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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!wupost!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: 386bsd list of bad patches In-Reply-To: stu@jpusa1.chi.il.us's message of Sat, 14 Nov 1992 22:30:35 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.92Nov15135940@omicron.Rice.edu> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <1992Nov14.223035.14857@jpusa1.chi.il.us> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:59:40 GMT Lines: 40 In article <1992Nov14.223035.14857@jpusa1.chi.il.us> stu@jpusa1.chi.il.us (Stu Heiss) writes: Does a list of patch problems w.r.t the 58 patches in Terry's patchkit? Which patches are bad and why... Stu -- Stu Heiss - stu@jpusa1.chi.il.us With respect to just the patches directly related to kernel performance, I've had no troubles with the following six: patch00018 select() patch00019 slip patch00045 silo overflow patch00001 cgd makefile patch00002 bufpage patch00009 mbuf I did post a fix for patch00019 a few weeks ago, but it only affects the performance of slip. If you aren't running slip you can ignore it. After appplying the following ten I've seen more frequent kernel panics, but none of the code in the patches themselves look suspect. Does anyone have any information on problems with these patches? patch00007 filesystem performance patch00010 console scrolling backward patch00011 copy on write patch00012 ring buffer patch00017 dma patch00024 execute permission patch00025 execve #! patch00033 read /dev/drum crash patch00042 nfs read patch00044 daylight savings time Rich Murphey