2005/04/18
IRC [00:45] <jhavard> Dossy, can you write something that will fix my headache?
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IRC [10:57] <martinh> hmmm. i saw something here about a memory leak in tcl 8.4.9 and something about a patch for it. is there patched source available?
IRC [10:59] <Dossy> yeah, tip of core-8-4-branch in Tcl's CVS :-)
IRC [11:00] <martinh> damn. i was hoping not to need that. :->
IRC [11:03] <Dossy> heh
IRC [11:03] <Dossy> yeah. ask zoran to create a patch that only implements his change/etc.
IRC [11:03] <Dossy> i was kinda bummed that he didn't do that and upload it to the bug
IRC [11:03] <Dossy> so people could just patch that part of their tcl
IRC [11:04] <Dossy> but since I didn't make the change, I guess I can't complain too loud.
IRC [11:05] <Dossy> Hmm, I wonder why my wi-fi is so flaky from outside.
IRC [11:06] <martinh> sitting on your front porch? :->
IRC [11:09] <Dossy> in the driveway, yeah.
IRC [11:09] <Dossy> my younger daughter who's still not in school is blowign bubbles
IRC [11:09] <Dossy> i'm on the weekly team meeting conf. call
IRC [11:10] <Dossy> spouse had to run out for the morning so I'm out doing childcare :-)
IRC [11:10] <martinh> hmmm. i'm assuming just the tcl module in cvs for the updated patch. right?
IRC [11:10] <martinh> ain't it great working from home? :->
IRC [11:17] <martinh> hmmm. how well does tcl compile & run for amd64? i guess I'll see.
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IRC [11:28] <Dossy> it works just peachy, IIRC
IRC [11:28] <Dossy> and 64-bit Tcl and AOLserver works, too
IRC [11:28] <Dossy> modulo that one fatal you have to comment out
IRC [11:28] <martinh> which is documented? :->
IRC [11:29] <Dossy> it'll be committed as part of 4.0.11, heh
IRC [11:29] <Dossy> and i think it's kinda documented
IRC [11:29] <martinh> is the 4.0.10 tarball good?
IRC [11:29] <Dossy> I should put together a page on the wiki about tcl/aolserver build for 64-bit
IRC [11:29] <Dossy> sure, 4.0.10 is "good" except it won't run on 64-bit - need to commented out that fatal
IRC [11:29] <Dossy> or just build 32-bit
IRC [11:30] <Dossy> it'll run fine on opteron that way, IIRC
IRC [11:30] <martinh> is it a compile time fatal?
IRC [11:30] * martinh finds out. . .
IRC [11:30] <martinh> nope. :->
IRC [11:31] <martinh> i should probably get on the aolserver mailing lists.
IRC [11:36] <Dossy> uh, yeah.
IRC [11:36] <Dossy> probably.
IRC [11:36] <Dossy> if nothing else, use the mailing list archives :-)
IRC [11:36] * martinh is. :->
IRC [11:36] <Dossy> google knows where some are.
IRC [11:37] <Dossy> yay, pointed the antenna on my wi-fi base (pci card w/ external antenna) in the direction of where I'm sitting outside, and signal is a bit better.
IRC [11:40] <martinh> you can buy some very good omni directional antennas that'll give you 12dB gain for relatively cheap.
IRC [11:40] <Dossy> yeah, I know
IRC [11:40] <Dossy> that's why I bought the PCI wi-fi card, so I *could* use an external antenna
IRC [11:40] <Dossy> I just haven't researched yet
IRC [11:40] <Dossy> also my laptop has a crap 802.11b mini-pci wifi
IRC [11:41] <Dossy> i wanna see if I can get a b/g mini-pci - I like having mini-pci, hate external pcmcia for the laptop
IRC [11:41] <Dossy> the dingleberry accessories - guh
IRC [11:44] <martinh> hrm. it seems that 2 listed archives don't have the attachement.
IRC [11:45] <martinh> for the 64bit patch.
IRC [11:45] <Dossy> oh
IRC [11:45] <Dossy> one liner
IRC [11:45] <martinh> so you mentioned. . .but, i'm not seeing it.
IRC [11:45] <Dossy> /*
IRC [11:45] <Dossy> if (sizeof(int) < sizeof(long)) {
IRC [11:45] <Dossy> Tcl_Panic("NsTclInitObjs: sizeof(int) < sizeof(long)");
IRC [11:45] <Dossy> }
IRC [11:45] <Dossy> */
IRC [11:45] <Dossy> there.
IRC [11:45] <Dossy> sorry, 3 lines - comment 'em out
IRC [11:45] <Dossy> in nsd/tclobj.c
IRC [11:45] <Dossy> on LP64, sizeof(int) != sizeof(long)
IRC [11:46] <Dossy> but that's "okay" as long as your code is 64-bit clean, which I *believe* tcl and stock AOLserver is
IRC [11:46] <Dossy> add-on modules may NOT be - BEWARE.
IRC [11:46] <martinh> well, I'll find out. :->
IRC [11:47] <Dossy> you likely won't "feel" any "bugs" until your nsd grows > 4GB in size, though
IRC [11:47] <Dossy> anyway
IRC [11:49] <martinh> well, i'm compiling everything with debugging so i can poke through cores if i need to.
IRC [11:49] <Dossy> yup. cool.
IRC [15:55] <dek> is the -K supported in the new aolserver 4?
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