Re: FreeBSD for serious performance?

2012-12-26 Thread Dieter BSD
If the driver is doing something daft like DELAY(x) in a fast interrupt handler which would lead to that behaviour, it should be fixed. If it's doing a DELAY(x) in a critical section, it shuld be fixed. They are doing *something* that completely locks out everything else. It is always a

Re: looking for someone to fix humanize_number (test cases included)

2012-12-26 Thread Clifton Royston
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:00:01PM +, freebsd-hackers-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:52:09 -0500 From: Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, John-Mark Gurney j...@funkthat.com Subject: Re: looking for someone to fix humanize_number (test

Re: FreeBSD for serious performance?

2012-12-26 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hm, can you come up with a reproducable scenario where this happening? A lot of times the issues with disk drivers being upset is due to bad or incorrectly seated SATA cables. We're willing to help you out if you're willing to delve into the driver. Just ask questions about how it works and

Re: FreeBSD for serious performance?

2012-12-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Dec-25 21:51:14 -0500, Dieter BSD dieter...@engineer.com wrote: ata(4) completely hung the system for 19 minutes (at which point I manually intervened, see the PR), probably an infinite loop. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=170675 Which contains no useful information. You've

Cross Compiling of ports Makefiles.

2012-12-26 Thread Michael Vale
Hi, For those of you who are aware I’ve been implementing a complete cross-compiling series of functions to ports makefiles. I had a good 3+ week break since my last email with a patch to show, and I’ve totally re-written it and have started from scratch. Not including any of Ray’s Zrouter