Ben Rosengart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 12 Nov 1999, Assar Westerlund wrote:
>
> > Other than that, I think the
> > `make -j4' suggested for a single CPU in the handbook is a fairly good
> > approximation.
>
> On what basis?
Simple experiments on various machines. YMMV, but I think that
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 03:49:31PM -0700, Alec Wolman wrote:
> > Digital Unix, aka Compaq Tru64 Unix, formerly know as DEC OSF/1
> > supports this syntax. In fact, this is the only syntax it supports,
> > IIRC, so FreeBSD is not the only OS to use it.
Ultrix was the one that only suported this s
On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 03:06:26AM +0100, Bjoern Fischer wrote:
> Which egcs would you recommend, if I want to minimize the hassle to
> switch from that egcs to the FreeBSD4.x native egcs?
/usr/ports/lang/egcs. It is the one that is released code.
``gcc-devel'' is equivent to our -CURRENT and ca
Hello,
as it seems that egcs will be *the* C-compiler
in FreeBSD4.x I would like to use it in -STABLE, too.
There are at least two ports for egcs: lang/egcs and
lang/gcc-devel. I want to use a version that is
likely to be used in the first release of 4.x, or---at
least---the version that is most
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> Generally on FreeBSD machines that are otherwise unused and flush with
> memory, the formula I've seen for n is 4 * #CPU.
Thank you -- I didn't need a precise answer, just a good heuristic.
This will do nicely.
--
Ben Rosengart
UNIX Systems Engineer,
[.]
> I believe that Brian has also had the same problems (at FreeBSDCon).
>
> Can people put their hands up if they believe that they've experienced this
> so that we can determine whether there's a deeper softupdates problem that
> we're ignoring on faith?
I have to admit that I had a rath
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nate Williams writes:
: Is there a way to look at a compiled file to see if it was compiled as
: PIC? I've got some .o files that I don't have source code to, but
: before I throw them into a shlib, I need to know if they are legal to
: put into one?
You can likely
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ben Rosengart
writes:
: On what basis? I usually use larger values, like 12, on the theory that
: I have more than enough memory, and if there's free CPU, there should
: always be a process available to use it.
People have measured things and found that the knee i
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ben Rosengart
writes:
: D'oh -- I *meant* to add "besides trying different values and measuring"
: -- if I had that much time on my hands, I wouldn't be worrying about how
: long a make world takes. :-)
Generally on FreeBSD machines that are otherwise unused and f
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ollivier Robert writes:
: NAT breaks too many things (like IPsec, incoming connections and many
: protocols) to be anything else than an abomination in my eyes.
It breaks any protocol that encodes an IP address and/or a port into
the data stream. Without datastream
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 08:11:49PM +, Josef Karthauser wrote:
>
> Kirk mentioned that he was confident that softupdates was 'safe', but I've
> had files (from a previous crash - recovered from) in lost+found that I
> didn't touch, and no-way should have become disconnected from the file
> sys
Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm still trying to recover my laptop from a really severe filesystem
> crash using softupdates. The machine hung due to a problem with
> power managment so it needed a reboot. Now fsck won't clean up without
Out of curiousity, did you get thi
:
:Yup, byte range locking fcntl APIs are present but over NFS they don't work.
:
:So shouldn't one be able to get entire-file locking with the old-fashioned:
:
: open("foo.lockfile", O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0644)
:
:You would think so, but my experience is that reliably protects critical
:sections onl
Is there a way to look at a compiled file to see if it was compiled as
PIC? I've got some .o files that I don't have source code to, but
before I throw them into a shlib, I need to know if they are legal to
put into one?
Thanks!
Nate
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On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 03:39:41PM +0300, Sergey Shkonda wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:08 +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 01:02:14PM +0300, Sergey Shkonda wrote:
> > > I'm using this patch for cdcontrol(1):
> > >
> > > cdidPrint the xmcd's CD id.
> >
> > Is t
hi,
I would like to controle the execution of the cgi on my machine
(specially the path used by the scripts)
each client as a unique group id / user id. the binarie I
want to control are either some standard FreeBSD in a chrooted enviromnent or
the cgi scripts launched by suexec (largely customi
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Kip Macy wrote:
>
> > That is the same specious logic that is used for Linux's "threads" you
> > have diminishing marginal returns as the number gets larger due to context
> > switching overhead.
>
> Diminishing *marginal* returns
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Robert Watson wrote:
> Well, presumably at some point your memory working set exceeds your CPU
> cache, and that begins to hurt. And then at some point your working
> memory pages exceed the available space, and you begin to page.
I've been working with systems with 512 MB
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 10:14:12PM -0500, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
> > Also if anyone knows how to recover from it I'd be very grateful to know.
> > My /usr partition is uncleanable (although I can 'mount -f' it!! nasty!!).
>
> Hmm. I suppose the answer is still "one error at a time". There are
> p
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
> Hmm. I've had something similar recently, also running -CURRENT. I
> still need to clean out the lost+found directory, but many of the
> files hadn't been touched for months. I think that the problem was
I had a crash like this on 3.1 -STABLE box.
On Thursday, 11 November 1999 at 20:11:49 +, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm still trying to recover my laptop from a really severe filesystem
> crash using softupdates. The machine hung due to a problem with
> power managment so it needed a reboot. Now fsck won't clean up without
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:45:52 +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> Your Perl binary is compiled without '-Wl,-E' (or
> '-Wl,--export-dynamic'). Without this option the Perl binary doesn't
> expoert its symbols thus preventing any dynamically loaded module to
> use anything from the binary.
>
> The o
> > If you're interested in sharing your work, I have a DNA ('shark') here
> > that was loaned to the Project for just this purpose. I'd be really
> > interested to see your cross-build bits integrated into our tree ASAP.
>
> I'd really like this to happens too but right now I think that would b
Hello!
I am currently porting my compiler to the release 3.3. My RT lib depends
on /usr/lib/libc.a. When attempting to link a program, I get messages about
unresolved externals (it DOES work on release 2.x).
I have seen that the C compiler no longer generates underscores on
symbols by default a
> What could the possible explanation be in the following scenario:
There are dozens of possible explanations.
> We have:
>
> arbitrary chip <---localbus---> pci controller <===pcibus===>
> BX Motherboard <--> RAM
>
> And somewhere in the transfer of blocks of data between the chip (on the
It looks pretty thorough but needs more examination that I have given it
yet.
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Bosko Milekic wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Attached are some diffs that provide a couple of wait routines in the
> out-of-mbuf and/or out-of-mbuf-cluster case(s). The attached diffs are for -STABLE
>
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