Re: FreeBSD 7 buildworld error

2008-03-12 Thread Joshua Coombs
Joshua Coombs wrote: As a follow up: I setup a fresh 7.0 install in a VM and played with it. Using my make.conf, I showed cc1 using 130MB when compiling insn-attrtab.c. I tweaked the VM conf down to 32MB of RAM and redid the compile, and other than taking forever due to swapping, it again

Re: FreeBSD 7 buildworld error

2008-03-10 Thread Joshua Coombs
As a follow up: I setup a fresh 7.0 install in a VM and played with it. Using my make.conf, I showed cc1 using 130MB when compiling insn-attrtab.c. I tweaked the VM conf down to 32MB of RAM and redid the compile, and other than taking forever due to swapping, it again churned past insn-attr

Re: FreeBSD 7 buildworld error

2008-03-07 Thread Joshua Coombs
Jason Evans wrote: cc1 was only trying to request 130MB, my datasize is 512MB, why did it fail? It looks to me like gcc is trying to allocate a single 130MiB object, but you don't say anything about how much memory is already in use. It may well be that there are no remaining places in the m

Re: FreeBSD 7 buildworld error

2008-03-07 Thread Joshua Coombs
his much RAM to build. (I also don't like the 'remove all CFLAGS' "fix" suggestion, something is broken if a buildworld can't complete on a stock kernel with sane CFLAGS. In my case, I run -Os -pipe, am I now to understand that any CFL

Re: FreeBSD 7 on old SMP server?

2007-12-22 Thread Joshua Coombs
m NewEgg should let me run the I-RAM on my empty ATA controller, giving me 4GB of swap running as fast as the machine can take it. Depending on how it behaves, I may track down a 2MB ISA VGA card again and throw KDE4 on it just to be truly insane. They say it's much better about

Re: FreeBSD 7 on old SMP server?

2007-12-20 Thread Joshua Coombs
Brian wrote: Would that be a multiday buildworld? Brian 10 days on average. : ) I'm trying a 7 build without -pipe to see if I can squeak it through with 64MB RAM + 384MB swap, I'd much prefer not having to do a dump/restore to reallocate space for more swap. I'm almost thinking a non -p

Re: FreeBSD 7 on old SMP server?

2007-12-20 Thread Joshua Coombs
now got a Cyrix 486DrX-2 66 installed in place of my Am386DX-40, which supports CMPXCHG as well as ID'ing as a 486 so I don't need to do any tweaking to stay running. If I can get another viable 386DX box reassembled I'll see if 7 can be pr

Re: FreeBSD 7 on old SMP server?

2007-12-18 Thread Joshua Coombs
MaXX wrote: Hi list, I have an old netfinity 7000 (Quad PIII 500, 1Gb RAM) running 6.2 at the moment. I was wondering if it will take benefit of all the SMP improvement of 7 or is it too old? It runs a few postgresql databases, peak loads in the 2 to 4 range. As I do not have another equival

Adaptec SCSI going nuts

2006-01-26 Thread Joshua Coombs
to 6-stable from yesterday, same behavior. After the dump, the system appears solid, no other errors, so I'm guessing it's just a problem with how the card is initialized, FreeBSD corrects it and moves on. Should I be more concerned, or consider it a quirk of the machine? Jos

Re: ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS

2005-12-06 Thread Joshua Coombs
"Vivek Khera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Dec 6, 2005, at 7:37 AM, Joshua Coombs wrote: Ok, lemmie just point out that I'm already running 6.0, just to eliminate that issue. So you were not truthful about running a 386... No,

Re: ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS

2005-12-06 Thread Joshua Coombs
"Igor Robul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:20:28PM -0500, Joshua Coombs wrote: #optionsZERO_COPY_SOCKETS What's the status of this in 6.0-R and 6-stable? The idea of avoiding memory copies when

ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS

2005-12-05 Thread Joshua Coombs
#optionsZERO_COPY_SOCKETS What's the status of this in 6.0-R and 6-stable? The idea of avoiding memory copies when possible seems really appealing for my 386, on which any little boost is significant. : ) Joshua C

Re: 6.0 release date and stability

2005-10-15 Thread Joshua Coombs
;ll move it through fairly quickly. For what it's worth, on UP, my 386 (stop laughing) is showing twice the inbound and outbound tcp throughput across multiple apps compared to 4.11. Disk throughput is slightly higher, but nothing super impressive. If 6.0 can show gains on a 386, that te

686B Testing

2001-12-29 Thread Joshua Coombs
I see it's gone quiet on the 686B front, this due to a lack of testers and if so, what do I need to do to provide usefull info? Joshua Coombs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message