Anatomy of Perfomance tests

[Wojciech Puchar]

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> It would be very interesting to see the results of stress-testing
> systems. I cannot think of a scenario that isn't possible with a
> virtual machine.
quite but not really. if tested OS does not force hard disk to commit 
writes at right time, as FreeBSD do, virtual machine will not catch all 
things.


anyway abruptly stopping virtual machine is a good test.

use LARGE memory for tested OS. Funny but this is the case when linux is 
actually worse as it could delay more writes and then issue them in any 
order.