From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 25 02:01:28 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA8716A4CE for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 02:01:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lexi.siliconlandmark.com (lexi.siliconlandmark.com [209.69.98.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5050943D45 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 02:01:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from lexi.siliconlandmark.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j3P21N9Z023809; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:01:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost)j3P21NqW023806; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:01:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from andy@siliconlandmark.com) X-Authentication-Warning: lexi.siliconlandmark.com: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:01:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet To: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <20050425014453.GA59981@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <20050424214939.B23468@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> References: <20050424175543.71041.qmail@web51805.mail.yahoo.com> <20050424151517.O68772@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <3822.216.177.243.38.1114385370.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> <6.2.1.2.0.20050424204611.072105a0@64.7.153.2> <6.2.1.2.0.20050424210422.03d22990@64.7.153.2> <20050425014453.GA59981@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-SL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-SL-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.545, required 6, autolearn=not spam, AWL 0.05, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: andy@siliconlandmark.com cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 02:01:29 -0000 On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: > As is well-known, doing meaningful (disk) benchmarks is hard, and it's > easy to draw incorrect conclusions if you don't understand exactly > what it is you're measuring. I'm not an expert in that, but it's been > discussed on the lists before. This thread would not be complete without a reference to the most excellent posting made by phk and its follow-up by rwatson in January 2004: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-January/019595.html Did this ever make it into the handbook? If so, anyone have a link? Cheers, Andy | Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > | Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >