Re: 2.4.18pre4aa1

[Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>]

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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