I could be completely off base here, but when you say 'mtrr' I assume you actually mean 'mrtg', right? One is a type of CPU register and the other is a graphing package...
CC On 1/14/10, Sam Sharpe <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/1/14 Bryan J Smith <[email protected]>: > > On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 00:07 +0000, Sam Sharpe wrote: > >> I haven't attempted EX442 yet, but I have sat the RH442 class. This is > >> an awesome course and while it's not 100% relevant to what I do (work > >> for a Hosting company), there are some little things (like presenting > >> statistics for non-technical people) that are covered very well and > >> would be applicable in many areas. > > > > Sorry, gotta nitpick here ... > > > > Huh? "like presenting statistics for non-technical people" > > > > The course throws OS design theory and the practical implementation of > > kernel 2.6 at people, then an overload of system, process, memory, I/O > > information and profiling at them and, in the end, you have to interpret > > and tune. > > > > So the course takes -- at most -- 15 minutes to cover the tool "mtrr" > > for _elementary_ "visualization." I'm a degreed engineer and have never > > considered "visualization" of data to be "for non-technical people." > > Quite the opposite. I want to visualize stuff that _only_ technical > > people could appreciate, but can absorb much quicker. > > Wow. Two degreed engineers talking. What are the chances? (Is yours in > Electronic Engineering too?) > > > E.g., even 2D graphs not only let you see a rate of change (algebra), > > but a rate of rate of change (elementary differential calculus). > > I was actually thinking more like... > > "This is what your SAR data looks like - loads of numbers you don't > understand. No, please don't be scared, here let me make a pretty > coloured graph for you. Look, you see that bit right there... that's > you running out of memory. That dip there.. that's what happens when > you get Out of Memory and I reboot your machine - yes you're right, > you probably could use more memory, let me get someone to quote you on > that" > > > But that aside, being that you are at a hosting company, you do use mtrr > > for your own monitoring, correct? ;) > > Our bandwidth graphs in the customer portal I think use mtrr, I > wouldn't know about monitoring graphs - we don't offer that in my > division. There's about 2500 employees and I'm not the one in charge > of monitoring anyway ;o) > > -- > Sam > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > -- RHCE#805007969328369 _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
