Re: Measuring tools - top and interrupts

[Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com>]

--- Alistair John Strachan
<s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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)?

When you report a problem and some clown pipes in
with "its not a problem, linux is just so fast it
doesn't use any cpu!" you really don't have the
foundation for coming up with a solution or
helping to find one.

DT

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