the construction and use of a general purpose synthetic program for an interactive benchmark on demand paged systems
A general purpose synthetic program may be used to good advantage in configuring a workload for use in benchmarking several machines. A good general purpose synthetic program should be able to do a variety of types of CPU and I/O processing in a variety of source languages, should be able to simulate interactive processing, and should be able to exercise the core management routines of a demand paged (virtual) system. The construction and use of a general purpose FORTRAN synthetic program is outlined, and the results of a benchmark in which it was used are given. The development of the workload used in the benchmark is also described.
use general interaction benchmark systems workload types process language exercise core management virtualization developer