Re: Missing support in FreeBSD for large file sizes?

2001-03-06 Thread Peter Wemm
David Xu wrote: > Hello sthaug, > > Tuesday, March 06, 2001, 1:24:24 AM, you wrote: > > snn> According to the "Maxtor picks Windows, dumps open source" article at > > snn> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5009496.html?tag=lh > > snn> FreeBSD "did not support large file sizes, Macin

Help!!! 2nd HD gone

2001-03-06 Thread mike . mcclain
Howdy, I hadn't booted FreeBSD 3.4 for many months but had mounted several partitions on /dev/wd2s* from /etc/fstab. Last week I couldn't get a clean boot 'til I took all references to /dev/wd2s* out of /etc/fstab. Having done that I now see: fbsd:~> mount -t ext2fs /dev/wd2s1 /rh6

Re: PCMCIA Network Adapter problems

2001-03-06 Thread Brooks Davis
[Please don't send HTML e-mail. Also, don't send questions like this to -hackers.] On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:55:53PM -0800, Louis Thompson wrote: >I just started using Free-BSD, and am having some problems making it >see my network adapter on my laptop. It sees the controller fine, >

PCMCIA Network Adapter problems

2001-03-06 Thread Louis Thompson
Dear Sir,   I just started using Free-BSD, and am having some problems making it see my network adapter on my laptop.  It sees the controller fine, just not the card itself.  The card I am attempting to use is a 3Com Megahertz 10/100Mb Lan + 56K modem card, model number 3CCFEM656B.  Any help

RE: RE: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-06 Thread Charles Randall
Noted. Is there a gcc PR associated with this? http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl A GNATS searc for "freebsd kernel" didn't return anything. -Charles -Original Message- From: Matt Dillon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 11:44 AM To: Charles Randall Cc: Andr

Re: RE: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-06 Thread Matt Dillon
: :This explained in great detail exactly why people are seeing the performance :they are from the P4 etc. The author knows his stuff. : :http://www.emulators.com/pentium4.htm : :Brandon Heh heh. You can practically see the sweat popping off his face while reading his article.

RE: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-06 Thread Brandon Gale
This explained in great detail exactly why people are seeing the performance they are from the P4 etc. The author knows his stuff. http://www.emulators.com/pentium4.htm Brandon :-Original Message- :From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kenneth D. Merry :Sent:

Re: anybody pls help im a newbie

2001-03-06 Thread Jordan Hubbard
1. Please send messages like this to questions, not to hackers. The hackers mailing list is for development discussions, not Q&A. Thanks. 2. See http://www.daemonnews.org/200103/firewall.html and similar articles on the net for this kind of information. There are many beginner's art

Re: RE: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-06 Thread Matt Dillon
:Which begs the question I've tried to ask a number of times in different :forums. Who's working on P4 optimizations and code generation for the P4? I'd be happy if GCC -O2 just worked without introducing bugs. I want to be able to compile the kernel with it again.

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:56:46 -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Matt Dillon writes: > > > > I modified my original C program again, this time to simply read > > the data from memory given a block size in kilobytes as an argument. > > I had to throw in a little __asm to do it ri

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > My understanding is that Intel focused on FP performance in the P4, > and that it is very, very good at it. I dunno how to test it though. >From the benchmarks tom's hardware / others did, I got the impression that SSE2 performance is awesome, b

RE: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-06 Thread Charles Randall
From: Matt Dillon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >My understanding is that Intel focused on FP performance in the P4, >and that it is very, very good at it. I dunno how to test it though. > >GCC generally does not produce very good code, but I would expect that >it would get reasonabl

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-06 Thread Matt Dillon
:How's your P4 for floating point? Is real-life perf as good as the :specbench numbers would indicate, or do you need a better compiler :than GCC to get any benefit from it? My wife is a statistician, and :she runs some really fp intensive workloads. This Athlon is faster :than the Serverworks

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-06 Thread Peter Seebach
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Gallatin writes: >FWIW: 1.2GHz Athlon, VIA Apollo KT133 chipset, Asus A7V motherboard, >(PC133 ECC Registered Dimms) Note that the KT does *NOT* support ECC. A few places have claimed it does, but the VIA chipset spec says it doesn't. The KV or KX does (I

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-06 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Matt Dillon writes: > > I modified my original C program again, this time to simply read > the data from memory given a block size in kilobytes as an argument. > I had to throw in a little __asm to do it right, but here are my results. > It shows about 3.2 GBytes/sec from

Re: anybody pls help im a newbie

2001-03-06 Thread Christoph Sold
[Moved from -hackers to -questions, Followup is set.] > jett tayer schrieb: > > i want to protect my freebsd box from the outside. > anyone who can help? any sample configs about > ipfw or ipf. which do u guys prefer of the two? > > my box is running: > named > apache > qmail > popper You may

Log file analysis

2001-03-06 Thread Peter Dufault
I have long log files from multi-threaded multi-program simulations that output this sort of thing: > BUS:16:15:35.212525 vme:082a4000 \ irqn: opening shared memory object /var/tmp/vmedir/irqn.bus > BUS:16:15:35.221792 vme:082a4000 \ irqn: Master opening request FIFO blo

Re: Missing support in FreeBSD for large file sizes?

2001-03-06 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
Hola! Jordan Hubbard wrote: > That could be, assuming that we had any idea just who inside of > Maxstor to discuss it with. Do you have any names and email > addresses? Not personally, but taken from the article about this issue, one person that obviously knows about this is Steve Wilkins, Maxt

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-06 Thread Michael Sinz
Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: Re: Machines are getting too damn fast > > :throughput. For example, on the PIII-850 (116MHz FSB and SDRAM, its > :overclocked) here on my desk with 256KB L2 cache: > : > :dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=512k count=4000 > :4000+0 records in > :40

anybody pls help im a newbie

2001-03-06 Thread jett tayer
i want to protect my freebsd box from the outside. anyone who can help? any sample configs about ipfw or ipf. which do u guys prefer of the two?   my box is running: named apache qmail popper   pls help..   thanks jett    

Re: Missing support in FreeBSD for large file sizes?

2001-03-06 Thread Jordan Hubbard
That could be, assuming that we had any idea just who inside of Maxstor to discuss it with. Do you have any names and email addresses? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Missing support in FreeBSD for large file sizes?

2001-03-06 Thread Joachim Strömbergson
Aloha! Still, wouldn't it be prudent if someone from the project talked to Maxtor and got some feedback on this? They obviously (or should we assume conspiracy?) had some real technical issues with FreeBSD, and also had problems dealing with them properly. Clarification on this should (could) be

RE: Missing support in FreeBSD for large file sizes?

2001-03-06 Thread Koster, K.J.
Dear All, > > http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5009496.html?tag=lh > Microsoft adjusted its licensing terms for the Maxtor system, Wilkins noted. Unlike general-purpose servers, a Maxtor machine doesn't require that customers pay for client access licenses--the fees often required for compu