Subject: Re: More on reaper removal
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/05/2003 23:24:29
Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> What are the axes measuring, and what are the units? I'm going to
> guess that Y is "time" in some form; what is X?
> 
> Can you share the test code you used?

Y is time in microseconds (lower is faster and thus better),
X is number of processes forked.

The benchmark is forkbench of the http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/
suite.

Jaromir 
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