On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:18:32PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:42, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Willy I'm still investigating the idle time and fluctuating load as a > separate > issue.
OK. > Is it possible the multiple ocbench processes are naturally > synchronising and desynchronising and choosing to sleep and/or run at the > same time? I don't think so. They're independant processes, and I insist on reducing their X work in order to ensure they don't get perturbated by external factor. Their work consist in looping 250 ms and waiting 750 ms, then displaying a new progress line. > I can remove the idle time entirely by running ocbench at nice 19 > which means they are all forced to run at basically the same time by the > scheduler. It may indicate some special handling of nice ? > Anyway the more important part is... Can you test this patch please? Dump > all the other patches I sent you post 045. Michael, if you could test too > please? OK, I will restart from fresh 0.45 and try again. Regards, Willy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/