Re: Linux Tuning: Objective (fwd)

[Jason Pincin <jpincin@ashtech.net>]

Good idea!  Funny... I just had a conversation with another guy last week
about this... lets talk about this over irc within the next day or two.



On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 05:11:19PM -0700, Aaron D. Turner wrote:
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> Below is a recent email from a thread on the linux-kernel list. Basically
> in light of the Mindcraft fiasco, a number of people on the list would
> like to create "how to tune Linux".  Right now they're not sure of the
> format- a howto, FAQ, a list of patches, etc.
> 
> This email however explores the possibility of a searchable, hierchical
> database of sorts.  Of course that describes our site to a T.  The
> advantages of this are pretty obvious.  Right next to: "how to tune the
> kernel for serving web pages" would be "how to tune apache" and a list of
> kernel patches.  One stop shopping for all your tuning needs.  Yum.
> 
> I think it would be a perfect marriage for the LKBO and the linux-kernel
> list to make this a colabrative effort.  It would give us instant name
> recognition and an eager userbase and would give the kernel list the power
> of our site.
> 
> What I don't know how to do is move forward without compromising one of
> our goals- keeping the site on wraps until we go live.  From the looks of
> it, they won't be ready to move forward until our site goes live, but
> we'll need to talk to them sooner than that to work out a deal to host the
> data.
> 
> Comments?
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> From: Matthew Vanecek <mev0003@unt.edu>
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 18:00:26 -0500 (CDT)
> Subject: Re: Linux Tuning: Objective
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> On 25 Apr, William F. Maton spewed forth:
> :: On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 teamwork@freemail.c3.hu wrote:
> :: 
> :: > 	Should it be a depository of patches?
> :: > 
> :: > 	Should it be one or more howtos?
> :: > 
> :: > 	Should it be a mailing list (linux-perf)
> :: > 	doing the Q & A style of thing?
> :: 
> :: I think all of the above.  However, as has been pointed out, one's idea of
> :: perf-tuning is different from another's, comparing what's quoted above to
> :: what's quoted below.  For example, I think of perf-tuning in terms of
> :: network data transfers:
> :: 
> :: 	http://www.psc.edu/networking/perf_tune.html
> :: 
> :: > 	Should it be a web site where people
> :: > 	can go in and hit the "SCSI" button if
> :: > 	they want to know if they can tune their
> :: > 	Linux machine's SCSI devices?
> :: > 
> :: > 	Or should it be all of the above?
> :: 
> :: I think it should be as broad as possible, but it would also have to be
> :: very well organized:  system tuning, network tuning, video-subsys tuning,
> :: etc.
> :: 
> 
> Something along the lines of RDBMS might be appropriate for
> organization.  A searchable knowledge base or something similar would
> be nifty, as well as a hierchical organization.  Hmm, hierchical may
> even be better than relational in this case.
> 
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