I apologize, as this is a bit tangential to the description of the list. I've been doing some measurements of workloads of interest (in my case, the workload is building some software, and the metric of greatest interest is "elapsed time" (which I obtain via /usr/bin/time)).
And I've been using phk's ministat (/usr/src/tools/tools/ministat, for any who aren't aware of it). It is quite useful (so yeah, I owe phk a beer), but I'm trying to figure out how to present results to management-types. While I don't have any PHBs in my direct management chain, I've seen some PHB tendencies in the management of the folks I'm supporting. And I get the message that "complicated" won't ccommunicate to them. Nor will "nuanced." Even a pointer to some examples of approaches that seem to work well for this sort of thing would help a great deal -- my training hasn't exactly been in statistical analysis or in presentation of data. :-} I'll be happy to summarize responses that are not sent to the list (unless you'd rather I didn't, of course). Thanks. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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