Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-04 Thread Matt Dillon
:You should see what speed RamBus they were using, 600 or 800 Mhz. It is :pretty fast for large memory writes and reads. It'd be cool to see how :the different speeds stack up against one another. DDR comparisons would :be cool too. Yeah, for the frequency, you have to take into account that :the

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-04 Thread E.B. Dreger
> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 19:39:09 -0600 > From: David A. Gobeille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It would also be interesting to see the numbers for an Athlon/PIII > system with DDR, if anyone has such a machine. Personally, I'd be [more] interested in a ServerWorks III HE core chipset with four-way in

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-04 Thread Coleman Kane
You should see what speed RamBus they were using, 600 or 800 Mhz. It is pretty fast for large memory writes and reads. It'd be cool to see how the different speeds stack up against one another. DDR comparisons would be cool too. Yeah, for the frequency, you have to take into account that these are

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-04 Thread David A. Gobeille
Tyler K McGeorge wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 3:34 AM > Subject: Machines are getting too damn fast > > | We need to find something more interesting then buildworlds to do on > | t

Re: pthread_exit proto

2001-03-04 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:58:11AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > using send-pr: > http://www.freebsd.org/support.html#gnats > > Is '__dead2' a GNU C thing? or is in any sort of standard? > > Generally there's some resistance to putting GNU C specific > code into the base system, is there a p

Re: today cvsup and netstat broken

2001-03-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:31:33PM +0800, David Xu wrote: > > > I have cvsuped 4.2-STABLE today, make buildword and mergemaster, > after reboot, netstat no longer show TCP connections: You didn't say that you built a new kernel: did you? Kris PGP signature

cron and daylight time - revisited

2001-03-04 Thread Sergey Babkin
All, I have produced another version of the time zone changes in cron. I ran a few tests and plan to commit it to -current after a bit more testing. Everyone who wants to join the testing efforts is welcome. The comments are welcome as well. The new behavior is enabled by the option "-s", withou

Re: pthread_exit proto

2001-03-04 Thread John Baldwin
On 04-Mar-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Farooq Mela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010304 11:18] wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Could someone with CVS write access make the following change in >> pthread.h >> >> void pthread_exit __P((void *)); >> >> to >> >> void pthread_exit __P((void *)) __dead2; >> >> a

Re: Can I pthread with libpcap?

2001-03-04 Thread Joerg Micheel
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 08:13:36AM -0500, Dan Shechter wrote: > Can I pthread with libpcap? I doubt it, but you might want to talk to Bill Fenner. Also see www.tcpdump.org. Joerg -- Joerg B. MicheelEmail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WAND and NLANR MOAT

Re: pthread_exit proto

2001-03-04 Thread E.B. Dreger
> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 12:15:36 -0800 > From: Farooq Mela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It's not actually gcc-specific code, its more of a hint to the compiler > to not warn about something like, main() "falling off the end" when > there is actually an exit(0); at the end of it. If GCC knows exit() >

Re: pthread_exit proto

2001-03-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Farooq Mela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010304 12:14] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > Is '__dead2' a GNU C thing? or is in any sort of standard? > > See /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h > > __dead2 is defined to __attribute__((__noreturn__)) if a suitable > version of GCC is being used. > > > Gene

Re: pthread_exit proto

2001-03-04 Thread Farooq Mela
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Is '__dead2' a GNU C thing? or is in any sort of standard? See /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h __dead2 is defined to __attribute__((__noreturn__)) if a suitable version of GCC is being used. > Generally there's some resistance to putting GNU C specific > code into the base

Re: pthread_exit proto

2001-03-04 Thread Farooq Mela
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Farooq Mela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010304 11:18] wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Could someone with CVS write access make the following change in > > pthread.h > > > > void pthread_exit __P((void *)); > > > > to > > > > void pthread_exit __P((void *)) __dead2; > > > > as th

Re: pthread_exit proto

2001-03-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Farooq Mela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010304 11:18] wrote: > > Hi, > > Could someone with CVS write access make the following change in > pthread.h > > void pthread_exit __P((void *)); > > to > > void pthread_exit __P((void *)) __dead2; > > as this function doesnt return and gcc is giving me so

pthread_exit proto

2001-03-04 Thread Farooq Mela
Hi, Could someone with CVS write access make the following change in pthread.h void pthread_exit __P((void *)); to void pthread_exit __P((void *)) __dead2; as this function doesnt return and gcc is giving me some annoying warnings ;-) BTW, what is the standard mechanism for submitting a pa

Re: FreeBSD pthreads

2001-03-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Jordan DeLong wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:08:51AM +, Jordan DeLong wrote: > > clone() wont count against the per uid process limit, right? > actually I just realized it'd be incredibly stupid for clone not to > count against the per uid process limit It does the

Re: FreeBSD pthreads

2001-03-04 Thread Jordan DeLong
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 01:02:25PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Jordan DeLong wrote: > > Hey; I've got a question about the pthread implementation on freebsd. I was > > looking it over and noticed that the pthread library is green; which is > > disadvantagous on SMP machines

Re: FreeBSD pthreads

2001-03-04 Thread Alexander N. Kabaev
> Actually, clone() returns to your program with the stack fixed up > so that you don't crash immediately, FreeBSD has a way of doing > this, it's documented in the manpages and through disucssion on > the mailing lists. > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Yes, I k

Re: FreeBSD pthreads

2001-03-04 Thread Jordan DeLong
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:08:51AM +, Jordan DeLong wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:55:03AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Jordan DeLong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010304 09:27] wrote: > > > Hey; I've got a question about the pthread implementation on freebsd. I was > > > looking it over

Re: FreeBSD pthreads

2001-03-04 Thread Jordan DeLong
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:55:03AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Jordan DeLong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010304 09:27] wrote: > > Hey; I've got a question about the pthread implementation on freebsd. I was > > looking it over and noticed that the pthread library is green; which is > > disadvantag

Re: FreeBSD pthreads

2001-03-04 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Jordan DeLong wrote: > Hey; I've got a question about the pthread implementation on freebsd. I was > looking it over and noticed that the pthread library is green; which is > disadvantagous on SMP machines. I found a port of the linux pthreads, but it > uses rfork() to create

Re: FreeBSD pthreads

2001-03-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alexander N. Kabaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010304 09:58] wrote: > > On 04-Mar-2001 Jordan DeLong wrote: > > Hey; I've got a question about the pthread implementation on freebsd. I was > > looking it over and noticed that the pthread library is green; which is > > disadvantagous on SMP machines.

RE: FreeBSD pthreads

2001-03-04 Thread Alexander N. Kabaev
On 04-Mar-2001 Jordan DeLong wrote: > Hey; I've got a question about the pthread implementation on freebsd. I was > looking it over and noticed that the pthread library is green; which is > disadvantagous on SMP machines. I found a port of the linux pthreads, but it > uses rfork() to create th

Re: FreeBSD pthreads

2001-03-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jordan DeLong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010304 09:27] wrote: > Hey; I've got a question about the pthread implementation on freebsd. I was > looking it over and noticed that the pthread library is green; which is > disadvantagous on SMP machines. I found a port of the linux pthreads, but it > uses

FreeBSD pthreads

2001-03-04 Thread Jordan DeLong
Hey; I've got a question about the pthread implementation on freebsd. I was looking it over and noticed that the pthread library is green; which is disadvantagous on SMP machines. I found a port of the linux pthreads, but it uses rfork() to create the new threads... Anyway; I was curious if a c

Can I pthread with libpcap?

2001-03-04 Thread Dan Shechter
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Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-04 Thread Mark Huizer
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 04:21:02AM -0600, Tyler K McGeorge wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 3:34 AM > Subject: Machines are getting too damn fast > > | We need to find something more inte

RE: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-04 Thread Dominic Marks
> Let's just complicate the code more. Hey it works for Microsoft after all! Perhaps if buildworld takes 3 days even on a an eight CPU AlphaServer FreeBSD will rocket to almost completely domination of the OS market? Then again - maybe not :) Dominic -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-04 Thread Tyler K McGeorge
- Original Message - From: Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 3:34 AM Subject: Machines are getting too damn fast | We need to find something more interesting then buildworlds to do on | these machines. Let's just complicate th

Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-04 Thread Matt Dillon
I was browsing CompUSA today and noticed they were selling Sony VAIO 1.3 and 1.5 GHz desktops, amoung other things. It's amazing how fast processors have gotten just in the last two years! I just had to pick up one of these babies and give it a run through to see how fast the