Re: PCMCIA-PCI bridge cards

2001-04-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Brian W. Buchanan" writes: : Do PCI PCMCIA adapters work in 4.3? No. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: vm balance

2001-04-10 Thread Julian Elischer
Rik van Riel wrote: > > I'm curious about the other things though ... FreeBSD still seems > to have the early 90's abstraction layer from Mach and the vnode > cache doesn't seem to grow and shrink dynamically (which can be a > big win for systems with lots of metadata activity). > > So while it

problem in attaching a PCI driver

2001-04-10 Thread pradip biswas
Hi, I have gone through the tutorial composed be you on FreeBSD.org page. I am developing a loadable module on FreeBSD which will act a network pci card driver. The problem with the module is that, the probe/attach routines are not getting called. I have filled a driver_t, devclass_t and used t

Write-ahead file system (WAFS) for FreeBSD

2001-04-10 Thread Christopher Stein
Write-Ahead File System (WAFS) v1.0 Release Notice. The WAFS source code is now available for download at http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~stein/wafs/ WAFS is a simple file system designed to act as a logging service for kernel subsystems. Reads and writes are keyed by log-sequence number (LSN). Al

Re: vm balance

2001-04-10 Thread Matt Dillon
It's randomness that will kill performance. You know the old saying about caches: They only work if you get cache hits, otherwise they only slow things down. -Matt :Which is ok if there isn't too much activity with these data :structures

Re: vm balance

2001-04-10 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > :I'm curious about the other things though ... FreeBSD still seems > :to have the early 90's abstraction layer from Mach and the vnode > :cache doesn't seem to grow and shrink dynamically (which can be a > :big win for systems with lots of metadata activi

Re: lockf in apache

2001-04-10 Thread Dan Phoenix
thanks alot for your help alfred much appreciated. you were right all lockf's turned to accepts right after i made that change.thanks again. On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:04:16 -0700 > From: Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Dan Phoenix

Re: vm balance

2001-04-10 Thread Matt Dillon
:In the balancing part, definately. FreeBSD seems to be the only :system that has the balancing right. I'm planning on integrating :some of the balancing tactics into Linux for the 2.5 kernel, but :I'm not sure how to integrate the inode and dentry cache into the :balancing scheme ... :I'm curio

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Eric Lee Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010410 15:38] wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, HyunSeog Ryu wrote: > > . Migrating Microsoft® Hotmail® from FreeBSD to Microsoft Windows® 2000 > > Technical Case Study > >http://www.microsoft.com/technet/migration/hotmail/default.asp > > They forgot to do

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-10 Thread Eric Lee Green
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, HyunSeog Ryu wrote: > . Migrating Microsoft® Hotmail® from FreeBSD to Microsoft Windows® 2000 > Technical Case Study >http://www.microsoft.com/technet/migration/hotmail/default.asp They forgot to document reason #0 for migration to Windows 2000: Because running FreeBSD

Re: lockf in apache

2001-04-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
At a glance the following config should work. If apache is not in 'accept' then you've done something wrong. * Dan Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010410 15:01] wrote: > > > Ok let's take this for example > > Listen 172.16.0.26:80 > Listen 172.16.6.2:80 > > NameVirtualHost 172.16.0.26:80 > Nam

Re: lockf in apache

2001-04-10 Thread Dan Phoenix
Ok let's take this for example Listen 172.16.0.26:80 Listen 172.16.6.2:80 NameVirtualHost 172.16.0.26:80 NameVirtualHost 172.16.6.2:80 .6.2 is real ip for load balancer. .0.x is for internal use so let;s rewrite. Bind * Port 80 NameVirtualHost 172.16.0.26 NameVirtualHost 172.16.6.2 t

Re: vm balance

2001-04-10 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > :I heard NetBSD has implemented a FreeBSD like VM, it also implemented > :a VM balance in recent verion of NetBSD. some parameters like TEXT, > :DATA and anonymous memory space can be tuned. is there anyone doing > :such work on FreeBSD or has FreeBSD alr

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-10 Thread Sean Chittenden
I know right now that Theo Schlossnagle (from mod_backhand fame), is working on a bi-directional accept filter for keep alives that will allow Apache to pass the connection back to the kernel so that the apache child can serve a different request. scenario: 1) request comes in 2)

Re: lockf in apache

2001-04-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dan Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010410 13:02] wrote: > > > show alot of that in top > occasioanallythink that could be from nfs timeouts > or just waiting on mysql connections to come back? > > what are they generally from? They're using a lockfile around the select() call on the accept

lockf in apache

2001-04-10 Thread Dan Phoenix
show alot of that in top occasioanallythink that could be from nfs timeouts or just waiting on mysql connections to come back? what are they generally from? -- Dan +--+ | BRAVENET WEB SERVICES | |

Re: sendfile() vs. gigabit ethernet

2001-04-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Bill Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010410 11:05] wrote: > People are constantly asking me about the performance of gigabit ethernet > cards with FreeBSD. I'm constantly wishing they would all go to hell -- > directly to hell, without passing "GO" or collecting $200 -- but their > persistence has led

Re: vm balance

2001-04-10 Thread Andrew R. Reiter
> > FreeBSD implements a very sophisticated VM balancing algorithm. Nobody's > complaining about it so I don't think we need to really change it. Most > of the other UNIXes, including Linux, are actually playing catch-up to > FreeBSD's VM design. > I remember hearing/viewing a

Re: vm balance

2001-04-10 Thread Matt Dillon
:I heard NetBSD has implemented a FreeBSD like VM, it also implemented :a VM balance in recent verion of NetBSD. some parameters like TEXT, :DATA and anonymous memory space can be tuned. is there anyone doing :such work on FreeBSD or has FreeBSD already implemented it? : :-- :David Xu FreeB

sendfile() vs. gigabit ethernet

2001-04-10 Thread Bill Paul
People are constantly asking me about the performance of gigabit ethernet cards with FreeBSD. I'm constantly wishing they would all go to hell -- directly to hell, without passing "GO" or collecting $200 -- but their persistence has led me to ask a few questions of my own. One thing everyone notic

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-10 Thread Bakul Shah
>From the top level page I read hotmail handles 550,000 change requests a day. Later in the article they say they have a 5000 server farm. That translates to 110 change requests a day on average per server. If the peak rate is 10 times the average, that is still only about 1100 requests/server/

problem with Aironet driver

2001-04-10 Thread Andria Thomas
Hi everyone. I'd like to report a problem we've been having with the Aironet driver on two of our machines. One machine is running FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE, and the other is a very recent upgrade to 4.3-RC1. They both have Aironet PCI4800 cards and are connected directly to antennas (one on our ro

Re: windows tech article?

2001-04-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 10), Paul Halliday said: > Taken from: > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/migration/hotmail/default.asp > > "FreeBSD, a UNIX-like system similar to the Linux operating system, > was used to run the front-end Web servers that handled login, > Microsoft Outlook_ Express, an

Re: Interesting article.

2001-04-10 Thread Robert Watson
Actually, the most fascinating part of the article for me was footnote 2: F2 - There obviously are multi-tasking/multi-process solutions that Hotmail could have leveraged under FreeBSD. However, they would require making application modifications and rework to implement. So, this was

Re: Mounting partitions with RO flag

2001-04-10 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 09:13:15PM +0200, Attila Nagy wrote: > > > So I am wondering, why the unices block mounting an already mounted > > partition read only again. > > Have you considered using ACLs perhaps? Sure it's not in -STABLE, but > it's a thou

Re: Mounting partitions with RO flag

2001-04-10 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Attila Nagy wrote: > With the appearing of the jail() in 4.0 I think it would be very good to > have the functionality of mounting already mounted (RW) filesystems read > only to another directory. Many people agree with you -- this is one reason why the fixing of nullfs in

re: windows tech article?

2001-04-10 Thread Joseph Mallett
I didn't know you were allowed to say "warez" on hackers@ /joseph -- Joseph Mallett Security Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.newgold.net irc.newgold.net/#xMach xMach Core Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.xMach.org On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Paul Halliday wrote: > Take

re: windows tech article?

2001-04-10 Thread Paul Halliday
Taken from: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/migration/hotmail/default.asp "FreeBSD, a UNIX-like system similar to the Linux operating system, was used to run the front-end Web servers that handled login, Microsoft Outlook® Express, and Web-based content delivery tasks" Is it just me or

Interesting article.

2001-04-10 Thread HyunSeog Ryu
Hi, folks Today I got email from Microsoft regarding hotmail migration. . Migrating Microsoft® Hotmail® from FreeBSD to Microsoft Windows® 2000 Technical Case Study http://www.microsoft.com/technet/migration/hotmail/default.asp If you have free time, enjoy M$'s wonderful marketing power.

vm balance

2001-04-10 Thread David Xu
I heard NetBSD has implemented a FreeBSD like VM, it also implemented a VM balance in recent verion of NetBSD. some parameters like TEXT, DATA and anonymous memory space can be tuned. is there anyone doing such work on FreeBSD or has FreeBSD already implemented it? -- David Xu To Unsubscribe

Re: Adding a new drive

2001-04-10 Thread Jon Molin
Andrew Hesford wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:17:24AM +0200, Jon Molin wrote: > > The -I option gives the same output: > > jmo# fdisk -I ad3 > > *** Working on device /dev/ad3 *** > > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found > > jmo# disklabel -B -w -r ad3s1 auto > > disklabel: /