Re: How to invalidate NFS read cache?

2009-05-14 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Robert Watson wrote: On Fri, 8 May 2009, Konrad Heuer wrote: sporadically, I observe a strange but serious problem in our large NFS environment. NFS servers are Linux and OS X with StorNext/Xsan cluster filesystems, NFS clients Linux and FreeBSD. NFS client A changes a

Re: concurrent sysctl implementation

2009-05-14 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 14 May 2009 5:34:26 pm Ed Schouten wrote: > * John Baldwin wrote: > > Well, in theory a bunch of "small" requests to SYSCTL_PROC() nodes that used > > sysctl_wire_old() (or whatever it is called) could cause the amount of user > > memory wired for sysctls to grow unbounded. Thus,

Re: concurrent sysctl implementation

2009-05-14 Thread Ed Schouten
* John Baldwin wrote: > Well, in theory a bunch of "small" requests to SYSCTL_PROC() nodes that used > sysctl_wire_old() (or whatever it is called) could cause the amount of user > memory wired for sysctls to grow unbounded. Thus, allowing this limited > concurrency is a tradeoff as there is a

Re: In search of a video card

2009-05-14 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 04:10:07PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Depends how unaccelerated it is. > > VESA is pretty damn slow, but even minimal radeon/radeonhd support is > fast enough for desktop use. VESA doesn't support dual-head, if that's something you're looking for. And I agree that

Re: In search of a video card

2009-05-14 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:42:20PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > I've experienced no-acceleration radeon driver "desktop" under Ubuntu > and FreeBSD; let me please point out how sluggish and horribly slow it > is. > > I gave up trying to get accelerated 3d + dualhead support on the > card(s) I w

Re: In search of a video card

2009-05-14 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:06:34PM -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: > > So, can any one recommend a good video card? What I'm looking for is > > * Works with amd64 FreeBSD 7.2 > * DVI > * PCI-E x16 > * 512 MB or more > * Not going to cost an arm and a leg I just bought an nVidia and an ATI

Re: FreeBSD jobs

2009-05-14 Thread Matt Olander
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Julian Stacey wrote: > Hi hackers@ > A commercial firm asked for _Free_ labour today on j...@freebsd. > The censors passed it.  Censors of j...@freebsd.org then blocked > the posting below.  jobs@ censors again bad, block wrong things, > should all be removed & not

Re: FreeBSD jobs

2009-05-14 Thread Rayson Ho
Thanks for letting us know! I am sure at least a few of us here will buy less products from Juniper Networks. Rayson On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Julian Stacey wrote: > Hi hackers@ > A commercial firm asked for _Free_ labour today on j...@freebsd. > The censors passed it. Censors of j..

FreeBSD jobs

2009-05-14 Thread Julian Stacey
Hi hackers@ A commercial firm asked for _Free_ labour today on j...@freebsd. The censors passed it. Censors of j...@freebsd.org then blocked the posting below. jobs@ censors again bad, block wrong things, should all be removed & not replaced. Several suckers have already enquired to that firm.

Re: PTE modified bit emulation trap

2009-05-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
John Baldwin writes: > It might be better to replace the loop with a > vm_fault(..., VM_FAULT_DIRTY) though if that would have the same effect. That was going to be my next question: there must be a more elegant way of doing this :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no

Re: In search of a video card

2009-05-14 Thread Mike Meyer
On May 14, 2009, at 1:42, Adrian Chadd wrote: 2009/5/14 Josef Grosch : I don't need 2d & 3d acceleration. I just need a card that will handle WindowMaker on a 24 inch Dell monitor at 1920x1200 and as long as the flesh tones on my JPGs don't suck I'm happy. Thanks for the advice. I guess

Re: PTE modified bit emulation trap

2009-05-14 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 7:47:38 pm Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Coverity complains about the lack of error checking in the following > code in sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c, around line 1390: > > /* >* Touch all the wired pages to avoid PTE modified >* bit emulation traps on Alpha

Re: In search of a video card

2009-05-14 Thread Robert Noland
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 20:06 -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: > I'm in search for a decent video card. I currently have an Nvidia GeForce > 8400 GS. It worked pretty well i386 FreeBSD 6.2. I have upgraded my home > machine and I am running amd64 FreeBSD 7.2 and it just refuses to go into > X. It just hang

Re: In search of a video card

2009-05-14 Thread Robert Noland
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 16:10 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, 14 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > 2009/5/14 Josef Grosch : > > > I don't need 2d & 3d acceleration. I just need a card that will > > > handle WindowMaker on a 24 inch Dell monitor at 1920x1200 and as > > > long as the flesh tone

ipfw uid rules for lo0 interface

2009-05-14 Thread Олег Петрачёв
Hello! I am using FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. I am trying to restrict connections to local smtp daemon to limited number of users. But when I create rules for ipfw with uid pattern, I don't get the desired result: all connections on 25 port are blocked and it is impossible to allow it for anyone.

Re: In search of a video card

2009-05-14 Thread Alexander Sabourenkov
xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote: Finally settled on a Radeon x1950 I second that. PCIe X1950Pro with 256Mb RAM is best card price/{performance, stability} - wise you can get right now. -- ./lxnt ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: In search of a video card

2009-05-14 Thread xorquewasp
On 2009-05-13 20:06:34, Josef Grosch wrote: > I'm in search for a decent video card. I had to do the same thing recently. I wanted dual head (2x 1440x800), 3D accelerated, PCI Express, AMD64 capable graphics. Finally settled on a Radeon x1950, specifically the Powercolor x1950. The prices vary wi

Re: In search of a video card

2009-05-14 Thread Roman Divacky
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:06:34PM -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: > > I'm in search for a decent video card. I currently have an Nvidia GeForce > 8400 GS. It worked pretty well i386 FreeBSD 6.2. I have upgraded my home > machine and I am running amd64 FreeBSD 7.2 and it just refuses to go into > X. It

Re: In search of a video card

2009-05-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 14 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > 2009/5/14 Josef Grosch : > > I don't need 2d & 3d acceleration. I just need a card that will > > handle WindowMaker on a 24 inch Dell monitor at 1920x1200 and as > > long as the flesh tones on my JPGs don't suck I'm happy. > > > > Thanks for the advice. I