Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-20 Thread Russell L. Carter
I'm going to try these ideas out, thanks for the pointers. I'm highly motivated to stop waiting so long :-). And a nice use for the systems that have been piling up, if this works out. I'll be reporting back... Cheers, Russell % %On 20-Jan-01 Wes Peters wrote: % "Russell L. Carter&q

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-19 Thread Russell L. Carter
% No it would not! Back in '94 I ported dmake to FreeBSD % and built just about every numerics package out there % on a 4 CPU cluster. Worked fine, but not much in overall % speedup, because... tadum! Where do you get the source % files, and how do you get the objs back :-) Not low % latency,

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-18 Thread Russell L. Carter
%Uwe Pierau wrote: % % Jamie Heckford wrote: % # Hi, % # Does anyone have any details of Open Source, or software included % # with FreeBSD that allows the clustering of FreeBSD? % % Maybe you mean something like this... % http://acme.ecn.purdue.edu/index.html % ?! % %Yes! % %When is

Re: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-16 Thread Russell L. Carter
%In all honesty, I am just looking for something to play %with and see how fast FreeBSD can go. % %Sort of thing where those two guys clustered about 200 486's %or something stupid like that.. Go to google and search for Beowulf. Or Mosix. Or Ron Minnich :-) Or "smart networks", if all you

Re: ld-elf.so.1: assert failed: /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c:2033

2001-01-04 Thread Russell L. Carter
%In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], %Russell L. Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % % Bingo! % % Thanks guys! % %Not so fast there, fella. You're not getting off that easily. ;-) %Could you please try the patch below? It is like the patch that Paul %sent, except it should handle error conditions

Re: ld-elf.so.1: assert failed: /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c:2033

2000-12-30 Thread Russell L. Carter
Bingo! Thanks guys! Russell %John Polstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: % In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], % Russell L. Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % % On a fairly recent -STABLE I am getting this failure: % % ld-elf.so.1: assert failed: /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c:2033 % % I

ld-elf.so.1: assert failed: /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c:2033

2000-12-29 Thread Russell L. Carter
Greetings, On a fairly recent -STABLE I am getting this failure: ld-elf.so.1: assert failed: /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c:2033 I assume I'm doing something stupid, however the same code works on Linux gcc-2.95.2, so I'm looking for what the difference might be. The program is an ACE/TAO

Re: ACE wrappers woes on 4.x-stable (pthreads)

2000-06-08 Thread Russell L. Carter
| |forgot to add: I need pointers to start digging around It might be interesting to trace through libgcc_r. Russell | |/fjoe | | | |To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD Posix threads

2000-02-04 Thread Russell L. Carter
% %I have searched the archive for a while and still have some confusions %about this subjects: % %(1) Some people say "For I/O bound activity, kernel threads are a really %bad idea". But I read the following passage from else where: % %Kernel threads perform better in I/O-intensive

Re: FreeBSD Threads (was Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?)

1999-12-20 Thread Russell L. Carter
%On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 02:49:26PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: % % I dunno if it goes without saying or not, but this certainly makes % the current FreeBSD threads implementation highly unpalatable, except % to support ported code which has been developed elsewhere and which % is already

Re: Basic question about threads and SMP

1999-12-05 Thread Russell L. Carter
%Nick Hibma wrote: % % Being multi-threaded has almost nothing to do with being % multi-processor. Multi-threading means that your application has % multiple threads of execution that are able to run simultaneously. % % The multi-processing capability of your box means that 2 threads of %

/usr/include/posix4/semaphore.h

1999-10-29 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi All, The stuff defined in /usr/include/posix4/semaphore.h, is not implemented in -current, right? If I missed it, I'd appreciate a pointer... Russell To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: TCP stack hackers take a bow

1999-08-05 Thread Russell L. Carter
%Unmodified FreeBSD TCP at 1Gb/s. % %http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990802072727.htm That is so very cool. There is a separate war going on optimizing bandwidth, latency, and QoS for IIOP, i.e. CORBA's usual protocol. Against all of the heavyweights, RTOS's etc. etc., linux is

Re: TCP stack hackers take a bow

1999-08-05 Thread Russell L. Carter
%Unmodified FreeBSD TCP at 1Gb/s. % %http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990802072727.htm That is so very cool. There is a separate war going on optimizing bandwidth, latency, and QoS for IIOP, i.e. CORBA's usual protocol. Against all of the heavyweights, RTOS's etc. etc., linux is

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-23 Thread Russell L. Carter
|At 10:35 AM 7/23/99 -0400, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: |On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: | | On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: | |I know a lot of people like the ASUS P2B boards, but I've noticed a | tendency for the systems to reset occasionally when plugging in a

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-23 Thread Russell L. Carter
|At 10:35 AM 7/23/99 -0400, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: |On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: | | On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: | |I know a lot of people like the ASUS P2B boards, but I've noticed a | tendency for the systems to reset occasionally when plugging in a

Re: Redundant Remote Webserver clustering

1999-06-29 Thread Russell L. Carter
% Define clustering. If you mean a bunch of boxes that serve up HTTP % requests and the lot of them continue working in the face of a % failure on one, you CAN do this with FreeBSD, and the Beowulf % software you're probably thinking of for Linux WILL NOT do this. %I have looked into the

Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...)

1999-06-23 Thread Russell L. Carter
%Basically there are some applications and benchmarks for which FreeBSD uh, benchmarks only, until evidence is produced otherwise. Tuning for benchmarks has been around a long long time. People get worked up about this because the people who give out the money to buy the systems use benchmarks

Re: Microsoft performance (was: ...)

1999-06-23 Thread Russell L. Carter
% % %On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Russell L. Carter wrote: % % % %Basically there are some applications and benchmarks for which FreeBSD % % uh, benchmarks only, until evidence is produced otherwise. [...] %ok here are some of the problems.. % %Matt's changes allow dd to copy data at 2.5 times