From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 24 11:20:04 2008 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 A7D3316A421 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:20:04 +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 32F1E13C45D for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:20:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gofp-freebsd-performance@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JI07m-0006S7-VY for freebsd-performance@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:20:02 +0000 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:20:02 +0000 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:20:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:15:01 +0100 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <4796C717.9000507@cederstrand.dk> <47972895.4050005@FreeBSD.org> <47986848.7010602@cederstrand.dk> <47987141.3070606@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig25CEE7FDD58BF1678523E18C" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) In-Reply-To: <47987141.3070606@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: Performance Tracker project update 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: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:20:04 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig25CEE7FDD58BF1678523E18C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kris Kennaway wrote: > Erik Cederstrand wrote: >> Ivan Voras wrote: >>> >>> I have a suggestion to make the graphs more readable: if a long >>> period was chosen by the user (e.g. > 100 days / plot points), don't >>> plot points and error bars, plot a simple line through the points. >>> Also, set all date strings on the X-axis to empty strings except for >>> the dates on 1/10ths of the interval. >> >> Noted. Thanks. >=20 > Actually the error bars are quite important to see what is going on. > Some of the metrics are very (too) noisy and if you only look at the > data points they sometimes appear to have a signal when they don't. > Ultimately that just means more data points should be taken per run for= > those metrics, but the error bars are the signal for this. Of course they are useful, but do we really need to see them when there are hundreds of samples plotted 1 pixel apart? (As I've said: keep them when when the user "zooms in" on an appropriate small number of samples). But this is an aesthetics-oriented idea, functionality won't be impaired either way so feel free to ignore it. --------------enig25CEE7FDD58BF1678523E18C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHmHM1ldnAQVacBcgRAs1mAJ9MMMsBdS1lCroWH7h38ehxRuvu8wCeO/8s 9z35kgXHX0/FW4XGiVHFjhc= =nw4H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig25CEE7FDD58BF1678523E18C--