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 swampedoverburned with too many emails or what ? This is a community -- it's up to

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

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 least. --

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 Solaris 10 at least.

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 least. In

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

2006-03-31 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. Please give me