Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-06 Thread Robert Ryan
Fellow FreeBSD developers, I hate to say I told you but it was inevitable. Check this out: http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/gmcgarry/ As I predicted more than a year ago FreeBSD 5.3 has finally lost its only advantage: performance. NetBSD 2.0 shows that when you write code the right way and end up wi

Re: Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-06 Thread Nguyen Tam Chinh
Please don't treat this seriously. Benchmarks are just benchmarks. But the benchmarks and comparison, widespreaded through sites like slashdot or osnews, sometimes affect the interest and view point of some new and potential users. May be we should do some full benchmarks as an answer and to rev

Changes to /usr/src/sbin/md5.c

2005-01-06 Thread thib
Hello list. I made some changes to md5(1) wich adds a new feature for comparing inputfiles e.g: [EMAIL PROTECTED] md5]$ ./md5 -c md5 md5.o md5.c md5 MD5 (md5) = 9d99179604174013a053b67a5c6fb3cd [TEST CASE] MD5 (md5.o) = e8458dfaa035ea49a3704384ca044a73 [DID NOT MATCH] MD5 (md5.c) = 3ebe0b86

write retry on filesystem

2005-01-06 Thread Siddharth Aggarwal
Hi, I have a pseudo disk driver that does a copy on write to a log device. I want to disable further retries to write if the disk space on the log device is full. I have inserted the following code into the strategy routine For this I have set the error code and also set the resid to zero, thin

Re: Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-06 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
PS: if I've offended anyone (yeah, I singled a few out) , prove me wrong, but spare me your insultedness. It's become a pathetic hobby in -core. Benchmark are made to be put into perspective, although everybody has a right to say what he wants to say, this doesn't mean that you have to say

Re: Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-06 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: Please don't treat this seriously. Benchmarks are just benchmarks. But the benchmarks and comparison, widespreaded through sites like slashdot or osnews, sometimes affect the interest and view point of some new and potential users. May be we should do some full benchmarks

Re: Freeze when using atapicam

2005-01-06 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:26:00PM +0100, Olivier Certner wrote: +> Hello all, +> +> Would someone have the time to look at my previous post dated January 4th, +> 15:43 GMT on the freebsd-questions mailing list? (I haven't read you post on questions@, but...) I've a hang on boot when I use ata

GNUstep and libkvm

2005-01-06 Thread Pascal Hofstee
For the last couple of days i have been looking into why the gnustep-gui-port actually Needs procfs mounted in order to successfully build and i managed to track the problem down to being inside libkvm. I am however no kernel hacker and my gdb-skills have left me hanging at a point where i simply c

Re: Benchmark: NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-06 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:57:26AM +, Robert Ryan wrote: > I hate to say I told you but it was inevitable. I think so Brain, but I don't think Netcraft has confirmed it yet? -- Edwin Groothuis |Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Weblog:

Re: GNUstep and libkvm

2005-01-06 Thread Pascal Hofstee
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 05:19:52 +, Christian S.J. Peron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > iirc, kvm_getargv() can (and does first) use a sysctl to retrieve > it's data. kvm_getenvv() requires procfs because > /proc//mem is currently the more simpler to read a virtual > memory address in the context o