Re: Schedulers benchmark - Was: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

[Con Kolivas]

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:16, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 8/21/05, Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:34, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > > here are kernbench results:
> >
> > Nice to see you using kernbench :)
> >
> > > ./kernbench -M -o 128
> > > [..]
> > > Average Optimal -j 128 Load Run:
> >
> > Was there any reason you chose 128? Optimal usually works out
> > automatically from kernbench to 4x number_cpus. If I recall correctly you
> > have 4 cpus? Not sure what 128 represents.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Con
>
> No, I just have 1 pentium 4 with ht ;).
>
> Why I chose 128? I just want very high loads. Now I'll try -j192 and
> -j256, but I don't know how does my system survive it.

Well it will survive all right, but eventually get into swap thrash territory 
and that's not a meaningful cpu scheduler benchmark.

Cheers,
Con
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