[Speed] Getting the project off the ground

[geremy condra]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Antonio Cuni <anto.cuni at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/07/11 20:47, Da_Blitz wrote:
>> cgroups and cpuset support could help with this, you can isolate one
>> cpu purely for benchmarking and another for user use (translation and
>> testing for example).
>
> that would be really cool. However, I'm not sure it's enough to prevent
> "random noise".
>
> E.g., I know that modern CPUs have a mechanism that turns off the unused cores
> in order to speed up the active ones (by slightly incrementing the frequency).
>  If this is the case, then I fear that the only way to have a precise
> benchmark is to run only one process at time.

sudo -s "echo performance >
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor"

Geremy Condra