From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 17 9:45:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E50E237B479 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:45:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA00604 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:45:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAHHjiG24116 for arch@freebsd.org; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:45:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:45:43 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: potentially simpler approach than scheduler activations. Message-ID: <20001117094543.A76006@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@freebsd.org References: <20001116140506.Q830@fw.wintelcom.net> <14868.39578.928654.157924@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14868.39578.928654.157924@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 08:41:33AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I know that by applying these band-aids we aren't completely > > solving every problem and as new interfaces pop-up we might > > have to apply more band-aids to libc_r, but I think this > > might get us past the point of system that breaks down on > > disk IO. > > This sounds like a really good idea to me, as long as it is qualified > as an interum solution until KSE is ready and not a competitor to it. Also KSE's will never be back ported to RELENG_4. Maybe some of these ideas can be. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message