PAE and Xen balloon benchmarks Three tests were performed to
benchmark the kernel: - build.sh runs. The results are those
returned by time(1) . - hackbench, a popular tool used by Linux
to benchmarks thread/process creation time. - sysbench, which
can benchmark mulitple aspect of a system. Presently, the memory
bandwidth, thread creation, and OLTP (online transaction
processing) tests were used. All were done three times, with a
reboot between each of these tests. The machine used: # cpuctl
list Num HwId Unbound LWPs Interrupts Last change ---- ----
------------ -------------- ---------------------------- 0 0
online intr Sun Jul 11 00:25:31 2010 1 1 online intr Sun Jul 11
00:25:31 2010 # cpuctl identify 0 cpu0: Intel Pentium 4
(686-class), 2798.78 MHz, id 0xf29 cpu0: features 0xbfebfbff
cpu0: features 0xbfebfbff cpu0: features 0xbfebfbff cpu0:
features2 0x4400 cpu0: "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz" cpu0:
I-cache 12K uOp cache 8-way, D-cache 8KB 64B/line 4-way cpu0: L2
cache 512KB 64B/line 8-way cpu0: ITLB