Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 12:35:03 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: unknown@riverstyx.net Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mindcruft ... Message-ID: <199905051935.MAA10484@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 May 1999 11:34:43 PDT." <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905051133190.17151-100000@hades.riverstyx.net>
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Yeap, I always consider first the hardware irrespective of whether the OS supports it well or not 8) > 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 -- Amancio Hasty hasty@star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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