Could it be some buffer is some times allocated (word/page/whatever)
aligned and sometimes not?? Tends to make a big difference on Intel..
Mike
Jon Pennington wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 06:30:51PM -0600, Nicholas Leippe wrote:
>
> > where it varies across the entire range of possibilities
> > (which would account for various load factors). But instead
> > what I observe is that it is extremely consistent in any
> > one given run, only varying between different runs.
>
> No, it should be perfectly consistent in a single instance. That single instance is
>spawned with a unique PID, with a unique proirity going to each PID. If you varied
>the system load during a single instance, it would vary your performance. This is
>simply the nature of UNIX-style process accounting, not your hardware or application.
>
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