*Suiteofsimple,portablebenchmarks*Comparesdifferentsystemsperformance*Resultsavailableformostmajorvendors(SUN,HP,IBM,DEC,SGI,PCsincluding200MhzP6's)*Freesoftware,coveredbytheGNUGeneralPublicLicense.*BandwidthbenchmarksoCachedfilereadoMemorycopy(bcopy)oMemoryreadoMemorywriteoPipeoTCP*LatencybenchmarksoContextswitching.oNetworking:connectionestablishment,pipe,TCP,UDP,andRPChotpotatooFilesystemcreatesanddeletes.oProcesscreation.oSignalhandlingoSystemcalloverheadoMemoryreadlatency*MiscellaniousoProcessorclockratecalculation
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