Operating Systems Benchmarks

Benchmarking BSD and Linux: "My interest in this area is to see how scalable and fast network applications can be on standard PC hardware." Compares socket allocation, mmap, fork, and other network-related primitives.

system	hardware	OS	version
P60	Dell P60	NetBSD	0.9a
SGI	SGI IP22	Irix	5.2
HP	9000/725	HPUX	9.01
SS4	Sun SparcStation 10	SunOS	4.1.3
SS5	Sun SparcStation 10	Solaris	5.3
IPX	Sun IPX	SunOS	4.1.1
U170	Sun Ultra/170	Solaris	2.5.1

system	getpid (us)	cswitch	select	bcopy (max.)	bcopy (200,000)	read (1000, /unix)	open local (us)	open NFS (ms)	crtdel (local) (ms)	crtdel (NFS) (ms)	write (1 MB, local) (MB/s)	write (1 MB, NFS) (MB/s)
	`getpid 1000`	`cswitch 100`	`select 1 1 10000`	`bcopy`	`bcopy`	`read < /usr/dict/words`	`open /usr/dict/words 1000`	`open /import/http/LOGS.www/access_log`	`crtdel /tmp/foo 100 10`	`crtdel`	`write 1000 > /tmp/foo`	`write 1000 > /misc/tmp/foo`
P60	5.0	0.22	26	23	17	19	0.08		59		310	310
SGI	9.0	0.30	35	64	40	22		3.0		57	390	390
HP	2.0	0.50	97	39	10	14	0.19			839	30	30
SS4	10.0	0.26	25	48	20	22	0.09		44		300
SS5	13.0	0.49	27	11	8	18		2.5
IPX	21.0	0.43	52	13	10	1.5	0.19	1.2		67		130
U170	3.08	0.07	10	169	159	115	50	1.2	0.25	34	93

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