Re: Documentation (was SMP and 7.x performance questions)

-Reply Mikey If you can find me a bug free product anywhere I'll buy you a beer. Hell, I'll buy you two beers. (Pencils don't count because sharpening them is a bug, why cant they *know* when they're blunt!) Knowing the undocumented fact that sysptnhdr contains information that I would otherwise need to use oncheck to access has sped up my management of disk space by an enormous amount. I can now do it on an ad-hoc basis without having to use complicated unix scripts in batch mode. I want to know *more* about this kind of stuff not less. NZ$0.02 = = US$0.014 rgds -- -- Peter Tashkoff NZ Kiwifruit Project Consultant/DBA Marketing Board. Standard Disclaimers apply This posting may not be used by any commercial organisation to vilify another. >>> Mike Segel <mikey@segel.com> 5/June/1996 03:06pm >>> Cheryl Kendricks wrote: > > In agreement here with Gavin. Informix again doing an overlook due to the > monitor tools to come out on 7.2X? Rather see you overdoc then under and > include Good Indexing in the Books! > [SNIP] > On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Gavin Nour wrote: > > } [snip] > } > } someone correctly observed: > } >> additional options and parameters that it supports. The onstat utility > } >> is ***greatly*** improved, although somewhat sparsely documented. > } > } but Dave Kosenko <davek@informix.com> from "Informix Professional > } Services" wrote: > } >Much of the onstat output that is undocumented is meaningless without an > } >understanding of complex internals. This is not to say that all OK, I too sniffed glue as a child and hence I have a warped perception of what should be documented. I think Dave's point is that some of the stuff is there to help the internals people solve some bugs, but has no revelance in the *real* world. Personally I would prefer to have a *BUG* Free and working product, rather than some esoteric crypted message over documented. I mean, with what is documented, you should be able to tweak enough from the engine. I think that if you need that extra 1/10 of 1% performance gain, then U B in trouble. Think of it as a problem facing fighter pilots in the 80's. Too much information is a BAD thing. -Mikey