Some specific questions about 5.x

2003-03-25 Thread Alex
Hi everybody! I was so much enthusiastic about kernel threads implemented in 5.x but some ugly rumors spoiled my dreams :0) So I want to get if these rumors are myths or not. 1.Is it true that kernel threads are more "heavy" than userspace ones (pthread) and hence application with hundreds

Re: shared mem and panics when out of PV Entries

2003-03-25 Thread Terry Lambert
Andrew Kinney wrote: > On 25 Mar 2003, at 17:56, Igor Sysoev wrote: > > > So, what's the best approach to limiting memory shared via fork() or > > > reducing PV Entry usage by that memory? Is there something I can do > > > with the kernel config or sysctl to accomplish this? > > > > No, as far as

Re: shared mem and panics when out of PV Entries

2003-03-25 Thread Andrew Kinney
On 25 Mar 2003, at 17:56, Igor Sysoev wrote: > > So, what's the best approach to limiting memory shared via fork() or > > reducing PV Entry usage by that memory? Is there something I can do > > with the kernel config or sysctl to accomplish this? > > No, as far as I know there's no way to do it.

Re: [PATCH2] PPP in -direct mode does not execute any chat scripts

2003-03-25 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
Hello Brian, Yes, this looks fine, although I think this shows that the -direct description is wrong. Perhaps this is more appropriate: -direct This is used for communicating over an already established connection, usually when receiving incoming connections accepted by getty(8). ppp ig

Re: pam_ldap + nss_ldap

2003-03-25 Thread Anti
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:19:48 + (UTC) omestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > sorry, but i need to know where can i find a how to for > FreeBSD 5.0 working with pam_ldap authentication. > There is pam_ldap in ports/security, but and support in > the libc? i did put one /etc/pam.d/sshd

Re: [PATCH2] PPP in -direct mode does not execute any chat scripts

2003-03-25 Thread Brian Somers
Hi, Yes, this looks fine, although I think this shows that the -direct description is wrong. Perhaps this is more appropriate: -direct This is used for communicating over an already established connection, usually when receiving incoming connections accepted by getty(8). ppp ignores th

pam_ldap + nss_ldap

2003-03-25 Thread omestre
Hello, sorry, but i need to know where can i find a how to for FreeBSD 5.0 working with pam_ldap authentication. There is pam_ldap in ports/security, but and support in the libc? i did put one /etc/pam.d/sshd file and tcpdump my ssh connection... the module is talking with the ldap server, but i h

disklabal messed, need help!

2003-03-25 Thread af asdf
Anyone knows how to repair disk when the freebsddisk lable is destroyed? I have a 12G HD, the 1st partition is Windows NT, the second the for FreeBSD. For some reason i installed a new disk label to it and newfs it a bit. Once I found the newfs started, I have turned power off right away, but t

Re: shared mem and panics when out of PV Entries

2003-03-25 Thread Igor Sysoev
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Andrew Kinney wrote: > On 24 Mar 2003, at 16:02, Igor Sysoev wrote: > > > How many Apache processes do you have and what's their size ? > > It varies between 150 and 256 Apache processes. Our MaxClients > is set to 256, which seems to work well. > > Their size varies from

Question about BPF API (PCAP not like for me)

2003-03-25 Thread Vladimir Yu. Stepanov
Hello ! I have a little question about BPF: how to determine incoming or outgoing packet given into the user level mode. Current API do not supported this or I are wrong ? Thanks. -- Vladimir Yu. Stepanov E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +7 (845) 2450450 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EM

Re: 4.8-RELEASE

2003-03-25 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:14:19AM -0800, Shvetima Gulati wrote: > > Hi all, > > Wasn't 4.8-RELEASE supposed to hit the mirrors today? Any news / delay ? Yes and yes, and if you had been bothering to read the -stable mailing list (which is where any such news can be expected to appear) you woul

4.8-RELEASE

2003-03-25 Thread Shvetima Gulati
Hi all, Wasn't 4.8-RELEASE supposed to hit the mirrors today? Any news / delay ? Thanks, -Shv. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

learning device drivers

2003-03-25 Thread Shvetima Gulati
HI folks, I want to learn how to write device drivers for FreeBSD. How different is this from Linux? Second, is there a list of devices that need drivers written for them ? I want to take a hands-on approach to learning so a real world project would be more useful. Thanks, -Shv. To Unsubscribe:

Re: User-PPP MTU/MRU - LCP Problem

2003-03-25 Thread Michael Bretterklieber
Hi, Fabio Vilan Dias schrieb: There is a problem in user-ppp LCP negotation that sometimes the assigned tun0 MTU is incorrectly set. I've sent this msg to brian (the freebsd user-ppp responsible), and then submited a bug report (patch example included) on Feb 17, but I haven't heard anything from