Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Jan 2000 23:32:33 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.3.41 scheduler change |
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On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: > > I haven't done a lot of performance tests with this scheduler > > yet, but xmms seems to use about 20% less CPU with this patch > > than without ... > > Are you sure that CPU measurement is real? These sort of changes > tend to break process accounting.
I agree that process accounting is kind of random. However, it is exactly this randomness that makes me believe that it really isn't a measurement fault.
Before the patch, xmms cpu usage varied between 70 and 95%. Now it varies between 50 and 75%, this looks like too big a thing to be random.
regards,
Rik -- The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network of people. That is its real strength.
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