Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!karazm.math.uh.edu!mahmoud From: mahmoud@karazm.math.uh.edu (Ahmed Mahmoud) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Small Benchmark Message-ID: <1991May18.155143.5741@menudo.uh.edu> Date: 18 May 91 15:51:43 GMT References: <1991May17.181628.19207@linus.mitre.org> Sender: usenet@menudo.uh.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Houston -- Department of Mathematics Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: karazm.math.uh.edu In article <1991May17.181628.19207@linus.mitre.org> bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes: >I would like to present the following (small) benchmark code for Unix >systems. A co-worker has dubbed this 'bobstones'. > >This program very seriously tests memory and data cacheing effects. It is >quite simple. > >I would like to ask that people out there try this out and report the results >back to this forum. It only takes a few seconds to run. > I ran this benchmark on a NeXTstation 25mhz 68040 8 megs of ram. I had a few things running at the time...( kermit,edit and a terminal emulator) here are the results localhost> cc -o bench bench.c localhost> bench Total time (sys+user) : 11.98 (bobstones) Page faults (min/maj) : 0/0 Blocks in input/output : 2459/0 Context switches (vol/invol): 2533/348 localhost> ahmed