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From: Erwan Velu <erwan@enovance.com>
To: David Nellans <david@nellans.org>
Cc: "Brian L." <brianclam@gmail.com>,
	"fio@vger.kernel.org" <fio@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IO scheduler
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 23:00:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5257158A.2050707@enovance.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52571453.4050101@nellans.org>

On 10/10/2013 22:55, David Nellans wrote:
> [...]
> init 1 is overkill.  In a previous life doing a lot of measuring of 
> flash - I found that simply making sure the machine was "idle" you 
> could get easily get repeatability within 1% for devices doing several 
> hundred thousand IOPS, even those with on-load architectures that were 
> sensitive to CPU usage.
On my side, I've been creating a specific ramfs that does the fio 
testing I want. This way I'm sure that nothing else is running on my 
system (like daemons or gui stuff).

That's a little bit extreme but it insures the same OS & environment to 
be used over & over making all my tests much more comparable over time.

My 2 cents,

Erwan,

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-10 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-10 17:08 IO scheduler Brian L.
2013-10-10 20:55 ` David Nellans
2013-10-10 21:00   ` Erwan Velu [this message]
2013-10-10 21:18     ` David Nellans

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