Re: KRIS: FOR YOU TO COMMIT: soft interrupt coelescing

2001-10-07 Thread Terry Lambert
Peter Wemm wrote: > > This is based on ideas in the Jeff Mogul (DEC Western Research > > Labs) paper from 1995: > > These look like a subset of what Garrett was working on in 1996: Guess Jeff Mogul beat him to it; I wish Garrett's code had been committed, so I wouldn't have had to reinvent it my

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-07 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 03:26:40AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > I could rent one at a colocation facility. But I live in Silicon > Valley, and I can't even get a connection faster than an ISDN line; > I'm 2000 feet "too far away" for DSL. Uh Terry, you know very well you have a freefall.freebsd

Re: Why do soft interrupt coelescing?

2001-10-07 Thread Terry Lambert
"Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > [ I don't particularly want to get involved in this thread...but... ] > > Can you explain why the ti(4) driver needs a coalescing patch? It already > has in-firmware coalescing paramters that are tuneable by the user. It > also already processes all outstanding BDs i

Re: KRIS: FOR YOU TO COMMIT: soft interrupt coelescing

2001-10-07 Thread Terry Lambert
Peter Wemm wrote: > > Certainly not with this lousy patch with no context! > > To be clear: I was complaining about the non-context diff, not the diff > itself. We cant safely use it like this unless you give us an exact time/ > date of the corresponding freebsd version. OK. It was against Fre

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-07 Thread Terry Lambert
Kris Kennaway wrote: > No, Terry, I didn't offer you carte blanche to "submit any change to > FreeBSD and I'll commit it", I offered to commit your specific changes > to an area of FreeBSD you were complaining about (registration of > sysinstall distributions as packages), which I happened to agre

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-07 Thread Terry Lambert
Sheldon Hearn wrote: > The change is not undefended. It's been made very clear from the > beginning that the security officer team sees the UUCP software as a > security liability, and would like the software "relegated" to ports so > as to limit the impact of vulnerabilities. The specific probl

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-07 Thread Terry Lambert
David O'Brien wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 03:26:40AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I could rent one at a colocation facility. But I live in Silicon > > Valley, and I can't even get a connection faster than an ISDN line; > > I'm 2000 feet "too far away" for DSL. > > Uh Terry, you know v

Proposal: Replacement for VISUALUSERCONFIG (was: Re: Need to update man section 4!)

2001-10-07 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
We can manipulate "device hints" and loader/kernel environment variables in /boot/device.hints by the "set/unset/show" commands in the boot loader(8). This corresponds to what we used to do in the USERCONFIG menu in the kernel. I think it may be a good idea to have "visual" (or friendly?) inter

Re: uucp user shell and home directory

2001-10-07 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 01:25:29AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > So while you are correct that there is an account there, I can't > log into it right now, and I don't know to whom I should send > the passwd file line now that I'm able to do that, since the > changeover was long enough ago that the

Re: KRIS: FOR YOU TO COMMIT: soft interrupt coelescing

2001-10-07 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Clearly this would also be very applicable to non-Gigabit cards, >but the only one we use is the FXP, and the FXP driver is very >poorly structured for being able to do this type of thing (I Oh, bah. The fxp clearly has the equivalent of fxp_rxeof and fx

high-density floppies

2001-10-07 Thread Joel Wilsson
Hi, I'm copying in some tar-files, which are written directly to floppy disks. It worked fine for "normal" floppies, but now I have 7 floppies that fail (when I use "dd if=/dev/fd0 of=diskN.tar") with: fd0: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 40 ST1 1 ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1) For the first fl

Re: Proposal: Replacement for VISUALUSERCONFIG (was: Re: Need to update man section 4!)

2001-10-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kazutaka YOKOTA writes: : - One big drawback: this will bloat the boot loader and will consume : precious disk space in kern.flp... *sigh* This is the only downside to the work that you've done. Sometimes I think we'd get more boot loader maintainers if we had L

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-07 Thread Steve Kargl
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:13:50AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > It was posted to -current (see above). > man send-pr A search of the GNATS databases with "terry" and "lambert" returns zero hits. The freebsd-current mailing list is not the preferred method for submi

Re: Proposal: Replacement for VISUALUSERCONFIG (was: Re: Need to update man section 4!)

2001-10-07 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 10:07:33AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kazutaka YOKOTA >writes: > : - One big drawback: this will bloat the boot loader and will consume > : precious disk space in kern.flp... *sigh* > > This is the only downside to the work that you've do

Missing stack frames in kgdb/ddb traces

2001-10-07 Thread Ian Dowse
I noticed recently two problems with gdb/ddb traces that involve an interrupt frame (both of these are in i386-specific code, but maybe similar issues exist on other architectures): The first is that kgdb sometimes messes up a stack frame that includes an interrupt, e.g in the trace below, the c

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-07 Thread Terry Lambert
Steve Kargl wrote: > > It was posted to -current (see above). > > man send-pr > > A search of the GNATS databases with "terry" and "lambert" > returns zero hits. The freebsd-current mailing list is not > the preferred method for submission of patches and change > requests. Yeah; I'd prefer it

Re: KRIS: FOR YOU TO COMMIT: soft interrupt coelescing

2001-10-07 Thread Terry Lambert
Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >Clearly this would also be very applicable to non-Gigabit cards, > >but the only one we use is the FXP, and the FXP driver is very > >poorly structured for being able to do this type of thing (I > > Oh, bah. The fxp clearly h

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Kargl wrote: > > > > man send-pr > > Yeah; I'd prefer it if "send-pr" ran under Windows, or of > FreeBSD would support WinModems. What fails to work for you in the Web Interface at http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html ? -giorgos To Unsubscribe:

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-07 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 01:45:37PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Steve Kargl wrote: > > > It was posted to -current (see above). > > > > man send-pr > > > > A search of the GNATS databases with "terry" and "lambert" > > returns zero hits. The freebsd-current mailing list is not > > the preferre

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The web interface doesn't allow for patches to be attached. > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=27653 [ Synopsis: Updates to send-pr.html to support MIME ] Don't use attachments. MIME is evil. Copy/paste the patch in the report. There are

Re: VMWare2 permission problems on -current as of Sep 26

2001-10-07 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Georg-W. Koltermann wrote: > Hi Robert, > > it doesn't seem to be securelevel-related. sysctl(8) says: > > hunter[5]$ sysctl kern.securelevel > kern.securelevel: -1 > > I also hacked the securelevel_g[et] routines to immediately return 0 > as you suggested, and it

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Terry Lambert writes: : NB: Other people have complained about this as well. That's why I always use the web interface to deal with bugs... That way the web server does the mailing, which seems to be much better at getting into the databse. Warner To Unsubscribe:

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Giorgos Keramidas writes: : Don't use attachments. MIME is evil. Copy/paste the patch in the : report. There are people out there that do not have MIME-aware MUA's : and you'll break the nice query-pr command that developers can use in : freefall to read the entir

Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load

2001-10-07 Thread Thyer, Matthew
"Georg-W. Koltermann" wrote: > > You know, I have been using and NSD, at work on IRIX. I had trouble > with it, it sometimes wouldn't sync with the nameserver, or would > cease to serve any names until I HUPed it. I dont have such problems. Patch or upgrade to 6.5.13. IRIX 6.5's nsd is the na

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-07 Thread Peter Wemm
Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Giorgos Keramidas writes: > : Don't use attachments. MIME is evil. Copy/paste the patch in the > : report. There are people out there that do not have MIME-aware MUA's > : and you'll break the nice query-pr command that developers can use in >

Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit

2001-10-07 Thread Terry Lambert
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steve Kargl wrote: > > > > > > man send-pr > > > > Yeah; I'd prefer it if "send-pr" ran under Windows, or of > > FreeBSD would support WinModems. > > What fails to work for you in the Web Interface at > http://www.FreeBSD.

Re: panic: blockable sleep lock (sx) allproc @ /usr/local/src/sys/kern/kern_proc.c:212

2001-10-07 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Is using xconsole significantly better than "tail -f /var/log/messages"? I don't know. I think `xterm -C' is better than either one, if it can be made to work properly. (I have held off on updating to latest -current in the hope that this might be resolved one way or the other.) -GA