Re: request to nuke gx(4)

[adrian <scriptfu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:

> -On [20051002 20:52], Chris Pressey (cpressey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
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> > Try 'man 4 polling' on any 4.11 machine.  There's a mention there.
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> Ah.  Ok, regardless of the polling 4.11 still kicked 6's butt with polling.
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> > btw, ooc, who is "someone" and do they have any plans to measure NetBSD
> > as well?
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> A guy on the #FreeBSD channel on Undernet.
> I asked, but I am unsure which NetBSD to ask.  2.0.2 is nice, but 3 has
> Release Candidates out and should be focused on I think.
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So what was/is the deal with device polling and smp boxes ?
The warnings in the kernel config (FB 5.1) always stopped me.
All my good multi-proc stuff is always in production,
so I never have never witnessed the great evil .