Gentoo Archives: gentoo-performance

From: Geisel Sierote <geisel@×××××××.br>
To: gentoo-performance@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-performance] xeon server
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:08:17
Message-Id: 42C54DB4.5060302@4up.com.br
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-performance] xeon server by "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky"
1 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
2
3 >As a side note, I do such things (Linux capacity planning) for a living
4 >and am rather unlikely to deliver major quantities of valuable advice
5 >for free. Perhaps there is someone in the original poster's part of the
6 >world who would, though.
7 >
8 >
9 >
10 Thanks
11
12 >Anthony Gorecki wrote:
13 >
14 >
15 >
16 >>(apologies if this is delivered twice)
17 >>
18 >>Geisel,
19 >>
20 >>It's unlikely that someone would take the time to analyze your new computer
21 >>system and make blind suggestions. You'd have better luck asking a specific
22 >>question, preferably after doing some research of your own. See
23 >>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
24 >>
25 >>
26 >>Secondly, extracting some header information from your message:
27 >>
28 >>X-Filtering-Reason: No text/plain message body was present.
29 >>X-Filtering-Reason: The message contained data that was of an illegal content
30 >>type.
31 >>X-Karma: -2
32 >>
33 >>
34 >>and after briefly scanning your message (in unrendered markup form), here are
35 >>a few suggestions:
36 >>
37 >>- Send your mail in plain text format. Many of the Gentoo developers and users
38 >>on this mailing list can read HTML text without having it rendered, but
39 >>they're more likely to simply send your message on an instantaneous trip to
40 >>the trash; many mail filters will do this automatically (mine included).
41 >>
42 >>- Don't waste message space by sending virtual business cards (the "illegal
43 >>content type" mentioned in the second filtering header). If you need to
44 >>provide information about yourself, add a web address to your signature; save
45 >>us the trouble of looking at data that's of no interest. If someone wants
46 >>more information, they'll search the web or visit the website that you've
47 >>listed in your signature.
48 >>
49 >>- Be concise. Basic information about the computer is useful. A raw dump of
50 >>data, spanning your entire device subsystem, is not. This is also, from a
51 >>security standpoint, potentially unwise.
52 >>
53 >>
54 >>
55 >>

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