Re: shmmax tops out at 2G?

2009-02-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to Christian Peron c...@freebsd.org: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:58:09AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: [..]     Why isn't the field an unsigned int / size_t? I don't see much value in having the size

Re: shmmax tops out at 2G?

2009-02-24 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to Christian Peron c...@freebsd.org: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:58:09AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: [..]     Why isn't the field an unsigned int / size_t? I

Re: shmmax tops out at 2G?

2009-02-24 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:08:28PM -0600, Christian Peron wrote: This issue has come up a number of times. I was looking into fixing this but I just have not had the time. The basic issue is our shmid_ds structure: struct shmid_ds { struct ipc_perm shm_perm; /* operation

Google SoC 2009 Idea

2009-02-24 Thread Siddharth Prakash Singh
Hi all, I am a student from India. I am willing to contribute to FreeBSD as a google soc participant this year. I would like to suggest an idea. Title: Multicore Aware Process Scheduler. I have not gone through the process scheduler code of Free BSD. Hence, I am not yet aware about the current

Re: Google SoC 2009 Idea

2009-02-24 Thread matt donovan
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Siddharth Prakash Singh sps...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I am a student from India. I am willing to contribute to FreeBSD as a google soc participant this year. I would like to suggest an idea. Title: Multicore Aware Process Scheduler. I have not gone

Re: Google SoC 2009 Idea

2009-02-24 Thread Siddharth Prakash Singh
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Ray Mihm ray.m...@gmail.com wrote: Title: Multicore Aware Process Scheduler. I have not gone through the process scheduler code of Free BSD. Hence, I am not yet aware about the current support for Multicore Architectures. Talk to j...@freebsd.org, the author

Re: Google SoC 2009 Idea

2009-02-24 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:37:40AM +0530, Siddharth Prakash Singh wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Ray Mihm ray.m...@gmail.com wrote: Title: Multicore Aware Process Scheduler. I have not gone through the process scheduler code of Free BSD. Hence, I am not yet aware about the current

Re: Google SoC 2009 Idea

2009-02-24 Thread Ray Mihm
Title: Multicore Aware Process Scheduler. I have not gone through the process scheduler code of Free BSD. Hence, I am not yet aware about the current support for Multicore Architectures. Talk to j...@freebsd.org, the author of ULE. Linux Kernel 2.6.* currently supports SMP, SMT, NUMA

Re: Google SoC 2009 Idea

2009-02-24 Thread Sam Leffler
Siddharth Prakash Singh wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Ray Mihm ray.m...@gmail.com wrote: Title: Multicore Aware Process Scheduler. I have not gone through the process scheduler code of Free BSD. Hence, I am not yet aware about the current support for Multicore Architectures.

Re: Google SoC 2009 Idea

2009-02-24 Thread Jordan Gordeev
Sam Leffler wrote: Siddharth Prakash Singh wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Ray Mihm ray.m...@gmail.com wrote: Title: Multicore Aware Process Scheduler. I have not gone through the process scheduler code of Free BSD. Hence, I am not yet aware about the current support for Multicore

Re: Google SoC 2009 Idea

2009-02-24 Thread Siddharth Prakash Singh
Yeah I sent the same proposal to all the *BSD mailing list, because I am interested in doing this project . What's wrong in proposing the same project in all the *BSD organizations? On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Jordan Gordeev jgord...@dir.bg wrote: Sam Leffler wrote: Siddharth Prakash

x11 status

2009-02-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering, I've lost track of the status of XFree86 on FreeBSD.or really, at all. It looks like all of the Xfree86 servers have been removed from ports. I was looking on the www.Xfree86.org website, and from what I see, it apparently still is

Re: x11 status

2009-02-24 Thread matt donovan
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering, I've lost track of the status of XFree86 on FreeBSD.or really, at all. It looks like all of the Xfree86 servers have been removed from ports. I was

Re: Google SoC 2009 Idea

2009-02-24 Thread Ray Mihm
Yeah I sent the same proposal to all the *BSD mailing list, because I am interested in doing this project . Have you read what others have said? do. your. homework. first. What's wrong in proposing the same project in all the *BSD organizations? You wouldn't have asked this question if you'd

Re: x11 status

2009-02-24 Thread Ed Schouten
Hi Chuck, * Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: I was wondering, I've lost track of the status of XFree86 on FreeBSD.or really, at all. It looks like all of the Xfree86 servers have been removed from ports. The XFree86 project has been dying ever since almost all the active development