Re: swap partition leads to instability?

2013-05-29 Thread Fred Morcos
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:19 PM, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Fred Morcos fred.morcos at gmail.com writes: .. The improvement effect can be noticed on large inputs. These algorithms will most probably perform quite badly on small inputs. I think your concern has been addressed

Re: swap partition leads to instability?

2013-05-28 Thread Fred Morcos
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:42 PM, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Follow up comment. It has been pointed out to me that there is Varnish software taking advantage of system VMM and swap space. Well, there are cache-oblivious algorithms that perform as well, and so they make the above

Re: Anatomy of Perfomance tests

2012-06-29 Thread Fred Morcos
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Most probably all filesystems were used with defaults. MAYBE softupdates, but not even sure for this. Compare this to linux which is async-like. Comparing with UFS+async would be more fair. Still -

Re: Anatomy of Perfomance tests

2012-06-29 Thread Fred Morcos
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: what i would like to see too is how these systems compare on such test: - run lots of heavy disk I/O tests, many different in the same time, including ones doing many writes to different places. - turn off

Re: Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-21 Thread fred . morcos
And I just want to add I'm a gay Marxist atheist and I represent the accusations leveled in that other post...we have feelings too!!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: New to FreeBSD - Some questions

2012-06-21 Thread Fred Morcos
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I'm quite new to FreeBSD too (RHEL/Fedora background), and am most impressed with it so far. rather huge difference. Secondly (and probably stating the obvious), the handbook

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-20 Thread Fred Morcos
The answer is: 1. gcc will still be available through the ports system. 2. The move to clang/llvm as a default compiler will reduce the amount of GPL code in the base system, eventually reducing distribution issues (especially for 3rd parties). 3. clang/llvm provides better error and warning

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Fred Morcos
I am also a newcomer and I agree with Stephen. But I guess the only way is to simply ignore those who make such statements. I don't see much benefit in arguing or reasoning with them. On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Stephen Cook scli...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/19/2012 4:06 PM, Anonymous Remailer

New to FreeBSD - Some questions

2012-06-20 Thread Fred Morcos
Hello all, I am new to FreeBSD, coming from a GNU/Linux background (most comfortable with Archlinux). I compiled a series of questions I would like to ask in different areas and categories. Should I send them all in a single email message or should I split them by subject/topic into different

Re: Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-20 Thread Fred Morcos
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: On Wednesday 20 June 2012 12:59:51 Stephen Cook wrote: On 6/19/2012 4:06 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: [snip childish invective] I'm a relative newcomer. Are the FreeBSD mailing lists always this flame-y?

Re: rm returns 0 although directory didn't exist and wasn't deleted ?

2012-06-19 Thread Fred Morcos
You used -f which means rm will not complain if a file or directory cannot be deleted (or does not exist in the first place). On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: I've stumbled upon this *so weird* behaviour. # ls -la /var/tmp/stunnel/ ls: /var/tmp/stunnel/: No

Re: rm returns 0 although directory didn't exist and wasn't deleted ?

2012-06-19 Thread Fred Morcos
assumed -f would only force removal, not modify the exit code. No bug then, working as intended, all good. Cheers On 6/19/12 3:43 PM, Fred Morcos wrote: You used -f which means rm will not complain if a file or directory cannot be deleted (or does not exist in the first place). On Tue, Jun 19

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Fred Morcos
I would also guess that the base system is stuck with gcc ~4.1 due to the GPLv3-ization of later gcc version. Is that correct? On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr wrote: David Brodbeck said: Another way of looking at it is after 25 years of optimization GCC is

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Fred Morcos
I don't see much fruit coming out of that conversation anymore. On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) mixmas...@remailer.privacy.at wrote: GPL protects the freedom of the programmer who licensed his code under those licenses: He wants it to be free for use, but not to