Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG)

2000-01-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > The handbook instructions are for kernel-generated panics; for a manual > panic like yours, the stack is unimportant. The easiest way to see > which processes are active is to run this: > > (kgdb) source /usr/src/sys/modules/vinum/.gdbinit.kernel Inter

Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG)

2000-01-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > A backtrace is not likely to be useful, but a 'ps' (from DDB) may be. > > It might also be useful to leave 'systat -vm 1' and 'vmstat 1' running > to see if the system is doing any paging or other significant work at > the time of the

Re: Harlan Stenn:

2000-01-18 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:35:37 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anybody comment on whether or not this is a good patch? Nope, but I _can_ suggest that you send it to the right place. :-) Please see the Patching Procedures section of the NTP web page: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/n

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #730

2000-01-18 Thread Wes Peters
Chuck Robey wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Where is a good place for me to place an advertisement for "intrusion > > testers"? We are in no way connected with any law enforcement or Government > > agency. We are a computer investigations firm in Florida and have

Harlan Stenn:

2000-01-18 Thread stenn
Can anybody comment on whether or not this is a good patch? --- Forwarded Message From: Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:24:32 -0500 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROT

RE: The stack size for a process?

2000-01-18 Thread visi0n
Where i can get info about it ? === visi0n AUX Technologies [www.aux-tech.org] On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Charles Randall wrote: > From: Jason Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Thread stacks have a default size of

Re: pw bug

2000-01-18 Thread Steve Ames
/usr/src/usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c line 736 of the file on my system: $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c,v 1.34 2000/01/15 00:20:21 davidn Exp The line in question: if (!PWALTDIR() && getarg(args, 'm') != NULL && pwd->pw_dir && *pwd->pw_dir == '/' && pwd->pw_dir[1]) { The conditional !PWALTDIR()

IEEE-488: looking for junk :-)

2000-01-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I have managed to snatch up a pair of PCIIA compatible IEEE488 cards locally and I have found a HP59401A HP-IB analyser for $60 at eBay :-) so I'll go over the two pieces of code we have for FreeBSD and look at the linux stuff and come up with some code over spring/summer. Should any of you stu

Re: how to allocate an alined address for a device?

2000-01-18 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> YAMAMOTO Shigeru writes: : In a CardBus system, a start address of status register must be aligned on : 4KB boundaries. : Such kind of address alignment is required at mapping meory window, : expansion ROM and etc. True. : I think we use bus_alloc_resource() to map

Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG)

2000-01-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 18), spork said: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > > CTRL-ALT-ESC, and at the prompt type in 'panic'. You'll need DDB > > compiled into the kernel, and crashdumps enabled. > > By now, you should know my next question... What am I looking at? I > built a kernel

Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG)

2000-01-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> CTRL-ALT-ESC, and at the prompt type in 'panic'. You'll need DDB :> compiled into the kernel, and crashdumps enabled. : :By now, you should know my next question... What am I looking at? I :built a kernel with "config -g" and the debugger option and made it panic :while sitting at a load of

Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG)

2000-01-18 Thread spork
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > > That's another thing, the box is idle as we've yet to move it into > > production. Out of curiousity, how does one make a machine panic > > manually? > > CTRL-ALT-ESC, and at the prompt type in 'panic'. You'll need DDB > compiled into the kernel, and

pw bug

2000-01-18 Thread Jaye Mathisen
Running a relatively recent 3.4-STABLE: If you use the -V option to specify an alternate master.passwd/conf file location, then the -m option apparently doesn't work. I get users added to my alt pw file, but no home dir creation. Removing the -V /altdir option adds them to /etc/master.pa

locked accounts and adduser

2000-01-18 Thread Ben Rosengart
I thought it would be nice if one could create locked accounts with adduser. So I asked my nice Perl-hacking coworker Evan Leon to come up with a patch. Enter password []: Use an empty password or lock the password? lock no [yes]: lock ... # grep user /etc/master.passwd user:*:1001:1001::0:0

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #730

2000-01-18 Thread Chuck Robey
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where is a good place for me to place an advertisement for "intrusion > testers"? We are in no way connected with any law enforcement or Government > agency. We are a computer investigations firm in Florida and have an urgent > need for some of

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #730

2000-01-18 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where is a good place for me to place an advertisement for "intrusion > testers"? We are in no way connected with any law enforcement or Government > agency. We are a computer investigations firm in Florida and have an urgent > need for some of

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V4 #730

2000-01-18 Thread Dballsz
Where is a good place for me to place an advertisement for "intrusion testers"? We are in no way connected with any law enforcement or Government agency. We are a computer investigations firm in Florida and have an urgent need for some of these individuals. We are a global company with a D&N

Re: interesting results from softupdates/postmark test (was Re:softupdates and debug.max_softdeps)

2000-01-18 Thread Tom
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Kirk McKusick wrote: > Delta 1.40 to ffs_softdep.c (12/16/1999) fixes the `hanging > while holding a lock' problem. It should be propagated to the > 3.X branch. > > I have been working on a number of performance improvements to > soft updates that will hopefully assist in the

Re: "very dangerously dedicated mode" is

2000-01-18 Thread Ken Bolingbroke
I've always been able to 'fix' dangerously dedicated IDE disks by running DOS's fdisk with the /mbr switch. That overwrites the MBR, and at least puts it back into a state friendly with other operating systems... Ken Bolingbroke [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On

Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG)

2000-01-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 18), spork said: > > On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Jan 18), spork said: > > > I'm not sure what the problem is. You're 97% idle. Maybe the hosted > > web sites on this machine are slightly more active than the ones on the > > other box

Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG)

2000-01-18 Thread spork
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 18), spork said: > I'm not sure what the problem is. You're 97% idle. Maybe the hosted > web sites on this machine are slightly more active than the ones on the > other box. You could always manually panic the box and see what

RE: The stack size for a process?

2000-01-18 Thread Charles Randall
From: Jason Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Thread stacks have a default size of 64kB. As you know, stack size can be explicitly set using pthread_attr_setstacksize(). However, note that Solaris uses a pthread stack size of 1 MB. Porter beware. >libc_r now uses growable stacks with "guard pag

Re: high load, nothing happening? (LONG)

2000-01-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 18), spork said: > I'm trying my luck over here at -hackers, I already posted to > -questions and -isp without any resolution. I'm including my > original post and below that a summary of some responses and my > answers... The bulk of the recent answers seem to say "you

high load, nothing happening? (LONG)

2000-01-18 Thread spork
Hi, I'm trying my luck over here at -hackers, I already posted to -questions and -isp without any resolution. I'm including my original post and below that a summary of some responses and my answers... The bulk of the recent answers seem to say "you should see a load of 3.0 on a machine with 50

Re: Preemptiveness of FreeBSD threads

2000-01-18 Thread Nadav Eiron
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Brian Beattie wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > In a week or two. I just committed the fix to -current, and the rule > > is to wait a week or two before MFC. > > MFC? > > Could somebody expand this TLA for me, I'm sure it will be obvious once I >

Re: Preemptiveness of FreeBSD threads

2000-01-18 Thread Brian Beattie
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Daniel Eischen wrote: > In a week or two. I just committed the fix to -current, and the rule > is to wait a week or two before MFC. MFC? Could somebody expand this TLA for me, I'm sure it will be obvious once I see it, thanks Brian Beattie| The only problem wi

Re: Preemptiveness of FreeBSD threads

2000-01-18 Thread Daniel Eischen
Reinier Bezuidenhout wrote: > > >OK, with everyones help (well, waiting for the right time of day ;-)), > > I > > >was able to reproduce this. The initial threads last active time was > > >not getting initialized to a sane value, causing negative > > computations > > >of the threads timeslice dep

Re: Preemptiveness of FreeBSD threads

2000-01-18 Thread Daniel Eischen
Alexander Litvin wrote: > > Try this patch - you may have to hand apply it as my sources are not > > yet up to date with the last round of changes that Jason made. > > > Dan Eischen > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [patch skipped] > > Yep, that seems to be it. No moon-dependent irregularities ;) > >

Re: please to subscribe my email address

2000-01-18 Thread ROGIER MULHUIJZEN
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Re: Preemptiveness of FreeBSD threads

2000-01-18 Thread Reinier Bezuidenhout
> >OK, with everyones help (well, waiting for the right time of day ;-)), > I > >was able to reproduce this. The initial threads last active time was > >not getting initialized to a sane value, causing negative > computations > >of the threads timeslice depending on what time of day it was. Funn