Re: Looking for benchmark test tool



On 2006-07-14, Robert Hull wrote:
On Thursday 13 July 2006 23:54, Dances With Crows
<danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in comp.os.linux.misc:

On 13 Jul 2006 13:37:14 -0700, dbone staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
I'm looking for a benchmark test tool to compare the performance and
reliability of different PCs running LInux centOS 4.

There are 3 species of mendacity, each worse than the last: Lies,
damned lies, and benchmarks.

You missed out Statistics (goes before benchmarks) and Politicians (goes
after everything)

No, statistics don't lie; statisticians do (and most people who
interpret statistics just misunderstand them).

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