*Nix and Win32 Kernel

FreeBSD 4.x VM subsystem still has bug after patch

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I have ported Matt’s patch to 4-STABLE however Matthew Seaman reports that there is still panic, while different, after the patch and I believe I should port Matt’s VM post-morti diagnostic tools to HEAD.

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Finally got GNOME running at full speed

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I have been suffered by the speed of GNOME because it usually gets “jitter”.

It seems that marcus@ have the same problem. I have tried HZ=100 but it seems that nothing was changed. Then I have disabled ACPI and it seems the issue was worked around.

What happend in ACPI, so? Still under investigate.

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Matt's DragonFly VM fix

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Matt has committed a critical VM fix and kindly reminded that FreeBSD has also the issue. I have ported the patch here and requested a review by Dr. Alan Cox. I’d like to commit it at once it is approved.

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NetBSD and FreeBSD's busdma(9) differences

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It seems that FreeBSD and NetBSD have a lot of difference on busdma interfaces and this has blocked me from porting OpenBSD’s firmware upload support on mpt(4). Will have another attempt this weekend.

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FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE named, final release coming!

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Today Scott Long has named FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, this is a significant step toward final 5.3-RELEASE.

Please note that before the team has a PGP signed 5.3-RELEASE announcement, don’t download the ISOs even they have appeared on any site. We may still do changes after the naming.

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ReiserFS3.6 has been ported to FreeBSD!

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Jean-Sébastien Pédron [jspedron club-internet.fr] has announced that he has ported ReiserFS 3.6 (from kernel 2.6.7) to FreeBSD (with only Read-Only support this time).

Scott Long suggests to import these to base because 6-CURRENT will have a focus on the file system. I suggested that we have a directory under somewhere in the src/ tree to keep these Linux bits so we can backport their fixes more easily and it should be better for us to rip these things out when we have re-written something from scratch.

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5.3-RC (RELENG_5_3) branched!

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Scott Long has branched RELENG_5_3 (also RELENG_5_3_BP tag) and 5.3-RC1 is coming REALLY SOON.

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My suggested MFC list for 5.3-RELEASE

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It’s available here, in my home directory at freefall: http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/mfc.xml.

Please note that this is an (incomplete) MFC list for sys/ only! I baked it up manually so I don’t guarantee thet there is no mistakes, but I really tried my best to prevent so.

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How to optimize your FS?

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It turns out that we have to optimize our FS before benchmarking. I have read some articles and maillist archives so I got some impression:

  1. Give correct parameters to newfs(1)
    avgfilesize, filesperdir, will control DIRPERF hashing.

  2. Turn on noatime mounts.

  3. etc.

Just make a note.

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delphijfork 20040927 released

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As always, it’s available at ftp.freebsdchina.org/china_ports/delphijfork.

I have adopted all RELENG_5 features here, bind9, etc. Also the delphijfork features are retained.

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