Re: SoC

2007-05-15 Thread Duane Whitty
On Tuesday, 15 May 2007 at 1:05:07 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Tom Evans wrote: > >On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 22:17 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >>Ruby's nice, but it's built on Perl so I have suspicions on its overall > >>usability / speed given my experience with Perl over the past 4 months >

Re: Berkeley DB API [was Re: SoC]

2007-05-14 Thread Duane Whitty
On Monday, 14 May 2007 at 21:42:18 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Duane Whitty wrote: [snipped] > > > >I wonder what the ramifications of the above are to the goal of using the > >bdb in > >our base system to add db smarts to the pkg_install tools in a way that >

Berkeley DB API [was Re: SoC]

2007-05-14 Thread Duane Whitty
[snipped] > > > Do you know of any simple APIs that can quickly dump fields in use > > with BDB .db files? I have a hunch given the Ruby that I've taken a > > look at > > with Portupgrade that something very inefficient's in play, but I want > > to test my assumption first before jumpi

Re: SoC

2007-05-14 Thread Duane Whitty
On Sunday, 13 May 2007 at 22:39:51 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Duane Whitty wrote: > >Garrett, > > > >Sounds like you're involved in a cool project. What kind of > >community collaboration/involvement would be helpful to you? > > > >Once, a long, lo

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Duane Whitty
On Sunday, 13 May 2007 at 17:04:20 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:00:46PM +0100, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: > > > The answer is another INDEX/storage structure > > Great, I look forward to your detailed proposal. > > Kris I believe this is closer to what Thomas meant

Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

2007-05-12 Thread Duane Whitty
On Thursday, 10 May 2007 at 20:20:42 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > David Naylor wrote: > >Dear Jordan > > > >Recently I stumbled across a document you wrote in 2001, entitled "FreeBSD > >installation and package tools, past, present and future". I find FreeBSD > >appealing and I would like to c

SoC

2007-05-12 Thread Duane Whitty
Garrett, Sounds like you're involved in a cool project. What kind of community collaboration/involvement would be helpful to you? Once, a long, long time ago, I wrote quite a bit of bdb 1.85 code. At that time it WAS the current version :) I might actually remember a bit if I start working wit

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-11 Thread Duane Whitty
On Friday, 11 May 2007 at 17:28:47 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:02:31PM +0200, David Naylor wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Thank you all for your responses, it has given me much to think about. I > > guess there is consenses that there is room for improvement in the current

Re: Experiences with 7.0-CURRENT and vmware.

2007-05-10 Thread Duane Whitty
On Thursday, 10 May 2007 at 12:54:45 +, Darren Reed wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:28:16PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > > > > On Thu, 10 May 2007, Darren Reed wrote: > > > > >I'm using FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT under vmware and there are a few issues. > > Redirecting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Locking etc. (Long, boring, redundant, newbie questions)

2007-03-28 Thread Duane Whitty
hing is translating from textbook type examples to real kernel code. Anyhow, I hope this message wasn't too long or unbearable. Please send me any comments that you would like to, on or off list. Thanks again! Duane Whitty P.S. I think I'm just about ready to tackle fixing sysv sems to

Re: Locking fundamentals

2006-12-28 Thread Duane Whitty
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 11:33:44AM +0100, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > Hi Duane, > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 12:18:43AM -0400, Duane Whitty wrote: > > I have read the man pages describing each family of locks, John Baldwin's > > BSDCon 2002 paper, Jeffrey Hsu's paper, th

Re: Locking fundamentals

2006-12-24 Thread Duane Whitty
an interesting and detailed section in our Arch. Handbook. I regret that I am not able to produce something more quickly; I simply haven't learned enough yet. Best Regards, Duane Whitty > > Bye, > Alexander. > > -- > I don't do it for the money. > --

Locking fundamentals

2006-12-19 Thread Duane Whitty
family. Does anyone have some pointers they feel like sharing? Does anyone have any good references they can point me to that is relevant to fbsd given all the recent changes as a result of SMP? Is The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System still current enough

Re: KASSERT in kernel module outside src/sys

2006-12-12 Thread Duane Whitty
t; According to src/sys/conf/NOTES # The INVARIANT_SUPPORT option makes us compile in support for # verifying some of the internal structures. It is a prerequisite for # 'INVARIANTS', as enabling 'INVARIANTS' will make these functions be # called. Best Regards, Duane Whitty ___

Re: lock order reversal

2006-09-16 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: Submitter-Id: current-users Originator: Duane Whitty Organization: Confidential: no Synopsis: lock order reversal Severity: serious Priority: medium Category: kern Class: sw-bug Release:FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE i386 Environment

lock order reversal

2006-09-15 Thread Duane Whitty
>Submitter-Id: current-users >Originator: Duane Whitty >Organization: >Confidential: no >Synopsis: lock order reversal >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Category: kern >Class: sw-bug >Release: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE i386

Re: New architecture support

2006-08-06 Thread Duane Whitty
dware is quite inexpensive and HP has definitely started using more "off-the-shelf" hardware these days. Heh, sorry I guess this belongs more on platforms@ but the thread caught my attention and I've been thinking about this for a while... Best Regards, Duane Whitty __

Re: Good kernel developers book/manual available?

2006-05-14 Thread Duane Whitty
forget about system admin... Sincerely Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

UFS extended attributes

2006-04-09 Thread Duane Whitty
lable? Sincerely, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-03-25 Thread Duane Whitty
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: In the last month or two I've seen increasing occurrences of programs refusing keyboard input after they've been running for a while (between hours and days). They still respond to the mouse. At first I thought it was hardware, but it happens on a number of different