From: rwhron@earthlink.net
To: akpm@zip.com.au
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: oprofile results with lmbench
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 16:36:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020713203622.GA24297@rushmore> (raw)
> the numbers don't look right.
> Perhaps you fed oprofpp the wrong vmlinux?
Thanks! You are right. I just put a bold message
on the page that the results are invalid. I'm leaving
the page up in case anyone else recommends changes.
I'll re-run the tests.
> btw, when using RETIRED_INSNS (or CPU_CLK_UNHALTED), you should
> boot the kernel with `idle=poll'. Otherwise, idle time is
> unaccounted for in the profile and it gets really hard to interpret,
> and hard to compare runs.
I've added "idle=poll" to my lilo.conf append.
--
Rands Hron
http://home.earthlink.net/~rwhron/kernel/bigbox.html
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