Re: Interesting scheduling times

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Thu, 17 Sep 1998 23:58:28 +1000


Petko Manolov writes:
> Richard Gooch wrote:
> >
> > CPU process switch thread switch Kernel version
> > Pentium 100 12 12 2.1.109
> > PPro 180 8 4 2.1.122-pre2
> > Pentium/MMX 200 4 2 2.1.104
>
> I did a little different test on my pentium 166 MMX:
>
> kernel 2.0.35 5us
> kernel 2.1.121 6us
> kernel 2.1.122 6us - 7us
> kernel 2.1.122 9us (under X Windows???)

Did you run it as root? If you don't, the programme competes with X
for time. Running it as root allows it to grab all the CPU it wants,
and thus gives a more accurate test.

Regards,

Richard....

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