Johan Corveleyn wrote on Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:12:13 +0100: > Now, first of all this requires that the numbers can be compared over > time, which hinges on the stability of the perf-testsuite, and also > the stability of the machine and its environment. The former seems > relatively stable. I don't know about the latter. Is that (virtual) > machine relatively isolated from external influences etc... ? Can we > be relatively certain that no other processes run during the benchmark > etc?
On the VM there are unlikely to be other processes. As to other VMs on the same host -- they are probably quite idle on Mondays midnight.