Re: Vinum stripe size (was: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server)

2001-03-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010326 23:47] wrote: > On Tuesday, 20 March 2001 at 11:11:44 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: > > [Lengthy email, bear with me please, it is quite interesting. > > This box averages 30.0 load with no problems.] > > > > > > > > Average file size is about 4K. /home/bb

Re: DNS rules etc

2001-03-26 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Murray Taylor wrote: > I've got the frame relay working, and am waiting now for > some network delegation stuff external to me to complete. > However I need to know if it is possible to use DNS > as detailed below to allow the host spyder be visible to the > Internet and our

Vinum stripe size (was: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server)

2001-03-26 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 20 March 2001 at 11:11:44 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: > [Lengthy email, bear with me please, it is quite interesting. > This box averages 30.0 load with no problems.] > > > > Average file size is about 4K. /home/bbsusers* is on a vinum > stripe'd volume with 3 Ultra160 9G 1RPM d

Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server

2001-03-26 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 20 March 2001 at 11:04:16 -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: >>> SWAP is never touched. :) >>> >>> last pid: 23395; load averages: 2.08, 2.92, 3.60up 0+01:29:58 02:03:27 >>> 1529 processes:24 running, 1505 sleeping >>> CPU states: 40.5% user, 0.0% nice, 46.4% system, 1.1% interrupt,

Re: Porting a Linux driver to FreeBSD with ioctl return values

2001-03-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Coleman Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010326 22:40] wrote: > Yeah, that's basically what I had to do in tdfx. You can take a look int > src/sys/dev/tdfx/tdfx_pci.c under tdfx_ioctl(...) to get an idea of what > needs to be done, if you need more info. Tdfx basically implements the > API from device_

Re: Porting a Linux driver to FreeBSD with ioctl return values

2001-03-26 Thread Coleman Kane
Yeah, that's basically what I had to do in tdfx. You can take a look int src/sys/dev/tdfx/tdfx_pci.c under tdfx_ioctl(...) to get an idea of what needs to be done, if you need more info. Tdfx basically implements the API from device_3dfx in Linux. Alfred Perlstein had the audacity to say: > > *

Re: meta-level compilation: building FreeBSD under Linux, hints??

2001-03-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Pedro F. Giffuni" writes: : They don't have FreeBSD boxes. I understand the tool will eventually : be available but the authors don't want to be bothered about it right : now. I think they may have had problems using openbsd's config on the FreeBSD kernel. Warner

DNS rules etc

2001-03-26 Thread Murray Taylor
Help I've got the frame relay working, and am waiting now for some network delegation stuff external to me to complete. However I need to know if it is possible to use DNS as detailed below to allow the host spyder be visible to the Internet and our intranet, without polluting the nameservers

Re: meta-level compilation: building FreeBSD under Linux, hints??

2001-03-26 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Alfred Perlstein wrote: ... > > Can you point at any url that explains what you're talking about? > http://www.lwn.net/2001/0322/kernel.php3 look for Global Kernel Analysis. The whitepaper is here: http://www.stanford.edu/~engler/mc-osdi.ps > Why exactly can't they run this tool under

Re: meta-level compilation: building FreeBSD under Linux, hints??

2001-03-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Pedro F. Giffuni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010326 20:05] wrote: > Hi guys, > > Anyone has hints on how to configure a FreeBSD kernel under linux? The > linux weekly news mentioned that the Stanford guys have a nifty kernel > analysis tool. I contacted them and they are very interested in > passing F

meta-level compilation: building FreeBSD under Linux, hints??

2001-03-26 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi guys, Anyone has hints on how to configure a FreeBSD kernel under linux? The linux weekly news mentioned that the Stanford guys have a nifty kernel analysis tool. I contacted them and they are very interested in passing FreeBSD through it, but they can't move from linux right now and our "conf

ipfilter gui (was: ipchains ported to FreeBSD)

2001-03-26 Thread thomas r stromberg
> at least there is a GUI for ipchains (albeit a lousy one). Is there one for > ipfilter anywhere? "FireWall Builder", http://www.crocodile.org/~vadim/fwbuilder/ Available in /usr/ports/security/fwbuilder It does ipchains, iptables, ipfilter, and I believe Cisco ACL's. Pretty dece

Re: ipchains ported to FreeBSD

2001-03-26 Thread Dennis
At 04:33 AM 03/01/2001, mouss wrote: >At 22:20 28/02/01 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: >>In the last episode (Mar 01), jett tayer said: >> > can ipchains / iptables be ported to FreeBSD... this is a suggestion >> > if u dont mind. >> >>We've already got ipfw and ipfilter; why in the world would we need

Re: old business (was Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.)

2001-03-26 Thread Matthew Jacob
> At 12:50 PM 03/25/2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: > >On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Dennis wrote: > > > > > > > > If the if_wx driver sucks, why not fix it rather than trying to coerce a > > > mega-companies with a deep political structure to change is policies? > > > But if youre not going to maintain it, d

Re: LonWorks anyone ?

2001-03-26 Thread Joe Greco
No. I've been contemplating home automation stuff, but LonWorks is a bit on the too heavy (and expensive) side... although I might be interested in any works in progress. -- ... Joe --- Joe Greco - Systems Administrato

LonWorks anyone ?

2001-03-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Are there anybody out there playing with LonWorks and FreeBSD ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To U

Re: rtl8139 driver.

2001-03-26 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Luigi Rizzo writes: : [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] : > I currently have a Sharp pc ax20 laptop with an inbuilt rtl8139 nic. It works : : i have an AX10, similar design i suppose, and it works fast and fine for me : at 10megs. Are you sure

No Subject

2001-03-26 Thread Marc W
Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Programmatically determining FS type MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Kiltdown 0.7 > - > From: Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Programmatically

Re: Locking and Mail spool Files

2001-03-26 Thread Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson
David Scheidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Marc W wrote: > > : > :Excellent, I will look for that. However, in the meantime, on > :older systems (3.x, 4.x, etc ...), is the below assertion correct? > : > > You don't want to put mail spools on NFS filesystems. If you mu

Re: Programmatically determining FS type

2001-03-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Marc W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010326 11:07] wrote: > > > Is there a way in code, given a path (/moo/cow/oink) to determine > the filesystem type for this given path? any chance there's a posix > portable way of doing this, or is it always going to be very system > specific? *smack* man 2

Re: Programmatically determining FS type

2001-03-26 Thread Mathew KANNER
On Mar 26, Marc W wrote: > > > Is there a way in code, given a path (/moo/cow/oink) to determine > the filesystem type for this given path? any chance there's a posix > portable way of doing this, or is it always going to be very system > specific? statfs(2) I think this

Programmatically determining FS type

2001-03-26 Thread Marc W
Is there a way in code, given a path (/moo/cow/oink) to determine the filesystem type for this given path? any chance there's a posix portable way of doing this, or is it always going to be very system specific? thanks! marc. Marc W, San Francisco, CA Kiltdown -- a free email

Re: AW: Best Gigabit ethernet for 4.x

2001-03-26 Thread John Clark
"Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:31:05 -0500, Dennis wrote: > > At 05:04 PM 11/18/2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > >On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:33:29 -0500, Dennis wrote: > > > > At 04:28 PM 11/17/2000, Schmalzbauer, Harald wrote: > > > > >I just heard that Intel doesn't s

Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.

2001-03-26 Thread Dennis
At 07:47 PM 03/24/2001, you wrote: >On 24 Mar 2001, at 19:59, Dennis wrote: > > > the only thing more annoying the 2 people having a discussion is a third > > person telling them to stop. Feel free not to read any more messages in > > this thread. > >Feel free to read the list charter. You two ar

Re: old business (was Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2.)

2001-03-26 Thread Dennis
At 12:50 PM 03/25/2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: >On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Dennis wrote: > > > > > If the if_wx driver sucks, why not fix it rather than trying to coerce a > > mega-companies with a deep political structure to change is policies? > > But if youre not going to maintain it, dont do it at all

[HELP] SIGPROF?? SIGVTALRM??

2001-03-26 Thread ªL­^¶W
Dear all: Recently I make some change on the kern/vfs_aio.c and I run proxy server "squid2-3Stable4" on the new kernel, But after about 20 minutes, the "squid" process is killed by the signals SIGPROF, or SIGVTALRM I have understand SIGPROF stand for " the time

Re: FreeBSD on BookPC

2001-03-26 Thread Len Conrad
>The FIC "Safari Premium" is about the same size, >but much more reliable hardware. Wes, Have you looked at their box: http://www.fic.com.tw/systems/slim/sahara3810/sahara3810feat.asp It's 2U x 19". One could shelve 5 of them thin side up in a 19" rack. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-trai

Re: Porting a Linux driver to FreeBSD with ioctl return values

2001-03-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Roger Hardiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010326 05:37] wrote: > Hi, > I'm porting the some linux telephony API drivers over > to FreeBSD. > > But the author of the linux driver used the 'hack' of > returning values from the ioctls as the error result. > > egvolume = ioctl (fd, IXJ_GET_VOLUME) >

Re: Displaying options for current NFS mounts

2001-03-26 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001, Boris Popov wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > > Or could mount(8) invoke a couple of sysctl's to get a string representation > > of each mountpoint's mount options? > > > > This is not a bikeshed, but sysctl is the wrong interface to do > t

Re: FreeBSD on BookPC

2001-03-26 Thread Wes Peters
Troy Corbin wrote: > > Brian- > > On a cheapo spending spree, I bought 4 of the BookPC's and threw 4.2 on > them. After disabling the modem, soundcard, etc in the BIOS, the only BAD > thing ive experienced with them is occassional high latency to my gateway. > Usually a reboot fixes this... Late

Porting a Linux driver to FreeBSD with ioctl return values

2001-03-26 Thread Roger Hardiman
Hi, I'm porting the some linux telephony API drivers over to FreeBSD. But the author of the linux driver used the 'hack' of returning values from the ioctls as the error result. egvolume = ioctl (fd, IXJ_GET_VOLUME) instead of using error = ioctl (fd, IXJ_GET_VOLUME, &volume); Natur

Re: Problems with new RPC

2001-03-26 Thread Harti Brandt
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Gordon Tetlow wrote: GT>If you haven't, please please please, send-pr(1) this so the right people GT>get a look at this. Last thing we need is a broken ypbind (not that I use GT>it). More down below. Ok, don't panic :-) ypbind seems to work no. The ypmatch problem stil l exi

Re: rtl8139 driver.

2001-03-26 Thread Frank Nobis
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 09:07:30AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > I currently have a Sharp pc ax20 laptop with an inbuilt rtl8139 nic. It works > > i have an AX10, similar design i suppose, and it works fast and fine for me > at 10megs. Are

Re: making release without full CVS tree?

2001-03-26 Thread Victor Ivanov
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:51:22AM +0400, Alexey V. Neyman wrote: > Hello there! > > I just read FAQ on making release and have one question. FAQ says I must > be having full CVS source tree (or be able to access it via CVSROOT), but > I'm behind modem connection. So I'm curious why it is not eno

in_rtqtimo: adjusted (FreeBSD 4.2 crush)

2001-03-26 Thread Dmitry Samersoff
I have server under FreeBSD 4.2. , It stop responding every 24h Kernel answer to ping, it can establish TCP connection, but doesn't fork any process. (i.e. telnet to any open port say connected and does nothing) Unfortunately it's remote host so I'm unable to go into kernel debugger when it c