Re: Any serious production servers yet?

2006-05-31 Thread Danial Thom
--- Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Er. Well, if I were talking about today I would be talking about today. I'm talking about the near-future, 2-3 years from now. It would be the height of stupidity to have programming goals that only satisfy the needs of today.

Re: Any serious production servers yet?

2006-05-31 Thread Danial Thom
--- Kevin L. Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, 2-3 years tops, and there won't be any more single-core offerings from AMD or Intel. Probably not even for laptops. This is really already happening, ALL of Apple's new latops are dual core only and the only single core Intel

Re: Any serious production servers yet?

2006-05-31 Thread Sascha Wildner
Danial Thom wrote: Surely it makes sense to begin developing O/S applications (which is what I need to do), however I need an OS that is production ready, even if its not as good as its going to be, because I can't reasonably test the performance of an application on an OS that can't handle

[OT] C pointers: BSD versus Linux?

2006-05-31 Thread walt
Hi compiler/OS gurus, Please consider this trivial fragment of c code which I've written in two different styles: Style 1: time_t t*; time(t); Style 2: time_t t; time(t); My puzzle is this: on *BSD these two different styles work identically -- but on my linux boxes Style 1 produces a

Re: [OT] C pointers: BSD versus Linux?

2006-05-31 Thread Brian Reichert
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:44:07PM -0700, walt wrote: Hi compiler/OS gurus, Please consider this trivial fragment of c code which I've written in two different styles: Style 1: time_t t*; time(t); Style 2: time_t t; time(t); My puzzle is this: on *BSD these two different styles

Re: Any serious production servers yet?

2006-05-31 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, May 31, 2006 11:50 am, Danial Thom wrote: --- Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Er. Well, if I were talking about today I would be talking about today. I'm talking about the near-future, 2-3 years from now. It would be the height of stupidity to have programming goals that

Re: Any serious production servers yet?

2006-05-31 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Here's a question for Matt, will dual-core :designed chips (as opposed to chips with 2 :independent cores on once chip) be used on an UP :OS as a single core? Say if I wanted to use a :dual-core chip on Freebsd 4.x in UP mode since :SMP sucks wind? Or do the cores designed as :dual-core with the

Re: [OT] C pointers: BSD versus Linux?

2006-05-31 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi compiler/OS gurus, : :Please consider this trivial fragment of c code which I've :written in two different styles: : :Style 1: :time_t t*; :time(t); : :Style 2: :time_t t; :time(t); : :My puzzle is this: on *BSD these two different styles work :identically -- but on my linux boxes Style 1

Re: [OT] C pointers: BSD versus Linux?

2006-05-31 Thread jwatson
Hi compiler/OS gurus, Please consider this trivial fragment of c code which I've written in two different styles: Style 1: time_t t*; time(t); Style 2: time_t t; time(t); My puzzle is this: on *BSD these two different styles work identically -- but on my linux boxes Style 1

Re: [OT] C pointers: BSD versus Linux?

2006-05-31 Thread Jason Watson
On May 31, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: I can not agree with this. BSD malloc() (or better: free()) is much more conservative, and lately our default even changed to abort on double free()s. A lot of buggy software has double free() s and I think glibc doesn't even

NET-SNMP kvm_read errors

2006-05-31 Thread elekktretterr
Running 1.4.4 here and net-snmp. Im getting lots of these errors: Jun 1 13:01:29 h5n1 snmpd[14906]: auto_nlist failed on cnt at location 1 Jun 1 13:01:29 h5n1 snmpd[14906]: kvm_read(*, 1, 0x280f31e0, 164) = -1: kvm_rea d: Bad address Jun 1 13:01:29 h5n1 snmpd[14906]: auto_nlist failed on cnt