On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > If you have the backplane (my guess would be Gigabit Ethernet) to
Well, or just a less powerful server. The goal isn't the best raw numbers, the goal is comparison. Granted, that comparison can be different on various sized machines (eg. SMP vs. not, etc.). More important than just the performance of a given workload is an understanding of what different types of things are slower or faster, and what types of workloads are impacted the most by the changes. And, of course, relating those workloads to reality. So I guess I'm just trying to remind people not to focus too much on numbers generated by any particular benchmark since they can be misleading at the best, and can cause "optimizations" that are actually more expensive in the "real world"...
