System Performance Analysis

• The Measured Performance of Personal Computer Operating Systems A study that compares the performance of three PC operating systems (Windows, NT, and UNIX) on an Intel platform.
• Using Latency to Evaluate Interactive System Performance Some tools and methodology to measure interactive applications and systems.
• Operating System Benchmarking in the Wake of Lmbench: A Case Study of the Performance of NetBSD on the Intel x86 Architecture Describes the use of hbench-OS, an improved version of lmbench, to analyze in detail the interaction between features of the Intel x86 architecture and the performance of the NetBSD operating system on that architecture.
• Brown, A., A Decompositional Approach to Computer System Performance Evaluation. Harvard Senior Thesis, 7 April 1997. (gzipped postscript) (pdf)
• Measuring Windows NT--Possibilities and Limitations What is the "correct" way to measure interactive systems? Does Windows NT give us enough freedom to measure and collect necessary information?

The following tools are available:

• HBench-OS 1.0 Benchmark Suite

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