Re: Dump Utility cache efficiency analysis

2009-06-24 Thread Danny Braniss
Hello This is regarding the dump utility cache efficiency analysis post made on February '07 by Peter Jeremy [ http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2007-February/019666.html] and if this project is still open. I would be interested to begin exploring FreeBSD (and contributing

Re: Dump Utility cache efficiency analysis

2009-06-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Jun-23 15:52:04 -0400, Nirmal Thacker thacker.nir...@gmail.com wrote: I would first like to understand the opinions of anyone who has looked at this problem or think this would be a worthwhile project to start off with. I'm aware of the following references:

Re: Dump Utility cache efficiency analysis

2009-06-24 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:52:04 -0400 Nirmal Thacker thacker.nir...@gmail.com wrote: I would also appreciate if I could get simple tips and pointers of setting up my machine for the project. I understand this would be on the lines of: 1. Installing a stable FreeBSD build 2. Check out a

Re: Dump Utility cache efficiency analysis

2009-06-24 Thread Nirmal Thacker
Thanks for all the replies and suggestions I ll begin by running, benchmarking, understanding dump for myself and take up Matt's suggestions above to understand the unified caching implementation in more detail -n On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Peter Jeremy peterjer...@optushome.com.auwrote:

Dump Utility cache efficiency analysis

2009-06-23 Thread Nirmal Thacker
Hello This is regarding the dump utility cache efficiency analysis post made on February '07 by Peter Jeremy [ http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2007-February/019666.html] and if this project is still open. I would be interested to begin exploring FreeBSD (and contributing

Re: Dump Utility cache efficiency analysis

2009-06-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hello : :This is regarding the dump utility cache efficiency analysis post made on :February '07 by Peter Jeremy [ :http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2007-February/019666.html] :and if this project is still open. I would be interested to begin exploring :FreeBSD (and contributing