Kernel
Dillon to improve DragonFly's build architecture
Matt Dillon always do things which are amazing and earning our respect!! Today he announced a major change in DragonFly’s build architecture, while this will likely to cause some temporary quakes, we believe that the migration will be finished soon and we will have a much better (say, cleaner than FreeBSD’s approach) DragonFly buildworld path!
阅读全文…Robert Watson to merge Networking Locking patches from p4
Robert today has sent a headsup to current@, claiming that he will merge his changes on p4 to cvs soon.
阅读全文…FreeBSD: amd64 -O2 clean!!
David O’Brien has announced the -O2 clean for AMD64 platform. Meanwhile, it seems that alpha has a -O2 clean build now!
参与评论gcc 3.4 listed in FreeBSD 5.3-R todo list
It’s our pleasure to see GCC 3.4 import to be listed in FreeBSD 5.3-R todo list. Unfortunatelly, gmake is now a required prerequisite when building GCC 3.4, this may slow down the import progress.
阅读全文…Massive ICC commit to FreeBSD -HEAD
Today Tom Rhodes (trhodes@) has committed a massive patch against FreeBSD-HEAD, allowing Intel C/C++ Compiler to build kernel. This change should not change the current gcc based build infrasture.
阅读全文…dillon resumes to work!
He is again committing numerous CAPS IPC work. Well, again, is it really 锁骨?
At the same time, Hiten Pandya has done website work. This also inspired me to improve the bachelor’s research site and Candice has reported that the problem has gone.
参与评论sysctl spining fixed
Don Lewis (truckman@) has committed a fix for the sysctl spinning problem I mentioned here some days before. Currently, beastie.frontfree.net is running a workaround which made it possible to skip the deadlock, however, will not guarantee the correct result.
阅读全文…Windows memory dump options
From Microsoft’s KB:
阅读全文…You can configure Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 to write debugging information to three different file formats (also known as memory dump files) when your computer stops unexpectedly as a result of a Stop error (also known as a “blue screen”, system crash, or bug check). You can also configure Windows not to write debugging information to a memory dump file. Windows can generate any one of the following three memory dump file types:
Complete memory dumpKernel memory dumpSmall memory dump (64 KB)
FreeBSD 5-CURRENT bug?
Several servers I manage running FreeBSD 5-CURRENT as of 20040228 appears to bearing wierd deadlocks, which could be triggered by ps(1), top(1) and w(1).
阅读全文…minidump for FreeBSD?
junsu and I have discussed about some big hacks to FreeBSD kernel, and the implementation of a minidump is a good idea, I think.
On Windows there’s a minidump mechanism. The minidump will save ‘crashing’ pages only, while full dump will save the whole core memory when the system going to crash.
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