Re: System response benchmarks in performance patches

Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:27:11 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Con Kolivas wrote:

>
> I came up with a very simple way of measuring responsiveness that gives me
> numbers that are meaningful to me. What I've done is the old faithful kernel
> compile and measured it under different loads to simulate the pc's ability to
> perform under various loads. I have so far benchmarked 2.4.19 versus 2.4.19-ck7,
> 2.4.19-ck7-rmap and 2.4.18-6mdk(mandrake's kernel in 8.2). 2.5.34 has a dead
> keyboard for me so I'm unable to test it as yet.

If that's a real kernel compile in <2 minutes I'm impressed!

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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