On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 03:02:54PM +0200, Clément Calmels wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry, I just forgot one part of your email... (and sorry for the mail > spamming, I probably got too big fingers or too tiny keyboard) > > > 1.2 Can you tell how you run the tests. I am particularly interested in > > - how many iterations do you do? > > - what result do you choose from those iterations? > > - how reproducible are the results? > > - are you rebooting the box between the iterations? > > - are you reformatting the partition used for filesystem testing? > > - what settings are you using (such as kernel vm params)? > > - did you stop cron daemons before running the test? > > - are you using the same test binaries across all the participants? > > - etc. etc... > > A basic 'patch' test looks like: > o build the appropriate kernel (2.6.16-026test014-x86_64-smp for > example) > o reboot > o run dbench on /tmp with 8 processes
sidenote: on a 'typical' Linux-VServer guest, tmp will be mounted as tmpfs, so be careful with that OVZ might do similar as might your host distro :) HTH, Herbert > o run tbench with 8 processes > o run lmbench > o run kernbench > > For test inside a 'guest' I just do something like: > o build the appropriate kernel (2.6.16-026test014-x86_64-smp for > example) > o reboot > o build the utilities (vztcl+vzquota for example) > o reboot > o launch a guest > o run in the guest dbench ... > o run in the guest tbench ... > .... > > -The results are the average value of several iterations of each set of > these kind of tests. I will try to update the site with the numbers of > iterations behind each values. > - For the filesystem testing, the partition is not reformatted. I can > change this behaviour... > - For the settings of the guest I tried to use the default settings (I > had to change some openvz guest settings) just following the HOWTO on > vserver or openvz site. > For the kernel parameters, did you mean kernel config file tweaking? > - Cron are stopped during tests. > - All binaries are always build in the test node. > > Feel free to provide me different scenario which you think are more > relevant. > > -- > Clément Calmels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
