Jason King <ja...@ansipunx.net> writes: > 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).
I think this has to be based on a misunderstanding on somebody's part, though I don't know whose. The above is just not how the interface taxonomy works (not least because authorship means absolutely nothing in that regard). -- Rich _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
