reliable/reproduceable benchmarks on SGI MIPS box

[Thorsten von Eicken]

... quick 2 cents worth of guesses:
you haven't said whether you're running your program on all 8 processors
or on only one of them. if you're running on only one, could it be that
the other seven interfere? What happens if you run a "for(;;);" program
on seven processors while running the benchmark on the eighth?
also, is there a cache-flush system call you can call before starting the
timer?
	TvE