Re: lmbench results for 2.4 and 2.5 -- updated results

From: Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 17:19:50 EST


Larry McVoy wrote:

> work ~/LMbench2/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu ENOUGH=1000000 time bw_pipe
> Pipe bandwidth: 655.37 MB/sec
> real 0m23.411s
> user 0m0.480s
> sys 0m1.180s
>
> work ~/LMbench2/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu time bw_pipe
> Pipe bandwidth: 809.81 MB/sec
>
> real 0m2.821s
> user 0m0.480s
> sys 0m1.180s

Why the difference? Is it being scheduled out? Should lmbench be (optionally)
putting itself into a realtime scheduling class?

Chris

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