Re: Fix/tuning to improve slow NFS writes?

1999-08-08 Thread Doug
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : So, the big question is whether there is anything we can tune to speed up > :the writes. The freebsd machines are NFS clients to the sun servers doing > :most of the web processing. Overall performance on the reads seems to be > :best with nfs v3 over udp, which

Re: Fix/tuning to improve slow NFS writes?

1999-08-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
: So, the big question is whether there is anything we can tune to speed up :the writes. The freebsd machines are NFS clients to the sun servers doing :most of the web processing. Overall performance on the reads seems to be :best with nfs v3 over udp, which is what I'm using now. All of the

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-08 Thread Biju Susmer
> > Odd, all of the machines that I've seen shipped lately have their > CDROMs on a secondary IDE controller as SLAVE with no master. Works > great, and the FreeBSD drivers work well when hacked to not require > a master fo there to be a slave i commented out one line in wd.c, wdprobe() and i

Re: Access to keyboard without video.

1999-08-08 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>> In FreeBSD version 3.1 or later, the keyboard controller atkbdc(4) and >> AT keyboard driver atkbd(4) will give you access to the keyboard even >> when there is no video card. > Thanks, I read the source and found the CDEV stuff... I had to >disable the sc0 device to get access to it. a

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-08 Thread Biju Susmer
> > Odd, all of the machines that I've seen shipped lately have their > CDROMs on a secondary IDE controller as SLAVE with no master. Works > great, and the FreeBSD drivers work well when hacked to not require > a master fo there to be a slave i commented out one line in wd.c, wdprobe() and

Re: Access to keyboard without video.

1999-08-08 Thread Jay Kuri
> In FreeBSD version 3.1 or later, the keyboard controller atkbdc(4) and > AT keyboard driver atkbd(4) will give you access to the keyboard even > when there is no video card. Thanks, I read the source and found the CDEV stuff... I had to disable the sc0 device to get access to it. and th

Re: Access to keyboard without video.

1999-08-08 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>> In FreeBSD version 3.1 or later, the keyboard controller atkbdc(4) and >> AT keyboard driver atkbd(4) will give you access to the keyboard even >> when there is no video card. > Thanks, I read the source and found the CDEV stuff... I had to >disable the sc0 device to get access to it.

Fix/tuning to improve slow NFS writes?

1999-08-08 Thread Doug
Well my NFS reliability at work has gone way up, to the point where we are now having time to look at the finer things in life, like performance tuning. Performance on reads has been quite good, but when the cgi scripts that the users are running on these machines have large writes to do (

Re: Access to keyboard without video.

1999-08-08 Thread Jay Kuri
> In FreeBSD version 3.1 or later, the keyboard controller atkbdc(4) and > AT keyboard driver atkbd(4) will give you access to the keyboard even > when there is no video card. Thanks, I read the source and found the CDEV stuff... I had to disable the sc0 device to get access to it. and t

gethostbyaddr() and threads.

1999-08-08 Thread Dan Moschuk
Greetings, After quite an exhausting night (of all the ways I didn't want to spend my Sunday...) I've managed to track down a problem that has been frustrating me all night. The problem exists with multiple threads calling gethostbyaddr() (not necessarily at the same time). Here's a debug out

Re: Parallel Zip Drive on FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE

1999-08-08 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Sorry, I wasn't aware that the parallel port SCSI stuff had been CAM'd yet. - Jordan > In message <11366.934157...@localhost> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > : > I have a parallel port Iomega Zip Drive. I have installed 3.2-RELEASE an d > : > although the vpo0 is detected it does not see da0, and

Re: Parallel Zip Drive on FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE

1999-08-08 Thread Warner Losh
In message <11366.934157...@localhost> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: : > I have a parallel port Iomega Zip Drive. I have installed 3.2-RELEASE and : > although the vpo0 is detected it does not see da0, and when I try "mount -t : : I'm not surprised, since da0 would be a SCSI device. But vpo0 is a

Re: Parallel Zip Drive on FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE

1999-08-08 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I have a parallel port Iomega Zip Drive. I have installed 3.2-RELEASE and > although the vpo0 is detected it does not see da0, and when I try "mount -t I'm not surprised, since da0 would be a SCSI device. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-h

Fix/tuning to improve slow NFS writes?

1999-08-08 Thread Doug
Well my NFS reliability at work has gone way up, to the point where we are now having time to look at the finer things in life, like performance tuning. Performance on reads has been quite good, but when the cgi scripts that the users are running on these machines have large writes to do (

gethostbyaddr() and threads.

1999-08-08 Thread Dan Moschuk
Greetings, After quite an exhausting night (of all the ways I didn't want to spend my Sunday...) I've managed to track down a problem that has been frustrating me all night. The problem exists with multiple threads calling gethostbyaddr() (not necessarily at the same time). Here's a debug ou

Re: Parallel Zip Drive on FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE

1999-08-08 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Sorry, I wasn't aware that the parallel port SCSI stuff had been CAM'd yet. - Jordan > In message <11366.934157821@localhost> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > : > I have a parallel port Iomega Zip Drive. I have installed 3.2-RELEASE an d > : > although the vpo0 is detected it does not see da0, and

Re: Parallel Zip Drive on FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE

1999-08-08 Thread Warner Losh
In message <11366.934157821@localhost> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: : > I have a parallel port Iomega Zip Drive. I have installed 3.2-RELEASE and : > although the vpo0 is detected it does not see da0, and when I try "mount -t : : I'm not surprised, since da0 would be a SCSI device. But vpo0 is a

Re: Parallel Zip Drive on FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE

1999-08-08 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I have a parallel port Iomega Zip Drive. I have installed 3.2-RELEASE and > although the vpo0 is detected it does not see da0, and when I try "mount -t I'm not surprised, since da0 would be a SCSI device. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hack

Re: rc addition proposal: mixer

1999-08-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
Brian F. Feldman wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > I envision something like the following being available in /etc/rc, > since there are many people who set mixer default values at startup in > some random way. It would be nice to provide an easy way to do this. > I'd like to get a vote on wheth

New Joystick driver?

1999-08-08 Thread Joe Groff
I believe the joystick driver in FreeBSD could probably be redone, to support all the non-standard joysticks that many people (like me :) have. Having just recently converted to FreeBSD from Linux, though, I don't know the best way to go about it. Here are some ideas (sorry if my terminology is wro

Re: cvs

1999-08-08 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, John Polstra wrote: > > > *default umask=002 > > > > SetAttrs CVSROOT/commitlogs/other.981201.gz > > > > That seems to be doing the trick for everything. Thanks. > > Note, if you would have just _run_ the program with a umask of 2 > then it would have worked too. It honors

Re: rc addition proposal: mixer

1999-08-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
Brian F. Feldman wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > I envision something like the following being available in /etc/rc, > since there are many people who set mixer default values at startup in > some random way. It would be nice to provide an easy way to do this. > I'd like to get a vote on whet

New Joystick driver?

1999-08-08 Thread Joe Groff
I believe the joystick driver in FreeBSD could probably be redone, to support all the non-standard joysticks that many people (like me :) have. Having just recently converted to FreeBSD from Linux, though, I don't know the best way to go about it. Here are some ideas (sorry if my terminology is wr

Re: Parallel Zip Drive on FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE

1999-08-08 Thread Duncan Spooner
> 1. It's good that you included the dmesg, but without your kernel config > file, it's damn hard to know if you included everything correctly. -> Start of current kernel configuration: # # GENERIC -- Generic machine with WD/AHx/NCR/BTx family disks # machine "i386" cpu "I386_CPU" cpu

Re: cvs

1999-08-08 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, John Polstra wrote: > > > *default umask=002 > > > > SetAttrs CVSROOT/commitlogs/other.981201.gz > > > > That seems to be doing the trick for everything. Thanks. > > Note, if you would have just _run_ the program with a umask of 2 > then it would have worked too. It honor

Please review: New 'make upgrade' web page

1999-08-08 Thread Doug
Making good on a promise I made quite a while back I've put up a web page with hopefully comprehensive instructions on going from 2.2.8 to 3.x via 'make upgrade.' This page is aimed at a less experienced user and gives a step by step list of procedures to follow to help ensure maximum poss

Re: Parallel Zip Drive on FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE

1999-08-08 Thread Duncan Spooner
> 1. It's good that you included the dmesg, but without your kernel config > file, it's damn hard to know if you included everything correctly. -> Start of current kernel configuration: # # GENERIC -- Generic machine with WD/AHx/NCR/BTx family disks # machine "i386" cpu "I386_CPU" cpu

Parallel Zip Drive on FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE

1999-08-08 Thread Duncan Spooner
I have a parallel port Iomega Zip Drive. I have installed 3.2-RELEASE and although the vpo0 is detected it does not see da0, and when I try "mount -t msdos /dev/da0s4 /mnt" it gives me the error message "msdos: /dev/da0s4: Device not configured". I have added scbus0 and da0 to the kernel as well.

Re: cvs

1999-08-08 Thread John Polstra
Mike Pritchard wrote: >> >> Note, if you would have just _run_ the program with a umask of 2 >> then it would have worked too. It honors the umask setting unless >> overridden in the supfile. > > Yes, but if I ever run cvsup by hand I wind up with cvsup > going through my whole tree and resettin

Please review: New 'make upgrade' web page

1999-08-08 Thread Doug
Making good on a promise I made quite a while back I've put up a web page with hopefully comprehensive instructions on going from 2.2.8 to 3.x via 'make upgrade.' This page is aimed at a less experienced user and gives a step by step list of procedures to follow to help ensure maximum poss

Re: rc addition proposal: mixer

1999-08-08 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Osokin Sergey wrote: > > > > Now in current i use following script (aka mixer.sh) for install sound > environment: > > #!/bin/sh > mixer vol 36 > mixer synth 36 > mixer pcm 36 > mixer line 36 > mixer cd 68 > > Maybe add to rc.conf all features of mixer? > (aka vol, bass & e

Re: Routing Table Memory

1999-08-08 Thread Mike Smith
> > What flavor of memory tuning can be used to figure out how much the routing > table will have (and what tool can be used to monitor it, other than the > total usage shown in vmstat)? > > A machine with 64M refuses to allocate more than ~10M (about 36K routes) no > matter how many users or clu

Re: cvs

1999-08-08 Thread Mike Pritchard
> In article , > Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Mike Pritchard wrote: > > > > > *default umask=002 > > > > SetAttrs CVSROOT/commitlogs/other.981201.gz > > > > That seems to be doing the trick for everything. Thanks. > > Note, if you would have just _run_ the program with a umas

Parallel Zip Drive on FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE

1999-08-08 Thread Duncan Spooner
I have a parallel port Iomega Zip Drive. I have installed 3.2-RELEASE and although the vpo0 is detected it does not see da0, and when I try "mount -t msdos /dev/da0s4 /mnt" it gives me the error message "msdos: /dev/da0s4: Device not configured". I have added scbus0 and da0 to the kernel as well

Re: cvs

1999-08-08 Thread John Polstra
Mike Pritchard wrote: >> >> Note, if you would have just _run_ the program with a umask of 2 >> then it would have worked too. It honors the umask setting unless >> overridden in the supfile. > > Yes, but if I ever run cvsup by hand I wind up with cvsup > going through my whole tree and resetti

Re: rc addition proposal: mixer

1999-08-08 Thread Osokin Sergey
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > I envision something like the following being available in /etc/rc, > since there are many people who set mixer default values at startup in > some random way. It would be nice to provide an easy way to do this. > I'd like to get a vote on whether th

Re: rc addition proposal: mixer

1999-08-08 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Osokin Sergey wrote: > > > > Now in current i use following script (aka mixer.sh) for install sound > environment: > > #!/bin/sh > mixer vol 36 > mixer synth 36 > mixer pcm 36 > mixer line 36 > mixer cd 68 > > Maybe add to rc.conf all features of mixer? > (aka vol, bass &

Re: Routing Table Memory

1999-08-08 Thread Mike Smith
> > What flavor of memory tuning can be used to figure out how much the routing > table will have (and what tool can be used to monitor it, other than the > total usage shown in vmstat)? > > A machine with 64M refuses to allocate more than ~10M (about 36K routes) no > matter how many users or cl

Re: cvs

1999-08-08 Thread Mike Pritchard
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Bill Fumerola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Mike Pritchard wrote: > > > > > *default umask=002 > > > > SetAttrs CVSROOT/commitlogs/other.981201.gz > > > > That seems to be doing the trick for everything. Thanks. > > Note, if you would

Re: rc addition proposal: mixer

1999-08-08 Thread Osokin Sergey
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > I envision something like the following being available in /etc/rc, > since there are many people who set mixer default values at startup in > some random way. It would be nice to provide an easy way to do this. > I'd like to get a vote on whether t

Disk label recovery - request for suggestions.

1999-08-08 Thread Josef Karthauser
A few weeks ago I had a problem with a missing partition table and disklabel. Niall Smart forwarded me a small C program for scanning a drive for superblocks and rewriting a disklabel table. I'd like to do some work on integrating this into FreeBSD because it seems too useful to leave out. At th

Disk label recovery - request for suggestions.

1999-08-08 Thread Josef Karthauser
A few weeks ago I had a problem with a missing partition table and disklabel. Niall Smart forwarded me a small C program for scanning a drive for superblocks and rewriting a disklabel table. I'd like to do some work on integrating this into FreeBSD because it seems too useful to leave out. At t

Routing Table Memory

1999-08-08 Thread Dennis
What flavor of memory tuning can be used to figure out how much the routing table will have (and what tool can be used to monitor it, other than the total usage shown in vmstat)? A machine with 64M refuses to allocate more than ~10M (about 36K routes) no matter how many users or clusters are allo

Routing Table Memory

1999-08-08 Thread Dennis
What flavor of memory tuning can be used to figure out how much the routing table will have (and what tool can be used to monitor it, other than the total usage shown in vmstat)? A machine with 64M refuses to allocate more than ~10M (about 36K routes) no matter how many users or clusters are all

rc addition proposal: mixer

1999-08-08 Thread Brian F. Feldman
I envision something like the following being available in /etc/rc, since there are many people who set mixer default values at startup in some random way. It would be nice to provide an easy way to do this. I'd like to get a vote on whether this should be added or not. I'd do something like the f

rc addition proposal: mixer

1999-08-08 Thread Brian F. Feldman
I envision something like the following being available in /etc/rc, since there are many people who set mixer default values at startup in some random way. It would be nice to provide an easy way to do this. I'd like to get a vote on whether this should be added or not. I'd do something like the

Re: [Fwd: Please support FreeBSD 3.x as host OS]

1999-08-08 Thread Peter Mutsaers
>> "D" == Doug writes: D> On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 john_wilson...@excite.com wrote: >> This is kinda different from what the original poster received. >> Keep badgering! D> But ONLY if you ARE willing to pay for it if they make one. We D> don't need a repeat of the CDE debacle.

perl can't manify during make upgrade

1999-08-08 Thread Doug
Doing a make upgrade tonight I see the following errors (bunches of them). Manifying B::Showlex.3 ELF interpreter /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found Abort trap Manifying B::Stackobj.3 ELF interpreter /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found Abort trap Manifying B::Terse.3 ELF interpreter /usr/libexec/l

Re: [Fwd: Please support FreeBSD 3.x as host OS]

1999-08-08 Thread Peter Mutsaers
>> "D" == Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: D> On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> This is kinda different from what the original poster received. >> Keep badgering! D> But ONLY if you ARE willing to pay for it if they make one. We D> don't need a repeat of the CD

perl can't manify during make upgrade

1999-08-08 Thread Doug
Doing a make upgrade tonight I see the following errors (bunches of them). Manifying B::Showlex.3 ELF interpreter /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found Abort trap Manifying B::Stackobj.3 ELF interpreter /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 not found Abort trap Manifying B::Terse.3 ELF interpreter /usr/libexec/