On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Alistair Crooks wrote:
>> I don't know any fundamental reason this should be so.
>
> I think that this is because the Linux graph is so unpredictable - it
> is all over the place in the graphs collected by Andy, and which
> someone else agreed was the case under Linux - it has more spikes than
> my son's hair. Anyway, because it's so unpredictable, it can be used
> to prove that Linux performs better than any other operating system at
> any point in the graph (whilst at the same time handwaving away that
> it's performing worse).
>
> QED.
>
> Regards,
> Al the statistician

How about some standard deviations on the graphs? There were 20(?) runs,
right?

-- 
Stephen