RE: performance of cache-intensive applications

Giuliano Pochini (pochini@shiny.it)
Wed, 04 Dec 2002 09:56:33 +0100 (CET)


On 04-Dec-2002 Igor Schein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using an open-source application on ix86 to perform a task which
> is cache-intensive. When I run consecutive iterations of the task on
> a fixed input, the variance in timing of each iteration is extemely
> high. Needless to say, the test machine is always non-occupied.

CPU bound or I/O bound ? What kernel version ? IDE or
SCSI ? vmstat ? Other details ?

Bye.

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