The Finite Time Quantum benchmark has been ported to Plan 9; just mk it and go. There is a python program included to analyze and plot the data which you should probably run on Linux. FTQ measures operating system "noise" by trying to do as much work as possible in fixed time sections; if the operating system is "noisy", less work will be done and you'll see spikes on the graph. The best way to understand this is to run the test and look at it.
Tarball is at /n/sources/contrib/john/ftq.tgz Unlike the lmbench port, there are no restrictions on this benchmark--go ahead and share your results, compare them to Linux, etc. John
