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The S-DET benchmark is based on a script of typical programs run by an imaginary software developer. The script contains commands such as nroff, cc, and spell. The script, and therefore the system load offered by the script, remains the same over all invocations of the benchmark. Offered load is varied by concurrently invoking several copies of this script. A throughput result is obtained by dividing the number of running scripts by the elapsed time required for their completion. This benchmark exercises multiprocessing, filesystem, and virtual memory facilities. Even on modern hardware, this benchmark is able to create significant loads. Because the output of every script is checked against a standard output log, misbehavior caused by system overload can be spotted by the benchmark automatically.

http://www.spec.org/osg/sdm91/
http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/linux-scalability/reports/spec.html