This is lmbench-3.0-a9, a (sometimes controversial) system performance measurement tool. lmbench is a suite of simple, portable, ANSI/C microbenchmarks for UNIX/POSIX. In general, it measures two key features: latency and bandwidth. lmbench is intended to give system developers insight into basic costs of key operations. You can go to /usr/local/lib/lmbench and do one of the following: make results (to run the benchmarks) make rerun (to rerun the benchmarks) make see (to see how you did) WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmbench/