From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 5 12:29:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hades.riverstyx.net (hq-port-89.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8148D14ECA for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 12:29:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from localhost (unknown@localhost) by hades.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA17310; Wed, 5 May 1999 11:34:43 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 11:34:43 -0700 (PDT) From: To: David Schwartz Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Mindcruft ... In-Reply-To: <000401be9729$59dad700$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> 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 Well, I figure that's the only thing one of these types of benchmarks *could* measure. You're taking identical hardware and seeing what each OS can do, without considering what's best for that OS. --- tani hosokawa river styx internet On Wed, 5 May 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > > > Maybe a better way would be to set an amount of money, then let each team > > choose the hardware in the budget, based on list prices from the > > manufacturers. Each team gets a $15000 server and then they go head to > > head on performance. > > That presumes that you are trying to measure price/performance ratio. And > you would have to include the cost of the operating system in there or your > comparison makes no sense. > > The problem with so many of these benchmarks is there's no explanation for > why the methodology was chosen as it was, so it's not clear what the > benchmark is attempting to measure. > > The recent Mindcraft benchmark of NT versus Linux is a shining example of > this. Why Win98 as the client? Why four network cards? Why a RAID system? > Why 1Gb of RAM? Absent any other explanation, the only conclusion we can > draw is that they did things this way because Microsoft wanted them to. > > DS > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message