Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 08:22:16 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New timeout capability (was Re: cvs commit:....) Message-ID: <2493.874995736@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Sep 1997 16:19:00 %2B1000." <199709230619.QAA20746@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au>
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In message <199709230619.QAA20746@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au>, Stephen McKay writes: >On Monday, 22nd September 1997, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >>In message <199709221910.NAA02147@rocky.mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes: >> >>>Can you explain a bit more about your 'rover' setup, and how it's used? >> >>The "rover" in my lab is named after it's more adventurous namesake >>on Mars... > >[Fun workbench elided] > >Sounds like an excellent setup! Wow, hard facts! > >>If you have a change you want tested, I should be able to give >>the result back to you in one or two days. (I only ask in return >>that I may publish the results in case I write a paper on this >>experiment later on). > >I've always wanted to know how much it costs to run with 4Kb file system >blocks vs 8Kb or now even 16Kb. Oh, and the real cost of various minfree >percentages. No obligation, of course, but you might be interested too... This would require a slightly different setup, I would need to newfs the filesystem and do for instance a restore(8) onto it for each experiment. This would undoubtedly introduce more uncertainty into the equation, but I'm sure we can sample our way out of that. I'll put it on my list. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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