[otterley]

I am shocked—shocked—when a vendor cheats in order to increase their benchmark scores.

I always tell my customers to ignore benchmarks and compare outcomes with their own workloads. Benchmarks are almost completely useless in the real world.

[Snuggly73]

I only trust benchmarks that I’ve faked myself :)

[commandlinefan]

Although I believe there's a lot of this going on, in this case it just appears to be incompetence rather than malice.

[adamc]

I don't know why you are getting downrated. That is sane advice.