James M. Leddy wrote: > On 06/11/2009 02:17 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> True, though over and over again I see things where I wish they'd at >> least dig into the discrepancies they find, rather than just reporting >> numbers. > > Seconded, I mean, wtf is this? > > "with the test profiles that stress the system disk, Fedora 11 > generally did much better -- in part due to the EXT4 file-system and > newer Linux kernel." > > How much of it was the new kernel, and how much was the filesystem? > It's just total speculation. It wouldn't be that hard to run some > oprofile while running these tests. > > It almost makes me want to start a "keep phoronix honest" blog, we > could start with that one bug you opened against their ext4 test (I > presume the inaccurate benchmark is still up) It is, though they note the problem and link to my screed on their mailing list ;) It may be better to engage them, though, and try to make the tests more correct, transparent and relevant.... they do have a lot of momentum. Which makes the crazy stuff hurt even more. :) -Eric -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
