Re: [Linstab] Hackbench STP Results History for 2.5 mm/2.6 mm

[Andreas Dilger]

On Sep 18, 2003  17:07 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> markw@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > More history from hackbench from STP from the 2.5 and 2.6 mm kernels.
> 
> This looks great, but tragically incomprehensible.
> 
> Could someone please provide some interpretation, tell us what hackbench
> is, and what all the numbers mean?
> 
> Do we rock or do we suck?

I was wondering that also, until I noticed the description at the end.
We should keep the test description at the start, or people lose interest
too quickly ;-)

> markw@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > The 'Metric' is the average time in seconds to do something with 100
> > processes.  Smaller numbers are better as well as a (-) change.
> > 'Change' refers to a percentage change in the metric from the last
> > completed test with results.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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