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Subject: Re: Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed
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On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:30:12 +0100
Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> wrote:

> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:11:24 +0100
> > Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> wrote:
> > 
> >> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> >>
> >>> BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.1)
> >> Off-topic: Who or what is the origin of the "wht" version? One of the
> >> nice things about unixbench is that it hadn't changed from 1997, but now
> >> most Linux variants use the -wht version that has completely different
> >> baselines and results from the "normal" version?
> > 
> > It's a version created for the website: webhostingtalk.com.
> > 
> > It was created to have a stable and standard benchmark.
> 
> Beautiful - they fiddled with the baselines but still managed not to see
> the obvious problem in execl() call in the execl benchmark for 64-bit
> platform.

Or maybe they just don't care?

It seems to me they use the software a lot and it serves their purposes.
It's just a standardized version and run script that they use to evaluate web
servers.


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shannon
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