Naively (and that's my chief virtue :-) I see
a) Larry's tests show 100% variance between _different_ runs,
each run with different numbers of background processes.
b) Richard's tests show 100% variance during _one_ test run, and
he sees unpredicatbly varying numbers of processes on the run queue
during the run. Variance drops when he tries to stabilize
those numbers.
and I would venture to suggest that's about 70% of the cause. I.e. a hidden
variable. I'd like to see the full spectra of results and do my own stats
on it. Why are you all bleating about min/median when you have the full
distribution available? I don't know the dist of a min offhand, but
it strikes me as being intrinsically highly variable on a normal dist.
Peter
> It was not uncommon to start the benchmark with 2 processes on the run
> queue and finish with 10.
> With the settling-down delay, I'm now finishing the benchmark with 2
> or 3 processes on the run queue (rarely 4).
> This has made the variance in the median come down to 10% in the case
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