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.
AUTHOR¶
andras.horvath@gmail.com