From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 24 18:09:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5520F1065697 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:09:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gofp-freebsd-performance@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D31DF8FC0A for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:09:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gofp-freebsd-performance@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LxPqT-0000qC-TU for freebsd-performance@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:09:53 +0000 Received: from 78-1-171-208.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([78.1.171.208]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:09:53 +0000 Received: from ivoras by 78-1-171-208.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:09:53 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:09:24 +0200 Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <20090424165012.GB1387@albert.catwhisker.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigF33E24CDAEA85821262762A7" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78-1-171-208.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: <20090424165012.GB1387@albert.catwhisker.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Sender: news Subject: Re: Presentation of performance data & analysis? X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:09:57 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigF33E24CDAEA85821262762A7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David Wolfskill wrote: > I apologize, as this is a bit tangential to the description of the list= =2E >=20 > I've been doing some measurements of workloads of interest (in my case,= > the workload is building some software, and the metric of greatest > interest is "elapsed time" (which I obtain via /usr/bin/time)). >=20 > And I've been using phk's ministat (/usr/src/tools/tools/ministat, for > any who aren't aware of it). It is quite useful (so yeah, I owe phk a > beer), but I'm trying to figure out how to present results to > management-types. Um, I may be missing your point but what is wrong with putting the text "55 bogons per second difference" in large bold letters centered on the page and "with 95% probability" in small plain letters, as a footnote? They probably wouldn't have use for the statistical graph even if they knew how to parse it, so you might as well put it in in the background and assign 90% transparency on it, to serve as eye candy only. --------------enigF33E24CDAEA85821262762A7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknyAFQACgkQldnAQVacBciGFgCfVYzmCbQL178yTGor2XILS/ED S20AnApmJg3w5diKLjIfJb7QodslHJDw =qmxs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigF33E24CDAEA85821262762A7--