Re: Building v8 on FreeBSD with clang

2012-12-11 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Robert Simmons wrote: > I'm having a problem building google v8 on FreeBSD with clang. I get > this error: > > /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output > clang++: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see > invocation)

Re: Possible obscure socket leak when system under load and listener is slow to accept

2012-12-11 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 09:57:30AM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: R> > lsof and sockstat can be helpful. lsof may be able to help determine if R> > there's a leak because it MAY will find sockets not associated with a R> > process. R> > R> > Hope this helps. R> R> Thanks Alfred. After following

Re: FreeBSD for serious performance?

2012-12-11 Thread Dieter BSD
>>Ronald writes: >>> the last Alpha to be produced was shipped way back in 2004... eight years >>> ago... with a top speed of 1.3 GHz I now have a cheap little media player >>> thingy sitting on my desk, and _each_ of its two cores runs faster than tha\ t. >>> In short, Alphas hardly constitute hig

Re: FreeBSD for serious performance?

2012-12-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
I'm not seeing: * any references to driver code that exhibits that very broken behaviour; * any patches from you to implement NCQ on your nforce chipset; * any offer of incentive to any developer to add that support. Now, (1) is definitely worrying but as you've not provided any actual infor

Re: FreeBSD for serious performance?

2012-12-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Dec-11 15:43:21 -0500, Dieter BSD wrote: >I care about data integrity, so things like ECC are on my must-have list. Well, that's supported by all server CPUs (AMD Opteron, Intel Itanium, Intel Xeon, Oracle/Sun SPARC) and some desktop CPUs (most AMD x86 chips). >A high clock rate doesn't

why is kern.maxproc not read/write?

2012-12-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Eitan was asking me to update the FAQ section 5.7: *5.7.* Why do I get the error "kernel: proc: table is full"? That error is no longer relevant, but I also seemed to find out something else interesting.. Been grepping through the code, and it seems like the only side-effect of maxproc chan