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[..]
+> > 
+> > If somebody wants to do benchmarking,I'd suggest using at least
+> >  - lmbench (nice microbenchmark)
+> >  - bonnie (reasonable disk performance benchmark)
+> >  - webstone (or something similar. But use "apache" as the server, not 
+> >    some braindead horror like NCSA).
+> >  - ???
+> > 
+> Above list is ok, but CERTAINLY not sufficient.

I'm *still* very fond of the BYTE-Benchmark, since it really does give you 
an overall "Average" of your _whole_ system-performance.
It doesn't bench a single thing, but a quite different bundle, which is nice.

The included disk-benches wouldn't complain about disk-arrays. :-)

YES, it still leaves out things like network-performance and the X11-perf
of your system, but you get an impression, how fast it really *seems* to be
in average. - That's at least what you will receive, when you sit at your
machine as user. - That's the real life! :-)

So this Benchmark tells me more than a lot of sole-purpose-BMs. :(

Regards,

Herbert
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