[RFC] new benchmark use cases

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Jan Balster wrote:
> Hi,
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> Can you think of more benchmarks or suggest refinements of existing ones?
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> cheers,
>    jan

In working with the memory tuning, I think having a memory consumption
per benchmark would also be useful. I think 2 numbers are particularly
useful, the peak memory consumption, and the total area of memory
consumption (memory * time)
So a small jump isn't a big deal, but the absolute max memory
consumption is important. But just hitting 100MB for a second isn't as
bad as hitting it and staying there for the whole time.

I'm not sure the best way to measure memory consumption, since python
defaults to not letting you see how much memory things consume.

Right now, I'm using a wrapper script which spawns bzr, and then read
/proc/pid/status, and parses it to get the memory size information.

I don't know any cross platform way to get memory consumption, but maybe
we could factor it out into a function, and add the functionality once
figure it out.

John
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