Re: side-by-side Re: BYTE Unix Benchmarks Version 3.6

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 05:46:04 EST


Hi!

> > > APM, and I pressed the shift key every few minutes,
> > > therefore no powersafe.
> >
> > That still means APM bios calls when idle, right?
>
> Yes, you are rigth.
> But again, with Byte Unix version 4.1 I got much
> more intersting result with no "strange" numbers,
> I tried that test few hours ago,.
> I know I can disable APM from both the kernel and the BIOS but I'd
> > > like to test the kernel I use in "daily" usage. What do you
> > > think about it? Do you suggest me to use a different
> > > configuration when I run the test?

Disable power managment. What you are doing is test of power managment
subsystem, I believe; that's okay but you did not label it as such.

                                                                Pavel

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