Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench 0.27

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Con Kolivas wrote:
> Interbench is a benchmark application is designed to benchmark interactivity 
> in Linux.
> 
> Direct download link:
> http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/interbench/interbench-0.27.tar.bz2
> 
> Web page:
> http://interbench.kolivas.org
> 
> Changes:
> Standard deviation and average latency calculation was corrected. Gaming 
> standard deviation was implemented.

As you may or may not remember I have a response benchmark, which does 
different things... And one of the things I found is that when trying to 
determine if a tuning was "better" was to look at the 90 and/or 95 
percentile value. The max, average, and SD give you information which 
may be hard to really understand, but the "mostly better than X" times 
are pretty easy to understand.

I finally wound up using a dynamic percentile thing of my own creation, 
but there's no supporting theory, I just looked with response curve 
shapes and found a way to get numbers useful to me.

So you might find the percentile values pull additional information out 
of your data points, particularly for noisy results.

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