Re: ATA w/ today's -CURRENT

1999-12-14 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Steve Ames wrote: > > > I've put them in recently to try to avoid runniing DMA on known > > problematic HW, but they will also reject some good ones > > regrettably... > > Hrm... any chance of making that a config option? People should be > allowed to hurt themselves if they want :) Or

Re: VM Scan Rate: Speed Kills on 3.3

1999-12-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Under certain circumstances the VM scan rate can spike into the millions/sec :(as reported by vmstat) followed quickly by a system lockup (an endless :loop in vm_pageout()), suggesting that the page queue has been tied in a :loop. This effect was observed in a program ported from Solaris that :u

Using make to allow parallel operations?

1999-12-14 Thread Kris Kirby
I am attempting to start a program on a impromptu cluster, one program per machine. I am using make, and seq from the cluster-it package in the ports collection. My problem is that make doesn't start the jobs parallel, it just goes from one to the other. In my project root, I have the following m

VM Scan Rate: Speed Kills on 3.3

1999-12-14 Thread Ed Hall
Under certain circumstances the VM scan rate can spike into the millions/sec (as reported by vmstat) followed quickly by a system lockup (an endless loop in vm_pageout()), suggesting that the page queue has been tied in a loop. This effect was observed in a program ported from Solaris that update

Re: ATA w/ today's -CURRENT

1999-12-14 Thread Steve Ames
> > What am I missing? > > Drives that report their capabilities right :) > > ad0: ATA-0 disk at ata0 as master > > ad0: 1554MB (3183264 sectors), 3158 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > > ad0: 16 secs/int, 1 depth queue, PIO > > ad1: ATA-0 disk at ata0 as slave > > ad1: 4134MB (8467200 sectors

Re: an lm79 device driver

1999-12-14 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Todd Hansen writes: : I didn't realize the architecture had changed after 2.2. We were working : off of examples in the source code. Anyway, where can I find information : on the new device driver archtecture? Thanks for checking it out. I will : definitly check out

Re: an lm79 device driver

1999-12-14 Thread Todd Hansen
I didn't realize the architecture had changed after 2.2. We were working off of examples in the source code. Anyway, where can I find information on the new device driver archtecture? Thanks for checking it out. I will definitly check out your code after finals week. -todd On Tue, 14 Dec

Re: umount -f causes page fault in kernel?

1999-12-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 14), Mark Newton said: > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 04:27:48PM +0100, Gergely EGERVARY wrote: > > mount /cdrom > > cd /cdrom > > umount -f /cdrom > > cd .. > > will cause 100% reproduceable kernel panic (page fault) > > "So don't do that then!" > > > I know forced umo

rc.conf/loader.conf manipulation library

1999-12-14 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
I have been working on a library to manipulate files in the general format of rc.conf and loader.conf. This library will see use in sysinstall, enabling it to change any variable in these files, and removing that horrible "append changes" behavior. :-) As a bonus, I plan to at a "install splash sc

Route delete

1999-12-14 Thread Mattias Pettersson
Hope for someone to point me at how to easiest do a user space "route delete -host "-similar thing in the kernel of FreeBSD3. The problem is the reference count. Only calling rtrequest(RTM_DELETE, ...) will only free the route if refcount = 0. I added a loop to call all pfctlinput()s with RED

Re: ATA w/ today's -CURRENT

1999-12-14 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Steve Ames wrote: > > Hrm... no question that the ATA driver is better today, but its still > not reporting DMA on my Quantum bigfoot drive (which should support DMA: > http://www.quantum.com/products/archive/bigfoot_cy/bigfoot_cy_features.htm) > > The Maxtor is pretty old (But its been