Is it true?...

2003-12-29 Thread Nigel Weeks
If I have 'MATH_EMULATE' in my kernel, will it: A. Detect that the processor has a hardware FPU, and use that instead B. Use the software one, ignoring the hardware FPU? (Hopefully the latter - a performance jump will be nice...) Nige. ___ [EMAIL PRO

Autoconf, and that silly 'maximum length of command line arguments'

2004-01-05 Thread Nigel Weeks
Is there really any need for this check in autoconf? Launching sed over and over, hogging cpu, just to find a number that's so high, it'll never get reached... ...unless you use webcvs on a directory with 16000+ files... Is there any other way? If it's absolutely necessary, can it be sped up? N.

80cm CD cover

2002-10-02 Thread Nigel Weeks
I have rolled a CD image for a few friends, using a 'Beastie' picture I found somewhere. Do you know it I'm allowed to use it? Here's the sleeve in pdf: http://ecr.sf.net/sleeve.pdf The release is tailored for application services, but can be added(like like any other FreeBSD) to do anything.

80cm CD cover

2002-10-02 Thread Nigel Weeks
Sorry, there were a few spelling mistakes I have rolled a CD image for a few friends, using a 'Beastie' picture I found somewhere. Do you know if I'm allowed to use it? Here's the sleeve in pdf: http://ecr.sf.net/sleeve.pdf The release is tailored for application services, but can be added to

Mylex RAID Performance

2003-07-02 Thread Nigel Weeks
dd if=/dev/zero of=/u1/hog bs=1024 count=5000 I tried this of block sizes (bs parameter) of 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16000, and 32000 Any ideas? Nigel Weeks E-Easy 15 Wellington St. Launceston Tas 7250 Ph. 61 3 6334 6664 Fax. 61 3 6331 7032