Re: softupdates and debug.max_softdeps

1999-12-31 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 30 December 1999 at 22:34:04 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> That is interesting. So I guess the conclusion to this is, softupdates >> is useful for bursty IO, but not sustained because it can get far behind >> until it eventually reaches the point where the machine reboots silently. >

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-31 Thread ph0d
I've got one currently and my FreeBSD box can do 3000-3300kBytes a second without any complaints.. Full duplex has it's advantages, no doubt On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > > get r

Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

1999-12-31 Thread Wes Peters
Matthew Dillon wrote: > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal with packet loss > when running saturation tests and never able to figure out what > was causing it. I have a good reason to revive thi

Re: YES: it works..

1999-12-31 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fri Dec 31 23:59:56 CET 1999 > Fri Dec 31 23:59:57 CET 1999 > Fri Dec 31 23:59:58 CET 1999 > Fri Dec 31 23:59:59 CET 1999 > Sat Jan 1 00:00:00 CET 1900 > Sat Jan 1 00:00:01 CET 1900 > Sat Jan 1 00:00:02 CET 1900 > Sat Jan

YES: it works..

1999-12-31 Thread Wilko Bulte
Fri Dec 31 23:59:56 CET 1999 Fri Dec 31 23:59:57 CET 1999 Fri Dec 31 23:59:58 CET 1999 Fri Dec 31 23:59:59 CET 1999 Sat Jan 1 00:00:00 CET 2000 Sat Jan 1 00:00:01 CET 2000 Sat Jan 1 00:00:02 CET 2000 Sat Jan 1 00:00:03 CET 2000 In short: yes it works. Happy New Millenium to all of you! --

Re: UTC time in crontabs

1999-12-31 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Bjorn Danielsson wrote: > > I have made a small patch (about 10 lines of code) to "cron" that lets > people choose between localtime and gmtime for their crontab entries. > The choice is made depending on the setting of an environment variable > in the crontab file. The cost is a factor 2 for the

Re: softupdates and debug.max_softdeps

1999-12-31 Thread Matthew Dillon
: How many instances of postmark are you running? I used 4 separate :instances (you must run them in separate directories). Well, you didn't say that! :-) I'm running one. I'll start up another couple to match your test. : How fast are your disks? I used an external RAID-5 array t

Re: softupdates and debug.max_softdeps

1999-12-31 Thread Tom
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :FYI: On hub.freebsd.org (the freebsd mailing list server), if we activate > :softupdates on the disk containing the postfix spool, the machine reboots > :(silently if I recall correctly) within 5 minutes of postfix starting up. > : > :This is a much

Re: softupdates and debug.max_softdeps

1999-12-31 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :FYI: On hub.freebsd.org (the freebsd mailing list server), if we activate :softupdates on the disk containing the postfix spool, the machine reboots :(silently if I recall correctly) within 5 minutes of postfix starting up. : :This is a much smaller system of course, with smaller memory and fi

Re: softupdates and debug.max_softdeps

1999-12-31 Thread Keith Stevenson
On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 09:19:37AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > It seems that all the reported problems so far are on -stable > systems. I wonder if the same problem occurs under -current? > > Also, all the reported problems so far are under 3.3 (for example, > hub is running 3

Re: softupdates and debug.max_softdeps

1999-12-31 Thread Matthew Dillon
It seems that all the reported problems so far are on -stable systems. I wonder if the same problem occurs under -current? Also, all the reported problems so far are under 3.3 (for example, hub is running 3.3-RC in a Sep 12 build). How about 3.4? It may be possible to mitig

Re: softupdates and debug.max_softdeps

1999-12-31 Thread Keith Stevenson
On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 08:49:01AM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > FYI: On hub.freebsd.org (the freebsd mailing list server), if we activate > softupdates on the disk containing the postfix spool, the machine reboots > (silently if I recall correctly) within 5 minutes of postfix starting up. > > This

Re: soundcards needed to further newpcm development

1999-12-31 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Bill Swingle wrote: > > Below is a list of chipsets that we're still lacking. If you have any > cards that have these chips on them, and would like to see support for them > added or improved please consider sending them to us. Due to the > sheer number of cards we'll be handling and th