Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Aug 2003 07:28:58 -0700 | From | Dan Kegel <> | Subject | Re: LMbench as gcc performance regression test? |
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Larry McVoy wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 12:21:37AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > >>(There seems to be large variations in successive runs of LMBench >>when I try it, so it may take me a bit of work to get repeatable >>results.) > > > Other than the context switch part or anything based on it, that shouldn't > be true, it should be very stable. > > I'm pretty convinced that the variations are due to different pages being > allocated and the result cache contention makes things bounce.
Or an idiot running the benchmark. We really do have to rule that out first. - Dan
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