From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 19 15:58:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-206-88-224.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.88.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 490D537B7BC for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:58:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA10008; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:03:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200006192303.QAA10008@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kblob discussion. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:54:08 PDT." <20000619155408.E17420@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:03:19 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > * John-Mark Gurney [000619 15:36] wrote: > > Alfred Perlstein scribbled this message on Jun 19: > > > * Jordan K. Hubbard [000619 15:10] wrote: > > > > > It doesn't bother you at all that cdrom.com can push 100mbit > > > > > and support 6000 users on FreeBSD but Joe Average FreeBSD User > > > > > can't because the hacks used aren't available? > > > > > > > > Huh? What makes you think that cdrom.com uses "special hacks" to get > > > > its performance? Have you actually talked to David Greenman about > > > > this lately? ... > And what part of: > > "Booting on machines with exactly 4GB requires other patches, not included" > > didn't you understand? > Actually, it doesn't anymore, now that we correctly probe memory. The "special hacks" that wcarchive relies on are sendfile (yes, a very special hack) and dg-ftpd. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message