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From: rwhron@earthlink.net
To: akpm@zip.com.au
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: oprofile results with lmbench
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 16:36:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020713203622.GA24297@rushmore> (raw)

> the numbers don't look right.  

> Perhaps you fed oprofpp the wrong vmlinux?

Thanks!  You are right. I just put a bold message
on the page that the results are invalid.  I'm leaving
the page up in case anyone else recommends changes.
I'll re-run the tests.

> btw, when using RETIRED_INSNS (or CPU_CLK_UNHALTED), you should
> boot the kernel with `idle=poll'.  Otherwise, idle time is
> unaccounted for in the profile and it gets really hard to interpret,
> and hard to compare runs.

I've added "idle=poll" to my lilo.conf append.

-- 
Rands Hron
http://home.earthlink.net/~rwhron/kernel/bigbox.html


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2002-07-13 18:57 oprofile results with lmbench rwhron

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