> On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 10:00:41PM +0300, Sven Petai wrote: > >> The results in my mail were mean values over 2 runs, >> only once did I see really huge (more than 10%) differences between several >> subsequent runs with same settings, this case was clearly mentioned in the results. > > FYI, 2 is not really enough, you should do at least 10 repetitions of each > test to reduce variance (which can be a lot, despite what you saw!) and so > that differences between them can be accurately estimated. Ministat is > really helpful for this. Typically, I do 12 runs of supersmack in each configuration, and discard the first 2 runs in which the cache and scheduler (etc) are still settling, as I'm interested in the steady state. Robert N M WatsonReceived on Sun May 07 2006 - 17:57:22 UTC
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