Re: 2.5.42-mm2 on small systems

[Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>]

On October 16, 2002 04:55 pm, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > hm.  Works for me.  The default setting are waaay too boring, so
> > I used ./resp -m2 -M5 -w5

> This was intended to be a simple test of how the kernel feels, and it is
> that, but some kernels I've tried get to one test or another and shit the
> bed every time. It's not a stress test! How can I get my numbers if the
> kernel keeps hanging solid? ;-)

You add sufficient tracing so you can find were it hangs...  And report it
so it can get fixed.  IMHO, while not a stress test, it can put stress on
the kernel - it needs to to test the interactive response.

Still trying to figure out what is happening on my 64m 486.

Thanks for the interesting benchmark.

Ed

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