FreeBSD

The FreeBSD 5-SELECT cvs repository, my selected FreeBSD 5.x collection is available by HTTP browse here:

http://bsd.delphij.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/

A commit mail archive is available here:

http://lists.delphij.net/mailman/listinfo/delphijbsd

wilko announced this today, but the reason is unknown.

I have sent a headsup to bugs list of DragonflyBSD, which mentions the recent bugfixes on FreeBSD-CURRENT committed by Dr. Alan Cox.

The current FreeBSD Soft Updates poses to a performance peanlity when there’re plenty of i-nodes and this is very common case in badly-designed systems, however, I think this should be solved.

The migration apparantly gots its result, 30 times of increase here. No old hardware any more!!

I don’t want to do this, but I can not bear beastie.frontfree.net any more. It continously generates troubles for me, and in addition, the configuration is too poor for me, not only compared to the other servers I moderate, but also to the modern computers.

I hate them, really, really hate them, they are abusing the machine and I have to spend much time on dealing with the mess they generated.

I have just tried to umount /usr on my test box in order to get all outstanding writes to be sync’ed to disk (as Kirk McKusick said, the umount system call will do true sync of a file system).

With help from clement@, I have finally addressed the problem I am encounting was caused by a mix of libkse(libpthread) and its older version.

das@ [David Schultz] has done some benchmark of the different PID allocators recently being discussed on hackers@, and the result is available here.