Re: [9fans] fshalt - 2xdone

2008-07-15 Thread Martin Neubauer
I'm pretty sure the line 7 isn't part of the halting procedure. It just indicates that it's time for fossil to do a new snapshot which isn't possible because the file system is halted. So just believe fshalt when it claims it is done. * Antonin Vecera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello all, I

Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

2008-07-15 Thread erik quanstrom
In the Linux world kvlade looks the way to go for performance but it didn't work on AMD64 when I tried it. I guess the Coraid boxes make Plan 9 go fast enough so I just need to stop worrying about it. plan 9 is a good platform; it is very speedy and doesn't do anything to you. we didn't need

Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

2008-07-15 Thread John Waters
Indeed, I have been toying around with the idea of building a larger scale version of Mr. Minnich's lunchbox using Mini-ITX boards.. But I have no justification, since virtually everything i need to do with plan 9 happens impossibly fast on just a simple vmware instance. Plan9 is sufficiently

[9fans] upas/smtp warning

2008-07-15 Thread erik quanstrom
just a little warning for upas/smtpd users. /mail/lib/smtpd.conf ournets is carte blanche to relay email and modern windows viruses are good at finding mail servers. so it's best to limit ournets to the smallest possible set. if you're not forwarding email to plan 9 from another machine with no

Re: [9fans] Anatomy of a vblade image

2008-07-15 Thread erik quanstrom
Indeed, I have been toying around with the idea of building a larger scale version of Mr. Minnich's lunchbox using Mini-ITX boards.. But I have no justification, since virtually everything i need to do with plan 9 happens impossibly fast on just a simple vmware instance. Plan9 is

[9fans] setting up a differnet keyboard

2008-07-15 Thread Robert Hibberdine
Hi, I want to setup my new plan9 termnial with a UK keyboard. I found kbmap but this appears to be an interactive program. Even if you do kbmap /sys/lib/kbmap/uk it still acts in an interactive manner. Is this right? A qick glance at the code reveals that cp

Re: [9fans] setting up a differnet keyboard

2008-07-15 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
IIRC, putting kbmap=uk in plan9.ini should work. On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Robert Hibberdine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to setup my new plan9 termnial with a UK keyboard. I found kbmap but this appears to be an interactive program. Even if you do kbmap

Re: [9fans] file heuristics on troff input

2008-07-15 Thread erik quanstrom
From: roger peppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] one thing that has bugged me in the past: upas relies on file -m to determine the type of attachments, but file only reads the first block of the file, so if you've got a utf-8 file with the first non-ascii character beyond the 8192nd byte, you get

[9fans] 8 cores

2008-07-15 Thread erik quanstrom
coming as no suprise, the pc port of plan 9 does work just fine with 8 cores. mpls; cat /dev/sysstat 0 14271 21350133991116 0 0 0 99 0 19116 1051772279 812 0

Re: [9fans] 8 cores

2008-07-15 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
coming as no suprise, the pc port of plan 9 does work just fine with 8 cores. Just out of interest, what's the machine? winmail.dat

Re: [9fans] 8 cores

2008-07-15 Thread Williams, Mitch
Which hardware platform is that? -mlw -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of erik quanstrom Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:29 PM To: 9fans@9fans.net Subject: [9fans] 8 cores coming as no suprise, the pc port of plan 9 does work just fine with 8

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 and multicores/parallelism/concurrency?

2008-07-15 Thread Paul Lalonde
On 15-Jul-08, at 1:01 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: I suspect a lot of this complexity will end up being dropped when you don't have to worry about efficiently using the last N% of cpu cycles. Would that I weren't working on a multi-core graphics part... That N% is what the game is all about.

Re: [9fans] 8 cores

2008-07-15 Thread andrey mirtchovski
add this one to the list: http://9fans.net/archive/2003/12/182

Re: [9fans] 8 cores

2008-07-15 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
I'd like to ask a question, but before I do, feel I should say, I've been on this list long enough to understand that Plan 9 is a research vessel, not an OS that's targeted at commercial deployment... That being said, while huge scalability is certainly research-worthy, does anyone actually