From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 7 6:12:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shattered.disturbed.net (shattered.disturbed.net [205.236.147.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C981114D79; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 06:12:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from veers@disturbed.net) Received: from shattered.disturbed.net ([205.236.147.18]:27661 "EHLO shattered.disturbed.net") by disturbed.net with ESMTP id ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:12:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:12:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Alex Perel To: Phil Regnauld Cc: Kris Kennaway , Chris Costello , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cheesy benchmarks In-Reply-To: <19990707101034.41857@ns.int.ftf.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Phil Regnauld wrote: > I think it's not so much that the results are skewed than the fact > that it's not even worth calling it a bench: > > - inconsistent setup > - no tuning description > - no optimization description > - no filesystem layout descriptions (it doesn't really matter, since > this one will obviously stay in memory) > > etc... > > It's just not a benchmark. It's a wonderful display of incompetence and lack of thought, that's what it is. Methinks it was done haphazardly, and for what purpose? Anyone even remotely educated will look at this and laugh. :) Alex G. Perel -=- AP5081 veers@disturbed.net -=- veers@samurai.com Disturbed Networks - Powered exclusively by FreeBSD == The Power to Serve -=- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message