From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 30 08:49:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B590C16A4CE for ; Sun, 30 May 2004 08:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web21322.mail.yahoo.com (web21322.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 940AA43D1D for ; Sun, 30 May 2004 08:49:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brueggma@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040530154955.97006.qmail@web21322.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.15.98.46] by web21322.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 30 May 2004 08:49:55 PDT Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 08:49:55 -0700 (PDT) From: asfdqwer xzcvdsf To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 31 May 2004 05:08:50 -0700 Subject: misc questions / comments / rambelings X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 15:49:55 -0000 Greetings.. I just moved from 5.2.1 to current and had a few comments. Upgrading from 5.2.1 which first required me to upgrade config, which required me to upgrade flex. None of these are documented in UPGRADING Now that I'm running current is there anything special I have to change in make.conf? Should I still have to define "WITH_THREADS" and "WITH_LIBMAP" or do the ports autorecognize the kse --> pthreads change? I hope I'm not making a fool of myself with the wording, I know what threads are but not how they are implimented in FBSD. When I compile things I always see "THREAD_SAFE" flag added to the building of lots of ports.. For example when I compile apache I see a freebsd thread hack flag added, is this still necissary? I've also had a few problems with a mammoth drive my box. When ever I tried to restore a large tar to disk the machine would crash hard. This was when I was running 5.2.1, I haven't tried current yet. Now that I have current running I've noticed that the OS is using much more memory, it seemed like there was always 1700Mb free now its always around 700Mb. I'm guessing here but the machine seems to be caching more aggresivly, which I think is good, right? Thank you for a great OS, Eric P.S. Where can I find some good howto's on MAC? Will it be ready for primetime When 5.3 comes out? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/