site: www.dragonflydigest.com
DragonFly kcollect(8) improvements
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/08/07/23296.html [www.dragonflydigest.com]
2019-08-08 01:03
tags:
admin
dragonfly
swtools
update
DragonFly has a utility called kcollect(8), for gathering about the last day’s worth of kernel statistics. It recently gained some extra flags and details, and should work well if you want to collect stats in a low-impact way.
source: Dfly
TRIM by default
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/08/14/21646.html [www.dragonflydigest.com]
2018-08-15 03:53
tags:
dragonfly
fs
storage
update
The TRIM operation has been in DragonFly for some time, and it looks like most SSDs support it reliably, now – so it’s on by default.
source: Dfly
exFAT support in DragonFly
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2018/02/12/20867.html [www.dragonflydigest.com]
2018-02-21 02:05
tags:
dragonfly
fs
storage
update
Tomohiro Kusumi has brought in exFAT support to DragonFly from FreeBSD. Useful for cross-platform drives when FAT32 isn’t enough, and NTFS brings its own problems.
source: Dfly
New mechanism: kcollect
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2017/08/07/20061.html [www.dragonflydigest.com]
2017-08-07 22:49
tags:
admin
dragonfly
investigation
release
swtools
There’s a new facility in DragonFly: kcollect(8). It holds automatically-collected kernel data for about the last day, and can output to gnuplot. Note the automatic collection part; your system will always be able to tell you about weirdness – assuming that weirdness extends to one of the features kcollect tracks.
http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2017-July/313549.html
source: Dfly
ASLR, PIE, NX, and other capital letters
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2017/04/24/19609.html [www.dragonflydigest.com]
2017-04-25 21:06
tags:
defense
dragonfly
security
update
NX bit capability was added to DragonFly. You can turn it on or off, and it’s off by default so it doesn’t cause any surprises.
I’d say the more people exposed to surprises the better because that’s how things get fixed, but the option is there now.
source: Dfly
Network performance comparison
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2017/03/06/19425.html [www.dragonflydigest.com]
2017-03-07 17:38
tags:
benchmark
dragonfly
networking
perf
Many vkernel changes
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2017/02/03/19271.html [www.dragonflydigest.com]
2017-02-05 12:47
tags:
admin
dragonfly
systems
virtualization
UEFI booting in DragonFly installer
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2017/01/17/19208.html [www.dragonflydigest.com]
2017-01-18 06:42
tags:
dragonfly
hardware
The DragonFly installer now supports UEFI directly.
source: Dfly
swapcache, modernized
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2016/12/14/19040.html [www.dragonflydigest.com]
2016-12-15 15:56
tags:
docs
dragonfly
storage
Documentation change, to reflect reality.
Good news for multiple processors
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2016/12/05/19009.html [www.dragonflydigest.com]
2016-12-06 02:25
tags:
concurrency
dragonfly
perf
systems
Matthew Dillon has made a number of locking improvements
Binutils Changeout
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2016/11/25/18987.html [www.dragonflydigest.com]
2016-11-26 00:14
tags:
dragonfly
release
Another turn of the crank.