Re: establish tcp connection slowness

2000-06-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
:NOTE: I'm not on -current, so if you trim committers, please cc me. : :I believe I have discovered a problem w/ -current... I would like more :data points to see if this is a problem... when I run :http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmg/bench.py against a -current box (so far :I have tested against buil

Re: HEADS UP!: config changes...

2000-06-13 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > # I cannot stress this enough: **SAVE A WORKING /kernel** > > cp /kernel /kernel.works > > Save a working /modules and /boot as well. Which is always good advice, but I can clarify the effect on these... The only change in /boot is /boot/defaults/loader.conf: diff

Re: HEADS UP!: config changes...

2000-06-13 Thread Matthew Jacob
> # I cannot stress this enough: **SAVE A WORKING /kernel** > cp /kernel /kernel.works Save a working /modules and /boot as well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

HEADS UP!: config changes...

2000-06-13 Thread Peter Wemm
*** CAUTION IS REQUIRED ***! FYI, an intrusive commit has been done that requires careful attention. If you ignore this or mess it up, it can burn your house down, shoot your dog, close your bank accounts, report you to the IRS, or maybe even something bad. An old version 51 config(8) will (

make install of new kernel fails (bad /modules)

2000-06-13 Thread John DeBoskey
Hi, On a freshly installed snap (5.0-2612-SNAP), after compiling up a new kernel, the make install fails. Basically, it tries to 'cp /modules/* /modules.old' but /modules is empty and the cp fails. We need to either recognize an empty directory, or not fail if the cp fails. the fol

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-13 Thread Mike Smith
> > > a larger issue. It is not the loader's job to detect the underlying > > > hardware configuration. > > > > Actually, in a broad fashion, it _is_. This is why the loader > > understands PCI and PnP, for example. > > > Why do we want to do that? Are we going to offload device probe routines

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-13 Thread Luoqi Chen
> > a larger issue. It is not the loader's job to detect the underlying > > hardware configuration. > > Actually, in a broad fashion, it _is_. This is why the loader > understands PCI and PnP, for example. > Why do we want to do that? Are we going to offload device probe routines to the loader

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-13 Thread Mike Smith
> a larger issue. It is not the loader's job to detect the underlying > hardware configuration. Actually, in a broad fashion, it _is_. This is why the loader understands PCI and PnP, for example. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn h

Re: (thoughts on) the mktemp() patch.

2000-06-13 Thread David Gilbert
> "Dan" == Dan Moschuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dan> I've avoided this conversation, but what would everyone think of Dan> a tmpfs type of solution with a security minded design? I took a Dan> brief look at phk's md driver, and it could be quite easily Dan> molded to do what I want to do.

Re: (thoughts on) the mktemp() patch.

2000-06-13 Thread Dan Moschuk
| > | > Maybe the soltion is to think out of the box. Maybe temporary | > filestore should be a more official OS service. Race conditions would | > be far less common if the OS itself was managing the namespace. | > | > You might even expand the capability somewhat. Provide process local, |

Re: current jail panic II

2000-06-13 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [2613 17:08], Bart Thate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >prp is 0x0 but is not checked upon. The check if prp ==0 is done 2 lines >further on. > > if (prp == 0 || prp->pr_usrreqs->pru_attach == 0) >return (EPROTONOSUPPORT); > > >since

Re: VMware detection code in boot loader

2000-06-13 Thread Luoqi Chen
> Given the way VMware works, I'd have nothing against making it a FICL > words, except... > > ...VMware is a port. For some reason, I dislike the idea of having > support targetted at exclusively one specific port. Though we have > features added specifically to deal with certain ports, they wer

current jail panic II

2000-06-13 Thread Bart Thate
Hi again ;) this patch .. http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c.diff?r1=1.72&r2=1.73 makes my kernel panic. a snippet from gdb -k .. #10 0xc01705b5 in socreate (dom=28, aso=0xca35df20, type=2, proto=0, p=0xc9959be0) at ../../kern/uipc_socket.c:138 138

Re: Weird 4.0-STABLE problem, might be related to 5.0 as well

2000-06-13 Thread Luoqi Chen
> This is the third time this happened to a 4.0-STABLE host of ours. > > The problem starts with havnig a number of processes which are unable to > be killed. So we want to reboot the box. > > All goes well, bufdaemon and syncer stop normally. > > Then it gets to > > syncing disks > done. >

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Weird 4.0-STABLE problem, might be related to 5.0 as well

2000-06-13 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
This is the third time this happened to a 4.0-STABLE host of ours. The problem starts with havnig a number of processes which are unable to be killed. So we want to reboot the box. All goes well, bufdaemon and syncer stop normally. Then it gets to syncing disks done. And there it hangs. At

establish tcp connection slowness

2000-06-13 Thread John-Mark Gurney
NOTE: I'm not on -current, so if you trim committers, please cc me. I believe I have discovered a problem w/ -current... I would like more data points to see if this is a problem... when I run http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmg/bench.py against a -current box (so far I have tested against builder an

Re: Can't make installworld :(

2000-06-13 Thread Hostas Red
Hi! On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Ian Dowse wrote: > >vm/vm_object.h -> vm/vm_object.ph > >vm/vm_page.h -> vm/vm_page.ph > >vm/vm_pageout.h -> vm/vm_pageout.ph > >vm/vm_pager.h -> vm/vm_pager.ph > >vm/vm_param.h -> vm/vm_param.ph > >vm/vm_prot.h -> vm/vm_prot.ph > >vm/vm_zone.h -> vm/vm_zone.ph > >vm/vnod