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3.2 LMbench results

Measurement based on lmbench-3.0-a4 [1].

                 L M B E N C H  3 . 0   S U M M A R Y
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		 (Alpha software, do not distribute)


Processor, Processes - times in microseconds - smaller is better
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Host                 OS  Mhz null null      open slct sig  sig  fork exec sh  
                             call  I/O stat clos TCP  inst hndl proc proc proc
--------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
zhq-serve Linux 2.6.12- 2768 0.21 0.31 3.52 4.16 14.2 0.65 2.56 182. 635. 2233
zhq-serve Linux 2.6.12- 2768 0.22 0.37 5.71 6.97 26.9 1.23 3.82 305. 1115 3490
zhq-serve Linux 2.6.12- 2768 0.21 0.38 5.93 7.80 26.9 1.28 4.00 315. 1168 3680
zhq-serve Linux SWAP    2768 0.22 0.31 3.48 4.25 14.2 0.72 2.49 192. 638. 2243
zhq-serve Linux SWAP    2768 0.22 0.36 6.14 6.42 25.0 1.38 4.41 231. 1154 4121
zhq-serve Linux SWAP    2768 0.22 0.31 6.03 6.94 24.3 1.46 4.51 232. 1090 4278

Context switching - times in microseconds - smaller is better
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Host                 OS  2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K 16p/64K
                         ctxsw  ctxsw  ctxsw ctxsw  ctxsw   ctxsw   ctxsw
--------- ------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- -------
zhq-serve Linux 2.6.12- 2.1700 2.8300        5.0900 4.4200 4.75000    15.1
zhq-serve Linux 2.6.12- 2.2400 3.1600 1.6100 5.7000 8.2600 4.63000    26.2
zhq-serve Linux 2.6.12- 2.4000 4.5000 4.7700 5.0500 9.5900 7.13000    29.9
zhq-serve Linux SWAP    3.2100 5.0200 7.5300 5.7700   15.5    10.1    33.1
zhq-serve Linux SWAP    3.2700 5.4700 5.8300 8.7000   10.4 9.09000    29.4
zhq-serve Linux SWAP    3.2700 5.3000 3.9900 5.4700 5.6400    10.4    32.5

*Local* Communication latencies in microseconds - smaller is better
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Host                 OS 2p/0K  Pipe AF     UDP  RPC/   TCP  RPC/ TCP
                        ctxsw       UNIX         UDP         TCP conn
--------- ------------- ----- ----- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----
zhq-serve Linux 2.6.12- 2.170 8.248 12.1  14.9  27.5  17.1  36.0  83.
zhq-serve Linux 2.6.12- 2.240  12.0 19.4  19.9  35.4  24.3  41.9  91.
zhq-serve Linux 2.6.12- 2.400  11.7 19.6  19.9  35.7  24.4  42.3 101.
zhq-serve Linux SWAP    3.210  10.2 13.5  15.7  27.0  19.4  35.9  55.
zhq-serve Linux SWAP    3.270  14.7 13.4  21.1  36.4  27.9  43.5  55.
zhq-serve Linux SWAP    3.270  15.1 22.1  20.8  36.5  27.7  43.3 17.7

File & VM system latencies in microseconds - smaller is better
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Host                 OS   0K File      10K File     Mmap    Prot   Page   100fd
                        Create Delete Create Delete Latency Fault  Fault  selct
--------- ------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- ----- ------- -----
zhq-serve Linux 2.6.12-   18.9   14.4   55.6   30.0  9078.0 1.022 2.44320  12.5
zhq-serve Linux 2.6.12-   19.2   14.4   62.1   30.2  9144.0 1.177 2.45600  22.8
zhq-serve Linux 2.6.12-   19.1   14.4   87.6   30.1  9139.0 1.371 2.45640  23.6
zhq-serve Linux SWAP      19.2   15.8   56.6   30.4  9115.0 0.998 2.46360  12.5
zhq-serve Linux SWAP      19.1   15.8   73.8   31.3  9100.0 0.010 2.48010  22.6
zhq-serve Linux SWAP      19.0   15.7   89.4   30.5  9138.0 1.044 2.48110  17.5

*Local* Communication bandwidths in MB/s - bigger is better
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Host                OS  Pipe AF    TCP  File   Mmap  Bcopy  Bcopy  Mem   Mem
                             UNIX      reread reread (libc) (hand) read write
--------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ---- -----
zhq-serve Linux 2.6.12- 1240 884. 701. 1180.7 1830.6  769.5  718.2 1811 1497.
zhq-serve Linux 2.6.12- 1240 892. 692. 1183.7 1765.1  769.4  760.0 1829 1501.
zhq-serve Linux 2.6.12- 988. 889. 666. 1191.1 1840.3  822.2  710.5 1814 1506.
zhq-serve Linux SWAP    1135 1318 685. 1201.3 1804.0  810.8  741.0 1812 1470.
zhq-serve Linux SWAP    1159 1344 708. 1204.4 1814.2  806.2  745.0 1822 1483.
zhq-serve Linux SWAP    1172 1354 762. 1198.5 1824.6  813.0  720.9 1823 1489.