From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751792AbWFWRNP (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:13:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751793AbWFWRNO (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:13:14 -0400 Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk ([195.112.4.54]:51460 "EHLO smtp.nildram.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751792AbWFWRNO (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:13:14 -0400 From: Alistair John Strachan To: danial_thom@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Measuring tools - top and interrupts Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:13:33 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Erik Mouw , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060622233744.99206.qmail@web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060622233744.99206.qmail@web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606231813.33855.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 23 June 2006 00:37, Danial Thom wrote: > Of course you folks could never really know that, > because the tools to measure things don't work, > and you all seem to be using systems that are so > kludged up that you don't even know what you're > measuring. Next time attach a patch fixing, or at least bother to investigate the problem which you're so rudely flaming about. Maybe Linux is broken. Nobody said it wasn't. But you're closer to (and clearly care more about) the problem than 99% of the people reading your email. So why don't you help fix it, instead of laying into Erik and the netdev people (who incidentally aren't CC'ed)? -- Cheers, Alistair. Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.