From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 27 08:37:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE31C16A4DD for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:37:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D0943D4C for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:37:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so1862421pye for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:36:59 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Q3cnmhrg8TL1EUhj/Cr2TxU/bS5atjcnD4NcCY+7M6QjKs/mHqWYIlLfw1F9gAVJQlrEJO1zC1FpQZXdfKu9AnxbAi8ZnEaqfDUvQ0cepZOHppBGvJZpauBKBYozfZhHP0RNdVVODlIUjlhL1/Btmu9rgcXVFKF7IzKTvlYuEUw= Received: by 10.35.97.17 with SMTP id z17mr9406465pyl; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:36:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.114.2 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:36:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <70e8236f0608270136g668cb936x647e670d0f13751b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:36:59 +0100 From: "Joao Barros" To: "Nikolas Britton" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060826223927.I82634@hub.org> <20060827020210.GA9218@zloy.stilyagin.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:37:01 -0000 On 8/27/06, Nikolas Britton wrote: > What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64 > on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie. > Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for > FreeBSD/PPC. Maybe we should can some of these platform ports, how > much overhead do they add to the project? Speaking of sparc64 specifically, what you see in the stats most probably doesn't reflect reality. One of the sparc64 machines in the stats is mine and is at home. Most sparc64 machines running FreeBSD will be at companies (as non sparc64) and of those you'll only get a small percentage of them reporting to bsdstats. Even if you got the sysadmins to install bsdstats you have to convince the security team on having a call home app running. Just Kris Kennaway's "playing" sparc64 machine with 14 cpus, has more than the sparc64 cpus currently reported in the sparc64 category. And after Sun handing over some new machines with the Niagara cpus to the FreeBSD folks to port to what would you say to Sun and the developers who committed to this? Again, I think we're seeing a distorted version of reality here and shouldn't be jumping to conclusions very fast. -- Joao Barros