Re: [BENCHMARK] fork_load module tested for contest

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:52:35 -0300 (BRT)


On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Con Kolivas wrote:

> I've been trialling a new load module for the contest benchmark
> (http://contest.kolivas.net) which simply forks a process that does
> nothing, waits for it to die, then repeats. Here are the results I have
> obtained so far:

> fork_load:
> Kernel Time CPU Ratio
> 2.4.19 100.05 69% 1.37
> 2.4.19-ck7 74.65 95% 1.02
> 2.5.38 77.35 95% 1.06
> 2.5.38-mm2 76.99 95% 1.06
>
> ck7 uses O1, preempt, low latency

Looks like the O(1) scheduler has a problem, then. The continuous
fork() loop should get 20% of the CPU, not 5%.

regards,

Rik

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