HAMMER2 update
Matthew Dillon has written up another update on his progress with HAMMER2. (I need to be consistent in how I write that.) He has disks being exported and mounted on other systems, and adds an explanation of some of the issues around creating reliable multi-master setups. Before you get too excited, no, multi-master isn’t working yet, [...]
Another set of benchmarks
There’s more benchmarks for DragonFly vs. other systems on Phoronix. It has the same problem as previous benchmarks; some of the benchmarks may have no connection to reality (what does the “Himeno Poisson Pressure Solver” actually test?), and almost every system has a different version of the gcc compiler. So it’s me [...]
machdep.pmap_mmu_optimize turned off
Matthew Dillon turned off the machdep.pmap_mmu_optimize sysctl by default, since wider testing has found some bugs. It’s only on by default on DragonFly 3.3 systems, so there’s nothing to do if you’re on 3.2-release. The feature will come back after some bugfixing.
Slightly less memory usage
There’s been a few changes to reduce memory usage; this may not affect you unless you have an extremely busy machine, but it won’t hurt.
Faces of FreeBSD – Alberto Mija...
Faces of FreeBSD
Faces of FreeBSD ‐ Alberto Mijares
Are you aware of the tangible benefits derived from our support of the FreeBSD community? In conjunction with our year-end fundraising drive we are going to be spotlighting different people on our website, blog, and Facebook page who have received funding to work on development projects, run conferences, travel to conferences, and advocate fo [...]
Lazy Reading for 2012/12/09
This is a mini-theme Lazy Reading, where I find small groups of related things.
Exploratory data analysis with Unix tools. The command line is a far better place to mangle data than you’d expect. Well, maybe not your expectations, given that you’re reading this site.
“The UNIX System: Making Computers More Productive̶ [...]
ISO639 update, of all things
I knew about files like /etc/services, for common IP port usages, and /usr/share/zoneinfo, for time zones, but I didn’t know that DragonFly (along with other systems) keeps a list of agreed names for various human languages defined by ISO639 in /share/misc/iso639, and it’s maintained at least in part by the Library of Congress. A [...]
gnats, mail-index outage
The machine normally running www.NetBSD.org and also gnats and mail-index.NetBSD.org had a hardware problem.
It is now working again on a new chassis.
gnats, mail-index outage
The machine normally running www.NetBSD.org and also gnats and mail-index.NetBSD.org had a hardware problem.
It is now working again on a new chassis.
MySQL Server: Bind To Multiple IP Add...
I have MySQL database system running on FreeBSD. The server has multiple ip address. The mysqld used by many websites hosted on two other CentOS based servers. I would like to bind MySQL sever running on Unix / Linux server to more than one IP address such as 202.54.1.2, 202.54.1.10, and 202.54.1.15. How can I bind mysqld to multiple ips? (Re [...]
Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition preorde...
Michael W. Lucas has a coupon code for his new edition of Absolute OpenBSD, so jump on it now. I haven’t read his first edition, but his other books are certainly good.
FreeBSD Foundation Funding
It’s the end of the year, so it’s time for the FreeBSD Foundation’s end of year campaign.
Foundation at LISA
There will be a FreeBSD booth in the exhibition area of LISA, to be held at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina in San Diego, CA. Exhibition hours are Wednesday, December 12 from 12:00–19:00 p.m and Thursday, December 13 from 9:30–14:00. Registration is required for this event, but is free for the exhibition area.In addition to accepti [...]
Year-End Fundraising Campaign
Dear FreeBSD Community,Your donations have helped make FreeBSD the best OS available! By investing in The FreeBSD Foundation you have helped us keep FreeBSD a high-performance, secure, and stable operating system.Thanks to people like you, the FreeBSD Foundation has been proudly supporting the FreeBSD Project and community for 12 years n [...]
FreeBSD Project Website is Using Goog...
The FreeBSD Project has enabled Google Analytics to collect anonymised statistics on web site use. More information can be found in the official announcement.
FreeBSD Year-End Fundraising Campaign
Your donations have helped make FreeBSD the best OS available! By investing in The FreeBSD Foundation you have helped us keep FreeBSD a high-performance, secure, and stable operating system.
Still using ISA cards? A few more dr...
The stl(4), bt(4), aic(4), and cy(4) drivers are now PCI-only, which means no COMPAT_OLDISA kernel option, and a time to upgrade your hardware if you’re actually using these devices. Does anyone even still have ISA slots?
Linux / Unix: Unicode and HTML Charac...
I need to replace special characters with equivalent hexadecimal unicode under Linux or Unix like operating system. How do I list or find out unicodes for given characters?Read answer to: \"Linux / Unix: Unicode and HTML Characters Lookup By Name or Number\"
pkgsrc-current and gcc 4.7.2
If you’ve ever wondered how building all of pkgsrc would go with GCC 4.7.2, which is in DragonFly but not the default compiler, John Marino can show you just that. He has a list of the results from a bulk build of all packages on DragonFly with GCC 4.7.2.
