Re: libdwarf

2012-08-31 Thread Rayson Ho
Thanks everyone for the answers! We have a small enhancement in the works, and will send it to the various projects maintaining the libdwarf code. Rayson == Open Grid Scheduler - The Official Open Source Grid Engine

libdwarf

2012-07-24 Thread Rayson Ho
Hi, I need some changes in libdwarf, and I was wondering where I can discuss ask devel related questions. The original maintainer was John Birrell, who left us in 2009: https://blogs.oracle.com/bmc/entry/john_birrell Rayson ___

Re: [Kevent]

2012-05-25 Thread Rayson Ho
You can google kqueue tutorial and get lots of example... Sadly, Google Code Search is dead, but Google is still your friend! Rayson Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/ Scalable Grid Engine Support Program

Re: OS support for fault tolerance (re-send)

2012-02-14 Thread Rayson Ho
(The email below did not show up on the online archive - resending...) -- Forwarded message -- From: Rayson Ho raysonlo...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:27 PM Subject: Re: OS support for fault tolerance On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Julian Elischer jul

Re: OS support for fault tolerance

2012-02-14 Thread Rayson Ho
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Julian Elischer jul...@freebsd.org wrote: but I'm interested in any answers people may have The way other OSes handle this is by detecting any abnormal amounts of faults (sometimes it's not the fault of the hardware - eg. when a partical from the outerspace hits

Re: OS support for fault tolerance

2012-02-14 Thread Rayson Ho
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Julian Elischer jul...@freebsd.org wrote: True, but you can't guarantee that a cpu is going to fail in a way that you can detect like that. what if the clock just stops.. The question is, are we planning to handle 95% of the errors for 99% of the hardware we run

Re: excessive use of gettimeofday(2) and other syscalls

2011-09-06 Thread Rayson Ho
There are some recent discussions on the freebsd-current list. The infrastructure is there to provide a common shared page for processes to mmap into the address space... but according to Kip's comment, libc support is not there yet:

Re: Announcing PathDB

2010-06-09 Thread Rayson Ho
Related to debuggers... just saw the LLDB (from the LLVM project) announcement today: http://lldb.llvm.org/ All of the code in the LLDB project is available under the standard LLVM License, an open source BSD-style license. Rayson 2010/6/1 C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com: Ed Maste

Re: Common OS/kernel code between freebsd and linux

2010-05-22 Thread Rayson Ho
The BSD TCP stack is at least in OpenVMS QNX: Parallelism and Performance in the OpenVMS TCP/IP Kernel: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/journal/v4/tcp_ip_scalable_kernel.html http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/journal/v4/tcp_ip_scalable_kernel.pdf Porting the NetBSD IP stack to a microkernel

Re: Future CPUs - 128 threads

2010-02-11 Thread Rayson Ho
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: Seriously, simply because of curiosity - are MIPS CPUs used in any kind of general purpose machines? Loongson is a MIPS implementation that is used in some nettops and netbooks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson Rayson

Re: Why kernel kills processes that run out of memory instead of just failing memory allocation system calls?

2009-05-21 Thread Rayson Ho
Because the kernel is lazy!! You can google for lazy algorithm, or find an OS internals book and read about the advantages of doing it this way... Rayson On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Seems like failing system calls (mmap and sbrk) that allocate memory is more

Re: FreeBSD jobs

2009-05-14 Thread Rayson Ho
Thanks for letting us know! I am sure at least a few of us here will buy less products from Juniper Networks. Rayson On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Julian Stacey j...@berklix.org wrote: Hi hackers@ A commercial firm asked for _Free_ labour today on j...@freebsd. The censors passed it.

Re: Is Elf formatdocumented anywhere?

2008-01-15 Thread Rayson Ho
What specifically you want to know about ELF?? Rayson On Jan 15, 2008 6:46 PM, Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ELF is fairly well documented and standardized. No, I would say ELF is somewhat documented. Just googling for 'ELF' quickly yields the Wikipedia page

secure file flag?

2003-11-18 Thread Rayson Ho
I am wondering if it is useful to have a secure file flag?? The secure file flag will be set for files that contain sensitive data. Then the OS will take special care when operating on those secure files. e.g. when deleting a secure file, the OS will overwrite the file with random data. One

Linux vs FreeBSD clusters (was: how are the Redhat product changes affecting existing and future plans?)

2003-11-06 Thread Rayson Ho
A very good paper about building HPC clusters with FreeBSD: Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/ The author talked about hardware issues: KVM, BIOS redirection, CPU choices; and then talked about why he chose FreeBSD

Re: Port for Sun Grdiware 5.3

2002-08-13 Thread Rayson Ho
--- Alp ATICI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any port of Sun Gridware 5.3 for FreeBSD? I know that Ron Chen and several other people worked on the port. They have it working but not sure about whether the source was checked in or not. You can search for freebsd in the archive:

Re: Port for Sun Gridware 5.3

2002-08-13 Thread Rayson Ho
the link to the port? Do you know how it performs in general? Efficient? not? Thanks, Alp On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Rayson Ho wrote: I know that Ron Chen and several other people worked on the port. They have it working but not sure about whether the source was checked in or not. You

Distributedfolding client -- BSD Networking bug fix

2002-05-15 Thread Rayson Ho
Someone on this list emailed me about a problem in the distributed folding client a while ago... Howard has an updated version, can people having problems with it try to see if it fixes the problem or not? Also, I don't have access to the source of the client. Rayson P.S. Here's his message:

Re: Fwd: FreeBSD port of SGE

2002-04-03 Thread Rayson Ho
May be the jobs run, but somehow SGE can't get the status, so it says it can't find the job?? BTW, I like SGE better than PBS, nice to hear that SGE is beening ported to FreeBSD :-) Rayson --- Tony Maher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a quick 'hack' (with large axe) the routines dealing with

Re: Thanks, and Distributed Folding Client for FreeBSD available!!

2002-03-25 Thread Rayson Ho
The client already has an option to control the priority: Distributed Foldtraj v2002.03.21 arguments: -f Input Trajectory Distribution File (NO EXTENSION) [File In] -n Native structure filename (NO EXTENSION) [File In] -q Quiet? [T/F] Optional default = FALSE -d Use small

Re: Help with getting load information

2002-03-25 Thread Rayson Ho
Does top use those calls?? Rayson --- Brooks Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 05:16:26PM -0800, Ron Chen wrote: Hi all, Is there a set of APIs that I can use to get the system information like the memory size, swap size, # of CPUs? For some globus GRIS

Thanks, and Distributed Folding Client for FreeBSD available!!

2002-03-24 Thread Rayson Ho
Hi, Thanks to the people on this list, the DistributedFolding client is available on FreeBSD. People with spare CPU cycles can install this (P2P seti@home like software) to help the world to fight/cure all kinds of diseases!! http://www.distributedfolding.org/Download.html Again, thanks for

Need help!! Any FreeBSD users/hackers in Toronto??

2002-03-17 Thread Rayson Ho
Hi, The distributedfolding project (similar to SETI@home, it uses your free computer cycles to do something useful -- folding proteins) is planning to offer a FreeBSD client. However, they don't know how to setup a FreeBSD box. They are located in the Toronto area (Canada), so am I. But I don't

Re: Project idea: Put PVM in /usr/bin/make

2002-01-21 Thread Rayson Ho
I think someone has done that before. Search for lmake, or pmake. Rayson --- diman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found it interesting. I have 3 idle boxes out here and friend of mine has ~20, and parallel make is a dream. Don't know about someone else, I'm giving your proposal a try.. :-)

Interesting OS research project

2001-10-31 Thread Rayson Ho
http://www.research.ibm.com/K42/ Rayson __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: clustering code

2001-10-18 Thread Rayson Ho
If you are going to build clusters with over 1000 nodes, you should then install a batch system instead of using kernel-based clustering services. Rayson --- Ronald G Minnich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well that's just wrong. 4 nodes? nope. I've got buddies at bio startups who start at 1024

Re: clustering code

2001-10-14 Thread Rayson Ho
The important question is what kind of applications do you run?? There are many clustering projects, espectially for Linux. One interesting project is the Single System Image Clusters for Linux. http://ssic-linux.sourceforge.net/ And MOSIX is another interesting one. http://www.mosix.org/

Re: MPP and new processor designs.

2001-07-23 Thread Rayson Ho
You are talking about CMP (chip multi-processor) or SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threading)!! Please look at the design of IBM Power4. Rayson --- Leo Bicknell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A number of new chips have been released lately, along with some enhancements to existing processors that all

C++ to C translator

2001-07-03 Thread Rayson Ho
Hi, I have written some code in C++. However, I want to run it on an old mainframe machine, which a C++ compiler is not available. I know that the old g++ is a C++ to C compiler. Does anyone know which version it is? Also, anyone knows other C++ to C compilers? Thanks, Rayson

Re: Article: Network performance by OS

2001-06-17 Thread Rayson Ho
But how much tuning is needed? You can download a kernel patch for VM, another kernel patch for FS... I am sure Linux can be even faster on an SMP machine with a Journaling FS (XFS, RFS, JFS, ext3, etc). Rayson --- Kenneth Wayne Culver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not really a hardcore

Re: Job.

2001-04-03 Thread Rayson Ho
p software for Unix/NT) again, sorry for posting here rayson --- Garrett Rooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 08:18:03PM -0700, Rayson Ho wrote: Hi, My company has several job openings -- we really need unix hackers, kernel hackers, real C programmers... We are

Re: Job.

2001-04-01 Thread Rayson Ho
Hi, My company has several job openings -- we really need unix hackers, kernel hackers, real C programmers... We are in Toronto, Canada. If anyone is interested, please tell me what your skills are, and I will refer you guys to the right person. rayson --- Paul Halliday [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multithreaded server performance

2000-04-27 Thread Rayson Ho
Both Solaris and NT have good thread implementations: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix-nt98/zabatta.html Read this paper -- There is something about NT threads implementation which has never been released in any books! the goal is to do better than NT (which

Faster Malloc

1999-12-08 Thread Rayson Ho
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/emery/hoard/ Only Linux,Solaris,IRIX,NT, and BeOS supported at this stage. Anyone wants to port it to FreeBSD? Sorry if everyone knows this already... Rayson __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of

Free BSDI CD!

1999-07-26 Thread Rayson Ho
Hi, I am not sure whether this is known to this list or not, but here is the URL for ordering: http://www.bsdi.com/products/evalcd/ _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail

Free BSDI CD!

1999-07-26 Thread Rayson Ho
Hi, I am not sure whether this is known to this list or not, but here is the URL for ordering: http://www.bsdi.com/products/evalcd/ _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail