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SubjectRe: Don't use dbench for benchmarks
DateMon, 28 Jan 2002 13:17:02 +0000 (GMT)
FromAlan Cox <>
> I must be having a bad day, I can only think of irritable things to post.
> Continuing that theme: please don't use dbench for benchmarks.  At all.
> It's an unreliable indicator of anything in particular except perhaps
> stability.  Please, use something else for your benchmarks.

Im not 100% sure that is the case. Done 30 or 40 times and done from a 
reboot for the 30-40 pass sequence its quite a passable guide to
both stability and I/O behaviour under some server loads. 

Alan
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