[Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Thu Jun 11 20:07:54 UTC 2009
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
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