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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users any way to commit idle tasks in unix? Post 302168553 by fabulous2 on Monday 18th of February 2008 11:23:06 PM
Old 02-19-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by System Shock
Question: why would you "commit" idle processes before benchmarking, when in real life whatever you are benchmarking would probably have to run when these idle process run?
Why? Reproducibility of results.

Generally, when you publish benchmarks, you do so running no other programs. You may also try to turn off many background services/processes/whatever.

You do this so that other people running your benchmark on the same hardware are more likely to get the same result as you.

The more stuff besides your actual benchmark that can possibly be running during benchmarking, the less reproducible your results become.

The exception to these comments are when you specifically want to see how your task runs on a loaded system of some kind, but this is less common.

If unix simply lacks the functionality that windows has in this area--fine. Idle tasks suddenly running in the middle of your benchmark is usually a rare event. Its certainly more important that you do obvious simple things like make sure that no other non-idle tasks are running. But having an api for committing idle tasks like windows does certainly is icing on the cake, as it can eliminate the rare possibility.
 

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term::ansi::ctrl::unix(n)					 Terminal control					 term::ansi::ctrl::unix(n)

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NAME

       term::ansi::ctrl::unix - Control operations and queries

SYNOPSIS

       package require Tcl  8.4

       package require term::ansi::ctrl::unix  ?0.1?

       ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::import ?ns? ?arg...?

       ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw

       ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw

       ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::columns

       ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::rows

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DESCRIPTION

       WARNING:  This  package	is  unix-specific  and depends on the availability of two unix system commands for terminal control, i.e. stty and
       tput, both of which have to be found in the $PATH. If any of these two commands is missing the loading of the package will fail.

       The package provides commands to switch the standard input of the current process between raw and cooked input modes, and to query the size
       of terminals, i.e. the available number of columns and lines.

API

   INTROSPECTION
       ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::import ?ns? ?arg...?
	      This  command imports some or all attribute commands into the namespace ns. This is by default the namespace ctrl. Note that this is
	      relative namespace name, placing the imported command into a child of the current namespace. By default all commands  are  imported,
	      this can howver be restricted by listing the names of the wanted commands after the namespace argument.

   OPERATIONS
       ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw
	      This command switches the standard input of the current process to raw input mode. This means that from then on all characters typed
	      by the user are immediately reported to the application instead of waiting in the OS buffer until the Enter/Return key is received.

       ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::raw
	      This command switches the standard input of the current process to cooked input mode. This means that from then  on  all	characters
	      typed by the user are kept in OS buffers for editing until the Enter/Return key is received.

       ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::columns
	      This command queries the terminal connected to the standard input for the number of columns available for display.

       ::term::ansi::ctrl::unix::rows
	      This command queries the terminal connected to the standard input for the number of rows (aka lines) available for display.

BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
       This  document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems.	Please report such in the category term of
       the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883].  Please also report any ideas for enhancements you  may  have  for
       either package and/or documentation.

KEYWORDS

       ansi, columns, control, cooked, input mode, lines, raw, rows, terminal

CATEGORY

       Terminal control

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2006 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net>

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