All,
I have produced another version of the time zone changes in
cron. I ran a few tests and plan to commit it to -current after
a bit more testing. Everyone who wants to join the testing efforts
is welcome. The comments are welcome as well.
The new behavior is enabled by the option "-s", withou
Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> Now, the 21143 (which is a pretty nice chip and has available
> documentation and a decent driver, "dc") is discontinued, but there
> are clones which work reasonably well (and are even cheaper, around
> $30 or so at compusa, i think netgear or linksys does one of these
> car
Jonathan Lemon wrote:
>
> In article
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> you write:
> > She need's specific information that we need that we cant get
> >unless we sign NDA's for the doc's so she can try and get them merged into
> >a reference product somewhere between the datasheet (worthless) and the
>
> * Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010418 16:04] wrote:
>
> > A 1.5Ghz processor can outperform 2 fully saturated PCI buses, so its not
> > going to help much in the networking world, which is where I live.
> > Processing power is already exceeding the busses capabilities.
He-he-he. Wait for Infini
"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 binaries that run with all the IA-64
> innovations^Wreinvention-of-the-wheels.
Anothing interesting
Dave Hayes wrote:
>
> >From the handbook:
>
> > 10.8.2. mkisofs
> > ...
> > The last option of general use is -b. This is used to specify the
> > location of the boot image in producing a ``El Torito'' bootable
> > CD. This option takes an argument, which is the path to a boot image
> > from the
SJ wrote:
>
> 2. Whats the use of device_ops structure and what does
>"ops" stand for?
"ops" definitely stands for "operations". I can't say off the top
of my head what this structure is but most probably a collection
of pointers to the functions of a particular driver which implement
the d
j mckitrick wrote:
>
> Okay, there is something i'm not understanding here. In the ed driver,
> there are many possible cards, which each have different i/o ports, correct?
> The driver has a lot of probe routines, and it looks like they are just
> using different macros with hard-coded (#define
Warner Losh wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mark Santcroos writes:
> : Can it be called SysV style? Or not seperated in that way?
> : (I must say, the big ugly rc thing is the only thing I don't like about
> : FreeBSD, I'm very much in favor of the SysV style init. But thats another
> :
Warner Losh wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> void writes:
> : On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:56:45PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> : >
> : > With the netbsd approach, you remove the file, and all things taht
> : > depend on it fail. as it should be :-)
> :
> : I'm pretty sure you turn it off
Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>
> I've had several marketing types approach me recently for details as
> to whether or not Microsoft was using the BSD TCP/IP stack and/or user
> utilities, and though it's always been "common knowledge" in the
> community that they were, when I set about to "prove" it I f
Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> Robert Withrow wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > :- oops, rc2 isn't started. too bad.
> >
> > I think that is exactly the desired design. The
> > RC *system* starts things correctly, but the manager,
> > *bypassing* the RC *system* can start and stop things
> >
Wes Peters wrote:
>
> Sergey Babkin wrote:
> >
> > Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > >
> > > I've had several marketing types approach me recently for details as
> > > to whether or not Microsoft was using the BSD TCP/IP stack and/or user
> > &g
Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
>
> Sergey Babkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [snip]
> > How about keeping the state of the system as empty files in
> > a subdirectory, say, /etc/rcstate.d. This directory would be
> > cleaned up at boot time and then as each of the
Matt Dillon wrote:
>
> A person who depends on the ability to run an out-of-the-box solution
> into the ground and actually expects it to perform well without having
> to know the first thing about the platform he is running his software
> on is a complete and utter idiot and the
Brian Wolter wrote:
>
> > > "microsoft is evil, we can't win it easily so let's bash it to
>
> microsoft /is/ evil. point in fact they're one of the most unethical
^^^
> capitalist organizations you could find as far as their bu
Matt Dillon wrote:
>
> :...
> :> to know the first thing about the platform he is running his software
> :> on is a complete and utter idiot and the company that employs such a
> :> person has a hellofalot more to worry about then the performance of an
> :> untuned machine.
> :
>
Matt Dillon wrote:
>
> :> But this isn't true at all. How many people need to make thousands
> :> or tens of thousands of simultanious connections to a machine out of the
> :> box? Almost nobody. So to run a benchmark and have it hit these
> :
> :You are essentially saying: out pri
Josef Karthauser wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:16:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > is BSDI's stack so superior to any of the other BSDs that MS would pay BSDI
> > for it, particularly at a time when BSDI was trying to compete with MS in the
> > server market? Seems like something
Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> "Ashutosh S. Rajekar" wrote:
> > > I guess we beat you to the punch...
> > >
> > > We have a product which is now shipping, and which currently
> > > supports 1,000,000 concurrent connections.
> >
> > I guess quite a lot of people are at it right now, the prime
> > one is
"Ashutosh S. Rajekar" wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> > Their 3200 only has 1G of RAM; you could _barely_ fit the
> > TCP state for 1,000,000 connections into just 1G of RAM,
> > and have a tiny amount left over for buffers, drivers,
> > the rest of your kernel, etc.. I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Entire PIII MBs are available for under $60. Your concept that the delta in
> cost between a 486 chipset and PIII is more that that is utterly ridiculous
> PIII chipsets and 486 chipsets cost the same in quantity. Try using a
> resource other than your Radio Shack cat
Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> Yeah, and these all cost money, and are limited-appeal, so they're
> likely to not make much money, especially if there are other vendors
> doing similar things. The other side of the coin which I didn't
> mention is that the FreeBSD distribution market probably isn't bi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi, I have trouble with my NIC.
> I'm using Server Mainboard Intel (I forgot the model), there is 2 NICs; the
> one
> is 100Mbps other is 1 gigabit. I use this for my web server with freeBSD
> 5.1-RELEASE.
> NIC 1 gigabit is not detected and recognised neither by free
mohamed aslan wrote:
>
> guys this is not a flame war
> but the linux way in arranging the source file is really better than
> freebsd way, it's a fact.
Nope. It's real difficult to organize the files worse than in Linux.
FreeBSD is actually real good. Way better than UnixWare, and
of course anyt
>(like I said, but in roundabout fashion I admit) region 2, so suggesting
>that I ignore the region is silly, it's there already. My dvd (and that
>of my friend's, I tested) both immediately choke on trying to play this
Sorry, can't help with your original question,
but I can help with the ch
>> > This is funny, because nagios apparently runs properly on Linux, HPUX,
>> > Solaris, Irix, AIX and Tru64. To me that seems to indicate that Nagios
This does not neccessary mean that it _really_ works.
There might be a race involved that usually ends up
lucky on these systems.
>> > is very po
>From: Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On 2005-09-06 19:27, Igor Shmukler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Perhaps, I do not get it or maybe you are do not getting my point.
>>
>> There are times when resolving would not be possible or a name returned is
>> not necessarily the one used when fi
>From: Steve Suhre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>I know I've dealt with this before...but can't remember what the deal
>was... I mount a remote server to /mnt and the mount command seems to
>work, no errors or logged errors on either machine. But when I try to cd
>to the /mnt folder on the client the s
>From: Mike Silbersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
>
>> would a port of JFS2 be of interest to freebsd core?
>> thanks
>> -kamal
>
>There are many things that would be of interest to FreeBSD users, but
>that's not a good reason to start a project. If you're m
>From: "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>: On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:14:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>: >
>: > Hello list,
>: > I am trying to use a FreeBSD box to log into a Single Board Compute
>From: Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Tue Oct 11 11:47:28 CDT 2005
>To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
>Subject: Driver Development Books?
>Hello,
>I have what may seem to be a silly question, but I cannot find any
>other decent resources on the web. >.< The problem that I am having
>right now
>On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I want to migrate from linux to freebsd. My linux box (mail server) have
>> alot of user (hundreds) --this is the problem. I dont know which file
>> which the password's file. I dont want typing user name and its password
>> one by one. Beside o
>From: rashmi ns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Hello List-members,
>we are writing a driver for HDLC-Controller We have coded upto some extent
>and actully we are able to transmit and recieve a char buff in loopback
>(from inside a driver).
>But we want to tranmit/Rx a real packet in (mbuf structure) and t
>I do have the mouse working, but with a couple of issues. The main problem
>seems to be that the last 3 bytes of the sc_data seem to be wrong. Their
>values never change from the time that the device is attached. They're usually
>all 0, but sometimes have values. The forth byte is supposed to
>I do have the mouse working, but with a couple of issues. The main problem
>seems to be that the last 3 bytes of the sc_data seem to be wrong. Their
>values never change from the time that the device is attached. They're usually
>all 0, but sometimes have values. The forth byte is supposed to
>From: Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Vaibhave Agarwal wrote:
>
>> How do u disable malloc debugging flags in the userland? I read
>> somewhere that " ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf" disables malloc debugging.
>> How does it work?
>>
>> And how to disable verbose features in t
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
>
> Warner Losh wrote:
> >
> > Tell them that it is a daemon, not a devil. A daemon isn't the devil,
> > nor does it promote the worship of devilry.
> >
> > In Japan, the daemon is viewed as a nice, lovable creature. The
>
> Of course, they don't translate daemon as "
Chris Costello wrote:
>
> On Friday, June 30, 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> > No. Anyway, you can set your tab size to whatever you want. So long as
> > it is a _tab_, and not 2 or 4 or 8 spaces. If you're heading into the
> > margin constantly, you should simplify your code, or break it u
Nat Lanza wrote:
>
> Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If this is meant to be an exercise in writing a CAM HBA driver, then you
> > need to teach your disk-emulation code about the basic SCSI commands
> > (INQUIRY, TEST UNIT READY, etc). The SCSI infrastructure will use these
> > com
Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
> >
> > The tutorial in DaemonNews has this information, as well as information
> > on minimal implementations of the reqired actions. Obviously the actions
> > for SCSI negotiations don't need to be supported because these
> > negotiations make no sense for an emulator or
Wes Peters wrote:
>
> Commissionnaires wrote:
> >
> > I am interested in learning about the freebsd operating system, I dont have
> My best advice for a complete novice would be to buy the book "The Complete
> FreeBSD", by Greg Lehey, install the version of FreeBSD on the CD-ROM found
By the wa
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Gary T. Corcoran" writes:
>
> >No, I know it's not that easy. We need to be able to do things
> >like have "TransmissionMode=4" on the kldload command line, and
> >have that parse the decimal value 4, and then go into the module
>
>
Wes Peters wrote:
>
> Oliver Fehr wrote:
> > Well, the book covers UNIX and DOS, at least on of which can be considered
> > a modern operating system. You be the judge which on ...
>
> Neither. One is not an operating system, but merely a game loader, and
> the other is over 30 years old and d
Robert Nordier wrote:
>
> Gary T. Corcoran wrote:
>
> > Now since the MBR booter "knows" that you don't boot DOS/Windows
> > from an "extended" partition (type 5), it doesn't offer it as
> > a boot choice. Now I could probably hack the booter (boot0 ?)
> > to accept type 5 as a valid choice. B
Gérard Roudier wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Jaye Mathisen wrote:
>
> > I don't know much about hot-plug stuff, it looks relatively normal to me,
> > and it's an older rev. That's about it.
>
> If you mean that the disks are hot-pluggable, then it could be the SCSI
> device that allows to co
"Aleksandr A.Babaylov" wrote:
>
> David Scheidt writes:
> > On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Aleksandr A.Babaylov wrote:
> > :I work since 1991 with computer hardware and know exact
> > :that SCSI drives is about ten times less reliability than
> > :IDE. Yes, I understand that SCSI was more ... extremal may
Mike wrote:
>
> I've used various Seagate SCSI drives exclusively in all of my boxes and
> only had one failure, which I was still able to recover all the data from
> before replacing it. The first box I built back in '97 had an UW Seagate in
> it that I bought used, and it was very heavily used
Frederik Meerwaldt wrote:
>
> > We need this information in order to determine which of these two OS to
> > choose from to drive our website.
>
> Choose FreeBSD. It's faster.
Also if some things don't work or work strangely or are poorly
documented, finding sources for them is MUCH easier in Fr
Frederik Meerwaldt wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> > >
> > > > We need this information in order to determine which of these two OS to
> > > > choose from to drive our website.
> > >
> > > Choose FreeBSD. It's faster.
> >
> > Also if some things don't work or work strangely or are poorly
> > documented, find
Sergey Babkin wrote:
>
> Frederik Meerwaldt wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > > >
> > > > > We need this information in order to determine which of these two OS to
> > > > > choose from to drive our website.
> > > >
> >
Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Frederik Meerwaldt wrote:
> >
> > ->Differences... FreeBSD is a real Unix, while Linux is a ..how should I
> >
> > Hmmm. FreeBSD is not a UNIX, rather it's a UNIX alike OS. (Which really
> > doesn't matter IMHO)
> >
> > Don't forget UNIX is a trade
Warner Losh wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rink Springer writes:
> : I got the stuff to compile et al, but I cannot get the darned thing to
> : run as a KLD. FreeBSD doesn't appear to try to probe for the interface
> : :(. When I tell FreeBSD it's a PCI thing (instead of ISA), it probe
Warner Losh wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sergey Babkin writes:
> : In 4.x if you say in config file
> :
> : foo at isa
> :
> : and provide the identify routine in the driver the result should be
> : the same. The "ep" driver does that
Rink Springer wrote:
>
> Sergey Babkin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got a probe, attach and a dummy identify procedure for my driver
> now. When I load the KLD, my identify procedure gets triggered, but the
> probe procedure doesn't! Why? Can someone help me? I
Rink Springer wrote:
>
> PS. I couldn't find a hints file or something, as someone pointed out...
Hints file is only in -current (AKA 5.0). In 4.x the kernel config
file contains this information (which I guess is of no use for
KLD drivers). Probably you can do a likewise thing in 4.x with
sysct
Nathan Boeger wrote:
>
> Sorry if this is the wrong list !!
>
> Anyway I have a Digi / Xem eisa adapter on 4.1-RELEASE. I have made the
> kernel and it see's the card. I have also remade the /dev/ttyD* entries.
>
> Problem, when I try to access any of the ports I get :
>
> cu: open (/dev/ttyD0
Robert Lipe wrote:
>
> Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> > I do know that we have the concept of probe priorities, so you could
> > probably set up UDI to probe at a higher priority than the default system
> > drivers, and therefore attach instead of the default FreeBSD driver for a
> > given piece of h
Roman Shterenzon wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Once, someone told me that he had a patch for truss that allows it to
> follow children, just like in Solaris (or strace -f in linux).
> Does anyone have it?
Why don't you use the native ktrace/kdump commands instead ?
"ktrace -d" does follow the children. I
"Walter C. Pelissero" wrote:
>
> I'm trying to run a SCO SVR4 executable on FreeBSD but I get a SIGSYS
> (invalid system call) at the very beginning. Here is the kdump:
>
> 39525 ktrace RET ktrace 0
> 39525 ktrace CALL sigprocmask(0x1,0x28061000,0x28061010)
> 39525 ktrace RET sigp
All,
I've noticed in InfoWorld a mention of a new Windows emulation
product for Linux, Wind4Lin. So I went on their web-site
http://www.netraverse.com/
The problem is that their stuff seems to be strongly tied to the
Linux kernel, and they provide a whole lot of sub-versions for
various Linux
David Preece wrote:
>
> At 13:02 17/12/00 +, you wrote:
> >Does anyone have any good tips to get started / HowTo's, or some simple
> >examples
> >that will give me knowledge like the PC Speaker or something simple like
> >that?
>
> This is turning into a FAQ, but don't worry about it. The us
Dennis wrote:
>
> I didnt "praise" closed source. I said there is arguable reasoning behind
> preferring supported binary drivers that work over incomplete source
> drivers. Selecting an OS based solely on this criteria is just plain
> stupid. Drivers generally do not require changes unless they
Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
>
> pull off. Not that I don't appreciate the work of the people who write BSD
> drivers, the people who put time and effort into BSD drivers are some of my
> favorite people in the world, but it's terribly obvious that if a card or
> device is not documented, that the comp
Justin Wojdacki wrote:
>
> Sergey Babkin wrote:
> >
> > The drivers are _not_ assets. When I buy a piece of hardware I
> > very reasonably expect that it would come with drivers or at
> > least the manual on how to write these. It's a part of the deal.
> >
David Preece wrote:
>
> A lot of the reason why 3dfx (rip), Nvidia et al. often feel they cannot
> release open source drivers is that a substantial proportion of what these
> products do takes place on the host processor. Large quantities of research
> go into the exact division of tasks between
Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > Is there now support for the Pentium 4 in FreeBSD??
>
> We've always run on the P4.
>
> > If so, is there an option such as CPUCLASS 786 in the Kernel??
>
> No, it's still a 686.
Basically, there are 3 possible issues for Pentium4:
- higher clock frequency (also for n
Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > Mike Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there now support for the Pentium 4 in FreeBSD??
> > >
> > > We've always run on the P4.
> > >
> > > > If so, is there an option such as CPUCLASS 786 in the Kernel??
> > >
> > > No, it's still a 686.
> >
> > Basically, there are 3 possibl
Dennis wrote:
>
> Source is more of a "hassle", binary loads right up. the SNMP package is a
> great example. Doing it from source is a nightmare. Missing includes, wrong
> paths. compile failures. The package loads right up and Im running.
This is an example of why the build environment must be
SteveB wrote:
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 9:54 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Sitting on hands (no longer Re: FreeBSD vs
> > Linux, Solaris,
> > and NT)
> >
> > >In the open source
> >
Marco van de Voort wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:33:15PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > very happily run on Pentium 4 CPU's.
> >
> > Or am I raving again? :) Feel free to correct any gross errors I've made :)
>
> Afaik yes :-)
>
> IIRC the problem is that P4 reports itself back as fa
Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
>
> > Trouble is there is no consistency in the rulings.
>
> United States Code Title 17 Chapter 12 Section 1201 Subsection (f)
>
> My basic interpretation of this is, if you legally own a copy of the
> software (firmware is software), you can legally reverse engineer the
Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> It's quite common for a manufacturer to completely stop
> driver development once a particular model of hardware
> (say a certain video card) is no longer sold.
>
> This, in turn, leads to the situation where the user has
> to chose between the following options:
>
> 1.
"Kenneth D. Merry" wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 14:35:53 +0100, cristian nicolae wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > I have a Compaq DL380 with an integrated Compaq Smart Array Controller.
> > I have succesfully managed to install the FreeBSD 4.2-20010104
> > and everything is fine but the DAT drive w
John Gregor wrote:
>
> What would happen if the definitions of the hour and minute fields
> were subtly changed to mean "elapsed wall-clock time since local
> midnight"? Then, the DST conversion is no longer ambiguous. "Two
> hours since local midnight" only happens once regardless. On days
>
Leo Bicknell wrote:
>
> I'm going to propose a different solution that was brought up about
> two years ago (although I can't find it now).
>
> You start with something like the CD boot image mentioned, that is
> a 3-5 Meg iso image that basically contains what is now on the
> floppies (perhaps w
Doug Russell wrote:
>
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, John Von Essen wrote:
>
> > Well, I eventually got this SCO system working. But today, some errors
> > appeared:
> >
> > 505k:unrecover error reading SCSI disk on 0 Dev - 1/42
> > cha = 0 id = 0 1 on = 0
> > Block 6578
> > medium error unrecovered read
Peter Wemm wrote:
>
> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sergey Babkin writes:
> >
> > >If the FreeBSD Foundation is an existing entity now, maybe we
> > >can just change the license for the CD images to "not for resale&
Wes Peters wrote:
>
> Richard Hodges wrote:
> >
> > Sure, no argument there. Taking Wes' suggestion, maybe there is an
> > opportunity in the "official" distribution distinction. How about a
> > "certificate of authenticity" which costs the vendors $1 or $2 (or
> > whatever), and shows the cust
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> * Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010712 21:08] wrote:
> > On Thursday, 12 July 2001 at 6:58:09 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Dear Friends
> > >
> > > I have some questions about kernel programming:
> >
> > You'd be better off sending mail like this to -hacker
Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> The proble is that teh ethernet header is 14 bytes so you must choose
> to allighn either the whole packet, or the IP header, but you cannot do
> both.
Hm, it seems to be a waste of CPU time memory bandwidth: only the
IP and TCP headers have to be aligned but the payl
Warner Losh wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> James Howard
>writes:
> : Both tar and cpio seem to have problems doing backups on my
> : server. Looking at the pax manpage, we see this:
>
> Use dump. Otherwise, you will lose.
Don't use dump. Or you'll never be able to restore these ba
Jim Bryant wrote:
>
> Warner Losh wrote:
> >
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sergey Babkin writes:
> > : > Use dump. Otherwise, you will lose.
> > :
> > : Don't use dump. Or you'll never be able to restore these backups
> > : on
Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > > > Only the FreeBSD memory management subsystem doesn't
> > > > support it (yet?).
> > >
> > > It's not a question of "supporting it", it's a question of
> > > whether or not it's a useful idea at all.
> >
> > > I have yet to see one person usin
Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> This basically means that the memory is useless as a DMA target
> or source for disk controllers or gigabit ethernet cards, and is
> pretty useless for swap, if you ever have to copy from one section
> to another (e.g. for IPC, SYSV shared memory, mmap'ed files, VM,
> or
Matt Dillon wrote:
>
> Well, first of all the page coloring is not pointless with the
> sizes hardwired. The cache characteristics do not have to
> match exactly for page coloring to work. The effectiveness is
> like a log-graph, and you don't lose a lot by guessing wrong.
>
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
> >From: Doug Hass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >The lack of flexibility in accepting various requirements illustrates the
> >difference between an OS WITH legs in the market and one WITHOUT legs.
> >
> >Much to my chagrin, FreeBSD continues to fall more and more into th
Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > So the driver writers
> > are forced to at least recompile their drivers for each release.
>
> This isn't typically the case, actually. 4.x has in fact been very
> good in this regard.
What about between 3.x and 4.x ? And 5.x is going to be yet another
major change.
Matthew Emmerton wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> This weekend I decided to do some assembly hacking on some object-only code
> that I've lost the C source for. Since I haven't coded assembler for at
> least 8 years, and I threw my x86 assembly manuals out when I moved 6 months
> ago, there are a few thi
Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >
> > * Thomas S. Greenwalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011028 23:04] wrote:
> > > Are there any test suite packages available similiar to Visual Test from
> > > Rational? Not necessarily with a GUI, but the ability to build test scripts
> > > to test
Glenn Gombert wrote:
>
> Here is a patch that was posted to the list a couple weeks ago, that
> needs to be applied to make FreeBSD uner vmware work reliably..
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Watsonwrit
> es:
> >I've had -STABLE run fine, but of late have had a lot of trouble with
> >
John Capo wrote:
>
> Now this thread comes along and I realize there is something wrong
> so I did a little testing.
>
> find / -print on one of my servers in a ssh session will fill the
> pipe to my office, 256K frame, and run nicely then get into the
> starting and stopping mode after a good a
Ronald G Minnich wrote:
>
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Rayson Ho wrote:
>
> > http://ssic-linux.sourceforge.net/
>
> A collection of some really bad ideas, not likely to scale well. Note that
> they've got up to 30 nodes, wow. Double it once and that's where this kind
> of "global everything" idea st
"Pedro F. Giffuni" wrote:
>
> FWIW;
>
> The UNIX grep executable is like >3 times smaller than
> GNU grep but also like 3 times slower.
I think that it's said in GNU grep readme: they have knowingly
chosen a faster but more memory-consuming algorithm. And I think
that they've done similar choice
Hi all,
I've been planning to send this message to the developers mailing
list, but it has mysteriously disappeared (and I haven't found
yet its replacement). So here it goes.
The idea is to support a "cache" repository (the one copied to a local machine
by CVSup or CTM) transparently. So that th
Nate Williams wrote:
>
> > The value specified in CVSROOTCACHE is the local path to the cache
> > repository. All the check-outs, updates, diffs etc. will be obtained
> > from there. All the check-ins, tagging etc. will go into the master
> > repository specified by CVSROOT. Naturally, to see the
Nate Williams wrote:
>
> > That's the plan for the next stage, provided that the first stage
> > goes well. I'm yet to play with CVSup and see if it can be
> > integrated there (as with system()) easily without making a lot
> > of changes to CVS itself. Otherwise I'm aftarid it's going to
> > be a
Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> Sergey Babkin wrote:
> > Nate Williams wrote:
>
> [ ... "CVS cache and cache coherency" ... ]
>
> > Yet another idea is to be able to make "local commits" with committing
> > them to the central remote reposi
Nate Williams wrote:
>
> > It gets handled in the same way as now: I believe, CVS checks
> > whether the checked-out version matches the top of the branch,
> > and if it does not then it refuses to commit and requires you
> > to make an update. So the same thing can be done for a "local branch":
>
Dag-Erling SmЬrgrav wrote:
>
> Sergey Babkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > A similar thing may be achieved by checking the files out from the local
> > repository and doing any modification command with option -d. But that's
> > troublesome and inconvenient
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