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Op vrijdag 25 januari 2019 11:30:11 CET schreef Vinzenz Vietzke:
Am Freitag, 25. Januar 2019, 10:10:43 CET schrieb Michal Kubecek:
For instance, just few days ago he published an "out-of-the-box 10GbE network benchmark" which is extremely crappy even for Phoronix standards. He completely ignored that some distributions enable connection tracking and set a complex set of netfilter rules while others do not setup any kind of firewall and compares network latency numbers between them. In one "bandwidth test" he reported that the fastest result among all tested distribution was "847 Mbit/s" (through 10Gb/s ethernet) but didn't stop for a minute to say "Hey, something is obviously wrong here." and didn't do so even after two other programs reported numbers more than 10 times higher.
To second that somehow:
I don't have the source at my hands anymore but recently came across a blog post where someone ran Phoronix' "test suite" benchmarks multiple times with the same settings and on the same system. He compared the results and got *vastly* different figures. I mean, there were deviations up to 25%!
That is something to keep in mind even for benchmarks from other sources if they use that test suite...
Regards, vinz. So, let's conclude that Phoronix is a click-bait site. A hardware geek in my town had experiences likewise. Question arises: who's paying the guy?
I'll bite: from https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=phoronix_premium "At Phoronix our primary revenue stream is through the advertisements that you see on our web-site. We depend upon this revenue in order to maintain our operations and continue serving the Linux and free software communities. When readers use such services as AdBlock, our revenue suffers. With the growing usage of these services and the request of readers who would like to better support our operations, we have established a Phoronix Premium subscription service. Phoronix was started in 2004 by Michael Larabel who continues to serve as the principal author for the hundreds of articles published on Phoronix each month. A common misconception is that Phoronix has a whole team of writers and significant resources like other publications, but that's not the case due to the greater percentage of those blocking ads, not many companies advertising specifically for the enthusiast/gaming Linux niche, etc. Thus most of the work falls onto the shoulders of one man who frequently invests 100+ hour weeks working on Phoronix." So basically, as long as people keep visiting this site (or even become paid subscribers), he will stay in business. The sheer volume of articles speaks volumes about how thorough the research can be. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org