Thanks, Stefan. BTW I really appreciate your taking the time to format the results into different comparison categories, with colour shades. Without that, given just a large table of raw numbers, I would not bother to spend enough time to interpret it. It is worth you, the writer, spending time on it so that we, the readers, don't have to.
- Julian Stefan Fuhrmann wrote: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Julian Foad wrote: >> Only in the "SSD cold" column [...] > > Well, I tried to express that with the "but cold caches" bit. > Could probably use same punctuation there. > >> I'd be interested to see a re-run of the HDD tests with this build >> (r1607306); do you plan to do that? > > Can't until late September. However, I should get a Windows > box soon to conduct testing in less controlled environment. > >> For "load" what repository are you loading into (format? packed?) >> and if packed, how/when is it being packed? > > Load is into f6 and f7, respectively as indicated in the tables > (the dump files used are format independent). Repositories > were left non-packed. > >> Could you attach the actual scripts you use? > > I simply hacked up a shell script and derived variations from > it for the new runs. It requires superuser rights for the cache > flushing bits and some paths have to be adjusted manually. > Storage locations get symlinked to /files to unify access. > > Scripts are provided as are without further commentary etc. > >> In the later PDF file "load" is not mentioned in the summary of >> tests at the top of the file. > > The load bit had been a late addition and I forgot to update the > introduction page. Parameters are the same as for the first run. > (It took 10h total to transform the raw logs into a spreadsheet - > Formatting in LibreOffice turns out to be super buggy). > >> Do you plan to re-test r1607306 over HTTP? > > Not at the moment as the f6 / f7 relation seems to be the same > for svn: as for http:. ra_serf results seem to be slightly less > consistent / predictable than ra_svn, making it harder to tell > whether a given test sequence got disturbed. > > -- Stefan^2.
