Re: wierd dsl performance with -CURRENT

2003-07-09 Thread Kenneth Culver
> This is the data transfer, so the d2c_* plots are the interesting ones > (they graph the traffic from ftp2 to you). If you load up d2c_tput.xpl, > you can see that your throughput averaged ~164K/s for almost the entire > time. The red line is the short-term average, and you can see there > were

Re: wierd dsl performance with -CURRENT

2003-07-10 Thread Kenneth Culver
> You should visit the FreeBSD -performance list archives for a > (fairly) recent discussion on network performance (I believe > between a couple of us, we were able to come up with tuning > parameters that improved someone's file transfer performance by > about a factor of 10 for some tests). Rem

Re: NVidia driver stability?

2003-07-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I don't know if this is relevant, but the NVidia drivers won't work with > libkse or libthr, because it messes with the %gs segment register, which > both threading libraries use. The only threading library it currently > works with is libc_r. Actually from what I hear that's not accurate. It on

Re: NVidia driver stability?

2003-07-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I've been seeing this *exact* same behaviour on a Riva TNT2 for some > time now. I find the new driver to be a /little/ more stable -- i.e. > it's only locked up once on me since I installed it on Monday, as > opposed to locking up three out of the four mornings for the previous > driver. > > I

problem after gcc import

2003-07-17 Thread Kenneth Culver
Hi, I followed all suggestions from /usr/src/UPDATING after the gcc 3.3.1 import, and rebuilt kernel and world after removing /usr/obj and /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/KAORU (my kernel config file's name). However, I'm seeing some strange behavior after that. 1) smbclient no longer works with

Re: problem after gcc import

2003-07-17 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Read freebsd-current. :-) A suggestion was given this week: > > Subject: Re: Vim: Caught deadly signal BUS (after -current update with new gcc) > Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:14:30 -0700 > To: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:07:40AM +0200, Karel J.

Re: GCC upgrade ? on -current

2002-06-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
Is this not the latest one? alpha:~:> gcc -v Using built-in specs. Configured with: FreeBSD/i386 system compiler Thread model: posix gcc version 3.1 [FreeBSD] 20020509 (prerelease) Ken On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Sid Carter wrote: > Hi, > > Just a query. Is there anything stopping us from moving to t

Re: KSE status.

2002-07-04 Thread Kenneth Culver
Does this wired memory problem only happen on SMP systems, or is it happening across the board? Ken On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: > > Well it's all fun and games her at KSE central.. > We have a set of cascading hidden bugs.. > > bug 1 hides bug 2 hides bug 3 > > the current state

Re: KSE status.

2002-07-04 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I'm running a uniproc. box at work with -CURRENT and over 4-5hrs, wired > grew from 50megs (when I first time checked) to 141megs (now). Dunno if > this normal, but it has kept growing. OK, I don't see it happening here on my uniproc box, I havn't tried on my SMP box, I guess my sources aren't

ipfw rule changes?

2002-07-04 Thread Kenneth Culver
Hi, I just updated this morning to the latest -CURRENT, and just to let everyone know, the new KSE stuff seems to be working fine... however, my ipfw rules for dummynet no longer work: ipfw add queue 1 tcp from any to a.b.c.d 25 in via fxp0 ipfw pipe 1 config bw 28Kbit/s queue 2 ipfw queue 1 conf

Re: ipfw rule changes?

2002-07-04 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Hi, I just updated this morning to the latest -CURRENT, and just to let > everyone know, the new KSE stuff seems to be working fine... however, my > ipfw rules for dummynet no longer work: > > ipfw add queue 1 tcp from any to a.b.c.d 25 in via fxp0 > ipfw pipe 1 config bw 28Kbit/s queue 2 > ipfw

Re: Status of C++ in base system?

2002-07-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
I don't think kde3 compiles on the latest -CURRENT though, I've been trying to compile that for several days, and every time the linker says that things like cout and other standard c++ things aren't found. Ken On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: > I'm not sure what the deal with X is, b

Re: Status of C++ in base system?

2002-07-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
> This is FAQ. Have you deleted obsolete g++ include files? Do mv > /usr/include /usr/include.old; mkdir /usr/inlcude before making > buildworld. I think I did that but I guess another try couldn't hurt... Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i

Re: Status of C++ in base system?

2002-07-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
use my home pc is off and I'm at work, so I can't log in and mess with it. Ken > > On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:51:34 -0400 (EDT) > Kenneth Culver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This is FAQ. Have you deleted obsolete g++ include files? Do mv > > > /us

Re: Status of C++ in base system?

2002-07-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
> The cerr not found thing is one of two problems. gcc3 is pickier > about namespace issues than gcc2, so you need to say std::cerr or > using namespace std;. However, the more common case is people > thinking they can link c++ programs with 'cc' rather than 'c++' > > My C++ programs are large e

Re: KDE broken on CURRENT (with gcc3.2)

2002-09-03 Thread Kenneth Culver
I can confirm that kde3 doesn't build on -CURRENT with gcc 3.2.1 as well, but it has never worked for me on gcc 3.1 either. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: KDE broken on CURRENT (with gcc3.2)

2002-09-03 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I'm the maintainer, Will. > > Since I don't have a -CURRENT system, is one of the hasta's set up to > test -CURRENT patches on? > > I can make a good guess at it from looking at the code, but it'll need > to be tested somewhere. > > Also, is gcc-3.2 on -CURRENT a supported configuration? > gcc-3

Re: HEADS UP: SSE instructions (Re: cvs commit: src/share/mkbsd.cpu.mk)

2002-09-06 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Note that you'll need to have 'options CPU_ENABLE_SSE' in your kernel > configuration file if you have a SSE-capable CPU, otherwise you'll get > SIGILL from certain applications (e.g. ncurses) What if you don't want to do this though? Athlon XP processors support SSE instructions, but not at th

Re: HEADS UP: SSE instructions (Re: cvs commit: src/share/mkbsd.cpu.mk)

2002-09-06 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I assume the compiler is not stupid enough to try and use both when that > is impossible. Don't forget this is all just passing a CPU name to gcc > which actually decides what instructions to use. That's not what I mean... What I mean is that if one application is using SSE, and the other want

Re: Softupdate panic: softdep_update_inodeblock: update failed

2002-09-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I just got thisone ... This is CURRENT from 2 hours ago. > > Dammnit. Is this mem corruption ? > If I were you I'd start swapping memory modules, because I'm not having any trouble with -CURRENT and I havn't seen anyone else having trouble. Did you compile your kernel with any wierd optimizatio

Re: Softupdate panic: softdep_update_inodeblock: update failed

2002-09-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
Oh ok, wierd... I've only tried (unsuccessfully, the compiler errors out) kde3, and some make worlds and stuff. I guess that's not strenuous enough. Ken On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Martin Blapp wrote: > > Hi, > > > If I were you I'd start swapping memory modules, because I'm not having > > Already did

current.freebsd.org points to japanese site?

2002-09-22 Thread Kenneth Culver
Why does current.freebsd.org point to the japanese snapshot site snapshots.jp.freebsd.org? I'm just wondering because I am trying to install -CURRENT on one of my machines. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: current.freebsd.org points to japanese site?

2002-09-22 Thread Kenneth Culver
Is there any difference between the snapshots built on the japanese site and the ones that were built on the US one? Thanks Ken On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Will Andrews wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 03:33:24PM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > Why does current.freebsd.org point to the

Re: panic in latest build

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Michael Hostbaek wrote: > > I just build latest -CURRENT on my laptop. > > > > The error is: > > panic: vrele: negative ref cnt > > Debugger("panic") > > Stopped at Debugger+0x54: xchgl %ebx,in_Debugger.0 > > > > I did the following: > > After bootup - logged in as root. > > touch'ed /var/lo

Re: ttys patch - any objections?

2002-09-26 Thread Kenneth Culver
This seems a lot like personal preferance to me, I for one don't like a lot of tty's, because running getty on a bunch of ttys that I'm not going to use is a waste of ram I usually keep F1-F3 as ttys, and make F4 run kdm. I know I don't really have a say, but I'm sure everyone has his or her o

wierd cpu usage numbers

2002-10-17 Thread Kenneth Culver
Hi, I was just compiling kde3 on my home pc, and I noticed some interesting behavior. It seems that whenever there's ANY real heavy disk activity, the "system" cpu usage % number (in top and in systat -vm) skyrockets from 0.8% to around 50-70%. I was wondering which of the recent changes co

Re: wierd cpu usage numbers

2002-10-17 Thread Kenneth Culver
> This is a result of what's explained there. Nope, I have all that stuff turned off, and ide write caching turned on. There's no way that's the reason. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: wierd cpu usage numbers

2002-10-17 Thread Kenneth Culver
No, not really, I checked top -S, and systat -vm, neither has interrupts going high, but even if interrupts were going really high, I would suspect that the intr % would increase not the system % Ken On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Michael Lucas wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:18:25AM -0400, Kenn

Re: speed of -CURRENT [was: questions about the state of current]

2002-10-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
> The systems hostname was changed between Aug & Oct, but it's the > same laptop, a P3-800 w/256MB memory. > > Thoughts? > I have not really noticed a performance difference here. In fact with WITNESS and INVARIANTS disabled, I find that -CURRENT seems to be a bit faster than -STABLE. Ken To Uns

Re: Problem with nvidia drivers and current

2002-12-10 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Just ran tuxracer without a problem, so i can recommend people with > problems to try using the nvidia agp driver, seems as if it worked for > me :) Haha, that's funny, it wouldn't work for most games using the nvidia driver for me, I had to switch to using FreeBSD's agpgart. Ken To Unsubscri

Re: Updated ATAPI/CAM patches

2002-02-28 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Hmm, why do we need to add new layers and loss of functionality > to the ATAPI devices ? Many many many people would like to be able to use cdrecord to burn data to cd's so that all the front-ends to cdrecord will work. It's much nicer than memorizing mkisofs commandline switches :-) What func

Re: Updated ATAPI/CAM patches

2002-02-28 Thread Kenneth Culver
> > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > > > Hmm, why do we need to add new layers and loss of functionality > > > to the ATAPI devices ? > > > > Many many many people would like to be able to use cdrecord to burn data > > to cd's so that all

Re: Updated ATAPI/CAM patches

2002-02-28 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Hmm, cdrecord can be used with the ATAPI sunsystem as it is, I did > patches for this long ago, but noone picked it up as a port... I remember you saying that you had these, but you weren't willing to release them for some reason; something to do with the GPL... > > > What functionality is lost

Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT

2002-03-13 Thread Kenneth Culver
cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc make make install On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Martin Blapp wrote: > > > Kris, > > > fixes things, or at least identify a list of possible changes which > > others can test. > > How can I compile gcc without doing a "make world" ? > > Martin > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT

2002-03-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I guess it's possible to change over entirely. That would > mean we would loase a.out support because the GNU tools are > becoming incapable of supporting a.out ("all machines we > run on are Linux machines" syndrome). > > If we really wanted to avoid problems like this in the future, > we'd ju

Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT

2002-03-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
> > At the risk of being yelled at, I have a question: Why do we still need to > > support a.out? I know that a lot of people MIGHT still have some a.out > > binaries lying around, but FreeBSD's default binary format has been ELF > > for 3 or 4 years (Since 3.0-3.1 I believe). I'm not saying that

Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT

2002-03-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
> We aren't changing this for GCC 2.95 in 5-CURRENT. PEROID. There is > zero reason for subjecting users to this ABI change for what would be > gained. > > If you want to do something productive, submit patches that Bmake GCC 3.1 > (which move us to Dwarf2 unwinding as a product). > Oh ok, that'

Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT

2002-03-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
> > At the risk of being yelled at, I have a question: Why do we still need to > > support a.out? I know that a lot of people MIGHT still have some a.out > > binaries lying around, but FreeBSD's default binary format has been ELF > > for 3 or 4 years (Since 3.0-3.1 I believe). I'm not saying that

Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT

2002-03-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
> (ttypa):{1078}% file /usr/local/lib/netscape/communicator-4.7.us.bin > /usr/local/lib/netscape/communicator-4.7.us.bin: FreeBSD/i386 compact > demand paged dynamically linked executable > > Now, if you'd like to talk Netscape into building a version intended for > a version of FreeBSD newer th

Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT

2002-03-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
> #include , see the thread we had on this a few weeks back on > -chat. > OK, I'll look, but I disagree... Mozilla runs flawlessly for me, and renders much faster than netscape, however it loads really slow. Opera runs nicely too, although it's linux only. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT

2002-03-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
> It's less slow and much more reliable than mozilla and remains the only > available browser that can access most of the sites I need to access. That's odd, I've never had any mozilla problems. All I know is that it doesn't crash on sites that Netscape crashes on (anything java) and for me it ru

Re: gcc -O broken in CURRENT

2002-03-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
> That's odd, I've never had any mozilla problems. All I know is that it > doesn't crash on sites that Netscape crashes on (anything java) and for > me it runs much faster than netscape. It loads slower, but renders pages > much faster, and I tend to load my browser once per day, and just leave >

Re: ATAPICAM

2002-03-19 Thread Kenneth Culver
No it hasn't, there are still patches. Ken On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > Has the ATAPICAM patch entered the kernel sources already? I cannot > seem to find the option in LINT. > > Sam > -- > Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.rfc1149.net/sam > > > To Unsubscribe:

Re: cdrecord for ATAPI burners available..

2002-03-19 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Oh yes, I forgot, there is also a cdrdao on: > > ftp://freebsd.dk/pub/ATA/cdrdao-1.1.5-ATA.tgz > > Again no CAM or atapicam needed :) > Is this a competition??? :-) Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: cdrecord for ATAPI burners available..

2002-03-19 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Not that I know of, but I recently got permission to share the > (very limitted BTW) changes I did to cdrecord/cdrdao over a year > ago, and now that the infrastructure for using it is in both > -stable and -current, it seemed worthwhile to release it to > the unsuspecting world... > > Judging b

Re: cdrecord for ATAPI burners available..

2002-03-19 Thread Kenneth Culver
> It puts its stuff in /usr/local/bin > Wierd, for me it put everything in /opt/schily/blah... I hate it when people do that. :-) Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Lock order reversals in sys_pipe.c

2002-03-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
On Sunday 24 March 2002 05:26 pm, you wrote: > The bento cluster is now running with WITNESS enabled to try and track > down some odd UMA lock corruption panics. Instead, it found the > following lock order reversal in sys_pipe.c overnight: > > Mar 24 07:31:44 gohan17 kernel: lock order reversal

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-23 Thread Kenneth Culver
> > > > Basically, linux_mmap2 takes 6 args, and this looks here like only 5 args are > > > > making it in... I checked this because the sixth argument to linux_mmap2() in > > > > truss was showing 0x6, but when I printed out that arg from the kernel, it > > > > was showing 0x0. Am I corre

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-23 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Kenneth Culver writes: > > OK, I found another problem, here it is: > > > > static void > > linux_prepsyscall(struct trapframe *tf, int *args, u_int *code, caddr_t > > *params) > > { > >args[0] = tf->tf_ebx; > >args[1] = tf

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
I tried printing out everything in the trapframe in hex and nothing looke remotely right. Ken On 24 Apr 2002, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 10:41, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Maybe the argument isn't where you expect it to be, but is there. > > Can you make a test progra

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
> > Brandon S Allbery KF8NH writes: > > On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 10:41, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > Maybe the argument isn't where you expect it to be, but is there. > > > Can you make a test program which calls mmap2 with its 6th arg as > > > something unique like 0xdeadbeef? Then print out (i

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
> libc sets it before it enters the kernel. Then on kernel entry we save > ebp in the trapframe. So in the case of linux emulation, the glibc that we're using in the linux-ulator isn't setting it properly? I'm using the linux_base-7 port for this, so as far as I can tell, it should work... assum

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
> > libc sets it before it enters the kernel. Then on kernel entry we save > > ebp in the trapframe. > > So in the case of linux emulation, the glibc that we're using in the > linux-ulator isn't setting it properly? I'm using the linux_base-7 port > for this, so as far as I can tell, it should wo

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
> > > libc sets it before it enters the kernel. Then on kernel entry we save > > > ebp in the trapframe. > > > > So in the case of linux emulation, the glibc that we're using in the > > linux-ulator isn't setting it properly? I'm using the linux_base-7 port > > for this, so as far as I can tell,

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I'm actually still not seeing a match between what's in truss, and what's > in my printed-out args, but it seems to be working anyway... > Argh, it's not working again... It was working on an install of ms office, but it won't work on some old windows game.. (winex) and it's still not setting t

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
> Here's where it happens: > sys/i386/linux/linux_sysvec.c > > static void > linux_prepsyscall(struct trapframe *tf, int *args, u_int *code, caddr_t *params) > { > args[0] = tf->tf_ebx; > args[1] = tf->tf_ecx; > args[2] = tf->tf_edx; > args[3] = tf->tf_esi; >

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/linux/linux_sysvec.c,v > retrieving revision 1.99 > diff -u -2 -r1.99 linux_sysvec.c > --- linux_sysvec.c 4 Apr 2002 17:49:46 - 1.99 > +++ linux_sysvec.c 24 Apr 2002 23:57:23 - > @@ -711,4 +711,5 @@ > args[3] = tf->tf_esi; >

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
> yeah, I did that already, and have been running with that since yesterday > :-P > > still not working right though... I think it has something to do with that > nargs thing... I'm checking that out now... > Ehh, apparently sy_narg is getting set correctly too: struct linux_mmap2_args {

Re: implementing linux mmap2 syscall

2002-04-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
Alright, so I got tired of trying to figure out if glibc is doing something wierd or wrong so I downloaded the source for it, and I'm looking at it now... (for version 2.2.2 which is what we have on FreeBSD's linux_base-7) and here's what I'm seeing: pushl %ebp pushl %ebx pushl %e

Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users?

2002-05-01 Thread Kenneth Culver
But doesn't the kernel rely on perl for building? perl5 ../../kern/vnode_if.pl -h ../../kern/vnode_if.src does it make sense to remove it from the base when the base depends on it? Ken On Wed, 1 May 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: > My take on this. We should remove perl from the base, and > au

Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users

2002-05-02 Thread Kenneth Culver
> The base will no longer depend on it before too much longer. The vnode > and kobj dependencies are already gone in current. Ahh, ok, if that's the case, then I agree with your original statement; not that it matters much :-) Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscri

Re: linux-q3ademo --> X crash

2002-05-21 Thread Kenneth Culver
It looks like DRI isn't set up right. Ken On Tue, 21 May 2002, Martin Kacerovsky wrote: > Hi. > I've installed linux-q3ademo to do some "benchmarking", but X server crashes > during startup... > X server gets signal 11, XFree86.1.log is included as attachement > > I haven't found solutions of t

Re: Please test PAUSE on non-Intel processors

2002-05-24 Thread Kenneth Culver
I tested this on my T-bird athlon 800, and this is the result: Testing PAUSE instruction: Register esp changed: 0xbfbffb38 -> 0xbfbffafc So I guess there's no problem. Ken On Fri, 24 May 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > Hey gang, although Intel's document seems to claim that they tested > proper o

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