Re: Java 1.5, was Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-07 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 18:41, Anthony Brock wrote: > Quoting Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > And I think that distributing usable root_fs images would be of great > > help... > > (actually, there are other sources but the site has no link to them - > > plus I don't like that much cherry-

Re: Java 1.5, was Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-07 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 14:38, Antoine Martin wrote: > > > Hmm, what's that? Faster than skas3 I guess?! > > > Is this going to work on x86/amd64 guests on amd64 hosts too? > Thing is, there are no reasons to trust me more than others... > I'll put sha/md5 sums but I could still have trojaned i

Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-06 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 03 October 2005 15:46, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:39:46AM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:28:04AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > > > At the cost that lots of programs in the guest simply > > > won't work (strace, make, java, ime). Or has th

Re: Java 1.5, was Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-04 Thread Anthony Brock
Quoting Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: And I think that distributing usable root_fs images would be of great help... (actually, there are other sources but the site has no link to them - plus I don't like that much cherry-picking root_fs's from people I don't trust and putting UML's approval

Re: Java 1.5, was Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-04 Thread Antoine Martin
> > Hmm, what's that? Faster than skas3 I guess?! > > Is this going to work on x86/amd64 guests on amd64 hosts too? > No, SKAS4 would be as fast as SKAS3, but could be merged in mainline... Nice, no more patching! > And amd64 hosts would be fixed as well. > > Also, I've heard some reports of peop

Re: Java 1.5, was Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-04 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 13:53, Antoine Martin wrote: > > The only problem is that, while there was some gross code in 2.6.4 patch, > > nobody has bothered yet to port it over. And the compatibility layer is > > very boring (which also means, difficult to get right, because you need > > to make t

Re: Java 1.5, was Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-04 Thread Antoine Martin
> The only problem is that, while there was some gross code in 2.6.4 patch, > nobody has bothered yet to port it over. And the compatibility layer is very > boring (which also means, difficult to get right, because you need to make > the developers more careful than they'd be inclined to). Tell

Re: Java 1.5, was Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-04 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 13:14, Antoine Martin wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 12:47 +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > > On Monday 03 October 2005 23:28, Antoine Martin wrote: > > > > On Monday 03 October 2005 14:39, Jeff Dike wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:28:04AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot w

Re: Java 1.5, was Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-04 Thread Antoine Martin
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 12:47 +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Monday 03 October 2005 23:28, Antoine Martin wrote: > > > On Monday 03 October 2005 14:39, Jeff Dike wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:28:04AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > > > I can run Java on x86 but not on amd64 guests, have

Re: Java 1.5, was Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-04 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 03 October 2005 23:28, Antoine Martin wrote: > > On Monday 03 October 2005 14:39, Jeff Dike wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:28:04AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > I can run Java on x86 but not on amd64 guests, have you got a fix for > this somewhere? First report... the fix was

Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-04 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:59:54PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Monday 03 October 2005 14:39, Jeff Dike wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:28:04AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > > > At the cost that lots of programs in the guest simply > > > won't work (strace, make, java, ime). Or has there

Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-04 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 09:11:18PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: [...] > 5. sysemu too - patch that into the host, or use current -linus or -mm, which > has it already. At the cost that lots of programs in the guest simply won't work (strace, make, java, ime). Or has there been work fixing this? --

Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-04 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:39:46AM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:28:04AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > > At the cost that lots of programs in the guest simply > > won't work (strace, make, java, ime). Or has there been > > work fixing this? > > What are you talking about?

Java 1.5, was Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-03 Thread Antoine Martin
> > On Monday 03 October 2005 14:39, Jeff Dike wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:28:04AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > > > At the cost that lots of programs in the guest simply > > > won't work (strace, make, java, ime). Or has there been > > > work fixing this? > > > > What are you talking

Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-03 Thread Blaisorblade
On Saturday 01 October 2005 07:47, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > Looked at the mailing list, found the following tips: > 2. Don't use synchronous UBD on anything older than 2.6.9 > > 2.6.13.2 > > > That's all I can remember. Are there others? > > Still a fair bit slower than I'd like. > > Unfort

Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-03 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 03 October 2005 17:00, Brock, Anthony - NET wrote: > On Sun, Oct 2, 2005 at 6:11 PM, Jeff Dike wrote: > > 5. sysemu too - patch that into the host, or use current > > -linus or -mm, which > > has it already. > Does sysemu now work? I haven't looked at this patch in several months, > but

Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-03 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 03 October 2005 14:39, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:28:04AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > > At the cost that lots of programs in the guest simply > > won't work (strace, make, java, ime). Or has there been > > work fixing this? > > What are you talking about? sysemu br

RE: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-03 Thread Brock, Anthony - NET
On Sun, Oct 2, 2005 at 6:11 PM, Jeff Dike wrote: > 5. sysemu too - patch that into the host, or use current > -linus or -mm, which > has it already. Does sysemu now work? I haven't looked at this patch in several months, but I seem to remember it having problems. Is it now stable? If it is stable

Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-03 Thread Jeff Dike
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:28:04AM +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > At the cost that lots of programs in the guest simply > won't work (strace, make, java, ime). Or has there been > work fixing this? What are you talking about? sysemu breaks nothing inside the guest.

Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-02 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 09:11:18PM -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:47:17PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > Looked at the mailing list, found the following tips: > > > > 1. Set TMP/TEMP/TMPDIR to a tmpfs mounted place. > > > > Did that. I see no sign that UML is using

Re: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-02 Thread Jeff Dike
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:47:17PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > Looked at the mailing list, found the following tips: > > 1. Set TMP/TEMP/TMPDIR to a tmpfs mounted place. > > Did that. I see no sign that UML is using it. > > 2. Don't use synchronous UBD on anything older than 2.6.9 >

RE: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance

2005-10-02 Thread Brock, Anthony - NET
Title: [uml-user] Increasing perfomance Robin,   You can verify the use of tmpfs with the 'lsof' command. For example, assuming that tmpfs is mounted at /dev/shm, you might see:   # lsof |egrep 'PID|/shm' COMMAND PID USER   FD  TYPE DEVICE  SIZE   NODE NAMElinux-2