Re: Reducing dummynet pipe size hangs system

2005-08-18 Thread Uwe Doering
Michael R. Wayne wrote: Summary: On an old (4.8p10) machine, substantially reducing the pipe size on a loaded connection causes the system to freeze. Is this a supported feature? Did it usd to be broken? Detail: [...] Two days in a row now, just after 6:30, the box freezes, ref

[Fwd: pthread_create: cannot allocate memory]

2005-08-18 Thread Giovanni P. Tirloni
Perhaps this is more apropriate here.. To clarify it a bit, both server and client are being run from the same machine connecting to localhost. If the source code is needed I can send it here but it's a simple "while(1) { accept() pthread_create() }" on the server side and "for() connect()" o

Reducing dummynet pipe size hangs system

2005-08-18 Thread Michael R. Wayne
Summary: On an old (4.8p10) machine, substantially reducing the pipe size on a loaded connection causes the system to freeze. Is this a supported feature? Did it usd to be broken? Detail: There's a 4.8p10 machine acting as a firewall (runs only ssh and ipfw rules, hence the la

Re: Parking disk drive heads

2005-08-18 Thread Eric Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't want to park them on turn off. I want to park them before a possible strong shock which could cause damage and unpark them afterwards. If it's an ata disk, you might look at ataidle in the ports collection. Eric -- -

Re: Parking disk drive heads

2005-08-18 Thread m . ehinger
I don't want to park them on turn off. I want to park them before a possible strong shock which could cause damage and unpark them afterwards. Thanks maik

Re: Parking disk drive heads

2005-08-18 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 11:32 PM 8/16/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, which is the correct way to park the hd head? Seagate drives park the heads automatically when they are turned off. As far as I know, this applies to other manufacturer's drives as well. -Glenn I need it for the IBM Active Protection S

Re: hello world but not in 32bit x86 but in amd64 for amd64 platform

2005-08-18 Thread Marco van de Voort
> > Could you inform me if there exist somewhere such a program > > cfr the 32bit hello world example in > > Chapter 11 > > x86 Assembly Language Programming > > FreeBSD Developers' Handbook > > The procedure should be the same no matter what architecture you are > using. Just use AMD64 assembly