Gordon Tetlow writes:
> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>> [Charles C. Figueire]
>>> c) A filesystem that will be fast in light of tens of thousands of
>>>files in a single directory (maybe even hundreds of thousands)
>>
>> I think we can more than hold our own with UFS + soft upd
Jason Andresen writes:
> "Albert D. Cahalan" wrote:
>> It should be immediately obvious that ext2 is NOT the filesystem
>> being proposed, async or not. For large directories, ext2 sucks
>> as bad as UFS does. This is because ext2 is a UFS clone.
>>
>
Shannon Hendrix writes:
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:03:33PM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote:
>> Here's the results I got from postmark, which seems to be the closest
>> match to the original problem in the entire ports tree.
>>
>> Test setup:
>> Two machines with the same make and model hardware,
Terry Lambert writes:
> I don't understand the inability to perform the trivial
> design engineering necessary to keep from needing to put
> 60,000 files in one directory.
>
> However, we can take it as a given that people who need
> to do this are incapable of doing computer science.
One could
> This "postmark" test is useless self flagellation.
The benchmark tests what it was meant to test: performance
on huge directories.
> The intent of the "test" is obviously intended to show
> certain facts which we all know to be self-evident under
> strange load conditions which are patently "
Giorgos Keramidas writes:
> Installing an operating system (be it FreeBSD, linux, Windows or what
> else) and failing to tune the system to perform as good as possible
> for the application, is no decent way of doing a benchmark. And when
> is comes to benchmarks, you have to tune ALL the syste
Wes Peters writes:
> "Albert D. Cahalan" wrote:
>> No, no, no. You have to tune the systems EQUALLY. Um, how? :-)
>>
>> What if some random admin was picked to tune the systems?
>> Maybe he is a Solaris admin, but he honestly tries to tune
>> the other
With gratuitously non-standard quoting which I fixed, Matt Dillon writes:
> [Matthew Hagerty]
>> Here is a surprisingly unbiased article comparing OSes running
>> hard core network apps. The results are kind of disturbing,
>> with FreeBSD (4.2) coming in last against Linux (RH), Win2k,
>> and S
E.B. Dreger writes:
> If the programmers who wrote that software used poll() on FreeBSD 4.2,
> then I'd say that they need to RTFM and learn about kernel queues and
> accept filters.
You mean they should just optimize for FreeBSD, or should they also
use completion ports on Win2K, /dev/poll on
Brad Knowles writes:
> It gets far, far better than this. I misunderstood some of the
> details of the article the first time I read it. It turns out that
> the morons have written an SMTP MTA that keeps all writes in memory
> and never flushes them to disk.
...
> Go home, t
Bernd Walter writes:
>On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 08:02:20AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 02:59:57PM -0700, Rich Morin wrote:
>>> I have a luggable FireWire drive which I am considering using for
>>> backups and data mobility on a variety of machines and operating
>>> s
Peter Pentchev writes:
> As you can see, I'm passing a short i as a first arg, a short f
> as second, and a short b as third; and yet, gcc with BDECFLAGS
> complains about ALL the arguments!
Yes, no kidding. That's what you asked gcc to do.
`-Wconversion'
Warn if a prototype caus
Terry Lambert writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> There are only two shared libaries in common (libc and libm) and
>> both are the same on FreeBSD (in /compat/linux) and Linux.
>>
>> So any ideas on where the program is going wrong?
>
> man fpsetround
That won't change a thing. Both systems r
Terry Lambert writes:
> "Albert D. Cahalan" wrote:
>>> The defaults for the Linux emulator are different than
>>> the defaults for Linux. Linux sets some stuff up wrong,
>>
>> FreeBSD sets stuff up wrong. This is a choice between bad
>> and wo
Erik Greenwald writes:
> [Erik Greenwald too]
>> I'm using both of those (iwill kk266) with a thunderbird 850, and
>> haven't had problems in fbsd. Linux flakes out a bit when I tell
>> it I have a k7 processor, so I told it I have a k6 and it works fine.
>
> sorry, this thread was supposed to s
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