Re: hyper threading.

2005-03-26 Thread John Pettitt
Well you've proven than if you pick your benchmark you can get the result you want. So what that says it that the kernel network code doesn't get any benefit from HT - given that HT is supposed to benefit diverse user tasks and no multiple copies of the same code this is not big news - since you

Re: hyper threading.

2005-03-26 Thread em1897
When you get your machine running without a kernel let me know. The kernel is the key to the O/S. If you don't need networking and don't have many interrupts, then it probably doesnt matter that much. -Original Message- From: John Pettitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: hyper threading.

2005-03-26 Thread John Pettitt
Hmm on my boxes the combined sys and intr cpu rarely goes over 20% - most of the load is user space. I'd venture that most people running user space appllications will see similar numbers. I agree tat a box running as a router is not a good candidate for HT - that wasn't the question. John

Re: .cshrc

2005-03-26 Thread exp
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 01:19:17AM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:59:18 +0100, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont have colors :( How do you turn off the tab beep ? # $FreeBSD: src/etc/root/dot.cshrc,v 1.29 2004/04/01 19:28:00 krion Exp $ # # .cshrc - csh

Emacs and backspace - again

2005-03-26 Thread Rodger Castle
I am aware that the 'Emacs backspace takes me to help' question has been delt with ad-nauseum on other lists and pages, but I can't seem to get any of the suggested fixes to work. As in http://freebsd.active-venture.com/developers-handbook/emacs.html I added the following line to my ~/.emacs

dmesg -a lines' explanation? NEWBIE

2005-03-26 Thread David Armour
hello i've looked in the handbook, searched the archives, but can't find out what the following lines in my dmesg might mean. snippage Starting cron. chmod: #permissions: No such file or directory chmod: are: No such file or directory chmod: set: No such file or directory chmod:

CVSup questions

2005-03-26 Thread Jay O'Brien
When 5.3 RELEASE first came out, I used the miniinst.iso CD to install 5.3 on a spare computer for tests. It installed ok and based on how it worked, I updated my primary computer. Now I have an application for the spare computer, and I thought I would use it to verify my understanding of how

Re: CVSup questions

2005-03-26 Thread Subhro
Jay O'Brien wrote: pkg_version, however, failed. Unable to open INDEX in pkg_do I found that pkg_version http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX-5 ran ok, so the problem was the missing /usr/ports/INDEX-5. In fact there was no /usr/ports directory. This is because you didn't install the ports

Re: dmesg -a lines' explanation? NEWBIE

2005-03-26 Thread Christopher Nehren
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-27, David Armour scribbled these curious markings: snippage Ditto. chmod: #permissions: No such file or directory chmod: are: No such file or directory chmod: set: No such file or directory chmod: properly: No such file or

Re: CVSup questions

2005-03-26 Thread Jay O'Brien
Subhro wrote: Jay O'Brien wrote: /snip/ I built src-all and ports-all. Now, there is a /usr/ports directory and and lots of directories and files therein. In /usr/ports, I did make fetchindex. It failed. The /usr/ports/Makeindex file was really Makeindex,v. I copied it as Makeindex, and

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