Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 05:56:25PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 17:55, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to add my 'me too' to those who have requested a re-run of this test, building
> > the *identical* kernel tree every time, starting from the same initial conditions.
> > Maybe that's what you did, but it's not clear from your post.
> 
> He later said he did in fact build the same tree, from the same initial
> condition, in single user mode, etc etc ... sounded like good testing
> methodology to me.

Really? You think that 
		unpack a tar archive
		make

is a repeatable benchmark?