From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 26 12:44:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D384B37B41A for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:44:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16foSX-000Fh0-00 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:44:25 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id F174713040 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:44:24 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 0BA50225C1; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:44:21 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:44:21 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new FreeBSD mailing list Message-ID: <20020226204420.GA2629@raggedclown.net> References: <3C7AFCED.ADDE60EE@centtech.com> <20020226093250.A1369@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <3C7BEF25.C1EEB8AD@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C7BEF25.C1EEB8AD@centtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 02:25:09PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > Thats all well and good, and I'm beginning to make a "performance tuning" page, > but just like any topic, one person can't do it all, and it often takes lots of > people to come up with the right answer to a performance problem. > > Eric > > > Nik Clayton wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:11:41PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > > > Who is the correct person @freebsd.org to contact to get a > > > freebsd-performance (or freebsd-perf) mailing list going? I think it > > > would be nice (and beneficial) to get the performance tweaking and other > > > related stuff into a separate list instead of -questions, -chat, or > > > sometimes even -security. > > > > Would it not be a better idea to collect together these suggestions in > > to the FAQ, or the tuning(7) man page, instead of on a separate mailing > > list? > > I am not sure how much traffic such a list would generate. In terms of new lists, I suggested long ago, that the number of questions on filtering/firewalls/nat and all points east generated on -questions could easily justify it's own mailing list. Since this is clearly one of the most confusing, most ill-understood, and frankly insufficiently documented areas of FreeBSD .. and yet one of it's most important. I have twice suggested to Crist Clark he write a book on it.. I think he told me he was once approached to do so. But sadly no such book exists. There are lots of bits of paper flying around the net with recipes, suggestions, partial explanations etc. But there is no-where a coherent in-depth discussion of it all. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message