Matt Dillon([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.13 15:27:08 +:
Also, do performance testing with dynamic-linked verses static-linked
binaries. Static-linked binaries may look larger, but they have a
much lower dirty-page overhead then the dynamically linked equivalent.
It depends
Ian == Ian Dowse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ian In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David
Ian Gilbert write s:
Is it not possible (or has nobody done it) to swap with the current
diskless boot?
Ian The patch (against RELENG_4) is below; I wonder should this just
Ian be committed? We have certainly
On Jul 13, David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What? You don't like TCL? Well then, be finished with your effort
before the libh guys do.
Good call. ;-)
To me, the language choice is immaterial on the face of it. The value of the
conversation was based upon some of the feature set that
Actually, this is what I did for Google, we were able to have 40 machines
installed in about an hour:
http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/
Or
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/index.html
N
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Thierry == Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thierry Alfred Perlstein wrote:
Thierry [SNIP]
http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/
Thierry first : a big thank you for your paper : I finally could use
Thierry PXE for diskless booting (not install, just running a full,
Thierry
* Nik Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010713 05:51] wrote:
Actually, this is what I did for Google, we were able to have 40 machines
installed in about an hour:
http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/
Or
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/index.html
Whoa leet!
Thierry == Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thierry David Gilbert wrote:
Thierry [SNIP]
I'm still having trouble with diskless operation. If I specify
the swap option in DHCP, the pxeboot chokes on it. If I don't
specify the swap there, things boot, but I have no swap. There
:Thierry I don't know : my application was embedded and used much
:Thierry less than the 128MBytes installed in the machines (thus no
:Thierry swap!)
:
:I'm currently running in this configuration ... and have noticed that
:the system will allow clean pages (largely loaded from the
:executable's
Matt == Matt Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Matt Right, you only need swap to be able to flush dirty pages.
Matt Clean code (and even clean data) pages are simply dropped and
Matt reloaded from the disk image later on if needed again. With
Matt careful program management you can run
:
:Is it not possible (or has nobody done it) to swap with the current
:diskless boot? Of all people, I would have expected Matt to be able
:to help :).
Sure you can swap. I haven't diskless-booted a box in a few months so
someone might have broken something, but I have definitely
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Gilbert write
s:
Is it not possible (or has nobody done it) to swap with the current
diskless boot?
I do remember some problem with PXE and swap, but I forget the
details or if it was resolved. The diskless setup that we have
locally uses an MFS root image in
On Wed 2001-07-11 (19:02), Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
Terry Lambert([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.09 13:29:23 +:
[...]
There are too many steps.
X11 is a distribution set, instead of a package.
Etc. (I could go on forever).
...then let's wrap up a concept of a interpreter
On Jul 11, Karsten W. Rohrbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
some rough and spontaneuos ideas:
- stripped down python interpreter runs as init
Wow. If you think about it, that's quite a big departure from where FBSD is
at the moment (or I'm missing the point). You might find a lot more people
Paul Robinson([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.12 15:44:32 +:
On Jul 11, Karsten W. Rohrbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
some rough and spontaneuos ideas:
- stripped down python interpreter runs as init
Wow. If you think about it, that's quite a big departure from where FBSD is
at the
On Jul 12, Karsten W. Rohrbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
perl might be superior in features at first glance but it has
serious deficiencies in the resulting code style, due to it's nature it
not simply enables programmers to do bad things[tm] but almost enforces
them to do so.
A sloppy
Karsten W. Rohrbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- - every class has properties which can be preloaded (unattended
install functionality from 'recorded' install session or manually
generated setup)
- - remote install dialog ui using ethernet as transport (yay!) would
be a nice idea
How about
* Nick Popoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010712 14:30] wrote:
Karsten W. Rohrbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- - every class has properties which can be preloaded (unattended
install functionality from 'recorded' install session or manually
generated setup)
- - remote install dialog ui using
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
[SNIP]
Actually, this is what I did for Google, we were able to have 40 machines
installed in about an hour:
http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/
--
-Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'?
And why do my programs
* Thierry Herbelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010712 16:54] wrote:
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
[SNIP]
Actually, this is what I did for Google, we were able to have 40 machines
installed in about an hour:
http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/
--
-Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
:Actually, this is what I did for Google, we were able to have 40 machines
:installed in about an hour:
:
:http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/
:
:--
:-Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
I did something similar at BEST, though back then it was a
NFS bootp boot floppy.
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:06:07PM +0100, Paul Robinson wrote:
On Jul 12, Karsten W. Rohrbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
perl might be superior in features at first glance but it has
serious deficiencies in the resulting code style, due to it's nature it
not simply enables programmers to do
Terry Lambert([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.09 13:29:23 +:
[...]
There are too many steps.
X11 is a distribution set, instead of a package.
Etc. (I could go on forever).
...then let's wrap up a concept of a interpreter language driven
installer. redhat does it in python since years, so
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