Re: Superpages on amd64 FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE

2009-12-12 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:07:33AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Thursday 26 November 2009 10:14:20 am Linda Messerschmidt wrote: > > > It's not clear to me if this might be a problem with the superpages > > > implementation, or if squid d

Re: Superpages on amd64 FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE

2009-12-12 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Nate Eldredge wrote: What about using posix_spawn(3)? This is implemented in terms of vfork(), so you'll gain the same performance advantages, but it avoids many of vfork's pitfalls. Also, since it's a POSIX standard function, you needn't worry that it will go away or c

RE: Request for information - timers, hz, interrupts

2009-12-12 Thread Phillip Spring
fact: I had to clean up a motherboard to boot Suse 10.2 kernel. I think that dust and dead insects are for Windows 2003 only. dog -- now with the right sender name :) > To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > From: ivo...@freebsd.org > Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:52:39 +0100 > Subject: Requ