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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!eru.mt.luth.se!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!zdc!zdc-e!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 22:07:45 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 18 Message-ID: <31EB0781.2781E494@dyson.iquest.net> References: <4paedl$4bm@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <31E106AF.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4rvmtf$ven@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI> <31E3D9E2.41C67EA6@dyson.iquest.net> <4s5bl2$qpg@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI> <31E664EB.167EB0E7@inuxs.att.com> <4s67sk$oa9@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E6B8AB.3E6C@indy.celebration.net> <4s7j2r$blf@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E79738.1D1E@cet.co.jp> <4s8piu$f6p@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E9AA3C.6B2A@cet.co.jp> <4seerk$f0l@fido.asd.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5aGold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45351 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23687 Larry McVoy wrote: > > > Bzzt. I present numbers. People have attributed claims to me. > My response is: look at the numbers, because "numbers talk, and bullshit > walks". It doesn't matter if it is my bullshit or your bullshit, just > look at the numbers and ignore the BS. My opinion doesn't matter. > The numbers matter. > The interpretation of the numbers matters more. That requires judgement and understanding the application (and tests) at hand. I do not use all of lmbench as a "figure of merit", but only as an indicator of potential problems, and as a tool for quality control. Please refer to my comments about the VFS layering. John