I'd love to see benchmarks that hit CPU or NIC limits; the HTTPS test hit CPU limits on many of the configurations, but inquiring minds want to know how much can you crank out with FreeBSD. Anyway, overload behavior is sometimes very interesting (probably less so for static https). May well need more load generation nodes though; load generation is often harder than handling load.

OTOH, maybe this is a bad test on purpose? the blogger doesn't like running these tests, so do a bad one and hope someone else is baited into running a better test?