Re: Why is it so damn slow ?

2013-05-05 Thread Richard Braun
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 11:15:08AM +0100, Richard Braun wrote: On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 12:53:30PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: So, switching to a SSD does give a small performance boost, but not the big one we had hoped for. Using --no-atime improves this further. Perhaps we should follow

Re: [patch] for mig check in GDB's configure

2013-05-05 Thread Doug Evans
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Yue Lu hacklu.newb...@gmail.com wrote: But I have one more question, why the one run on GNU Hurd which targeting arm doesn't need to use MIG? As it run under GNU Hurd, it must use the message transport facility and need to use MIG to generate the interface file

Re: GCC for GNU Hurd: MACH built-in preprocessor macro (was: gdb: FTBFS on hurd-i386 (for review))

2013-05-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Thu 07 Feb 2013 00:17:02 +0100, a écrit : Committed to trunk as r195826. Samuel, please port to active Debian GCC branches. Commited to gcc-4.7 and gcc-4.8 debian packages. Samuel

Re: A quarter of the Hurd, Q3/Q4 of 2012: *pthreads*, *hardware* and *porting*.

2013-05-05 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Em 04-05-2013 23:33, Arne Babenhauserheide escreveu: Hi, [...] A quarter of the Hurd, Q3/Q4 of 2012: *pthreads*, *hardware* and *porting*. Based on the text I would only add new installation CDs. Looks really good. [...] -- Melhores cumprimentos/Best regards, Miguel Figueiredo

Re: [PATCH 1/3] libdiskfs: Allow SYMLOOP_MAX to be undefined

2013-05-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, David Michael, le Wed 01 May 2013 21:10:32 -0400, a écrit : POSIX systems are allowed to leave SYMLOOP_MAX undefined, and in such cases applications are supposed to use sysconf. Well, right, better use sysconf. It may however still return -1, so I've changed the test a bit. Samuel

Re: [PATCH 2/3] utils/vmstat: Use gnumach.defs from gnumach

2013-05-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Michael, le Wed 01 May 2013 21:10:34 -0400, a écrit : The gnumach installation provides the include file mach/gnumach.defs instead of mach/gnumach.h. This runs the defs file through MIG and builds the result for vmstat. Applied, thanks! Please take care when building patches to avoid

Re: [PATCH 2/3] utils/vmstat: Use gnumach.defs from gnumach

2013-05-05 Thread David Michael
Hi, On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@gnu.org wrote: Also, if you consider writing more involved patches (i.e. which will have some copyright), we will need a copyright assignment from you. That may happen as I continue working with the system. The wiki[1] just