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"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> On a slightly related note, I played with lmbench a bit over the weekend,
> but the results were too unstable to be useful ... they're also too short
> to profile ;-( 
> 
> I presume it does 100 iterations of a test (like fork latency?). Or does 
> it just do one? Can I make it do 1,000,000 iterations or something
> fairly easily ? ;-) I didn't really look closely, just apt-get install
> lmbench ... 

Yes, that is something I've wanted several times.  Just a way to say "run
this test for ever so I can profile the thing".

Even a sleazy environment string would suffice.

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