Re: ZFS regimen: scrub, scrub, scrub and scrub again.

drandom input IOPS. Thus a 10-disk group of devices each capable of 200-IOPS, will globally act as a 200-IOPS capable RAID-Z group. This is the price to pay to achieve proper data protection without the 2X block overhead associated with mirroring. -- Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.ju

Does anyone use nscd?

ell with caching these data, and i had completely forgotten i was using a cache. This is very perplexing. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: looking for mature/efficient gui builder/toolkit/IDE for Python

You will not find more easy and good looking for python as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyQt -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Is there a boot manager that can handle this?

put terminal gfxterm fi fi Of course run update-grub afterwards. I have also seen in plymouth Ubuntu documentation that one can set gfxpayload=keep just after set gfxmode but it doesn't work for me. -- Michel Talon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re:User error or awk bug?

t;/")' / niobe% echo "//"|awk 'gsub(/\/+/,"/")' / -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Virtual Memory Improvement Algorithm

tree? You are a late comer, see: http://wiki.freebsd.org/MayurShardul/VM_Algorithm_Improvement -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ZFS boot

el effectively uses around 500M memory, indeed. Performance seems reasonable to me, not worse than with UFS. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: USB key && kernel: da0: ...

D machines, without any success. One of them paniced. I had to reboot to Windows to read the stick and then download it from here for FreeBSD :-( -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: USB key && kernel: da0: ...

less to say, this stick works perfectly OK under Windows and Linux. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

Ubuntu, etc. could be envisioned. The DragonFlyBSD installer runs on top of a live CD, this is the easiest way to have a full featured installer, but this requires a machine with sufficient RAM. Anyways all those possibilities point to the soundness

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

, while the packaging tools, which worked OK with 5000 ports, show their limits with 18000 ports. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Finding slowdowns in pkg_install

ing it, which avoids leaving a mess if something goes astray like portupgrade does. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index"

+ one (paludis). Here also i don't have any idea if it is faster. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:48:38PM +0100, Tom Evans wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 10:25 +0200, 'Michel Talon' wrote: > > Where is this huge increase in size? > > Admittedly, i have not created indexes, etc. > ^^ > > Comp

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

16 fév 13:36 /usr/ports/INDEX-6.db Surprise, surprise, the BerkeleyDB suddenly appears less glorious. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 03:33:02PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 11:09:35AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: > > > Seriously, the FreeBSD package > > system is in great need of a profound overhaul, pretending it works well > > is complete denial of re

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

ese innocent looking facts have little consequences: FreeBSD was in position 11 on Distrowatch in 2005, it is now in position 17 and falling like a brick. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:01:46PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michel Talon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > One of the most obvious being that the sqlite database can be edited > > as easily as a pure textfile using the sqlite3 program > > Hu

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

wn weight" of the proposals, but the collapse of the FreeBSD ports system. Someone (i think des) has said not long ago that Debian or Debian like systems were easier to maintain than FreeBSD. This is an understatement. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-

pkg_check.py

. Anyways the program gives a detailed report in CheckLog, and runs in short time, a few seconds the first time, around a second when the files are in cache. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

pkgupgrade

come to do anything he wants with them, including modifying, improving, rewriting in C++, whatever. Personnally i have no intention to change them in the short term. Perhaps rewrite in C++ later on, if nobody does, and if it appears useful. -- Mi

Re: portupgrade O(n^m)? and pkgupgrade

sting, but testing is always dangerous ..., except perhaps on testing machines, but i don't have any. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send a

Re: portupgrade O(n^m)?

lus the time of doing backups with portupgrade. If you envision compiling from source like portmaster does, then you can go to sleep and come back next morning, hoping that it did not stop after the first few ports. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hack

pkgupgrade

now found directly in the repository. Hoping that this will help maintaining FreeBSD boxes without spending hours doing it. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To u

Re: pkg_upgrade (was Re: pkg_add does not backtrack, does it?)

wnload time. I have replaced the corrected save_pkg.py on my website, and will replace pkgupgrade tomorrow after a further check. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: pkg_upgrade (was Re: pkg_add does not backtrack, does it?)

ject: Pkgupgrade Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:19:18 + (UTC) -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Updated Driver for 3945ABG Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN controller

l. I am just using it now. My computer is a Sony Vaio VGN C1 in 32 bits mode. -- Michel Talon ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mai

Re: Updated Driver for 3945ABG ...

: Network is down Jan 28 00:49:15 dhclient[1351]: send_packet: Network is down -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Database on 6.1/AMD64 ?

00+, 1Gb of RAM, Motherboard ASUS A8N-E -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

distro this way on an old machine which doesn't allow to boot from CD. There is a 1.44M floppy image on the CD which allows to do just that. I am quite stunned that the same thing cannot be done for FreeBSD. -- Michel TALON ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD

al benchmark results in http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/ in particular the section about mmap benchmarks, the only one where OpenBSD shines. However as soon as touching pages is benchmarked OpenBSD fails very much. -- Michel TALON ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

since i don't have one. -- Michel TALON To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message