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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:29:53 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.18pre4aa1
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 rwhron@earthlink.net wrote:

> > > http://home.earthlink.net/~rwhron/kernel/k6-2-475.html
> >
> > Even when mostly uncached, dbench still produces flaky results.

> Below are results from a couple of aa releases, and a few rmap
> releases.

  [snip results:  -aa twice as fast as -rmap for dbench,
                  -rmap twice as fast as -aa for tiobench]

What would be interesting here are the dbench dots, where
a '+' indicates that a program exits.

It's possible that under one of the kernels the programs
are getting throttled differently and some of the dbench
processes exit _way_ earlier than the others, leaving a
much lighter load on the rest of the system for the second
part of the test.

It would be interesting to see the dbench dots from both
-aa and -rmap ;)

regards,

Rik
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