Re: SMP Version of tar

2012-10-02 Thread Adrian Chadd
.. please keep in mind that embedded platforms (a) don't necessarily benefit from it, and (b) have a very small footprint. Bloating out the compression/archival tools for the sake of possible SMP support will make me very, very sad. Adrian ___ freebsd-

Re: SMP Version of tar

2012-10-02 Thread Brandon Falk
Don't worry. I'm well known to over-optimize for both size and speed. I have an old Pentium 3 800MHz single core that I can use to simulate an embedded device (well, a decently powered one), to verify that I'm not killing the single-core performance (I could add CPU capability detection to help

Re: SMP Version of tar

2012-10-02 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:16:53PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > * Implement within libarchive directly. This would benefit tar and > a handful of other programs that use libarchive, but may not be > worth the complexity. The complexity shouldn't actually be that bad. Basically, use a la

Re: NFS server bottlenecks

2012-10-02 Thread Rick Macklem
Garrett Wollman wrote: > I had an email conversation with Rick Macklem about six months ago > about NFS server bottlenecks. I'm now in a position to observe my > large-scale NFS server under an actual production load, so I thought I > would update folks on what it looks like. This is a 9.1 prerelea

Re: Fwd: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program

2012-10-02 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday, October 01, 2012 6:31:00 pm Simon J. Gerraty wrote: > Hi Garrett, > > >> From: Garrett Cooper > >> Subject: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple = > >programs instead of a singular program > >> Date: September 2, 2012 11:01:09 PM PDT > >> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.o

Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program

2012-10-02 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: >>> Not to mention the fact that bsd.prog.mk goes from being relatively >>> simple, to unspeakably hard to read, and all for rather limited = >>return. > > This btw I think is the more important issue. > I was looking at bsd.prog.mk in netbsd

Re: Fwd: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program

2012-10-02 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:50 AM, John Baldwin wrote: ... > This sounds like a superior approach. It doesn't break any current use > cases while giving the ability to build multiple programs in the few > places that need it. It sounds like there are a few places under gnu/ > from Garrett's reply

Re: Fwd: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program

2012-10-02 Thread Simon J. Gerraty
On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 07:50:23 -0400, John Baldwin writes: >BTW, one general comment. There seem to be two completely independent >groups of folks working on ATF (e.g. there have been two different >imports of ATF into the tree in two different locations IIRC, and now >we have two different sets of

Re: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program

2012-10-02 Thread Simon J. Gerraty
On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 07:19:55 -0700, Garrett Cooper writes: >> We put the test cases in a subdir of the lib/prog >> This has multiple benefits, and eliminates any impact on the normal >> build of said libs/progs. > >Hmmm... that's one of the 3 approaches I provided, but it turned out >to be annoying

Re: Fwd: [CFT/RFC]: refactor bsd.prog.mk to understand multiple programs instead of a singular program

2012-10-02 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday, October 02, 2012 10:29:49 am Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:50 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > ... > > > This sounds like a superior approach. It doesn't break any current use > > cases while giving the ability to build multiple programs in the few > > places that need

Re: NFS server bottlenecks

2012-10-02 Thread Garrett Wollman
[Adding freebsd-fs@ to the Cc list, which I neglected the first time around...] < said: > I can't remember (I am early retired now;-) if I mentioned this patch before: > http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/drc.patch > It adds tunables vfs.nfsd.tcphighwater and vfs.nfsd.udphighwater that can >