Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265597AbTGDAx5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 20:53:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265586AbTGDAx4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 20:53:56 -0400 Received: from vladimir.pegasys.ws ([64.220.160.58]:45841 "EHLO vladimir.pegasys.ws") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265597AbTGDAxz (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2003 20:53:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 18:08:08 -0700 From: jw schultz To: linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.5.74-mm1 with contest Message-ID: <20030704010808.GB9719@pegasys.ws> Mail-Followup-To: jw schultz , linux kernel mailing list References: <200307040132.55827.kernel@kolivas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200307040132.55827.kernel@kolivas.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1514 Lines: 39 On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:32:55AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > Here are contest benchmarks for 2.5.74-mm1 with my scheduler tweaks: > [snip] > > A little more here, a little less there. No major changes except for dbench > load which appears to have significantly shorter compile times. As kernel > compiles are not by their nature "interactive", these results are expected. > It is nice to see that it doesn't appear to starve any load unecessarily as > well. > > Contest can show the kernel's ability to perform in the setting of different > loads without being choked, but will not show if your audio application will > get to play when it wants to, nor whether your windows will move around the > screen smoothly. > > Con > > P.S. Does anyone see the irony in the fact that my own benchmark won't show > that my patch does anything? I see no irony, and much value, in your benchmark showing that your patch doesn't break server performance. Perhaps a load that generated X events to move a window around in an ellipse or polygon would show some effects of your patch. -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: jw@pegasys.ws Remember Cernan and Schmitt - 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/