[9fans] iwp9 macros.ms + mkfile, (was--Re: regexp metacharacter difficulty inside grap)

2010-08-17 Thread Jeff Sickel
On Aug 10, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Russ Cox wrote: cat /sys/doc/docfonts $stem.ps _$stem.ps addpsfonts $stem.ps _$stem.ps should do a better job of identifying the necessary fonts. /sys/doc/docfonts is just the ones used in /sys/doc. Is there a good way to get eqn to use a font other

[9fans] Load spikes on intervals in qemu

2010-08-17 Thread Brad Frank
Hi, I recently did a clean install of plan9 on qemu on linux. I've noticed that the load is spiking on an interval every 30 seconds or something like that. I looked at suggestions that it might be venti and timesync. But it couldn't be venti because I didn't install venti, I have a fossil only

Re: [9fans] Load spikes on intervals in qemu

2010-08-17 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Brad Frank brad.fr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I recently did a clean install of plan9 on qemu on linux. I've noticed that the load is spiking on an interval every 30 seconds or something like that. I looked at suggestions that it might be venti and timesync. But

Re: [9fans] Load spikes on intervals in qemu

2010-08-17 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Venkatesh Srinivas m...@acm.jhu.edu wrote: I run Plan 9 in qemu, but I run neither fossil nor any other (major) disk file server in qemu. Instead, I have Inferno on my host serve files to Plan 9. To accomplish this: 1) I installed Plan 9, as normal, into a

Re: [9fans] iwp9 macros.ms + mkfile, (was--Re: regexp metacharacter difficulty inside grap)

2010-08-17 Thread Russ Cox
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Jeff Sickel j...@corpus-callosum.com wrote: On Aug 10, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Russ Cox wrote:        cat /sys/doc/docfonts $stem.ps _$stem.ps addpsfonts $stem.ps _$stem.ps should do a better job of identifying the necessary fonts. /sys/doc/docfonts is just the

[9fans] Load spikes on intervals in qemu

2010-08-17 Thread Brad Frank
Yes, doing those things would be an alternative. But the bigger question is why is fossil hitting the load like that while running in Qemu. And also, another question is whether this would be happening on physical hardware as well... Is there anything I can do to figure out why it is doing that,

Re: [9fans] Load spikes on intervals in qemu

2010-08-17 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
qemu disk emulation isn't exactly speedy, and fossil probably bangs on the disk pretty hard and from the sounds of things its treating the disk access as synchronous (which is why everything else freezes up). The two combined together is not something you want to deal with. FWIW, on my system I

Re: [9fans] iwp9 macros.ms + mkfile, (was--Re: regexp metacharacter difficulty inside grap)

2010-08-17 Thread Jeff Sickel
On Aug 17, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Russ Cox wrote: Is there a good way to get eqn to use a font other than LucidaSansUnicode? If you typeset the document in Times instead of Lucida, you can add: .fp 1 R R.nomath and then troff should fall back to the math symbols in the standard PostScript

Re: [9fans] iwp9 macros.ms + mkfile, (was--Re: regexp metacharacter difficulty inside grap)

2010-08-17 Thread Russ Cox
Postscript is fine, I'll just ignore the proliferation of PDF until I've got time to dig in and look more deeply into eqn and the ghostscript sources. It's almost certainly that addpsfonts isn't adding the right ps fonts. I've never seen a problem with ps2pdf misbehaving when it has all the