From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 01:41:38 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: Test8 performance Message-ID: <20000920014138.A6784@athlon.random> References: <39C67FA1.89FDCD72@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <39C67FA1.89FDCD72@sgi.com>; from ananth@sgi.com on Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:48:33PM -0700 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: As first thanks again for those very useful benchmark checkpoints. On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:48:33PM -0700, Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan wrote: > ------ > Bonnie > ------ The "seek" columns of bonnie are calculated with a different input randomized in function of the pid. I'd suggest to replace the srandom(getpid()) with a srandom(fixednumber), so that we can more reliably compare the seek column (it will be comparable as far as the pseudo random generator of glibc uses the same algorithm). Also tiotest has the same bug btw. Andrea -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/