[9fans] Newbie Question

2019-12-16 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
Hi, I am hoping someone can help me with this. I am trying as an experiment to set up a small plan9 cluster as a set of computers in a VMWare environment. I am using the latest 9front distribution, and currently have two VMs booting plan9 with one network adapter each, on a private network (

Re: [9fans] Newbie Question

2019-12-16 Thread cinap_lenrek
i believe that this is due to running a with service=terminal. this causes factotum to be started as a client with no keys in it. the p9any auth protocol starts by the server presenting a set of keys, auth domains and protocols, which you wont have in this case (no keys there). which is most likel

Re: [9fans] Newbie Question

2019-12-16 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
Thank you! When I tried bringing it up as a cpu server with auth enabled it did indeed make it past the errors. I'll see if I can work things out from there. On 12/16/19 2:27 PM, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote: i believe that this is due to running a with service=terminal. this causes fact

[9fans] dc(1) exponent limits

2019-12-16 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
While running some silly benchmarks I discovered dc's '^' operator limits exponents to ''. This seems arbitrary, perhaps a leftover safety measure to keep things from eating all the CPU for days on end on a slow machine? I upped the limit to 9 and the test expression ran fine on a Pi4: /

Re: [9fans] dc(1) exponent limits

2019-12-16 Thread Rob Pike
% ivy 652342**52342 1.85475753442e+304341 )cpu 8.291ms (652342**52342)/34232342 9.27378767209e+304340/17116171 )cpu 9.217ms float _ 5.41814385477e+304333 50 minutes feels excessive; dc seems to work very hard. -rob -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://

Re: [9fans] dc(1) exponent limits

2019-12-16 Thread Rob Pike
In case it's not clear, those calculations are integral, only the presentation looks like floats. -rob On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 9:46 AM Rob Pike wrote: > % ivy > 652342**52342 > 1.85475753442e+304341 > > )cpu > 8.291ms > > (652342**52342)/34232342 > 9.27378767209e+304340/17116171 > > )cpu > 9.2

Re: [9fans] dc(1) exponent limits

2019-12-16 Thread Bakul Shah
On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 09:46:52 +1100 Rob Pike wrote: > % ivy > 652342**52342 > 1.85475753442e+304341 > > )cpu > 8.291ms > > (652342**52342)/34232342 > 9.27378767209e+304340/17116171 > > )cpu > 9.217ms > > float _ > 5.41814385477e+304333 On plan9/pi4 I get % ivy (652342**52342)/34232342 9.2737876720

Re: [9fans] dc(1) exponent limits

2019-12-16 Thread Bakul Shah
On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:28:35 -0800 Bakul Shah wrote: > On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 09:46:52 +1100 Rob Pike wrote: > > % ivy > > 652342**52342 > > 1.85475753442e+304341 > > > > )cpu > > 8.291ms > > > > (652342**52342)/34232342 > > 9.27378767209e+304340/17116171 > > > > )cpu > > 9.217ms > > > > float _ > >