Bug#96890: RFP: lmbench -- Larry McVoys portable benchmark suite

[Roderich Schupp <rsch@ExperTeam.de>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

lmbench: Larry McVoys portable benchmark  suite

Source: http://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/

Description:
- Suite of simple, portable benchmarks 
- Compares different  systems performance 
- Bandwidth benchmarks 
              Cached file read 
              Memory copy (bcopy) 
              Memory read 
              Memory write 
              Pipe 
              TCP 
- Latency benchmarks 
              Context switching. 
              Networking: connection establishment, pipe, TCP, UDP, and
RPC hot potato 
              File system creates and deletes. 
              Process creation. 
              Signal handling 
              System call overhead 
              Memory read latency 

License: GPL

Cheers, Roderich