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Date:      Sun, 7 May 2006 15:59:41 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Sven Petai <hadara@bsd.ee>, csjp@FreeBSD.org, performance@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Fine-grained locking for POSIX local sockets (UNIX domain sockets)
Message-ID:  <20060507195941.GA2978@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060507205627.B46997@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <20060506150622.C17611@fledge.watson.org> <200605071949.54978.hadara@bsd.ee> <20060507190844.K46997@fledge.watson.org> <200605072200.42529.hadara@bsd.ee> <20060507191641.GA1851@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060507205627.B46997@fledge.watson.org>

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On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 08:57:21PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
>=20
> >On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 10:00:41PM +0300, Sven Petai wrote:
> >
> >>The results in my mail were mean values over 2 runs,
> >>only once did I see really huge (more than 10%) differences between=20
> >>several
> >>subsequent runs with same settings, this case was clearly mentioned in=
=20
> >>the results.
> >
> >FYI, 2 is not really enough, you should do at least 10 repetitions of ea=
ch=20
> >test to reduce variance (which can be a lot, despite what you saw!) and =
so=20
> >that differences between them can be accurately estimated.  Ministat is=
=20
> >really helpful for this.
>=20
> Typically, I do 12 runs of supersmack in each configuration, and discard=
=20
> the first 2 runs in which the cache and scheduler (etc) are still settlin=
g,=20
> as I'm interested in the steady state.

Yeah, forgot to mention that too.  Also keeping in mind that mysql
performance is not time-constant, e.g. you should restart it in
between test configurations instead of comparing early and late times.

Kris

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