Thanks a lot Auke. One more question. What do you think of using something like "stress"- a workload generator, for this purpose ? regards Madhu.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Kok, Auke <[email protected]> wrote: > Kok, Auke wrote: > > Madhu Sudan Hari wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> > >> I need to collect some statistics using PowerTop. I was wondering if > there is > >> any benchmarking software that mimics the workload of a normal user like > the > >> Mobilemark for windows. I have to study the C-state characteristics of > the > >> processor while running this workload. ( as to in which C state and P > state the > >> processor is spending most of its time). > > > > > > You can run powertop in batch mode which will allow you to log and later > collect > > the output from powertop. For anything more specific you're probably > better off > > writing something that parses cat /proc/timer_stats (and various sysfs > files for > > the CPU states) etc. itself. > > > > excuse me for completely stepping over the second part of your question: a > workload simulator. I've not seen a comprehensive tool for this that is > widely > accepted unfortunately. Due to the variety of scripting tools available we > see a > lot of people making stuff on their own to do this. It's very easy to have > firefox > load a web page every 10 seconds for instance, and couple this to reading > the > above sysfs/procfs files to extract the data needed. > > Cheers > > Auke >
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