Hello, On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 03:54:06PM -0800, John Pettitt wrote: > > Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > > >I note a slight difference in the 10 minute load average in favour > >of the uniprocessor run (0.00 vs 0.10 in the hyperthreading run), > >though I doubt this alone could account for a 15% difference in > >total score. > > Notice the HT run had load on the box (0.31) when it started. If > you're going to run benchmarks you need to start with a clean reboot > before each run and make sure all the background daemons have been > killed and and the load is zero.
You are absolutely right, and I did note the difference in load averages. I'm not making any claims---someone asked for measurements, and I happened to have these handy. -- Paul. w http://logicsquad.net/ h http://paul.hoadley.name/
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