[9fans] acme automatic dump

2013-06-12 Thread roger peppe
My laptop has been a bit flaky recently which has brought this issue to the fore for me (nothing like a few hours' lost work to prompt some action!) If my computer crashes, it would be great if I didn't lose all my unsaved work in acme. I'm thinking of adding some way to automatically executing

[9fans] amd64 speed test

2013-06-12 Thread erik quanstrom
i'm trying to work out a performance kink in some amd64 machines. it's not clear to me if the machine i have is a bit wierd, or if this is typical amd. if anyone has a amd64 that's not a phenom ii x4, and can boot nix, i could you send me off-list the output of /n/atom/ftp/6.test64

[9fans] 9atom sse

2013-06-12 Thread erik quanstrom
lucho has a good point. while i still think concentrating on amd64 for new things is the right thing to do for the future, that shouldn't mean neglecting necessary maintence on the 386 kernels. 9atom now has sse support in the pae kernel. pae support goes back to the pentium pro, so i hope this