Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-01 Thread Mike Harrold
Paul Mundt wrote: > > Oh please, next you'll be blaming world hunger on MS because third world > countries can't afford licenses of win2k. Absolutely. If their governments didn't have to shell out such a large amount of money on M$ licenses, they'd have more money to feed their people with... ;

Re: O_DIRECT please; Sybase 12.5

2001-06-29 Thread Mike Harrold
> > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > the boss say "If Linux makes Sybase go through the page cache on > > > reads, maybe we'll just have to switch to Solaris. That's > > > a serious performance problem." > > > > Thats something you'd have to benchmark. It depends on a very large number > > of factors

Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

2001-06-21 Thread Mike Harrold
> To be honest, I disagree that #include'ing a GPL header file should force your > app to be GPL as well. That may be how the license reads, but I think it's a > very bad idea. I could write 1 million lines of original code, but if someone > told me that but simply adding #include my code is no

Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java

2001-06-20 Thread Mike Harrold
Martin Dalecki wrote:> > Rob Landley wrote: > > > Or if you like the idea of a JIT, think about transmeta writing a code > > morphing layer that takes java bytecodes. Ditch the VM and have the > > processor do it in-cache. > > Blah blah blah. The performance of the Transmeta CPU SUCKS ROCKS. N

Re: close()

2001-05-04 Thread Mike Harrold
formation the next time this happens... especially the "-p pid" > option. I didn't think about this. I'll give this a whirl next time. /Mike > > > Mike Harrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@vger.kernel.org on 05/04/2001 07:44:53 AM > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROT

close()

2001-05-04 Thread Mike Harrold
Hi, We have a server which runs on a machine that now runs the new 2.4 kernel. Since upgrading we've seen periods where it seems to just hang for minutes at a time (anywhere form 5 minutes to an hour). I was finally able to get a core dump of the server during one of these periods and it appears

Re: Is swap == 2 * RAM a permanent thing?

2001-03-15 Thread Mike Harrold
> The reason is that the Linux 2.4 kernel no longer reclaims swap > space on swapin (2.2 reclaimed swap space on write access, which > lead to fragmented swap space in lots of workloads). > > This means that a lot of memory ends up "duplicated" in RAM and > in swap. > > I plan on doing some code

Re: Dumping memory of a running process?

2001-03-13 Thread Mike Harrold
> > Is there a way to dump the memory of any process without stopping, or > modifying it? > > Obviously normally stopping it would be the right thing to do, but > is it possible, and if so, is there a handy tool? fork() and raise(SIGABRT) in the child does the trick. Of course this only works

Re: [LK] Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-15 Thread Mike Harrold
> > if you use an MUA that can't do filtering, well then there's something > wrong with you I really don't believe there is any need for this kind of attitude. /Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: *grin* Windows 2000 & HPC: Scalable, Inexpensive

2001-02-14 Thread Mike Harrold
> > At 9:10 am + 14/2/2001, David Howells wrote: > >How this for a laugh: > > > >http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/hpc/indstand.asp > > > > Can anybody say "Beowulf cluster"? I bet you need a W2K license for every > box you hook up, too. The sad thing is, 3/4 of the page is an outright

Re: [LK] Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-13 Thread Mike Harrold
> > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Mike Harrold wrote: > > >> Those would all be your problems and I would suggest using a different account > >> for mail then. > > > >Out of interest, how would that solve anything? So I use an ISP instead. > >Then I have to

[LK] Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-12 Thread Mike Harrold
> > On 2001-02-12T11:56:00, >Mike Harrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Maybe I don't *want* the LKML messages in a seperate folder. > > Maybe I just want to identify them at a pinch in my inbox? > > You can use procmail to modify the subject l

Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-12 Thread Mike Harrold
> > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:25:47 -0500 (EST) > Mike Harrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > The advantages can all be gained without that disadvantage by just > > learning > > > to filter mail on other headers ins

Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-12 Thread Mike Harrold
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > There are advantages: distinguish personal messages from mailing list > > messages, and distinguish between different mailing lists. And > > disadvantages - maybe only one: sacrificing valuable Subject: line > > space. > > The advantages can all be gained wit

Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

2001-02-01 Thread Mike Harrold
> > > > To confuse things even more, I have a "Hewlett-Packard 9114 Disc Drive," which > is really a 720K 3.5-inch diskette drive. > > Wayne My understanding (going back to the 80s) is that the correct term is disc. "disk" is short for diskette. (discette would be pronounced as "dissect" (thi

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-23 Thread Mike Harrold
> > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > --_=_NextPart_001_01C08552.FFC336D0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="ISO-8859-1" > > I prefer descriptive variable and function names

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-22 Thread Mike Harrold
> > > -Original Message- > > From: profmakx.fmp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > So, every good programmer > > should know where to put comments. And it is unnecessary to > > put comments to > > explain what code does. One should see this as stated in the > > CodingStyle doc. > > Ok,

Re: * 4 converted to << 2 for networking code

2001-01-10 Thread Mike Harrold
> > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 06:03:22PM +0100, antirez wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:54:04AM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote: > > > This patch isn't really necessary, because GCC will automatically > > > convert multiplications and divisions by powers of two to use shifts. > > > > Sure, but sinc