Re: mbuf leakage in NFSv3 writes, possbile?

1999-07-22 Thread Doug
"David E. Cross" wrote: > > Well, I just -STABLED the server to see if it fixed it, but I was certainly > running out. the server had only 3000-ish mbuf chains, and it would go > through > them all in a day. Well, have you tried increasing the number of available mbufs and see if you re

Re: FreeBSD: the stealth OS?

1999-07-22 Thread Nick Hibma
> > "There's a lot of things that Linux is 'better' at, and a > > lot of things FreeBSD is 'better' at, and a lot of those > > things can easily fluctuate on a daily or weekly basis," > > said Fuller, who maintains a Linux vs BSD Web page. > > "Thus, any definitive narrow

Re: SURVEY: Sound cards that work under FreeBSD

1999-07-22 Thread Dirk GOUDERS
Here's the information about the sound card I am working with: > 1) The sound card make and model/chipset. Please be as specific as you can with >board rev numbers if possible. Please include wether the card is ISA or PCI. My sound card is a SBPCI128 by Creative Labs. > 2) FreeBSD versi

Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD, and userfs too.

1999-07-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, John Polstra wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:59:59PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > > > > > > PAM is also "using masses of weird shared objects" but nevertheless it's > > > quite usable > > > > By statically linked binaries? > > Our PAM implementation works for static bina

usb keyboard setup -or- HELP!

1999-07-22 Thread Jim Bryant
hi, i'm running 4.0-current on a dual p2-333 box. i run X, and am looking for help in setting up a usb keyboard for use with FreeBSD/Xfree86. if anyone has this running, i could use the help in setting it up. also, this keyboard has a ps2 mouse connector. does the mouse get recognized as a usb

Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD, and userfs too.

1999-07-22 Thread John Polstra
In article <19990722111605.c49...@palmerharvey.co.uk>, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:59:59PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > > > > PAM is also "using masses of weird shared objects" but nevertheless it's > > quite usable > > By statically linked binaries? Our PAM implementation

Re: mbuf leakage in NFSv3 writes, possbile?

1999-07-22 Thread Doug
"David E. Cross" wrote: > > Well, I just -STABLED the server to see if it fixed it, but I was certainly > running out. the server had only 3000-ish mbuf chains, and it would go through > them all in a day. Well, have you tried increasing the number of available mbufs and see if you reac

usb keyboard setup -or- HELP!

1999-07-22 Thread Jim Bryant
hi, i'm running 4.0-current on a dual p2-333 box. i run X, and am looking for help in setting up a usb keyboard for use with FreeBSD/Xfree86. if anyone has this running, i could use the help in setting it up. also, this keyboard has a ps2 mouse connector. does the mouse get recognized as a usb

Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD, and userfs too.

1999-07-22 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:59:59PM +0700, Max Khon wrote: > > > > PAM is also "using masses of weird shared objects" but nevertheless it's > > quite usable > > By statically linked binaries? Our PAM implementation wo

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-22 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > I know a lot of people like the ASUS P2B boards, but I've noticed a > tendency for the systems to reset occasionally when plugging in a keyboard. > I've seen this with both FreeBSD and NT, so I'm considering it a property > of the board. If

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-22 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > I've had great results with the Tyan 1836DLUAN/Thunder 100's. > > I've got several boxes with 1GB of RAM and dual 450's humming along. For > > comparison one system with less memory and a Super

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-22 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > I know a lot of people like the ASUS P2B boards, but I've noticed a > tendency for the systems to reset occasionally when plugging in a keyboard. > I've seen this with both FreeBSD and NT, so I'm considering it a property > of the board. I

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-22 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > I've had great results with the Tyan 1836DLUAN/Thunder 100's. > > I've got several boxes with 1GB of RAM and dual 450's humming along. For > > comparison one system with less memory and a Supe

Re: Proposed substitution for ACLs

1999-07-22 Thread Sergey Babkin
Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Sergey Babkin wrote: > > > > I want to propose a simple substitution for ACLs. No, here > > is no patch yet but I'm ready and willing to do it. The reason > > why I want to discuss it first is that this is a Political Thing. > > And if the Core Team decides that it's a

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-22 Thread Vincent Poy
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > Greetings everyone, > > > > What are the current good motherboards for FreeBSD for the pentium > > II and III? I know on the Pentium, it was the ASUS board but for the > > PII/PIII, is the Abit the better board

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-07-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Well, if you're running it as a kernel module then obviously you need root > > permissions to load it. If it's running as a userland process, then > > there's no reason why you can't run it as a user. mou

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-22 Thread Doug
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > What are the current good motherboards for FreeBSD for the pentium > II and III? I know on the Pentium, it was the ASUS board but for the > PII/PIII, is the Abit the better board? Also, I was wondering what is the > fastest

Re: Proposed substitution for ACLs

1999-07-22 Thread Sergey Babkin
Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Sergey Babkin wrote: > > > > I want to propose a simple substitution for ACLs. No, here > > is no patch yet but I'm ready and willing to do it. The reason > > why I want to discuss it first is that this is a Political Thing. > > And if the Core Team decides that it's

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-22 Thread Vincent Poy
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > Greetings everyone, > > > > What are the current good motherboards for FreeBSD for the pentium > > II and III? I know on the Pentium, it was the ASUS board but for the > > PII/PIII, is the Abit the better boar

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-07-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Well, if you're running it as a kernel module then obviously you need root > > permissions to load it. If it's running as a userland process, then > > there's no reason why you can't run it as a user. mo

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-22 Thread Doug
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > What are the current good motherboards for FreeBSD for the pentium > II and III? I know on the Pentium, it was the ASUS board but for the > PII/PIII, is the Abit the better board? Also, I was wondering what is the > fastes

New patch fpr uipc_socket.c (was Squid - a bug in src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c)

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
I believe this will solve the previously reported problems. With the original patch if I set net.inet.tcp.sendspace=63 and tried to run xterm from that machine to my local workstation, I got an X error. If I set sendspace=31 the xterm process just locked up and did nothing unt

Re: IDE breakage

1999-07-22 Thread Wes Peters
Julian Elischer wrote: > > My fault > > I accidentally replaced a PAGE_MASK with a PAGE_SIZE. > the resulting bug only changes teh behaviour on unaligned pages > which are only possible on the raw device. > (e.g. fsck) > > the Cyrix 5530 we used to test has a bug where we cannot do unalligned >

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-22 Thread Vincent Poy
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > Greetings everyone, > > > > What are the current good motherboards for FreeBSD for the pentium > > II and III? I know on the Pentium, it was the ASUS board but for the > > PII/PIII, is the Abit

Re: InterMezzo: Project for kernel/FS hackers

1999-07-22 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
I'm working with intermezzo now. It's interesting. Note that the VFS is quite simple, and defines a simple kernel-user channel which maps VFS ops to requests on an IPC channel. The possibilities are endless ... A freebsd port would be nice. Maybe you could use v9fs as a starting point. ron

Re: mbuf leakage in NFSv3 writes, possbile?

1999-07-22 Thread David E. Cross
Well, I just -STABLED the server to see if it fixed it, but I was certainly running out. the server had only 3000-ish mbuf chains, and it would go through them all in a day. -- David Cross | email: cro...@cs.rpi.edu Systems Administrator/Research Programmer | Web: h

Re: mbuf leakage in NFSv3 writes, possbile?

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I have 2 NFS servers. One is primarily read-only, the other read-write, they :service the same clients (the read-only services more). They are (were) of :the same build. I have a problem on the read/write server where it chews :through mbuf clusters (it goes through about 3k in a day). Especia

mbuf leakage in NFSv3 writes, possbile?

1999-07-22 Thread David E. Cross
I have 2 NFS servers. One is primarily read-only, the other read-write, they service the same clients (the read-only services more). They are (were) of the same build. I have a problem on the read/write server where it chews through mbuf clusters (it goes through about 3k in a day). Especially

New patch fpr uipc_socket.c (was Squid - a bug in src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c)

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
I believe this will solve the previously reported problems. With the original patch if I set net.inet.tcp.sendspace=63 and tried to run xterm from that machine to my local workstation, I got an X error. If I set sendspace=31 the xterm process just locked up and did nothing un

Re: RE: Squid - a bug in src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
::It's been committed before, and broke many things (X and CVSup come to ::mind). I have it compiled in locally on a few machines but it's ::definitely not suitable for general distribution until a solution is ::found that doesn't break applications. :: ::Jason Young ::accessUS Chief Network Engin

Re: RE: Squid - a bug in src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :It's been committed before, and broke many things (X and CVSup come to :mind). I have it compiled in locally on a few machines but it's :definitely not suitable for general distribution until a solution is :found that doesn't break applications. : :Jason Young :accessUS Chief Network Engineer

Re: IDE breakage

1999-07-22 Thread Wes Peters
Julian Elischer wrote: > > My fault > > I accidentally replaced a PAGE_MASK with a PAGE_SIZE. > the resulting bug only changes teh behaviour on unaligned pages > which are only possible on the raw device. > (e.g. fsck) > > the Cyrix 5530 we used to test has a bug where we cannot do unalligned

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-22 Thread Vincent Poy
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > Greetings everyone, > > > > What are the current good motherboards for FreeBSD for the pentium > > II and III? I know on the Pentium, it was the ASUS board but for the > > PII/PIII, is the Abit

RE: Squid - a bug in src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c

1999-07-22 Thread Jaye Mathisen
Maybe it could be made a sysctl knob... On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Jason Young wrote: > > It's been committed before, and broke many things (X and CVSup come to > mind). I have it compiled in locally on a few machines but it's > definitely not suitable for general distribution until a solution is > f

InterMezzo: Project for kernel/FS hackers

1999-07-22 Thread Nik Clayton
Hi chaps, Not entirely sure which list to post this too, so I figured that -hackers was probably most appropriate. Has anyone had the chance to look at InterMezzo, website at http://www.inter-mezzo.org/ It's main claim to fame is that it allows disconnected operation. For example, you coul

RE: Squid - a bug in src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c

1999-07-22 Thread Jason Young
It's been committed before, and broke many things (X and CVSup come to mind). I have it compiled in locally on a few machines but it's definitely not suitable for general distribution until a solution is found that doesn't break applications. Jason Young accessUS Chief Network Engineer > -O

Re: InterMezzo: Project for kernel/FS hackers

1999-07-22 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
I'm working with intermezzo now. It's interesting. Note that the VFS is quite simple, and defines a simple kernel-user channel which maps VFS ops to requests on an IPC channel. The possibilities are endless ... A freebsd port would be nice. Maybe you could use v9fs as a starting point. ron

Re: mbuf leakage in NFSv3 writes, possbile?

1999-07-22 Thread David E. Cross
Well, I just -STABLED the server to see if it fixed it, but I was certainly running out. the server had only 3000-ish mbuf chains, and it would go through them all in a day. -- David Cross | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator/Research Programmer | Web:

Re: mbuf leakage in NFSv3 writes, possbile?

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I have 2 NFS servers. One is primarily read-only, the other read-write, they :service the same clients (the read-only services more). They are (were) of :the same build. I have a problem on the read/write server where it chews :through mbuf clusters (it goes through about 3k in a day). Especi

Re: Will FreeBSD ever see native IPv6 ??

1999-07-22 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to John Hay: > in their TODO for the past few months, I can't find anything that > indicates that they or anyone else is working on it. They may be, but I assure you they're working on it. Problem is they also have day jobs and some part of integration is complicated by export controls (

mbuf leakage in NFSv3 writes, possbile?

1999-07-22 Thread David E. Cross
I have 2 NFS servers. One is primarily read-only, the other read-write, they service the same clients (the read-only services more). They are (were) of the same build. I have a problem on the read/write server where it chews through mbuf clusters (it goes through about 3k in a day). Especially

Re: RE: Squid - a bug in src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
::It's been committed before, and broke many things (X and CVSup come to ::mind). I have it compiled in locally on a few machines but it's ::definitely not suitable for general distribution until a solution is ::found that doesn't break applications. :: ::Jason Young ::accessUS Chief Network Engi

Re: Proposal for new syscall to close files

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi, : : I like this approach. I have a number of often spawned daemon :processes that could benefit from this. One of the last process :we debugged where we had unwanted open filedescriptors was in :programs invoked by the cvs loginfo script. : : For naming convention considerations, I might s

Re: RE: Squid - a bug in src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :It's been committed before, and broke many things (X and CVSup come to :mind). I have it compiled in locally on a few machines but it's :definitely not suitable for general distribution until a solution is :found that doesn't break applications. : :Jason Young :accessUS Chief Network Engineer

RE: Squid - a bug in src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c

1999-07-22 Thread Jaye Mathisen
Maybe it could be made a sysctl knob... On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Jason Young wrote: > > It's been committed before, and broke many things (X and CVSup come to > mind). I have it compiled in locally on a few machines but it's > definitely not suitable for general distribution until a solution is >

InterMezzo: Project for kernel/FS hackers

1999-07-22 Thread Nik Clayton
Hi chaps, Not entirely sure which list to post this too, so I figured that -hackers was probably most appropriate. Has anyone had the chance to look at InterMezzo, website at http://www.inter-mezzo.org/ It's main claim to fame is that it allows disconnected operation. For example, you cou

RE: Squid - a bug in src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c

1999-07-22 Thread Jason Young
It's been committed before, and broke many things (X and CVSup come to mind). I have it compiled in locally on a few machines but it's definitely not suitable for general distribution until a solution is found that doesn't break applications. Jason Young accessUS Chief Network Engineer > -

Re: Squid - a bug in src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
This isn't really a bug since this is a TCP connection. TCP makes no guarentees that atomic writes will show up as atomic reads, and the squid code shouldn't be making that assumption. On the otherhand, the proposed fix appears to be an excellent performance optimization. It

SURVEY: Sound cards that work under FreeBSD

1999-07-22 Thread John Reynolds~
Hello all, I'm working with Nik Clayton to update FAQ 3.15 to give a more comprehensive list of sound cards known to work with FreeBSD. That's why I'm sending out this template to this list. Please take the time to fill it out with information regarding your sound card so that we can compile a be

Re: Will FreeBSD ever see native IPv6 ??

1999-07-22 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to John Hay: > in their TODO for the past few months, I can't find anything that > indicates that they or anyone else is working on it. They may be, but I assure you they're working on it. Problem is they also have day jobs and some part of integration is complicated by export controls

Re: Proposal for new syscall to close files

1999-07-22 Thread Julian Elischer
I am not sure I see a need for this syscall... julian On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: > "John W. DeBoskey" wrote: > > I like this approach. I have a number of often spawned daemon > >processes that could benefit from this. > I don't suppose that you have any statistics showing that t

rndcontrol and SMP

1999-07-22 Thread sthaug
rndcontrol doesn't work very well for SMP systems. I have a system here with IRQs 16 and 18 for Ethernet and SCSI: fxp0: rev 0x05 int a irq 18 on pci0.10.0 ahc0: rev 0x00 int a irq 16 on pci0.12.0 and I'd like to use these with rndcontrol. However, the ioctl chokes on IRQ >= 16. From i386/i386

Re: Will FreeBSD ever see native IPv6 ??

1999-07-22 Thread Julian Elischer
they ARE doing it, but they haven't got the merged TCP stack quite right they are not publically anouncing anything till it works... On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, John Hay wrote: > Are you just teasing or are you serious? > > I searched through their site (again), but except for being mentioned > in thei

Re: Proposal for new syscall to close files

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi, : : I like this approach. I have a number of often spawned daemon :processes that could benefit from this. One of the last process :we debugged where we had unwanted open filedescriptors was in :programs invoked by the cvs loginfo script. : : For naming convention considerations, I might

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-22 Thread Kenton A. Hoover
You can hijack the MAC address after the CAM table (not ARP cache) times out for the switches. However, you can't just listen to their traffic unless you're on a span port (and span ports don't always work correctly). VLANing has a number of goals, of which you are listing only one. Another i

Re: Squid - a bug in src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
This isn't really a bug since this is a TCP connection. TCP makes no guarentees that atomic writes will show up as atomic reads, and the squid code shouldn't be making that assumption. On the otherhand, the proposed fix appears to be an excellent performance optimization. I

SURVEY: Sound cards that work under FreeBSD

1999-07-22 Thread John Reynolds~
Hello all, I'm working with Nik Clayton to update FAQ 3.15 to give a more comprehensive list of sound cards known to work with FreeBSD. That's why I'm sending out this template to this list. Please take the time to fill it out with information regarding your sound card so that we can compile a b

Re: Proposal for new syscall to close files

1999-07-22 Thread Julian Elischer
I am not sure I see a need for this syscall... julian On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: > "John W. DeBoskey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like this approach. I have a number of often spawned daemon > >processes that could benefit from this. > I don't suppose that you have any stati

Re: IDE breakage

1999-07-22 Thread Julian Elischer
My fault I accidentally replaced a PAGE_MASK with a PAGE_SIZE. the resulting bug only changes teh behaviour on unaligned pages which are only possible on the raw device. (e.g. fsck) the Cyrix 5530 we used to test has a bug where we cannot do unalligned transfers by DMA anyhow, so we never hit th

Re: FreeBSD: the stealth OS?

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:51:38AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Matthew Dillon remarked > > I love the quote by Matthew Fuller at the end: > > "There's a lot of things that Linux is 'better' at, and a > lot of things FreeBSD is 'better' at, and a lot of those > things can e

rndcontrol and SMP

1999-07-22 Thread sthaug
rndcontrol doesn't work very well for SMP systems. I have a system here with IRQs 16 and 18 for Ethernet and SCSI: fxp0: rev 0x05 int a irq 18 on pci0.10.0 ahc0: rev 0x00 int a irq 16 on pci0.12.0 and I'd like to use these with rndcontrol. However, the ioctl chokes on IRQ >= 16. From i386/i386

Re: Will FreeBSD ever see native IPv6 ??

1999-07-22 Thread Julian Elischer
they ARE doing it, but they haven't got the merged TCP stack quite right they are not publically anouncing anything till it works... On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, John Hay wrote: > Are you just teasing or are you serious? > > I searched through their site (again), but except for being mentioned > in the

rtprio and fifo's

1999-07-22 Thread Kevin Day
I know the evils associated with using rtprio, but I have a real real-time application that needs to service data very quickly when it is needed from a piece of hardware. This daemon reads from a special device. The driver's read handler puts it to sleep, and wakes it back up when an interrupt co

Re: poor ethernet performance?

1999-07-22 Thread Kenton A. Hoover
You can hijack the MAC address after the CAM table (not ARP cache) times out for the switches. However, you can't just listen to their traffic unless you're on a span port (and span ports don't always work correctly). VLANing has a number of goals, of which you are listing only one. Another

Re: IDE breakage

1999-07-22 Thread Julian Elischer
My fault I accidentally replaced a PAGE_MASK with a PAGE_SIZE. the resulting bug only changes teh behaviour on unaligned pages which are only possible on the raw device. (e.g. fsck) the Cyrix 5530 we used to test has a bug where we cannot do unalligned transfers by DMA anyhow, so we never hit t

Re: FreeBSD: the stealth OS?

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:51:38AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Matthew Dillon remarked > > I love the quote by Matthew Fuller at the end: > > "There's a lot of things that Linux is 'better' at, and a > lot of things FreeBSD is 'better' at, and a lot of those > things can

Squid - a bug in src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c

1999-07-22 Thread Papezik Milon
Hi, please don't kill me if it's "well known issue": I've found that there is a report on Squid site, which describes a problem with FreeBSD IPC and includes suggested fix. I verified that this suggested fix is not included in 3.2-RELEASE. I wonder, if it is really a bug, as I cannot find it in

Re: FreeBSD: the stealth OS?

1999-07-22 Thread Wes Peters
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Cool with the geeks beecause it's "unknown". > : > :http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp > : > :Len > > I love the quote by Matthew Fuller at the end: > > "There's a lot of things that Linux is 'better' at, and a > lot of things FreeBSD is 'better' at, and

rtprio and fifo's

1999-07-22 Thread Kevin Day
I know the evils associated with using rtprio, but I have a real real-time application that needs to service data very quickly when it is needed from a piece of hardware. This daemon reads from a special device. The driver's read handler puts it to sleep, and wakes it back up when an interrupt c

Squid - a bug in src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c

1999-07-22 Thread Papezik Milon
Hi, please don't kill me if it's "well known issue": I've found that there is a report on Squid site, which describes a problem with FreeBSD IPC and includes suggested fix. I verified that this suggested fix is not included in 3.2-RELEASE. I wonder, if it is really a bug, as I cannot find it in

Re: FreeBSD: the stealth OS?

1999-07-22 Thread Wes Peters
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Cool with the geeks beecause it's "unknown". > : > :http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp > : > :Len > > I love the quote by Matthew Fuller at the end: > > "There's a lot of things that Linux is 'better' at, and a > lot of things FreeBSD is 'better' at, and

RE: 1373 sound chip

1999-07-22 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Brian McGroarty wrote: > There's a patch for the 1371 floating around that seems to work for the 1373 > as well. > > Search the archive of FreeBSD-questions for "1371". > > Last I saw, the search page was still confused - you need to put "1371" in > the web search field at t

Re: Anyone know how to dim and SGI flat panel?

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :XFree86 has an i2c driver in it for talking to monitors so it sounds as if :it should see it. : :-- :Doug RabsonMail: d...@nlsystems.com :Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 : :... : :That is how I believe that DMPS communications are tra

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-07-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Tiny Non Cats wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 10:06:04AM -0400 David E. Cross said: > > Since I am planning on writing userfs in order to impliment 'nsd' (and > > > This may be completely useless, because I've not been following what you want > to do with 'nsd', but you may f

Re: [FreeBSD-net-jp 1746] [FYI] Adaptec AIC-6915 "Starfire" ethernet controller driver and plus question compaq presario dec et

1999-07-22 Thread Warner Losh
[[ Warning, you'll need something which can display Kanji to be able to read what I've written. I'm using mule and netscape. I've tried to make the non-Japanese parts separate enough that if you only understand English and have only english viewing programs, you can safely ignore the

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-07-22 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Well, if you're running it as a kernel module then obviously you need root > permissions to load it. If it's running as a userland process, then > there's no reason why you can't run it as a user. mount presumably > wouldn't care as long as you had acces

Looking for (commercial?) bandwith on NetBSD/FreeBSD machines

1999-07-22 Thread Julian Assange
I'm involved in a linguistic analysis project which requires reasonable quantities of bandwidth. Due to duopolistic price-fixing, and volume-charing obtaining this bandwith in Australia is a very expensive proposition indeed (US$0.13/Mb!). I'm trying to find a co-hosting (or equivalent) solution,

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-07-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > what if you're not root, and you want to add your own file system to your > file system name space? It seems a lot of these systems assume root > access, which seems unrealistic to me. Well, if you're running it as a kernel module then obviously you

Re: FreeBSD: the stealth OS?

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Cool with the geeks beecause it's "unknown". : :http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp : :Len I love the quote by Matthew Fuller at the end: "There's a lot of things that Linux is 'better' at, and a lot of things FreeBSD is 'better' at, and a lot of those things can easily fluctu

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-07-22 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
what if you're not root, and you want to add your own file system to your file system name space? It seems a lot of these systems assume root access, which seems unrealistic to me. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the mess

Update on Adaptec AIC-6915 "starfire" driver

1999-07-22 Thread Bill Paul
I haven't received any feedback yet on the Adaptec "Starfire" driver, however I made a few updates that people should know about: - I created a version of the driver for FreeBSD 2.2.x. You can find it at http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Adaptec/2.2. Note: while I have verified that this code comp

RE: 1373 sound chip

1999-07-22 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Brian McGroarty wrote: > There's a patch for the 1371 floating around that seems to work for the 1373 > as well. > > Search the archive of FreeBSD-questions for "1371". > > Last I saw, the search page was still confused - you need to put "1371" in > the web search field at

Re: Anyone know how to dim and SGI flat panel?

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :XFree86 has an i2c driver in it for talking to monitors so it sounds as if :it should see it. : :-- :Doug RabsonMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 : :... : :That is how I believe that DMPS communications are tra

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-07-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Tiny Non Cats wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 10:06:04AM -0400 David E. Cross said: > > Since I am planning on writing userfs in order to impliment 'nsd' (and > > > This may be completely useless, because I've not been following what you want > to do with 'nsd', but you may

Re: [FreeBSD-net-jp 1746] [FYI] Adaptec AIC-6915 "Starfire" ethernet controller driver and plus question compaq presario dec et

1999-07-22 Thread Warner Losh
[[ Warning, you'll need something which can display Kanji to be able to read what I've written. I'm using mule and netscape. I've tried to make the non-Japanese parts separate enough that if you only understand English and have only english viewing programs, you can safely ignore the

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU'

1999-07-22 Thread Don Read
On 22-Jul-99 Jorge Biquez wrote: > I hope this helps. > I'm running version 3.1 on ASUS Pentium III double processor. Just a Rocket! > No problems at all on the installation all the SCSI ports were > recognized my entire machine cost me 2000 USD...similar one of a famous > brabd...at least 6,0

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-07-22 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Well, if you're running it as a kernel module then obviously you need root > permissions to load it. If it's running as a userland process, then > there's no reason why you can't run it as a user. mount presumably > wouldn't care as long as you had acce

Looking for (commercial?) bandwith on NetBSD/FreeBSD machines

1999-07-22 Thread Julian Assange
I'm involved in a linguistic analysis project which requires reasonable quantities of bandwidth. Due to duopolistic price-fixing, and volume-charing obtaining this bandwith in Australia is a very expensive proposition indeed (US$0.13/Mb!). I'm trying to find a co-hosting (or equivalent) solution,

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-07-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > what if you're not root, and you want to add your own file system to your > file system name space? It seems a lot of these systems assume root > access, which seems unrealistic to me. Well, if you're running it as a kernel module then obviously yo

Re: FreeBSD: the stealth OS?

1999-07-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Cool with the geeks beecause it's "unknown". : :http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp : :Len I love the quote by Matthew Fuller at the end: "There's a lot of things that Linux is 'better' at, and a lot of things FreeBSD is 'better' at, and a lot of those things can easily fluct

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-07-22 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
what if you're not root, and you want to add your own file system to your file system name space? It seems a lot of these systems assume root access, which seems unrealistic to me. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-07-22 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
One last thing: if you're writing userfs you might want to look at www.inter-mezzo.org ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Update on Adaptec AIC-6915 "starfire" driver

1999-07-22 Thread Bill Paul
I haven't received any feedback yet on the Adaptec "Starfire" driver, however I made a few updates that people should know about: - I created a version of the driver for FreeBSD 2.2.x. You can find it at http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Adaptec/2.2. Note: while I have verified that this code com

Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD, and userfs too.

1999-07-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > This is starting to get icky. This is also where the earlier idea of a > userspace filesystem would probably fare better, in terms of both > performance and simplicity. Maybe I don't get how this userspace filesystem is going to be set out (for the

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-22 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > What are the current good motherboards for FreeBSD for the pentium > II and III? I know on the Pentium, it was the ASUS board but for the > PII/PIII, is the Abit the better board? Also, I was wondering what is the > fastest

Re: > arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 255.255.255.0rt

1999-07-22 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:30:28AM -0400, Jung, Michael wrote: > I started getting these messages in the daily security output. > > > arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 255.255.255.0rt > > arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 255.255.255.0rt > > arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 255.25

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU'

1999-07-22 Thread Don Read
On 22-Jul-99 Jorge Biquez wrote: > I hope this helps. > I'm running version 3.1 on ASUS Pentium III double processor. Just a Rocket! > No problems at all on the installation all the SCSI ports were > recognized my entire machine cost me 2000 USD...similar one of a famous > brabd...at least 6,

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-07-22 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
One last thing: if you're writing userfs you might want to look at www.inter-mezzo.org ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: [FreeBSD-net-jp 1746] [FYI] Adaptec AIC-6915 "Starfire" ethernet controller driver and plus question compaq presario dec et and * trancelate for english

1999-07-22 Thread aladdin
heloo all - Original Message - From: Bill Paul To: morita Cc: Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 11:00 PM Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-net-jp 1746] [FYI] Adaptec AIC-6915 "Starfire" ethernet controller driver and plus question compaq presario dec et > Of all the gin joints in all the towns in al

Re: [FreeBSD-users-jp 44304] de0 is availa ble or not? (re:) using nic de0 of  peaple much in ja pan

1999-07-22 Thread jir ですうう
ji です。 > > 高橋です。 takahashi san > > > 動かなかった環境 no move envilonment > ・10baseのバカHUB > ・接続相手はNE2000互換の10baseなNIC > ・ifconfigでmediaを指定しても "de0: link down: cable problem?" がで す。 > good move envilonment > 動いた環境 > ・10/100のデュアルスピードHUB(Autonegotiation有) > ・接続相手はVIA VT86C100Aチップを使ったNIC > ・ifconfigでmediaは特に指定

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