Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:14:46 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@iol.ie> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> Subject: Re: Building new kernel fails? Message-ID: <v04205511b402dfe4ae85@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990913161602.steveo@iol.ie> References: <XFMail.990913161602.steveo@iol.ie>
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At 4:16 PM +0100 1999/9/13, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > You misunderstand slightly. What it does is install the default > configuration (from /usr/src) in a safe place and then compares it with > your installed configuration. For each file you get the options you > describe: I have since run mergemaster, and most of the changes were just the expected "$FreeBSD" tags, etc.... There were a very few things that had "real" changes to them, and I was able to use the built-in "merge" method to deal with them and selected either the RHS or LHS as appropriate. I think I should be pretty much completely up-to-date as of the version of 3.3RC that I cvsup'ed last night. I'm now starting my configuration and usage of vinum, and stress-testing of the logical volumes with Greg's rawio plus my own "driver" script that calls rawio with a couple of nested loops varying things like number of simultaneous processes and average transfer sizes, etc.... I may combine this with other tests such as bonnie, etc... once I get an OS installed on the volumes. Of course, when I'm done with this process I'll contribute the test results back to Greg, and if there's enough interest I may post a web page somewhere that summarizes all the testing I've done (including previous tests with a Pentium III @ 450Mhz w/ 1MB L2 cache, and four IBM UltraStar 9LZX drives in various mirrored/striped/mirrored+striped/RAID-5 configurations under vinum, as well as comparable configurations with a DPT SmartRAID IV controller with 64MB of on-board cache). Thanks everyone for all your help! I think I'm beginning to maybe understand some of this stuff a little bit better.... Perhaps after I've gotten more experience, I'll be able to make actual useful contributions, etc.... -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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