On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, 11:31 AM Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 09:57:24AM +1000, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: > > unless knowledgable people respond publicly and/or in the phoronix > > forums [...] this interpretation of reality will be fixed in decision- > > makers' minds and consequently the uptake (and support) of FreeBSD. > > IIRC this has been done before and hasn't really been productive. OTOH > I don't recall the details. > > FreeBSD hasn't had a benchmarking guru since Kris Kennaway retired from > working on FreeBSD.Michael has reached out off-list (thanks!) If anyone else is interested, I'd be happy to create a dedicated IRC channel on freenode to widen and focus the freebsd performance discussion net and doc any outcomes/notes in the FreeBSD Wiki. ./koobs
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 03:22:35AM +0000, Kubilay Kocak wrote:> On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, 11:31 AM Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 09:57:24AM +1000, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: > > > unless knowledgable people respond publicly and/or in the phoronix > > > forums [...] this interpretation of reality will be fixed in decision- > > > makers' minds and consequently the uptake (and support) of FreeBSD. > > > > IIRC this has been done before and hasn't really been productive. OTOH > > I don't recall the details. > > > > FreeBSD hasn't had a benchmarking guru since Kris Kennaway retired from > > working on FreeBSD. > > > Michael has reached out off-list (thanks!) If anyone else is interested, > I'd be happy to create a dedicated IRC channel on freenode to widen and > focus the freebsd performance discussion net and doc any outcomes/notes in > the FreeBSD Wiki.What about support by hardware? For good benchmarking report need: 1. Hardware (with KVM access) 2. People(s) do benchmark 3. Advocacy 4. Time for this 5. Reputation (only time create this). I am have some expirense with performance advocacing and improvement, but don't have hardware for test and advocacy skils.
Hi, On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 03:22:35 +0000 Kubilay Kocak <koobs at freebsd.org> wrote:> On Mon, 22 Aug 2016, 11:31 AM Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> > wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 09:57:24AM +1000, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: > > > unless knowledgable people respond publicly and/or in the phoronix > > > forums [...] this interpretation of reality will be fixed in > > > decision- makers' minds and consequently the uptake (and support) > > > of FreeBSD. > > > > IIRC this has been done before and hasn't really been productive. > > OTOH I don't recall the details. > > > > FreeBSD hasn't had a benchmarking guru since Kris Kennaway retired > > from working on FreeBSD. > > > Michael has reached out off-list (thanks!) If anyone else is > interested, I'd be happy to create a dedicated IRC channel on > freenode to widen and focus the freebsd performance discussion net > and doc any outcomes/notes in the FreeBSD Wiki. >this is good. So, how can we help him to get things straight the next time? Erich