From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 2 16:25:59 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAE8E16A41B for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:25:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from netslists@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C4DD13C45D for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:25:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from netslists@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so411356wxd for ; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:25:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=P/Y61f18y3ypjUe+aitXiBlcbMOsvmHxc3avyehF828Mxy8bhi2gxhpqGuR3XRCMyuDzDZK9X3x4BjPXtyVBYjvYAtxDgIbZSq7Q39eaddL8BVpZH7Yg7+qi3UvQsIK59Ci2dQX7YoetnG8ADHLBgY5vw/smKOhMxRuLQJh8jws= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bm5iMkdG969m2hNZutNXmBGVuCpK5S7RlAXWLX5/koqU/TZ8KPI7fiP1DuiFToiX+32+qHLh1rDIcZzd8FNY4EFGpJ94ezh45jESTP97M1a2+nsX35Wm4zKG3LlO4hbHHn+CBdgIHMrIqYpvMO5tv19Ai1SPuiR3ePmPRiZHrLQ= Received: by 10.90.25.3 with SMTP id 3mr2056626agy.1186070275177; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:57:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.12.8? ( [72.189.172.75]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u25sm2136404ele.2007.08.02.08.57.54 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:57:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46B1FEF0.5050501@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:57:36 -0400 From: Sten Daniel Soersdal User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Hilton References: <46AF827C.2040409@gmail.com> <46B0E865.6060800@vindaloo.com> In-Reply-To: <46B0E865.6060800@vindaloo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TMPFS, is it available on FreeBSD 6 or 7? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:25:59 -0000 Christopher Hilton wrote: > Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote: >> Is TMPFS available on FreeBSD 6 or 7? >> Or do i have to settle for mfs? >> >> [venting frustration] >> The reason i ask is i need something very flexible when it comes to >> memory usage as a poor-mans shared-memory feature for a closed source >> data conversion app, used only occasionally but with *alot* of data >> passing through. By alot i mean it took our quad core xeon 3 ghz with >> 4 gbyte memory and 4 SAS drives in 1+0 RAID, about a day and a half to >> process (on disk). >> Simple tests (by others) using netbsd on a single cpu 3 ghz and tmpfs, >> it took roughly 70 minutes. Most of which was spent loading and >> unloading the data over the network. >> I'd really like that memory back after use for other things as this >> server is also serving databases with files etc. >> >> > > I love FreeBSD enough to have run my personal webserver on > FreeBSD-Sparc64 but I don't understand here. If NetBSD does the work in > 70 minutes why not do it on NetBSD? > > -- Chris > > Curiosity got the best of you, huh? :) I believe the environment could go without the damage this additional computer would do, in electricity alone, not to mention all the heavy metals in the computer. I believe it wouldn't be progress to make the 4x core machine to run an operating system that, i believe, can't efficiently utilize the hardware ( ( heavy metals + electricity ) / utilization ). -- Sten Daniel Soersdal