[9fans] IWP9 this year?

2009-04-24 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
Hello! Although I probably won't be able to go unless it's close (a.k.a. in the Baltimore / Washington DC area -- which actually isn't perhaps a bad idea?), the subject of an IWP9 has been brought up several times this year. I'd like to get the ball rolling on this, in case anybody is interested

Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?

2009-04-24 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Apr 24 09:56:24 EDT 2009, devon.od...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Although I probably won't be able to go unless it's close (a.k.a. in the Baltimore / Washington DC area -- which actually isn't perhaps a bad idea?), the subject of an IWP9 has been brought up several times this year. I'd

Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?

2009-04-24 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
There were some ideas of skipping this year and making the next IWP9 in the beginning of the next year. End of the year is a difficult time for travel, the budgets for travel are depleted, or not if the fiscal year starts earlier than the calendar one, not defined well enough. Lucho On Fri,

Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?

2009-04-24 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
2009/4/24 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net: On Fri Apr 24 09:56:24 EDT 2009, devon.od...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Although I probably won't be able to go unless it's close (a.k.a. in the Baltimore / Washington DC area -- which actually isn't perhaps a bad idea?), the subject of an IWP9

Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years

2009-04-24 Thread ron minnich
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:56 AM, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: clustermatic: not much left from lanl This is a long story and the situation is less a comment on the software than on the organization. I only say this because, almost 5 years after our last release, there are still people out there

Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?

2009-04-24 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Devon H. O'Dell devon.od...@gmail.com wrote: What do people think about erik's timeframe versus potentially mid-January / early February / early March 2010? Speaking personally, early March tends to be bad because of potential overlap with children's spring

[9fans] IWP9 Logistics Poll

2009-04-24 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
I made a logistics poll form based on all the ideas presented thus far. It would be great if you guys could fill it in, there's like 6 questions and a comment field, so it should only take about 1 minute total. Just trying to get a brief and centralized overview of what everyone's personal

Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years

2009-04-24 Thread tlaronde
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:33:59AM -0700, ron minnich wrote: [snipped precisions about some of my notes] Not sure what you're getting at here, but you've barely scratched the surface. The fact that I'm not an english native speaker does not help and my wording may be rude. This was not

Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?

2009-04-24 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Devon H. O'Dell devon.od...@gmail.com wrote: What do people think about erik's timeframe versus potentially mid-January / early February / early March 2010? Speaking personally, early March tends to be bad because of potential overlap with children's spring

Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?

2009-04-24 Thread Joseph Stewart
As I live near Atlanta, I wouldn't mind the Athens venue. Since I'm more-or-less local, I could pitch in to help with logistics. -joe On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:45 AM, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote: What do people think about erik's timeframe versus potentially mid-January / early February /

Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?

2009-04-24 Thread ron minnich
The good thing about atlanta: major international airport, minimizes traveling to the IWP9 locale. I think that should be a consideration for location. I am sure Greece was wonderful but it was pretty much impossible for me to get to the last IWP9. ron

Re: [9fans] IWP9 this year?

2009-04-24 Thread blstuart
What do people think about erik's timeframe versus potentially mid-January / early February / early March 2010? My 1¢ worth (the economy has devalued it from 2¢) is that the time doesn't matter so much for me, since it would probably be on my dime. But Atlanta is a much more feasable trip for

Re: [9fans] roots

2009-04-24 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:16 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: where do they think linux, minux, unix came from? “        It rarely leads to good things when a small community gets        headed off in their own direction, he [lwn editor j. corbet] said. That's odd since he's

[9fans] wrarenas

2009-04-24 Thread Steve Simon
Is wrarenas (write venti arenas back to disk) really really slow or have I a hardware problem. reading 10 arenas took 30secs or so, writing them into a new venti (even with a bloom filter and DMA turned on) took about 36 hours. is this expected? -Steve

Re: [9fans] wrarenas

2009-04-24 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Apr 24 13:51:18 EDT 2009, st...@quintile.net wrote: Is wrarenas (write venti arenas back to disk) really really slow or have I a hardware problem. reading 10 arenas took 30secs or so, writing them into a new venti (even with a bloom filter and DMA turned on) took about 36 hours.

Re: [9fans] wrarenas

2009-04-24 Thread erik quanstrom
and, writing should take the same amount of time as reading. that is you can switch -if and -of and you should get the same results. it could be that you are seeking around all over the place. on modern hardware, if you are doing significant seeks between each write, you can get down below