On Friday, 25 January 2019 8:50 Axel Braun wrote:
we had recently a mail chain about perception of openSUSE. Today I stumbled over https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=jan2019-win-server &num=1 in which the performance of TW does not really look good, compared to other distros.
Personally I dont share this view, but I'm only using it on a laptop, and quite happy with it. Can one comment on the server side?
The most important point is: it's _Phoronix_. The guy is completely clueless and compares not only apples to oranges but often rather apples to elephants. It's well known for years, many people pointed crucial flaws in his methodology and in his presentation many times and he still haven't learned a bit. His general idea of "benchmarking" is: install some distributions the "next-next-next" method, don't check anything, run some benchmark, ignore all warnings, ignore obvious inconsistencies in the results, just copy and paste them into an article. He calls it "out-of-the-box test". 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. Honestly, the most wrong thing about Phoronix is that there are people who take its "benchmarks" and their results seriously. Please don't be one of them. Michal Kubecek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org