[Benchmarking] Periodic processes invalidating benchmarks

[Schlagel, Joel D IWR]

Meant to just reply to you not the group on that one


On 8/31/10 8:03 AM, "Mike Smith" <Michael.Smith at usace.army.mil> wrote:

> Much easier to just use chkconfig to disable. Which I'm doing.
> 
> M
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> 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 
>> 
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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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-joel

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


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