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...

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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
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