oops... forget it... cvsup.freebsd.org I/O error on my machine :-)

2001-05-27 Thread Matt Dillon
Oops. The I/O error is on my machine , not cvsup :-) -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

cvsup.freebsd.org I/O error

2001-05-27 Thread Matt Dillon
Not sure who to notify here... I tried twice, this looks like a real error. -Matt /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -r 20 -L 2 -h cvsup.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/cvs-supfile SetAttrs ports/emulators/sim6811/distinfo,v SetAttrs ports/emulators/sim681

Re: FreeBSD/VAX anyone interested?

2001-05-27 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Gunther Schadow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I got some VAXen 6420, big machines. Mine has 6 CPUs. I was planning > to boot myself with Ultrix, and then go on with NetBSD. Even > NetBSD's port-vax needs some tweaking for my hardware, XMI and > BI bus support is blank. I am with FreeBSD forever

Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

2001-05-27 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > So add an option to sysinstall called: > > "Fast and at least as reliable as Linux" > > and let them find out for themselves that that means that it's > really dangerous, and that after a crash for whatever reason (e.g. > your panic crash, or a p

Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

2001-05-27 Thread Ed Hudson
> I doubt FreeBSD would need to enable write caching in order > to be as fast as Linux (which doesn't have write caching i spoke too harshly. what i meant to show is that interactive performance is compromised under load with soft updates enabled (although soft upd

Re: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (w

2001-05-27 Thread Matt Dillon
: :On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:33:19PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: :> Nice! One thing to note in the filesystem tuning is that newfs can :> turn on softupdates at newfs time now with -U, at least in -current. : :Stable too. ;-) : So as not to make a thousand little commits, I'll just put toge

Re: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (w

2001-05-27 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:33:19PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > Nice! One thing to note in the filesystem tuning is that newfs can > turn on softupdates at newfs time now with -U, at least in -current. Stable too. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hack

Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

2001-05-27 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:21:06PM -0700, Ed Hudson wrote: > enclosed is a .jpeg of an xgraph of the following interactive test: Are you setup such that you could do the same test on a stock Red Hat 6.2, 7.0, and 7.1 box? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-h

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-27 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > Which is more expensive? Maintaining an on-disk hashed (or b+tree) > directory format for *everything* or maintaining a simple low-cost > format on disk with in-memory hashing for fast lookups? I bet that for modest directory sizes the cost of disk IO ou

Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

2001-05-27 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > So add an option to sysinstall called: > > "Fast and at least as reliable as Linux" I doubt FreeBSD would need to enable write caching in order to be as fast as Linux (which doesn't have write caching enabled in any distribution I'm aware of).

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 27 May 2001, Doug Barton wrote: > Andrew Reilly wrote: > > > It is quite concievable that a performance tweak to the IMAP > > server could involve a header cache in a relational database of > > some sort, and that would certainly contain references to the > > individual files, which would

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-27 Thread Doug Barton
Andrew Reilly wrote: > It is quite concievable that a performance tweak to the IMAP > server could involve a header cache in a relational database of > some sort, and that would certainly contain references to the > individual files, which would then be accessed randomly. You might want

Re: kernel type

2001-05-27 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
> As I remember, way back in the mists of 1990 when I first encountered a NeXT > box, one of the principal reasons for selecting the Mach 2.x micro kernel was > "mach messaging". This was a unified mechanism for almost all IPC both within > one host or distributed over a network, where eg. socke

Re: Tuning, security, firewall man pages up for review

2001-05-27 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSD/tuning.html In the kernel config tuning section, you've misspelt NSFBUFS as NFSBUFS, which doesn't exist. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: Boot time memory issue

2001-05-27 Thread Valentin Nechayev
Sat, May 26, 2001 at 22:03:34, barry (Barry Lustig) wrote about "Re: Boot time memory issue": > > > SMAP type=01 base= 0010 len= 13ef [...] > Did that and got the same error. I put a printf just before the > pa_indx++ in machdep.c and watched it increment by 2's all th

Re: Boot time memory issue

2001-05-27 Thread Mike Smith
> > > SMAP type=01 base= len= 0009f800 > > > SMAP type=02 base= 0009f800 len= 0800 > > > SMAP type=02 base= 000e8400 len= 00017c00 > > > SMAP type=01 base= 0010 len= 13ef > > > SMAP type=03 base= 13ff