SYNTHETICALLY GENERATED PERFORMANCE TEST LOADS FOR OPERATING SYSTEMS.

B. W. Kernighan; P. A. Hamilton

doi:10.1145/800268.809343

SYNTHETICALLY GENERATED PERFORMANCE TEST LOADS FOR OPERATING SYSTEMS.

B. W. Kernighan
, P. A. Hamilton

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Abstract

This paper describes the design of and experience with an automated benchmark-generation facility for system testing and performance evaluation. The basic approach involves two components. The first is a simple, high parameterized ″synthetic job″ , that is, a program which uses precisely specified amounts of computing resources, but which does no ″useful″ work. The second component is a generator program, which converts a specification of a job stream into a complete, ready-to-run set of synthetic jobs, which are then used to exercise the system.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	121-126
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/800268.809343
State	Published - 1973
Event	SIGME Symp on Meas and Eval, 1st Annu, Proc - Palo Alto, CA, USA Duration: Feb 26 1973 → Feb 28 1973

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Other	SIGME Symp on Meas and Eval, 1st Annu, Proc
City	Palo Alto, CA, USA
Period	2/26/73 → 2/28/73

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General Engineering

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