OS schedulers

Operating system schedulers, such as Solaris schedulers, help determine which software processes gain access to a system's resources. Use of these schedulers can result in unreliable benchmarking results.

There are two suggested strategies to this pitfall:

  • Refine your system scheduling policies
  • Run the benchmarks for longer periods

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