Re: lmbench results for 2.4 and 2.5 -- updated results

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 18:36:02 EST


"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> On a slightly related note, I played with lmbench a bit over the weekend,
> but the results were too unstable to be useful ... they're also too short
> to profile ;-(
>
> I presume it does 100 iterations of a test (like fork latency?). Or does
> it just do one? Can I make it do 1,000,000 iterations or something
> fairly easily ? ;-) I didn't really look closely, just apt-get install
> lmbench ...

Yes, that is something I've wanted several times. Just a way to say "run
this test for ever so I can profile the thing".

Even a sleazy environment string would suffice.

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