Benchmarks are evil. Sure they are useful at times, but for the most
part they get misused. IMHO, aim7 is outdated. The I/O it does it all
very small for today's systems. It's like poking the system with
hundreds of needles. You have no idea how the system will react to a
golf club, baseball bat, sledgehammer or a wet noodle. Sure, some
people really like it and swear by it. Benchmarking is better done with
an application set in mind and best done with the application set
itself.
> Are there better way to perform the test besides using benchmark tools
> like this?
Run the applications you really care about. There is also a good set of
benchmarks, including application specific ones at
http://lbs.sourceforge.net/.
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