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From: Dieter =?iso-8859-15?q?N=FCtzel?= <Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>
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Subject: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 01:29:00 +0100
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On Monday, 13. January 2002 17:56, yodaiken wrote:
> > He later said he did in fact build the same tree, from the same initial
> > condition, in single user mode, etc etc ... sounded like good testing
> > methodology to me.
>
> Really? You think that 
>                unpack a tar archive
>                make
>
> is a repeatable benchmark?

Do it tree times and send the geometric middle. Where's the problem?
Even with disk fragmentation. Maybe use an empty disk...

What about latencytest0.42-png?
We used it even before Ingo's O(1) existed.
Were can I find your latency test? Link?

-Dieter

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Dieter N?tzel
Graduate Student, Computer Science

University of Hamburg
Department of Computer Science
@home: Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de
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