Re: system call for process information?

2001-03-13 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:05:13PM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Bloat removal: being able to run without /proc mounted. > > We don't have "kernel speed". We have kernel-mode screwing around > with text formatting. Or calculating things that really should be taken care of in user spa

Re: system call for process information?

2001-03-12 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:21:37PM +, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > CPU utilisation. Each new application has to calculate it (ps, top, qps, > kps, various sysmons, procmons, etc.). Wouldn't it be worth it having a > syscall for that? Wouldn't it be more optimal? No, it wouldn't be w

Re: [OT] Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000?

2001-03-08 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:21:12PM -0500, Stuart MacDonald wrote: > "As such, clients will not be allowed to alter the code in any form and > may not give any other party access to any aspect of that code." > > Does this preclude one reading the source and then using > the knowledge gained to wri

Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

2000-10-31 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
e starting to sound more and more like arguments made a while back by a certain OS vendor from Seattle . . . Wish not to seem, but to be, the best. -- Aeschylus -- Nathan Paul Simons, Junior Software Engineer for FSMLabs http://www.fsmlabs.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List -- new addition WAS(test9 PCI

2000-10-11 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
l to make gcc compile it correctly, but it's still a decent C compiler. g++ on the other hand . . . -- Nathan Paul Simons, Junior Software Engineer for FSMLabs http://www.fsmlabs.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: Weightless process class

2000-10-04 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
ocess has any kernel locks. -- Nathan Paul Simons, Junior Software Engineer for FSMLabs http://www.fsmlabs.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Incomplete Adaptec 29160 support!?

2000-10-04 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
line 42 of drivers/scsi/README.aic7xxx (in both 2.4.0 and 2.2.17): AHA-29160M -- Nathan Paul Simons, Junior Software Engineer for FSMLabs http://www.fsmlabs.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Proposal: Linux Kernel Patch Management System

2000-09-14 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
be set to safe defaults so i don't have to change them. -- Nathan Paul Simons, Programmer for FSMLabs http://www.fsmlabs.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Proposal: Linux Kernel Patch Management System

2000-09-14 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:50:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Another problem is that bitkeeper has not been through a security audit. Maybe, but i like the fact that BitKeeper uses ssh by default for transmitting data. -- Nathan Paul Simons, Programmer for FSMLabs http://www.fsmlabs.

Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-10 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
paid, they "only work here" and would prefer a debugger because it means they don't have to think as hard. -- Nathan Paul Simons, Programmer for FSMLabs http://www.fsmlabs.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a messa

Re: [PATCH] 2.2: /proc/config.gz

2000-08-31 Thread Nathan Paul Simons
and even if you could, some things really shouldn't be. -- Nathan Paul Simons, Programmer for FSMLabs http://www.fsmlabs.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/