Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-02 Thread Terry Lambert
John Baldwin wrote: > Err. hang on. This has zero to do with segmentation. Zip, nada. > PAE is completely in the paging side of things. No matter what > fun games you play with segmentation, you still end up with a > 32-bit linear address that gets handed off to the paging translations. > PAE j

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-02 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Name an OS that supports this; more than likely, you will > have to appeal to a purpose built embedded system. errr, linux? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

6G memory disks?

2001-08-02 Thread David Gilbert
I suppose a 6G "md" memory disk is impossible? I recently applied all the patches recomended here and even got a 6G memory disk "newfs'd" and "mount'd" ... but when I ran bonnie (with size 100M) on it, it failed. Dave. -- ===

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > On the really large machines, this can lead to the > > situation where even the page tables hardly fit into > > KVA. 4MB pages seem like the only solution ... > > There is no reason why we need to keep the

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-02 Thread Terry Lambert
mark tinguely wrote: > > Also, the PIII CAN'T natively support more than 4GB of ram. If a > > particular PIII motherboard supports this, then it's using some kind of > > wierd chipset that allows this to happen. 4GB is the limit with a 32 bit > > chip I believe; and the PIII is a 32-bit chip.

Re: keep-state rule for icmp, really stateful ???

2001-08-02 Thread Dennis Berger
Sorry I missed something ... forget - Original Message - From: "Peter Pentchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dennis Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 7:26 PM Subject: Re: keep-state rule for icmp, really stateful ??? > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at

Re: 303,000 routes in kernel

2001-08-02 Thread Alson van der Meulen
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:34:16PM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote: > > The box does have a default route, and is not getting proxy > arps from the next hop router, right? route add default -cloning would also cause this behavior, guess you don't do that either :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL P

freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

2001-08-02 Thread Julian Elischer
ha! no, I just got my first DVD drive for my dell and I want to see if I can look at a dvd on it.. but All the DVD howto's for FreeBSD seem to be dead links. One just says "The ioctls are now in -current" and seems to assume that that is all the information I need to play a DVD (!?) Other inf

freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

2001-08-02 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 07:58:43PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > ha! > > no, I just got my first DVD drive for my dell and I > want to see if I can look at a dvd on it.. > but All the DVD howto's for FreeBSD seem to be dead links. > > One just says "The ioctls are now in -current" > and seems

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Mike Smith wrote: > > I know PIII can support 64G physical memory. In FreeBSD how can I visit > > such range memory(4G-64G) ? > > You can't. Those memory ranges are strictly off-limits to > non-US citizens. And under the DMCA, US citizens aren't allowed to build or distribut

Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > > craig wrote: > > > > > > I know PIII can support 64G physical memory. In FreeBSD how can I visit such > > range memory(4G-64G) ? > > The short answer is "you can't". > > The longer answer is that you end up having to window it using > segmentation; Onl

Re: wi0 problems?

2001-08-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> lists writes: : With the changes to FreeBSD 5-CURRENT to support pci->pcmcia bridges, does : anyone know if there is still a problem with the wi0 (wavelan) pcmcia : cards on one of those bridges? I know of none, except that for the lucent single slot cards that were

Re: Finding filesizes in C++ for files greater than 4gb

2001-08-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <00b201c11af3$4fef1c10$0a2d2d0a@battleship> "Joseph Gleason" writes: : In FreeBSD, how can I determine the size of a file in C++ when the file is : greater than 4gb? stat(2). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the m

wi0 problems?

2001-08-02 Thread lists
Hi, hoping someone can help me out here. With the changes to FreeBSD 5-CURRENT to support pci->pcmcia bridges, does anyone know if there is still a problem with the wi0 (wavelan) pcmcia cards on one of those bridges? The machine picks up the card fine, assigns it an IRQ the whole trip, wicontrol