From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: last days of htdig
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 16:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030927160257.GD19912@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0309271144180.6156-100000@dair.pair.com>
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 11:54:23AM -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
>On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I think we've already been over this ground,
>
>Nah, not really. I think I mentioned a vague hunch that there
>were some large-file-patches for the kernel, allowing >2G (or
>better, 4G) files and that they would help. But I think that
>was far from reality, or at least reality of today(s kernel).
>
>> HP, but couldn't we
>> just recompile htdig on the new kernel to bypass the 2G limit?
>
>Off the top of my head, I think gnu "sort", sizeof int and
>sizeof long (or if we're lucky, just size_t :-) would be the
>obvious open sores^Wissues.
Ah, ok. It's never easy.
>Are we on 64-bit iron yet? When, when, when...? :-) :-) :-)
I know I'm counting my pennies for my home machine. Athlon64.
Mmmmm...
cgf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-27 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-27 7:18 Hans-Peter Nilsson
2003-09-27 15:21 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-09-27 15:54 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2003-09-27 16:03 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2003-09-27 16:06 ` Joseph S. Myers
2003-09-27 16:16 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2003-09-27 16:24 ` Joseph S. Myers
2003-09-27 19:45 ` Matthew Galgoci
2003-09-27 21:50 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-09-27 22:05 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-09-27 22:21 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-09-27 22:29 ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-09-27 22:36 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2003-09-28 22:40 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2003-09-29 22:04 ` Gerald Pfeifer
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