Re: technical comparison

2001-05-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, 27 May 2001 22:50:48 -0300 (BRST), Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 26 May 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: >> Which is more expensive? Maintaining an on-disk hashed (or b+tree) >> directory format for *everything* or maintaining a simple low-cost >> format on disk with in-memory h

Re: http://phk.freebsd.dk/Gnats/

2001-05-28 Thread Arun Sharma
On 29 May 2001 00:46:42 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems that my little plot of our abysmal performance when it comes > to our PR database actually helped spur some activity, at least the > end of the graph points in the right direction now. > > But we are far fro

Re: help offered

2001-05-28 Thread Doug Barton
manas wrote: > > hi all, > I would like to join freebsd project. I have not coded for any OS > project. I have theoritical knowledge about FreeBsd OS. A little in > help will right will help me a lot. I am willing to work hard to > complete the tasks assigned to me. > If any suitabl

help offered

2001-05-28 Thread manas
hi all, I would like to join freebsd project. I have not coded for any OS project. I have theoritical knowledge about FreeBsd OS. A little in help will right will help me a lot. I am willing to work hard to complete the tasks assigned to me. If any suitable work is there for me, plea

Re: brainstorm: "intermediate" disk caching

2001-05-28 Thread Mike Smith
> > Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 19:01:37 -0500 (CDT) > > From: David Scheidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [ snip ] > > > If you're really interested in database performance, remember "Spindles > > is good." Spreading your IO load over as many seperate disks, on as > > many independent IO channels as prac

Re: brainstorm: "intermediate" disk caching

2001-05-28 Thread E.B. Dreger
> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 19:01:37 -0500 (CDT) > From: David Scheidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ snip ] > If you're really interested in database performance, remember "Spindles > is good." Spreading your IO load over as many seperate disks, on as > many independent IO channels as practical will impro

Re: cvsup.freebsd.org I/O error

2001-05-28 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > Yah, I figured that out... I hadn't even considered it could happen with > a brand new IBM drive! Ah well... back to the > tried-and-true-but-run-slightly-hot seacrates. > > -Matt Unfortunately,

[ls@Gambit.Msk.SU: ELF rlimits problem (kern/18209)]

2001-05-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Can someone take a look at this PR? It seems to still be relevant. Kris - Forwarded message from Sergei Laskavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 14:03:30 +0400 From: Sergei Laskavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ELF rlimit

Re: brainstorm: "intermediate" disk caching

2001-05-28 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 28 May 2001, E.B. Dreger wrote: : :Of course, with 36 GB drives readily available, maybe I shouldn't worry :until I have a database larger than 72 GB. ;-) If you're really interested in database performance, remember "Spindles is good." Spreading your IO load over as many seperate disks

RE: nsswitch progress

2001-05-28 Thread Chris Knight
Howdy, I grabbed the sources for 4.1-STABLE from www.nectar.com/freebsd/nsswitch and applied them to both 4.2 and 4.3. Some changes were required and I have got pam_ldap (from www.padl.com) and nss_ldap (the one at www.nectar.com) working. Jacques has mentioned that this code is a prototype and s

Re: nsswitch progress

2001-05-28 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 06:00:51PM +0200, Eric Masson wrote: > Hello, > > Few months ago, Jacques Vidrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted mails about > implementation of nsswitch in -current. > > Is there any progress in this area ? If so, any hope to see a MFC ? Hello, I've only been slowly worki

http://phk.freebsd.dk/Gnats/

2001-05-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
It seems that my little plot of our abysmal performance when it comes to our PR database actually helped spur some activity, at least the end of the graph points in the right direction now. But we are far from done yet, so find a couple of PR's and close them, there are 3000 to choose from... I

Re: cvsup.freebsd.org I/O error

2001-05-28 Thread Matt Dillon
:> SetAttrs ports/emulators/sim6811/pkg-comment,v :> SetAttrs ports/emulators/sim6811/pkg-descr,v :> SetAttrs ports/emulators/sim6811/pkg-plist,v :> TreeList failed: Read failure from "/usr/sup/ports-all/checkouts.cvs": Input/output :error : :This is an I/O error happening on your own system w

Re: nsswitch progress

2001-05-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 06:00:51PM +0200, Eric Masson wrote: > Hello, > > Few months ago, Jacques Vidrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted mails about > implementation of nsswitch in -current. > > Is there any progress in this area ? If so, any hope to see a MFC ? It's working fine in -current, you'd

Re: brainstorm: "intermediate" disk caching

2001-05-28 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 04:31:17PM +, E.B. Dreger wrote: > Greetings all, > > I just had a brainstorm... > > I was thinking about database servers with several spindles in a RAID 5 > array. Write performance is inherently disappointing -- which may or may > not be an issue. > > Would it be

Re: cvsup.freebsd.org I/O error

2001-05-28 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure who to notify here... I tried twice, this looks like a > real error. > > -Matt > > /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -r 20 -L 2 -h cvsup.freebsd.org >/usr/share/examples/cvsup/cvs-sup

Re: brainstorm: "intermediate" disk caching

2001-05-28 Thread E.B. Dreger
> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 17:54:24 +0100 > From: Dominic Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ snip ] > disc caching. The idea of perhaps caching writes onto a RAID-0 system I meant caching onto an arbitrary volume, probably using a simple journalling "filesystem". Personally, a RAID 1 volume would be my

Stuck in kernel - mask problem?

2001-05-28 Thread Richard Hodges
I have been having a problem on one of my machines, and it seems to be associated with medium/heavy IO loads. After some period of time, usually an hour or two, the system will appear to stop cold dead. A trace with DDB shows that the last function is doreti. Above that is the DDB call stuff.

Re: brainstorm: "intermediate" disk caching

2001-05-28 Thread E.B. Dreger
> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 19:49:40 +0200 > From: Christoph Sold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> My gut feel is that this would be more trouble than it's worth, would >> not net any overall performance*reliability (expressed as a >> product) gain, and that one might actually realize a p*r decrease. > > I

Re: brainstorm: "intermediate" disk caching

2001-05-28 Thread Christoph Sold
"E.B. Dreger" schrieb: > > Greetings all, > > I just had a brainstorm... > > I was thinking about database servers with several spindles in a RAID 5 > array. Write performance is inherently disappointing -- which may or may > not be an issue. It is. Even RAID 1 is better than RAID 5 _for_da

Re: brainstorm: "intermediate" disk caching

2001-05-28 Thread Dominic Marks
Hi, (I'm geussing the 'public+spam' bit is standard removal stuff) On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 04:31:17PM +, E.B. Dreger wrote: > > array. Write performance is inherently disappointing -- which may or may In my opinion this is the same as how MFS when used without limitation can also be a bad

Re: brainstorm: "intermediate" disk caching

2001-05-28 Thread Matthew Jacob
Ah. You want to reinvent the drum? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

brainstorm: "intermediate" disk caching

2001-05-28 Thread E.B. Dreger
Greetings all, I just had a brainstorm... I was thinking about database servers with several spindles in a RAID 5 array. Write performance is inherently disappointing -- which may or may not be an issue. Would it be worth the trouble to design an "intermediate" cache, whereby data are quickly

nsswitch progress

2001-05-28 Thread Eric Masson
Hello, Few months ago, Jacques Vidrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted mails about implementation of nsswitch in -current. Is there any progress in this area ? If so, any hope to see a MFC ? TIA Eric Masson -- ED : (Intel) ne fait que des circuits electroniques. ALG: et quasiment d'un seul type

Supported ATAPI cdr/cdrw drives

2001-05-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
As promised I've made up a list of reports I've received so far go to http://freebsd.dk/ and follow the link. I also have a patch for the Yamaha's (yamaha-cdr.p1) which also can be found via the above URL. Let me know if that make things work... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: cvsup problems

2001-05-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 05:04:18AM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > You need to remove the lines containing jakarta-tomcat in the checkouts.cvs* > file /usr/sup/ports-all/ > > Some people have been able to just rm the port and others have had to also > edit the chec

Re: cvsup problems

2001-05-28 Thread Kent Stewart
"Koster, K.J." wrote: > > Dear All, > > Over the past few days I've been getting this error when I "make update": > > ... > Checkout ports/www/hypermail/files/patch-docs::Makefile.in > Delete ports/www/jakarta-tomcat/files > Updater failed: Cannot delete "/usr/ports/www/jakarta-tomcat/files

Re: cvsup problems

2001-05-28 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:48:10PM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: > Dear All, > > Over the past few days I've been getting this error when I "make update": > > ... > Checkout ports/www/hypermail/files/patch-docs::Makefile.in > Delete ports/www/jakarta-tomcat/files > Updater failed: Cannot delete "

cvsup problems

2001-05-28 Thread Koster, K.J.
Dear All, Over the past few days I've been getting this error when I "make update": ... Checkout ports/www/hypermail/files/patch-docs::Makefile.in Delete ports/www/jakarta-tomcat/files Updater failed: Cannot delete "/usr/ports/www/jakarta-tomcat/files": Directory not empty *** Error code 1 Sto

'make clean' vs automake vs /bin/sh, which to fix?

2001-05-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
I went to do a 'make clean' on a project of mine, and it failed with '*** Error 1'. There is no message about what command has failed, 'make' just exits sideways. The rule for 'make clean' is generated by 'automake', and in looking around (a little...) I did find some freebsd ports which USE_AUT

Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

2001-05-28 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Fri, 25 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > So add an option to sysinstall called: > > > > > > "Fast and at least as reliable as Linux" > > > > I doubt FreeBSD would need to enable write caching in order > > to

Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

2001-05-28 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Fri, 25 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > So add an option to sysinstall called: > > > > "Fast and at least as reliable as Linux" > > I doubt FreeBSD would need to enable write caching in order > to be as fast as Linux (which doesn't have write caching > enab

Re: Knob for ATA maximum UDMA?

2001-05-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Richard Hodges wrote: On -current you can set the transfer mode to anything you like (and that the controller/device supports) using atacontrol, so no need to hack the kernel anymore :) > I was just testing out a new configuration, when I get two of > these about an hour apart, and then

Re: Fix for ATAPI CDRW problem: MODE_SELECT_BIG - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=1a

2001-05-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for hunting this down! I have a semilar but differently implemented change for another problematic drive that I'll commit soon, I think that will help this too now that we know whats wrong... > > I recently acquired a new Yamaha 2100E ATAPI CDRW drive,