Re: Updating bsd.cpu.mk (Re: -fomit-frame-pointer for the world build)

2002-09-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 01:30:26PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > `-mcpu=CPU-TYPE' > > Tune to CPU-TYPE everything applicable about the generated code, > > except for the ABI and the set of available instructions. The > > choices for CPU-TYPE are `i386', `i486', `i586', `i686', >

Re: Updating bsd.cpu.mk (Re: -fomit-frame-pointer for the world build)

2002-09-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 06:08:23PM -0700, Maxime Henrion wrote: > Forgot that one. Here is an updated patch. I'm quite sure that on the > Intel side, only the pentium 4 have sse2, but I don't know if any AMD > chip supports it yet. The attached patch only adds it for p4's. Athlon-{X,M}P suppor

Re: Dell 2650 SMP perf question

2002-09-10 Thread hackers
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 10), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I'm stumped at how little improvement using an SMP kernel gives in a > > Dell 2650. System is dual 2400 xeon processors, 2 GB ram. It's > > intended to be used as a database processor, among other

Re: bge problems (was: gigabit NIC of choice?)

2002-09-10 Thread Mark Peek
At 12:51 PM +0200 9/10/02, Birger Toedtmann wrote: >So it seems there is some problem with the bge driver/card/64bit bus. >Does the scenario ring a bell to someone of you? Yes, the bge driver in 4.6 is broken. John Polstra put fixes into -stable which will show up in 4.7. Mark To Unsubscribe:

Re: what does this mean?

2002-09-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 > : what on earth is this trying to tell me? > : WHAT bitmap? > > Bitmap of probed irqs of '0' means

Re: Dell 2650 SMP perf question

2002-09-10 Thread Doug White
Random notes: On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hyperthreading is turned off, I believe. There aren't any > "hyperthreading" swithes in the bios I could find, but the "logical > processor" option is turned off. HyperThreading is not supported on FreeBSD at current. It requires som

Re: I climb the mountain seeking wisdom

2002-09-10 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stacy Millions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : For a static driver, we have the config flags that can be used to : modify the drivers behaviour, is sysctl the equivalent for KLD : modules? If so, should a person support both or are the config : flags consi

Re: what does this mean?

2002-09-10 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 : what on earth is this trying to tell me? : WHAT bitmap? Bitmap of probed irqs of '0' means that the driver put the card into an interrupt 'state', yet

Re: gigabit NIC of choice?

2002-09-10 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Brandon D. Valentine writes: > running it through a computer (AFAIK). There are rumors afloat of > Gigabit Ethernet linecards for Myrinet switch hardware on the horizon Slightly more than rumours -- http://www.myri.com/news/02512/slides/Seitz_roadmap.pdf http://www.myri.com

Re: Dell 2650 SMP perf question

2002-09-10 Thread Scott Hess
Another item we've done is to run multiple mysqld against the same filesystem tables. This requires you to have the filesystem locking enabled when you build mysql (but I think that's the default on FreeBSD). Also, you need to have multiple clients to connect to the multiple ports (or use a loa

Re: gigabit NIC of choice?

2002-09-10 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > I think our products are the only game in town. > > > > http://www.myri.com/myrinet/product_list.html > > http://www.myri.com/myrinet/performance/index.html > > I'm a bit confused about these cards. Terry, put dow

Re: gigabit NIC of choice?

2002-09-10 Thread Terry Lambert
Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > I guess the next question is "Anyone know a gigabit NIC that is > > currently in production, which has hack-friendly firmware?"... > > I think our products are the only game in town. > > http://www.myri.com/myrinet/product_list.html > http://www.myri.com/myri

Re: Dell 2650 SMP perf question

2002-09-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 10), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I'm stumped at how little improvement using an SMP kernel gives in a > Dell 2650. System is dual 2400 xeon processors, 2 GB ram. It's > intended to be used as a database processor, among other things. A > perl process that read and input f

Re: gigabit NIC of choice?

2002-09-10 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Terry Lambert writes: > I guess the next question is "Anyone know a gigabit NIC that is > currently in production, which has hack-friendly firmware?"... I think our products are the only game in town. http://www.myri.com/myrinet/product_list.html http://www.myri.com/myrinet/performanc

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Re: Dell 2650 SMP perf question

2002-09-10 Thread Dominic Marks
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 01:30:23PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Dominic Marks wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 01:16:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi All; > > > > > > Hyperthreading is turned off, I believe. There aren't any > > > "hyperthreading" swit

Re: Dell 2650 SMP perf question

2002-09-10 Thread hackers
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Dominic Marks wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 01:16:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi All; > > > > Hyperthreading is turned off, I believe. There aren't any > > "hyperthreading" swithes in the bios I could find, but the "logical > > processor" option is turned of

Re: Dell 2650 SMP perf question

2002-09-10 Thread Dominic Marks
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 01:16:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All; > > I'm stumped at how little improvement using an SMP kernel gives in a Dell > 2650. System is dual 2400 xeon processors, 2 GB ram. It's intended to be > used as a database processor, among other things. A perl proce

Dell 2650 SMP perf question

2002-09-10 Thread hackers
Hi All; I'm stumped at how little improvement using an SMP kernel gives in a Dell 2650. System is dual 2400 xeon processors, 2 GB ram. It's intended to be used as a database processor, among other things. A perl process that read and input file and updates simple records in a mysql database ac

Re: I climb the mountain seeking wisdom

2002-09-10 Thread Stacy Millions
Terry Lambert wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >>There will always be situations where the debugger can't catch the >>problem in time. Then it's up to you to guess and put a breakpoint >>just before it freezes; this can be an interative process. The method >>requiring the least thought is

Re: I climb the mountain seeking wisdom

2002-09-10 Thread Stacy Millions
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > There will always be situations where the debugger can't catch the > problem in time. Then it's up to you to guess and put a breakpoint > just before it freezes; this can be an interative process. The method > requiring the least thought is to single step over funct

Re: PCMCIA questions: mapping attribute and common memory?

2002-09-10 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bruce M Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Thanks very much for your help. The driver appears to work perfectly. : Expect a whole bunch of smartcard-related ports submissions shortly. Cool! Often for things like this we'll put the driver into the t

Re: PCMCIA questions: mapping attribute and common memory?

2002-09-10 Thread Bruce M Simpson
Warner, Thanks very much for your help. The driver appears to work perfectly. Expect a whole bunch of smartcard-related ports submissions shortly. BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: gigabit NIC of choice?

2002-09-10 Thread Terry Lambert
Dan Ellard wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: > > Dan Ellard wrote: > > > What's the gigabit ethernet NIC of choice these days? (I've had good > > > experiences with the NetGear G620T, but apparently this card is no > > > longer being sold.) > > > > The Tigon II has the best performances, but that's b

Re: gigabit NIC of choice?

2002-09-10 Thread Dan Ellard
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: Terry Lambert wrote: > Dan Ellard wrote: > > What's the gigabit ethernet NIC of choice these days? (I've had good > > experiences with the NetGear G620T, but apparently this card is no > > longer being sold.) > > The Tigon II has the best performances, bu

bge problems (was: gigabit NIC of choice?)

2002-09-10 Thread Birger Toedtmann
Hi, > What's the gigabit ethernet NIC of choice these days? (I've had good > experiences with the NetGear G620T, but apparently this card is no > longer being sold.) [ discussion followed ] just as this comes up, I have a question. Has anyone had experiences with the bge driver and related

Re: what does this mean?

2002-09-10 Thread Christian Zander
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 04:44:07PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > It's also a possible message, if you have a serial port > disabled in the BIOS, but the hardware probe finds the > hardware there, because the BIOS is merely advisory, and > you have not disable "PnP OS" in the BIOS. > Something