Re: Don't use dbench for benchmarks

From: Alex Davis (alex14641@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 09:43:19 EST


--- Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net> wrote:
> On January 27, 2002 05:35 am, Alex Davis wrote:
> > I ran dbench on three different kernels: 2.4.17 w/ rmap12a, 2.4.18pre7, and
> > 2.4.18pre7 w/ rmap12a. 2.4.18pre7 had better throughput by a substantial
> > margin. The results are at http://www.dynamicbullet.com/rmap.html
>
> I must be having a bad day, I can only think of irritable things to post.
I don't consider this "irritable".
> Continuing that theme: please don't use dbench for benchmarks. At all.
> It's an unreliable indicator of anything in particular except perhaps
> stability. Please, use something else for your benchmarks.
What do you suggest as an acceptable benchmark???

>
> --
> Daniel

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