Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)

"Brian F. Feldman" writes: > But I have a valid point: can we do something better than posting a SIGKILL > to the largest process? If I remember correctly, AIX sends a signal to all processes asking them to free up memory. (Processes ignore this signal by default.) If nobody responds, then it s

Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)

"Brian F. Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But I have a valid point: can we do something better than posting a SIGKILL > to the largest process? If I remember correctly, AIX sends a signal to all processes asking them to free up memory. (Processes ignore this signal by default.) If nobody

Re: more amd hangs

Sheldon Hearn writes: > I've found that AMD exacerbates NFS-related problems. Since I moved away > from AMD toward using proper NFS mounts (soft, interruptible, bg), the > hassles I was having with NFS have gone away completely. I thought that it was almost never proper to soft-mount rw filesyte

Re: more amd hangs

Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've found that AMD exacerbates NFS-related problems. Since I moved away > from AMD toward using proper NFS mounts (soft, interruptible, bg), the > hassles I was having with NFS have gone away completely. I thought that it was almost never proper to so

Re: What does VOP_WHITEOUT() do?

"Chuck Youse" writes: > New daemon book? > I must have missed that. Do you have the full title? McKusick, Bostic, Karels, and Quarterman, The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4 -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to ma

trivial patch for boot.c

I had to reboot a few times today, and got bugged by the boot countdown timer telling me it was going to boot in 1 seconds. The change to src/sys/boot/common/boot.c is trivial, but I'm always impressed when a program gets these details right. -matt *** boot.c.orig Thu May 20 01:11:00 1999 --- b