MUSBUS

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NAME

MUSBUS - a multi-user performance evaluation tool  

SYNOPSIS

run [ option ]  

DESCRIPTION

MUSBUS is designed to support multi-user performance measurements 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 battery of smaller tests designed to measure some aspect of hardware speed or system implementation efficiency. These are diagnostic, rather than performance, tests.

Each MUSBUS execution is controlled by a collection of environment variables and the script run that performs error checking, repeated tests for statistical validity, set up and clean up. Particular tests may be selected by options in the command line.  

FILES

Workload/*  workload description

Tmp/*      temporary files

Results/*  log files

Tools/*    ancillary support tools
 

DIAGNOSTICS

``Benchmark Aborted'' and associated bad news indicating why.  

SEE ALSO

Ken J. McDonell: An Introduction to the Monash Benchmark Suite (MUSBUS), (included in the MUSBUS distribution).
Ken J. McDonell: Taking Performance Evaluation Out of the ``Stone Age'', Proceedings Summer Usenix Technical Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, June, 1987, pp 407-417.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
FILES
DIAGNOSTICS
SEE ALSO

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