Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/systemtuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-03-31 Thread Roland Mainz
Eric Lowe wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > ... > >>> delay the project proposal until it is clear that Sun actually > >>> releases the patches for their work. Starting from scratch without > >>> help from Sun will be much harder. > >> Just a quick note to say I haven't dropped this on the floor. Plea

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/systemtuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-04-10 Thread Eric Lowe
Hi, Roland Mainz wrote: serious cycles on this though we'd like to, and the folks who were in involved in 64K simply don't have any interest in working on this in the open. Why ? What do they fear ? Being swamped&overburned with too many emails or what ? This is a community -- it's up to the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/systemtuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-04-10 Thread Casper . Dik
>The filesystems appear to be prepared to handle multiple pages per block >but not multiple blocks per page. Hence no 4K blocksize on UltraSPARC. (But even 4K pages with 8K blocks didn't work right on x86, at least) Casper ___ opensolaris-discuss mai

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/systemtuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-04-10 Thread Dennis Clarke
> >>The filesystems appear to be prepared to handle multiple pages per block >>but not multiple blocks per page. > > Hence no 4K blocksize on UltraSPARC. > > (But even 4K pages with 8K blocks didn't work right on x86, at least) > maybe it is time to update the newfs manpage. For Solaris 10 at le

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/systemtuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-04-10 Thread Casper . Dik
> >> >>>The filesystems appear to be prepared to handle multiple pages per block >>>but not multiple blocks per page. >> >> Hence no 4K blocksize on UltraSPARC. >> >> (But even 4K pages with 8K blocks didn't work right on x86, at least) >> > >maybe it is time to update the newfs manpage. For Sola

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/systemtuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-04-10 Thread Dennis Clarke
The filesystems appear to be prepared to handle multiple pages per block but not multiple blocks per page. >>> >>> Hence no 4K blocksize on UltraSPARC. >>> >>> (But even 4K pages with 8K blocks didn't work right on x86, at least) >>> >> >>maybe it is time to update the newfs manpage. For

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/systemtuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-04-10 Thread Daniel Rock
Dennis Clarke schrieb: In what sense? It already says "the sun4u architecture doesn't support the 4K blocksize". It simply seems odd to refer to the 4K page size for the non-sun4u hardware when Solaris 10 does not support sun4m or sun4d etc etc. Simply leave the manpage with an 8K page size

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: RFE: /etc/systemtuneabletosetthedefaultpagesize

2006-04-17 Thread Holger Berger
On 4/1/06, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > because it implicitly assumes that their > > approach was the best approach to solving the problem or was even tractable. > > Ok... I'll try to sync with Holger berger then how to proceed... Feel free to write the project proposal. I will seco