Annoying nfsrcv hangs

2000-02-26 Thread Ryan Thompson
ps al on my system shows multiple nfsrcv hangs on processes such as df, ls and umount. Without any other characteristic problems, the nfs server machine's exports all seemed to be working correctly. However, *one* and only one of the mounts somehow went south. 'mount' on the client machine sho

Re: Where is 'dip' ... -- Any dip users out there?

2000-02-26 Thread J Wunsch
Andrzej Bialecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I understand you correctly, most of the functionality of dip you > will find in ppp(8). Note, that it is NOT the same program as Linux > pppd, to be sure... It has a nice and powerful command-line interface. Incidentally, i recently considered rem

Re: 64bit OS?

2000-02-26 Thread Arun Sharma
Arun Sharma wrote: > Matt Dillon wrote: > > What I would truely love to do would be to get away with not using a GPT > > at all and instead doing a vm_map_lookup_entry()/vm_page_lookup() > > (essentially taking a vm_fault), then optimize the vm_map_entry > > structural hierarchy t

How to fdisk/disklabel whole disk for FreeBSD from command line?

2000-02-26 Thread Marc Frajola
Hi... I have spent a bit of time messing around with the command-line fdisk and disklabel commands, and have been unable to setup a proper fdisk and FreeBSD partition label solely from the command line. When I do 'fdisk -e /dev/rda1' or 'fdisk -u ...', that seems to write an fdisk label,

building a release

2000-02-26 Thread Brian Beattie
I have looked at the FAQ and find only a partial answer. I would like to build a a release with base and X11, to do local installs of 4.0-current. I can build the base from /usr/src/release, I have the XFree86 sources. Can anybody send me notes, or point me at the FAQ? Brian Beattie

Re: Finding percent idle

2000-02-26 Thread Arun Sharma
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 14:25:46 -0500, James Housley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to find out the current % idle of the machine from within a > program. I have looked at the valuse provided by sysctl and found > loadavg but not system idle. I have also looked through the source for > to

Re: C-FFS anyone?

2000-02-26 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Alex Povolotsky wrote: > Hello! > > I've just read (well, partially) a whitepaper named "Embedded Inodes and > Explicit Grouping: Exploiting Disk Bandwidth for Small Files" (don't have > URL at hand). > > Ideas presented there are QUIT interesting. Did anyone tried to impl

Re: SYM driver -- where to find?

2000-02-26 Thread Gerard Roudier
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Marc Nicholas wrote: > Sorry for the lameness of this question...but where can I find the Symbios > driver for FreeBSD developed by Gerrard Roudier? I'm having some issues > with a Symbios controller that I suspect may be the fault of the NCR > driver and not the controller

Re: SYM driver -- where to find?

2000-02-26 Thread sthaug
> > Sorry for the lameness of this question...but where can I find the Symbios > > driver for FreeBSD developed by Gerrard Roudier? I'm having some issues > > with a Symbios controller that I suspect may be the fault of the NCR > > driver and not the controller itself. > > It's in 4.0-CURRENT ...

Re: SYM driver -- where to find?

2000-02-26 Thread Jesper Skriver
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 08:59:36AM -0500, Marc Nicholas wrote: > Sorry for the lameness of this question...but where can I find the Symbios > driver for FreeBSD developed by Gerrard Roudier? I'm having some issues > with a Symbios controller that I suspect may be the fault of the NCR > driver and

SYM driver -- where to find?

2000-02-26 Thread Marc Nicholas
Sorry for the lameness of this question...but where can I find the Symbios driver for FreeBSD developed by Gerrard Roudier? I'm having some issues with a Symbios controller that I suspect may be the fault of the NCR driver and not the controller itself. Thanks. -marc To Unsubscribe: send mai

Re: modem program... Help continued...

2000-02-26 Thread Juergen Lock
Sorry i should probably have said the modem needs to be configured right to work `the unix way'... In article <01e301bf7ff2$2aa60600$0301a8c0@Ptacek> you write: >Well thanks to some examples I seem to have access to the >modem signals. Unfortunately when I drop the DTR nothing >happens. I have

C-FFS anyone?

2000-02-26 Thread Alex Povolotsky
Hello! I've just read (well, partially) a whitepaper named "Embedded Inodes and Explicit Grouping: Exploiting Disk Bandwidth for Small Files" (don't have URL at hand). Ideas presented there are QUIT interesting. Did anyone tried to implement them in BSD? Alex. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EM