Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On the discussion of large SSD caches, Anyone seen these : : :http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=18120%20600038493&IsNodeId=1&name=1TB : :-DR I'm a bit leery of PCIe based SSDs. They have a ton of bandwidth but they are also going to be driver-dependent and

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-22 Thread David Rhodus
On the discussion of large SSD caches, Anyone seen these : http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=18120%20600038493&IsNodeId=1&name=1TB -DR

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
:That explains the noticable performance difference just logging in... I :always just thought avalon was getting used for something else I didn't :know about... Yah, the bulk build runs Avalon out of memory faster than it can swap pages out because the bulk build is also loading the disk

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-21 Thread Przemysław Pawełczyk
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Matthew Dillon wrote: > I think our ability to advertise our features has been a bit > lacking. We're programmers more than we are salesman. > > [cut] -Matt > Matthew Dillon

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-21 Thread Przemysław Pawełczyk
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:21:19 -0600 "Samuel J. Greear" wrote: > (...) > I will try to answer here and now. > > The purpose of my question(s) is because I believe DragonFly BSD is > not adequately represented in the easily accessible (main page and > pages directly linked from it) literature on o

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-21 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Mon, September 20, 2010 10:15 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: > TMPFS becomes more viable with swapcache too. We have two bulk > pkgsrc building boxes. More than two even, but two that I regularly > use. One has a swapcache SSD (Pkgbox64) and one does not (Avalon). > There is a gul

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-20 Thread Jan Lentfer
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:49:11 +0200, Przemysław Pawełczyk wrote: [...] > BTW. I looked over packages. It seems to me the applications are not > "fresh". Wait a minute - I think that OpenBSD is more up-to-date > concerning the packages. [...] We use pkgsrc for packages, so we depend on what is in

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
I think our ability to advertise our features has been a bit lacking. We're programmers more than we are salesman. Take device serial numbers in devfs for example. A simple feature that gives one a guaranteed device path to access a physical hard drive, no matter where it was

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-20 Thread Stathis Kamperis
2010/9/21 Przemysław Pawełczyk : [...] > A lot of people ask about and got excited on the three characters ZFS. > > Do you see any real advantage and applications for HAMMER for such > home configurations? With emphasis on snapshots being stored on second > disks? 1. HAMMER is much more lightweight

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-20 Thread Przemysław Pawełczyk
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:21:19 -0600 "Samuel J. Greear" wrote: > 2010/9/20 Przemysław Pawełczyk : > > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:33:28 -0600 > > "Samuel J. Greear" wrote: > > > >> This mail is intended for the infrequent responders and lurkers on > >> the list just as much as the regular posters. > >>

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-20 Thread Samuel J. Greear
2010/9/20 Przemysław Pawełczyk : > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:33:28 -0600 > "Samuel J. Greear" wrote: > >> This mail is intended for the infrequent responders and lurkers on the >> list just as much as the regular posters. >> >> What has drawn you to use the DragonFly BSD operating system and/or >> pa