Quoting Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> (from Wed, 23 Jan 2008  
21:59:42 +0100):

quoted text
>> Finally, in the interests of making your life more complicated, it   
>> would be neat to graph performance across a set of FreeBSD branches  
>>  overlaid or vertically offset so you could monitor, say, MySQL   
>> performance on 8-CURRENT, 7-STABLE, and 6-STABLE over time.
>
> It's supported by the tools, database and website but currently I just
> have 2 (slow) machines to work with at the university. The server is
> churning out images for the slave to consume every 2 hours which is an
> acceptable sample rate if the intent is to monitor CURRENT development
> and provide performance alerts much like the tinderboxes do now. Adding
> releases would seriously hurt that rate.
>
> My focus has been strictly on comparing CVS versions because trying to
> cover anything else quickly makes the configuration space explode and
> the sample rate go down the drain. Lots of interesting comparisons
> could be made, however, provided sufficient hardware supplies.
> Comparing branches would on the top of the list.

In case you have some space left for more machines, maybe someone is  
willing to help out by sponsoring some. Just tell us how many machines  
you can handle (space/power/...) and if you are interested that we put  
it up on our wantlist.

Bye,
Alexander.

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