Benchmarking the dependability of Windows and Linux using PostMark/spl trade/ workloads

Author

Kanoun, Karama ; Crouzet, Yves ; Kalakech, Ali ; Rugina, Ana-Elena ; Rume, Philippe

Author_Institution

LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse

fYear

2005

fDate

1-1 Nov. 2005

Lastpage

20

Abstract

This paper presents a dependability benchmark for general-purpose operating systems and its application to six versions of Windows operating system and four versions of Linux operating system. The benchmark measures are: operating system robustness (as regards possible erroneous inputs provided by the application software to the operating system via the application programming interface), reaction and restart times in the presence of faults. The workload is PostMark, a file system performance benchmark for operating systems

Keywords

application program interfaces; benchmark testing; file organisation; operating systems (computers); software fault tolerance; software performance evaluation; Linux operating system; PostMark workload; Windows operating system; application programming interface; dependability benchmarking; file system performance benchmark; operating system robustness; operating systems; software faults; Application software; File systems; Hardware; Linux; Operating systems; Performance evaluation; Resists; Robustness; Software measurement; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Reliability Engineering, 2005. ISSRE 2005. 16th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1071-9458

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2482-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSRE.2005.13

Filename

1544717