latencytest by Benno Senoner ( sbenno@gardena.net )

Version 0.42 ( Sep 11 1999)

- added rtc_latency_test which performs benchmarking
  of the realtime clock (RTC) device, using async notification
  ( by installing a SIGIO hander)
  To perform this test you must apply the included rtc-async.patch
  because the standard RTC device doesn't support async signal
  handling.
  
  Thanks to Paul Barton Davis ( pbd@op.net ) for this.

Version 0.41 ( Jul 06  1999)

- added a compile time option -DUSE_GENERIC_TIMER
  to allow compilation on non-Intel architectures (using gettimeofday() )
  (If someone mails me how to do CPU cycle counting
  on non-Intel architectures ,
  then I will add these timing methods for maximum precision)


Version 0.4  ( Jul 03  1999)

- the program now outputs the results as
  HTML pages containing GIF images, rendered with the libgd

- substituted gettimeofday() with
  RDTSC Pentium cycle counter to allow greater
  precision and to avoid potential locking during
  time measurements.

- added a CPU wasting loop during the audio play which uses
  about 80% of the CPU to stress the machine even more.

- added X11 stress (using x11perf)


Version 0.3  ( Jun 15  1999)

-removed some debugging messages and added output in
 tabular form for multiple fragment num/sizes

Version 0.2  ( Jun 10  1999)

- added output of number of overruns and max lantency
- added /proc file system stress (using top)


Version 0.1  ( Jun 2  1999)

Initital testversion

