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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.38-mm2 dbench $N times
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At some point in the past, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> dbench 16 on that sort of machine is a memory bandwidth test.
>> And a dcache lock exerciser.  It basically doesn't touch the
>> disk.  Something very bad is happening.
>> Anton can get 3000 MByte/sec ;)


On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:08:59PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Bill's Machine cost around $50, plus the cost to repair the walls that I 
> crushed when hauling the pieces around.  Anton's cost $2 million.  Bill 
> wins :)
> Are you trying to bind the processes anywhere?  I wonder what would happen 
> if you make it always run quad 0...

It's probably more an artifact of not having substantial I/O subsystems.
This is basically a single-JBOD test.



Cheers,
Bill