[Benchmarking] Periodic processes invalidating benchmarks

[Schlagel, Joel D IWR]

Mike - kind of obvious but why not unlink the init.d scripts for all un-necessary processes so nothing extra starts on boot.  

-joel 

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Joel D. Schlagel 
U.S Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources



On Aug 31, 2010, at 7:44 AM, "Andrea Aime" <aaime at opengeo.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> today making a benchmark run I've found another
> process competing for the CPU:
> 
> 9161 root      35  19  409m  88m 8552 R  6.0  1.1   0:03.85
> yum-updatesd-he
> 
> It was not using much, but some of these fellas (like prelink,
> which I spotted in another round) hit the disk enough to
> flip a run from "non disk bound" to "disk bound" with
> obvious consequences in the results.
> 
> We need to look into how to avoid them.
> 
> Cheers
> Andrea
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