Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Question on 4.2 Performance Article in Usenix Procs. Message-ID: <1943@nsc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 14:26:54 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.1943 Posted: Sun Dec 2 14:26:54 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 06:18:39 EST References: <118@msdc.UUCP> <> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui) Organization: Plaid Heaven Lines: 30 Summary: In article <55@tove.UUCP> mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser) writes: > > D. They will never be distributed. > >The authors of that article were asked from the floor several >times if they would please post diffs to net.sources or something >for these changes. They were indifferent to our pleas. I wasn't there, but I bet indifferent is an overstatement. I've been able to look at and evaluate a couple of the fixes they talked about-- inetd and the namei cache. Both are VERY significant pieces of code, guaranteed to make your life miserable if you don't know what you are doing when you install them or if you don't install them right. inetd, as a matter of fact, requires modifications to a large number of other programs that need to interface to it. Both of these are really beyond the scope of net.sources in my mind because of the significance of the hacks required to get them running. They have all been sent back to Berkeley, and I've seen systems at Berkeley running them. I've been told that Berkeley is going to be announcing 4.3 (or at least a new distribution, with or without memory mapping, with or without remote file systems depending on who's rumors you listen to) that will have the performance hacks and bug fixes in it. chuq -- From the center of a Plaid pentagram: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA ~But you know, monsieur, that as long as she wears the claw of the dragon upon her breast you can do nothing-- her soul belongs to me!~