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Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 16:27:43 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Linux v2.4.19-rc5
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On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >
> > > Sure, glad to. If the 2.5 numbers are much worse than 2.4, somthing
> > > isn't working as well,
> >
> > Are you volunteering to identify that "something" for us ?
>
> Hell no. I was simply commenting that there is some general qualitative
> information available from those numbers, even if it is hard to quantify
> them.

As long as there is nobody to interpret what the dbench
numbers actually mean, why are we treating them as the
most important thing around ? ;)

Rik
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