Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-07 Thread perryh
Ivan Voras wrote: > On 05/10/2011 09:38, Trond Endrest??l wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:54+1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> In my experience ncsd seems to cache negative hits forever, > >> regardless of the setting for negative-time-to-live. > > > > I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who h

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-07 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:05 PM, wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> On 05/10/2011 09:38, Trond Endrest??l wrote: >> > On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:54+1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> >> In my experience ncsd seems to cache negative hits forever, >> >> regardless of the setting for negative-time-to-live. >> >

Re: Fwd: my git development snapshot(s)

2011-10-07 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 15:41:41 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > >> On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:52:43 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> On Thu, Sep

Re: my git development snapshot(s)

2011-10-07 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 00:29:46 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > > Just decided to follow the global trends and trying to throw all of my > > local/private changes at you in hope that the "crowd-sourcing magic" might > > somehow happ

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-07 Thread Michael Bushkov
While I agree that nscd negative caching bug should be fixed, it won't help with the problem that users encounter during ports installation. When, for example, user "x" is added during port install, the following steps are involved: 1. Script checks if "x" is present in the users list. Nscd is quer

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-07 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 00:44:10 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 04), Trond Endrestol said: > > On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:51+0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > Trond Endrestol writes: > > > > It's in daily use at Gjovik Technical College (Fagskolen i Gjovik), > > > > here in Norw

MAC Framework, retreiving information from sysctl

2011-10-07 Thread s
Hi, Once again I would like to ask some question about kernel module programming using the MAC framework - but this time it may not be strictly related to MAC. So, I have made a simple security module (which I will publish as soon as I'll finish it), and now I'd like to have some nice tool t

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-07 Thread Chris Rees
On 7 Oct 2011 08:13, wrote: > > Ivan Voras wrote: > > On 05/10/2011 09:38, Trond Endrest??l wrote: > > > On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:54+1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > >> In my experience ncsd seems to cache negative hits forever, > > >> regardless of the setting for negative-time-to-live. > > > > > >

Re: mmap performance and memory use

2011-10-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You are correct about the page table page.  However, a superpage mapping consumes a single PV entry, in place of 512 or 1024 PV entries.  This winds up saving about three physical pages worth of memory for every superpage mapping. does it actually work? simple test before (only idle system w

Re: mmap performance and memory use

2011-10-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 04:41:45PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > i have few questions. > > > > 1) suppose i map 1TB of address space as anonymous and touch just one > > page. how much memory is used to manage this? > I am not sure how d

Using Valgrind on FreeBSD

2011-10-07 Thread Mustafa Reşit Şahin
Hello All, I am trying to run Valgrind on FreeBSD. I am getting the error about ksem_open which i stated below. I have searched for a solution to be able to solve this problem and found the calgrind patch. I could not found the instructions to apply this patch. How can i use valgrind on Free

Re: Using Valgrind on FreeBSD

2011-10-07 Thread mdf
2011/10/7 Mustafa Reşit Şahin : > I am trying to run Valgrind on FreeBSD. I am getting the error about > ksem_open which i stated below. I have searched for  a solution to be able > to solve this problem and found the calgrind patch. I could not found the > instructions to apply this patch. How can

USENIX WebApps '12 Call for Papers Now Available

2011-10-07 Thread Lionel Garth Jones
On behalf of the Program Committee, I would like to invite you to submit your work to the 3rd USENIX Conference on Web Application Development (WebApps '12). Like the inaugural WebApps '10 and '11, WebApps '12 seeks to attract cutting-edge research that advances the state of the art, not only of n

Power usage on FreeBSD

2011-10-07 Thread Harald Servat
Dear hackers, does anyone know if I can measure power consumption of the processor via software by using FreeBSD on a Intel Core i5? Any pointer on this, or other architectures, will be welcome. Thank you very much in advance! -- Fry: You can see how I lived before I met you. Bender: You liv