successful use of NOTE_LOWAT in kevent?

2002-05-17 Thread Kip Macy
Has any successfully used the NOTE_LOWAT feature described in the kevent man page? -Kip __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Okay, seem to be about halfway there ... client kldload's no problem, server runs ... do a ctl-alt-esc to get into DDB and type panic, and it gives a message that its looking for the server and it finds it on the right IP ... then it prints out a '1023' and finishes the panic ... On the 'dump se

Re: gethostbyname2 and AF_INET6

2002-05-17 Thread Terry Lambert
Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Terry Lambert: > > They are trying to be good network citizens by supporting IPv6. > > But they're doing it badly. gethostbyname2 (defined by RFC-2133) has been > obsoleted by RFC-2553 and all applications SHOULD use getaddrinfo(3) or > getnodebyname(3). Bot

Re: tuning a CPU bound server

2002-05-17 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Doug White wrote: >You are welcome to rewrite qmail to use kqueue if you wish :) Although if I read the license correctly you hand djb a contract for your soul and first born child if you do. ;-) Brandon D. Valentine -- "Time to resign from the human race, wipe those tear

Re: tuning a CPU bound server

2002-05-17 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Hiten Pandya wrote: > --- Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only real problem that I know of with postfix is that it still > > suffers from select(2) collisions (FreeBSD kernel problem) when it tries > > to shut down a bunch of idle smtp senders. That can cause t

Re: gethostbyname2 and AF_INET6

2002-05-17 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Terry Lambert: > They are trying to be good network citizens by supporting IPv6. But they're doing it badly. gethostbyname2 (defined by RFC-2133) has been obsoleted by RFC-2553 and all applications SHOULD use getaddrinfo(3) or getnodebyname(3). -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The P

Re: Hardware for FreeBSD

2002-05-17 Thread Nathan Hawkins
For years, I've had the best luck with building my own systems, or having built to my specifications. Have comp delivered mostly assembled, but without hard drive installed, I can usually avoid having to buy Windows, too. Going this route, I pick all the parts, and can generally eliminate OS i

Re: tuning a CPU bound server

2002-05-17 Thread Hiten Pandya
--- Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only real problem that I know of with postfix is that it still > suffers from select(2) collisions (FreeBSD kernel problem) when it tries > to shut down a bunch of idle smtp senders. That can cause transient load > average spikes - this can be a bit

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-17 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Marc G. Fournier writes: > > Well, downloaded the files (a .tar.gz would be nice? *grin*) and the > client built perfectly, and kldload worked fine ... is there some way > someone can suggest of 'simulating a crash'? Some way to test to make > sure that it is working as expected? I have a

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-17 Thread Hiten Pandya
--- "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, downloaded the files (a .tar.gz would be nice? *grin*) and the > client built perfectly, and kldload worked fine ... is there some way > someone can suggest of 'simulating a crash'? Some way to test to make > sure that it is working as exp

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Well, downloaded the files (a .tar.gz would be nice? *grin*) and the client built perfectly, and kldload worked fine ... is there some way someone can suggest of 'simulating a crash'? Some way to test to make sure that it is working as expected? I have a 4.6-PRE machine on my desk that I'd like

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-17 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Marc G. Fournier writes: > > Oh, I like the netdump one ... I have a machine sitting right beside this > one that I can use to dump to ... has anyone thought to include this as a > 'standard' sort of thing with FreeBSD? So that it keeps up with the > current code? > > I plan to integr

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Oh, I like the netdump one ... I have a machine sitting right beside this one that I can use to dump to ... has anyone thought to include this as a 'standard' sort of thing with FreeBSD? So that it keeps up with the current code? On Fri, 17 May 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > There are 3 t

Re: writing a driver for the IBM ultraport camera (USB)

2002-05-17 Thread Carlos Ugarte
Fred Clift writes: > On Fri, 17 May 2002, Marco Molteni wrote: > > > [Bcc to -multimedia] > > > > On Thu, 16 May 2002 18:21:14 -0400, Carlos Ugarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm working on a similar project - a FreeBSD driver for the Philips > > > webcams based on the Linux pwc

Patches for linprocfs and linux emulation - fix 'ls /proc' bug and ipc's

2002-05-17 Thread Reinier Bezuidenhout
Hi all I have an application that uses the linux procfs extensively and also linux ipcs.  I found two problems in the current linux emulation.  (I hope the diff provided below will work as is since my mailing program is a bit limited :)  ) 1) linux_ipc.c has a pice of code commented that we can act

Re: writing a driver for the IBM ultraport camera (USB)

2002-05-17 Thread Carlos Ugarte
Marco Molteni writes: > thanks for the detailed answer, and thanks for taking the time of > writing a real answer instead of quickly jotted words :-) Glad I could help! > Regarding the Philips webcam you are working on, I am wondering how you > will handle the decompression part, which as y

Re: Hardware for FreeBSD

2002-05-17 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> iXsystems. http://www.ixsystems.net. Ditto. Four 1U SMP SCSI, running -CURRENT. Happy as clams. One 2U SMP SCSI running -STABLE. Also happy as a clam. Dell, IBM? Priced 'em, not competitive. Good people too. My two beads of wampum, Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: writing a driver for the IBM ultraport camera (USB)

2002-05-17 Thread Fred Clift
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Marco Molteni wrote: > [Bcc to -multimedia] > > On Thu, 16 May 2002 18:21:14 -0400, Carlos Ugarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm working on a similar project - a FreeBSD driver for the Philips > > webcams based on the Linux pwc driver. It's nowhere near working yet,

Re: PMAP_COLLECT message error...

2002-05-17 Thread Michael Lucas
It's a kernel option. Check the FAQ, and then LINT. On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:31:46AM -0500, Jorge Biquez wrote: > Hello Hackers. > > A friend sent me a message telling me that in the console of her server is > appearing this message: > > PMAP_COLLECT: Collecting PV entries -- suggest

PMAP_COLLECT message error...

2002-05-17 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello Hackers. A friend sent me a message telling me that in the console of her server is appearing this message: PMAP_COLLECT: Collecting PV entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHGPERPROC Anyone know what this means? (I'm sorry if this is too basic for you... for me is a mistery yet)

Re: How to dump a 4gig system on panic ?

2002-05-17 Thread Andrew Gallatin
There are 3 things you could do: a) Limit your memory size in the loader b) Use partial dumps c) Use network dumps if you have another machine to run the dump server on. Both the netdump & partial dump code can be found at: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~anderson/freebsd/ Both may be a littl

Re: Hardware for FreeBSD

2002-05-17 Thread Matt Simerson
iXsystems. http://www.ixsystems.net. They have Adaptec RAID controllers. I did some testing on them and they solidly trounce every other RAID card I've used thus far (Mylex, Compaq, HP NetRAID). I love their servers, I've got about 20 of them in production now on systems I manage. They're ro

Re: pccard hang - how to start debugging?

2002-05-17 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thomas David Rivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : > : OK - > : > : pccard (or, more likely, the pcic driver) hangs when I insert > : my ethernet card into the pcmcia slot on my VAIO F480 (with > : 4.5-RELEASE.) > : > : The entire machine

Hardware for FreeBSD

2002-05-17 Thread Bogdan TARU
Hi hackers, I am in a big dillema (and great hurry/pressure). I need to buy some hardware for some firewalls for my company. And so the blues started. First, I went to Dell. Almost signed the papers for two PowerEdges 2550, (everything in them seemed to be compatible with FreeBSD) whe

Re: writing a driver for the IBM ultraport camera (USB)

2002-05-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 16:57, Marco Molteni wrote: > Exactly! I know nothing about video, but I understand it would be crazy > (or masochistic) to provide a different API per video driver. I am aware > too of video4linux, which good or bad is at least a standard. Looking > for a standard I found SA

Re: writing a driver for the IBM ultraport camera (USB)

2002-05-17 Thread Marco Molteni
[Bcc to -multimedia] On Thu, 16 May 2002 18:21:14 -0400, Carlos Ugarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on a similar project - a FreeBSD driver for the Philips > webcams based on the Linux pwc driver. It's nowhere near working yet, > but I've learned a few things that may help you along