Problem

(a) When can we say that a computer system is balanced with respect to its performance?

(b) In a particular computer system. the designers suspect that the read write bandwidth of the main memory has become the performance bottleneck. Describe in brief the type of test program you would need to run on the system. and the type of measurements you would need to make, to verify whether main memory bandwidth is indeed the performance bottleneck. You may make additional assumptions about the system if you can justify the assumptions.