Re: Sched - graphic smoothness under load - cfs-v13 sd-0.48

[Matt Keenan <tank.en.mate@gmail.com>]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Ray Lee wrote:
>> On 5/19/07, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
>>> I generated a table of results from the latest glitch1 script, using an
>>> HTML postprocessor I not *quite* ready to foist on the word. In any 
>>> case
>>> it has some numbers for frames per second, fairness of the processor
>>> time allocated to the compute bound processes which generate a lot of
>>> other screen activity for X, and my subjective comments on how 
>>> smooth it
>>> looked and felt.
>>>
>>> The chart is at http://www.tmr.com/~davidsen/sched_smooth_01.html for
>>> your viewing pleasure.
>>
>> Is the S.D. columns (immediately after the average) standard
>> deviation? If so, you may want to rename those 'stdev', as it's a
>> little confusing to have S.D. stand for that and Staircase Deadline.
>> Further, which standard deviation is it? (The standard deviation of
>> the values (stdev), or the standard deviation of the mean (sdom)?)
>>
> What's intended is the stddev from the average, and perl bit me on 
> that one. If you spell a variable wrong the same way more than once it 
> doesn't flag it as a possible spelling error.
>
> Note on the math, even when coded as intended, the divide of the 
> squares of the errors is by N-1 not N. I found it both ways in online 
> doc, but I learned it decades ago as "N-1" so I used that.
N-1 is for estimating the standard deviation from a random sample of a 
population (s), N is for calculating the standard deviation of a whole 
population (σ).

xref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation

Yes, I am aware of the potential for Wikipedia articles to be wrong, but 
this article seems correct at first blush :)

Matt