RFC: preauth benchmarking methodology

[Simo Sorce]

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 16:48 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 16:48 -0400, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> > Probably we should test with multiple worker processes.
> > So this is another dimension to throw into the result matrix.
> 
> Given that multiple processes are entirely independent, I'm not sure we
> gain anything by this.  Especially since our goal is to measure the
> effect of an asynchronous event loop that lives entirely within one
> process.  If we add multiple processes, we are no longer measuring the
> event loop but system performance.

We are still measuring how many operation we can do in parallel. The
number of parallel process is fixed and limited and cannot change.

Simo.

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