[TriLUG] [Novalug] Comparing Clouds; A trivial test. (fwd)

[Warren Myers]

Figures - need to fix my fonts in my browser :P


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Maxwell Spangler <
maxlists at maxwellspangler.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 10:17 -0400, Warren Myers wrote:
>
> > Hey, Maxwell - I think I spotted a bug on line 43 .. 1%1000000000 will
> > never be true :)
>
>
> That line is
>
> mod_progress = l % 100000000;
>
> It's a lowercase "L", not a "1" :-)  Here's a run with the outer loop
> disabled so it only does a single pass with the progress line enabled:
>
> ➜ [master*]maxwell at elite [cpu-looper] $ ./cpu-looper
> Now at 0
> Now at 100000000
> Now at 200000000
> Now at 300000000
> Now at 400000000
> Now at 500000000
> Now at 600000000
> Now at 700000000
> Now at 800000000
> Now at 900000000
> Now at 1000000000
> Now at 1100000000
> Now at 1200000000
> Now at 1300000000
> Now at 1400000000
> Now at 1500000000
> Now at 1600000000
> Now at 1700000000
> Now at 1800000000
> Now at 1900000000
> ➜ [master*]maxwell at elite [cpu-looper] $
>
>
>
> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:02 AM, Maxwell Spangler <
> > maxlists at maxwellspangler.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry!
> > >
> > > While I did actually setup an instance on Google Compute Engine, I
> > > didn't remember to run my little test on it.  Then, due to the cost of
> > > GCE, I shut my instance down pretty fast.  Porting was my objective,
> not
> > > benching.
> > >
> > > The code for my simple little C program is here:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/maxwax/cpu-looper
> > >
> > > As you can see, there really isn't much to it and its more comments
> than
> > > actual code which is just *eight* lines.  The only point of this
> program
> > > is to generate constant user space CPU activity and it does that
> > > perfectly.  I dressed up the code with comments so others (including
> > > novices) can experiment with it.
> > >
>
>
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