Comments for these tests:
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-38/0777.html
System is an IBM ThinkPad 390E, mem=192 MB
Basic order of ops is: - fill inode and dentry caches with slocate [prefill slab cache] - load gmix and xmms, stream mp3 audio [streaming load] - create 2560^2 image in gimp [creation of lots of anonymous pages] - load staroffice 5.2 [i/o cache strain, large working set demanded] - load emacs, gmc, suite of gnome apps, IRAF + default image, SAOIMAGE, mozilla, gqview, xv, gv, xpdf, etc... [start swapping moderately] - rotate that gimp image 90 degrees [check aging of older pages by calling anon pages back into use] - close all apps in roughly lifo order [test aging of pages, look at needed swapin]
Rationale for this test strategy:
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0109.3/0033.html