Re: Fwd: How do I instal Dragonfly BSD from a hard drive - rather than CD?

2005-12-18 Thread Hiten Pandya
? It's very possible in other words with various choices. Kind regards, Hiten Pandya hmp at dragonflybsd.org

Re: Fwd: How do I instal Dragonfly BSD from a hard drive - rather than CD?

2005-12-16 Thread Hiten Pandya
such an application a priority. It's in my horizon of things to do when I get free time. Anyway, the guy who is flaming us is not really articulate otherwise he might just be heard by the right people. :) Kind regards, Hiten Pandya hmp at dragonflybsd.org

Re: show individual cpu usage?

2005-12-16 Thread Hiten Pandya
know if you remember, we wrote a program to retrieve the CPU usage statistics and I wrote the kernel support for it quite a while ago including the sysctls. Hold on for few days, I will send you the program. It's not committed because it wasn't ready to be integrated into top(1). Regards, Hiten

Re: D-BUS, anyone?

2005-12-05 Thread Hiten Pandya
to mounting devices automatically etc. We have not written something like DEVFS just yet because thoughts are still being poured into the process and procedures. It would take time, so many requests, such less time. :-) -- Hiten Pandya hmp at dragonflybsd.org

Re: D-BUS, anyone?

2005-12-05 Thread Hiten Pandya
devices is synchronous, in order to give people the ability to unplug devices quickly without loss of work. This behaviour is changeable from the device manager if I recall correctly. Kind regards, -- Hiten Pandya hmp at dragonflybsd.org

Re: Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle *groan*

2005-12-02 Thread Hiten Pandya
. Another thing that we can offer is a boot menu option that would cut shortcuts exactly like these across various subsystems where applicable for people who do not have delicate hardware. Regards, -- Hiten Pandya hmp at dragonflybsd.org

Re: DP performance

2005-12-02 Thread Hiten Pandya
on PCI-X or not, and whether our effort with DragonFly is just plain useless; but there is absolutely no need for animosity on the lists. Should you wish to continue debating performance issues then do so with a civil manner. Kind regards, -- Hiten Pandya hmp at dragonflybsd.org Danial Thom

Re: DP performance

2005-12-02 Thread Hiten Pandya
Matt is right, or people who agree with his viewpoints, then do provide some numbers and we will take it from there. Kind Regards, -- Hiten Pandya hmp at dragonflybsd.org Danial Thom wrote: I, on the other hand, have made millions of $$ designing and selling network equipment based on unix-like

Re: DP performance

2005-12-01 Thread Hiten Pandya
of CPUs would be much better way to get there since it would go well with our cpu-locality concept, starting from the interrupt and right all the way up to a process. ithread_irq11 - netisr_cpu1 - tcpthread_cpu1 - process on cpu1 -- Hiten Pandya hmp at dragonflybsd.org

Re: DP performance

2005-11-29 Thread Hiten Pandya
would work or not with a few modifications here and there. The recent untangling of the interrupt code should make it simpler for others to dig into adding interrupt affinity support. -- Hiten Pandya hmp at dragonflybsd.org

Re: 3ware seems to be dropping support for FreeBSD 4.x?

2005-10-09 Thread Hiten Pandya
and someone like DR can convince that there are enough DF-based boxes in production which use 3ware products. Regards, Hiten Pandya hmp at dragonflybsd.org

Re: 3ware seems to be dropping support for FreeBSD 4.x?

2005-10-09 Thread Hiten Pandya
Tomaž Borštnar wrote: Hiten Pandya wrote: I don't know what mileage you will get here, unless you and someone like DR can convince that there are enough DF-based boxes in production which use 3ware products. Either support DFLy directly or keep FreeBSD4 support. I think later is easier

Re: Samba 3.0.14a and 3.0.20 coredump

2005-09-21 Thread Hiten Pandya
Dave Hayes wrote: Trying to get samba running on Preview-1.3.6: smbd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense [2005/09/21 18:37:11, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(36) Heh. It's quite obvious that the person who came up with the warning message for free() never indulged with

Re: pkgsrc binaries for Preview

2005-09-16 Thread Hiten Pandya
that extra mile to stablize some parts of the OS. It would be highly appreciated if you could achieve the above, atleast by Matt, and I for sure. Hiten Pandya [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pkgsrc binaries for Preview

2005-09-16 Thread Hiten Pandya
bugs have told me that we need go :that extra mile to stablize some parts of the OS. : :It would be highly appreciated if you could achieve the above, atleast by :Matt, and I for sure. : : Hiten Pandya : [EMAIL PROTECTED] buildworld loops

Re: Pkgsrc support.

2005-09-04 Thread Hiten Pandya
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Sun, September 4, 2005 12:22 am, Carl A. Schmidt said: I've noticed the quietness. I've been subscribed for a couple months now and have seen maybe a couple of things come through. Shall I submit documentation issues/corrections there instead of [EMAIL

Re: UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-03 Thread Hiten Pandya
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:46:57AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: As far as recovery after a crash is involved, clearly nothing beats journalling, and i have to say that performancewise, i have the impression that Linux journalled filesystems do *very* well compared to

Re: UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-02 Thread Hiten Pandya
Dave Hayes wrote: For reference, I'm using: # uname -sv DragonFly DragonFly 1.3-Preview #0: Fri Jul 8 14:09:49 CEST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC I have created a vinum partition that is 1.12 terabytes. As some of you may expect, /sbin/newfs is not happy with this

Re: ifconfig(8) syntax intuitiveness

2005-08-24 Thread Hiten Pandya
Max Okumoto wrote: Has anyone looked at the recent work on ifconfig that Sam Leffler is doing? I thought he was cleaning up alot of the code in there. Max Okumoto The ifconfig in FreeBSD is certainly nice, especially its command parser which I am quite fond of. I am thinking

Re: ifconfig(8) syntax intuitiveness

2005-08-24 Thread Hiten Pandya
reason that you outline. It is vital that Jeff finishes his work on parallel routing without any hiccups before I start medeling in that part of the kernel. Hiten Pandya [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compatability with FreeBSD Ports [debian package tools]

2005-08-17 Thread Hiten Pandya
or KDE locally, total waste of time. Extremely important to get binary package management right, including dependency handling, (automatic) updating. Hiten Pandya [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debugging pkgsrc on DragonFly

2005-08-14 Thread Hiten Pandya
walt wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 06:49:14AM -0700, walt wrote: I've been using pkgsrc on DF for several months, but this is the first time I've seen this kind of error, and I'm baffled. You are missing the bmake bugfix. Check

Re: Compatability with FreeBSD Ports

2005-08-12 Thread Hiten Pandya
layer on top. Thanks, Hiten Pandya [EMAIL PROTECTED]