Re: UTC time in crontabs

2000-01-10 Thread Bjorn Danielsson
"Daniel C. Sobral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bjorn Danielsson wrote: > > > > I have made a small patch (about 10 lines of code) to "cron" that lets > > people choose between localtime and gmtime for their crontab entries. > > The choice is made depending on the setting of an environment variab

Re: moving CVS repository

2000-01-10 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Nate Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Or even more paranoid and slightly shorter. ;) > find /local2/CVSfoo -name Root -print | fgrep CVS | > perl -pi -e 's#/local#/local2/#g;' Hehe, yes ;-) But, as bp mentioned already in IRC: find /path/to/checked/out/files/and/not/the/reposi

Project UDI?

2000-01-10 Thread Peter da Silva
Anyone had a look at this? http://www.project-udi.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Project UDI?

2000-01-10 Thread Matthew Jacob
Yes, I've looked at it. It's a very bad idea. I know some of the people involved, and I spent a substantial portion of the early 90's running aroudn doing the DDI at Sun with the notion it would bring a grand interface for all Unices etc... I've seen many, many, efforts in this area. I belie

Re: Project UDI?

2000-01-10 Thread Peter da Silva
> Yes, I've looked at it. It's a very bad idea. I know some of the people > involved, and I spent a substantial portion of the early 90's running > aroudn doing the DDI at Sun with the notion it would bring a grand > interface for all Unices etc... I've seen many, many, efforts in this > area.

Re: Project UDI?

2000-01-10 Thread Matthew Jacob
Mike Smith has been interested in getting FreeBSD involved in this. My attitude has been "Over my dead body" (you have to watch out saying things like that- someone might respond with, "Uh, okay") On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Peter da Silva wrote: > > Yes, I've looked at it. It's a very bad ide

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-10 Thread Matthew Reimer
The Netgear FS105 five-port 100BaseTX switch is $84.95 at buy.com (http://www.buy.com/comp/product.asp?SKU=10221960), though they are back-ordered. Matt Alex Zepeda wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > I have a good reason to revive this thread. I thought anyone who followe

Re: Project UDI?

2000-01-10 Thread Wes Peters
Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Mike Smith has been interested in getting FreeBSD involved in this. My > attitude has been "Over my dead body" (you have to watch out saying > things like that- someone might respond with, "Uh, okay") Uh, okay. Anything to help Mike out. ;^) -- "W

Inspiron 7000 ALT/Windows keys

2000-01-10 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> "Kazutaka" == Kazutaka YOKOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kazutaka> In what environment do you have the problem? It's coming from the keyboard drivers itself. (I.e. I see the behaviour when logged in on ttyv*.) Kazutaka> If you Kazutaka> have the problem in the X session, it

Re: moving CVS repository

2000-01-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alexander Langer writes: : Thus spake Nate Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): : > Or even more paranoid and slightly shorter. ;) : > find /local2/CVSfoo -name Root -print | fgrep CVS | : > perl -pi -e 's#/local#/local2/#g;' Yes, but older Repository files must also

Re: Project UDI?

2000-01-10 Thread Mike Smith
> > Anyone had a look at this? > > http://www.project-udi.org/ Yes; I've been talking with various of the UDI folks off and on for several years now. It's an interesting project, and may offer us a canned solution for our next major driver architecture upheaval. At the moment, however, the

Re: Project UDI?

2000-01-10 Thread Mike Smith
As I hope I conveyed in my initial reply to Peter; I think the UDI architecture is interesting, and may have something for us to learn from next time we feel the need to restructure our driver architecture. UDI's real strengths are likely to show up as we try to improve our multiprocessor perfor

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-10 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Matthew Reimer wrote: > The Netgear FS105 five-port 100BaseTX switch is $84.95 at buy.com > (http://www.buy.com/comp/product.asp?SKU=10221960), though they are > back-ordered. Sure, but these were in stock. :^) - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

2000-01-10 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Matthew Reimer wrote: > The Netgear FS105 five-port 100BaseTX switch is $84.95 at buy.com > (http://www.buy.com/comp/product.asp?SKU=10221960), though they are > back-ordered. And I hate to reply twice, but the switch I bought (EZXS55W) is listed at $76.95. Hmm. :) - alex

Re: AIO was Re: Kernel threads

2000-01-10 Thread Arjan de Vet
Christopher Sedore wrote: >On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Arjan de Vet wrote: > >> Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> >> >This is very interesting data and I was just wondering about the >> >actual state of functionality in our AIO code just the other day, >> >oddly enough. Does anyone have a PR# for the mention

Re: Project UDI?

2000-01-10 Thread Alex
Wes Peters wrote: > > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > Mike Smith has been interested in getting FreeBSD involved in this. My > > attitude has been "Over my dead body" (you have to watch out saying > > things like that- someone might respond with, "Uh, okay") > > Uh, okay. Anything to help

Re: AIO was Re: Kernel threads

2000-01-10 Thread Jason Evans
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 10:48:29PM +0100, Arjan de Vet wrote: > Christopher Sedore wrote: > > >On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Arjan de Vet wrote: > > > >> Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >> > >> >This is very interesting data and I was just wondering about the > >> >actual state of functionality in our AIO code

Re: Project UDI?

2000-01-10 Thread Matthew Jacob
> convince us that we should abandon our _very_ thin driver architecture > for one that's at least an order of magnitude more complex. Thin is not necessarily bad as it leaves a lot of room to maneuver. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the

Re: Project UDI?

2000-01-10 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Alex wrote: > Wes Peters wrote: > > > > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > Mike Smith has been interested in getting FreeBSD involved in this. My > > > attitude has been "Over my dead body" (you have to watch out saying > > > things like that- someone might respond with, "

Concept check: iothreads addition to pthreads for MYSQL+FreeBSD.

2000-01-10 Thread Scott Hess
Recently I was tasked to find a way to scale up our MYSQL server, running MYSQL3.22.15 on FreeBSD3.3. I've been testing a hardware RAID solution, and found that with 6 disks in a RAID5 configuration, the system was only perhaps 30% faster than when running on a single disk. [The 6 disks in the R

Re: Concept check: iothreads addition to pthreads for MYSQL+FreeBSD.

2000-01-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Recently I was tasked to find a way to scale up our MYSQL server, running :MYSQL3.22.15 on FreeBSD3.3. I've been testing a hardware RAID solution, :and found that with 6 disks in a RAID5 configuration, the system was only :perhaps 30% faster than when running on a single disk. [The 6 disks in t

Re: Concept check: iothreads addition to pthreads for MYSQL+FreeBSD.

2000-01-10 Thread jasone
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 03:20:38PM -0800, Scott Hess wrote: > I've implemented a rough fix, which is to rfork() processes which I label > "iothreads" to handle the disk I/O. The parent process running pthreads > has a socketpair() to each of the iothreads. The iothreads wait for > requests on th

Re: Concept check: iothreads addition to pthreads for MYSQL+FreeBSD.

2000-01-10 Thread John Polstra
In article <1a6101bf5bc1$4e364b20$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've implemented a rough fix, which is to rfork() processes which I label > "iothreads" to handle the disk I/O. The parent process running pthreads > has a socketpair() to each of the iothreads. The

Re: Project UDI?

2000-01-10 Thread f.johan.beisser
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Alex wrote: > Wes Peters wrote: > > > > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > Mike Smith has been interested in getting FreeBSD involved in this. My > > > attitude has been "Over my dead body" (you have to watch out saying > > > things like that- someone might respond with,

Re: Concept check: iothreads addition to pthreads for MYSQL+FreeBSD.

2000-01-10 Thread Patryk Zadarnowski
> Recently I was tasked to find a way to scale up our MYSQL server, running > MYSQL3.22.15 on FreeBSD3.3. I've been testing a hardware RAID solution, > and found that with 6 disks in a RAID5 configuration, the system was only > perhaps 30% faster than when running on a single disk. [The 6 disks

Re: Concept check: iothreads addition to pthreads for MYSQL+FreeBSD.

2000-01-10 Thread Scott Hess
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) Does anyone have suggestions for a solution that will be cleaner and > > won't take man-months to implement? [Which is the redeeming quality of > > what I've got - it took me two days to zero in on a very workable > > solution.] > > Have you tried the linuxthread

Re: Concept check: iothreads addition to pthreads for MYSQL+FreeBSD.

2000-01-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
:find :> linuxthreads to meet your needs at the moment. : :That's being tested in parallel. The main issue with LinuxThreads is that :we'd go from running ~25 processes on this server to running ~800. Yes, but they are rfork(RF_MEM)'d processes - they share a lot of context between them

Re: Concept check: iothreads addition to pthreads for MYSQL+FreeBSD.

2000-01-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000110 16:04] wrote: > :Recently I was tasked to find a way to scale up our MYSQL server, running > :MYSQL3.22.15 on FreeBSD3.3. I've been testing a hardware RAID solution, > :and found that with 6 disks in a RAID5 configuration, the system was only > :perhap

Re: Concept check: iothreads addition to pthreads for MYSQL+FreeBSD.

2000-01-10 Thread Chris Dillon
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Scott Hess wrote: > 4) Is there anyone willing to commit to testing my modified pthreads > library against MYSQL? [I'll be stress testing it quite heavily, of > course. It would probably also be testable against Squid with async I/O > and multithreaded Apache 2.0.] I'm wil

Concept check: iothreads addition to pthreads for MYSQL+FreeBSD.

2000-01-10 Thread Michael Widenius
> "Scott" == Scott Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Scott> Recently I was tasked to find a way to scale up our MYSQL server, running Scott> MYSQL3.22.15 on FreeBSD3.3. I've been testing a hardware RAID solution, Scott> and found that with 6 disks in a RAID5 configuration, the system was only

Re: Concept check: iothreads addition to pthreads for MYSQL+FreeBSD.

2000-01-10 Thread Scott Hess
Patryk Zadarnowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm no expert on pthreads, but, if you decide to proceed with > implementing a mixed user-land/rfork pthread implementation, may I > suggest that you implement is through POSIX pthread_attr_setscope() > interfaces instead of some local extension. pth

Re: Project UDI?

2000-01-10 Thread Wes Peters
"f.johan.beisser" wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Alex wrote: > > > Wes Peters wrote: > > > > > > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > > > Mike Smith has been interested in getting FreeBSD involved in this. My > > > > attitude has been "Over my dead body" (you have to watch out saying > > > > th

Re: Concept check: iothreads addition to pthreads for MYSQL+FreeBSD.

2000-01-10 Thread Chris Sedore
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > > 1) Does this seem like a reasonable approach? [It _works_, and well. But > > it tastes strongly of hack.] > > I'm not very fond of this approach to the problem, though it can work, as > you note. Asynchronous I/O is in my opinion a much

useful addition to mergemaster (patch included)?

2000-01-10 Thread John and Jennifer Reynolds
Hi all, I was tinkering with mergemaster tonight adding in something that seems useful to me. I track -stable and have found mergemaster very valuable--however, sometimes choosing 'd' over and over again for things I don't want touched (like root's .profile or .cshrc or /etc/networks, etc.) can

rfork() [was: Concept check]

2000-01-10 Thread Michael Bacarella
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > :I've implemented a rough fix, which is to rfork() processes which I label [snip] > > > > The linuxthreads port is at least four times faster and, since it uses > > rfork(), will be I/O optimal. However, since only FreeBSD-4.x implements