Yeah took quite a while to run, luckily the bash shell script shaved alot of the manual time off
As i said in the article, it's to do with how sysbench operates and that MySQL prior to MySQL 5.1.7 handled query caching differently.
Yup work - focusing on optimising vBulletin forum/servers for clients both at work and private consult work
Alot of what I learn and pick up optimisation wise get's implemented on i4memory.com forums too - need for speed