Chapter 27. Benchmarking
The term benchmark refers to the practice of running a test on a known configuration, using a known workload, and monitoring the result. Sometimes the objective is to determine the maximum throughput the configuration is capable of or to determine the response times of specific operations. At other times the objective is simply to find out whether the hardware/software combination is able to execute the workload through to completion without failing. Benchmark performance is sometimes less interesting than system functionality and robustness.
A benchmark workload is usually one of the following types:
An emulation, which aims to replicate a real environment. The goal is to copy a real workload and make it perform in ...
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