Brian Aker wrote:
Hi!
One of things we have thought about doing for years is a phone home
project. Namely... have the database, via opt-in, report back some
usage information. This would be for telling us what sort of hardware
we are being run on, engines used, etc...
What do people think about this?
A few first order rules ->
1) All reporting information is completely public.
2) We are opt-in, you have turn this on for it transmit information
What sorts of information would people be ok to share/want to see?
First. I think the information will be skewed toward developer boxes and
smaller installs, as people will probably say 'yes' when they install it
on their workstations, but not when they install it on a 50-node farm,
as those installs would be more automated in a traditional shop, and in
my experience operations people don't like having things running on
production machines that aren't absolutely necessary.
secondly you would need to have it phone home on a regular basis,
especially if you want to compare configs, or compare sizes, this would
make it less likely to get it run on a production box I would think.
thirdly. I'd say I would want this information at the cluster level.
most people don't have a single mysql/drizzle instance. It would be
handy to have stats/info at the cluster level.
as for what info I would like to see.
* install type. 'new user/newbie', 'developer', 'default/un tuned
production install', 'tuned/production install'. This help others to see
if they should be looking at the config in the first place. (and to help
differentiate the unwashed masses and the people who have spent some
time tuning their install)
* the results of a quick/standard set of benchmarks representing how
people would typically use it. (no idea on how to accomplish this)
* the output of information_schema.
* the physical config of the drizzle cluster and how it the machines are
configured together.
Regards
Ian
Here is an example of what the Fedora project does with its phone home
data:
http://smolts.org/static/stats/stats.html
Cheers,
-Brian
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