Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1

Rick Lindsley
2004-08-27T01:04:32Z

Rick's schedstats stuff had some ways to measure latency that seemed to work
quite nicely. Hard to simulate exactly mozilla, email, etc, but probably
close enough to be far more use than "ooh, it feels faster".

He did a whole paper at OLS ... Rick ... pointer?

http://www.finux.org/Reprints/Reprint-Lindsley-OLS2004.pdf

There are patches available for schedstats, although I haven't pulled
together 2.6.9-rc1 yet. Shouldn't take me but fifteen minutes, I think.

Rafael, what baseline release are you comparing to? I should be able
to provide some tools to measure the effect on updatedb directly for
both 2.6.9-rc1 and your baseline (so long as it's 2.6-based)

Rick