Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???

2006-01-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Ashok Shrestha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am curious to know if there is a way to compile a port such as X11 or KDE faster. I know in Gentoo, you can mount a part of RAM and compile in that. This substantially decreases the compile time. Reference:

Re: tuning to run large (1000+) numbers of null_mounts

2006-01-19 Thread Ensel Sharon
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: hmmm...the cut and paste of that loud warning was from a 6.0-RELEASE man page ... if I need to be CURRENT to get the updated man page, do I also need to be CURRENT to get the safe null_mount code itself ? Or is 6.0-RELEASE safe ? (re:

Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???

2006-01-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will using a swap-backed disk change anything? Not really. How about the best way to configure things to use two disks for the compile? I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve. Unlike the base system, the ports tree does not use separate source and

Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???

2006-01-19 Thread Wesley Shields
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:54:02PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will using a swap-backed disk change anything? Not really. How about the best way to configure things to use two disks for the compile? I'm not sure what you are trying to

Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???

2006-01-19 Thread Ashok Shrestha
I mounted part of RAM as such: mdmfs -s 500m md /mnt Then put WRKDIRPREFIX=/path/to/md in /etc/make.conf. It substantially reduces compile time by about 5-10 times. Thanx to all ur replies. -Ashok Shrestha On 1/19/06, Wesley Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at

Weird PCI interrupt delivery problem (resolution, sort of)

2006-01-19 Thread Craig Boston
After trying everything I could think of to do to the I/O APIC code and coming up empty, tonight I went back to the local APIC. I had previously ruled it out since the lapic timer interrupt continued to work fine even when the others stopped. However, adding some DELAY(1) calls at key points

Re: Weird PCI interrupt delivery problem (resolution, sort of)

2006-01-19 Thread Scott Long
Craig Boston wrote: After trying everything I could think of to do to the I/O APIC code and coming up empty, tonight I went back to the local APIC. I had previously ruled it out since the lapic timer interrupt continued to work fine even when the others stopped. However, adding some DELAY(1)

Newly developed mailling list search engine needs testing

2006-01-19 Thread Choy Kho Yee
Hi, everybody. Firstly, let me introduce myself. I am Choy Kho Yee, an comp. sci. undergraduate student in Osaka University. For my final year thesis, I have developed a mailing list archive management system called MLwiki. The name MLwiki is made up from the words Mailing List and Wiki. It was