Operating system benchmarking in the wake of lmbench: a case study of the performance of NetBSD on the Intel x86 architecture
Operating system benchmarking in the wake of lmbench: a case study of the performance of NetBSD on the Intel x86 architecture
Aaron B. Brown,M. Seltzer
1997 · DOI: 10.1145/258612.258690
Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems · 141 Citations
TLDR
Modifications to lmbench are described, and a new benchmark suite, hbench:OS, is used to examine how the performance of operating system primitives under NetBSD has scaled with the processor evolution of the Intel x86 architecture.