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Instructions for UNIX Benchmarks

STEP 1: Get the source here:

https://www.unix.com/source/bm.zip

or

https://www.unix.com/source/unix_linux_bench.tar.gz

STEP 2: Unzip or Untar

STEP 3: make

STEP 4: Run

STEP: 5: Please login to www.unix.com and post test results along with platform info to:

Include (if you want) CPU info, speed, RAM, and host adapter and bus
info as well as any special compilation flags.


See TEMPLATE Below....

Thanks,

Neo (www.unix.com)

____________________________________________


Example:

CPU/Speed: Pentium 100
Ram: 32M EDO Ram
Motherboard: ASUS blah blah
Bus: 4 PCI, 4 ISA
Cache: 256K sync-burst
Controller: PCI - Adaptec 2940W ctrler
Disk: 1.08 Gig Fujitsu SCSI-III (Wide SCSI)
Load: 1 user, running pppd and httpd
Kernel: Linux 1.2.8
Kernel ELF?: yes
pgms: gcc 2.5.8 compiled;
options = -s -static -O9 -finline-functions -funroll-loops \
-fomit-frame-pointer

or:

pgms: pre-compiled binary

----------- cut here -----------------

Notes

CPU/Speed:
Ram:
Motherboard:
Bus:
Cache:
Controller:
Disk:
Load:
Kernel:
Kernel ELF?:
pgms:

--------- you should get results that look like ---------


Code:
==============================================================

  BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 3.11)
  System -- Linux www 2.4.20 #2 Mon Mar 17 22:02:15 PST 2003 i686 unknown
  Start Benchmark Run: Sat Sep  6 13:43:27 EDT 2003
   1 interactive users.
Dhrystone 2 without register variables   3593034.9 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Dhrystone 2 using register variables     3568756.2 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Arithmetic Test (type = arithoh)         7550184.6 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Arithmetic Test (type = register)        351794.6 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Arithmetic Test (type = short)           340660.4 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Arithmetic Test (type = int)             360040.5 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Arithmetic Test (type = long)            363551.0 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Arithmetic Test (type = float)           731557.4 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Arithmetic Test (type = double)          730016.7 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
System Call Overhead Test                935103.5 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Pipe Throughput Test                     948968.2 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching Test        368525.3 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Process Creation Test                     14861.1 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)
Execl Throughput Test                      4196.5 lps   (9 secs, 6 samples)
File Read  (10 seconds)                  2906887.0 KBps  (10 secs, 6 samples)
File Write (10 seconds)                  174839.0 KBps  (10 secs, 6 samples)
File Copy  (10 seconds)                   28177.0 KBps  (10 secs, 6 samples)
File Read  (30 seconds)                  3027515.0 KBps  (30 secs, 6 samples)
File Write (30 seconds)                  173984.0 KBps  (30 secs, 6 samples)
File Copy  (30 seconds)                   12078.0 KBps  (30 secs, 6 samples)
C Compiler Test                             995.7 lpm   (60 secs, 3 samples)
Shell scripts (1 concurrent)               4913.8 lpm   (60 secs, 3 samples)
Shell scripts (2 concurrent)               2518.4 lpm   (60 secs, 3 samples)
Shell scripts (4 concurrent)               1291.2 lpm   (60 secs, 3 samples)
Shell scripts (8 concurrent)                652.8 lpm   (60 secs, 3 samples)
Dc: sqrt(2) to 99 decimal places         174793.5 lpm   (60 secs, 6 samples)
Recursion Test--Tower of Hanoi            57932.5 lps   (10 secs, 6 samples)


                     INDEX VALUES            
TEST                                        BASELINE     RESULT      INDEX

Arithmetic Test (type = double)               2541.7   730016.7      287.2
Dhrystone 2 without register variables       22366.3  3593034.9      160.6
Execl Throughput Test                           16.5     4196.5      254.3
File Copy  (30 seconds)                        179.0    12078.0       67.5
Pipe-based Context Switching Test             1318.5   368525.3      279.5
Shell scripts (8 concurrent)                     4.0      652.8      163.2
                                                                 =========
     SUM of  6 items                                                1212.4
     AVERAGE                                                         202.1

See this post for an example benchmark posting:

https://www.unix.com/linux-benchmarks/11183-amd-2500-1g-ram-soyo-kt600-ultra-mb.html
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