MUSBUS: Experiences Using a Terminal Emulator to Select NAS Computer Systems

摘要

MUSBUS (Monash University Suite for Benchmarking UNIX Systems) is a terminal emulation program to time and 'stress' computer system performance. MUSBUS simulates multiple human users on an interactive computing environment executing a workload script. MUSBUS offers benchmark control and stress capabilities lacking in an environment like a bare operating system. One program simulates user keyboard activity, and another distributes resource utilization (random or not) during a benchmarking session. This report documents the qualitative experience and some results of using MUSBUS. This report discusses the needs, problems, some solutions, and the advantages to this performance measurement approach. This report is not a guide to using MUSBUS since that function is better served by MUSBUS documentation.