Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

[Bruce Cran]

On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:43:15 -0800
Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd at jdc.parodius.com> wrote:

> The Phoronix Test Suite appears to be written entirely in PHP[2].
> I've looked at the source and it does appear to be PHP-based (with
> reliance on numerous third-party C-based libraries, of course; this
> is normal). Given that, I'm not sure I can really take the results of
> some of those tests seriously.  I'm not dissuading the evidence, I'm
> just saying, it's more of a "PHP benchmark on <OS>" than it is an OS
> benchmark.
> 
> [1]: http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/
> [2]: http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=downloads

The benchmarks are scheduled by PHP, but the benchmark tests aren't: if
you look in pts\test-resources it seems it tests how long it takes to
build programs like mplayer and apache, and interprets the timing
results from programs like dbench, iozone, scimark2 and povray.

-- 
Bruce Cran