From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com, chinang.ma@intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sharad.c.tripathi@intel.com,
arjan@linux.intel.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com,
harita.chilukuri@intel.com, douglas.w.styner@intel.com,
peter.xihong.wang@intel.com, hubert.nueckel@intel.com,
chris.mason@oracle.com, srostedt@redhat.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com,
anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com
Subject: Re: care and feeding of netperf (Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance update)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:26:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <497E0047.5080307@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1232766180.11429.202.camel@ymzhang>
>>To get quick profiles, that form of aggregate netperf is OK - just the one
>>iteration with background processes using a moderatly long run time. However,
>>for result reporting, it is best to (ab)use the confidence intervals
>>functionality to try to avoid skew errors.
>
> Yes. My formal testing uses -i 50. I just wanted a quick testing. If I need
> finer-tuning or investigation, I would turn on more options.
Netperf will silently clip that to 30 as that is all the built-in tables know.
> Thanks again. I learned a lot.
Feel free to wander over to netperf-talk over at netperf.org if you want to talk
some more about the care and feeding of netperf.
happy benchmarking,
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-26 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-13 21:10 Mainline kernel OLTP performance update Ma, Chinang
2009-01-13 22:44 ` Wilcox, Matthew R
2009-01-15 0:35 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-15 1:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-15 2:04 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-15 2:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-15 7:11 ` Ma, Chinang
2009-01-19 18:04 ` Chris Mason
2009-01-19 18:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-19 18:55 ` Chris Mason
2009-01-19 19:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-19 23:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-15 2:39 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-15 2:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-15 3:36 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-20 13:27 ` Jens Axboe
[not found] ` <588992150B702C48B3312184F1B810AD03A497632C@azsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
2009-01-22 11:29 ` Jens Axboe
[not found] ` <588992150B702C48B3312184F1B810AD03A4F59632@azsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
2009-01-27 8:28 ` Jens Axboe
2009-01-15 7:24 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-15 9:46 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-15 13:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-15 14:42 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-16 10:16 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-16 10:21 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 10:31 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-16 10:42 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 10:55 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-19 7:13 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19 8:05 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-19 8:33 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19 8:42 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19 8:47 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-19 8:57 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19 9:48 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-19 10:03 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 20:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-16 0:27 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-16 4:03 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 4:12 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-16 6:46 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 6:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-16 7:06 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 7:53 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-16 10:20 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-20 5:16 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-21 23:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-22 8:36 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-22 9:15 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-22 9:28 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-22 9:47 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 3:02 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23 6:52 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 8:06 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 8:30 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23 8:40 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 9:46 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 15:31 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 16:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-24 2:55 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-24 7:36 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-12 5:22 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-12 5:47 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-12 15:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-12 16:07 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-12 16:03 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-26 17:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-01 2:52 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23 8:33 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 9:02 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23 18:40 ` care and feeding of netperf (Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance update) Rick Jones
2009-01-23 18:51 ` Grant Grundler
2009-01-24 3:03 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-26 18:26 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2009-01-16 7:00 ` Mainline kernel OLTP performance update Andrew Morton
2009-01-16 7:25 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 8:59 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 18:11 ` Rick Jones
2009-01-19 7:43 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19 22:19 ` Rick Jones
2009-01-15 14:12 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-15 17:44 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-15 18:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-15 18:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-15 18:44 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-01-15 18:46 ` Wilcox, Matthew R
2009-01-15 19:44 ` Ma, Chinang
2009-01-16 18:14 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-01-16 19:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-20 12:45 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-01-15 19:28 ` Ma, Chinang
2009-01-15 16:48 ` Ma, Chinang
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