Re: kernel type

2000-12-15 Thread Patryk Zadarnowski
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, "SteveB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SteveB> Sorry for such a basic question, but I have been looking and can't SteveB> find the answer. Is FreeBSD as microkernel or monolithic kernel like SteveB> Linux? Can someone point me to the answer/ It's a monolithic kernel, like Li

RE: kernel type

2000-12-15 Thread John Baldwin
On 16-Dec-00 SteveB wrote: > > Sorry for such a basic question, but I have been looking and can't > find the answer. Is FreeBSD as microkernel or monolithic kernel like > Linux? Can someone point me to the answer/ Well, it's a monolithic kernel with a built in run-time linker that allows you

kernel type

2000-12-15 Thread SteveB
Sorry for such a basic question, but I have been looking and can't find the answer. Is FreeBSD as microkernel or monolithic kernel like Linux? Can someone point me to the answer/ TIA Steve B. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of t

Re: cp and cpio using boot disk

2000-12-15 Thread Dennis
At 11:43 AM 12/15/2000, you wrote: >On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 12:13:16PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > > > > It seems that cp fails badly when used on a system booted by a boot floppy > > (such as the install floppy). cpio seems to work ok. > > > > What is the reason for this? > >What's the failure mode?

Re: Kyxtech: freebsd outsniffed by wintendo!!?!?

2000-12-15 Thread Hank Leininger
On 2000-12-14, "Fulvio Risso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Buffer sizes > We did not make any test about creating 1MB buffers. However our > architecture does not have the problem that "large buffer" = "large > time used to transfer this buffer to user level" because we are able to [snip] > Conte

Re: Import and merge of TI-RPC from NetBSD

2000-12-15 Thread Hajimu UMEMOTO
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:42:45 +0100 (CET) > Martin Blapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: mb> I'd like to import the NetBSD RPC-Interface, based on Sun's TI-RPC code. Oh, it's great! I heared TI-RPC is required to support IPv6 for NFS. -- Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama

Re: very big mail spool directory

2000-12-15 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:50:20PM +, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios scribbled: | i am planning a very big email server, currently i am planning for about | 8*2^16 users. [snip] | What you wizard have to say about my approach? Why would you not want to have a distributed server in th

vidcontrol VESA_800x600

2000-12-15 Thread Dominik Rothert
Hi there, I was wondering why VESA_800x600 refreshes to 80x25 and figured out, that size[0] = 80; /* columns */ size[1] = 25; /* rows */ for mode SW_VESA_800x600 (line 319 of src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol.c). A screen resolution of 800x600 would make size[0] = 100; /* columns */ size[1] = 37;

Re: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-15 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 04:36:57PM +0100, Koster, K.J. scribbled: | > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-12-09-013-20-NW-GN-KN | > Device drivers in Perl. What a spectacularly bad idea. ;^) | That's what people used to say about writing kernels in C. There is a difference between (

Re: cp and cpio using boot disk

2000-12-15 Thread void
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 12:13:16PM -0500, Dennis wrote: > > It seems that cp fails badly when used on a system booted by a boot floppy > (such as the install floppy). cpio seems to work ok. > > What is the reason for this? What's the failure mode? -- Ben 220 go.ahead.make.my.day ESMTP Post

Re: Import and merge of TI-RPC from NetBSD

2000-12-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Martin Blapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001215 01:39] wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to import the NetBSD RPC-Interface, based on Sun's TI-RPC code. > > This will made available the TI-RPC features and generated code with > rpcgen will compile then without problems. The code remains backword > compat

RE: kqueue microbenchmark results

2000-12-15 Thread Koster, K.J.
> > > A simple way to keep the kernel simple: > > > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-12-09-013-20-NW-GN-KN > > Device drivers in Perl. What a spectacularly bad idea. ;^) > That's what people used to say about writing kernels in C. Kees Jan

USB Mouse + Dual P3

2000-12-15 Thread Joshua Silver
I've had FreeBSD 4.1 running on a Dual Celeron system for some time now with a MS USB .. No probs. Just got a new system in the last week, and am running FreeBSD 4.2 It's on a MSI 694D-Pro Motherboard, and has had one CPU in it for the last week, the USB mouse ran fine Got the second CPU

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2000-12-15 Thread Oscar I Lepe
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Re: Import and merge of TI-RPC from NetBSD

2000-12-15 Thread Martin Blapp
I forgot a link ... http://www.as400.ibm.com/developer/tirpc/ Cheers: Martin Martin Blapp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Improware AG, UNIX solution and service provider Zurlindenstrasse 29, 4133 Pratteln, Switzerland Phone: +41 79 370 26 05, Fax: +41 61 8

Re: Why does lpd cause a lot of DNS traffic?

2000-12-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 10:57:43AM +, Jamie Heckford wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, you wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 10:54:43AM +0100, Konrad Heuer wrote: > > > For a heavily loaded printer server (as mine is) this seems not be a good > > > idea ... but maybe there's a good reason to to t

diskless/pxe boot

2000-12-15 Thread Danny Braniss
hi all, I can't get the pxe/dhcp to work when it's 100Mbit Ethernet, it works fine when it's 10Mbit. Actually a newer Intel MB just succeeded, but 99% of the pxe enabled cards fail at 100Mbit. from sniffing the net the broadcast dhcp request does not make it. it does not help to set the sw

Re: Why does lpd cause a lot of DNS traffic?

2000-12-15 Thread David Malone
> You could also manually add them to /etc/hosts - but this will be a bit tediou > when you have a lot of machines. Maybe list IP addresses in /etc/hosts.lpd > instead of hostnames? This could cause alot of reverse lookups though. Another, slightly strange, way to do it would be to create a set o

Re: Why does lpd cause a lot of DNS traffic?

2000-12-15 Thread Jamie Heckford
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, you wrote: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 10:54:43AM +0100, Konrad Heuer wrote: > > For a heavily loaded printer server (as mine is) this seems not be a good > > idea ... but maybe there's a good reason to to this? > > I presume this is so that you can list machine aliases in the

Re: Why does lpd cause a lot of DNS traffic?

2000-12-15 Thread David Malone
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 10:54:43AM +0100, Konrad Heuer wrote: > For a heavily loaded printer server (as mine is) this seems not be a good > idea ... but maybe there's a good reason to to this? I presume this is so that you can list machine aliases in the hosts.lpd file, and to avoid issues with m

Why does lpd cause a lot of DNS traffic?

2000-12-15 Thread Konrad Heuer
While solving some special remote printing problems I saw (4.2-STABLE) that lpd verifies printer access from a remote host by a lot of name resolution requests (my /etc/hosts.lpd has more than 300 entries). When verifying a host lpd scans hosts.lpd from the first line to the first matching line

Import and merge of TI-RPC from NetBSD

2000-12-15 Thread Martin Blapp
Hi, I'd like to import the NetBSD RPC-Interface, based on Sun's TI-RPC code. This will made available the TI-RPC features and generated code with rpcgen will compile then without problems. The code remains backword compatible, there ar no changes needed in the codebase (therefore some are reco