From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 24 17:27:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFDB0106566C for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:27:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@catwhisker.org) Received: from albert.catwhisker.org (adsl-63-193-123-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.123.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F2F8FC13 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:27:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@catwhisker.org) Received: from albert.catwhisker.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by albert.catwhisker.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n3OGoCcC004763 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:50:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@albert.catwhisker.org) Received: (from david@localhost) by albert.catwhisker.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n3OGoCXm004762 for performance@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:50:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:50:12 -0700 From: David Wolfskill To: performance@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090424165012.GB1387@albert.catwhisker.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7iMSBzlTiPOCCT2k" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Subject: Presentation of performance data & analysis? X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:27:13 -0000 --7iMSBzlTiPOCCT2k Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I apologize, as this is a bit tangential to the description of the list. I've been doing some measurements of workloads of interest (in my case, the workload is building some software, and the metric of greatest interest is "elapsed time" (which I obtain via /usr/bin/time)). And I've been using phk's ministat (/usr/src/tools/tools/ministat, for any who aren't aware of it). It is quite useful (so yeah, I owe phk a beer), but I'm trying to figure out how to present results to management-types. While I don't have any PHBs in my direct management chain, I've seen some PHB tendencies in the management of the folks I'm supporting. And I get the message that "complicated" won't ccommunicate to them. Nor will "nuanced." Even a pointer to some examples of approaches that seem to work well for this sort of thing would help a great deal -- my training hasn't exactly been in statistical analysis or in presentation of data. :-} I'll be happy to summarize responses that are not sent to the list (unless you'd rather I didn't, of course). Thanks. Peace, david --=20 David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. --7iMSBzlTiPOCCT2k Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAknx7cMACgkQmprOCmdXAD3xjgCdFGmeEZ6+G774SNClBXf7fv7i lv8AnjxKpuq0mPGvPmgG/0nifdknFxUf =y2F2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7iMSBzlTiPOCCT2k--