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:: 13-Dec-1998 03:06 (Sunday) ::
dynamic object code for omf & coff working. elf support still in
development.
developmental proxy code is now able to serve requests and completions
from clients and request and transmit blocks to upstream proxies.
work continues to add full standard proxy functionality.
standard proxy code partially has support for blocks > 32 bits in
size. additional work to fully support larger blocks in progress.
:: 11-Dec-1998 23:10 (Friday) ::
working on making clients handle blocks > 2^31 blocks,
but headed out of town for a week and then Xmas is here
:: 11-Dec-1998 03:36 (Friday) ::
I’m making lots of progress on the new proxyinfo. It has a much sleeker
design that complies with the rest of the distributed.net site. The table
outlook looks very much like the finger-board at http://www.distributed.net/cgi-bin/dnet-finger.cgi
I’ll include a feature list upon release, which should be this weekend.
:: 06-Dec-1998 05:27 (Sunday) ::
Another week, another …, hmm, … er, um, never mind.
After a flurry of activity last weekend, including a from-scratch rewrite
of much of buffwork and quite a bit of bufupd, I bumped the version to 421.
Two more modules that are much cleaner (and saner) now.
I spent the first half of today doing things I hate to do but have to be
done anyway, and most of the rest of the day restructuring the flush code.
To reduce network traffic (theoretically to an eighth of what it used to be,
in RealLife(tm) to about a quarter), flush now coalesces blocks before it
sends them out.
Bovine is pushing me to get dynamic core selection working. Its a real pain
in the you-know-what as long as we are stuck with that ‘orrible bryd stuff.
Besides, I’m strongly against doing clib stuff from child threads (thats my
NetWare background thats talking there). Well, the infrastructure is in
place now – no limits on the number of threads, isolated thread management
routines, one-block-per-cruncher handling, clearly defined lines between
disk and network i/o, and so on and so forth. What it all boils down to
is simply having to knuckle down, buckle down, (and) do it, do it, do it…
More news from this member of the buffalo herd … next week…
Don’t go away…
We’ll be rrrright back…
:: 01-Dec-1998 05:52 (Tuesday) ::
I’m pleased to announce that my rc5des_416 FreeBSD port has made
it into the official FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE distribution. The release
is currently available at ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.8-RELEASE/
If you’re installing the release and want to have the client setup, select
“misc” from the packages menu and check the box next to “rc5des-416.” If
you’ve already installed the release and want to “build” the client from
the ports, try: “cd /usr/ports/misc/rc5des && make install” as root.
I’ll make an announcement here when 2.2.8 is available on CD from
Walnut Creek.