From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 22 20:24:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA13918 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:24:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13901; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:23:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA01043; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 22:22:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199808230322.WAA01043@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: softupdates and smp crash In-Reply-To: <199808221720.MAA02475@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Aug 22, 98 12:20:27 pm" To: dyson@iquest.net Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 22:22:58 -0500 (EST) Cc: julian@whistle.com, dyson@iquest.net, tlambert@primenet.com, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de, regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John S. Dyson said: > completely in another forum. However, when I can help (without totally > distracting me in my new work), I will (and do.) > > FreeBSD's success is still important to me, so using me as a resource > when I can help effectively is okay. My current schedule is quite full, > but use me when you need to. > Following up on my posting: I am porting my (SMP) patches to -current for my own use. I have found a few bugs and incompatibilites, bug will make the patches available. (I want to upgrade to a more current -current for stability and feature reasons, but don't want to loose any of the performance features that I have been using.) I will be leaving out the improved vnode dirty buffer queuing (which improves sync times, with non-softupdate filesystems.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message