Re: Wayyyyyy OT: WAS: RE: small, random essay on performance tuning, was: remove....

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:56:55PM +, Miod Vallat wrote: God is real, unless declared integer. I thought about this for a while. Given that the Spirit of God was upon the waters in Genesis 1, I think it's likely that God is float. Remember, FORTRAN came before Genesis. In the

Re: Wayyyyyy OT: WAS: RE: small, random essay on performance tuning, was: remove....

2008-06-12 Thread Tony Abernethy
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:56:55PM +, Miod Vallat wrote: God is real, unless declared integer. I thought about this for a while. Given that the Spirit of God was upon the waters in Genesis 1, I think it's likely that God is float. Remember,

Re: small, random essay on performance tuning, was: remove....

2008-06-09 Thread Janne Johansson
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 13:23 +0300, Lars Noodin wrote: It seems from the messages, and my limited experience, that many come to OpenBSD from other systems where messing with the kernel is both required and expected[1], that includes Linux and FreeBSD. [1] Case in point see AFS client

Re: small, random essay on performance tuning, was: remove....

2008-06-07 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 07:59:31PM -0700, Peter Hessler wrote: Removing device drivers may speed the boot process on your system, but can complicate recovery should you have a hardware problem, and is very often done wrong. Removing device drivers iwill not/i make your system run faster by

Re: small, random essay on performance tuning, was: remove....

2008-06-07 Thread Lars Noodén
Geoff Steckel wrote: ... Examples of these utilities are: ps, vmstat, iostat, gprof, etc. ... codektrace/code is an example of a monitoring program which will record all interaction between a program and the kernel. Thanks. 'top' might be a good addition to the first set of

Wayyyyyy OT: WAS: RE: small, random essay on performance tuning, was: remove....

2008-06-07 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
-Original Message- From: Peter Hessler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 10:00 PM To: Geoff Steckel Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; misc@openbsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: small, random essay on performance tuning, was: remove

Re: Wayyyyyy OT: WAS: RE: small, random essay on performance tuning, was: remove....

2008-06-07 Thread Miod Vallat
God is real, unless declared integer. I thought about this for a while. Given that the Spirit of God was upon the waters in Genesis 1, I think it's likely that God is float. Remember, FORTRAN came before Genesis. Miod

small, random essay on performance tuning, was: remove....

2008-06-06 Thread Geoff Steckel
The people reading the faq are not the people who need custom kernels. Those people *know* what they need and are not deterred. But as always, when we try to help the userbase by offering the advice they need, someone needs to chime in and muddy the waters. So now some dude is going to

Re: small, random essay on performance tuning, was: remove....

2008-06-06 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2008 Jun 06 (Fri) at 22:35:29 -0400 (-0400), Geoff Steckel wrote: :The people reading the faq are not the people who need custom kernels. :Those people *know* what they need and are not deterred. But as :always, when we try to help the userbase by offering the advice they :need, someone