schwarm@primerd.PRIME.COM (Steve Schwarm) (11/23/87)
I am looking for a good multi-user UNIX benchmark that models a representative UNIX user environment and measures overall system performance. So far I've only been able to find benchmarks that measure individual components of the system. These benchmarks do not attempt to model a true end-user mix. Does anyone know of a good multi-user UNIX benchmark or have any ideas on specifying one? Thanks, Marguerite McGuire Prime Computer Inc. uucp: primerd!migzie@s35 arpa: migzie@s35.prime.com
dsill@NSWC-OAS.arpa (Dave Sill) (11/24/87)
(I tried to reply by mail, but couldn't.)
MUSBUS (Monash University Suite for Benchmarking UNIX Systems) sounds
like what you're looking for. From the man page:
DESCRIPTION
MUSBUS is designed to support multi-user performance meas-
urements that are both realistic and comparable between
machines and systems. The principal performance metric is
the time (CPU and elapsed) required to perform a selected
workload as a function of increasing concurrent load.
A description of the workload profile is one of the inputs
to MUSBUS, and consequently MUSBUS is a benchmarking tool,
rather than a benchmark per se.
In addition to the multi-user test, MUSBUS supports a bat-
tery of smaller tests designed to measure some aspect of
hardware speed or system implementation efficiency. These
are diagnostic, rather than performance, tests.
It is available from the archives of the UNIX-SOURCES mailing list
(volume 11, issues 29-32).
Disclaimer: I haven't used MUSBUS myself.