Re: Benchmarking Tool

[Abhishek Nayani <abhi@kernelnewbies.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, 04 Jul 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Abhishek Nayani wrote:
> 
> > the matter. I would like to know what is missing in the current set of
> > tools (lmbench, dbench..) and what is required.
> 
> Most of the current "VM tests" don't seem to have anything
> like a working set.  This basically means that one of the
> central and important parts of the VM - page replacement -
> isn't getting tested AT ALL.
> 
> It might be interesting to have some "working set emulator"
> where a program accesses N out of M MB of total memory a
> lot and the rest a little, where N, M and the ratio between
> the accesses are varied in such a way that the system is
> confronted with various sizes of workload.
> 

	We will start creating a list of variables needing to be
measured and any current solutions/ideas to test them.

	o Working Set
		Useful URLs:
		http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/CoPs/ECT/



	Please add to the list.

					Bye,
						Abhi.
	
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