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From: "Al Boldi" <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: "'Lee Revell'" <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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Subject: RE: Giving developers clue how many testers verifiedcertain	kernel version
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 08:34:57 +0300
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Lee Revell wrote: {
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 21:15 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote:
> OK, I will, but I first of all need to learn how to tell if benchmarks 
> are better or worse.

Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding scheduler
related interactivity regressions.
}

Scheduler performance does not imply net system performance.

In fact, a well tuned scheduler hides absolute performance-related issues!

--Al