On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems <bren...@sun.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:09:52PM +0000, Peter Tribble wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems >> <bren...@sun.com> wrote: >> > >> > No. Stop. Do not assume any data is better than no data. Wrong or >> > misleading >> > data is *worse* than no data. >> >> Well, that's not *entirely* true. Senior management isn't satisfied >> with no data, >> and prefer simplistic data that they're familiar with - even if we >> know that it's >> wrong or misleading. > > I think the problem here is one of thinking like an end-user, rather than > an engineer. In OpenSolaris, we can engineer whatever is needed - we don't > need to make-do with what engineers give us - we are the engineers.
I would like the think that, all the (summarized) 'never use any kstats -- those are private' emails I'm getting off list, as well as past reactions I've seen seem to suggest otherwise (not that I'm really going to let it stop things -- I'd rather have a good tool, even if it has to be unbundled because *gasp* it might happen to use say 20 different kstats and Sun won't allow something that uses kstats that they didn't write to be putback in any consolidation). _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
