LOAD GENERATION APPLICATION AND CLOUD COMPUTING BENCHMARKING

摘要

Benchmarking of a cloud computing instance is performed by a benchmarking application via direct system calls and locally stored measures to lower impact on benchmarking. Furthermore, stored measures are uploaded to a server when benchmarking is not being performed, so as not to have the uploading impact measurement. The benchmarking is performed via an application profile comprising a plurality of benchmark indicia. Benchmarking indicia may be specific to 64-bit operating systems. Benchmarking indicia may be variable, in which a thread pool in the benchmarking application increases or decreases active threads based on the variance of the benchmarking indicia. In this way, a benchmarking application can simulate an application load not only by benchmarking indicia, but also by time.