From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 17 19:43:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA26680 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 19:43:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA26666 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 19:43:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA21010; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 12:12:44 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199704180242.MAA21010@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Mail exploders... In-Reply-To: from Warner Losh at "Apr 17, 97 02:17:59 pm" To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 12:12:44 +0930 (CST) Cc: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, jlemon@americantv.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > In message <199704171634.JAA19155@freefall.freebsd.org> "Jonathan M. Bresler" writes: > : 49100 messages delayed 0 minutes > : 3863 messages delayed 1 minutes > : 214 messages delayed 2 minutes > ... > : 1 messages delayed 1241 minutes > : 1 messages delayed 1281 minutes > : 1 messages delayed 1321 minutes > : 1 messages delayed 1352 minutes > : > : hmm.....i really should re-write this script to use a log scale for delay ;) > > Looks like a good use for Log Log display. > > While I don't know if a program can "lovingly render" this into ASCII > graphics, it might no tbe such a bad idea to put together a plot > pipeline that will send you a graph. When things are on the left of > the graph, then you know life is good. When they start to move to the > right, you know bad things are happening. gnuplot will do a pretty good job of it. > Warner > > > -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[