Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:01:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast Message-ID: <20050424214939.B23468@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> In-Reply-To: <20050425014453.GA59981@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050424175543.71041.qmail@web51805.mail.yahoo.com> <20050424151517.O68772@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <3822.216.177.243.38.1114385370.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> <6.2.1.2.0.20050424204611.072105a0@64.7.153.2> <6.2.1.2.0.20050424210422.03d22990@64.7.153.2> <20050425014453.GA59981@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: > As is well-known, doing meaningful (disk) benchmarks is hard, and it's > easy to draw incorrect conclusions if you don't understand exactly > what it is you're measuring. I'm not an expert in that, but it's been > discussed on the lists before. This thread would not be complete without a reference to the most excellent posting made by phk and its follow-up by rwatson in January 2004: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-January/019595.html Did this ever make it into the handbook? If so, anyone have a link? Cheers, Andy | Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > | Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >
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