From: Benjamin Rutt <rutt.4+news@osu.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: clearing filesystem cache for I/O benchmarks
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:19:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87llh4atb6.fsf@osu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4107DC4C.3040603@namesys.com>
Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> writes:
> Probably the best you can do is write enough in the course of the test
> that fsync at the end (or data remaining in cache) is insignificant
> noise. Benchmarks that make fsync or the cache significant
> unintentionally are common and bad.
I assure you, our benchmarks will avoid these common pitfalls.
--
Benjamin Rutt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-28 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-23 22:54 Benjamin Rutt
2004-07-24 5:21 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-24 5:31 ` Tim Wright
2004-07-26 0:07 ` Benjamin Rutt
2004-07-26 1:40 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-07-26 12:47 ` Benjamin Rutt
2004-07-25 8:11 ` Andreas Haumer
2004-07-26 7:25 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-26 13:02 ` Benjamin Rutt
2004-07-27 6:40 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-27 7:16 ` Hans Reiser
2004-07-27 17:31 ` Benjamin Rutt
2004-07-27 18:03 ` Hans Reiser
2004-07-28 12:38 ` Benjamin Rutt
2004-07-28 17:03 ` Hans Reiser
2004-07-28 18:19 ` Benjamin Rutt [this message]
2004-07-27 17:25 ` Benjamin Rutt
2004-07-27 20:00 ` Timothy Miller
2004-07-28 12:51 ` Benjamin Rutt
2004-07-29 1:05 ` Nathan Scott
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