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Why does Phoronix use Ubuntu for Benchmarking ?
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Originally posted by Apopas View PostBut benchmarks have rarely practical use. Their existence is only to prove that my distro/OS is better than yours for no real reason
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Originally posted by frantaylor View PostCentos 5 in VMware versus Centos 5 in qemu, for example.
Benchmarks on a rolling release such as Arch/gentoo would show more what unpatched linux does. The problem with ubuntu is the patching of patches which end up with for example Intel gfx issues.
But phoronix is doing a great job, and I'm sure using ubuntu gets a lot of readers in.
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Originally posted by frantaylor View PostWell that is just bogus because there are many issues. Some ethernet cards just suck and you cannot see for sure unless you benchmark. If you tweak on the block size for your disk partitions it will have impact, but you will not know unless you benchmark. Often there are multiple ways to write an algorithm and you cannot tell which is faster unless you benchmark. There is a bewildering array of optimizations for gcc and you cannot tell which will make your program run faster unless you benchmark.
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Originally posted by lordmozilla View PostReleasing Vmware benchmarks is illegal. sorry ;-)
Benchmarks on a rolling release such as Arch/gentoo would show more what unpatched linux does. The problem with ubuntu is the patching of patches which end up with for example Intel gfx issues.
But phoronix is doing a great job, and I'm sure using ubuntu gets a lot of readers in.
It would be nice to have a script that runs the benchmark for us and we can view the results for ourselves. I can't imagine that that would be "illegal", or even a "contractual violation"
I wonder if there is any way to procure a copy of VMware Player without agreeing to the EULA. In this case one could publish benchmarks, because one did not enter into any sort of contract.Last edited by frantaylor; 05 August 2009, 08:52 AM.
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Originally posted by lordmozilla View PostReleasing Vmware benchmarks is illegal. sorry ;-)
Benchmarks on a rolling release such as Arch/gentoo would show more what unpatched linux does. The problem with ubuntu is the patching of patches which end up with for example Intel gfx issues.
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Originally posted by MetalheadGautham View PostReleasing VMWare benchmarks is illegal ? Since when ? How ? Why ?
It's not "illegal", it's a "contract violation" to publish benchmark results for many products. Read the EULA. Oracle is another example of this.
EMC would probably work their legal wiles and take down any web site that published VMware benchmark results. However, there is nothing wrong with publishing the benchmark program itself. The curious can run the benchmark themselves, and use the results for decision-making, as long as they don't publish the results.
The problem with benchmarks of big complex software is that the results are often dependent on hardware or software setup or whatever, and the results are not very useful unless you just happen to have exactly the same setup.
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Originally posted by MetalheadGautham View PostReleasing VMWare benchmarks is illegal ? Since when ? How ? Why ?
See here why:
Look at the March 12th at the bottom of the page.
You may use the Software to conduct internal performance testing and benchmarking studies, the results of which you (and not unauthorized third parties) may publish or publicly disseminate; provided that VMware has reviewed and approved of the methodology, assumptions and other parameters of the study. Please contact VMware at [email protected] to request such review.Last edited by deanjo; 11 August 2009, 11:16 AM.
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Originally posted by Kano View PostBasically all VMs have got problems with timers. If you really want to benchmark then use a manual stop watch. Timers tend to run pretty much like the moon inside VMs
The guests' real time clock in Vmware Workstation 6.5.2 is really quite accurate. It uses the timer in the host system. The clocks in my VMs stay accurate to within a second over days of use despite heavy loading of both the guest and host operating systems.
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