Re: UFS+QUOTA+GIANT

2012-05-04 Thread Sergey Kandaurov
On 3 May 2012 23:01, Bryan Drewery br...@shatow.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I recently was re-evaluating my needs for a custom kernel vs GENERIC. One of these was due to QUOTA support, which apparently is not in GENERIC due to the GIANT lock [1]. This is

Re: NFS - slow

2012-05-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Probably not. NFSv4 writes are done exactly the same as NFSv3. (It changes other stuff, like locking, adding support for ACLs, etc.) I do have a patch is there any chance to improving it? i mean to cluster writes up to MAXBSIZE on nfs server, just like local UFS do?

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-05-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I think The power to serve, pretty much sums it up nicely. :-) that simple. While whom/what it serve it depends. But it have to serve someone needs. Contrary to computer owner being a server for someone else needs :) now. While I know this probably seems pointless, based on your

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-05-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Not really, no. I was referring to the practice of starting a gazillion services by default, including dbus, avahi, ftp and http services, file sharing components, and all the rest of the stuff that is now commonly installed as part of a Linux desktop. SELinux is indeed one form of hardening,

Re: The user-mode stack space is how many bytes?

2012-05-04 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:48:48 am cz li wrote: I have some questions.As follows ,The kernel address space is how much? How it is distributed? Where can I see?I can adjust it's bigger?What should I do if I can?The change will make some applications can not run? Sorry, my English is poor.

Re: CPU selection for ithreads on 8.3

2012-05-04 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday, May 02, 2012 5:16:17 pm Navdeep Parhar wrote: There seems to be a regression in 8.3 in the way the kernel selects CPUs for interrupts. For example, cxgb(4) on 8.3 ends up with all its ithreads on the same CPU (CPU7 in this case). 12 root -68- 0K 816K WAIT7

Re: [review request] zfsboot/zfsloader: support accessing filesystems within a pool

2012-05-04 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:23:51 am Andriy Gapon wrote: on 03/05/2012 18:02 Andriy Gapon said the following: Here's the latest version of the patches: http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfsboot.patches.4.diff I've found a couple of problems in the previous version, so here's another

Re: CPU selection for ithreads on 8.3

2012-05-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
cxgbc0} 12 root -68- 0K 816K WAIT7 0:31 0.00% intr{irq280: cxgbc0} Back in the day there used to be code in cxgb to bind different interrupts to different CPUs but it was removed because the kernel distributed them across CPUs anyway. So what changed? This appears 8.3

Re: CPU selection for ithreads on 8.3

2012-05-04 Thread Navdeep Parhar
On 05/04/12 10:05, Wojciech Puchar wrote: cxgbc0} 12 root -68 - 0K 816K WAIT 7 0:31 0.00% intr{irq280: cxgbc0} Back in the day there used to be code in cxgb to bind different interrupts to different CPUs but it was removed because the kernel distributed them across CPUs anyway. So what changed?

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-05-04 Thread Dieter BSD
*WHY* is Linux so much more popular than the BSDs? GPL vs BSDL ? (Create a GPLed BSD and see if it takes off.) the obese cartoon penguin? Do most people actually prefer the lower quality product? Popularity is inversly proportional to quality in many areas, not just OSes. marketing? Is there

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-05-04 Thread Richard Yao
On 05/04/12 15:11, Dieter BSD wrote: *WHY* is Linux so much more popular than the BSDs? Linux is popular because of RedHat. Corporate executives like to pay for software because it shifts responsibility away from them in the event that something goes wrong. If something goes wrong with RHEL, the

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-05-04 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 04 May 2012 15:11:10 -0400 Dieter BSD dieter...@engineer.com wrote: *WHY* is Linux so much more popular than the BSDs? My newsbyte answer is: BSD is Unix for people who love quality software. Linux is Unix for people who hate Microsoft. There are a lot more of the latter than the

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-05-04 Thread Devin Teske
On May 4, 2012, at 8:42 PM, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 04 May 2012 15:11:10 -0400 Dieter BSD dieter...@engineer.com wrote: *WHY* is Linux so much more popular than the BSDs? My newsbyte answer is: BSD is Unix for people who love quality software. Linux is Unix for people who hate

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-05-04 Thread Devin Teske
On May 4, 2012, at 9:15 PM, Devin Teske wrote: On May 4, 2012, at 8:42 PM, Mike Meyer wrote: On Fri, 04 May 2012 15:11:10 -0400 Dieter BSD dieter...@engineer.com wrote: *WHY* is Linux so much more popular than the BSDs? My newsbyte answer is: BSD is Unix for people who love

How does loader(8) decide where to load the kernel?

2012-05-04 Thread Tim Kientzle
I have ubldr loading the ELF kernel on BeagleBone and am now trying to untangle some of the hacks I used to get this working. Unfortunately, there's one area of the common loader(8) code that I really don't understand: How does sys/boot/common/load_elf.c determine the physical address at which