[Benchmarking] Some slides improvements

[Cameron Shorter]

+1 for providing updated slides.

When finished, please send them to Shoaib, CCed.

Andrea Aime wrote:
> Hi all,
> after FOSS4G I got some private comments about issues in the
> presentation itself and I thought to address them in SVN.
>
> The presentation version I've just committed has 3 changes:
> - makes sure all charts within the same set of tests have the
>   same Y scale to make them easier to compare as one pages through
>   the various results
> - added a remark that we observed the CPU being the bottleneck
>   during the benchmark. I did not stare at the top/vmstat outputs
>   for the whole benchmark run but never seen the CPU being significantly
>   under used besides the 1 thread runs. Did MapServer people see the
>   same?
> - added a comment on the T3 results, now that the chart scales have been
>   fixed it's evident that Oracle and SDE were significantly slower in
>   that test
>
> Maybe we want to republish the results and have the FOSS4G site use this
> last version instead of the one we provided during FOSS4G?
> A lot of people will look into the results so I guess we should have the
> slides be as accurate and easy to interpret as possible?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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