Re: [9fans] Plan 9 and multicores/parallelism/concurrency?

2008-07-15 Thread Bakul Shah
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:33:01 PDT "Roman V. Shaposhnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Solaris's scheduler is not shy when it comes to big iron (100+ CPU SMP > boxes) but even it had to be heavily tuned when a Batoka box first > came to the labs. When you have physcical threads (CPUs), virtual > thr

Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

2008-07-15 Thread matt
(In the opposite style to usual, this was meant to go to the list, not private :) i didn't want to sound over-confident. but vblade is very simple; i don't see how it could have data-loosing bugs. I can't even remember how I made it blue-screen but I managed it a couple of times. I think o

[9fans] fshalt - 2xdone

2008-07-15 Thread Antonin Vecera
Hello all, I would like to ask a question: when I am doing "fshalt" I got this screen: 1. server# fshalt 2. syncing.../srv/fscons...prompt: venti... 3. halting.../srv/fscons...archive vac:03f1ac6d50d1d191405b33e7f6 4. srv -AWP replica 5. prompt: 6. done halting 7. fsSnapshot snap: file system is

Re: [9fans] fshalt - 2xdone

2008-07-15 Thread Russ Cox
> 1. server# fshalt > 2. syncing.../srv/fscons...prompt: venti... > 3. halting.../srv/fscons...archive vac:03f1ac6d50d1d191405b33e7f6 > 4. srv -AWP replica > 5. prompt: > 6. done halting > 7. fsSnapshot snap: file system is halted > > "fshalt" sometimes stops at line 6 and sometimes (after a minut

Re: [9fans] fshalt - 2xdone

2008-07-15 Thread Martin Neubauer
I'm pretty sure the line 7 isn't part of the halting procedure. It just indicates that it's time for fossil to do a new snapshot which isn't possible because the file system is halted. So just believe fshalt when it claims it is done. * Antonin Vecera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all, > > I

Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

2008-07-15 Thread erik quanstrom
> In the Linux world kvlade looks the way to go for performance but it > didn't work on AMD64 when I tried it. I guess the Coraid boxes make Plan > 9 go fast enough so I just need to stop worrying about it. plan 9 is a good platform; it is very speedy and doesn't do anything to you. we didn't nee

Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

2008-07-15 Thread John Waters
Indeed, I have been toying around with the idea of building a larger scale version of Mr. Minnich's lunchbox using Mini-ITX boards.. But I have no justification, since virtually everything i need to do with plan 9 happens impossibly fast on just a simple vmware instance. Plan9 is sufficiently speed

[9fans] upas/smtp warning

2008-07-15 Thread erik quanstrom
just a little warning for upas/smtpd users. /mail/lib/smtpd.conf "ournets" is carte blanche to relay email and modern windows viruses are good at finding mail servers. so it's best to limit ournets to the smallest possible set. if you're not forwarding email to plan 9 from another machine with no

Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

2008-07-15 Thread erik quanstrom
> Indeed, > I have been toying around with the idea of building a larger scale > version of Mr. Minnich's lunchbox using Mini-ITX boards.. > But I have no justification, since virtually everything i need to do > with plan 9 happens impossibly fast on just a simple vmware instance. > Plan9 is suffic

[9fans] setting up a differnet keyboard

2008-07-15 Thread Robert Hibberdine
Hi, I want to setup my new plan9 termnial with a UK keyboard. I found kbmap but this appears to be an interactive program. Even if you do kbmap /sys/lib/kbmap/uk it still acts in an interactive manner. Is this right? A qick glance at the code reveals that cp /sys/lib

Re: [9fans] setting up a differnet keyboard

2008-07-15 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
IIRC, putting kbmap=uk in plan9.ini should work. On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Robert Hibberdine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to setup my new plan9 termnial with a UK keyboard. I found kbmap but > this appears to be an interactive program. Even if you do > > kbmap /sys

Re: [9fans] file heuristics on troff input

2008-07-15 Thread erik quanstrom
> From: "roger peppe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > one thing that has bugged me in the past: upas relies on file -m to > determine the type of attachments, but file only reads the first block > of the file, so if you've got a utf-8 file with the first non-ascii character > beyond the 8192nd byte, you get

[9fans] 8 cores

2008-07-15 Thread erik quanstrom
coming as no suprise, the pc port of plan 9 does work just fine with 8 cores. mpls; cat /dev/sysstat 0 14271 21350133991116 0 0 0 99 0 19116 1051772279 812 0

Re: [9fans] 8 cores

2008-07-15 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
>coming as no suprise, the pc port of plan 9 >does work just fine with 8 cores. Just out of interest, what's the machine? <>

Re: [9fans] 8 cores

2008-07-15 Thread Williams, Mitch
Which hardware platform is that? -mlw -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of erik quanstrom Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:29 PM To: 9fans@9fans.net Subject: [9fans] 8 cores coming as no suprise, the pc port of plan 9 does work just fine with 8

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 and multicores/parallelism/concurrency?

2008-07-15 Thread Paul Lalonde
On 15-Jul-08, at 1:01 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: I suspect a lot of this complexity will end up being dropped when you don't have to worry about efficiently using the last N% of cpu cycles. Would that I weren't working on a multi-core graphics part... That N% is what the game is all about. W

Re: [9fans] 8 cores

2008-07-15 Thread andrey mirtchovski
add this one to the list: http://9fans.net/archive/2003/12/182

Re: [9fans] 8 cores

2008-07-15 Thread erik quanstrom
> Which hardware platform is that? > -mlw it's a generic xeon 5400-based machine. - erik

Re: [9fans] 8 cores

2008-07-15 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
I'd like to ask a question, but before I do, feel I should say, I've been on this list long enough to understand that Plan 9 is a research vessel, not an OS that's targeted at commercial deployment... That being said, while huge scalability is certainly research-worthy, does anyone actually run

[9fans] web plumbing on OS X drawterm

2008-07-15 Thread a
OS X has this command 'open', which I'm told exists or is available on other unixes. It's about as close as you get to 'plumb' when in foreign lands. You call it like 'open http://9fans.net' or 'open /etc/passwd' and it does more or less what you'd expect, finding (usually) the right app. I mostly