More NFS woes

1999-06-10 Thread Kevin Day
Grabbed another -current, and are still seeing a few problems yet that Matt and others haven't solved. I'm not pushing anyone, just reminding that these are still here, and still problems. 1) The 'inode/vmopar' lockup that Matt is aware of, and apparently tracked down. 2) Processes starting to

Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something?

1999-06-10 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Don Read wrote: > > Are you guys serious about dropping the box by powering off the console ? > > Suns do this. They sense the terminal power off as a break. One previous ork place had a bunch of rack mounted suns, sharing a serial console via a switch box. There was a

Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something?

1999-06-10 Thread Don Read
On 10-Jun-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Mike Nowlin wrote: > >> > > key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b >> > > (as >> > >> > Would be most excellent if this could be done. A couple of boxen I >> > have here have serial consoles attached to

Re: 4-way SMP broken ?

1999-06-10 Thread Richard Cownie
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote: > Could you narrow down the crash further inside mp_start()? I'd like to > know whether the crash occurred inside start_all_aps(). One or two lines of > debug messages would be really helpful, you don't have to write down the exact > words. Do you have options

Re: 4-way SMP broken ?

1999-06-10 Thread Luoqi Chen
> I have added more debugging messages, and the crash appears to be inside > mp_start(). I don't have a log because this is too early in the boot > to get the messages saved anywhere, and they go by too quickly to > write it down. The evidence that this is an SMP problem is simple - > with 2 cpu

Re: 4-way SMP broken ?

1999-06-10 Thread Richard Cownie
On Wed, 09 Jun 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote: > > I've been trying to install 19990604-CURRENT on a couple of SC450NX > > boxes. It works fine with 2 cpu's, but an SMP kernel with 4 cpu's > > falls over very quickly (I think while it's setting up the APIC > > stuff, or very shortly after - the messages a

Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something?

1999-06-10 Thread Tor . Egge
> Would be most excellent if this could be done. A couple of boxen I > have here have serial consoles attached to other machines which > do a very good simulation of a break when the controlling process > leaves them. Dropping to DDB every time you reboot the other machine > is, uh, less than desi

Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-06-10 Thread Jasper O'Malley
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > Did try this...actually went to the Livingston WWW site, and they "fixed > this bug" around release 3.1.4 of ComOS :( The 'send break' just gets > ignored... The bug they fixed was that sending a telnet BRK sequence during an administrative session

Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something?

1999-06-10 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Mike Nowlin wrote: > > > key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b (as > > > > Would be most excellent if this could be done. A couple of boxen I > > have here have serial consoles attached to other machines which > > do a very good simulation of

Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something?

1999-06-10 Thread Phil Homewood
Mike Nowlin wrote: > Agreed, but this may be quite a project... doing a "cd ~bob" would be > fun. :) You would pretty much have to implement some timing > requirements, but I imagine that it could bulk up that section of the > kernel pretty easily. Yep. I started to hack something like this int

Re: GNU patch gone stale

1999-06-10 Thread Tony Finch
Julian Elischer writes: > > TONY > > they just showed your obfuscated C entry in the COmpetitionhere.. > Your'e crazy you know.. > there were soma amazing entries but you came in near the top.. Wow. That's the first news I've had about this since submitting it. Now I can sit back and look smu