Re: Is FreeBSD a suitable choice for a MacBook?

2008-10-05 Thread David Kelly
On Oct 4, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Eirik Wixøe Svela wrote: I have an Apple MacBook with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (November 2007 edition, cf. the Wikipedia article for specifications), and I have been considering switching to one of the free UNIX clones for some time now. Why? I

Re: Is FreeBSD a suitable choice for a MacBook?

2008-10-05 Thread Ben Francom
I have an Apple MacBook with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (November 2007 edition, cf. the Wikipedia article for specifications), and I have been considering switching to one of the free UNIX clones for some time now. Why? Might I suggest: DRM, Vendor lock-in, $128 upgrade every 2 years,

Re: trying to track down UFS dup alloc message on iSCSI

2008-10-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Hey Andrew, can you instrument the IO code a bit? It's possible that the iscsi stack is returning an error that UFS isn't catching. Or it's possible that iscsi stack is failing to return an error and just dropping the data packet. That could mean that UFS is assuming that the write is going

Re: fxp performance with POLLING

2008-10-05 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Bartosz Stec [EMAIL PROTECTED] [081003 07:23] wrote: Hello again :) With POLLING enabled I experience about 10%-25% performance drop when copying files over network. Tested with both SAMBA and NFS. Is it normal? FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Sep 6 01:52:12 CEST 2008 fxp0: Intel

Re: Request for testing: ata(4) MFC

2008-10-05 Thread Goran Lowkrantz
--On Saturday, October 04, 2008 19:38 +0400 Andrey V. Elsukov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, All. I prepared patch to make MFC of ata(4) driver into RELENG_7 before 7.1-RELEASE. Depending on results of the testing patch will be commited or not (if some regressions will be detected). So if you

Re: Is FreeBSD a suitable choice for a MacBook?

2008-10-05 Thread Kip Macy
You sound as if you just got the machine and haven't given MacOS X a chance. Give MacOS X a chance. Download (if its not on your MacOS X install DVD) X Code, and Apple X11. X11 is barely usable under Leopard. Apps crash regularly and full-screen doesn't work. He may simply want to be able

Re: Request for testing: ata(4) MFC

2008-10-05 Thread Søren Schmidt
On 5Oct, 2008, at 13:04 , Marius Strobl wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 07:38:09PM +0400, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: Hi, All. I prepared patch to make MFC of ata(4) driver into RELENG_7 before 7.1-RELEASE. Depending on results of the testing patch will be commited or not (if some regressions

Re: Upgrading to 7.x : make check-old

2008-10-05 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 10/5/08, Wolfgang Zenker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that list more or less expected? From what I can tell, it's pretty safe to now do a make delete-old-libs. Do you concur? that depends on you having updated all ports/packages as well as the base system. I think I used a tool that

Re: Upgrading to 7.x : make check-old

2008-10-05 Thread Wolfgang Zenker
[forgot to send to list first time] Hi, * Scot Hetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [081005 13:52]: On 10/5/08, Wolfgang Zenker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that list more or less expected? From what I can tell, it's pretty safe to now do a make delete-old-libs. Do you concur? that depends on you

Re: Upgrading to 7.x : make check-old

2008-10-05 Thread Wolfgang Zenker
Hi, * Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [081004 00:18]: Folks: I have upgraded a server from 6.3 to 7.0. That went rather smoothly. I have a question about removing old libraries via make delete-old. Given the list of old libraries shown at the end of this URL:

Re: Is FreeBSD a suitable choice for a MacBook?

2008-10-05 Thread Eirik Wixøe Svela
Thank you for your reply, David. You seem to be answering a question I did not ask, but allow me to respond briefly in any case: I have been using the operating system since January, and I am full aware of its line of inheritance as well as the UNIX 03 certification, and I have no major beef with

Re: Request for testing: ata(4) MFC

2008-10-05 Thread Marius Strobl
On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 07:38:09PM +0400, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: Hi, All. I prepared patch to make MFC of ata(4) driver into RELENG_7 before 7.1-RELEASE. Depending on results of the testing patch will be commited or not (if some regressions will be detected). So if you want or just can

Re: Is FreeBSD a suitable choice for a MacBook?

2008-10-05 Thread Quux
On 4 Oct 2008, at 21:00, Eirik Wixøe Svela wrote: I have an Apple MacBook with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (November 2007 edition, cf. the Wikipedia article for specifications), and I have been considering switching to one of the free UNIX clones for some time now. I understand that

Re: Is FreeBSD a suitable choice for a MacBook?

2008-10-05 Thread Christian Laursen
Eirik Wixøe Svela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an Apple MacBook with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor (November 2007 edition, cf. the Wikipedia article for specifications), and I have been considering switching to one of the free UNIX clones for some time now. I understand that Ubuntu

Re: Upgrading to 7.x : make check-old

2008-10-05 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 10/5/08, Wolfgang Zenker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [forgot to send to list first time] Hi, * Scot Hetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [081005 13:52]: On 10/5/08, Wolfgang Zenker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that list more or less expected? From what I can tell, it's pretty safe to now do

Re: Upgrading to 7.x : make check-old

2008-10-05 Thread Dan Langille
Wolfgang Zenker wrote: Hi, * Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] [081004 00:18]: Folks: I have upgraded a server from 6.3 to 7.0. That went rather smoothly. I have a question about removing old libraries via make delete-old. Given the list of old libraries shown at the end of this URL:

Re: Upgrading to 7.x : make check-old

2008-10-05 Thread Dan Langille
Scot Hetzel wrote: On 10/5/08, Wolfgang Zenker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that list more or less expected? From what I can tell, it's pretty safe to now do a make delete-old-libs. Do you concur? that depends on you having updated all ports/packages as well as the base system. I think

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-10-05 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Danny Braniss wrote: at the moment, the best I can do is run it on a different hardware that has if_em, the results are in ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/lock.prof/7.1-1000.em the benchmark ran better with the Intel NIC, averaged UDP 54MB/s, TCP 53MB/s (I get the

Re: Request for testing: ata(4) MFC

2008-10-05 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Also, does your patch include any fixes (intentional or inadvertent) for Intel MatrixRAID? This has been a sore spot for FreeBSD for quite some time, and I'm curious to know if that has been fixed. There is only one fix for Intel Matrix RAID:

Re: Request for testing: ata(4) MFC

2008-10-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:03:20AM +0400, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Also, does your patch include any fixes (intentional or inadvertent) for Intel MatrixRAID? This has been a sore spot for FreeBSD for quite some time, and I'm curious to know if that has been fixed.