Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-18 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [20010417 20:47], Matt Dillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Testing it 'on' in stable on production systems and observing the >relative change in performance is a worthy experiment. Testing it >'on' in current is just an experiment. I have been running vfs.vmiodirenable=1 on two ST

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-18 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [20010418 01:00], Alfred Perlstein ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > (although afaik we're basing it on both Solaris and BSD/os's > implementation so... well I'm not going to bother defending it.) You just scared the shit out of me by mentioning Solaris. I've found

Re: hid_report_size() prototype wrong in both -stable and -current

2001-04-18 Thread n_hibma
Concidental. The code that is in libusb is also present in the kernel. Nick On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Nick Sayer wrote: > > > > usb.h != libusb.h > > > > NetBSD has a stupid naming convention. Use libusb.h in FreeBSD. > > Ok. That's as may be, but then why are there prototypes for libusb calls in >

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-18 Thread Bruce Evans
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > -On [20010417 20:47], Matt Dillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Testing it 'on' in stable on production systems and observing the > >relative change in performance is a worthy experiment. Testing it > >'on' in current is just an ex

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-18 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [20010418 14:38], Bruce Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [vfs.vmiodirenable] >So, how much slower was it? ;-) Not noticeable for me at least. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai --=-- asmodai@[wxs.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at

Re: Kernel preemption, yes or no? (was: Filesystem gets a hugeperformance boost)

2001-04-18 Thread E.B. Dreger
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 01:38:14 -0300 (BRST) > From: Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hence, my philosophy is that task switching and preemption are > > necessary evils because hardware does not perfectly accomodate > > software. If we must, we must... otherwise, use co-op switching as >

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-18 Thread Dan Langille
On 18 Apr 2001, at 10:33, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > -On [20010417 20:47], Matt Dillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Testing it 'on' in stable on production systems and observing the > >relative change in performance is a worthy experiment. Testing it > >'on' in current is just

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-18 Thread Dan Langille
On 18 Apr 2001, at 22:16, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > > -On [20010417 20:47], Matt Dillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >Testing it 'on' in stable on production systems and observing the > > >relative change in performance is a worthy expe

Re: ** HEADS UP ** Groff 1.17 (including -mdocNG) imported

2001-04-18 Thread Thomas Quinot
Le 2001-04-17, Ruslan Ermilov écrivait : > It is my great pleasure to announce the availability of just released > Groff 1.17. Please refer to the src/contrib/groff/NEWS for details on > what's new in this release. Hum. I have just made world, and can't format man pages anymore. All I get is t

groff breaks "make -j N buildworld"

2001-04-18 Thread Steve Kargl
===> src/utils/tfmtodit install -C -c -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 tfmtodit /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin ===> tmac cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac/../../../../contrib/groff/tmac; install -C -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 mandoc.tmac andoc.tmac an-old.tmac me.tmac mdoc.tmac pic.tmac a4.tmac

Re: ** HEADS UP ** Groff 1.17 (including -mdocNG) imported

2001-04-18 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
quinot> Formatting page, please wait...mdoc error: end-macro (.em) respecification is not allowed. (#41) quinot> Should this have been `.Em ...'? quinot> User Abort. Same here. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the mes

Re: ** HEADS UP ** Groff 1.17 (including -mdocNG) imported

2001-04-18 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
Oops... my fingers behave badly. quinot> Formatting page, please wait...mdoc error: end-macro (.em) respecification is not allowed. (#41) quinot> Should this have been `.Em ...'? quinot> User Abort. Same here. % zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | nroff -mandoc |& head -2 mdoc erro

Re: ** HEADS UP ** Groff 1.17 (including -mdocNG) imported

2001-04-18 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
Hi! Unfortunately, I can't reproduce this. I even installed new Groff over the old one, but with no luck to reproduce this. It would be great if you could give me an SSH account on one of the problematic box. On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 06:09:18PM +0200, Thomas Quinot wrote: > Le 2001-04-17, Rusla

Re: ** HEADS UP ** Groff 1.17 (including -mdocNG) imported

2001-04-18 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:32:33PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > Hi! > > Unfortunately, I can't reproduce this. I even installed new Groff over > the old one, but with no luck to reproduce this. It would be great if > you could give me an SSH account on one of the problematic box. > OK, got i

Re: ** HEADS UP ** Groff 1.17 (including -mdocNG) imported

2001-04-18 Thread Thomas Quinot
Le 2001-04-18, Ruslan Ermilov écrivait : > cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac && make cleandir obj && make all install It works here, thanks! -- Thomas Quinot ** Département Informatique & Réseaux ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ENST // 46 rue Barrault // 75634 PARIS CEDEX 13 To U

Re: ** HEADS UP ** Groff 1.17 (including -mdocNG) imported

2001-04-18 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:33:21PM +0200, Thomas Quinot wrote: > Le 2001-04-18, Ruslan Ermilov ecrivait : > > > cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac && make cleandir obj && make all install > > It works here, thanks! > Make sure you delete empty files from /usr/share/man/[en.ISO_8859-1/]cat?/. I

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-18 Thread Jesper Skriver
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:33:32AM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > -On [20010417 20:47], Matt Dillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Testing it 'on' in stable on production systems and observing the > >relative change in performance is a worthy experiment. Testing it > >'on' in c

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Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-18 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Doug Barton wrote: > OK... this brings up the question of what other cool optimizations are > there that may have been disabled in the past for reasons that are no > longer pertinent? It might be worthwhile to create an /etc/sysctl.conf file > with commented out example

Found BAD BUG: squashed

2001-04-18 Thread Terry Lambert
I have identified the bug. It turns out that the bug causes memory corruption by freeing but continuing to use a credential, and it only occurs in big resource usage cases, and then seemingly at random. It is the fact that there are two credentials per socket, one for the socket, and one for th

Re: ** HEADS UP ** Groff 1.17 (including -mdocNG) imported

2001-04-18 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
ru> cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac && make cleandir obj && make all install quinot> It works here, thanks! It works also here. Thanks! -- - Makoto `MAR' MATSUSHITA To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: groff breaks "make -j N buildworld"

2001-04-18 Thread nnd
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Steve Kargl wrote: > install -C -c -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 tfmtodit /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin > ===> tmac > install -C -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 e.tmac-s >/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/share/tmac/e.tmac > install: e.tmac-s: No such file or directory

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