Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-22 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, I extended the gcc part a little bit to make it a little bit more clear when it matters. Bye, Alexander. -- Send via an Android device, please forgive brevity and typographic and spelling errors. Stefan Esser s...@freebsd.org hat geschrieben:Am 21.12.2011 22:49, schrieb Johan

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-22 Thread Johan Hendriks
Stefan Esser schreef: Am 21.12.2011 22:49, schrieb Johan Hendriks: Nice page, but one thing i do not get is the following. [quote] If you compare FreeBSD / GCC 4.2.1 against, for example, Ubuntu / GCC 4.7 then the results are unlikely to tell you anything meaningful about FreeBSD vs Ubuntu.

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-22 Thread Alexander Yerenkow
My thoughts about benchmarking - don't forget, it's the way to get at least estimate on how your system will behave in given circumstances. When testers measured new videocard, they tested few factors, like FPS in modern games, pixel/texture fillrate, and whatever they do there else. That's

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-22 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 22.12.11 11:02, Johan Hendriks wrote: Stefan Esser schreef: Am 21.12.2011 22:49, schrieb Johan Hendriks: If you tune up FreeBSD to use the GCC 4.7 compiler, or downgrade linux to 4.2.1, then that will tell me nothing about FreeBSD vs Linux. The gcc version distributed with FreeBSD was

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-22 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
On 22 December 2011 05:54, Daniel Kalchev dan...@digsys.bg wrote: On 22.12.11 00:33, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: Using the same argument one can say that Ferrari F430 vs Toyota Prius is a meaningless comparison because the under-the-hood equipment is different.  Of course, it is meaningless,

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-22 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 22.12.11 11:56, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: On 22 December 2011 05:54, Daniel Kalchevdan...@digsys.bg wrote: Of course, it is meaningless, the Ferrari will lose big time in the fuel consumption comparison! I believe it will also lose the price comparison as well. Not to speak the

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-22 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
On 22 December 2011 10:12, Daniel Kalchev dan...@digsys.bg wrote: As for how fast to get from point A to point B. If you observe speed limits, that will depend only on the pilot, no? :) Both cars are sufficiently faster than the imposed speed limits. You are ignoring acceleration, handling,

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-22 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 22.12.11 12:50, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: On 22 December 2011 10:12, Daniel Kalchevdan...@digsys.bg wrote: As for how fast to get from point A to point B. If you observe speed limits, that will depend only on the pilot, no? :) Both cars are sufficiently faster than the imposed speed limits.

GCC debug flags cleanup

2011-12-22 Thread Erik Cederstrand
Hi, I've created a patch that cleans up FreeBSD Makefiles that unconditionally set the -g flag for GCC. The motivation for this is that it should be possible to add or remove this flag globally via e.g. CFLAGS (it's part of my quest to produce deterministic builds). I'm not very familiar with

Re: WITHOUT_PROFILE=yes by default

2011-12-22 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 12:50:42 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: On Dec 2, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: Using profiled libs and gprof to profile your code has been obsolete in FreeBSD on i386 and amd64 for over six years now. Funny, it still seems to work on my systems.

jexec -h hostname option

2011-12-22 Thread Dan The Man
http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/relnotes/new.html#USERLAND jexec(8) now supports -h hostname option to specify the jail where the command will be executed. When was this added? I don't see it functioning: sunsaturn:~# jexec -h jexec: illegal option -- h usage: jexec [-u username |

Re: jexec -h hostname option

2011-12-22 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On 22. Dec 2011, at 14:03 , Dan The Man wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/relnotes/new.html#USERLAND jexec(8) now supports -h hostname option to specify the jail where the command will be executed. Oh wow. That's all but current. When was this added? I don't see it

[patch] Cleaning up amd64 kernel optimization options

2011-12-22 Thread Dimitry Andric
Hi, I would like to ask some feedback on the attached patch, which cleans up the kernel optimization options for amd64. This was touched upon earlier by Alexander Best in freebsd-toolchain, here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-toolchain/2011-October/000270.html What this patch

Re: xdm/login: in openpam_check_path_owner_perms(): /usr/local/lib/pam_ldap.so.5 not found

2011-12-22 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:09:23PM +0100, Hartmann, O. wrote: H OS: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64 r228787 H H Since the last update of world yesterday were I managed to compile the H OS WITH_LIBCPLUSPLUS=YES in /etc/src.conf, H only root is capable to login on the console. H H I use OpenLDAP 2.4 as

Re: jexec -h hostname option

2011-12-22 Thread Dan The Man
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On 22. Dec 2011, at 14:03 , Dan The Man wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/relnotes/new.html#USERLAND jexec(8) now supports -h hostname option to specify the jail where the command will be executed. Oh wow. That's all but

Re: GCC debug flags cleanup

2011-12-22 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, On 22 Dec 2011, at 11:52, Erik Cederstrand wrote: I've created a patch that cleans up FreeBSD Makefiles that unconditionally set the -g flag for GCC. [etc] Just a note of caution that I have had cases in the past where I suspected that GCC was generating broken code without -g and good

Re: GCC debug flags cleanup

2011-12-22 Thread Mark Blackman
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Bob Bishop wrote: Hi, On 22 Dec 2011, at 11:52, Erik Cederstrand wrote: I've created a patch that cleans up FreeBSD Makefiles that unconditionally set the -g flag for GCC. [etc] Just a note of caution that I have had cases in the past where I suspected that GCC was

Re: [patch] Cleaning up amd64 kernel optimization options

2011-12-22 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Dec 22 11, Dimitry Andric wrote: Hi, I would like to ask some feedback on the attached patch, which cleans up the kernel optimization options for amd64. This was touched upon earlier by Alexander Best in freebsd-toolchain, here: i've been using such settings for a few months now and

Re: jexec -h hostname option

2011-12-22 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On 22. Dec 2011, at 16:03 , Dan The Man wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On 22. Dec 2011, at 14:03 , Dan The Man wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/relnotes/new.html#USERLAND jexec(8) now supports -h hostname option to specify the jail where the

Re: jexec -h hostname option

2011-12-22 Thread Matt Mullins
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-li...@lists.zabbadoz.net wrote: jexec on a name works fine if you start the jail with a name as well. See the jail(8) man page on how to either use -n or name=. jail -n foo ... or jail name=foo ... then jexec foo ... I've wanted to be

Re: jexec -h hostname option

2011-12-22 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On 22. Dec 2011, at 19:39 , Matt Mullins wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-li...@lists.zabbadoz.net wrote: jexec on a name works fine if you start the jail with a name as well. See the jail(8) man page on how to either use -n or name=. jail -n foo ... or jail

Re: r228700 can't dhclient em0

2011-12-22 Thread Doug Barton
On 12/21/2011 23:20, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: I'm afraid, if we would try to document every kernel-userland API/ABI change in head/ in the UPDATING, then the file will grow extremely quickly, and still many issues will be forgotten to be added there. That doesn't mean we shouldn't do our best to

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-22 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/21/11 19:41, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Hi, while the discussion continued here, some work started at some other place. Now... in case someone here is willing to help instead of talking, feel free to go to http://wiki.freebsd.org/BenchmarkAdvice and have a look what can be

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:44:14AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: On 12/21/11 19:41, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Hi, while the discussion continued here, some work started at some other place. Now... in case someone here is willing to help instead of talking, feel free to go to

Re: [patch] Cleaning up amd64 kernel optimization options

2011-12-22 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Alexander Best wrote: On Thu Dec 22 11, Dimitry Andric wrote: Hi, I would like to ask some feedback on the attached patch, which cleans up the kernel optimization options for amd64. This was touched upon earlier by Alexander Best in freebsd-toolchain, here: i've been

Re: [patch] Cleaning up amd64 kernel optimization options

2011-12-22 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Dec 22 11, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Alexander Best wrote: On Thu Dec 22 11, Dimitry Andric wrote: Hi, I would like to ask some feedback on the attached patch, which cleans up the kernel optimization options for amd64. This was touched upon earlier by Alexander

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-22 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/22/11 10:02, Johan Hendriks wrote: Stefan Esser schreef: Am 21.12.2011 22:49, schrieb Johan Hendriks: Nice page, but one thing i do not get is the following. [quote] If you compare FreeBSD / GCC 4.2.1 against, for example, Ubuntu / GCC 4.7 then the results are unlikely to tell you

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-22 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/22/11 10:56, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: On 22 December 2011 05:54, Daniel Kalchev dan...@digsys.bg wrote: [...] Any 'benchmark' has a goal. You first define the goal and then measure how different contenders achieve it. Reaching the goal may have several measurable metrics, that you will use

Re: r228700 can't dhclient em0

2011-12-22 Thread Doug Barton
On 12/21/2011 23:20, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:35:23PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: D So does that mean that if I upgrade to the latest HEAD from a system D built before the ifconfig changes that when I reboot my network will D come up? Yes, older infconfig will work in

Re: xdm/login: in openpam_check_path_owner_perms(): /usr/local/lib/pam_ldap.so.5 not found

2011-12-22 Thread O. Hartmann
On 12/22/11 16:59, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:09:23PM +0100, Hartmann, O. wrote: H OS: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64 r228787 H H Since the last update of world yesterday were I managed to compile the H OS WITH_LIBCPLUSPLUS=YES in /etc/src.conf, H only root is capable to

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 22, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:44:14AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: On 12/21/11 19:41, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Hi, while the discussion continued here, some work started at some other place. Now... in case someone

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-22 Thread Martin Sugioarto
Am Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:17:00 +0100 schrieb O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Benchmarks also could lead developers to look into more details of the weak points of their OS, if they're open for that. Therefore, benchmarks are very useful. But not if any real fault of the OS is excused

Re: r228700 can't dhclient em0

2011-12-22 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 05:40:03PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: D D So does that mean that if I upgrade to the latest HEAD from a system D D built before the ifconfig changes that when I reboot my network will D D come up? D D Yes, older infconfig will work in head r228571 || head r228768. D

Re: r228700 can't dhclient em0

2011-12-22 Thread Doug Barton
On 12/22/2011 23:22, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 05:40:03PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: D D So does that mean that if I upgrade to the latest HEAD from a system D D built before the ifconfig changes that when I reboot my network will D D come up? D D Yes, older infconfig