VM Question (was Re: larger kernel virtual address space)

2002-04-30 Thread Lamont Granquist
Does the FreeBSD VM system do O(1) or O(N) searches for gaps in a processes virtual memory space? (It may not seem obvious why my question is related to the discussion below, but trust me, it is...) On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Rohit Grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I a

crash problem, please help

2002-04-30 Thread Jason Branscum
reading thru old google news articles, says to email you guys with trace, crash err and dmesg. please let me know if I need to send more. this is all hand copied, please bear with me. is there any way to write the crash/trace to disk in the future? I'm also getting fatal trap 12 errors as well l

Re: larger kernel virtual address space

2002-04-30 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Rohit Grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I apologize for not checking the FAQs before asking the question. > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/advanced.html#CHANGE-KERNEL-ADDRESS-SPACE > > How large can we make the KVA? This was recently discussed in the thread ``FreeB

FreeBSD's birth announcement...

2002-04-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Some time ago we discussed our projects approaching 10year birthday, and couldn't quite agree on the actual birthday. Here is the answer: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaye Mathisen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: What's "FreeBSD"? Date: 25 Jul 1993

Re: packaging base

2002-04-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:26:33PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Antoine Beaupre wrote: > > Le Mercredi 24 avril 2002, a 11:12 , Mike Meyer a ecrit : > > > Your simple shell script has to prompt for floppies. That needs UI > > > code. The people who know have decided that the current UI code isn't