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NAME = 'Unix Bench 5'
AUTHOR = 'adrianbg@google.com'
TIME = 'MEDIUM'
PURPOSE = 'Measure system level performance.'
CRITERIA = 'This test is a benchmark.'
TEST_CLASS = 'Kernel'
TEST_CATEGORY = 'Benchmark'
TEST_TYPE = 'client'
DOC = """
This test measure system wide performance by running the following tests:
- Dhrystone - focuses on string handling.
- Whetstone - measure floating point operations.
- Execl Throughput - measure the number of execl calls per second.
- File Copy
- Pipe throughput
- Pipe-based context switching
- Process creation - number of times a process can fork and reap
- Shell Scripts - number of times a process can start and reap a script
- System Call Overhead - estimates the cost of entering and leaving the
kernel.
For more information visit:
http://code.google.com/p/byte-unixbench/
"""
job.run_test('unixbench5')