Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:26:15 -0800 | From | Rick Jones <> | Subject | Re: care and feeding of netperf (Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance update) |
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>>To get quick profiles, that form of aggregate netperf is OK - just the one >>iteration with background processes using a moderatly long run time. However, >>for result reporting, it is best to (ab)use the confidence intervals >>functionality to try to avoid skew errors. > > Yes. My formal testing uses -i 50. I just wanted a quick testing. If I need > finer-tuning or investigation, I would turn on more options.
Netperf will silently clip that to 30 as that is all the built-in tables know.
> Thanks again. I learned a lot.
Feel free to wander over to netperf-talk over at netperf.org if you want to talk some more about the care and feeding of netperf.
happy benchmarking,
rick jones
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