Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?

2004-03-07 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Daniel Lang wrote: > Hi, > > David Raistrick wrote on Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:27:56AM -0800: > [..] > > kldload snd_driver > > > > is of course the correct way to do it. FWIW, kldunload snd_driver does > > /not/ unload all of the modules that kldload snd_driver loads. > [..]

Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?

2004-03-07 Thread Narvi
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 05:03:40PM +0100, Jorn Argelo wrote: > > > > I've been on the question list for some time, and I have noticed that > > many people do not know how to get sound support up and running in > > FreeBSD 5.X. I know that re-compi

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread Narvi
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Andreas Braukmann wrote: > On 01/11/04 12:13:36 +0100 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Alexander Leidinger writes: > > > >> fine, but if I got it right, do you (Greg) agree to remove it from > >> -current? > > > > My proposal is to do just th

Re: Copyrights (was: Where is FreeBSD going?)

2004-01-09 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Narvi wrote: > > > We can all be glad that it hasn't mattered and might never matter that > > > the FreeBSD IP situation is so shabby, I suppose because it sends the > > > message that it's all essentia

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Matt Freitag wrote: > Narvi wrote: > > >>"M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Whatever. I've consulted lawyers on this who assure me that it is > >>>legal. Yo

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Whatever. I've consulted lawyers on this who assure me that it is > > legal. You've admitted to not knowing US Copyright law and are aguing > > emotion, which is why I didn't reply to the rest of

Re[3]: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, Narvi! > Friday, January 9, 2004, 4:28:57 PM, you wrote: > > >> DR> 3. Converting the repository. This is a tricky one - I tried the > >> DR>current version of the migration scripts and they barfed and died

Re[2]: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-09 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, Doug! > Thursday, January 8, 2004, 8:29:34 PM, you wrote: > > DR> 3. Converting the repository. This is a tricky one - I tried the > DR>current version of the migration scripts and they barfed and died > DR>pretty quickly. Still, I'm pre

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

2004-01-08 Thread Narvi
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Steven Hartland wrote: > Need necessitates effort? > Precicely. Or even more precicely - the RE team provided an alternative path to eliminating floppy support which they could cope with. It follows that people who want floppy support should work towards that because the othe

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

2004-01-08 Thread Narvi
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:50:59PM -0800 I heard the voice of > Avleen Vig, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > While it is indeed true that most machines since 1997 will support this > > CD format, please take in to account: > > And, further, some of us

Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

2003-05-31 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Narvi wrote: [snip] Ahem.. i am very embarrassed about having sent the reply, everybody please pretend I was nowhere near the thread, pretty please? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

2003-05-31 Thread Narvi
On Thu, 29 May 2003, [iso-8859-1] Thorsten Futrega wrote: > Dear users, > > The most important changes I'm going to commit today: > > - Remove gcc and replace it with a new TenDRA > snapshot. yay! but what about c++ support? > - Remove GNU tar. double yay! > - Fix httpd.ko to make it work on

Re: gcc problem/openoffice failure

2003-05-29 Thread Narvi
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Don Lewis wrote: > On 27 May, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > For the last month (more actually)(and after completely rebuilding my > > system and all the ports on it) I have not been able to compile > > the openoffice port due to gcc failures. > > (I have posted the message e

Re: Network block device.

2003-02-05 Thread Narvi
[cc: reduced] On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 06:06:20PM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > > > What you really want is SCSI over IP. Anything else is just a hack and > > not to be trusted. I think that NFS is less of a hack than NBD though. > > IMO NB

Re: Network block device.

2003-02-05 Thread Narvi
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > > IMO NBD is less of a hack than you think it is. It is one of the > > necessary components for creating a single system image from a cluster > > of commodity hardware and this is something Linux dev

Re: Lower power SMP boxes?

2003-02-05 Thread Narvi
On 5 Feb 2003, Benno Rice wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 07:25, Narvi wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Kurt J. Lidl wrote: > > [snip] > > > > How else are you going to do the physical interrupt steering? > > > Unless they have gone through the effort of implemen

Re: Lower power SMP boxes?

2003-02-04 Thread Narvi
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Kurt J. Lidl wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:21:49AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:17:23AM +0100, Mats Larsson wrote: > > :> Via just recently announced their new Nehemiah processor capable of smp, > > :> presumably slow as its precursor but

Re: verbose device probing ?

2003-01-21 Thread Narvi
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > Narvi wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > The priority field is rather ridiculous, in a volunteer project, > > > at least one that does not have some sort of scheduling enforcement > > > (i.

Re: verbose device probing ?

2003-01-21 Thread Narvi
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > > The priority field is rather ridiculous, in a volunteer project, > at least one that does not have some sort of scheduling enforcement > (i.e. one could envision a system where all changes must have PR's > associated with them, and priority was assig

Re: verbose device probing ?

2003-01-21 Thread Narvi
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Arun Sharma wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:33:09AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > > > > PS. I personally ignore the severity and priority fields of PRs. The > > > importance of many PRs I've dealt with is very much i

Re: Disk reliability (was: Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache?)

2002-10-30 Thread Narvi
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 29 October 2002 at 2:03:50 +, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 01:54, Kenneth Culver wrote: > >>> I haven't had any trouble with the WDxxxBB drives - the WDxxxAA drives > >>> are pretty unreliable though. > >>> > >

Re: 4.1 ISO CRC

2000-08-02 Thread Narvi
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Dimitar Peikov wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone send me CRC code for the 4.1 ISO image or to be available on ftp > server for downloading? > What will CRC give you that MD5 checksums (available) doesn't give you? > -- > Dimitar Peikov > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [

Re: Pointer to people `in charge' of FreeBSD make ?

2000-08-01 Thread Narvi
Ouch! Don't mangle VPATH use. If you want to get the other behaviour, leave the thing in place and provide a switch to get the other one. And no, I am not in charge of FreeBSD make. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the messa

Re: Some proposals to FreeBSD kernel

2000-07-10 Thread Narvi
[i think this might just as well belong in -questions] On 10 xxx -1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > I'm 18-year-old newbie UNIX programmer that currently use > FreeBSD and is really thankfull of it.I run it on DUAL PII/333. > > Some days ago my friend tell me that with simple user righ

Re: Code Pal VMS

2000-07-07 Thread Narvi
No. A real low would be 'what does Visual C++ do or Where do I get cracks for Visual Basic'. And damn it, dare anybody not head over to -chat with this thread! On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Andrew Reiter wrote: > > I believe we've all hit a real low aftrer this. > > On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, lgrajales wro

Re: bridging

2000-07-07 Thread Narvi
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Nick Rogness wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Sean Lutner wrote: > > > > > Bridges create a broadcast zone. broadcast packets will cross the bridge > > unobstructed. > > OK. So do bridged interfaces fall within the same collision > domain?... or are they just mem

Re: Default (x86) floating point precision

2000-07-05 Thread Narvi
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Steve Kargl wrote: > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > > Oddly, this causes problems with GNAT (Ada is a high level language) > > because it wants/expects 64-bit extended precision. It seems as if > > GNAT for linux-i386 also uses 64-bit extended precision. The only > > other G

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-20 Thread Narvi
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:40:30PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > The real issue here is persistent system state across the S4 suspend; ie. > > leaving applications open, etc. IMO this isn't really something worth a > > lot of effort to us, and

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > > > > I appreciate the KA7 PCI/ISA combo slot instead of the useless AMR thingy Asys > > > > has on their praised K7V (mind you, I like Asus as such, excellent > > > > experiences with them over the years). > > > > > > Ugh. I was suprised that I

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-09 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 08:54:28PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the > > > $ (well, fl ) I'd like to know what experiences have wi

Re: System management with large groups

2000-05-19 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Jonathan Laventhol wrote: > Dear FreeBSD Hackers -- > > I've got a technically-straightfordward but nonetheless > business-critical problem with the groups structures in FreeBSD > which perhaps you kind souls can help me with. > > *** BACKGROUND *** > [snip] > Question

Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-09 Thread Narvi
On Mon, 8 May 2000, Kris Kirby wrote: > > BTW, you do realize that in many cases "off" for your cell phone > > doesn't really mean off, right? :) > > I have strong objections to small transcievers (what cell phones > actually are) that operate close to my body and don't let me know when > t

Re: Double buffered cp(1)

2000-04-26 Thread Narvi
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: [snip] > disk itself is probably the bottleneck. Disk writes tend to be > somewhat slower then disk reads and the seeking alone (between source > file and destination file), even when using a large block size, > will reduce performanc

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-03-21 Thread Narvi
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, MikeM wrote: > Has anyone thought of Unicode support on FreeBSD? > Depends on what you mean by 'Unicode support'. If you use a suitable encoding (UTF-8?) everything should work, only it might look strange, as userland doesn't support it. It is largely a 'application spac

Re: Dennis' inability to fix the eepro driver

2000-03-12 Thread Narvi
Uhhh... And before anybody gets all kinds of funny ideas, no, i am not trying to blackmail Dennis. On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Narvi wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Why haven't you considered hiring somebody to document the par

Re: Dennis' inability to fix the eepro driver

2000-03-12 Thread Narvi
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote: [snip] > > Why haven't you considered hiring somebody to document the parts you are > > intersted in? Would solve at least half the problem... > > To be fair to Dennis, it's not the cost of paying the dropout to fix this > driver that's at issue here.

Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory...

2000-03-11 Thread Narvi
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Dennis wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes... > > >The very fact that source is available means that you can pay any scruffy > >unshaven hacker to fix it for you, instead of suffering at the hands and > >whims of, say, a FreeBSD "vendor" as you are doing. I would figure that

Re: Is FreeBSD dead ?

2000-03-11 Thread Narvi
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > Then, what are the benefits for both parties ? > > > > > > For the FreeBSD project : > > > - many more supported platforms (Sparc, PowerPC, Arm ?) > > Merced? . > > > definately. > > I'm not sure if that is a good thing if it is p

Re: Is FreeBSD dead ?

2000-03-11 Thread Narvi
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I am sure of the FreeBSD Projects intentions but like the previous post > > things can 'turn ugly fast with the greatest intentions' The fact a > > for-profit company controlling it's movements is cause for concern. > > How many different ways

Re: Is FreeBSD dead?

2000-03-11 Thread Narvi
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > From: Kevin M Geraci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Maybe FreeBSD needs to "spin off" like Slackware is > > doing and let Walnut Creek merge. > > I don't see why that thought even crossed your mind. > > Anyone could "spinoff" FreeBSD anytime they wanted to

Re: Is FreeBSD dead ?

2000-03-11 Thread Narvi
I snipped the following from the cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Didier Derny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, hope they don't mind 8-) On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Thierry.herbelot wrote: > "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > [SNIP] > > > > If you think it's possible to bend the Fr

Re: --enable-haifa

1999-10-14 Thread Narvi
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to W Gerald Hicks: > > Just curious what effect using the --enable-haifa flag for building > > gcc-2.95.1/x86 would have so I did a comparison using the Dhrystone > > benchmark from /usr/ports/benchmarks/bytebench. > > I think the Haifa sc

Re: Generating interrupts ?

1999-10-13 Thread Narvi
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Johan Kruger wrote: > In DOS it's possible to load the AX register with DA8C and generate a > int 15, which will return the BIOS version string and the chipset > identification int CL register. How do i do it in FreeBSD, and how do i > generate a interrupt for that manner ?

Re: Fun with vinum

1999-10-10 Thread Narvi
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 10 October 1999 at 19:33:44 +0300, Narvi wrote: > > > > Should you decide to use vinum keep in mind that you: > > > > a) reboot to make sure that whatever you just set up can > >automatically start

Fun with vinum

1999-10-10 Thread Narvi
Should you decide to use vinum keep in mind that you: a) reboot to make sure that whatever you just set up can automatically start itself b) alternatively vinum l vinum makedev vinum create -f configfile v

Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems

1999-10-10 Thread Narvi
Sorry, this is somewhat late. On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Wilfredo Sanchez wrote: > | Have you given consideration to systems where the user/group > database is > | kept for (possibly a large) number of computers in a centralised > manner by > | say hesiod or nys (nis+). It would be nice if there w

Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems

1999-10-06 Thread Narvi
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Darren R. Davis wrote: > Narvi wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > Have you given consideration to systems where the user/group database is > > kept for (possibly a large) number of computers in a centralised manner by > > say hesiod or nys (nis

Re: Apple's planned appoach to permissions on movable filesystems

1999-10-06 Thread Narvi
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Pat Dirks wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the File Systems Tech Lead at Apple in the Mac OS X Core OS group. > We've been struggling with the question of how best to handle permissions > on disks that are moved between systems for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server: > the problem is that

Re: SCSI disk naming problem

1999-10-02 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > This one does not resolve the controller problem either as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said. > > > > So, I guess dac0t0, dac0t1, ... dac3t4, will be good enough if we want > > to be short, but anyt

Re: SCSI disk naming problem

1999-10-02 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > > > > That's an interesting argument on the part of a few people. The > > commercial UNIX I first adminned had wired down, short names for disks > > (rz0, rz1, rz2, ... ). This was very nice. > > This one does

Re: SCSI disk naming problem

1999-10-01 Thread Narvi
See LINT on details of how to wire down scsi devices... Your proposal doesn't take adding a second scsi card into account. On Fri, 1 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Current FreeBSD SCSi disk naming mechanism is problem for using more than > one disks in the chain during the disk failure. >

Re: CS Project

1999-09-09 Thread Narvi
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > I think he wants something like an "inverted chroot" > (you can see out but others can't see in? > (into all facets, e.g. process stats, etc.) > It sounds like a "FreeBSD VM", VM taken to mean virtual machine. Anybody in such a 'jar' would not notic

Re: CS Project

1999-09-09 Thread Narvi
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > I think he wants something like an "inverted chroot" > (you can see out but others can't see in? > (into all facets, e.g. process stats, etc.) > It sounds like a "FreeBSD VM", VM taken to mean virtual machine. Anybody in such a 'jar' would not noti

Re: SPARC?

1999-08-23 Thread Narvi
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Dennis wrote: > I heard a rumor that freebsd runs on a sparc, but I dont see any backing > for that. Is it in the works? > > dennis > It is more correct to say that it passes in and out of the thoughts of people from time to time, with very little code that has actually ma

Re: SPARC?

1999-08-23 Thread Narvi
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Dennis wrote: > I heard a rumor that freebsd runs on a sparc, but I dont see any backing > for that. Is it in the works? > > dennis > It is more correct to say that it passes in and out of the thoughts of people from time to time, with very little code that has actually m

Re: anybody love qsort.c?

1999-08-19 Thread Narvi
Doesn't the qsort just switch to isort *if* the partition to sort is short enough? Got to check it out, but afaik the size at that qsorts switch to isort is usually between 8 and 24, with 16 being most common - both halfs are shorter than 16, so they get isorted. Sander There i

Re: anybody love qsort.c?

1999-08-19 Thread Narvi
Doesn't the qsort just switch to isort *if* the partition to sort is short enough? Got to check it out, but afaik the size at that qsorts switch to isort is usually between 8 and 24, with 16 being most common - both halfs are shorter than 16, so they get isorted. Sander There

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Narvi
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > > > > Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate > > > > > changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version > > > > > of XFS, without IRIX becomin

Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Narvi
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > > > > Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate > > > > > changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version > > > > > of XFS, without IRIX becomi

Re: Whither makefiles for src/crypto/telnet/* ?

1999-08-14 Thread Narvi
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Dave Walton wrote: > > > If you really want to work on an encrypted telnet, check out The > > Stanford SRP Authentication Project (http://srp.stanford.edu/srp/). > > I'd love to see SRP integrated into the FreeBSD telnet/telnetd

Re: Whither makefiles for src/crypto/telnet/* ?

1999-08-14 Thread Narvi
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Dave Walton wrote: > > > If you really want to work on an encrypted telnet, check out The > > Stanford SRP Authentication Project (http://srp.stanford.edu/srp/). > > I'd love to see SRP integrated into the FreeBSD telnet/telnet

Re: SRA+IDEA Telnet

1999-08-14 Thread Narvi
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Mark Murray wrote: > > Couldn't you work the code so it obtains all its' encryption functions > > from an external library, such as the system's libdes? That would let you > > export the code, since it doesn't provide any encryption functions itself, > > and international peo

Re: SRA+IDEA Telnet

1999-08-14 Thread Narvi
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Mark Murray wrote: > > Couldn't you work the code so it obtains all its' encryption functions > > from an external library, such as the system's libdes? That would let you > > export the code, since it doesn't provide any encryption functions itself, > > and international pe

Re: SRA+IDEA Telnet

1999-08-13 Thread Narvi
How exactly do you plan to get this to the FreeBSD internationsl server that has the crypto repository? Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Nick Sayer wrote: > Ok. I have put up a rough cut of

Re: SRA+IDEA Telnet

1999-08-13 Thread Narvi
How exactly do you plan to get this to the FreeBSD internationsl server that has the crypto repository? Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Nick Sayer wrote: > Ok. I have put up a rough cut o

Re: Threaded X libraries

1999-08-13 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > I'm attempting to build the X11 libs with the thread safety stuff (I beleive > Linux can already be built like this) and have discovered when linking that > we > don't have the getpwnam_r & getpwuid_r functions in

Re: Threaded X libraries

1999-08-13 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > I'm attempting to build the X11 libs with the thread safety stuff (I beleive > Linux can already be built like this) and have discovered when linking that we > don't have the getpwnam_r & getpwuid_r functions in o

Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2))

1999-07-16 Thread Narvi
[cc: list trimmed] On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 lyn...@orthanc.ab.ca wrote: > > In that scenario, the 512MB of swap I assigned to this machine would be > > dangerously low. > > With 13GB disks available for a couple of hundred bucks, my machines aren't > going to run out of swap space any time s

Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2))

1999-07-16 Thread Narvi
[cc: list trimmed] On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In that scenario, the 512MB of swap I assigned to this machine would be > > dangerously low. > > With 13GB disks available for a couple of hundred bucks, my machines aren't > going to run out of swap space any time soo

Re: vinum performance

1999-06-17 Thread Narvi
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 17 June 1999 at 11:10:08 +0300, Narvi wrote: > > > > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, David E. Cross wrote: > > > >> I have a drive that is rated at ~16 Meg/second, and indeed it delivers on > >> the > >

Re: vinum performance

1999-06-17 Thread Narvi
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, David E. Cross wrote: > I have a drive that is rated at ~16 Meg/second, and indeed it delivers on the > order of 15+ Meg/second. If I use Vinum to create a concatinated device > of 2 such units performance drops to 2.5 Meg/sec. This seems like a > drastic drop in performan

Re: SGI releases source code of OpenVault

1999-06-03 Thread Narvi
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Pavel Narozhniy wrote: > Hello > Free downloads of source code of OpenVault here: > http://www.sgi.com/software/opensource/openvault/ > > Does anybody want to port it to FreeBSD? > > -- > Pavel Narozhniy > nic-hdl: PN395-RIPE > http://www.sumy.net > I guess there migh

Re: Database holywars?

1999-05-21 Thread Narvi
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Dan Moschuk wrote: > > | ¿Have you considered PostgreSQL? It is on the ports collection, and is a > | heavy duty database engine, with transactions, subqueries (only partial > | support), etc. Version 6.5 will be released in about two weeks, and it > | adds MVCC (multi-versi

Re: BSD, GPL, the world today.

1999-05-15 Thread Narvi
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Matt Curtin wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 13 May 1999 10:25:21 -0400, Dennis said: > > > > Dennis> All software has bugs > > > > TeX has no bugs. > > TeX has no *known* bugs. To the best of my knowlege, even Dr. Knuth > has not yet been able to *prove

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-15 Thread Narvi
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 14 May 1999 at 21:15:33 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (May 14), David Scheidt said: > >> On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> :It seems there's a need, and the possibility. Would somebody like > >> :to suggest a syntax