static vs shared vs modules

Mikhail Teterin requested that I forward this tidbit of info to the list. The GraphicsMagick build currently distributed with FreeBSD 7.0 uses shared libraries but not loadable modules. Some testing I did today shows that FreeBSD is much slower at starting GraphicsMagick as a large static exe

Puzzling VM behavior in 6.3

I'm trying to track down a performance regression in a memory-hungry application that seems to be related to switching from FreeBSD 6 as of 2007-01-04 (6.2-ish) to a checkout as of 2007-10-04 (6.3-ish). With these two systems running identical software under load side-by-side on identical hard

Re: PCI serial card works on 6.2 but not on 6.3

On May 5, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Ingeborg Hellemo wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Try loading the uart(4) driver, which can also replace sio(4) if I remember correctly. With puc(4) and sio(4) you have to make sure that both are either compiled into the kernel or loaded as a module. Do you kno

[HEADS UP] lockmgr needing of sys/lockmgr.h on thirdy part codes

Hello, after MFC'ed the usage of LOCK_FILE and LOCK_LINE for lockmgr(9), now thirdy part code needs to include sys/lock.h just priorior than sys/lockmgr. Even if the patch doesn't break ABI / KPI (so it doesn't need thirdy part KLD to be recompiled), it worths noting that the new code needs this ex

Re: PCI serial card works on 6.2 but not on 6.3

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Try loading the uart(4) driver, which can also replace sio(4) if I remember > correctly. With puc(4) and sio(4) you have to make sure that both are either compiled into the kernel or loaded as a module. Do you know if this applies to uart(4) as well? --Ingeborg -- I

Re: PCI serial card works on 6.2 but not on 6.3

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:31:04AM +0200, Ingeborg Hellemo wrote: > We have upgraded a box from 6.2 to 6.3-RELEASE. Afterwards the box does not > recognize its ST Lab I-160 serial card with Netmos 9845 Chipset. It worked > flawlessly on 6.2 with puc(4) driver. > > Any ideas? Try loading the uar

PCI serial card works on 6.2 but not on 6.3

We have upgraded a box from 6.2 to 6.3-RELEASE. Afterwards the box does not recognize its ST Lab I-160 serial card with Netmos 9845 Chipset. It worked flawlessly on 6.2 with puc(4) driver. >From dmesg: pci1: at device 8.0 (no driver attached) ~# pciconf -l -v | grep -B 4 UART [EMAIL PROTECTED