Fine-grained locking for POSIX local sockets (UNIX domain sockets)

[Robert Watson]

On Sun, 7 May 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:

>> Typically, I do 12 runs of supersmack in each configuration, and discard 
>> the first 2 runs in which the cache and scheduler (etc) are still settling, 
>> as I'm interested in the steady state.
>
> Yeah, forgot to mention that too.  Also keeping in mind that mysql 
> performance is not time-constant, e.g. you should restart it in between test 
> configurations instead of comparing early and late times.

Yeah, very much so -- my normal test procedure is to reboot between runs, 
allowing the first to cycles in the test to warm things up.

Robert N M Watson