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

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:16:51PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 11:06, [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> > I have not seen a single well structured benchmark that shows a significant
> > difference. I've seen lots of benchmarks with odd mixes of different patches
> > showing something unknown. How about a simple clear dbench?
> 
> I and many others have been posting benchmarks for months.
> 
> Here:
> 
> (average of 4 runs of `dbench 16')
> 2.5.3-pre1:		25.7608 MB/s
> 2.5.3-pre1-preempt:	32.341 MB/s
> 
> (old, average of 4 runs of `dbench 16')
> 2.5.2-pre11:		24.5364 MB/s
> 2.5.2-pre11-preempt:	27.5192 MB/s
> 

Robert, with all due respect, my tests of dbench show such high
variation that 4 miserable runs prove exactly nothing.
Did these even come on the same filesystem? 

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