[Benchmarking] Periodic processes invalidating benchmarks

[Michael Smith]

Much easier to just use chkconfig to disable. Which I'm doing.

M


On 8/31/10 8:00 AM, "Joel Schlagel" <Joel.D.Schlagel at usace.army.mil> wrote:

> Mike - kind of obvious but why not unlink the init.d scripts for all
> un-necessary processes so nothing extra starts on boot.
> 
> -joel 
> 
> -----
> 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
>> _______________________________________________
>> Benchmarking mailing list
>> Benchmarking at lists.osgeo.org
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/benchmarking