From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 17 12:10: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80F414CEF for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:09:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA01500; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:09:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA52790; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:09:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3987.937584158@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:09:50 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: An FS question perhaps... non blocking I/O. Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>Somehow the thought of a 63,000-element pollfd array leaves me cold. > > Sounds like something Bruce would do :-) It could be worse. Satoshi, for example, would say something like: There are now 63000 files and directories in the repository. That's 2**3 * 3**2 * 5**3 * 7. If we concatenate the exponents, we get 3231, which is 3**2 * 359. Repeating, we get 21, which is 3 * 7. One more repetition and we get 11, which is itself a prime, as is 37. Isn't that amazing? ;-) John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message