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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2007 22:32:36 +0300
From:      "Artem Kuchin" <matrix@itlegion.ru>
To:        "Charles Shannon Hendrix" <shannon@widomaker.com>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed
Message-ID:  <000e01c760ef$5d445cc0$0c00a8c0@Artem>
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Shannon Hendrix" <shannon@widomaker.com>
To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: Some Unix benchmarks for those who are interesed


> 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.

Hmm. if the whole world uses wht version of unixbench maybe someone should
update freebsd ports version to this wht version, because otherwise we cannot
compare anything else than freebsd. Not good.

--
Artem




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