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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:22:03 -0600
From: "andrey mirtchovski" <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] FTQ benchmark available
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how is that different from the Plan 9 port that is already provided
with the ftq (chamatools) distribution from sourceforge?

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:09 AM,  <john@csplan9.rit.edu> wrote:
> The Finite Time Quantum benchmark has been ported to Plan 9; just mk
>  it and go.  There is a python program included to analyze and plot the
>  data which you should probably run on Linux.  FTQ measures operating
>  system "noise" by trying to do as much work as possible in fixed time
>  sections; if the operating system is "noisy", less work will be done
>  and you'll see spikes on the graph.  The best way to understand this
>  is to run the test and look at it.
>
>  Tarball is at /n/sources/contrib/john/ftq.tgz
>
>  Unlike the lmbench port, there are no restrictions on this
>  benchmark--go ahead and share your results, compare them to Linux,
>  etc.
>
>
>  John
>
>
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