Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 3 Jul 2003 18:08:08 -0700 | From | jw schultz <> | Subject | Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.5.74-mm1 with contest |
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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.
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