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From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
To: Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>
Subject: RE: performance of cache-intensive applications
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On 04-Dec-2002 Igor Schein wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using an open-source application on ix86 to perform a task which
> is cache-intensive.  When I run consecutive iterations of the task on
> a fixed input, the variance in timing of each iteration is extemely
> high.   Needless to say, the test machine is always non-occupied.

CPU bound or I/O bound ?  What kernel version ?  IDE or
SCSI ?  vmstat ?  Other details ?


Bye.

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