Re: [perf-discuss] Runtime Parameter Hard Rule or Guidance?

2007-11-15 Thread Andrew Wilson
A very good question. I assume you are running one of the suites of workloads, such as "filemicro"? If so, some workloads will finish early, depending on kind of application the particular workload is emulating. For example, the "copyfiles" workload finishes when it has copied all the files. Th

[perf-discuss] Runtime Parameter Hard Rule or Guidance?

2007-11-15 Thread Paul Monday
I am running a very large profile with about 40 workloads...it runs a few hours. I upped the runtime to 5 minutes (300) to try to ensure the CPU is balanced out. Obviously, I don't watch the terminal window during the run ;-) When I'm done, things don't add up. For 40 x 5 minute tests, we're