Re: boot selector and extended partitions

2002-10-23 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Oct 23 at 12:49, Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatiev spoke: Do you have Lilo running from extended partition? Linux can be run in a logical partition. But Lilo can't save the last selection as default for next boot. It's default selection must be reconfigured if the default has to be changed. Well,

Re: boot selector and extended partitions

2002-10-23 Thread Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatiev
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:34:32PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: Do you have Lilo running from extended partition? Linux can be run in a logical partition. But Lilo can't save the last selection as default for next boot. It's default selection must be reconfigured if the default has to be

Re: Ati Rage 128: Dpms suspend failes

2002-10-23 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Eric Anholt writes: On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 07:37, Andrew Gallatin wrote: .. Do I need something special in my /etc/X11/XF86Config to make this work? I never had problems on my old system (an alpha with a 3dlabs Permedia-2 based AGP card). Could you send me a grep -i dpms

Re: boot selector and extended partitions

2002-10-23 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Oct 23 at 14:55, Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatiev spoke: On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:34:32PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: Can FreeBSD be run in a logical (extended?) partition? Not out-of-box, but I've made it do so. Is it an easy patch (1h :-) ? If yes would you make it available? -Hanspeter

Re: malloc

2002-10-23 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What a lame program... If this program is indicative of your real-world work-load, you can optimize a lot by getting better programmers. If it is not indicative, then forget about it. i wish i could :-) A non-technical answer to your

Re: malloc

2002-10-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Schultz writes: You can find a somewhat more thorough comparison of malloc implementations at http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/440671.html . There are many problems with this paper, and my feeling is that it was written with a very specific purpose in mind, although

Re: swapoff?

2002-10-23 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: :The concern was that there could be a race where the process is :swapped out again after I have swapped it back in but before I can :dirty its pages. (Perhaps I need to hold the process lock a bit :longer.) Under heavy swapping load, swapoff() is

Re: swapoff?

2002-10-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
This is looking really good. I'm going to start running it on my -current boxes. I think it could be committed after the 5.0 release rolls, as well as MFCd to -stable (which I would be happy to do the work for). -Matt

Re: malloc

2002-10-23 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Schultz writes: You can find a somewhat more thorough comparison of malloc implementations at http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/440671.html . There are many problems with this paper, and my feeling is that it was

Re: malloc

2002-10-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Schultz writes: Thus spake Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Schultz writes: You can find a somewhat more thorough comparison of malloc implementations at http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/440671.html . There are many

Re: malloc

2002-10-23 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A harder problem to solve is fragmentation for long-running servers, where the RSS tends to creep upwards over time as virtual memory fills with holes. This is where you want to run phkmalloc with the 'H' option. It practically makes it a

Getting ACPI to work on -stable

2002-10-23 Thread John Baldwin
Ok, here are the instructions on getting ACPI going on 4-stable for those of you who are foolish^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbrave: - First, check out a -stable kernel source tree. - Second, check out current versions of the following parts of the kernel source tree (cvs co -r1 will do this): -

Re: ctwm port and XFree86 4.2 port incompatible?

2002-10-23 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:30:46PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: Nothing I have tried has been successful in getting the ctwm window manager to run successfully with the newest X ports. It can't find any fonts. twm seems to work fine. All my old configs

Re: boot selector and extended partitions

2002-10-23 Thread Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatiev
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:02:31AM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: can I make the Freebsd boot selector chain to an extended partition similar like switching to an alternate disk? Well, you can patch it :) Has anybody already done such a patch? And what is the purpose? I'd like to