Section: User Commands (1)Updated: Apr 26, 2006Local indexUp
NAME
mbw - Memory BandWidth benchmark
SYNOPSIS
mbw
[options] arraysize_in_MiB
DESCRIPTION
mbw
determines available memory bandwidth by copying large arrays of data in memory.
OPTIONS
-q
Quiet; suppress informational messages.
-a
Suppress printing the average of each test.
-n <number>
Select number of loops per test
-t <number>
Select tests to be run. If no -t parameters are given the default is to run all tests. -t0: memcpy() test, -t1: dumb (b[i]=a[i] style) test, -t2: memcpy() with arbitrary block size
-b <bytes>
Block size in bytes for -t2.
-h
Show quick help.
USAGE
mbw
will allocate two
arraysize
arrays in memory and copy one to the other.
Reported 'bandwidth' is the amount of data copied over the time this operation took.
Obviously
mbw
needs twice
arraysize
MiBytes (1024*1024 bytes) of physical memory - you'd better switch off swap or
otherwise make sure no paging occurs. Needless to say that it should not be run
on a busy system.
TODO
Multiple thread support.
Better configurability, including using getopt() for parsing arguments.