Re: "iowait" CPU state

2000-11-06 Thread Brian O'Shea
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:44:13AM +, void wrote: > I've been using Solaris a lot lately, and I've noticed that in e.g. > top's output, it has a distinct CPU state called "iowait", which seems > to be a pretty good indicator of how I/O-bound a system is. Is there > any reason that FreeBSD doe

Re: High-availability failover software available.

2000-11-06 Thread Michael C . Wu
>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 05:59:57PM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 [Moving to -net, please remove -hackers cc when replying] On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 05:59:57PM -0500, Andrew Sporner scribbled: | Hi, |

Re: My driver source.

2000-11-06 Thread Takanori Watanabe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rink Springer VII さんいわ く: >Hi guys, > >My driver's source can be grabbed from: > >http://www.rink.springer.cx/driver/if_dl.c >and >http://www.rink.springer.cx/driver/if_dlvar.h > >Please help me... it crashes for some reason. I don't know why it cr

"iowait" CPU state

2000-11-06 Thread void
I've been using Solaris a lot lately, and I've noticed that in e.g. top's output, it has a distinct CPU state called "iowait", which seems to be a pretty good indicator of how I/O-bound a system is. Is there any reason that FreeBSD doesn't have such a state? "iostat" also seems a lot less inform

Re: ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/4.0-stable was not updated from 2000/April/25.

2000-11-06 Thread sanpei
Yes, I know cvsup and personally I use cvsup. But that direcotry would confused novice user. If no one update these directory, I hope to remove that ``branches/4.0-stable'' directory from ftp.FreeBSD.org. >On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:59:48AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi. >> >> In

Re: High-availability failover software available.

2000-11-06 Thread nathan
Andrew Sporner wrote: > Hi, > > Here is the direct link http://www.sporner.com/bsdclusters/download > > Remember! this is alpha-ware :-) > > I will be doing some more fixes/updates this evening... Look for fresh > stuff tommorrow morning... > > Thanks in advance for all your support! > > Andy >

Re: ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/4.0-stable was not updated from 2000/April/25.

2000-11-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:59:48AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. > > In ftp.FreeBSD.org, below files were not updated from > 2000/April/25 Why. > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/4.0-stable/ > > I hope to sync latest 4-stable FreeBSD tree. Use cvsup, it's

ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/4.0-stable was not updated from 2000/April/25.

2000-11-06 Thread sanpei
Hi. In ftp.FreeBSD.org, below files were not updated from 2000/April/25 Why. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/4.0-stable/ I hope to sync latest 4-stable FreeBSD tree. - ftp connection to ftp.FreeBSD.org > cd /pub/FreeBSD/branches/4.0-stable/src > dir tot

Digi Xem help!

2000-11-06 Thread Nathan Boeger
Sorry if this is the wrong list !! Anyway I have a Digi / Xem eisa adapter on 4.1-RELEASE. I have made the kernel and it see's the card. I have also remade the /dev/ttyD* entries. Problem, when I try to access any of the ports I get : cu: open (/dev/ttyD00): Device not configured cu: /dev/ttyD0

RE: High-availability failover software available.

2000-11-06 Thread Andrew Sporner
Hi, Here is the direct link http://www.sporner.com/bsdclusters/download Remember! this is alpha-ware :-) I will be doing some more fixes/updates this evening... Look for fresh stuff tommorrow morning... Thanks in advance for all your support! Andy -Original Message- From: David Sc

Re: High-availability failover software available.

2000-11-06 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Andrew Sporner wrote: :Hi, : :Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Andrew Sporner and I have :authored :a H/A Failover system that happens to work with BSD. I would like to Very cool! :The current source is located at http://www.sporner.com/bsdclusters Your webpages

High-availability failover software available.

2000-11-06 Thread Andrew Sporner
Hi, Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Andrew Sporner and I have authored a H/A Failover system that happens to work with BSD. I would like to contribute this to the FreeBSD project or at a minimum make it available to those who want it. What it includes is: - Multi-path heart

Re: StarOffice 5.2 port for FreeBSD.

2000-11-06 Thread Maarten van Schie
When I installed SO it didn't spitt out any complaints about the checksum. Did you install the Linux Emulator from /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base ? You need it since the SO port uses the Linux version. Maarten. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hacker

StarOffice 5.2 port for FreeBSD.

2000-11-06 Thread Wes Peters
I've been trying to install the StarOffice port for FreeBSD. It appears the checksum for the StarOffice binary from Sun has changed but the port has not. It also appears to have tripped a bug (or limitation) in ld.so. This system is a recent -STABLE: FreeBSD star 4.1.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1.1-

Re: Streams support.

2000-11-06 Thread Mark Newton
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 12:52:55PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > Riaz Khan wrote: > > I just need a clarification regarding streams support. Does FreeBSD > > provides support for streams programming. - i don't think so. > > I need info regarding how the network stack is implemented in Fr

My driver source.

2000-11-06 Thread Rink Springer VII
Hi guys, My driver's source can be grabbed from: http://www.rink.springer.cx/driver/if_dl.c and http://www.rink.springer.cx/driver/if_dlvar.h Please help me... it crashes for some reason. Thanks! --Rink To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the

Re: Streams support.

2000-11-06 Thread Julian Elischer
Riaz Khan wrote: > > Hello, > I just need a clarification regarding streams support. Does FreeBSD > provides support for streams programming. - i don't think so. > I need info regarding how the network stack is implemented in FreeBSD. > hope its very similar to linux architecture. > > If poss

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2000-11-06 Thread Zurab Chaya
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[PATCH] Re: if_tap and devfs

2000-11-06 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
Hello, > I recently moved to using devfs and now if_tap seems unusable. Although > the module is loaded, it doesn't show up in /dev or as an interface. > >From a quick comparison with if_tun it seems that this is 'expected' > behaviour although I'm not a specialist with devfs. Is this so? If yes,

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-11-06 Thread John Hay
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug Ambrisko writes: > >| to the kernel's output. I had a look at the pxe code in > >| /sys/boot/i386/libi386/pxe.c where pxeboot is built from and in > >| /sys/i386/i386/autoconf.c which is the kernel side and it looks like > >| they don't do anything about swap

system call and SYSCALL macro

2000-11-06 Thread Raymond Law
Hi: I am trying to implement a system call. I used the syscalls.master already. I know I have to modify libc, but this requires makeworld and all the binaries must be compiled again. If I don't want to modify libc, I know I have to use the SYSCALL macro or something like that. But I don't know

if_tap and devfs

2000-11-06 Thread Harti Brandt
Hello, I recently moved to using devfs and now if_tap seems unusable. Although the module is loaded, it doesn't show up in /dev or as an interface. >From a quick comparison with if_tun it seems that this is 'expected' behaviour although I'm not a specialist with devfs. Is this so? If yes, is the

Help writing a screen saver module

2000-11-06 Thread Graham Wheeler
Hi all I am trying to write a screen saver module that, when it kicks in, will switch to the first console, and then, if a key is pressed, will switch back to the one that was previously active. The idea is that the first console has something useful running on it, typically a tail -f of the log

New mergemaster behavior - comparing CVS $Id too

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Pentchev
Is there a way to make mergemaster revert to its old behavior - only comparing $FreeBSD tags on files which have those? I keep some of my /etc files in a CVS repository of my own, and in the last mergemaster runs it detects that the file in /etc has an $Id, while the file in /var/tmp/temproot doe

Debugging KLD's

2000-11-06 Thread Jacques Fourie
Hi I am using the following method to debug a KLD on 4.1 using gdb remote debugging: - Add makeoptions DEBUG=-g to the kernel config - Compile the KLD with -ggdb - Use objdump -h to get the offset of .text in the KLD. - Add this value to the value reported by kldstat and use this as offset for