Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-24 Thread hugo rivera
2009/2/23, erik quanstrom : > this seems dated to me #w, #H and #b no longer > exist and the install is now quite different. > > > - erik > > The book seems rather old and somehow outdated, but I think (meaning hope, since my german goes as far as knowing what a maulesel is) that the main design

[9fans] plot cmd dotted dashed lines not implemented??

2009-02-24 Thread Fernan Bolando
Hi all The following commands draws a green circle with solid lines instead of dashed lines o ra -10 -10 10 10 e co green pe cdash ci 0 0 10 cl I browsed the source for plot and libplot, I cant grep any reference to dotted or dashed except in the man files. Is it not implemented or am I using the

Re: [9fans] plot cmd dotted dashed lines not implemented??

2009-02-24 Thread erik quanstrom
> I browsed the source for plot and libplot, I cant grep any reference > to dotted or dashed > except in the man files. Is it not implemented or am I using the > commands incorrectly? pe string Use string as the style for drawing lines. The available pen styles are:

Re: [9fans] Calling vac from C

2009-02-24 Thread erik quanstrom
> about 5 years ago i took a class on performance tuning Solaris. > > The instructor claimed that fork was expensive because accounting is never > really turned off, just piped to /dev/null. there is no accounting overhead > for threads. > > I never bothered to verify this, but now that this c

Re: [9fans] Calling vac from C

2009-02-24 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:54 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > about 5 years ago i took a class on performance tuning Solaris. > > > > The instructor claimed that fork was expensive because accounting is never > > really turned off, just piped to /dev/null. there is no accounting > > overhead for

Re: [9fans] Calling vac from C

2009-02-24 Thread erik quanstrom
> > cfork is ~525 lines long and seems to take the curious tack of > > forking all the lwps associated with a process. > > that would be forkall(), not fork1()/fork() my mistake. i assumed that since isfork1 was a flag, that it was not the normal path through the code. silly me. so where's th

Re: [9fans] Calling vac from C

2009-02-24 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 11:22 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > cfork is ~525 lines long and seems to take the curious tack of > > > forking all the lwps associated with a process. > > > > that would be forkall(), not fork1()/fork() > > my mistake. i assumed that since isfork1 was > a flag, that

Re: [9fans] Calling vac from C

2009-02-24 Thread erik quanstrom
> It could have been the "old" accounting. Solaris 10 > changed a lot of that and made things like microstate > accounting on by default, thus, possibly eliminating > the kind of bottlenecks the instructor was referring > to. More on that here: >http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock/entry/microstate_ac

Re: [9fans] Calling vac from C

2009-02-24 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 12:01 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: > data would be helpful. Indeed! Personally, I'm not old enough to have lived through most of these wars to tell a story. > nobody here has shown any version > of solaris to be slow forking, much less that it is slow > forking because of ac

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-24 Thread cinap_lenrek
Yeah right... We all make mistakes... Not to think of hardware failures! I'v just made a backup of that file for you in case you loose it ok? ;-) You can feel mutch more secure now! -- cinap --- Begin Message --- Well, I made an obvious mistake and sent the last email to the wrong address. I apol

[9fans] 9load ahci funny

2009-02-24 Thread erik quanstrom
according to acs-2 §7.19.6 p. 163, this is illegal, but i got a $20 dvd-rom that doesn't have a serial number. this doesn't sit well with 9load. here's a workaround for the broken hardware: sdiahci.c:1711,1717 - /n/dump/2009/0224/sys/src/boot/pc/sdiahci.c:1711,1716 d->por

Re: [9fans] plot cmd dotted dashed lines not implemented??

2009-02-24 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:13 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> I browsed the source for plot and libplot, I cant grep any reference >> to dotted or dashed >> except in the man files. Is it not implemented or am I using the >> commands incorrectly? > >          pe string Use string as the style for dra

Re: [9fans] plot cmd dotted dashed lines not implemented??

2009-02-24 Thread erik quanstrom
> Sorry Erik I dont particuarly understand your reply > I am guessing that it's referring to pe working for lines only. it only claims to work for lines. evidently it does not work at all. > #include "mplot.h" > void pen(char *s){ > /* BUG: NO OP */ > USED(s); > /* was this er

Re: [9fans] plot cmd dotted dashed lines not implemented??

2009-02-24 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
On Feb 24, 2009, at 5:49 PM, Fernan Bolando wrote: not sure where USED(s); is implemented. It tells the compiler not to print the warning s: set but not used

Re: [9fans] FileServer grid

2009-02-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Giacomo Tesio wrote: Hi, > I'd like to move our softwares to Linux + Apache (where mounting a 9p > fileserver would be easy), but actually it's a Windows + IIS. my serious condolescense ;-) > But what if a node of the grid goes down? There would be a way to keep > files in it replicated in

Re: [9fans] plot cmd dotted dashed lines not implemented??

2009-02-24 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
Styles aren't in the libplot that plot uses as an engine. I can add them in the next few days if you want. On Feb 24, 2009, at 5:59 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: Sorry Erik I dont particuarly understand your reply I am guessing that it's referring to pe working for lines only. it only claims t

Re: [9fans] Venti by another name

2009-02-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* matt wrote: Hi, > I'll know soon enough as I'm in the process of building a Venti store > for our video files. I just wondered if anyone had done it already. I'm actually using venti for storing media files in my MCloud platform, which is used for several of my customer's portals, (eg: http

Re: [9fans] Venti by another name

2009-02-24 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 01:26 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > But I really can't tell anything about the space saving. > (one of the primary decision for venti is that it will be > clustered some day ... ;-o) Clustered? Thanks, Roman.

Re: [9fans] plot cmd dotted dashed lines not implemented??

2009-02-24 Thread Fernan Bolando
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: > Styles aren't in the libplot that plot uses as an engine. I can add them in > the next few days if you want. > It's not that critical, but if you have free time then it will be good. Especially since the manual already mentioned it. fern

Re: [9fans] plot cmd dotted dashed lines not implemented??

2009-02-24 Thread Charles Forsyth
>[USED] doesn't do anything but suppress unused variable warnings. it creates a use of a value, which can have other uses. the elimination of the warning about the otherwise unused value is one useful consequence.

Re: [9fans] plot cmd dotted dashed lines not implemented??

2009-02-24 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Feb 24 21:26:55 EST 2009, fors...@terzarima.net wrote: > >[USED] doesn't do anything but suppress unused variable warnings. > > it creates a use of a value, which can have other uses. > the elimination of the warning about the otherwise unused value is one useful > consequence. what other

Re: [9fans] Venti by another name

2009-02-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Roman V. Shaposhnik wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 01:26 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > But I really can't tell anything about the space saving. > > (one of the primary decision for venti is that it will be > > clustered some day ... ;-o) > > Clustered? Yeah, one of the projects I'm workin

Re: [9fans] Les Mis?rables

2009-02-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* jimmy brisson wrote: Hi, > on another note, MadWifi recently released ALL of the sorce included > for their drivers(Including the HAL crap). this allows for a complete > analisys of the project at hand. Is the binary-only module also open now ? BTW: what does it take to have the driver for s

Re: [9fans] Venti by another name

2009-02-24 Thread lucio
> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 01:26 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> But I really can't tell anything about the space saving. >> (one of the primary decision for venti is that it will be >> clustered some day ... ;-o) > > Clustered? > Cloudstered? ++L

Re: [9fans] spreding the word

2009-02-24 Thread hugo rivera
Great, thanks. 2009/2/24, cinap_len...@gmx.de : > Yeah right... We all make mistakes... Not to think of hardware failures! > I'v just made a backup of that file for you in case you loose it ok? ;-) > > You can feel mutch more secure now! > > > -- > cinap > > > -- Mensaje reenviado