Re: tiotest, --numruns

2000-03-04 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > > I've seen a lot of variation on various runs of tiotest using the same > setup - even in single-user mode. Is this expected, and do you know why it > happens? Is it just the effect of the buffer cache, or do we avoid using > it? > > What's a decent --numruns to

Re: tiotest, --numruns

2000-03-01 Thread James Manning
[ Wednesday, March 1, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > I've seen a lot of variation on various runs of tiotest using the same > setup - even in single-user mode. Is this expected, and do you know why it > happens? Is it just the effect of the buffer cache, or do we avoid using > it? we do

tiotest, --numruns

2000-03-01 Thread Christian Robottom Reis
I've seen a lot of variation on various runs of tiotest using the same setup - even in single-user mode. Is this expected, and do you know why it happens? Is it just the effect of the buffer cache, or do we avoid using it? What's a decent --numruns to use, taking into evidence such variation? I'