Re: remount problem - device busy

2006-12-01 Thread Vladimir Mitiouchev
On 11/30/06, Victor Balada Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you try running mount -u -o rw /a/b ? Yes, it works, thanks! Sorry for stupid question, i've found it man mount. -- Sincerely Yours, Vladimir Mitiouchev

Re: Idle question about multi-core processors

2006-12-01 Thread Erik Wikström
On 2006-12-01 00:10, walt wrote: [I confess, I'm not sure if this question is off-topic or not.] I just read this blurb in an e-newsletter: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) launched a motherboard with four cores on Thursday, targeting gaming enthusiasts in an effort to keep pace with the

Re: Idle question about multi-core processors

2006-12-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
: In any case, it looks to me like the mass-market may be supporting SMP : mobo's much sooner than I suspected. And, I suspect that DragonFly may : provide much better performance on SMP hardware than many other OS's. : :I thought dual-core was SMP, was that wrong of me? : :-- :Erik Wikström

Re: Idle question about multi-core processors

2006-12-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Speaking of that, :How long do you think it will be until the BGL can be removed from the :largest subsystems and we will see the real benefit on SMP systems in :DragonFly? :-Jonas There really isn't much left. It would take one experienced person maybe a week to run through all

the bgl and other tasks (was: Re: Idle question about multi-core processors)

2006-12-01 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Matthew Dillon wrote: :Speaking of that, :How long do you think it will be until the BGL can be removed from the :largest subsystems and we will see the real benefit on SMP systems in :DragonFly? :-Jonas There really isn't much left. It would take one experienced person maybe a

Re: Idle question about multi-core processors

2006-12-01 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Fri, December 1, 2006 2:55 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: Do people think I should work on that for the January release instead of the virtual kernel support? I really only have time to do one or the other. Will this last bit of BGL removal cause a significant speed improvement? If so, I'd

Re: Re: Idle question about multi-core processors

2006-12-01 Thread Chris Csanady
On 12/1/06, Justin C. Sherrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, December 1, 2006 2:55 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: Do people think I should work on that for the January release instead of the virtual kernel support? I really only have time to do one or the other. Will this last bit of BGL

Re: Re: Idle question about multi-core processors

2006-12-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I tend to agree with this sentiment. BGL aside though, I think that :the VFS is still largely serial, and filesystems will remain an issue. : That probably is not a week long project. From my understanding, it :would probably be easier to do the ZFS port than to untangle the mess :that is FFS.