Kernbench v0.11

What is this?

This is a cpu throughput benchmark originally devised and used by Martin J.
Bligh. It is designed to compare kernels on the same machine, not to compare
hardware.

It runs a kernel compile single threaded, and then at various numbers of
concurrent jobs (1/2 number of cpus, 4xnumber of cpus and maximum job count).
It then prints out a number of useful statistics for the best run.

The default number of runs is 5, but if kernbench detects the last run was
the fastest it will perform one more to ensure it hasn't missed the peak
performance. 


How do I use it?

You need a kernel tree (any will do) and the application 'time' installed. 
This is different to the time used by BASH. Simply cd into the kernel tree
directory and type
/path/to/kernbench


Options

kernbench [-n runs] [-h] [-v]
-n Number of runs
-h Print help
-v Print version of kernbench

Changelog:
v0.11 First public release

ToDo:
Add more sanity checks and options to choose which runs to do.

Con Kolivas <kernbench@kolivas.org>
Thu Feb 12 01:11:42 2004

GPL of course.