Yeah, Lich once warned me for having a siggy taller than 90pixels. (& I removed it. :D )
& everyone should try to keep their siggys under 50KB. :) (It takes forever to load a page with all these biga$$ siggys.)
I guess you're talking about background applications n other stuff ppl run while they do a benchmark. Hehe.. Looks like those ppl you saw know how to do a benchmark properly. :D