Re: about dma.conf

2010-09-21 Thread Chris Turner
Matthias Schmidt wrote: > No, dma replaces sendmail/postfix (in parts). "Sending through sendmail" means that your MUA uses the local installed MTA (here dma) and not a remote smarthost. This is a known phrase. for reference as in: # /usr/sbin/sendmail -t <

Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-21 Thread Max Herrgård
Hi. I don't remember why I ended up using DragonFly, it certainly wasn't because of fancy project goals and such, but I do remember my venture into BSD land started on IRC, something like this: luxh: hi. which is the best distro? @coolguy: none. all the cool guys use freebsd luxh: what's that? @c

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
:That explains the noticable performance difference just logging in... I :always just thought avalon was getting used for something else I didn't :know about... Yah, the bulk build runs Avalon out of memory faster than it can swap pages out because the bulk build is also loading the disk

Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-21 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Moin, well, I have a lot of reasons: - At first, I was surprised how easy it was to get patches etc. accepted in the DragonFly repo - The vkernel is really useful for giving CS courses at the university. Its about hacking a real OS kernel and not some kind of OS Java simulator. And recompi

Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-21 Thread Dennis Melentyev
Since the very beginning, the goals are high: async messaging, lwkt, SSI. Later came HAMMER, dma, vkernels. Waiting eagerly for recent locking changes to stablize (and to upgrade my home server) And, sure, for smooth operation on my 2.4GHz P4 with 512MB RAM (ok, it has 1.5Gig for a month or so) SM

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-21 Thread Przemysław Pawełczyk
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Matthew Dillon wrote: > I think our ability to advertise our features has been a bit > lacking. We're programmers more than we are salesman. > > [cut] -Matt > Matthew Dillon

Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-21 Thread Tim Darby
I got interested in DragonFly early on because of the stated goals. It was exciting to see a BSD project that was really trying to advance the kernel. I started replacing more and more of my machines with DF until I had only one holdout, an OpenBSD machine for pf, and then that one got replaced t

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-21 Thread Przemysław Pawełczyk
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:21:19 -0600 "Samuel J. Greear" wrote: > (...) > I will try to answer here and now. > > The purpose of my question(s) is because I believe DragonFly BSD is > not adequately represented in the easily accessible (main page and > pages directly linked from it) literature on o

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-21 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Mon, September 20, 2010 10:15 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: > TMPFS becomes more viable with swapcache too. We have two bulk > pkgsrc building boxes. More than two even, but two that I regularly > use. One has a swapcache SSD (Pkgbox64) and one does not (Avalon). > There is a gul

Re: Why did you choose DragonFly?

2010-09-21 Thread Nuno Antunes
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Samuel J. Greear wrote: > This mail is intended for the infrequent responders and lurkers on the > list just as much as the regular posters. > > What has drawn you to use the DragonFly BSD operating system and/or > participate in its development by following this l

Re: about dma.conf

2010-09-21 Thread Matthias Schmidt
* dark0s Optik wrote: > >Setup dma -> /etc/mail/mailer.conf and just use your favorite MUA > > (mailx, mutt, Thunderbird, ...). Just make sure its configured to send > > mails through sendmail and not directly to your smarthost. > > That is to say that if I want send mail with dma, then I need se

Re: about dma.conf

2010-09-21 Thread dark0s Optik
>Setup dma -> /etc/mail/mailer.conf and just use your favorite MUA > (mailx, mutt, Thunderbird, ...). Just make sure its configured to send > mails through sendmail and not directly to your smarthost. That is to say that if I want send mail with dma, then I need sendmail or postfix? -- only

Re: about dma.conf

2010-09-21 Thread Matthias Schmidt
* dark0s Optik wrote: > I have some question about directive in dma.conf file: > 1) SMARTHOST is my computer that I use to send email with dma? No, SMARTHOST is the host name of your mail relay, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_host > 2) What is meaning of MAILNAME directive? You can use t

about dma.conf

2010-09-21 Thread dark0s Optik
I have some question about directive in dma.conf file: 1) SMARTHOST is my computer that I use to send email with dma? 2) What is meaning of MAILNAME directive? 3) How can I specify mail's message with dma command? Regards, savio -- only the paranoid will survive