The construction and use of a general purpose synthetic program for an interactive benchmark on demand paged systems
Joel N. Williams · 1977
A general purpose synthetic program may be used to good advantage in configuring a workload for use in benchmarking several machines. A good general purpose synthetic program should be able to do a variety of types of CPU and I/O processing in a variety of source languages, should be able to simulate interactive processing, and should be able to exercise the core management routines of a demand paged (virtual) system. The construction and use of a general purpose FORTRAN synthetic program is outlined, and the results of a benchmark in which it was used are given. The development of the workload used in the benchmark is also described.