Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dptg!mtunb!jcm
From: jcm@mtunb.ATT.COM (was-John McMillan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: time resolution in Neal nelson benchmark
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Date: 18 Sep 89 13:52:07 GMT
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Reply-To: jcm@mtunb.UUCP (was-John McMillan)
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I concur with everything Peter Brouwer stated.

At the time I examined Neal Nelson data, over a year ago, another
feature stood out: there were no "knees" to the throughput curves.
There was no point at which total throughput began to noticably
decrease because of inter-process competition -- throughput was
quite linear to the extremes of the load tests.  AT&T throughput
tests -- using common command sets, randomized within different
task threads -- had no problems identifying levels at which 
total throughput began degrading.

I hope that the rising breadth of UNIX usage will result in a
considerable improvement in the quality of metrics being
taken/published.  I'm not holding my breath, however.

john mcmillan	-- att!mtunb!jcm -- speaking for himself, only