Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:54:42 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Greg Barniskis" <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "Steven H. Baeighkley" <stevenb@frii.com> Subject: Re: serious performance problems with 6.2 Release Message-ID: <000b01c751a8$1a266d30$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <45D3A4D7.9000504@frii.com><00ff01c7510e$7452e490$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <eeef1a4c0702150849q76fa6a4cke5e88477189be093@mail.gmail.com><012a01c75128$4d3a5a40$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <45D4A295.6060609@scls.lib.wi.us>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Barniskis" <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc: "Steven H. Baeighkley" <stevenb@frii.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: serious performance problems with 6.2 Release
> Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> >>> questions isn't for bugs. I don't mean to be rude but you won't get
the
> >>> problem fixed by bitching about it on this mailing list.
>
> Good gravy. They're not asking -questions for a fix, they're asking
> for guidance on how to isolate the root cause of the problem. Quoth
> the OP: "*what are we missing?*"
>
> That is perfectly germane for -questions and only /after/ that
> question is answered
Then, post some steps and quit metadiscussing.
would it be appropriate to use send-pr. Using
> send-pr to submit a poorly defined problem ("too much load") is not
> going to result in a project committer magically finding and fixing
> an unknown OS bug.
>
The original post was not poorly defined. Certainly not compared to
the average PR. The only things missing were BIOS and board revisions
and the diagnostic log.
>
> > Steven H. Baeighkley wrote:
> >> If bugs is the correct list then that's where we'll send it. However we
> >> were not initially thinking it was a bug. We were thinking it was a
> >> configuration error on our part.
>
> That's a reasonable assumption actually. Sorry I don't have any
> specific suggestions for you except to second the motion that you
> ignore Ted's assertion that you should give up on -questions. It's
> entirely possible that there's a tunable knob or app compilation
> option that will help you out.
>
If you would care to suggest something I'm sure the OP would be
all ears. So far you have only posted sheer speculation.
Ted
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