Re: /dev/tty* vs. pt[ms]

2005-12-09 Thread ams
Moved to bug-hurd, nothing to do with Debian. settrans pty?? /hurd/term /dev/pty?? pty-master /dev/tty?? settrans tty?? /hurd/term /dev/tty?? pty-slave /dev/pty?? Is this necessary? If you wish to use virtual consoles, screen etc, yes. If the output is annoying on the eyes, one could a

Re: Mach lack for frequent operations

2005-12-01 Thread ams
- Fork is a hard cost operation. To get an idea how hard fork() is for us, Gianluca did a simple test, on GNU/Hurd he got 312 forks/second, and on the same machine but in GNU/Linux, he got 8170 forks/second. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.or

Re: Mach lack for frequent operations

2005-12-01 Thread ams
I think this is a implementation problem, there is no way to fix it. Maybe this can be fixed rebuilding all Mach infrastructure. Can anyone confirm that? The problems with Mach can be fixed by redesigning the way how IPC's works. Rebuilding the whole Mach infrastructure is a possiblity,

Re: Mach lack for frequent operations

2005-11-30 Thread ams
Sorry for the late response. Can anyone explain why that overhead happen in Mach? The large overhead is mostly related to how the Hurd uses Mach. Running a single-user server system gets you quite decent performance, but we have a multi-sever design, where the number of context switches, and I

Re: network adapter

2005-08-21 Thread ams
settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 -a 192.168.83.39 -g 192.168.83.38 -m 255.255.252.0 Double check your netmask, it should probobly be 255.255.255.0. And why socket 2 not 1? I have only one ethernet card. /servers/socket/1 (or 2) has nothing to do with ethernet car

Re: AW: AW: how to update /hurd/ext2fs?

2004-03-24 Thread ams
[moving to bug-hurd, more suitable there] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ showtrans -t /hurd/* > /hurd/ext2fs: /dev/hd1s1 > /hurd/ext2fs.static: /dev/hd1s1 You can still save it, settrans -fgap on each (/hurd/ext2fs, etc). Hope you didn't reboot though. Maybe you're the first one to make this