Interactive Workload

The interactive workload is designed to simulate users who are performing a typing (e.g., in an editor) interspersed with running small Unix utilities. Each workload was designed to run for between 8 and 12 minutes on a single processor Sparc Station 20.

The simulated users run the following programs.

  1. latex: Repeated latex/type/dvips sessions
  2. gunzip/tar: Repeated gunzip/untar/type sessions
  3. biglatex: Same as before, but on a large latex file
  4. awk: Runs awk repeatedly on a large data file; intersperse w/ typing
  5. type: A seris of typing events
  6. gnuplot: Create postscript files
  7. find: Look for something in /etc, /usr/lib; typing
  8. man: Looking at man pages and typing
  9. ghostscript: Examining various postscript files (no display)
  10. sysadmin: Alternates du, gfind -exec
  11. ps2gif: Creates .gif files from postscript
  12. type2: A seris of typing events

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