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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How fast? [was: ... slugish ...]
Date: 04 Dec 1994 21:36:05 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk's message of Fri, 2 Dec 1994 14:05:27 GMT
In article <D06sH3.6IM@info.swan.ac.uk> iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) writes:
In article <MICHAELV.94Nov29200545@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
>Definitely. You're not really comparing the OS as much there, but
>just waiting on the disk. I think you'd want at least 8MB RAM to test
>the systems with...
Actually a 4Mb machine benchmark is a good idea. It'll show you how
efficient the system is and how well it pages. Having an 8Mb and 4Mb pair
would I feel be highly instructive. Its not as if you have to pull RAM
chips, you does tell the kernel mem=....
Well, I agree it would be informative to benchmark on a 4MB machine,
as long as it wasn't your primary source of data. Ideally, running
the entire suite on a 16MB machine to test the OS, and running a
limited set of demanding ones on the 4MB machine to test paging and
VM.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com michaelv@iastate.edu
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