Re: make -jn not necessarily helpful

2006-03-14 Thread Richard Nyberg
At Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:52:21 -0500 (EST), Justin C. Sherrill wrote: Out of curiousity, I thought I'd try running make buildworld with the -j option in a few different configurations to see what difference it made. I know it's supposed to speed up the process by a certain amount because of

Re: Assembly in DragonFly

2006-03-14 Thread Emiel Kollof
Op dinsdag 14 maart 2006 08:17, schreef Karthik Subramanian: Hi Folks, After installing DragonFly on a spare box at work, I was trying out asimple Hello World in assembly, and found that one needed to do alittle more than as -o hello.o hello.s; ld -o hello hello.o to getit to work; here's

Re: Assembly in DragonFly

2006-03-14 Thread joerg
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 12:47:56PM +0530, Karthik Subramanian wrote: 2. Ran as -o hello.o hello.s; ld -o hello hello.o; ./hello, and sawthis on the console: ELF binary type 0 not known.Abort trap Sure. DragonFly uses the ELF ABI note as you found out later to decide which kernel ABI to use.

Desktopcluster

2006-03-14 Thread Christian 'reezer' Sturm
I hope this won't be counted as advertisement, but these system looks very interesting: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30258 http://www.tyan.com/products/html/clusterservers.html -- reezer Sorry for bad English :-(

Re: make -jn not necessarily helpful

2006-03-14 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, March 13, 2006 8:52 pm, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: Out of curiousity, I thought I'd try running make buildworld with the -j option in a few different configurations to see what difference it made. I know it's supposed to speed up the process by a certain amount because of the parallel

Re: Desktopcluster

2006-03-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :I hope this won't be counted as advertisement, but these system looks :very interesting: :http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30258 :http://www.tyan.com/products/html/clusterservers.html : :-- :reezer :Sorry for bad English :-( Those are just big MP boxes with lots of cpus. That's not

Re: Desktopcluster

2006-03-14 Thread Jason Watson
On Mar 14, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Matthew Dillon wrote: : :I hope this won't be counted as advertisement, but these system looks :very interesting: :http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30258 :http://www.tyan.com/products/html/clusterservers.html : :-- :reezer :Sorry for bad English :-( Those

Re: make -jn not necessarily helpful

2006-03-14 Thread Joseph Garcia
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: Out of curiousity, I thought I'd try running make buildworld with the -j option in a few different configurations to see what difference it made. I know it's supposed to speed up the process by a certain amount because of the parallel processing, but there's no direct

Re: Desktopcluster

2006-03-14 Thread Sascha Wildner
Matthew Dillon wrote: Yah. Blades with MP cpus or multi-core capable cpus on them. Just a blade server, then. The difference between blade based clustering and the type of clustering that we want to do is that we want to be able to cluster efficiently over a LAN or WAN (i.e.

Re: Desktopcluster

2006-03-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hmm, : :from time to time I try to imagine how it would be when DragonFly's :clustering became reality. : :Is the goal to be able to just stick in a new DragonFly box and then the :power of the cluster machine increases? I mean, I wonder if there :would be any configuration requirements for

Re: Desktopcluster

2006-03-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Clustering over LAN or WAN is good, but aren't high speed links 'icing :on the cake'? It's possible to be able to do either/or isn't it? : :Joey Algorithms designed to operate over a WAN will work just as well over a high speed link. But algorithms that are designed to work on high