Gentoo Archives: gentoo-performance

From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-performance@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-performance] xeon server
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:53:39
Message-Id: 42C54A39.9030306@cesmail.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-performance] xeon server by Anthony Gorecki
1 As a side note, I do such things (Linux capacity planning) for a living
2 and am rather unlikely to deliver major quantities of valuable advice
3 for free. Perhaps there is someone in the original poster's part of the
4 world who would, though.
5
6 Anthony Gorecki wrote:
7
8 >(apologies if this is delivered twice)
9 >
10 >Geisel,
11 >
12 >It's unlikely that someone would take the time to analyze your new computer
13 >system and make blind suggestions. You'd have better luck asking a specific
14 >question, preferably after doing some research of your own. See
15 >http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
16 >
17 >
18 >Secondly, extracting some header information from your message:
19 >
20 >X-Filtering-Reason: No text/plain message body was present.
21 >X-Filtering-Reason: The message contained data that was of an illegal content
22 > type.
23 >X-Karma: -2
24 >
25 >
26 >and after briefly scanning your message (in unrendered markup form), here are
27 >a few suggestions:
28 >
29 >- Send your mail in plain text format. Many of the Gentoo developers and users
30 >on this mailing list can read HTML text without having it rendered, but
31 >they're more likely to simply send your message on an instantaneous trip to
32 >the trash; many mail filters will do this automatically (mine included).
33 >
34 >- Don't waste message space by sending virtual business cards (the "illegal
35 >content type" mentioned in the second filtering header). If you need to
36 >provide information about yourself, add a web address to your signature; save
37 >us the trouble of looking at data that's of no interest. If someone wants
38 >more information, they'll search the web or visit the website that you've
39 >listed in your signature.
40 >
41 >- Be concise. Basic information about the computer is useful. A raw dump of
42 >data, spanning your entire device subsystem, is not. This is also, from a
43 >security standpoint, potentially unwise.
44 >
45 >
46 --
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-performance] xeon server Geisel Sierote <geisel@×××××××.br>
Re: [gentoo-performance] xeon server Jonathan Smith <smithj@g.o>