Re: Kernel hang on 6.x

2007-01-11 Thread Brian Dean
Thanks, John! That's awesome. I agree with Brad that if it is possible to autosize this at boot based on swap size, that would be the thing to do. Thanks very much for your help. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.

Re: Kernel hang on 6.x

2007-01-04 Thread Brian Dean
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 11:50:43PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > The 'traceall' seemed to miss several threads actually (like pid > 18). Can you get a 'ps'? Also, are you able to get a kernel dump > when this happens? I can't ps that particular session since it is no longer available, however I

Kernel hang on 6.x

2006-12-14 Thread Brian Dean
Hi, We're experiencing a kernel hang on a 6.x quad processor Sun amd64 based system. We are able to reproduce it fairly reliably, but the environment to do so is not easily replicatable so I cannot provide a simple test case. However, I have been able to build a debug kernel and when the system

Re: puc/sio driver - receives but doesn't send

2003-12-16 Thread Brian Dean
ere I bought it. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

puc/sio driver - receives but doesn't send

2003-11-25 Thread Brian Dean
running 4.9-STABLE from a few days ago. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bsdhome.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Programming the Parallel Port using ppi.

2002-10-27 Thread Brian Dean
turn values. The parallel port is not writeable by default, so unless you've changed it, or are running as root, your program is most likely failing to even open it, but you're not noticing because you aren't checking your return codes. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL P

Re: USB to IDE converter

2002-04-08 Thread Brian Dean
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:51:09AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > USB hasn't changed much in -stable between 4.4 and now. We've got a lot > > of new usb code in -current though, and I'm hoping to have the bugs > > ironed out before 4.6. I was amazed at all the merging you've done from Net/Op

Re: USB to IDE converter

2002-04-07 Thread Brian Dean
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:41:35PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > > 'camcontrol rescan 1'? That provoked this response: Apr 7 09:36:21 neutrino /kernel: umass1: GoodWay USBIDE GoodWay USBIDE, rev 1.10/2.60, addr 3 Apr 7 09:36:21 neutrino /kernel: umass1: Invalid CSW: tag 2359384 should be 1 Apr

USB to IDE converter

2002-04-06 Thread Brian Dean
Hi, I just got one of these hoping that it would work under FreeBSD but so far can't make it work: http://www.cyberguys.com/cgi-bin/sgin0101.exe?GEN9=5CG01&T1=131+0855&UREQA=1&UREQB=2&UREQC=3&UREQD=4 It shows up as: Controller /dev/usb0: port 1 addr 3: self powered, config 1, GoodWay U

odd ethernet frame

2002-03-24 Thread Brian Dean
t connects it to the rest of my LAN and is set to forward between the interfaces. However, if I run a tcpdump on that interface, the mysterious packet never shows up there. I'm at a loss to find an explanation. Any ideas? Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: read-only root partition?

2002-02-28 Thread Brian Dean
mnt, and do a spot check for some "identifying" files or directories that would likely be in /usr, or /var, or whatever. Once you find a match, then unmount it from /mnt and remount it where it should go. I don't use vinum, so I'm not sure about #3, but that should probably be

Re: read-only CD-ROM boot partition for vinum webfarm?

2002-02-28 Thread Brian Dean
and I need to convert those to the really hokey method of doing arrays in /bin/sh. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port

2002-02-12 Thread Brian Dean
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:53:52AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > Well, we could import ksh, which already does this :-) > > Go for it. Add YES vote from me! -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Does DDB's watch feature actually work?

2001-11-18 Thread Brian Dean
ithin the frame in question (sometimes not an easy task). -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: hardware watch point support

2001-10-03 Thread Brian Dean
Seems to work ok for a simple test case I just tried with 4-STABLE (post 4.4-RELEASE). I don't have a 4.3-RELEASE box to test, but it should work there too. -Brian On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:24:26PM -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > Does FreeBSD 4.3-release support hardware watchpoint? If so, how

Re: Version of XFree86 in FreeBSD Release 4.4

2001-09-18 Thread Brian Dean
etadata about the release area, but then other installers would have easy access to what's available for installation as well, and you wouldn't have to modify sysinstall so much when things change. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EM

Re: Why install -C include files?

2001-07-25 Thread Brian Dean
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:06:44PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:58:02 CST, Warner Losh wrote: > > > The reason I'd like to see it isn't so that make world kills things > > automatically, but so that I could kill them (or at least find out > > what should be killed) on sys

Re: fdisk(8) adjusting to head/cylinder bounderies

2001-07-21 Thread Brian Dean
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:47:29PM +0100, Ian Dowse wrote: > Below is a patch that makes fdisk request user confirmation before > making any changes to the start and end of partitions. Please allow this behaviour to be overridden by a flag that can specified so that scripts don't suddenly stop a

Re: math library difference between linux emulation and native freebsd (and native linux)

2001-07-18 Thread Brian Dean
(Choosing a random message to reply to ...) While looking for commercial electronics CAD software for FreeBSD, I came across Whitely Research Inc (http://www.srware.com/) which has this note on their site: http://www.srware.com/linux_numerics.txt In light of this thread, I thought other

kernel ddb patch for setting hardware watchpoints

2001-06-30 Thread Brian Dean
The debug registers are set/cleared only for the CPU running ddb. Since the debug registers are a per-cpu thing, they won't be set for the other CPUs. I'll work on that next. See below for a sample session. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Patented algorithm in FreeBSD

2001-06-21 Thread Brian Dean
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > Hmm, let's see: > > Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation (Maynard, MA) > Appl. No.: 646734 > Filed: May 3, 1996 > > Versus: > > * Derived from hp300 version by Mike Hibler, this version by William >

Re: Debuggers for FreeBSD

2001-05-31 Thread Brian Dean
ke use of them until later. IIRC, gdb support for the debug registers came in the 4.1.1-RELEASE of FreeBSD. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Set up loader to boot cd

2001-05-04 Thread Brian Dean
atch/cdroot could be produced by: % make installkernel installworld DESTDIR=/scratch/cdroot After all that, specify boot/boot.fd as your ISO eltorito boot image file. Enjoy! -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] dofdboot () { DESTDIR="$1" echo "DOFDBOO

Re: NFS_ROOT not working when using a Netapp server

2001-01-16 Thread Brian Dean
wonder if this is a bug, and if so, is it Netapp's or ours? It is interesting to note that this mangling does not occur when FreeBSD is both the client and the server. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

NFS_ROOT not working when using a Netapp server

2001-01-16 Thread Brian Dean
1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on AA.BB.CC.DD:/vol/nfsroot/img3 15813736 2746140 1306759617%/ I can provide more boot verbosity upon request. Any ideas as to what the problem might be? Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsub

Re: KVM switch vs. FreeBSD psm driver (Solved!)

2001-01-10 Thread Brian Dean
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:20:43PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > John Polstra wrote: > > > > I'm happy to report that this problem is solved now. After one fellow > > wrote to me and reported that his switch of the same model worked OK, > > I hunted around on the Belkin web site. It turns out tha

Re: ptrace(PT_GETDBREGS) message in remote debugging

2000-12-07 Thread Brian Dean
p; make install) This should build the missing libs and then gdb should link correctly. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: ptrace(PT_GETDBREGS) message in remote debugging

2000-12-06 Thread Brian Dean
t this is a valid assumption or not in all cases, I'm not sure. The patch is against -STABLE, but I don't think this has diverged any from -CURRENT. Give this a try and let me know. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: freebsd-nat.c

Re: Boot off USB SanDisk?

2000-10-25 Thread Brian Dean
t any kind of hot pluggability? -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Advanced OS Questions only you can answer...

2000-08-22 Thread Brian Dean
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Wes Peters wrote: > There is a kernel option to use A4 pages, IIRC. Yes, that's right next DUPLEX option to put data on both sides of the page, thus doubling the capacity. Didn't IBM come up with that just recently? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: Virtual interaces and tunneling stuff over SSH

2000-08-02 Thread Brian Dean
ve, a mis-use of 'isatty()' in ssh. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

getdirentries() and /proc

2000-05-25 Thread Brian Dean
alue that is sufficiently large enough to hold a few struct dirent's considered to be OK? Should I not use 'getdirentries()', and opt instead for 'opendir()' and 'readdir()'? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubsc

Re: icmp-response error

2000-05-10 Thread Brian Dean
p $addr` rc=$? if [ "$rc" -eq 0 ]; then $echo $echo "Process $pid:" $echo $ps -auxp $pid $echo $netstat -a -A -f inet | $grep $port $echo $fstat -p $pid $echo fi done Good Luck! -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Tuning up semaphores in kernel

2000-02-13 Thread Brian Dean
SEMMNI is the number of semaphore ids, i.e., the number of times you can call 'semget()' without deleting any semaphores. SEMMNS is the actual number of semaphores in the system, which should be >= SEMMNI. Of course, you can ask 'semget()' to give you up to SEMMSL semaphores on each call, so SEMM

Re: Tuning up semaphores in kernel

2000-02-11 Thread Brian Dean
Take a look at: sys/conf/param.c: /* * Values in support of System V compatible semaphores. */ #ifdef SYSVSEM struct seminfo seminfo = { SEMMAP, /* # of entries in semaphore map */ SEMMNI, /* # of semaphore identifiers */ SEMMNS

Re: natd is jumpy

1999-12-05 Thread Brian Dean
6 673148 0 0 ppp0 1500 172.16 brdean 68826 673148 0 0 Thanks for the suggestions. I'll keep looking. -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

natd is jumpy

1999-12-03 Thread Brian Dean
pen". Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: how to shut down a TCP connection

1999-09-21 Thread Brian Dean
> :Does anyone know how I can manually shutdown the above connection on > :'vger' short of waiting a really long time or rebooting? > : > :Thanks, > :-Brian > :-- > :Brian Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Turn on keepalives and set the pa

how to shut down a TCP connection

1999-09-21 Thread Brian Dean
e and 'bos' is my experimental OS. The connecton on 'bos' at this point is actually closed. Does anyone know how I can manually shutdown the above connection on 'vger' short of waiting a really long time or rebooting? Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-08 Thread Brian Dean
> From: Thomas David Rivers > > I just wondered if this should be integrated into ptrace(), so > the various debuggers wouldn't have to know about it. > > It seems that would be the proper abstraction - hardware that supports > it would "have it" - and the programs that "used it" wouldn't have

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-08 Thread Brian Dean
> From: Thomas David Rivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I just wondered if this should be integrated into ptrace(), so > the various debuggers wouldn't have to know about it. > > It seems that would be the proper abstraction - hardware that supports > it would "have it" - and the programs that "us

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-07 Thread Brian Dean
but I can't commit to it being done within the next week or so. Here is the patch set, generated against a current tree about 4 hours or so old. The new file that is required is listed out after the patches. Please let me know if anything else is needed or if anything needs to be changed (style

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-07 Thread Brian Dean
but I can't commit to it being done within the next week or so. Here is the patch set, generated against a current tree about 4 hours or so old. The new file that is required is listed out after the patches. Please let me know if anything else is needed or if anything needs to be changed (style

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-05 Thread Brian Dean
any location that could execute within the context of his process. This could result in breaking into code that was never designed to be interruptible, such as in the middle of updating a shared data structure. Any ideas are welcome, and I will do my best to implement them. Now that I've

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-05 Thread Brian Dean
rnel to be interrupted at any location that could execute within the context of his process. This could result in breaking into code that was never designed to be interruptible, such as in the middle of updating a shared data structure. Any ideas are welcome, and I will do my best to impleme

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-04 Thread Brian Dean
hink the changes to gdb would be minimal. It already supports hardware debug support. We'd just need to hook in our facility for setting/getting the hardware watchpoints at the apropriate place(s). Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean SAS Institute Inc brd...@unx.sas.com >

Re: support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-04 Thread Brian Dean
hink the changes to gdb would be minimal. It already supports hardware debug support. We'd just need to hook in our facility for setting/getting the hardware watchpoints at the apropriate place(s). Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean SAS Institute Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] > T

support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-03 Thread Brian Dean
eering to spend some cycles on this, but I don't want to go to the effort if there's little chance that the work would be integrated. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean SAS Institute Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscrib

support for i386 hardware debug watch points

1999-07-03 Thread Brian Dean
eering to spend some cycles on this, but I don't want to go to the effort if there's little chance that the work would be integrated. Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean SAS Institute Inc brd...@unx.sas.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsub