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35,000 Linux Benchmarks In a Week
G3ckoG33k writes "Openbenchmarking.org has received 37,027 benchmarks (mainly Linux, and some Macs) in the first week since its inauguration. 241,384 completed tests using 468,344 components from 438 hardware vendors. All results submitted by end users. I guess the hardware support for Linux must become even better thanks to this effort. Yes, the benchmarks are easy to install and run, and you can readily compare your own system anonymously with the results already submitted, using any or all of hundreds of free applications in 47 categories."
That's all that matters, right?
And they all were done poorly and showed nothing useful for the real world.
My biggest issue with most benchmarks is the underhanded deals between sites/mags and tech companies who provide incentives and free hardware. While I take individual benchmarks with a grain of salt as well for a lot of reasons, I'm far more confident that thousands of people haven't been bought and sold in the way ad supported publications seem to be.
Probably because you can benchmark every mac made in the last three years in a couple days. You don't find many people wondering about which part they should upgrade on their mac.
Also, it's crowd sourced software that runs on OS X, so mac users probably just aren't as motivated.
I'm not sure why they are spending so much time on Linux, when it is used so little for actual desktop work. This site should really set its focus on OS X which certified Unix (unlike Linux which is just a non-standard proprietary clone).
By your same logic, they should also devote more time to SCO products ...
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Would like to add: it's not just a matter of mac users being motivated to benchmark their machines, but Phoronix.com targets a linux user audience, though they do benchmark OS X frequently.
DONT CLICK THAT LINK!!!!!
Yes, that's Ganon's trap.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
Would also like to add: Benchmarking most(?) installations of OSX being on hardware(Macbooks) not designed for large processing would not be entirely useful. True that OSX could probably be improved but the need to or excitement of benchmarking the os isn't really there. Kind of a mindset that OSX gets you in to, its there and does everything the way you should want it to be done and you shouldn't try to change or disagree with its ways.
you keep doing this in multiple discussions.
all you're going to accomplish is that nobody clicks on tinyurl and goo.gl links anymore. that means you are cutting off your own source of amusement you stupidass.
you sure are a cunt. a dirty, nasty, AIDS and herpes-infested cunt with giant meat curtains, a clit like a penis, and a gaping cavern of a vagina. go fuck yourself because no one else is going to.
Yeah I guess you could say that, lol.
The look of the site (and the results page in particular) reminds me of the Dilbert series about User Interface Poisoning from UIs designed by engineers. (http://www.guuui.com/images/20020924.gif)
This site is unreadable.
Yes... Mac is all that and more. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/28/charlie-brooker-pfroblem-with-macs Of course all of my desktops and laptops at home and at work are Linux.
Is it 2001 again?
Windows users have nothing like this. Too bad for them. Although the Phoronix test suite is actually coming to Windows. The Windows version is very alpha right now. Be an interesting twist if Windows users can take advantage of this in the future.
To quote Phoronix.
"The Phoronix Test Suite support on Windows is very early in development and is not targeted for normal end-users with most areas not yet being implemented but will be later on in the Phoronix Test Suite 2.4 development cycle. At this time the Phoronix Test Suite client is dependent upon PHP being installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\php. The Phoronix Test Suite also uses CPU-Z for much of the hardware detection support on Windows and is dependent upon CPU-Z being installed to C:\Program Files\CPUID\CPU-Z\cpuz.exe."
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Now, which do you think is the smarter people?
Update me when this isn't written in PHP.
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you sure are a cunt. a dirty, nasty, AIDS and herpes-infested cunt with giant meat curtains, a clit like a penis, and a gaping cavern of a vagina. go fuck yourself because no one else is going to.
I think you're wrong about that. My ex-wife doesn't frequent Slashdot.
How come Slashdot never gets Slashdotted?
The article summary here intrigued and excited me. I headed to the site, eagerly hoping to compare the performance of my system against the 35,000 submissions, and to submit my own results for the community to share. But when I got there, I was lost and confused. The site is almost completely incomprehensible to me. Navigation is a nightmare. I can't figure out how to see the results for a given system. When I do, by accident, stumble upon a page with some graphs, I can't figure out how to compare these with another system. There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to the hyperlinks, and precious little in the way of explanations and guidance. It's a pity that a site which has the potential to be such a useful resource has been rendered completely unusable by poor organization and UI design.
So that I don't actually have to visit the site to find out it's useless.
-- Linux user #369862
I've had a quick look, this is still about "bigger numbers are better". It would be nice te have more focus on power usage of modern computers!
Your old blog from 2007 at http://blogs.technet.com/b/jonjah/ tells us right away that you are a shill, a self-admitted MICROSOFT shill at that.
Go get a life.
Here's what it has to say about that:
Lenovo ubuntu 10.10 is a motherboard. This product is available from Lenovo. The Lenovo ubuntu 10.10 has been tested via the Phoronix Test Suite in the configurations listed below.
Let me know when they've sanitized their DB.
I see a lot of data, but no organisation -- all I really want is a simple table like this one
I mod down anyone who says "I will be modded down for this", regardless of the rest of their comment
""bigger numbers are better". It would be nice te have more focus on power usage of modern computers!"
And how is bigger numbers in battery minutes different?!
Bigger numbers _are_ better, when you ask the right question.
Your comment is disappointing and It highlights your ignorance.
Firstly you are not intelligent enough to realize that your post is completely irrelevant to the topic at hand (we are talking about benchmarks of the Linux kernel). Secondly your post shows how bad parenting can produce bat shit crazy people.
Also using something for more than one purpose is a sign of intelligence. Improvising shows that you have enough wits about you to analyst your surroundings and make do with what is available instead of things going to waste. That is something that we could all benefit from and may learn the hard way if oil becomes less available.
So what is the best benchmark (however that is defined)?
Phoronix test suite
The venerable UnixBench BYTE magazine lineage, updated by Yahoo.
Geekbench
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PHP has allowed Phoronix Test suite to support everything from embedded ARM systems to cloud compute infrastructure. The fact it uses PHP makes it extremely portable. Virtually anywhere that there is a compiler and PHP, Phoronix Test Suite can run. Note that the benchmarking itself is not in PHP, it's done in whatever native language the benchmark needs.
+1 informative.
(I already commented, dammit!)
Right, because PHP is the most common and portable language in the world. Not.
Here's an idea, why not use something like PERL that really IS portable? Better yet, when writing a benchmark, why not use a language that's efficient so you're benchmarking the system not the quality of the implementation of the interpreter on that system?
Any interpreted language is to be avoided for benchmarking unless it happens to be the system in use on that platform anyway (such as Java on a portable device). All we're otherwise seeing is "my platform is better suited to the Zend interpreter than yours" -- except when comparing same-platform systems to each other, in which case portability wouldn't have been an issue anyway.
- Michael T. Babcock (Yes, I blog)
Okay. It's clear you haven't looked into the Phoronix Test Suite. (PTS)
The software product itself is a Test Execution Environment. The suite's value add is that it simplifies the download and execution of the actual tests and benchmarks that are executed. Those test or benchmarks are in whatever language the author of that test profile wanted to write it in.
PHP is not involved in any actual _measuring_ of performance, but is involved in the orchestration, interpretation and aggregation of the results.
Check out the version of PTS in your local convenient distribution (it's in most of the recent ones).