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Combined performance patches update for 2.4.19

DISCUSSION Paolo Ciarrocchi 1 participant 1 message Aug 25, 2002

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From: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>

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Maybe I can find the time to run a few tests, can anyone suggest me an "intersting" test?

Bob Matthews has a benchmark called irman, which tries to measure response time during a number of background loads.

I'm not sure it is too interesting in this case, though. People don't really care about the exact latency of sub-millisecond responses (should be the vast majority) but about the few times per minute where their mp3 skips.

Simple averages won't show the mp3 skips, because the number of fast responses are bound to be hundreds of thousands of times more common then the "mp3 skipping hickups".

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Maybe the histogram mode of irman might show something useful ?

(then again, maybe it doesn't ... haven't tried yet)

http://people.redhat.com/bmatthews/irman/

Well... I tried irman, and here it goes the results:

Test: NULL
Kernel max min avg stddev

2.4.18                      45.955     0.004     0.005     0.061
2.4.18-0.24pre3              0.121     0.005     0.005     0.001
2.4.19                       1.683     0.005     0.005     0.002
2.4.19-ck3                   1.694     0.005     0.005     0.002
2.4.19-ck3-aa                0.200     0.005     0.005     0.001
2.4.19-ck3-rmap              1.628     0.005     0.005     0.002
2.5.31                       1.636     0.006     0.007     0.002

Test: MEMORY
Kernel max min avg stddev

2.4.18                      69.471     0.005     0.010     0.554
2.4.18-0.24pre3             70.031     0.005     0.010     0.546
2.4.19                      60.058     0.005     0.011     0.558
2.4.19-ck3                 150.216     0.005     0.009     0.720
2.4.19-ck3-aa              150.075     0.005     0.008     0.621
2.4.19-ck3-rmap            150.059     0.005     0.009     0.674
2.5.31                       1.823     0.005     0.007     0.002

Test: FILE_IO
Kernel max min avg stddev

2.4.18                     190.042     0.005     0.019     1.452
2.4.18-0.24pre3            325.509     0.005     0.017     1.379
2.4.19                     190.033     0.005     0.022     1.525
2.4.19-ck3                1050.048     0.005     0.015     2.196
2.4.19-ck3-aa             1363.153     0.005     0.014     2.177
2.4.19-ck3-rmap            450.073     0.005     0.016     2.097
2.5.31                     610.021     0.006     0.019     2.314

Test: PROCESS
Kernel max min avg stddev

2.4.18                     350.056     0.005     0.068     2.548
2.4.18-0.24pre3            270.138     0.005     0.068     2.439
2.4.19                     270.238     0.005     0.075     2.594
2.4.19-ck3                1710.017     0.005     0.022     4.293
2.4.19-ck3-aa             1620.023     0.005     0.023     4.298
2.4.19-ck3-rmap           1630.020     0.005     0.025     4.724
2.5.31                    1171.021     0.006     0.026     4.354

Ciao,
Paolo

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