Re: [9fans] 9bench: lmbench for Plan 9

2008-03-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> As for the utility of the benchmarks, come on. I know there are people > on this list who write kernel code (hmm, I seem to recall somebody > on here who does a lot of work on networking drivers...) and they > may find it useful to get these kinds of measurements to see if > changes have improved

Re: [9fans] 9bench: lmbench for Plan 9

2008-03-22 Thread john
>> Is a port of lmbench considered a modified benchmark? >> I understand you cannot publish results saying it´s the output >> of lmbench if you changed the bechmark, but only because you >> used a ported one...? >> >> Funny in any case. > > you're also not allowed to publish partial results. the

[9fans] Drawterm + QEMU

2008-03-22 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
Hello. Has anyone gotten drawterm to work with QEMU on Mac OS X? If so, how? Thanks.

Re: [9fans] Daylight savings time

2008-03-22 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
Thanks to both of you. I've been setting up virtual machines so many times that I forget these subtle things. On Mar 22, 2008, at 2:06 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: Hello. How do you configure Plan 9 to support DST? I noticed that my clock is wrong just now. Thanks. dst is supported as long as

Re: [9fans] Daylight savings time

2008-03-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> Hello. How do you configure Plan 9 to support DST? I noticed that my > clock is wrong just now. Thanks. dst is supported as long as your timezone is set correctly. echo $timezone|sed 1q should give you the skinny on yout timezone. the format is stdcode stdoffsetsec dstcode dst

Re: [9fans] Daylight savings time

2008-03-22 Thread a
Copy the correct timezone file for your locale from /adm/timezone into /adm/timezone/local. Reboot.

[9fans] Daylight savings time

2008-03-22 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
Hello. How do you configure Plan 9 to support DST? I noticed that my clock is wrong just now. Thanks.

Re: [9fans] 9bench: lmbench for Plan 9

2008-03-22 Thread erik quanstrom
> Is a port of lmbench considered a modified benchmark? > I understand you cannot publish results saying it´s the output > of lmbench if you changed the bechmark, but only because you > used a ported one...? > > Funny in any case. you're also not allowed to publish partial results. they have rea

Re: [9fans] 9bench: lmbench for Plan 9

2008-03-22 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
Is a port of lmbench considered a modified benchmark? I understand you cannot publish results saying it´s the output of lmbench if you changed the bechmark, but only because you used a ported one...? Funny in any case. On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:18 PM, hiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps th

Re: [9fans] System call mania

2008-03-22 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
I was tired and I used the wrong words. On Mar 22, 2008, at 1:32 AM, ron minnich wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It suggests to me that these calls are the lowest level of communication with the kernel. I once thought that all system calls

Re: [9fans] 9bench: lmbench for Plan 9

2008-03-22 Thread hiro
Perhaps the copyright owner just wanted to make fun of intellectual property;)