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List:       reiserfs-devel
Subject:    Re: [reiserfs-list] reminder to persons new to benchmarking: fear cron!
From:       Hans Reiser <reiser () namesys ! com>
Date:       2001-04-05 6:13:52
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Russell Coker wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 03 April 2001 21:09, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > Worry about those assorted daemons running in the background, when cron
> > starts up a find to look for stale nfs handles,  your benchmark can lead
> > you to very wrong conclusions.  Fortunately we eventually figured out that
> > that had probably been the cause of a recent benchmark result from a user,
> > a result that had us and the user quite worried.
> 
> When I want to do a serious benchmark run I boot with "init=/bin/bash".  When
> you have syslogd, klogd, sshd, etc running it's difficult to remove
> interferance with lesser actions than init=/bin/bash!
> 
> --
> http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/     Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark
> http://www.coker.com.au/postal/       Postal SMTP/POP benchmark
> http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on
> http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/     My home page
I'll give this a try next time.  Elena, what are you doing these days?

Hans

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