Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:11:27 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0? 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>
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On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:43:15 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> 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 <OS>" 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
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