On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 12:12:50PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > -T Perform timings of cache reads for benchmark and comparison pur- > poses. For meaningful results, this operation should be > repeated 2-3 times on an otherwise inactive system (no other > active processes) with at least a couple of megabytes of free > memory. This displays the speed of reading directly from the > Linux buffer cache without disk access. This measurement is > essentially an indication of the throughput of the processor, > cache, and memory of the system under test. If the -t flag is > also specified, then a correction factor based on the outcome of > -T will be incorporated into the result reported for the -t > operation. >
"essentially an indication of the throughput of the processor, cache, and memory of the system under test". Since with both tests its the same hardware, and presumably the same source of hdparm itself, it could be argued that this also tests the kernel's speed of handling said cache. Since, I think, these are both linux kernels, I wonder what the differences are. What are the differences in /boot/config-2.6*? I've never heard of BeOS so don't know anything about it or what its target market is. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
