Re: [gentoo-performance] Gentoo-performance forum?

[Joel Merrick <joel@joelmerrick.com>]

Roman Gaufman wrote:

>There is certainly potential here, but let me list why your method
>will be flawed:
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>1) Non single user mode means you cant predict what deamon is doing
>what at what time.
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Damn, I knew there was something I missed ;)

>2) CFLAGS in make.conf are usually changed by users often. You need to
>test against the age of /var/log/emerge.log and test against the
>ebuild. Many ebuilds filter out several CFLAGS.
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Sure, I understand.. hopefully they would be the same across the board, 
so that would induce a kind of consistent baseline, however I'm sure 
they differ across ebuilds of the same software

>3) There's too many entries to fill in, prone to user error, false
>assumptions and ofcourse the people that will just fill in junk for
>the sake of it.
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Yea, good point again.. it's not supposed to be a be-all-and-end-all, 
just more of a (very limited) point of reference.. all the same notes 
above apply to the forums I suppose.. just depends what people take at 
face value

>I think a much better solution is to make a script that will auto
>reboot into single user mode, perform all tests, reboot into mult user
>mode and upload results.
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I agree!

>I could help write some of those tests and benchmarks.
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Cool! It'd be great to have standardisation... everyone singing from the 
same benchmark script ;)

Save them to XML and fire them up to a db for everyone to assess.

>I've worked on something similar earlier this year, but its really
>quite a major, complicated task thats a lot harder to achieve than
>just making a simple php page where people fill in values.
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>Thats why I suggested a performance forum, so things can be discussed
>and polished before a good quality, comprehensive database can be
>made.
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Yea, don't get me wrong I agree wholey with you, was just thinking about 
interim solutions as I'm sure to setup the scripts et al. would be a 
big, time consuming job!

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>On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:45:27 +0100, Joel Merrick <joel@joelmerrick.com> wrote:
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SNIP 8<

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