0.9.5 release plans

[Daniel Serpell]

Hi!

El Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:35:45AM -0500, Matt Mackall escribio:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:12:58AM -0300, Daniel Serpell wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > El Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:31:02PM -0500, Matt Mackall escribio:
> > >
> > [...]
> > > Please test the current tip, especially if you're
> > > running on one of the less common platforms.
> > 
> > I'm on Debian/etch, ARM architecture (so, unaligned memory access are bad):
> 
> Are you saying you're running into unaligned accesses? I don't think
> there should be any.

No, I was trying to say that, in the event of any unaligned access, the
tests should fail. But the test passed, so all should be ok!.

> 
> > daniel at pclab02:~/src/hg-main$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> > Processor       : Arm920Tid(wb) rev 0 (v4l)
> > BogoMIPS        : 99.94
> > Features        : swp half thumb 
> 
> model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz
> cpu MHz         : 1400.000
> cache size      : 2048 KB
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov
> pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe bts est tm2
> bogomips        : 2802.86
> 
> > real    145m50.900s
> > user    94m59.120s
> > sys     29m22.720s
> 
> Wow, thanks for your patience!
> 
> My system has about 28x the bogomips of yours and runs the tests in
> just under 5 minutes. 145.85m / 28 = 5.2m so it seems to be scaling
> pretty linearly with bogomips. The remainder looks like it can be
> accounted to waiting on I/O, because user+sys is only ~124m.
> 

Yes, this was over an NFS mounted root, so I/O is not fast.

But looking at your /proc/cpuinfo, your reported bogomips are from
1.4GHz clock, but your processor is 1.7GHz, are you sure that the
tests ran at the low CPU speed?

    Daniel.