STP Test Descriptions
Kernel Areas VM - Memory FS - Filesystems IO - Devices SCH - Scheduler PR - Processes NET - Networking
Exercises Touches Not Tested Not Rated Yet
Name Description Number of CPU's Last Run/Autorun Kernel Area
aim9 Combined ext2, ext3, and reiserfs aim9 benchmark suite. Each test runs seperately, with time to run each test set to 60 seconds. 1,2,4,8 STP #3390 VM FS IO SCH PR NET
bash-memory VM Killer Test 1,2,4,8 STP #3398 VM FS IO SCH PR NET
bonnie++ Disk Tests - series of Bonnie++ tests (with, without buffering as well as with 1,000 and 10,000 files) 1,2,4,8 STP #3483 VM FS IO SCH PR NET
dbench-long *Long* running dbench test. Will test multiple iterations per client load until the performance drops to unreasonable levels 1,2,4,8 STP #3369 VM FS IO SCH PR NET
dbench-quick Short dbench test. Include example of Perl wrap script 1,2,4,8 STP #3483 VM FS IO SCH PR NET
DBT1-1tier Commerical Database workload modeled on TPC-W 1,2,4,8 STP #3523 VM FS IO SCH PR NET
DOTS Java-based database test - from the LTP 1,2,4,8 STP #3483 VM FS IO SCH PR NET
Hackbench Test for measuring performance, overhead and scalability of the linux scheduler 1,2,4,8 STP #3398 VM FS IO SCH PR NET
Contest Times kernel compile with background load 1,2,4,8 STP #3398 VM FS IO SCH PR NET
iozone The IOZONE Filesystem Benchmark utility, specifically testing for a specified filesystem 1,2,4,8 STP #3398 VM FS IO SCH PR NET
lmbench-long Tests performance of various components of the Linux Kernel 1,2,4,8 STP #3398 VM FS IO SCH PR NET
lmbench-short lmbench without the memory test portion 1,2,4,8 STP #3398 VM FS IO SCH PR NET
LTP Runs the Linux Test Projects (LTP) Quickhit series of tests 1,2,4,8 STP #3398 VM FS IO SCH PR NET
memtest runs multiple copies of various programs, over-allocating memory and stressing the VM subsystem. The tests use malloc(), mmap(), and fopen()/fseek(), sometimes alone, sometimes together. 1,2,4,8 STP #3398 VM FS IO SCH PR NET
pgmeter The PGMETER Filesystem Workload utility 1,2,4,8 STP #3398 VM FS IO SCH PR NET
tiobench a file system benchmark especially designed to test I/O performance with multiple running threads 1,2,4,8 STP #3398 VM FS IO SCH PR NET
UNIXbench UNIX bench standard run 1,2,4,8 STP #3398 VM FS IO SCH PR NET
VM_Regress Mel Gorman contributed VM test 1,2,4,8 STP #3398 VM FS IO SCH PR NET