[dspillett]

> testing Linux kernel variants and their stock OS configurations/kernel scheduler setups, and FreeBSD was tossed into the mix

For a lot of people who don't have time/understanding to play with things much beyond using stock versions and configuration, this could still produce a useful benchmark. People who have the knowledge, confidence, and time, probably won't be reading the article at all as they'll have already performed their own less artificial tests (i.e. benchmarking with their own application using live-like data and load patterns).

Though that is my argument against any benchmark like this: it is at best an indicator of peak activity under very specific conditions, a starting point but it doesn't really represent my application with any precision nor accuracy.

> it wasn't clear if you had a warmup period to your benchmarks

I would agree that is a significant point.

[kovacik]

There is a 30 min warmup period before the actual benchmark. It is shown in the benchmarking script.