Re: Command line limit for an arbitrary program?

2003-06-13 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 03:04:40AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: #include stdio.h int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { (argc 2 ) ? printf(Need to get an argument.\n) : printf(%s\n, argv[1]); return 0; }

Re: Testing on various computers needed

2003-06-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003, Ilya Konstantinov wrote about Re: Testing on various computers needed: 2. time dd if=/dev/zero of=foo says: real0m10.449s user0m0.260s sys 0m4.080s How come real (wall clock) time is so much higher than user+sys combined? This is simple - the disk can't

Re: Command line limit for an arbitrary program?

2003-06-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003, Shaul Karl wrote about Command line limit for an arbitrary program?: 1. What is the limit for strlen(argv[1]) and where is it set? On Unix, command line arguments are passed from the running program to the executable which is going to replace it, with an execve() system

Re: Testing on various computers needed

2003-06-13 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote about Re: Testing on various computers needed: On Fri, Jun 13, 2003, Ilya Konstantinov wrote about Re: Testing on various computers needed: How come real (wall clock) time is so much higher than user+sys combined? This is simple - the disk can't

My own tests (was: Testing on various computers needed)

2003-06-13 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello again, Either most of you don't believe me, or you don't think that a Linux box getting stuck is so serious. I have gotten some responses, some in private, with the same experiences. Someone mentioned going to a coffee break when a large file is being untarred (I do the same). And I ask

Re: My own tests (was: Testing on various computers needed)

2003-06-13 Thread Eli Billauer
Hello again, As usual, it's me answering my own questions. The very slow perfomance of the hard disk under Linux caused me to reconsider the DMA issue again. I also found that others have been discussing this:

Re: My own tests (was: Testing on various computers needed)

2003-06-13 Thread Gilboa Davara
All my file servers at work (and at home) are Linux based... some are even using the same RH version you are using (7.3). (I'm too lazy to reboot them in-order to upgrade them to 9.0...) Moving GB size files is something I do on a daily basis and I've yet to see what you describe. (And my main

Re: My own tests (was: Testing on various computers needed)

2003-06-13 Thread Eli Billauer
I'm not saying that you're wrong, I am saying that before you start a 'Linux sucks' advocacy thread, one would suggest that you start by reading more about the IDE controller that you are using (Intel chipset?) and the kernel support it has in 2.4.18. Suppose that upgrading the kernel will

Re: My own tests (was: Testing on various computers needed)

2003-06-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:36:51PM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: Hello again, Either most of you don't believe me, or you don't think that a Linux box getting stuck is so serious. I have gotten some responses, some in private, with the same experiences. Someone mentioned going to a coffee

Kernel 2.4.21 released

2003-06-13 Thread Itay 'z9u2K' Duvdevani
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The title says it all, you know where to get it :) (if that's the second time somebody announces it, I've probably missed the first announce :) - -- Itay 'z9u2K' Duvdevani, GNU/Linux Kinneret. Public GPG Key: