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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Don't use dbench for benchmarks
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:56:42 +0100
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On January 27, 2002 05:35 am, Alex Davis wrote:
> I ran dbench on three different kernels: 2.4.17 w/ rmap12a, 2.4.18pre7, and
> 2.4.18pre7 w/ rmap12a. 2.4.18pre7 had better throughput by a substantial 
> margin. The results are at http://www.dynamicbullet.com/rmap.html

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.

-- 
Daniel
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