Re: [RFT][patch] Scheduling for HTT and not only

2012-02-16 Thread Alexander Motin
On 02/15/12 21:54, Jeff Roberson wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Alexander Motin wrote: As before I've tested this on Core i7-870 with 4 physical and 8 logical cores and Atom D525 with 2 physical and 4 logical cores. On Core i7 I've got speedup up to 10-15% in super-smack MySQL and PostgreSQL

Re: [RFT][patch] Scheduling for HTT and not only

2012-02-16 Thread Alexander Motin
On 02/16/12 10:48, Alexander Motin wrote: On 02/15/12 21:54, Jeff Roberson wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Alexander Motin wrote: As before I've tested this on Core i7-870 with 4 physical and 8 logical cores and Atom D525 with 2 physical and 4 logical cores. On Core i7 I've got speedup up to

8 to 9: A longer wait early in the boot of a (damaged) Compaq Presario

2012-02-16 Thread Alex Goncharov
About three years ago, my Compaq Presario F700 notebook got damaged in BIOS: it carried Windows Vista then, and that OS could not be recovered from the system image disks I had created for a brand-new machine. The damage was somewhere around BIOS/firmware area -- the way the console looked on a

Re: 8 to 9: A longer wait early in the boot of a (damaged) Compaq Presario

2012-02-16 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- I/Alex (Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:34:36 -0500) * | There was one other odd thing that I noticed then: while Debian booted | without a delay, FreeBSD 8 made a long pause after passing the boot | menu: it would display the '/' character and sit there for some | non-trivial amount of seconds. I

Re: 8 to 9: A longer wait early in the boot of a (damaged) Compaq Presario

2012-02-16 Thread Rares Aioanei
On 02/16/2012 07:34 PM, Alex Goncharov wrote: About three years ago, my Compaq Presario F700 notebook got damaged in BIOS: it carried Windows Vista then, and that OS could not be recovered from the system image disks I had created for a brand-new machine. The damage was somewhere around

Re: 8 to 9: A longer wait early in the boot of a (damaged) CompaqPresario

2012-02-16 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Alex Goncharov alex-goncha...@comcast.net About a week ago, I made a jump and upgraded the system's FreeBSD from version 8 to 9. Everything is great (I am typing this message on that machine now) but the boot pause after the (looking new in 9) boot menu is

Re: [RFT][patch] Scheduling for HTT and not only

2012-02-16 Thread Florian Smeets
On 15.02.12 20:47, Alexander Motin wrote: On 02/14/12 00:38, Alexander Motin wrote: I see no much point in committing them sequentially, as they are quite orthogonal. I need to make one decision. I am going on small vacation next week. It will give time for thoughts to settle. May be I indeed

Re: 8 to 9: A longer wait early in the boot of a (damaged) CompaqPresario

2012-02-16 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- You/Steven (Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:23:15 -) * | Two things spring to mind which could help: | 1. The reduce the slice sampling size in sys/boot/zfs/zfs.c which was | increased recently Your mentioning of ZFS made me realize that I was building RELENG_{8,9} with /etc/src.conf not

Re: Kerberos and FreeBSD

2012-02-16 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Ansar Mohammed wrote: Going back on this topic, it seems that there are alot of things that are being shipped with FreeBSD that I am not sure we need in the base distribution. Does anyone use portalfs? Maybe not ... per http://wiki.freebsd.org/NONMPSAFE_DEORBIT_VFS it is

Re: nologin size

2012-02-16 Thread Jason Hellenthal
From the Makefile... # It is important that nologin be statically linked for security # reasons. A dynamic non-setuid binary can be linked against a trojan # libc by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH appropriately. Both sshd(8) and # login(1) make it possible to log in with an unsanitized environment, #

BUG: 9.0 stage 2 boot (/boot/boot)

2012-02-16 Thread rank1seeker
Anyway, after upgrading to 9.0, my USB stick, when created, started to hang at stage 2 boot. I have a custom setup, where BSD label 'a', has a content of /boot/* So when 'a' is being hit by stage 2 boot, there is boot.config waiting for it. After it reads it and displays it's content, it echos