About Linux/Unix nbench:
This page is about my port to Linux/Unix of release 2 of BYTE Magazine's BYTEmark benchmark program (previously known as BYTE's Native Mode Benchmarks). These are Native Mode (a.k.a. Algorithm Level) tests; benchmarks designed to expose the capabilities of a system's CPU, FPU, and memory system. It was originally posted at BYTE's benchmark page at http://www.byte.com/bmark/bmark.htm, however this link is dead (as of the end of 2010)
The benchmark program takes less than 10 minutes to run (on most machines) and compares the system it is run on to two benchmark systems (a Dell Pentium 90 with 256 KB cache running MSDOS and an AMD K6/233 with 512 KB cache running Linux). The archive contains the complete source, documentation, and a binary (Linux elf). The source has been successfully compiled on various operating systems, including SunOS, DEC Unix 4.0, DEC OSF1, HP-UX, DEC Ultrix, MS-DOS, and of course Linux.
nbench version: 2.2.3
Test Results of nbench:
http://www.tux.org/~mayer/linux/results2.html
Link:
http://www.tux.org/~mayer/linux/bmark.html
