BSD: August 2006 Archives

You've all probably read this by now, but if not, take a look at this. Hannum, one of the original founders of NetBSD, has basically denounced the project as it currently stands. NetBSD hasn't seen this much drama since they kicked out Theo.

My take on it is this: NetBSD reminds me of like the antisocial stepchild of the BSD family. They were so nice, popular, and peppy in the beginning, but then their siblings started dominating for attention. After a while of being mostly ignored, they started wearing all black, shaving off their eyebrows, talking about being non-conformists, and now they just kind of sit in the corner, quiet and abused, cutting themselves. :(

R.I.P., NetBSD.

For what it's worth, I hope they get their shit together. Hannum had some very good points, although I'll admit I've never paid that close attention to the politics of the NetBSD Project/Foundation. Come on, NetBSD. I would hate to see you die. What OS would my toaster run without you?

Before, you may remember me bitching about the blatant sexist views displayed on the EuroBSDCon webpage. A correction has been posted.

Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
fault virtual address = 0x58
fault code = supervisor write, page not present
instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc06ee9fd
stack pointer = 0x28:0xe8ef5b18
frame pointer = 0x28:0xe8ef5b34
code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
current process = 9982 (rtorrent)
trap number = 12
panic: page fault
cpuid = 0
Uptime: 2d6h21m31s

I'm getting that anytime rtorrent's been pushing really hard for a while. I know why though. I've 'optimized' rtorrent to go really fuqn fast - but made the machine extremely unstable in the process. Go rtorrent. Go me!

My .rtorrent.rc:

max_peers = 150
min_peers = 40
max_uploads = 5
upload_rate = 200
check_hash = no
directory = /exports/hd4/torrent
session = /exports/hd4/torrent/.cache/
hash_read_ahead = 8
hash_interval = 10
hash_max_tries = 1
max_open_files = 2048
max_open_sockets = 2048
use_udp_trackers = yes
schedule = watch_directory,5,5,load_start=/exports/hd4/torrent/watch/*.torrent
schedule = untied_directory,5,5,stop_untied=
schedule = low_diskspace,5,60,close_low_diskspace=100M

Dru Lavigne made an interesting blog post entitled Why Certification Exams Suck: Introduction. If you haven't kept up with the current state of certifications in the BSD community, it's a must-read.