[Wayne Pascoe ] Re: Problems getting wireless card working with PCI adaptor

Sorry if this is a repost, but I didn't see this come through last night. "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : I have found that IRQ 5 is used by the onboard usb controller, but > : even if I disable in the bios I still get this message popping up. > > Using a PCI expantion card re

Re: Uptime of a system

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Nielsen wrote: > How do you apply your kernel patches? Just wondering. > > > > Just like to share my experience with FreeBSD 4.x as a server: > > > > 4:17PM up 378 days, 5:41, 8 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > > > This was as of today. The machine was install

Re: older releases

++ 09/07/02 21:45 -0500 - harsha godavari: | Where can I find the older releases of FBSD ver 2.05 on? Thanks. http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/FBSDsites.php3?release=2.0.5-RELEASE --pete -- Pete Fritchman [petef@(databits.net|freebsd.org|wyom.net)] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key To Unsu

older releases

Hi: Where can I find the older releases of FBSD ver 2.05 on? Thanks. Regards Harsha Godavari To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: swap & huge mem systems

David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You don't have to dump on your swap. It's just convenient to do. > > You can actually dump on any raw partition which is large enough. > > > > If FreeBSD intrinsically handled "suspend to disk", then you would > > need somet

Re: Motherboard temperature sensing

In the last episode (Jul 09), Julian Elischer said: > I haven't been following this so now naturally > it becomes important.. > > anyone have good pointers? healthd, mbmon, or lmmon, in ports. Healthd and lmmon don't get all my variables, mbmon does (Asus cuv4vd motherboard). All are easily sc

Re: swap & huge mem systems

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I just bought that new Fujitsu Ultra160 > > screamer, fastest disk in the West (3.5ms access, 15K rotation). Eat my > > dust! > > Given the reliability of Fujitsu disks I've seen, there's a high > probabil

Re: Uptime of a system

Thus spake Stephen Montgomery-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I made a simple patch to my system that is giving me phenomenally high > uptimes: > > hub# uptime > 8:09PM up 5790 days, 1:24, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Now just run an HTTP server. Netcraft will hate you. ;-) To Unsu

Re: 'make release' tries to build a port?

reichert> Unfortunately, I had to delve into other bits of mystery and wonder: reichert> - The Makefile in usr/src/release; that's where KERNEL_FLAGS and reichert> WORLD_FLAGS are mentioned. Ya, it should be documented in release(7) IMO... reichert> Now, if only I could automate a relationshi

Re: swap & huge mem systems

Thus spake Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I just bought that new Fujitsu Ultra160 > screamer, fastest disk in the West (3.5ms access, 15K rotation). Eat my > dust! Given the reliability of Fujitsu disks I've seen, there's a high probability that your disk will be worth no more than its weigh

Motherboard temperature sensing

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Re: Uptime of a system

Daniel Jonsson wrote: > > Just like to share my experience with FreeBSD 4.x as a server: > > 4:17PM up 378 days, 5:41, 8 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > This was as of today. The machine was installed 378 days ago and is > a rather active box normally. > I made a simple patch to

Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive.

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Don Lewis wrote: > On 8 Jul, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Julian Elischer wrote: > >> this is not a 'reformat' > >> > >> what I want to do is an old-fashionned refomat/verify where the controller > >> writes new track headers etc. > > > > The thing is, just about all IDE drives more

Re: swap & huge mem systems

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > >:Thus spake Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >:> Erik Trulsson wrote: > >:> > Minimal swap if you want to be able to catch core dumps: Physical RAM > >:> > size + 64K > >: > >:I've caught many cor

Re: swap & huge mem systems

Thus spake Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You don't have to dump on your swap. It's just convenient to do. > You can actually dump on any raw partition which is large enough. > > If FreeBSD intrinsically handled "suspend to disk", then you would > need something seperate from swap, anyway.

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Keith Pitcher wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 07:07:54AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > > Remember: unix is a system whereby you assemble piplelines and scripts > > of _simple_ programs to create complex behavior. It's not necessary > > to have a multi-cd tool when you can rol

Re: swap & huge mem systems

Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > So, if someone wants to get really quick swap and allocates 4 partitions > on 4 drives *AND* also wand to get crashdumps, (s)he has to do this > suboptimally (either allocate 1st more sized than phys RAM and other much > smaller, or allocate approx 4 x phys RAM)? > > Th

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 18:27:16 -0400, Keith Pitcher wrote: > > > I also didn't know that there was a write-to-many SCSI command? > > > Someone can confirm or deny this > > Coulda sworn the raid controller on our main freebsd machine does mirroring > via scsi with a single command. So I took it

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

> > I also didn't know that there was a write-to-many SCSI command? > > Someone can confirm or deny this Coulda sworn the raid controller on our main freebsd machine does mirroring via scsi with a single command. So I took it that this was a scsi card ability and not a raid controller option. I

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 16:22:56 -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > > "Keith" == Keith Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Keith> Given the hardware, is there a way to burn 8 CDs at one time, > Keith> or is there some mirroring code that is well written enough to > Keith> facilitate it? > > I

Re: Uptime of a system

How do you apply your kernel patches? Just wondering. > Just like to share my experience with FreeBSD 4.x as a server: > > 4:17PM up 378 days, 5:41, 8 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > This was as of today. The machine was installed 378 days ago and is > a rather active box normall

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

> "Matthew" == Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> I'm somewhat interested in knowing that this concept Matthew> actually works :-) I used to have a system that was a K6/233 with a 2940W SCSI controller. It had IDE disks and two SCSI burners... one 1x and one 4x. I foun

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

:Keith> This is a simplistic and inadequate solution. UNIX was intended :Keith> to be efficient, not to do eight Times the amount of work of :Keith> any other system. This uses 8 times the memory, 8 times the :Keith> processor, and 8 times the bus (only 4 times if two channels, :Keith> but you ge

Re: 'make release' tries to build a port?

On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 09:45:08PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: > On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 03:18:55PM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > > > > > WORLD_FLAGS and/or KERNEL_FLAGS don't work for you? > > > > reichert> 'make -j 10 release' didn't work. > > > > Again, WORLD_FLAGS and/or KERNEL_FLAGS d

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

> "Keith" == Keith Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Keith> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 07:07:54AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: >> Remember: unix is a system whereby you assemble piplelines and >> scripts of _simple_ programs to create complex behavior. It's not >> necessary to have a multi-cd

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 07:07:54AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > Remember: unix is a system whereby you assemble piplelines and scripts > of _simple_ programs to create complex behavior. It's not necessary > to have a multi-cd tool when you can roll your own with your own > behavior. > > Dave.

rpc.lockd

Once, long ago, some people emailed me a set of issues regarding our lockd implementation. Would people be willing to re-email me those, or take a fresh look? I once again have time and people to do development on this; and it was 99% there last time; the only issues being some byte-swapping in

Re: swap & huge mem systems

:> :I beg to differ. ;-) :> :> You only need as much as physical ram. e.g. 1G of ram, 1G on the :> dump device (which can be the swap partition). : :The man page for dumpon(8) says: : : The size of the specified dump device must be at least 64 KB : greater than the size of physi

low level format of an IDE drive

Knocking over a stack of dishes in the heat sink freebsd-hackers-digest wondered out loud about: > -- > > Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:08:27 -0700 (PDT) > From: Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive. > > :One of my Fre

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Re: Uptime of a system

In message , Daniel Jonsson w rites: > Just like to share my experience with FreeBSD 4.x as a server: > > 4:17PM up 378 days, 5:41, 8 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > This was as of today. The machine was installed 378 days ago and

Re: [hackers] Re: swap & huge mem systems

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, David Gilbert wrote: >Personally, I have an old 6gig drive on which I have a dump partition >(it doesn't need to be active swap). 6gig drives are too slow to be >useful these days. > >I generally allocate 4 swap partitions on fast drives where each is >about 1/2 of memory (2x

Uptime of a system

Just like to share my experience with FreeBSD 4.x as a server: 4:17PM up 378 days, 5:41, 8 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 This was as of today. The machine was installed 378 days ago and is a rather active box normally. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscr

Re: swap & huge mem systems

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Erik Trulsson wrote: ET> > BTW, is it safe to create _interleaved_ swap totally sized slightly above ET> > the amount of physical RAM? I mean, is core writer interleve-aware, or ET> > does it need the first swap partiton large enough? ET> ET> The coredumping code does not know

[hackers] Multi CDR burn

> "Keith" == Keith Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Keith> I hate to bother the list, but after lots of searching I Keith> haven't found this out - maybe I missed something obvious : Keith> I have 8 scsi CDRs in a netserver 5 case, need to burn a number Keith> of CDs. I haven't seen anyt

[hackers] Re: swap & huge mem systems

> "Chuck" == Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Personally, in your situation I would probably configure enough >> swap to be able to catch a core dump and not much more, >> i.e. slightly more than 1G swap. Chuck> Probably a good compromise, it just feels silly to go for a G Chuck> o

[hackers] Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive.

> "Robert" == Robert Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> On Montag, 8. Juli 2002 23:46, Kent Stewart wrote: >> Julian Elischer wrote: > The machiine has 1 CD drive and no >> floppy.. Robert> ^^ >> All of the manufacturers have a program that will do

How I managed to lose (and then recover) my disklabel

Hi! I have my disk set in a so-called dangerously-dedicated mode, and its disklabel looks like this: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 8388608 2621444.2BSD 1024 819216 # (Cyl. 260*- 8582*) b: 2621440 swap

Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive.

On 8 Jul, Peter Wemm wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: >> this is not a 'reformat' >> >> what I want to do is an old-fashionned refomat/verify where the controller >> writes new track headers etc. > > The thing is, just about all IDE drives more than a few GB or so do 'track > writing' and have n

Re: swap & huge mem systems

Thus spake Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Brandon D. Valentine" wrote: > > Allocating swap = physical RAM doesn't buy you any expansion though. I > > always try to do at least twice physical RAM so that if I ever double > > the RAM in my machine I'm still able to catch crash dumps. It's n

Re: swap & huge mem systems

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 01:02:16PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > [snip] > ET> Minimal swap if you want to be able to catch core dumps: Physical RAM > ET> size + 64K > ET> > ET> Personally, in your situation I would probably configure enough swap to

Re: swap & huge mem systems

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Erik Trulsson wrote: [snip] ET> Minimal swap if you want to be able to catch core dumps: Physical RAM ET> size + 64K ET> ET> Personally, in your situation I would probably configure enough swap to ET> be able to catch a core dump and not much more, i.e. slightly more than ET>

Re: swap & huge mem systems

On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 10:27:02PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Thus spake Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > :> Erik Trulsson wrote: > :> > Minimal swap if you want to be able to catch core dumps: Physical RAM > :> > size + 64K > : > :I've caught many core dumps with swap == RAM. Am I ju

Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive.

It seems Julian Elischer wrote: > One of my FreeBSD development boxes had a hernia last week when it lost > power while writing to disk. The drive wrote out garbage to a track. > > I want to reformat the drive, (low level) but the bios doesn't have any > support to do this (In the past That is ho

Re: swap & huge mem systems

"Brandon D. Valentine" wrote: > Allocating swap = physical RAM doesn't buy you any expansion though. I > always try to do at least twice physical RAM so that if I ever double > the RAM in my machine I'm still able to catch crash dumps. It's not > worth having to repartition the drive to add more

Re: swap & huge mem systems

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: >:Thus spake Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >:> Erik Trulsson wrote: >:> > Minimal swap if you want to be able to catch core dumps: Physical RAM >:> > size + 64K >: >:I've caught many core dumps with swap == RAM. Am I just getting >:lucky, or am I lo