Re: [9fans] fossil option -m

2012-08-19 Thread David du Colombier
> let's make it "fsmb". that way we need not enumerate file servers. Just wondering. How do you distinguish between Fossil and Venti, when they are running on the same machine? They have very different memory requirement. -- David du Colombier

Re: [9fans] tcp!

2012-08-19 Thread Richard Miller
Within the last month or so I've been having trouble copying large files to remote servers e.g. sources. The cp process hangs for many minutes and eventually ends in 'mount rpc error'. I was hoping this tcp patch might solve it, but alas no. Has anyone else been observing this?

Re: [9fans] tcp!

2012-08-19 Thread Richard Miller
> also i forgot to mention that this version of qread can > potentially cut the number of reads on tcp channels by up > to 1/2. one might as well completely satisfy the read, > if possible. This looks like a good idea for tcp. But there are other users of qread, with stricter assumptions. Aren'

Re: [9fans] tcp!

2012-08-19 Thread cinap_lenrek
its only done on queues that have this flag set i think: Qcoalesce = (1<<4), /* coallesce packets on read */ -- cinap

Re: [9fans] tcp!

2012-08-19 Thread Richard Miller
> its only done on queues that have this flag set i think: ... and it won't be set for pipes, of course. Sorry Erik, I should have studied this more carefully. I'll try it.

Re: [9fans] tcp!

2012-08-19 Thread erik quanstrom
> This looks like a good idea for tcp. But there are other > users of qread, with stricter assumptions. Aren't you in danger > of breaking the contract of pipe(3) which uses qwrite/qread: > > Writes are atomic up to a certain size, typically 32768 > bytes, that is, each write

Re: [9fans] fossil option -m

2012-08-19 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun Aug 19 05:06:03 EDT 2012, 0in...@gmail.com wrote: > > let's make it "fsmb". that way we need not enumerate file servers. > > Just wondering. How do you distinguish between Fossil > and Venti, when they are running on the same machine? > They have very different memory requirement. i retra

Re: [9fans] tcp!

2012-08-19 Thread erik quanstrom
> ... and it won't be set for pipes, of course. Sorry Erik, I should > have studied this more carefully. > > I'll try it. no problems. i'm glad you're double-checking. nobody i know is immune from error. and there's me, myself and i. so i am 3x as likely to screw up. i'd be curious to know

Re: [9fans] tcp!

2012-08-19 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun Aug 19 09:19:23 EDT 2012, 9f...@hamnavoe.com wrote: > Within the last month or so I've been having trouble copying large > files to remote servers e.g. sources. The cp process hangs for > many minutes and eventually ends in 'mount rpc error'. I was > hoping this tcp patch might solve it, b

Re: [9fans] fossil option -m

2012-08-19 Thread Bakul Shah
On Aug 19, 2012, at 8:04 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sun Aug 19 05:06:03 EDT 2012, 0in...@gmail.com wrote: >>> let's make it "fsmb". that way we need not enumerate file servers. >> >> Just wondering. How do you distinguish between Fossil >> and Venti, when they are running on the same machin

Re: [9fans] fossil option -m

2012-08-19 Thread cinap_lenrek
millerbytes :) -- cinap

Re: [9fans] fossil option -m

2012-08-19 Thread Richard Miller
> millerbytes :) No, he only barks occasionally.

Re: [9fans] fossil option -m

2012-08-19 Thread erik quanstrom
> > What's mb? Milli bits? micro baud. - erik