Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 07:36:46 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com>, Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new FreeBSD mailing list Message-ID: <3C84C9EE.71635BF8@centtech.com> References: <3C7AFCED.ADDE60EE@centtech.com> <20020226093250.A1369@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <3C7BEF25.C1EEB8AD@centtech.com> <20020304215226.GG3250@freebsdmall.com> <p05101504b8aa468a2ac4@[10.0.1.3]>
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That's pretty much my goal. I'd like to discuss with others who are using FreeBSD in different contexts, and gather the pertinent tuning information. Having it in the Handbook is fantastic, but individually we are not able to see all areas of tuning, or even all the effects of some tuning. I would hate to tune my FreeBSD box for NFS serving, and have it hose the http servicing (for example), and publish it. Kind of a "peer review" effect. I would be willing to sponsor the list, and take care of the summarizing, documentation, etc. Heck, that's the least I can do for the FreeBSD project. Eric Brad Knowles wrote: > > At 1:52 PM -0800 2002/03/04, Murray Stokely wrote: > > > We have a whole chapter of the Handbook dedicated to tuning. Many > > people have contributed to that chapter. I think it's a much more > > logical place to look for this information than mailing list archives > > for an obscure list. By all means, please submit patches to Chapter 6 > > of the Handbook. > > The one thing that I will observe is that as you develop > suggestions that might be incorporated in this chapter (or similar > documentation), it may be useful to discuss these suggestions with > other people, in a public forum, before they are added. It might > also be useful to provide URLs with details of testing and > benchmarking, etc... to help create the rules-of-thumb that would > actually be incorporated into the documentation, but where links to > the raw benchmarking, etc... probably wouldn't. > > Overall, I'm not opposed to the creation of a freebsd-tuning > mailing list, but only if the people who would be sponsoring this > list would agree to periodically summarize the consensus of the list > and submit the appropriate modifications to the permanent > documentation. > > -- > Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> > > Do you hate Microsoft? Do you hate Outlook? Then visit the Anti-Outlook > page at <http://www.rodos.net/outlook/>; and see how much fun you can have. > > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." > -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is probably not for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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