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

2005-04-07 Thread Aziz KEZZOU
> > >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 woul

Re: Kernel [memory] tweaking question

2005-04-07 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Zera William Holladay wrote: On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Peter Jeremy wrote: These are all reasonably well documented in sys/conf/NOTES. If you want more detail, try a SystemV-oriented Unix book Close - they only control SystemV shared memory. Sane shared memory is available via mmap(

CPQ DL380 system fan control

2005-04-07 Thread Aaron Sloan
Hello guys and gals, Does system fan control on a Compaq DL380 ,first edition, have any support? I have looked through the acpi and port recomendations I have come across via google and I'm not having any luck at all. I believe it is supported in Linux but I don't know how. I can't say I'm any h

Re: iSCSI (revisited?)

2005-04-07 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Justin Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeBSD Hackers" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 5:30 PM Subject: iSCSI (revisited?) > All, > > I was wondering what people thought of iSCSI and FreeBSD. Is it a viable > option for creating SA

Re: Kernel [memory] tweaking question

2005-04-07 Thread Zera William Holladay
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Peter Jeremy wrote: > These are all reasonably well documented in sys/conf/NOTES. If you > want more detail, try a SystemV-oriented Unix book > > Close - they only control SystemV shared memory. Sane shared memory > is available via mmap(2). SystemV semaphores are controlled

Re: My experience with cpufreq in -STABLE

2005-04-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:33, Bruno Ducrot wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:49:25AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > The algorithm used by the acpi_ppc module semed quite good to me when I > > used it (before the frequency stuff was committed). > > http://www.spa.is.uec.ac.jp/~nfukuda/software/inde

Re: My experience with cpufreq in -STABLE

2005-04-07 Thread Bruno Ducrot
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:49:25AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > The algorithm used by the acpi_ppc module semed quite good to me when I used > it (before the frequency stuff was committed). > http://www.spa.is.uec.ac.jp/~nfukuda/software/index.html I saw it. I have some concern about the line

Re: system identification

2005-04-07 Thread soralx
> ISTR that there is a semi-standard way of obtaining the system (or > motherboard) manufacturer and model from the BIOS or CMOS on PC > clones, but all I can find right now is the BIOS copyright string > starting at fe00:000e. Can anyone here refresh my memory? > DES This might not be exactly w

system identification

2005-04-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
ISTR that there is a semi-standard way of obtaining the system (or motherboard) manufacturer and model from the BIOS or CMOS on PC clones, but all I can find right now is the BIOS copyright string starting at fe00:000e. Can anyone here refresh my memory? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Kernel [memory] tweaking question

2005-04-07 Thread ray
Yeah, the only mentions of tweaking these I could find on the web was in relation to Postgres. Ray At 10:39 AM 4/7/2005 +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: | On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 06:36:39PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: | > As far as I can tell, neither Apache nor MySQL | > use any SystemV IPC on FreeBSD.

Re: Kernel [memory] tweaking question

2005-04-07 Thread ray
Great run down, thanks Peter - I will do more checking in those areas. Ray At 06:36 PM 4/7/2005 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: | On Tue, 2005-Apr-05 05:26:01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | >options SHMALL= | >options SHMMAX= | >options SHMMAXPGS= | >options

Re: Kernel [memory] tweaking question

2005-04-07 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 06:36:39PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > As far as I can tell, neither Apache nor MySQL > use any SystemV IPC on FreeBSD. (The only thing that I've found that > does use SHM is X in some modes). I know for a fact that PostgreSQL does use SysV IPC, and many times it will run

Re: Kernel [memory] tweaking question

2005-04-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 2005-Apr-05 05:26:01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >optionsSHMALL= >optionsSHMMAX= >optionsSHMMAXPGS= >optionsSHMMIN= >optionsSHMMNI= >optionsSHMSEG= These are all reasonably well documented i