From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 30 11:11:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0DAF1065698 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:11:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [66.246.138.153]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 892118FC1F for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:11:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from unknown (87-194-158-129.bethere.co.uk [87.194.158.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4060F8775; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:11:58 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:11:27 +0000 From: Bruce Cran To: Jeremy Chadwick Message-ID: <20091130111127.00007559@unknown> In-Reply-To: <20091130094315.GA94119@icarus.home.lan> References: <4B13869D.1080907@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <0D3A9408-84A8-4C74-A318-F580B41FC1A6@exscape.org> <20091130094315.GA94119@icarus.home.lan> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2cvs27 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:11:59 -0000 On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:43:15 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > The Phoronix Test Suite appears to be written entirely in PHP[2]. > I've looked at the source and it does appear to be PHP-based (with > reliance on numerous third-party C-based libraries, of course; this > is normal). Given that, I'm not sure I can really take the results of > some of those tests seriously. I'm not dissuading the evidence, I'm > just saying, it's more of a "PHP benchmark on " than it is an OS > benchmark. > > [1]: http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/ > [2]: http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=downloads The benchmarks are scheduled by PHP, but the benchmark tests aren't: if you look in pts\test-resources it seems it tests how long it takes to build programs like mplayer and apache, and interprets the timing results from programs like dbench, iozone, scimark2 and povray. -- Bruce Cran