Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

kernel@kolivas.org wrote:

>Quoting Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>:
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>>>>Disk tests should be at a fixed rate, not all you can do. That's NOT
>>>>realistic.
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>>>Not true; what you suggest is another thing to check entirely, and that
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>>>be a valid benchmark too. What I'm interested in is what happens if you read
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>>>or write a DVD ISO image for example to your hard disk and what this does to
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>>>interactivity. This sort of reading or writing is not throttled in real
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>>life.
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>>Of course it is. At least the read. It's limited to the speed needed to 
>>either play (watch) the image or to burn it.
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>Ok we'll call it hair splitting. We do both. You read the file and I copy it.
>Both happen in real life, and I plan to emulate both.
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And that sounds exactly correct.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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