From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261800AbVGROsD (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:48:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261790AbVGROpR (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:45:17 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:18111 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261781AbVGROnz (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:43:55 -0400 Message-ID: <42DBC1F2.2040604@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:51:30 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen Organization: TMR Associates Inc, Schenectady NY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kernel@kolivas.org CC: ck list , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark References: <200507122110.43967.kernel@kolivas.org> <200507122202.39988.kernel@kolivas.org> <42D55562.3060908@tmr.com> <200507141021.55020.kernel@kolivas.org> <42D7B100.2010308@tmr.com> <1121424116.42d792f47c70b@vds.kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <1121424116.42d792f47c70b@vds.kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org kernel@kolivas.org wrote: >Quoting Bill Davidsen : > > > >>>>Disk tests should be at a fixed rate, not all you can do. That's NOT >>>>realistic. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Not true; what you suggest is another thing to check entirely, and that >>> >>> >>would >> >> >>>be a valid benchmark too. What I'm interested in is what happens if you read >>> >>> >>>or write a DVD ISO image for example to your hard disk and what this does to >>> >>> >>>interactivity. This sort of reading or writing is not throttled in real >>> >>> >>life. >> >> >>Of course it is. At least the read. It's limited to the speed needed to >>either play (watch) the image or to burn it. >> >> > >Ok we'll call it hair splitting. We do both. You read the file and I copy it. >Both happen in real life, and I plan to emulate both. > And that sounds exactly correct. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979