priority task to high-priority task)
datagram throughput time (pipe/message passing/stream file)
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Mark Smotherman, Comp. Sci. Dept., Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634
INTERNET: mark@hubcap.clemson.edu UUCP: gatech!hubcap!markpanoff@hubcap.UUCP (Robert M. Panoff) (02/28/89)
GhallStones: measures audacity of claims by system engineers
or administrators or used-car salesmen
KhidneyStones: measures rate at which you get pissed off by
vendors or administrators or used-car salesmen
(right now running at about 7 KS)
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rmp, for the Bob's of the World