On Wed, May 30, 2012, Aldis Berjoza wrote:
On Sat, 26 May 2012 22:45:37 +1200
Sam Lin sam.lin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi FreeBSD fellows,
Those who are using LaTeX on FreeBSD must know that tetex has been
discontinued years ago and that TeXLive is now recommended, however
TeXLive has
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
Quite a few conflicts and changes in dependencies are needed for
TeXLive. TeXLive does not just replace teTeX, but also ports like
freetype-tools, t1utils, jadetex, etc. I have patches for all ports I
use, which has been working for me for
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
Even with a knob instead of checking if print/texlive-core is installed,
it would put a lot of mess into the ports tree. Some maintainers will
not agree to introduce these conditions, if there is no general
agreement that we want to
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011, Alexander Best wrote:
... i couldn't find a reference to an upercase Z in the printf(9) man page.
i talked to dinoex on #freebsd-clang (EFNet) and he said that the Z might
come from linux'es libc5 and is the equaivalent to glibc's z.
can we adjust those lines, so the
On Sun, May 08, 2011, Bakul Shah wrote:
On Sun, 08 May 2011 21:35:04 CDT Zhihao Yuan lich...@gmail.com wrote:
1. This lib accepts many popular grammars (PCRE, POSIX, vim, etc.),
but it does not allow you to change the mode.
http://code.google.com/p/re2/source/browse/re2/re2.h
The mode
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote:
... The problem is actually pretty hard - since AFAIK SoftUpdates
doesn't have checkpoints in the sense that it groups writes and
all data before can guaranteed to be on-disk, the problem is
*when*
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010, PÁLI Gábor János wrote:
Hello,
I would like to use the clogf(3) function from complex.h, but it seems
there is no such function implemented on FreeBSD (8.1-STABLE). Am I
missing something or is there any way to work this around?
A simple workaround is something like:
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009, Anders Nordby wrote:
Better post about my swap zone problems here than tear all my hair out.
This concerns me:
1) How can SWAPMETA usage continue increasing, while swap space used is
not? Example: http://anders.fupp.net/test/swapmeta.png. In the swap meta
graph, used
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
Another idea to consider. Are all of our utilities wchar-clean? What
about library functions? (regex is surely not) Do we lack any important
utility or library? (we still do lack iconv and gettext and what
else...?) What about standards, like C99
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009, Gábor Kövesdán wrote:
Hello all,
my name is Gábor Kövesdán. I'm a Hungarian student and I'll be working on
a BSD-licensed libiconv implementation for FreeBSD during this year's
Summer of Code program. It'll be based on NetBSD's Citrus iconv but there
is a lot to do
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:49:41AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
David Schultz wrote:
... whether it would make more sense to standardize on something like
UCS-4 for the internal representation.
YES. Without this, wchar_t is useless.
I
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 03:49:04PM -0400, David Schultz wrote:
...but isn't this moot at present because there are no
widely-accepted encodings that include characters that
aren't supported by UCS-4? Citrus doesn't seem to support
any
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
Someone just asked me permission to move to a 3-clause BSD
copyright some piece of software that I haven't touched in 10+ years.
I said yes, but then I was wondering what happens if the
person listed is not responding or not reachable anymore:
does
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 05:31:52AM -0400, David Schultz wrote:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
Someone just asked me permission to move to a 3-clause BSD
copyright some piece of software that I haven't touched in 10+ years.
I said
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009, Alexander Sack wrote:
I'm working with building the Boost libraries and Boost.Math has long
double support stubbed out for FreeBSD (personally I don't need it
but..). I believe looking at some historical threads about this over
the weekend and a lot of it was due to
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009, Boris Kochergin wrote:
Ahoy. I got bitten by this today--a system I administer for someone had
users in more than 16 groups, so I had to bump the value, recompile the
kernel, and reboot. It seems desirable to (at the very least) make this
a read-only tunable that can
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009, Ed Schouten wrote:
One of the reasons why we can't compile the base system yet, is because
some applications in the base system (keyserv, newkey, chkey, libtelnet)
won't compile, because a library they depend (libmp)on has a function
called pow(). By default, LLVM has a
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009, Christoph Mallon wrote:
David Schultz schrieb:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009, Ed Schouten wrote:
One of the reasons why we can't compile the base system yet, is because
some applications in the base system (keyserv, newkey, chkey, libtelnet)
won't compile, because a library
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009, Christoph Mallon wrote:
David Schultz schrieb:
As for gcc's math builtins, most of them are buggy. They fail to
respect the dynamic rounding mode, fail to generate exceptions
where appropriate, fail to respect FENV_ACCESS and other pragmas,
etc. Also, the complex
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Andriy Gapon wrote:
My nose has just been rubbed into alloc_unr(9) :)
Thanks, Roman!
The only problem about alloc_unr() is that you cannot allocate multiple
contiguous units?
Both Solaris' vmem(9) and
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009, Bruce Cran wrote:
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:51:02 +0100
Christoph Mallon christoph.mal...@gmx.de wrote:
Aniruddha Bohra schrieb:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Andriy Gapon a...@icyb.net.ua
wrote:
on 10/02/2009 22:43 Aniruddha Bohra said the following:
You
I think there *is* a real bug here, but there's two distinct ways
to fix it. When a threaded process forks, malloc acquires all its
locks so that its state is consistent after a fork. However, the
post-fork hook that's supposed to release these locks fails to do
so in the child because the child
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009, Daniel Eischen wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, David Schultz wrote:
I think there *is* a real bug here, but there's two distinct ways
to fix it. When a threaded process forks, malloc acquires all its
locks so that its state is consistent after a fork. However, the
post
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009, David Schultz wrote:
If you can't implement functions that are required to be
async-signal-safe like fork() and exec() without malloc(), then
for now I guess we should go for something along the lines of what
Brian is proposing. If the app programmer has taken special
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008, kr Lekha wrote:
I understand when thread finishes it should call kthread_exit().
but if this thread was suspended before it finished, it might not be able to
call kthread_exit().
Due to which we still see the thread suspended. I am unable to kill it
even with killproc
On Mon, May 05, 2008, Roman Divacky wrote:
hi
when we want to use a hash table in kernel we call hashinit which
initializes a hash table with power-of-2 size. There's also phashinit
that creates hash table of size that is a prime number. This was
added in 1995 by davidg@ but it is not used
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yep, it seems that GNU sort allocates a quite large buffer by default when
the size of the input is unknown (such as when it reads input from stdin.)
A
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008, navneet Upadhyay wrote:
Hi ,
My product is successfully running on Linux( all most all versions)
and HP- UX and Windows .
*It is 100 % C++ code*.
I am planning to support it on FreeBSD, i have two queries :
1. *How to build my code into binaries* on
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008, Heikki Suonsivu wrote:
There is very low cost microscopic PC (see eBOX 2300 and eBOX 2300SX
www.compactpc.com.tw), which previously run FreeBSD fine, being based on
Vortex86 cpu on Sis SoC chip 550. Unfortunately the manufacturer
switched to a new SoC cpu which is
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
James Healy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The remaining op is not easily converted to fixed point math, and we're
wondering what impact a single flop on the receipt of each ACK will
have. We don't have a strong understanding of the amount of
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005, nocool wrote:
Can memory management system utilize COW to supply zero-filled page to kernel
or user process.
That is to say:
When processes want zeroed page, we give them a mirror of one already zerod
pages. If they just
read, they can read zero from the back page.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005, John Baldwin wrote:
On Friday 21 October 2005 09:13 am, nocool wrote:
freebsd-hackersï¼hello
Question about 5.4 kernel source code.
I have some question about strust proc's initialize. Kernel use
proc_zone
to allocate proc items and initialize them
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 05:24:15AM -0700, ALeine wrote:
machine. Having a flag to tag processes as vital to prevent them from
getting
killed (or to give them lower next-to-be-killed priority so that all
non-vital
processes get killed first)
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005, Steven Hartland wrote:
- Original Message -
There is no large process detection. The first process that tries
to fault in a new page after the system runs out of swap gets killed.
That makes sense. Me trying to connect to see what was going
on would hence
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005, David Leimbach wrote:
Yes, procfs rules!
Procfs is from linux?
I thought it was from Plan 9... along with rfork :).
Nope. It was first implemented by Sun's Roger Faulkner in SVR4,
well before Linux or Plan 9 existed. Actually, someone wrote a
prototype for Unix
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:20:13AM -0500, David Schultz wrote:
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005, David Leimbach wrote:
Yes, procfs rules!
Procfs is from linux?
I thought it was from Plan 9... along with rfork :).
Nope. It was first
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On Tue, 2005-Mar-29 22:57:28 -0500, jason henson wrote:
Later in that thread they discuss skipping the restore state to make
things faster. The minimum buffer size they say this will be good for
is between 2-4k. Does this make sense, or am I
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005, Warner Losh wrote:
From: mohamed aslan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: organization
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:41:25 -0800
guys this is not a flame war
but the linux way in arranging the source file is really better than
freebsd way, it's a fact.
however it's easy
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005, M. Warner Losh wrote:
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: On Tue, Mar 29, 2005, Warner Losh wrote:
: From: mohamed aslan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Subject: Re: organization
: Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:41:25 -0800
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005, Richard Sharpe wrote:
Hi,
I am having some problems with the tdb package on FreeBSD 4.6.2 and 4.10.
One of the things the above package does is:
mmap the tdb file to a region of memory
store stuff in the region (memmov etc).
when it needs to extend the
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005, c0ldbyte wrote:
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On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Without intending to start any compiler holy wars, what benefits does
ICC provide over GCC for the end user?
ICC would provide better low level code
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005, Andriy Tkachuk wrote:
As I see now there is for example O(n) algorithm for
process IDs allocation... In linux it is addressed
using bit-mapping (as far as i understand).
In Oct 2003 there was topic in this list:
Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD
in
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005, klowd9 - wrote:
Where can i find resources about the freebsd kernel?
I read over the developers handbook, and the architecture handbook, and
both provide very little information i need.
Also if anyone can recommend irc channels to visit where developers are to
be
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005, Ted Unangst wrote:
These bugs were found using the Coverity Prevent static analysis tool.
[...]
Thanks for reporting these! It's great that your tools have been
finding all these obscure bugs before users do. All of these
should be fixed now, except for the if_ti bug,
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
Hello!
The respected manual contain dire warnings, but the Google search suggests,
the situation is not *that* gloomy.
For example, according to http://kerneltrap.org/node/652 , nullfs was used on
Bento-cluster two years ago in 2003.
Is
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
No, I am not. PHK invented new cryptographic modes for his work. The
fact that he does not understand this is part of the problem.
Hi Perry,
You've brought up this claim at several points in this thread.
Would you be willing to be more specific? I
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005, Julian Elischer wrote:
Ashwin Chandra wrote:
I wanted to get some clarification about the 4BSD scheduler. I am sort of
confused why there are two forms of scheduling, one done between processes
and
another done between threads in a process. The priority calculations
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005, Yan Yu wrote:
HI, all,
I have a Q on the input parameter of fdrop() and fdrop_locked() in
kern/kern_descrip.c.
i am curious about the design choice of their input parameter.
currently, it is defined as
A) fdrop( struct file
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005, Igor Shmukler wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has figured a way to make vn_fullpath() reliable?
Perhaps there is another approach to attacking this problem. Here is what I
need
to accomplish:
I need to be able to determine dynamic linker, shared libraries
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005, David Schultz wrote:
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005, Igor Shmukler wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has figured a way to make vn_fullpath() reliable?
Perhaps there is another approach to attacking this problem. Here is what I
need
to accomplish:
I need
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005, Andrew MacIntyre wrote:
David Schultz wrote:
Other than that, I don't know enough
details about ptmalloc to speculate, except to say that for most
real-world workloads on modern systems, the impact of the malloc
implementation is likely to be negligible. Of course, test
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
David Schultz wrote this message on Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:04 -0500:
Right, databases, language runtimes, and the small set of other
applications for which it really matters usually have their own
special-purpose allocators. I was counting
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005, Jason Henson wrote:
I saw on a few of the lists here how linux uses ptmalloc2 and it
outperforms bsd's malloc. I tried to do some research into it and
found PHK's pdf on it and it seems bsd's malloc was ment to be ok in
most every situation. Because of this it
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005, Jonathan Weiss wrote:
Is the CDDL license compatible with the BSD and MIT licenses?
According to the OpenBSD-folks: NO
Actually, I think the answer is YES. You're apparently answering
a different question. See below.
It is my understanding that virtually any
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005, Eitarou Kamo wrote:
Actually, I think the answer is YES. You're apparently answering
a different question. See below.
It is my understanding that virtually any open-source license is
*compatible* with the MIT and 2-clause BSD licenses, since all the
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
David Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When the line is there, the compiler is probably smart enough to
realize that 'x=y; y=x' is (usually) a no-op, so it optimizes away
both statements
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005, Jacques Fourie wrote:
Hi,
I have a kernel module with the following entry point :
static int test_modevent(module_t mod, int type, void *unused)
{
int s;
unsigned char *p = NULL;
unsigned char v = 0x55;
switch (type)
{
case MOD_LOAD:
p =
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005, Jacques Fourie wrote:
Hi,
Yes, I am trying to patch a piece of code in the kernel. The strange
thing is that this code works without a problem on FreeBSD 4.8 - has
the VM system changed to such an extent between 4.8 and 4.9 that the
pages in the kernel code segment are
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
If we could take a clean subsystem-by-subsystem approach to marshaling
kernel state to disk, that would be good. What gives me particular pain
here is dealing with things like the filesystem. How does one deal with
open files, etc, with pending I/O?
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005, Ceri Davies wrote:
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 06:10:06PM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:21:10AM +, Ceri Davies wrote:
I don't really think that this benchmark is bad news for either OS. My
only real concern are the process creation/termination
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
1) In kmi_fops.d_open():
|if(!mtx_trylock(Open_lock)) { return EBUSY; }
|return 0;
this can not work. You cannot return to userland with a lock acquired.
So? The full code also contains a uio_read() function. If I release the
lock in
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004, Devesh Shah wrote:
Is there a loadable scheduler exist for freebsd 5.2.1 that I
could use or any work in the pipeline to develope the
infrastructure for freebsd? I believe, Linux has policy based
loadable scheduler but could not find one for freebsd. I know,
Freebsd
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote:
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: On 2004-10-02 19:29, M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Tillman Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: :
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004, Michael Reifenberger wrote:
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 11:19:28 +0300
From: Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Protection from the dreaded rm -fr /
John Beck, who works for Sun, has posted an
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
FWIW, I'm not in favor of adding ad-hoc features to handle edge-cases.
(feature because this is actually introducing a bug :-)
I picked this email to which to respond, because I can share my own
stupidity. Case much like the one described
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004, Michael Reifenberger wrote:
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, David Schultz wrote:
...
Do you also want to be able to swap to the root partition while
it's mounted? We can bring back that feature, too. But
personally, I don't see anything wrong with the view that
operations
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2004-10-02 17:22, Garance A Drosihn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 8:57 PM +0300 10/2/04, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2004-10-02 21:23, Lee Harr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about:
chflags sunlnk /
?
Setting sunlink on / will only
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004, Frank Knobbe wrote:
On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 11:20, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:12:16AM -0400, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote:
Where on earth would you find a disk system that can store 2^64 bytes of
data or larger, anyway?
You can bet that
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:31:57AM -0500, Sam wrote:
Let's suppose you generate an exabyte of storage per year. Filling a
64-bit filesystem would take you approximately 8 million years.
I suggest that you review your calculations.
I'm not saying we'll never get there,
[...]
It's
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we put your patch in but as a KASSERT then anyone ruinning with
debugging turned on
(and no-one in their right mind would write a kernel module without
turning on debugging, right?)
will immediatly find the problem.
What you can't
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004, Gary Corcoran wrote:
Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Aug 06), Gary Corcoran said:
Mike Meyer wrote:
Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves.
Umm - not quite, right? That is, if a block goes bad and you get a
read error, the
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004, Wilko Bulte wrote:
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:23:04AM -0700, Avleen Vig wrote:
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:46:24AM -0400, Daniel Ellard wrote:
I don't doubt that DTrace took a long time to do. However, in most
projects the design phase consumes a lot of time, and it
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004, Eitarou Kamo wrote:
FreeBSD has good features such as jail, chroot e.t.c. which can controll
Solaris 10 has these features, too, but I'm not sure what that has
to do with DTrace.
process or resources in parallel. So you need not port DTrace entirely.
You can implement
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
This recently caught my eye:
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9171/sam0406h/0406h.htm
There are a number of good sounding suggestions in there.
DTrace is pure magic. It would be well worth your time to install
Solaris 10 just to try out DTrace
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 11:12:20AM -0700, David Schultz wrote:
+ On Sun, Jun 27, 2004, Kentucky Mandeloid Mo. wrote:
+ I'm writng a smal kernel module that catches file access syscalls.
+ At every syscall I need a full name of file is being
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004, Kentucky Mandeloid Mo. wrote:
I'm writng a smal kernel module that catches file access syscalls.
At every syscall I need a full name of file is being passed to a syscall.
I'm getting it with a path passed to syscall and if path is not starting
with / I get current
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004, David Malone wrote:
Sorting on nanoseconds too is likely to be more confusing than
useful. Even if we use one of the precious few option letters ls
doesn't use already to add a nanosecond display, most people won't
know about it because they don't care about
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004, Scott Mitchell wrote:
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:59:12AM +0100, David Malone wrote:
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 11:52:29PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote:
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 10:06:01PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote:
Looking through ls source shows that the sorting is
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004, Stefan Eer wrote:
Any reason, that there is a difference in semantics between:
seteuid(id) vs. setreuid(-1, id)???
The tests performed on the arguments are different (assuming a
fixed arg of -1 for ruid) in that seteuid does not support the
case
On Sat, May 29, 2004, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
where can I find documentation on the vm.defer_swapspace_pageouts
sysctl? LINT only mentions it, without explaining, man sysctl doesn't
mention it at all, and even Google yields very few useful results...
vm.defer_swapspace_pageouts causes the
On Wed, May 19, 2004, Tomas Pluskal wrote:
I would like to ask you for help or explanation - why do I get EFAULT when
invoking copyin() or fubyte() etc. I am writing a kernel module, and I
[...]
So copying of some blocks was OK, and on some blocks it returned EFAULT.
Why?
You will get EFAULT
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
That gives us this behavior for our little test program:
errno = 13, rc = -1
fwrite errno = 13, rc = 0
In both cases, we get EACCES for fputs() or fwrite() attempts on a
read-only file pointer pointing to a read-only device, something we'd
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004, Trent Nelson wrote:
For as long as I've been programming, I've always been under the
impression that CPUs will always predict a branch as being false
the first time they come across it.
Many, many years ago, I came across a DEC programming guide that
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004, Friedemann Becker wrote:
Hello,
I want to take a look at the darwin msdosfs - merge is on the todo list.
I had trouble logging in to the cvs and wrote a mail to the
apple-support. I got an auto-answer containing:
Q: I've registered, but I can't login to CVS or the
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004, Tim Robbins wrote:
[...]
[1] That shouldn't be hard, given that the present algorithm takes
O(N) amortized time in the worst case, and can examine as many
as PID_MAX^2 pids if the number of processes in the system is
close to PID_MAX.
[...]
In my
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004, Xin LI wrote:
Greetings, everyone
A friend of mine has ported NetBSD's new PID allocation[1] code to FreeBSD,
you can obtain the patch here:
http://www.arbornet.org/~junsu/pid.diff
Some of you may be already aware of this for he has posted[2] this to both
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003, Mike Silbersack wrote:
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all.
I have a server with 1GB of RAM and a swap partition of 2GB i will upgrade
the memory server to 2GB so my questions are:
should i fix the swap partition to have now 4GB of space ?
[Redirected to threads@; please avoid spamming multiple lists.]
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003, Jay Sern Liew wrote:
Can someone point to me the specific location in the FreeBSD kernel source
where the code for FreeBSD's thread/process memory management are?
Specifically, where the dispatcher and
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
If one is using strictly defined types as uint8_t, uint16_t, int32_t, etc.
those macros are helpful IMHO, because futher value size changes does not
affects code for byte order managing. This also does not hit perfromance,
because this should be
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003, David Schultz wrote:
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003, Igor Serikov wrote:
David,
Is it okay to have a condition that can be created by a mortal user and
then cannot be changed by the root? The waiting process cannot be killed
and would keep waiting till system reboot
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003, Christian Laursen wrote:
David Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003, Lukas Ertl wrote:
Hi hackers@,
I've played around with GEOM a bit and beefed up geom_mirror, which is
already in the tree but not built yet.
You can find the patch
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003, Lukas Ertl wrote:
If there's a good reason ccd(4) is harder to fix than geom_mirror, then
you might want to talk to phk about rewriting geom_ccd based on
geom_mirror. I believe scottl and phk have plans to fix raidframe,
though, which would address a lot of the
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003, Lukas Ertl wrote:
Hi hackers@,
I've played around with GEOM a bit and beefed up geom_mirror, which is
already in the tree but not built yet.
You can find the patch at http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/geom.diff.
Hmm...I believe geom_mirror is supposed to be an example,
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003, Igor Serikov wrote:
Hello,
Combining flags RFNOWAIT and RFPPWAIT in rfork(2) under 4.6-RELEASE
makes the parent process sleeping on channel ppwait forever.
RFPPWAIT tells rfork() to wait for the child to exit, and RFNOWAIT
tells rfork() to detach the child such
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003, Igor Serikov wrote:
David,
Is it okay to have a condition that can be created by a mortal user and
then cannot be changed by the root? The waiting process cannot be killed
and would keep waiting till system reboot.
Aah, I see. No, it's not okay that a non-root
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003, Vivek Pai wrote:
Take a look at Figure 6, page 9 in the following:
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~yruan/DeBox/debox.pdf
On a 1GHz box with 1GB of memory, we were spending
4-5 milliseconds per mmap call, and that was limiting
the throughput of our server on SpecWeb99.
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
David Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
Q [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes, it would appear this is a legacy thing that existed in the original
1994 import of the BSD 4.4 Lite source. Both
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003, Mike Silbersack wrote:
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, David Schultz wrote:
But regardless of the approach, someone has yet to demonstrate
that this is actually a performance problem in the real world. ;-)
I could be way wrong, but I would think that a database might mmap
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003, Q wrote:
As an effort to get more acquainted with the FreeBSD kernel, I have been
looking through how mmap works. I don't yet understand how it all fits
together, or of the exact implications things may have in the wild, but
I have noticed under some synthetic conditions,
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003, Sean Hamilton wrote:
Does FreeBSD support a device that will allow for the passing of all reads
and writes on it to a userland application? I wish to handle swapping
myself, preferably without any kernel hacking.
What would happen if the kernel decided to swap out
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