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Ivan Voras e9cbc9a770 Teach cat(1) and cp(1) to use a larger buffer if enough memory is present
in the system. A simple heuristics is used to detect what is "enough"
memory: if number of physmem pages is greater than 32k (equalling 128 MB
on machines with 4 kB pages).

Typical immediate result of these changes is reduction in context switches
and the goal is to increase efficiency by using large buffers:
before: /usr/bin/time -hlp cat file1 > file2
...
       163  voluntary context switches
     11194  involuntary context switches
after: /usr/bin/time -hlp ./cat file1 > file2
...
       417  voluntary context switches
       272  involuntary context switches

Reviewed by:    hackers@ (no objections to earlier version of cat patch)
Approved by:    gnn (mentor)
MFC after:      4 months
2008-10-30 14:05:57 +00:00
bin Teach cat(1) and cp(1) to use a larger buffer if enough memory is present 2008-10-30 14:05:57 +00:00
cddl Mips doesn't have a long double that's different in size from double. 2008-09-18 19:54:02 +00:00
contrib Actually fix pty detection for autologout setting. 2008-10-20 08:44:14 +00:00
crypto At some point, construct_utmp() was changed to use realhostname() to fill 2008-10-21 11:58:26 +00:00
etc Explicitly set the shell to /bin/sh when MK_TCSH == no. 2008-10-29 18:46:47 +00:00
games Another good day for historical quotes, Oliver Wendell Holmes brought to 2008-10-08 19:39:22 +00:00
gnu Document what the sed trick is for. 2008-10-16 18:09:27 +00:00
include Move getosreldate(3) prototype from the machine generated <osreldate.h> 2008-09-26 19:23:22 +00:00
kerberos5 Add an implementation of the RPCSEC_GSS authentication protocol for RPC. This 2008-08-06 14:02:05 +00:00
lib Pass a pointer to warn2 so the warn2 == IN_ALL would not be an 2008-10-30 00:19:19 +00:00
libexec This code has no copyright. It is fairly obvious to me that we're a 2008-10-13 20:24:03 +00:00
release Correct a typo in Nocona core name. 2008-10-23 10:38:04 +00:00
rescue Take a moment to tidy some white space while I'm here. No functional 2008-09-13 19:56:37 +00:00
sbin Add support for multiple attributes. This is required for the 2008-10-20 05:12:50 +00:00
secure Upgrade to OpenSSH 5.1p1. 2008-08-01 02:48:36 +00:00
share Misc cleanup. 2008-10-29 18:49:37 +00:00
sys The V* flags passed using an accmode_t to the access() and open() 2008-10-30 10:13:53 +00:00
tools o unbreak ani stat display 2008-10-29 20:19:54 +00:00
usr.bin Use strlcpy() when we mean it. 2008-10-17 21:14:50 +00:00
usr.sbin - Whenever a password/shell is changed via rpc.yppasswdd, the daemon leaves 2008-10-30 01:54:31 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Happy new year 2008! 2007-12-31 22:09:19 +00:00
LOCKS Update LOCKS syntax. 2008-06-05 19:47:58 +00:00
MAINTAINERS Update description text 2008-06-06 21:32:01 +00:00
Makefile Back out rev. 1.352 (SVN rev 179842) as phk pointed out that 2008-06-17 11:08:49 +00:00
Makefile.inc1 Back out testing aid that was inadvertantly committed as part of r184205. 2008-10-23 16:06:49 +00:00
ObsoleteFiles.inc Several documentation fixups related to device minor/major numbers: 2008-09-28 20:15:45 +00:00
README Vendor import of OpenSSH 5.1p1 2008-07-23 09:33:08 +00:00
UPDATING Type of q_time (start of queue idle time) has changed: uint32_t -> uint64_t. 2008-10-28 14:14:57 +00:00

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