From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:22:40 +0530 From: Abhishek Nayani Subject: Re: Benchmarking Tool Message-ID: <20020705055240.GA1776@SandStorm.net> References: <20020703060446.GA2560@SandStorm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it - George Santayana -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Home Page: http://www.abhi.tk -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK------------------------------------------------------ GCS d+ s:- a-- C+++ UL P+ L+++ E- W++ N+ o K- w--- O-- M- V- PS PE Y PGP t+ 5 X+ R- tv+ b+++ DI+ D G e++ h! !r y- ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------------------------------------------------------- -- 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-mm.org/