Subject: Re: sysbench and ubench benchmarks
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Liam J. Foy <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org>
List: current-users
Date: 05/01/2007 10:45:47
Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:30:12PM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>> Some comparisons of a few operating systems include NetBSD 3.1 and 4.99.17 
>> is at
>>
>> http://www.fosstools.org/
> 
> Something is deeply wrong with these benchmarks.  Look at the memory
> bandwidth number: for the same hardware, it varies by a factor of 10
> from OS to OS, which should not be possible with a properly written
> benchmark.
> 

I actually thought something similar when I glanced at the results. I would
take them lightly. Proper benchmarking is _hard_ :)

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