queue(3): code sizes and running times

2014-08-04 Thread Michael Treibton
Hi all, I'm in the process of changing over some code of mine from hand-rolled lists to using TAILQ and friends from queue.h In reading the documentation, I note it says the following about TAILQ (and similar for other macros): Code size is about 15% greater and operations run about 20%

installing OpenBSD 4.9 to external USB harddisk: Disk does not boot

2011-08-07 Thread Michael Treibton
Hi all, i'm attempting to diagnose if there was a problem with installing OpenBSD to an external USB hard disk or not. The disk is a Western Digital 2TB disk, should it matter. Needless to say, the install went fine on to the disk; all the sets were unpacked, and I rebooted the machine as per th

Re: installing OpenBSD 4.9 to external USB harddisk: Disk does not boot

2011-08-07 Thread Michael Treibton
hi, On 7 August 2011 12:19, Francois Pussault wrote: > hi, all, > > This should be an hardware issue, I've used an usb external drive with > success. whith a dell A6 or A7 version of Dell bios, boot usb enabled, with a > (double-usb) eternal drive, using BSD4.2 filesystem. > > so maybe you need

Re: installing OpenBSD 4.9 to external USB harddisk: Disk does not boot

2011-08-07 Thread Michael Treibton
hi, On 7 August 2011 15:24, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 02:01:44PM +0200, David Vasek wrote: >> On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, Michael Treibton wrote: >> >> >If there's a means of providing more information to help with >> >this, please say