Re: dirpref benefit on virtual disks

2001-11-12 Thread Matthew Whelan
12/11/2001 18:23:52, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now I have some huge filesystems on RAID partitions. To recreate >> all their directories involves some hassle, but I would think >> about doing it. But since these are no real but virtual disks, >> spread over a set of disks in a hard

jdk1.2.2

2001-11-12 Thread Tomas Palfi
all, trying to build jdk1.2.2 for Freebsd from 'jdk1_2_2-src[1].tar.gz' using a patch set 'freebsd-jdk122-patches-10[1].tar.gz'. i have followed the instructions as in the INSTRUCTIONS file from the patches, and everything seemed to be ok. I followed the path one to build "a normal" JDK1.2.2 (n

Re: dirpref benefit on virtual disks

2001-11-12 Thread Bill Moran
[since I've yet to see any other replies] Daniel Lang wrote: > Hi, > > as I understood, the new dirpref algorithm can improve > performance a lot, but only applies to new created directories. > To be able to use it, old existing directories would have to > be created new. That's consistent with

Re: TCP NewReno causing wild performance fluctuations

2001-11-12 Thread Nate Williams
> I think you should MFC this, Nate. I too think it should be merged, but I wanted to get Jayanth's feedback first. Nate > > :We've been using FreeBSD boxes as our reference ftp servers at work, and > :because of the recent security issues, I've went through and updated a > :number of our

Re: KDE init [was RE: DCOP server problem...]

2001-11-12 Thread Michael Lucas
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 09:38:55AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: >Yah, I'm playing with it now. After fixing up the database with >pkgdb -F (scary!) I am now running portupgrade -a. It's happily >churning away on the ports tree upgrade god knows what. Thanks! General word to the pub

Re: KDE init [was RE: DCOP server problem...]

2001-11-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Matt, : :Check out /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade. Automatic port & port :dependency upgrading, fully recursive. : :Took me about thirty minutes to set up. My desktop is three years old :and has been manually upgraded, patched, etc, repeatedly. And :portupgrade upgraded every port to the l