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Date:      Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:00:23 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Initial 6.1 questions
Message-ID:  <20060613210022.GB5267@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060613195738.64419.qmail@web33310.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <448F0C20.3090800@samsco.org> <20060613195738.64419.qmail@web33310.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:57:38PM -0700, Danial Thom wrote:

> Since everyone agrees that the load measuring
> tools aren't all that accurate, what criteria was
> used to determine that the changes made in 7 have
> the effect that you think they have had?

Not by using top(1).  vmstat seems to do a better job of reporting CPU
usage, but still you want to measure what the system can actually do,
not how accurately it estimates its own performance.

Kris

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