Re: -e option to umount?

2000-06-19 Thread Parag Patel
ikely) unit >attention condition. This is how the MacOS does it, at least prior to MacOS X. If the CD-ROM is external and powered-down after the MacOS boots, the Mac then hangs periodically trying to ping it. Really screws up performance. :) -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: 4.0 kernel size quite a bit larger than 3.4?

2000-03-19 Thread Parag Patel
like a case of being nibbled to death by cats. (Julian Elischer suggested it may be due to the newbus code which affects just about everything.) No obvious place that has eaten a bunch of space - it's pretty well scattered throughout. -- Parag Patel textdata bss

4.0 kernel size quite a bit larger than 3.4?

2000-03-19 Thread Parag Patel
mail archives but didn't find anything obvious.) Thanks! -- Parag Patel # # PINHEAD config file developed from: # GENERIC -- Generic kernel configuration file for FreeBSD/i386 # # For more information on this file, please read the handbook section on # Kernel Configuration Files: # #

Re: FWIW: More questionable softupdates+vinum benchmarks

2000-02-17 Thread Parag Patel
oftupdates) 6053.86 real 7969.94 user 7601.81 sys 6040.56 real 7933.80 user 7643.17 sys (*MAXACTIVE to 3) (The /*raid* volumes are all on the 5 older SCSI disks, but the rest of the system is on a newer IDE disk, which is why the IDE times are better.)

Re: FWIW: More questionable softupdates+vinum benchmarks

2000-02-17 Thread Parag Patel
ends to sell it). Oh well. At some point I may create my own poor-man's desktop RAID cluster with several PCI-IDE controllers and a cheap IDE master per interface (no slaves). Not quite as good as SCSI but a heck of a lot cheaper. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

FWIW: More questionable softupdates+vinum benchmarks

2000-02-17 Thread Parag Patel
ly questionable) tests involving find|cpio of the source tree and then buildworld -j16 on various vinum volumes. So I thought I'd forward the results to current, for what it's worth. The biggest (non)surprise is how big a difference softupdates makes. Nice! -- Parag Patel &quo

Re: Megahertz pccard

2000-02-08 Thread Parag Patel
to 4.0-CURRENT via NFS. I never tried the 4.0 boot floppies since I needed to run "make installworld" from a build on another box. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: 4.0-CURRENT SMP crash with vinum raid-5 and softupdates

1999-09-02 Thread Parag Patel
Forgot to mention - SMP makes no difference to the crash. I've turned it off for now to simplify debugging. Just vinum+raid5+softupdates seems to be enough. -- Parag To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: 4.0-CURRENT SMP crash with vinum raid-5 and softupdates

1999-09-02 Thread Parag Patel
dates the raid5 volume seems happy, with and without async. It seems likely to be some odd interaction between the raid5 code and softupdates, since the simpler mirror/striping seems to work fine with it. Ring any bells for anyone? -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: 4.0-CURRENT SMP crash with vinum raid-5 and softupdates

1999-08-29 Thread Parag Patel
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 22:59:22 PDT, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >This is definitely a pbuf. Did you apply the patches Greg emailed? >They will panic the machine earlier while it is still in the correct >stack frame, allowing Greg to track down where the I/O initiation came >from. Greg'

Re: 4.0-CURRENT SMP crash with vinum raid-5 and softupdates

1999-08-29 Thread Parag Patel
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 16:48:32 PDT, Matthew Dillon wrote: >This looks like an indirect call through a NULL function pointer. Wow - I'm impressed! You really know your kernel debugging! :) It is a null-pointer dereference that's crashing it. Here's the gdb stack back-trace: (gdb) bt #0 0x0

Re: 4.0-CURRENT SMP crash with vinum raid-5 and softupdates

1999-08-29 Thread Parag Patel
ping seems to work, at least for me, but raid-5 makes it unhappy. I'm building a new kernel with gdb serial debug and will try to extract more info from it if possible. First I have to wait for the array to come back from the dead. :) In the meantime, appended is my kernel's config file.

4.0-CURRENT SMP crash with vinum raid-5 and softupdates

1999-08-29 Thread Parag Patel
so crashed without softupdates.) There are no apparent SCSI errors, and access to the raid10 volume plus a single vanilla FFS filesystem on the extra SCSI drive are fine. Thoughts? Thanks! -- Parag Patel -ddb crash output- Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode mp_l

Re: alpha kernel build failure (w/patch)

1999-07-05 Thread Parag Patel
sc->wb_btag = BUS_SPACE_IO; with this macro being set to the correct machine-specific one in some appropriate header file? I'm sure I'm missing something... Thanks! -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: stable snap for smp?

1999-05-15 Thread Parag Patel
dump, and no clue. I had to get some pay-for work done so I backed up to 3.1-STABLE and it seems to be fine since.) Hope this helps. I intend to update to 3.2-STABLE today... -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system.

1999-04-10 Thread Parag Patel
e-C, but could use C, C++, gjc (the new Java compiler), and gpc. I'm used to building my own compilers and cross-compilers, so it's no big deal for me either way. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Lots of warnings in 4.0-CURRENT kernel build

1999-03-06 Thread Parag Patel
ed? :-) Or am I just pointing out what everyone but me already knows is being worked on? -- Parag Patel kern/init_sysent.c:23: warning: cast discards `volatile' from pointer target type kern/kern_sysctl.c: In function `sysctl_register_set': kern/kern_sysctl.c:127: warning: ca

Re: Which DHCP client

1999-02-09 Thread Parag Patel
May I suggest looking at the OpenBSD dhcp client/server? I'm not sure which one they're derived from, but the CHANGES file lists a bunch of bug and security fixes. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current&

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-09 Thread Parag Patel
is better than the other, if I may suggest looking at and perhaps importing the OpenBSD code? The CHANGES file lists a bunch of security and bug fixes. I can't tell where the code is derived from. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "un

Re: some woes about rc.conf.site

1999-02-07 Thread Parag Patel
setup. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: some woes about rc.conf.site

1999-02-07 Thread Parag Patel
ed by anyone. > Matthew Dillon Then why bother having rc.conf in the first place? Just wire in all the defaults straight into /etc/rc and leave rc.conf strictly for overriding the defaults only, and eliminate rc.conf.* entirely. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send

Re: msdosfs/vn trouble, doscmd "nicety", fd trouble

1999-02-06 Thread Parag Patel
esystem and a 10Mb hard-drive image on the filesystem, and it works fine for me. -- Parag Patel === # my ~/.doscmdrc assign A: /u/parag/dos/1.44M 1440 assign B: /dev/rfd0 1440 assign C: /u/parag/dos/10M 306 4 17 assign D: /c

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-27 Thread Parag Patel
riped across 2 disks. A make -j8 buildworld also succeeded early this morning at about 5am. Softupdates is turned on for all disks and all partitions except /tmp which is async mfs. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-curre