Re: Syncing cpus on a multi-cpu, dual core system

2006-12-15 Thread Simon Roberts
- Original Message On a computational chemistry list I subscribe to there is a current thread about multi-cpu systems needing to have the cpu frequencies synced (this is in a Linux context). This is evidently not just having the cpus running at nominally the same frequency but

Re: Syncing cpus on a multi-cpu, dual core system

2006-12-16 Thread Simon Roberts
- Original Message From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...snip snip... The other thing I have noticed is that when I split jobs using threads so that I can use several processors, the speed up to the program is far less than one might expect - indeed sometimes it even

Network monitoring

2004-11-23 Thread Simon Roberts
I apologize that this probably isn't the most relevant list to ask this on. Suggestions for better lists will be welcome. I'm trying to monitor traffice on a 100BaseT ethernet network link. I split the line, put a hub in and am trying to run tcpdump on a box off the side of the hub.

Re: req: New feature to rm? Remove file by the inode number

2005-05-05 Thread Simon Roberts
A couple of observations: 1) Implicit in most people's answers is the fact that a single inode can have many directory entries. That's why find is used. That's also why the solution below won't work, as it doesn't check the entire file system (nor would you want to answer y/n for all those files

Re: system password's file

2005-10-13 Thread Simon Roberts
Try /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow User id and basic stuff in passwd, the encrypted passwords in shadow. I don't know if the encryption algorithms are compatible between linux and bsd or not. hth Simon --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I want to migrate from linux to freebsd. My linux box