From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 9 02:44:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7235E106564A for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2011 02:44:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4698FC08 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2011 02:44:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.20]) by qmta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id t2AU1f0040S2fkCA1EkLwb; Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:44:20 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.34.134]) by omta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id tEkK1f00A2tehsa8VEkKYM; Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:44:20 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4550D9B427; Sat, 8 Jan 2011 18:44:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 18:44:19 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Bob Friesenhahn Message-ID: <20110109024419.GA25374@icarus.home.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras Subject: Re: Another Phoronix article X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:44:21 -0000 On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 08:22:04PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Ivan Voras wrote: > > >Phoronix is not exactly the epitome of correct benchmarking but it > >appears that they've at least recently found out about the > >existence of error bars. > > Yes, but you go read the site anyway. Which in turn makes me wonder why no one from the FreeBSD community (developer, contributor, or user) is offering to help the Phoronix folks "become more familiar" with FreeBSD and/or help track down or explain whatever "issues" they encounter, rather than just constantly ragging on them. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |