From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 17 19:41:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F05837B479; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 19:41:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eAI3fG972937; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:11:16 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:11:16 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "David O'Brien" Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: potentially simpler approach than scheduler activations. Message-ID: <20001118141116.E70679@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20001116140506.Q830@fw.wintelcom.net> <14868.39578.928654.157924@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20001117094543.A76006@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001117094543.A76006@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:45:43AM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 17 November 2000 at 9:45:43 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: >>> 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. I see this as diluting the effort. Once we have a bandaid, we'll be less concerned about doing the right thing. And deliberately introducing different semantics in RELENG_4 seems not to be the Right Thing To Do. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message