Hello Everyone,
While talking to a friend about what his company is planning to do,
I found out that he is planning a 70TB filesystem/servers/cluster/db.
(Yes, seventy t-e-r-a-b-y-t-e...)
Apparently, he has files that go up to 2gb each, and actually require
such a horribly sized cluster.
If he
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:39:02AM -0500, Mitch Collinsworth scribbled:
| You didn't say what applications this thing is going to support.
| That does matter. A lot. One thing worth looking at is AFS,
| or maybe MR-AFS. And now OpenAFS.
He has database(s) of graphics simulation results. i.e. l
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:47:58AM -0500, Mitch Collinsworth scribbled:
| On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Michael C . Wu wrote:
| > On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 10:39:02AM -0500, Mitch Collinsworth scribbled:
| > | You didn't say what applications this thing is going to support.
| > | That does
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:16:44PM -0800, Dan Phoenix scribbled:
| I went over to postfix to see if it did better.in fact it did on
| freebsd but still same problem with I/O. SOlution from talking to some
| people late last night would be to add another harddrive and stripe it
| with another d
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 05:55:14PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo scribbled:
| > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wilko Bulte writes:
| > : Is it possible to have something like the 'camcontrol rescan' that
| > : the SCSI CAM subsystem has?
| >
| > NO. These cards are not hot pluggable. I've blown out two ID
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 07:40:16PM +0100, Torbjorn Kristoffersen scribbled:
| Hi I'm using 4.2-RELEASE, with a parallel port ZIP drive (100M).
| Whenever I copy a large file from the zip drive (for example /dev/da0s1),
| the "cp" process eats 98% of the system resources. What's behind all this?
|
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:17:38AM -0800, John Wilson scribbled:
| If you still have the Perforce->CVS conversion script, I would be very
| grateful if you could e-mail it to me.
Such a script is available for download on www.perforce.com.
| On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:13:39 +0100, Anton Berezin wrote
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 08:53:09PM +0100, Maxime Henrion scribbled:
| talk(1) uses the isprint() function to determine if a character is
| printable. If it's not, it outputs '^' followed by the character without
| his 8th bit. However, isprint() and friends are broken currently on
| FreeBSD (at l
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:47:46PM -0800, Jaime Fournier scribbled:
| Well, I work for IBM for 4 years, and at one time they
| did not know what Linux was. I run freebsd at work on
| my workstation, and have to pass it off as a "linux
| distribution" in order for people to understand what
| it is
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:05:24PM -0500, James Howard scribbled:
| On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Wes Peters wrote:
|
| > You don't even have to overwrite it some times. Accessing word-size-only
| > registers in memory a byte at a time can cause a bus error and panic...
|
| I have never worked with FreeB
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:03:33PM +, E.B. Dreger scribbled:
| Bear with me and allow me my delusions while I daydream...
|
| What with FPGA technology as reasonable as it is, and the amount of hw/sw
| talent on these lists, maybe people should band together and come up with
| a NIC? Maybe h
[Lengthy email, bear with me please, it is quite interesting.
This box averages 30.0 load with no problems.]
system stats at
http://zoo.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~keichii/
Hello Everyone,
I have a friend who admins a very heavily loaded BBS server.
(In Taiwan, BBS'es are still very popular, because they
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:11:44AM -0600, Michael C . Wu scribbled:
| system stats at
| http://zoo.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~keichii/
| It runs an self-wrote PERL SMTP daemon. (Sendmail and Postfix croaks)
| SMTPD pipes the mail to "bbsmail" that delivers the mail to
| BBS users. SMTPd aver
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:27:17AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein scribbled:
| * Michael C . Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010320 09:11] wrote:
| > [Lengthy email, bear with me please, it is quite interesting.
| > This box averages 30.0 load with no problems.]
|
| cool..
|
FreeBSD zoo.ee.nt
MRTG Graph at
http://zoonews.ee.ntu.edu.tw/mrtg/zoo.html
|
| FreeBSD zoo.ee.ntu.edu.tw 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE
| #0: Tue Mar 20 11:10:46 CST 2001 root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/SimFarm i386
|
| | > system stats at
| | > http://zoo.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~keichii/
| md0/MFS is used for caching t
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:48:37AM -0800, Ted Faber scribbled:
| On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:38:18AM -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote:
| > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:27:17AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein scribbled:
| > | * Michael C . Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010320 09:11] wrote:
| > | >
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:09:09AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein scribbled:
| * Michael C . Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010320 10:01] wrote:
| > MRTG Graph at
| > http://zoonews.ee.ntu.edu.tw/mrtg/zoo.html
| >
| > |
| > | FreeBSD zoo.ee.ntu.edu.tw 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE
| >
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:50:51AM -0800, Matt Dillon scribbled:
| One thing that comes to mind is that you can smarthost your outgoing
| email to another host so the queues don't build up. This should
| greatly reduce mail load. In fact, I would recommend offloading email
| enti
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:15:27AM -0800, Matt Dillon scribbled:
|
| :Another problem is that we have around 4000+ processes accessing
| :lots of SHM at the same time..
|
| How big is 'lots'? If the shared memory segment is smallish, e.g.
| less then 64MB, you should be ok. If it is la
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:38:35AM -0800, Matt Dillon scribbled:
|
| :| How big is 'lots'? If the shared memory segment is smallish, e.g.
| :| less then 64MB, you should be ok. If it is larger then you will
| :| have to do some kernel tuning to avoid running out of pmap entries.
| :
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 01:31:45PM -0300, Rik van Riel scribbled:
| On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Peter Wemm wrote:
For those interested in this system:
I have put up the kernel profiles at
http://zoo.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~keichii/kernel_profiles/
This is kgmon -rb ;sleep 30;kgmon -hp ran every minute on the s
Just an update on the lovely loaded BBS server.
We made our record-breaking number of users last night.
After implementing the changes suggested, and kqueue'ifying
the BBS daemon. We saw a dramatic increase in server power.
Top number of users was 4704 users. Serving SSH, HTTP, SMTP, innd, B
Hi Everyone,
This is the famous bbs with high loads. We upgraded to 4.3-RC
recently.
The user level we have at this point is not that much compared
to before. 2000 users is what we can usually take on without
problems. Now we panic() 20 times a day.
FreeBSD zoo.ee.ntu.edu.tw 4.3-RC FreeBSD 4
Hello Everyone,
As the institution that I work at is considering to build a
new parallel computing cluster, I would like to push for a
FreeBSD one. I know that there are several FreeBSD clusters
out there. And I would like to talk to the people who use
or run such clusters to better understand
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 02:12:59PM -0300, Rik van Riel scribbled:
| Hi,
|
| better back out SMPng real fast, otherwise you'll get into a
| flamewar with Dennis again ;)
|
| Riki
What? You mean we cannot share development and progress? :)
If FreeBSD can't contribute anything else, we will contri
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:49:04PM -0700, Jeremiah Gowdy scribbled:
| I'd like to know if anyone's considering support for the new AMD
| Sledgehammer/Clawhammer/*hammer with x86-64 architecture. I know the new
| hammer cpus will run as _very_ fast x86-32 processors, and FreeBSD would run
| happil
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:24:18PM +0200, Remy Nonnenmacher scribbled:
| On 17 Apr, Andrew Hesford wrote:
| > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:49:04PM -0700, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
| For sure. Look at how it's pretty more easy to use an ARM or MIPS core
| to handle gluelessly the PCI, SDRAM, Flash etc...
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:23:52PM -0500, Andrew Hesford scribbled:
| On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 06:08:36PM -0500, Michael C . Wu wrote:
| The future isn't FPGAs; it's GaAs BJT circuitry, designed and built by
| the guys who have money to set up a fab and roll out millions of chips.
| It
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 06:51:27PM -0700, David O'Brien scribbled:
| On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:59:06PM -0500, Michael C . Wu wrote:
| > IIRC, KA-64 does not even have an emulator yet.
|
| Are you making a distinction between emulator and simulator? Such that
| SimNow! and VirtuHamm
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:09:32PM -0400, Sergey Babkin scribbled:
| "Michael C . Wu" wrote:
| >
| > With the branch prediction, cache tracing, and EPIC instructions,
| > you really want to use an ILP compiler. Without a compiler that
| > can decide on good ways to output
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:10:21PM +0200, Remy Nonnenmacher scribbled:
| On 26 Apr, Michael C . Wu wrote:
| > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:24:18PM +0200, Remy Nonnenmacher scribbled:
| > | On 17 Apr, Andrew Hesford wrote:
| > | > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:49:04PM -0700, Jeremiah Gowd
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 04:13:29PM -, list tracker scribbled:
|
| I have two pc card NICs in my system - ep0 and wi0. All of the normal
| problems (irq, etc.) have been solved, and I am using them beautifully.
|
| The problem is, I would like to use the pccard_ifconfig directive to
| conf
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:24:29PM -, list tracker scribbled:
| So what you are saying is that there _is not_ any way to perform multiple
| pccard_ifconfig statements solely in /etc/rc.conf ?
|
| I feel that defining it in /etc/rc.conf is more elegant, and am surprised
| that it was built t
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:10:38PM +0100, daniel lawrence scribbled:
| This is probably a long shot, but I'll ask anyway. We have 3 HP9000/L1000
| machines which we may be able to make available (serial console and network)
| for some kind of BSD porting project.
|
| I know it is probably off the
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:14:06PM +, E.B. Dreger scribbled:
| > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:14:58 -0700
| > From: Matthew Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The issue is a lot more complicated than what you think.
This actually is a big issue in our future SMP implementation.
There are two types of p
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:47:49AM +, E.B. Dreger scribbled:
| 1. Is AIO SMP-safe?
AIO is not safe, SMP or not.
| 2. If not, how could one force coherency? (Read and rewrite locked
|a word from each cache line?) Is it worth the effort, or should
|one not use AIO across process boun
Hi all,
I am working on completing a BSDL'ed implementation
of wchar* that is *not* broken. However,
I could not find a free copy of ANSI C library standard.
I was wondering if anyone has an electronic copy of
ANSI/ISO/IEC 9899-1999 Programming Languages - C
and the related POSIX documents. (Y
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 08:23:39PM +, Dan Evensen scribbled:
| I stand by my opinion. I live in Free Country with a free voice. I stand by
| what I said. There are millions of deserving people in this world. If this
| person is so good WHY cant they afford a Laptop Successful people could.
B
[cc'ed to -hackers because I know that not everyone reads -i18n]
Hello everyone,
I am trying to collect various dotfiles (.cshrc, .profile, .Xresources,
.Xdefaults, ~/.*) for various language localization groups.
As I discussed with Nik Clayton, I hope to create
/usr/share/skel/{chinese, japanese
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 02:26:18AM +0300, Olexander Kunytsa scribbled:
| On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Nik Clayton wrote:
| > > I am trying to collect various dotfiles (.cshrc, .profile, .Xresources,
| > > .Xdefaults, ~/.*) for various language localization groups.
| > > As I discussed with Nik Clayton, I
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:35:41PM +, Terry Lambert scribbled:
| > > BTW, we didn't fare very well at all in the top *average*
| > > uptimes. Sun OTOH, did. Bugger.
| >
| > IMO, this can be plausibly explained by the availability of updated
| > code for the two platforms. With Sun they release
>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 05:59:57PM -0500
X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20
X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20
[Moving to -net, please remove -hackers cc when replying]
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 05:59:57PM -0500, Andrew Sporner scribbled:
| Hi,
|
Hello guys,
I have been working on merging the CITRUS locale/wchar/iconv
patches into -current.
Here is the patch, please test and comment.
http://iteration.net/~keichii/src.diff.keichii.citrus.20001108.bz2
Thanks,
--
+--+
| [EMAIL
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 04:36:57PM +0100, Koster, K.J. scribbled:
| > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-12-09-013-20-NW-GN-KN
| > Device drivers in Perl. What a spectacularly bad idea. ;^)
| That's what people used to say about writing kernels in C.
There is a difference between (
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:50:20PM +, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios
scribbled:
| i am planning a very big email server, currently i am planning for about
| 8*2^16 users.
[snip]
| What you wizard have to say about my approach?
Why would you not want to have a distributed server in th
[sent to -small too]
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:04:20PM -0800, Devin Butterfield scribbled:
| Jordan Hubbard wrote:
| > > Is there any work in progress to support running FreeBSD on ARM
| > > processors? If not, are there any plans to? I would be very interested
| > > in helping out with such an
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 02:19:02PM -0700, Warner Losh scribbled:
| In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Michael C
| . Wu" writes:
| : IIRC, NetBSD doesn't have the newer StrongARM SA-11xx ports.
| : And that's why we have to work from ARM/Linux.
|
| In conversations that I
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 05:21:27PM -0700, Warner Losh scribbled:
| In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Michael C . Wu" writes:
| : Just an idea/question:
| : Can we possibly use crunchgen to generate a big binary for userland tools
| : only? Then we can drop in new binaries with eas
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:43:17AM -0500, Dennis scribbled:
|
| >Device Drivers
| >--
| >I don´t like binary only device drivers. The code of an operating
| >system is more complex than a driver. if a company does not want to
| >publish the sourcecode, the should go away.
|
| You've
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:14:10PM -0800, Devin Butterfield scribbled:
| "Michael C . Wu" wrote:
| > The most important decision now would be:
| > Should we concentrate on the PPC port first? Or should we go at each
| > port simultaneously?
|
| Well, if there are enough peo
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:59:11AM +0100, Thomas Runge scribbled:
| On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Michael C . Wu wrote:
|
| > many people) My understanding is that FreeBSD *wants* a FreeBSD/ARM,
| > but lack the resources/man-power to do so. I'd prefer to see an
|
| There is a german sayin
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 06:16:22PM +, Nik Clayton scribbled:
| x-posting to -hackers
|
| On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:18:05PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
| > >
| > > +
| > > + I have an IBM Thinkpad A20p that FreeBSD installs on, but then
| > > + the machine locks up on next boot.
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:15:40AM -0500, Mike Nowlin scribbled:
| Handling the OS updates is pretty easy... Is there any equally easy way
| to keep a particular set of ports updated automatically? I'd like to
| avoid having to do a "make deinstall; make install" all the time...
Look at sysinst
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:38:30PM +1000, Greg Black scribbled:
| Gerhard Sittig wrote:
| > Is there anyone out there who feels like rejecting the proposal
| > for a *reason*? Or to accept the idea, but to redirect the
| > effort to a "real solution"? I somehow doubt you'd rather
| > explain aga
[If need be, please add Cc: to -net]
While doing my own research project, I came across this piece
of information. It seems like a "nobody-has-it-but-it-is-fast" thing.
http://www.psc.edu/networking/ftp/papers/draft-ratehalving.txt
It seeks to improve the Reno TCP implementation by the most
re
[cc'ed to Benno for his fun and entertainment]
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 11:23:26PM +0100, Mark Santcroos scribbled:
| On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:01:54PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
| > > Is this likely going to replace all the implementations of the current
| > > supported network protocols?
| >
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 05:36:51PM +, Jamie Heckford scribbled:
| Does anyone have any details of Open Source, or software included
| with FreeBSD that allows the clustering of FreeBSD?
|
| I have 55 racks sitting here to play with, and want to start doing
| some serious work (for me anyway!)
rward to a great conference with your participation.
Regards,
Michael C. Wu
Program Coordinator, USENIX AsiaBSDCon 2004
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