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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 22:45:50 -0500
From: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
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Cc: netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Sun jumping on Linux bandwagon
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In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981216105606.root@garbled.net>; from Tim Rightnour on Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 10:56:06AM -0700

On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 10:56:06AM -0700, Tim Rightnour wrote:

> I NFS horrendous amounts of data with my alpha running 1.3I.

Hm... This is on i386. I think others have seen the problem, but I don't
think it's spurred sufficient yapping, I guess.

I just built a new kernel to support a new ethernet card. Consequently, I've
got new NFS code. I'll try it out tomorrow and see how it goes.

> Have you sent a PR in about this?

I'll see if there is already a PR - I haven't sent one, if I remember
correctly. I *think* someone may have. I need to gather more information,
in any event.

> Leaving core isn't like quitting your job as a manager.  The
> people in core sign on to do some work, and help give direction to NetBSD for
> awhile.  When they feel they are finished, they go back to being normal
> "developers".

The more I think about this, the more it makes sense. It still seems to me,
however, that more core would allow for more people to randomly be in a
positive frame of mind at any particular time. FreeBSD has, what, seventeen
core members at the moment? Maybe "more core" is better.

Anyway, I'll try to dig up some information about the NFS problem I've been
having, and I'll fire it off. (A family member is having severe medical
problems lately, though, so I've been spending quite a bit of time at a local
hospital. This will certainly continue to impact my free time for the fore-
seeable future. I'll try to get something detailed done either Friday or on
the weekend, when work isn't eating away at my non-hospital time.)

-- 
Mason Loring Bliss..mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us..acheron.ddns.org/mason/
"In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments
  dropped from day's caravan."--Rabindranath Tagore..awake ? sleep : dream;