karrer@aludra.usc.edu (Anthony Karrer) (02/08/91)
One of the assignments I would like the students to do this is minimal attempts at improving the performance of the file system. However, when I tried to create a benchmark which they could use in evaluating their solutions, I found some problems. The first problem is that the clock rate (at least the only one I know of) is set to 60Hz so that a performance improvement on the order of .1 ms/access would be unnoticable except in extremely large tests. Bottom line ... How can I create a semi-reasonable file system performance benchmark? -- Take It Easy, Anthony Karrer (akarrer@pollux.usc.edu)