[PATCH] Simple malloc benchtest.

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Fri Dec 27 22:07:00 GMT 2013


=?utf-8?B?T25kxZllaiBCw61sa2E=?= <neleai@seznam.cz> writes:

> [...]  But in general we are not that constrained by memory and
> runtime requirements, we could spend much more resources in
> generating a distribution that will be used.  [...]

I'd like to note just once more that so much effort to generate a fake
usage scenario may be better spent measuring actual usage scenarios
for replay purposes.  Getting to a 100%-accurate power-law
distribution still begs the question of relevance to actual
applications' malloc profiles.

- FChE



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