Re: contributing to fbsd

2005-03-25 Thread David Schultz
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005, Andriy Tkachuk wrote: > As I see now there is for example O(n) algorithm for > process IDs allocation... In linux it is addressed > using bit-mapping (as far as i understand). > In Oct 2003 there was topic in this list: > "Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD"

axe CPU_UPGRADE_HW_CACHE from i386 specific code

2005-03-25 Thread Mark Santcroos
It looks like CPU_UPGRADE_HW_CACHE is only used in PC98, so it can be removed from all I386 specific code. Any objections to the following patch? Mark Index: conf/options.i386 === RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/sys/conf/options.i386,v retr

Re: NIC 1 gigabit

2005-03-25 Thread Sergey Babkin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, I have trouble with my NIC. > I'm using Server Mainboard Intel (I forgot the model), there is 2 NICs; the > one > is 100Mbps other is 1 gigabit. I use this for my web server with freeBSD > 5.1-RELEASE. > NIC 1 gigabit is not detected and recognised neither by free

Re: running freebsd in qemu using the "-nographic" option ?

2005-03-25 Thread Kip Macy
> >So basically what I want to do now is mount the freeBSD image in a > >loopback and modify the boot.conf file directly. Anyone knows how to > >do this under linux (2.6 if relevant) ? BSD seems to have a "weird" > >way of organizing the disk. Which file system shoud I support ? I would just do it

Re: running freebsd in qemu using the "-nographic" option ?

2005-03-25 Thread Julian Elischer
Aziz KEZZOU wrote: Aziz KEZZOU wrote: Hi all, I am running freebsd 5.3 under qemu (a fast IA32 emulator). My host system is linux. Everything works fine, but I want to get rid of this small non-scrollable window, not practical when gcc says I made many many errors :-)... you can scroll

Re: a Q on measuring system performance.

2005-03-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 24), Yan Yu said: > I add some codes in various places relating to file operations inside > the kernel, e.g., fdalloc(), fdused(), fdunused(), fdfree() etc. I am > trying to measure the overhead added by these instrumentation code. > my plan is: > in my user space program

Re: a Q on measuring system performance.

2005-03-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, 2005-Mar-24 23:21:54 -0800, Yan Yu wrote: >I am trying to measure the overhead added by these instrumentation code. >my plan is: > in my user space program, i have something like the following: > >gettimeofday(&prev_time, NULL); >

Re: contributing to fbsd

2005-03-25 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Andriy Tkachuk wrote this message on Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 16:23 +0530: > Last time i was very interested in resource allocation stuff. > Bonwick's VMEM O(1) universal allocator appeared to be > very interesting: > http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix01/bonwick.html > as good as his cpu-wise magazines

Re: IP over FireWire and Mac OSX

2005-03-25 Thread Andrew Gallatin
P.ArulChandran writes: > By analyzing the packets from FreeBSD in firebug log, I could see that > unfragmented packets are sent as fragmented packets, with inappropriate > values in the packet header. Even if the packets are fragmented, the > 'lf' field is not set correctly. To comply with Se

Re: Kernel documentation and specification

2005-03-25 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
I have been trying to find a way to load powerpc GPRs into my C variables (using __asm__)[inside the kernel], and if someone can give me a clue/point to code that would be great. The gnu documentation on _asm__ usage seems a bit too short. thanks -kamal --- Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [

Re: contributing to fbsd

2005-03-25 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 04:23:33PM +0530, Andriy Tkachuk wrote: > Hi folks. > > I'd like to contribute to kernel code. > > I have some experience: 8 years of using fbsd > (it's actually my favourite os) and last couple years > i've studing kernel deaply using many good books like > - Bach's Desig

contributing to fbsd

2005-03-25 Thread Andriy Tkachuk
Hi folks. I'd like to contribute to kernel code. I have some experience: 8 years of using fbsd (it's actually my favourite os) and last couple years i've studing kernel deaply using many good books like - Bach's Design of UNIX - Kusick's 44BSD - Vahalia's UNIX Internals - Stalling's Operating Syste

Boot Error and stop at : plip0: on ppbus0 -> FreeBSD v4.8 i386

2005-03-25 Thread Ann Lee
Hi All, When I try to boot from CD-ROM to install my FreeBSD 4.8 i386 my computer stops to work. I do: 1) Booting from CD-ROM 2) Skip kernel configuration. 3) Then I see: [...something before...] ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold ppbus0: on ppc0 plip0: on ppbus0 [That is all. Now he stop