Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:09:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:09:35 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:57606 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:09:34 -0400 Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:07:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Davidsen To: Linux-Kernel Mailing List Subject: A few thoughts on contest Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1062 Lines: 24 Some time ago I sent Con a set of results run on a 1GB RAM machine and rerun on decreasing memory using mem=. The problem I noted was in the io_half test, which runs totally in memory on a large memory machine. I would encourage people running the test to take this into account. I now run all my tests in no more than 256M, although runs with smaller memory give information on which kernel might be better in those cases. I also patched my io_XXX scripts to check the residual size of the file and the loop count and to report the bytes transferred, seconds, and transfer rate. This is sometimes quite different for kernels which are otherwise very similar. Hope this is useful to people. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/