diff --git a/debuggerd/Android.bp b/debuggerd/Android.bp
index c473e33..7fec47d 100644
--- a/debuggerd/Android.bp
+++ b/debuggerd/Android.bp
@@ -218,6 +218,16 @@
     },
 }
 
+cc_benchmark {
+    name: "debuggerd_benchmark",
+    defaults: ["debuggerd_defaults"],
+    srcs: ["debuggerd_benchmark.cpp"],
+    shared_libs: [
+        "libbase",
+        "libdebuggerd_client",
+    ],
+}
+
 cc_binary {
     name: "crash_dump",
     srcs: [
diff --git a/debuggerd/debuggerd_benchmark.cpp b/debuggerd/debuggerd_benchmark.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..37ee214
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debuggerd/debuggerd_benchmark.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2017, The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#include <err.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <sched.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include <chrono>
+#include <thread>
+
+#include <benchmark/benchmark.h>
+#include <debuggerd/client.h>
+
+using namespace std::chrono_literals;
+
+static_assert(std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::is_steady);
+
+enum class ThreadState { Starting, Started, Stopping };
+
+static void SetScheduler() {
+  struct sched_param param {
+    .sched_priority = 1,
+  };
+
+  if (sched_setscheduler(getpid(), SCHED_FIFO, &param) != 0) {
+    fprintf(stderr, "failed to set scheduler to SCHED_FIFO: %s", strerror(errno));
+  }
+}
+
+static std::chrono::duration<double> GetMaximumPause(std::atomic<ThreadState>& state) {
+  std::chrono::duration<double> max_diff(0);
+
+  const auto begin = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();
+  auto last = begin;
+  state.store(ThreadState::Started);
+  while (state.load() != ThreadState::Stopping) {
+    auto now = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();
+
+    auto diff = now - last;
+    if (diff > max_diff) {
+      max_diff = diff;
+    }
+
+    last = now;
+  }
+
+  return max_diff;
+}
+
+static void PerformDump() {
+  pid_t target = getpid();
+  pid_t forkpid = fork();
+  if (forkpid == -1) {
+    err(1, "fork failed");
+  } else if (forkpid != 0) {
+    int status;
+    pid_t pid = waitpid(forkpid, &status, 0);
+    if (pid == -1) {
+      err(1, "waitpid failed");
+    } else if (!WIFEXITED(status)) {
+      err(1, "child didn't exit");
+    } else if (WEXITSTATUS(status) != 0) {
+      errx(1, "child exited with non-zero status %d", WEXITSTATUS(status));
+    }
+  } else {
+    android::base::unique_fd output_fd(open("/dev/null", O_WRONLY | O_CLOEXEC));
+    if (output_fd == -1) {
+      err(1, "failed to open /dev/null");
+    }
+
+    if (!debuggerd_trigger_dump(target, kDebuggerdNativeBacktrace, 1000, std::move(output_fd))) {
+      errx(1, "failed to trigger dump");
+    }
+
+    _exit(0);
+  }
+}
+
+template <typename Fn>
+static void BM_maximum_pause_impl(benchmark::State& state, const Fn& function) {
+  SetScheduler();
+
+  for (auto _ : state) {
+    std::chrono::duration<double> max_pause;
+    std::atomic<ThreadState> thread_state(ThreadState::Starting);
+    auto thread = std::thread([&]() { max_pause = GetMaximumPause(thread_state); });
+
+    while (thread_state != ThreadState::Started) {
+      std::this_thread::sleep_for(1ms);
+    }
+
+    function();
+
+    thread_state = ThreadState::Stopping;
+    thread.join();
+
+    state.SetIterationTime(max_pause.count());
+  }
+}
+
+static void BM_maximum_pause_noop(benchmark::State& state) {
+  BM_maximum_pause_impl(state, []() {});
+}
+
+static void BM_maximum_pause_debuggerd(benchmark::State& state) {
+  BM_maximum_pause_impl(state, []() { PerformDump(); });
+}
+
+BENCHMARK(BM_maximum_pause_noop)->Iterations(128)->UseManualTime();
+BENCHMARK(BM_maximum_pause_debuggerd)->Iterations(128)->UseManualTime();
+
+BENCHMARK_MAIN();