From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: danial_thom@yahoo.com
Cc: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Measuring tools - top and interrupts
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:03:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1151690598.8395.1.camel@Homer.TheSimpsons.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060630134149.11464.qmail@web33302.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 06:41 -0700, Danial Thom wrote:
>
> --- Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 13:45 -0700, Danial Thom
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I think the one thing we can surmise from
> > this
> > > thread is that you can't rely on kernel usage
> > > statistics to be accurate, as its likely that
> > > there are many, many cases that don't work
> > > properly. It was always wrong in 2.4 as well.
> >
> > Once identified, problems tend to get fixed.
> > This one will probably be
> > history soon. You know the old saying
> > though... "There are lies, there
> > are _damn_ lies, and then there are
> > _statistics_".
>
> The usefulness of statistics is a function of the
> breadth of understand of the person interpreting
> them.
>
> But I don't think that applies here, because we
> are not questioning the conclusions from the
> statistics, only the accuracy of the gathering.
> Its a completely different thing to say, for
> example, that population growth is due to too
> many babies when it might be immigration or a
> reduction in the death rate, than it is to say
> that the numbers gathered are simply wrong.
>
> The truth is that you guys can't be bothered
> unless the numbers are so far off that its an
> embarrasment.
Hey, let's play hide and go fuck yourself. Tag, you're it.
*plonk*
-Mike
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-30 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-22 15:26 Measuring tools - top and interrupts Danial Thom
2006-06-22 16:19 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-06-22 17:16 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-06-22 16:21 ` Erik Mouw
2006-06-22 16:58 ` Danial Thom
2006-06-22 17:31 ` Erik Mouw
2006-06-22 23:37 ` Danial Thom
2006-06-23 8:32 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-06-23 20:14 ` Danial Thom
2006-06-23 22:51 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-06-23 9:02 ` Erik Mouw
2006-06-23 17:13 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-06-23 18:16 ` Danial Thom
2006-06-23 5:34 ` sena seneviratne
2006-06-23 20:42 ` Danial Thom
2006-06-22 17:57 ` Francois Romieu
2006-06-22 22:47 ` Danial Thom
2006-06-22 23:53 ` Francois Romieu
2006-06-23 20:34 ` Danial Thom
2006-06-23 21:19 ` Francois Romieu
2006-06-24 2:07 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-06-24 4:39 ` sena seneviratne
2006-06-24 5:59 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-06-24 6:26 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-06-24 9:21 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-06-24 9:51 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-06-24 11:41 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-06-24 15:40 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-06-24 16:23 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-06-24 19:25 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-06-25 5:06 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-06-25 11:12 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-06-25 14:24 ` [PATCH] i386: Fix softirq accounting with 4K stacks Björn Steinbrink
2006-06-25 15:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-25 17:44 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-06-25 17:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-25 18:42 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-06-26 2:23 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-06-26 3:05 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-06-26 17:58 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-06-27 10:09 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-06-25 20:45 ` Measuring tools - top and interrupts Danial Thom
2006-06-26 2:33 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-06-30 13:41 ` Danial Thom
2006-06-30 18:03 ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
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