Re: Replacing BIND with unbound

2012-08-06 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Doug Barton wrote: > On 07/07/2012 16:33, Garrett Wollman wrote: >> The utilities (specifically host(1) and dig(1)) are the only >> user-visible interfaces I care about. [...] > ldns (a dependency of unbound) comes with drill, which is a dig-alike > tool. I'd like to see us produce a host-alike ba

Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

2012-06-20 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Mark Linimon wrote: > fwiw, from previous discussions on FreeBSD boot time, ISTR that there > are other places where more time is spent. Some analysis to prove that > indeed the rc subsystem is the dominant term would be a good starting > place. While I don't want to proliferate this thread or ad

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Andy Young wrote: > After using Linux for almost 15 years, I only recently started using > FreeBSD. I own an internet startup and was looking for a solution for > implementing large-scale storage servers. In my research I found ZFS and > subsequently found FreeBSD. As I learned more about it, I wa

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-21 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Da Rock wrote: > I googled a bit and found an old post here from Luigi > (http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd-hackers/2008-11/msg00245.html) which had a > script to do this, but I'm having trouble with it- is anyone familiar > with this? I'm on a bit of a deadline... Can't help you with that script (I

Re: pmc(3): when are the counters updated?

2012-03-12 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Fabien Thomas wrote: >> So, what's going on here? Is this the intended behavior, or can it >> be changed? And how do I get accurate readings? > > If i remember well: > The current code will get real HW PMC if the PMC is running and attached to > owner. > The first case is not true in your code so

pmc(3): when are the counters updated?

2012-03-11 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Hi, folks. I'm trying to use pmc(3) to analyze code fragments, and I've run into strange behavior: the counter values returned by pmc_read(3) sometimes show no increment between readings, but are updated a second later; even if the PMC in question was stopped before. Here's a test program: #i

Re: Concurrent execution of rc-scripts with rcorder(8)

2011-08-24 Thread Vitaly Magerya
> the idea to start services concurrently during boot isn't new and the > question why FreeBSD doesn't do it has popped up on the forum and > mailing list occasionally. So, why not give it a shot? As someone who uses FreeBSD on hist laptop and is constantly annoyed by the lack of suspend-to-disk,

Re: Concurrent execution of rc-scripts with rcorder(8)

2011-08-21 Thread Vitaly Magerya
> I haven't done any measurements yet on how large the speedup is, but booting > feels a bit faster with it. FWIW, my laptop's boot time (from pressing "power" to seeing login prompt) is reduced from 44s to 37s (out of which, first 20-25s are kernel booting). __

Re: OpenGrok for FreeBSD

2011-05-17 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Zafer Aydoğan wrote: > Hmm... there seems to be very little interest so far. FWIW, I find this tool useful, but since it's most helpful when you need to dig into a previously unknown portion of code, which doesn't happen that often, it's reasonable to expect infrequent usage -- don't mistake that

Re: To sendmail or to postfix that is the question?

2010-03-10 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Steven Hartland wrote: > A few key question come to mind:- > 1. Has sendmail's config moved away from the black art > it once was? No. > 2. Is postfix that much easier? Yes. > 3. What would people use for: > 3.1. POP / IMAP support? Dovecot. As a bonus, Postfix can use Dovecot's SASL for authe