RE: Slow Server

2002-06-18 Thread Tzahi Fadida
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Henry Ficher Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 8:04 AM To: Oleg Kobets Cc: Linux-IL Subject: Re: Slow Server Hi, The prime suspect for system failures after a crash is file system corruption.

Q: how to test that nfs lockd is working

2002-06-18 Thread Nathan Fain
How can i test and verify that the lock manager is working and doing it's job over NFS? Having trouble running a certain program over NFS (only over nfs) and getting strange lock errors, and have my doubts that despite my impression that it *should* be running and working (ie, rpcinfo shows

Re: Efficient protocol writing :

2002-06-18 Thread Omer Zak
Look for scatter/gather buffering. In particular, see: man sendmsg and the declarations of struct msghdr, struct iovec. On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Iftach Hyams wrote: When writing a porotocol based on UDP/IP, a header is needed. This cause a duplicate copy of the data : ... (user code)

Re: Q: how to test that nfs lockd is working

2002-06-18 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Nathan Fain wrote: How can i test and verify that the lock manager is working and doing it's job over NFS? You can't. There is no NFS locking in kernels 2.4.0 (and maybe earlier). NFS locking used to work, but it never worked well, and the designers of it could never come up with an

Re: Q: how to test that nfs lockd is working

2002-06-18 Thread Ariel Biener
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: You can't. There is no NFS locking in kernels 2.4.0 (and maybe earlier). Huh ??? There is lockd, it's just user space not kernel based. It exists, it's needed and improves NFS reliability by a great deal. The mount command supports the lock

Re: Q: how to test that nfs lockd is working

2002-06-18 Thread Ehud Karni
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:58:44 +0300 (IDT), Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathan Fain wrote: How can i test and verify that the lock manager is working and doing it's job over NFS? You can't. There is no NFS locking in kernels 2.4.0 (and maybe earlier). NFS

Re: random() and srandom()

2002-06-18 Thread Shaul Karl
On Monday 17 June 2002 20:46, you wrote: Hello guys! Can someone explain me how to use the random and srandom (or their half-equals rand() and srand(),) in linux ? because the man page doesn't really help much, and my programming books have nothing about it... Thanks in advance,

Dynamically linking with a Unix library - or not

2002-06-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Hi WINE-devel list (cross posted to Linux-IL), After a lively discussion in the Israeli Linux users mailing list, it appears that the best solution will be to give a command line (or config) option to use an external library (fribidi) for the RTL rendering. I would still implement this

Re: Dynamically linking with a Unix library - or not

2002-06-18 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi, On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote: [snip] A. If Fribidi was present during compile, check for its existance during run time. If not present, don't enable the run time option. or B. Copy (port?) Fribidi into the WINE code. It's LGPL, so the license does allow that. C. If

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Re: Perl questions

2002-06-18 Thread Arie Folger
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 02:47, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: latex2html is written in perl, BTW Been down that lane a few months ago. I once loooked into the sources to figure out how to fix it; it's too large to do so without better docs. I was told (you? Dekel Tsur?) that somebody is working on

Re: [hackers-il] Yet Another Hacktivity - An RPM Spec file forbuilding Fortune Collections

2002-06-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Doing something quite unprecedented: taking a thread frm hackers-il to linux-il, as it is getting too technical ;-) On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote: Included below is an RPM Spec for building a collection of fortune files. It is specific