[netperf-talk] global question concerning Netperf test and SMP support

Simon Duboue Simon.Duboue at ces.ch
Tue Apr 24 08:01:35 PDT 2012


>>I still can not explain the negative CPU utilzation in remote. What
>> considerations could we do with the confidence interval? Is it
>> acceptable? Could we ignore it?
>
>CPU utilization should never be negative.
>
>I suppose since the system of interest is the one on which netperf is 
>running (?) the remote CPU util could be ignored for the purposes of 
>confidence intervals - in that case I would just remove the -C from the 
>netperf command line.
>
>But CPU util going negative is a bug and makes me uncomfortable.

The system of interest is the one on which netserver is running.
The CPU utilization looks good, only the first results are negative in my 
previous message.

It becomes clearer.

Thank you.

Simon Duboué

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