From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp•com>
To: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux•intel.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo•com.au>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs•helsinki.fi>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation•org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor•org>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil•cx>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, sfr@canb•auug.org.au,
matthew.r.wilcox@intel•com, chinang.ma@intel•com,
linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, sharad.c.tripathi@intel•com,
arjan@linux•intel.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel•com,
harita.chilukuri@intel•com, douglas.w.styner@intel•com,
peter.xihong.wang@intel•com, hubert.nueckel@intel•com,
chris.mason@oracle•com, srostedt@redhat•com,
linux-scsi@vger•kernel.org, andrew.vasquez@qlogic•com,
anirban.chakraborty@qlogic•com
Subject: Re: care and feeding of netperf (Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance update)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:26:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <497E0047.5080307@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1232766180.11429.202.camel@ymzhang>
>>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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-26 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <200901161503.13730.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
[not found] ` <20090115201210.ca1a9542.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-16 6:46 ` Mainline kernel OLTP performance update Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 6:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-16 7:06 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 7:53 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-16 10:20 ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-20 5:16 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-21 23:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-22 8:36 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-22 9:15 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-22 9:28 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-22 9:47 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 3:02 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23 6:52 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 8:06 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 8:30 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23 8:40 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 9:46 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 15:31 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 16:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-24 2:55 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-24 7:36 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-12 5:22 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-12 5:47 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-12 15:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-12 16:07 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-12 16:03 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-26 17:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-01 2:52 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23 8:33 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23 9:02 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23 18:40 ` care and feeding of netperf (Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance update) Rick Jones
2009-01-23 18:51 ` Grant Grundler
2009-01-24 3:03 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-26 18:26 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2009-01-16 7:00 ` Mainline kernel OLTP performance update Andrew Morton
2009-01-16 7:25 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 8:59 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 18:11 ` Rick Jones
2009-01-19 7:43 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19 22:19 ` Rick Jones
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