[Phoronix] Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Fedora 11 Performance

Dennis J. dennisml at conversis.de
Fri Jun 12 02:22:52 UTC 2009


On 06/11/2009 10:07 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 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.  :)

They use MP3 encoding as a "real world benchmark" of ext4:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ext4_benchmarks&num=7

They don't seem to care what they measure or why or what the results 
actually mean. Phoronix' "benchmarks" seem to be mostly about earning 
Phoronix a bad reputation.

Regards,
   Dennis




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