Re: Replacing BIND with unbound

2012-08-06 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07/07/2012 16:33, Garrett Wollman wrote: The utilities (specifically host(1) and dig(1)) are the only user-visible interfaces I care about. [...] ldns (a dependency of unbound) comes with drill, which is a dig-alike tool. I'd like to see us produce a

Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

2012-06-20 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Mark Linimon wrote: fwiw, from previous discussions on FreeBSD boot time, ISTR that there are other places where more time is spent. Some analysis to prove that indeed the rc subsystem is the dominant term would be a good starting place. While I don't want to proliferate this thread or

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-27 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Andy Young ayo...@mosaicarchive.com wrote: After using Linux for almost 15 years, I only recently started using FreeBSD. I own an internet startup and was looking for a solution for implementing large-scale storage servers. In my research I found ZFS and subsequently found FreeBSD. As I

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-21 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Da Rock wrote: I googled a bit and found an old post here from Luigi (http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd-hackers/2008-11/msg00245.html) which had a script to do this, but I'm having trouble with it- is anyone familiar with this? I'm on a bit of a deadline... Can't help you with that script (I

Re: pmc(3): when are the counters updated?

2012-03-12 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Fabien Thomas wrote: So, what's going on here? Is this the intended behavior, or can it be changed? And how do I get accurate readings? If i remember well: The current code will get real HW PMC if the PMC is running and attached to owner. The first case is not true in your code so you get

pmc(3): when are the counters updated?

2012-03-11 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Hi, folks. I'm trying to use pmc(3) to analyze code fragments, and I've run into strange behavior: the counter values returned by pmc_read(3) sometimes show no increment between readings, but are updated a second later; even if the PMC in question was stopped before. Here's a test program:

Re: Concurrent execution of rc-scripts with rcorder(8)

2011-08-24 Thread Vitaly Magerya
the idea to start services concurrently during boot isn't new and the question why FreeBSD doesn't do it has popped up on the forum and mailing list occasionally. So, why not give it a shot? As someone who uses FreeBSD on hist laptop and is constantly annoyed by the lack of suspend-to-disk,

Re: Concurrent execution of rc-scripts with rcorder(8)

2011-08-21 Thread Vitaly Magerya
I haven't done any measurements yet on how large the speedup is, but booting feels a bit faster with it. FWIW, my laptop's boot time (from pressing power to seeing login prompt) is reduced from 44s to 37s (out of which, first 20-25s are kernel booting).

Re: OpenGrok for FreeBSD

2011-05-17 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Zafer Aydoğan wrote: Hmm... there seems to be very little interest so far. FWIW, I find this tool useful, but since it's most helpful when you need to dig into a previously unknown portion of code, which doesn't happen that often, it's reasonable to expect infrequent usage -- don't mistake that

Re: To sendmail or to postfix that is the question?

2010-03-10 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Steven Hartland wrote: A few key question come to mind:- 1. Has sendmail's config moved away from the black art it once was? No. 2. Is postfix that much easier? Yes. 3. What would people use for: 3.1. POP / IMAP support? Dovecot. As a bonus, Postfix can use Dovecot's SASL for