From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 19 16:45:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7570237B65A for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:45:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA19147; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:36:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006192336.QAA19147@implode.root.com> To: John-Mark Gurney Cc: Alfred Perlstein , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kblob discussion. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:36:34 PDT." <20000619153634.24385@hydrogen.funkthat.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:36:25 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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? >> >> I'm quite sure cdrom.com has at least a kernel address space hack. > >didn't dg already commit these fixes to the source tree: >dg 1999/03/11 10:28:47 PST > > Modified files: > sys/i386/conf Makefile.i386 kernel.script > sys/i386/include pmap.h > Log: > Increased kernel virtual address space to 1GB. NOTE: You MUST have fixed Wcarchive needs even more than that, however. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Manufacturer of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message