Kernel
PID allocator bench marked
das@ [David Schultz] has done some benchmark of the different PID allocators recently being discussed on hackers@, and the result is available here.
阅读全文…Planning a personalized release of FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT
As the FreeBSD 5.2.1 approaching its release day, I begun to think about the possiblity of having a personal customized release.
It’s not too hard for me, and also valuable because the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has restricted the changes in a point release to be mainly “critical bugfixes only”.
阅读全文…init(8) in jails?
Dag-Erling Smørgrav has posted a discussion on FreeBSD-arch (I have to use a outside link instead of FreeBSD’s own mailing list archive, because it didn’t updated from 2004-01-26 for unknown reason), accroding to this post, we see a need of running init(8) in jails, which allows us to terminate a jail cleanly.
阅读全文…Yay!! KSE is now default threading library on FreeBSD-CURRENT
Daniel Eischen today committed a new patch and this will make KSE default threading library on FreeBSD!
阅读全文…junsu's new PID allocation code
I have installed these code on my test box. Well… an automated patch mechanism would be better but the current approach is just ok.
阅读全文…phk's benchmarking hints
It’s important to have a scientific view when doing any benchmarks. Today, phk and Robert Watson has posted several hints to the -current list.
阅读全文…New FreeBSD boot floppy stuff using splitfs committed
John Baldwin has committed a set of patches to Floppy disk generation and removed some legacy generation scripts. The new generation process makes use of splitfs, and there’s a drawback - All pieces of the splitted filesystem must be available when the fs is used.
参与评论Point release for FreeBSD 5.2?
It’s apparantly that 5.2-RELEASE need some real fixes from -HEAD. Today, several commits took place in FreeBSD’s RELENG_5_2, and Bruce A. Mah has announced a new doc/ slush plan.
阅读全文…ULE Scheduler made default for FreeBSD 5-CURRENT
As planned, Jeff Roberson has made ULE scheduler the default for FreeBSD’s CVS -HEAD. This is an important step going forward to 5-STABLE.
阅读全文…Inside Linux Kernel Debugger
junsu has pointed a cool article to me. This article described a Linux kernel debugger, KDB, which seems to be useful even for reference on other kernel debugging issues.
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