Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-08 Thread Thomas Pfaff
On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:03:28 -0700 Noah Pugsley wrote: > Tony Abernethy wrote: > > Stas Miasnikou wrote: > >> Marco Peereboom wrote: > >>> Wouldn't it be adorable if people learned to program FSMs instead of > >>> java in those fancy universities? > >> Seconded. > >> > > Do you seriously expect p

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-07 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 06:41:49AM -0500, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 2010 22:38:02 -0700 > "J.C. Roberts" wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 May 2010 20:28:31 -0500 Ed Ahlsen-Girard > > wrote: > > > > > > From: Noah Pugsley > > > > Date: 2010-05-06 17:03:28 > > > > > > > > Tony

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-07 Thread Michael Small
"J.C. Roberts" writes: > On Thu, 6 May 2010 20:28:31 -0500 Ed Ahlsen-Girard > wrote: ... >> > > Do you seriously expect programmers to learn to program? >> > > >> > Finite Sex Machine? >> >> James Brown would never tolerate a *Finite* sex machine. >> > > > "Bit Up. Bit On Up" Oh sure, give a

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-07 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
On Thu, 6 May 2010 22:38:02 -0700 "J.C. Roberts" wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 2010 20:28:31 -0500 Ed Ahlsen-Girard > wrote: > > > > From: Noah Pugsley > > > Date: 2010-05-06 17:03:28 > > > > > > Tony Abernethy wrote: > > > > Stas Miasnikou wrote: > > > >> Marco Peereboom wrote: > > > >>

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-06 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 6 May 2010 20:28:31 -0500 Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > From: Noah Pugsley > > Date: 2010-05-06 17:03:28 > > > > Tony Abernethy wrote: > > > Stas Miasnikou wrote: > > >> Marco Peereboom wrote: > > >>> Wouldn't it be adorable if people learned to program FSMs > > >>> instead of

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-06 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
> From: Noah Pugsley > Date: 2010-05-06 17:03:28 > > Tony Abernethy wrote: > > Stas Miasnikou wrote: > >> Marco Peereboom wrote: > >>> Wouldn't it be adorable if people learned to program FSMs instead > >>> of java in those fancy universities? > >> Seconded. > >> > > Do you seriously

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-06 Thread Noah Pugsley
Tony Abernethy wrote: Stas Miasnikou wrote: Marco Peereboom wrote: Wouldn't it be adorable if people learned to program FSMs instead of java in those fancy universities? Seconded. Do you seriously expect programmers to learn to program? Finite Sex Machine?

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-06 Thread Ben Niccum
On Thu, 6 May 2010 02:55:16 -0400 Tony Abernethy wrote: > Stas Miasnikou wrote: > > Marco Peereboom wrote: > > > Wouldn't it be adorable if people learned to program FSMs instead > > > of java in those fancy universities? > > > > Seconded. > > > Do you seriously expect programmers to learn to pro

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-06 Thread Stas Miasnikou
Raimo Niskanen P?P8QP5Q: On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 01:37:17PM +0300, Stas Miasnikou wrote: Tony Abernethy wrote: Lars Nooden wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Geoff wrote: There's a paper from Berkeley showing how a threaded program can never be fully debugged and should be presumed to be broken, pr

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-06 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 01:37:17PM +0300, Stas Miasnikou wrote: > Tony Abernethy wrote: > >Lars Nooden wrote: > >>On Wed, 5 May 2010, Geoff wrote: > >>>There's a paper from Berkeley showing how a threaded program can > >>>never be fully debugged and should be presumed to be broken, > >>>probably fa

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-06 Thread Paul M
My first computer I built myself from scratch - it used the shiny new 6802 cpu. I wrote the OS in machine code - none of this namby-pamby assembly nonsense. And it was portable, ran off a 12 gell cell - for about 20 mins. paulm On 6/05/2010, at 10:49 PM, Chris Bennett wrote: On 05/05/10 22

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-06 Thread Chris Bennett
On 05/05/10 22:08, Daniel Ouellet wrote: A long way from my first sinclair Z80 with thermal printer and all. Talk about expensive toys! (;> My first computer was a Timex-Sinclair, yep with thermal printer, that massive memory upgrade module on the back and its cool tape recorder storage syst

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-06 Thread Tony Abernethy
Stas Miasnikou wrote: > Marco Peereboom wrote: > > Wouldn't it be adorable if people learned to program FSMs instead of > > java in those fancy universities? > > Seconded. > Do you seriously expect programmers to learn to program?

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Stas Miasnikou
Marco Peereboom wrote: Wouldn't it be adorable if people learned to program FSMs instead of java in those fancy universities? Seconded. Stas

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 5/5/10 10:58 PM, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 14:29 +1200, richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Quoting Juan Miscaro: cut "Someone" told me my Atari ST was "garbage" and their Amiga was better. Of course Amiga was better!!! :-P Yea men! Amen to that! (:::>>>

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel Ouellet
"Someone" told me my Atari ST was "garbage" and their Amiga was better. Hey, I will stay out of the rest, but the Atari wasn't bad, however the Amiga was really great and many years ahead of it's time. (;> I had to sale my 2000 and 1000 with all my books, my Astec compiler (Really expensive p

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 14:29 +1200, richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz wrote: > Quoting Juan Miscaro : cut > "Someone" told me my Atari ST was "garbage" and their Amiga was better. Of course Amiga was better!!! :-P > > -- cut > > /jm -- Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread richardtoohey
Quoting Juan Miscaro : > On 5 May 2010 14:09, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 02:00:17PM +0200, Benny L?fgren wrote: > >> Jan Stary wrote: > >>> On May 04 22:15:09, Juan Miscaro wrote: > >>>> What is the current state of multiproce

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Juan Miscaro
On 5 May 2010 14:09, Marco Peereboom wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 02:00:17PM +0200, Benny L?fgren wrote: >> Jan Stary wrote: >>> On May 04 22:15:09, Juan Miscaro wrote: >>>> What is the current state of multiprocessing and multithreading in >>>&

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 02:00:17PM +0200, Benny L?fgren wrote: > Jan Stary wrote: >> On May 04 22:15:09, Juan Miscaro wrote: >>> What is the current state of multiprocessing and multithreading in >>> OpenBSD? Also, what applications are multithreaded? In particular,

Re: [Bulk] Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Henning Brauer
* Kevin Chadwick [2010-05-05 18:00]: > I notice OpenBSD states one processor for applications and one for > boot. Does that increase security via priviledge/memory separation or > is it just because only one is used during boot? the term "application processor" is misleading. once booted the proc

Re: [Bulk] Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I heard that after being stuck at around 3ghz at a reasonable temp for ages. Intel decided to go multicore and just after the time the decision was made, a breakthrough in single core was made and ignored as development was redirected. I imagine they would have hit another barrier though, otherwise

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Christiano F. Haesbaert
On 5 May 2010 01:07, Geoff wrote: > Juan Miscaro wrote on Tue, 4 May 2010 22:15:09 -0400 > >>What is the current state of multiprocessing and multithreading in >>OpenBSD? Also, what applications are multithreaded? In particular, >>someone told me that pf is &qu

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Brad Tilley
Tony Abernethy wrote: > Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: >> pe...@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) writes: >> >>> I would think that would be a fair question to ask the person who >> told >>> you PF is garbage because it is multithreaded: >> eh, "because it is *not* multithreaded:" >> > Now watch when a

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Benny Löfgren
Jan Stary wrote: On May 04 22:15:09, Juan Miscaro wrote: What is the current state of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD? Also, what applications are multithreaded? In particular, someone told me that pf is "garbage" because it is not multithreaded? What truth is the

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Stas Miasnikou
Tony Abernethy wrote: Lars Nooden wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Geoff wrote: There's a paper from Berkeley showing how a threaded program can never be fully debugged and should be presumed to be broken, probably fatally broken. Geoff, can you post the URL or any details that might help finding an

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Lars Nooden
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Tony Abernethy wrote: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.pdf first choice googling: threads berkeley Thanks. You have better luck with Google than I did. berkeley threading won't find it. Repeating once more for the archive: http://www.eecs.ber

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Tony Abernethy
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > pe...@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) writes: > > > I would think that would be a fair question to ask the person who > told > > you PF is garbage because it is multithreaded: > > eh, "because it is *not* multithreaded:" > Now watch when application programmers use mu

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
pe...@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) writes: > I would think that would be a fair question to ask the person who told > you PF is garbage because it is multithreaded: eh, "because it is *not* multithreaded:" -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsd

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Tony Abernethy
Lars Nooden wrote: > > On Wed, 5 May 2010, Geoff wrote: > > There's a paper from Berkeley showing how a threaded program can > > never be fully debugged and should be presumed to be broken, > > probably fatally broken. > > Geoff, can you post the URL or any details that might help finding and > ret

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Juan Miscaro writes: > someone told me that pf is "garbage" because it is not multithreaded? > What truth is there to this? Under what kind of load would an OpenBSD > firewall's performance suffer due to it being non-multithreaded? I would think that would be a fair question to ask the person w

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Lars Nooden
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Geoff wrote: There's a paper from Berkeley showing how a threaded program can never be fully debugged and should be presumed to be broken, probably fatally broken. Geoff, can you post the URL or any details that might help finding and retrieving that particular article or o

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-04 Thread Jan Stary
On May 04 22:15:09, Juan Miscaro wrote: > What is the current state of multiprocessing and multithreading in > OpenBSD? Also, what applications are multithreaded? In particular, > someone told me that pf is "garbage" because it is not multithreaded? > What truth is ther

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-04 Thread Geoff
Juan Miscaro wrote on Tue, 4 May 2010 22:15:09 -0400 >What is the current state of multiprocessing and multithreading in >OpenBSD? Also, what applications are multithreaded? In particular, >someone told me that pf is "garbage" because it is not multithreaded? >What

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-04 Thread Christiano F. Haesbaert
What a bunch of crap... misc is better than usual this week.

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-04 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:15:09PM -0400, Juan Miscaro wrote: > What is the current state of multiprocessing and multithreading in > OpenBSD? Also, what applications are multithreaded? In particular, > someone told me that pf is "garbage" because it is not multithreaded? >

State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-04 Thread Juan Miscaro
What is the current state of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD? Also, what applications are multithreaded? In particular, someone told me that pf is "garbage" because it is not multithreaded? What truth is there to this? Under what kind of load would an OpenBSD