Re: 2.4.18pre4aa1

Dave Jones
2002-01-25T12:30:19Z

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 01:35:08AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:

> Considering the possible bad consequences for real
> workloads, I'm not sure I want to make the system more
> unfair just to better accomodate dbench ;)

it may be useful if Randy can throw a real world test
into the benchmarking, to get a better comparison of
the various systems. The obvious one that springs to mind
would be something like compilation of a large source tree
kernel/mozilla/etc.. (same version, same config options
every time). Though, as compilation is largely compute bound,
instead of IO bound, the more small files that need to be
read/generated the better.

Or maybe timing an updatedb. Its realworld enough in that its
a daily task, generates lots of IO..

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