Comments on: Benchmarking Login Time Improvements http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2005/12/11/benchmarking-login-time-improvements/ Just another GNOME Blogs weblog Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:17:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Ziga Mahkovec http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2005/12/11/benchmarking-login-time-improvements/#comment-19 Ziga Mahkovec Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2005/12/11/benchmarking-login-time-improvements/#comment-19 Regarding the problems you had with differing bootchart results -- are those differences in overall time or the graph structure?<p/>In any case, I'm glad bootchart is being used for application profiling as well and I'd be interested in ironing out these bugs. Feel free to send bug reports :)<p/>Thanks,<br/>-- <br/>Ziga Regarding the problems you had with differing bootchart results — are those differences in overall time or the graph structure?

In any case, I’m glad bootchart is being used for application profiling as well and I’d be interested in ironing out these bugs. Feel free to send bug reports :)

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Ziga

]]> By: Eric Anholt http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2005/12/11/benchmarking-login-time-improvements/#comment-20 Eric Anholt Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/markmc/2005/12/11/benchmarking-login-time-improvements/#comment-20 If you want to make statistics but don't want to actually remember how to do them, or to write a custom program to do them, then I recommend building ministat from FreeBSD's src tree. It should be reasonably portable.<p/><a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/tools/tools/ministat/">http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/tools/tools/ministat/</a><p/>Just drop a column of all your numbers in two (or more) files, one for each test case, run ministat with them as an argument, and have math tell you whether your numbers have a significant difference.<p/>It's a daily task for me, I find, and I love the tool. If you want to make statistics but don’t want to actually remember how to do them, or to write a custom program to do them, then I recommend building ministat from FreeBSD’s src tree. It should be reasonably portable.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/tools/tools/ministat/

Just drop a column of all your numbers in two (or more) files, one for each test case, run ministat with them as an argument, and have math tell you whether your numbers have a significant difference.

It’s a daily task for me, I find, and I love the tool.

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