Re: 4.10-RELEASE and -STABLE crashing regularly under load

2004-06-15 Thread Brian Feldman
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:34:57PM +0200, Tamas TEVESZ wrote: > > hi folks, > > [i've posted the following message to -bugs@ a while ago, but > then was directed here by a friend freebsder. while reposting, i > also corrected some minor facts i missed in the previous post] > > i have a dell powe

Re: memory mapped packet capturing - bpf replacement ?

2004-06-15 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 06:47:49PM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:38:57AM -0400, Ed Maste wrote: > > Hello Sergey. I haven't looked at your code, but I'll provide > > some comments, having implemented a mmaped ringbuffer BPF > > replacement myself. > > We've had some

Re: Orinoco Gold and Linksys AP

2004-06-08 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 12:37:28PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > What firmware level do you have? Both wi and owi works for all my > lucent/wavelan/orinoco cards. :-( Try changing the WEP information many times. Eventually, the card just goes away and never returns to initialized state, and the

Re: machine is unusable with panic: vrele: negative ref cnt

2004-06-08 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 06:08:31PM -0700, Alan Evans wrote: > On boot I see the following on an IBM T30 laptop: > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted > ad0: FAILURE - READ_MUL status=59 > error=40 LBA=376639 I would stick that drive in another machine and

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1: Mutex/Spinlock starvation?

2004-06-07 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 10:55:31PM +0200, Ali Niknam wrote: > I tried this; this helps performance a lot, here are the findings: > - under all conditions turning on HTT helps a *lot* (which is logical i > think) > - under non killing load (killing load = load where server would have > crashed wit

Re: KVA space problems?

2004-05-26 Thread Brian Feldman
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:15:44PM -0400, lost inferno wrote: > I posted something to stable about this, but Im wondering if anyone has > seen this... I saw something over here ( http://gobsd.com/node/view/39 ) > that made me really consider my options as the 4.x series comes to an > end... is

Re: Memory Leak

2004-05-23 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 10:30:42PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > Any suggestions for leak detectors that work in real-time or in > response to some external signal? In a threaded application would be > ideal. > > I've hacked malloc to add the stack traceback to the utrace info > that's output by

Re: vn swapfiles deleted while in use

1999-06-13 Thread Brian Feldman
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Re: High syscall overhead?

1999-06-13 Thread Brian Feldman
7;s wrong with calling a system by its true name? > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no > > Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | ht

Re: UDP sockets

1999-06-13 Thread Brian Feldman
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Re: High syscall overhead?

1999-06-13 Thread Brian Feldman
t; with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > > +--- > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > chu...@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C

Re: select(2) breakage

1999-06-13 Thread Brian Feldman
On 13 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Brian Feldman writes: > > On 13 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > connect() normally uses the 1024-5000 range. Try the following: > > > > > > # sysctl -w net.inet.ip.portrange.last=4 > > >

Re: select(2) breakage

1999-06-13 Thread Brian Feldman
On 13 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Brian Feldman writes: > > Another problem that came up with this: I originally started at port 1024. > > I monopolized 3 ports (almost all consecutive, of course). When I try to > > connect() a TCP socket as non-root, it

Just connect(2) breakage (Was Re: select(2) breakage)

1999-06-12 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Brian Feldman wrote: > I'm using the attached program which I wrote today (don't ask why, I think > I just wanted to beat the heck out of FreeBSD!) I have maxusers 200, a > MAXFILES=65536, and the limits set to allow me to use the program > fully (al

select(2) breakage

1999-06-12 Thread Brian Feldman
t far enough down as in_pcbbind().) It seems that eventually it gives up trying to find a port... :-/ Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | ht

Re: High syscall overhead?

1999-06-12 Thread Brian Feldman
oach should be more logical, cleaner and > possibly better performing than the previous one. > > -Arun > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman

Re: High syscall overhead?

1999-06-12 Thread Brian Feldman
rnel? > > -- > John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, > dy...@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid > jdy...@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: Supprting twist for inetd with libwrap

1999-06-09 Thread Brian Feldman
One of the nice things about Unix has always been low process-spawning overhead. FreeBSD should do quite well, especially, since it is demand-paged and a fork doesn't actually copy much, just the vm map and makes everything COW. Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-09 Thread Brian Feldman
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, John S. Dyson wrote: > Howard Goldstein said: > > On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 18:38:51 -0400 (EDT), Brian Feldman > > wrote: > > : On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : > ... what version of the operating system? > > : 4.0-CURREN

Re: Strange kernel messages

1999-06-07 Thread Brian Feldman
I don't know why it's there, but that seems to be the sysctl tree. Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.f

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-07 Thread Brian Feldman
blk, and causes other processes to lock in inode. It's > :easy to induce, but I have no idea how I'd go about fixing it myself > :(being very new to that part of the kernel.) > : Here's the program which induces the deadlock: > : >

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-07 Thread Brian Feldman
One of the problems that would make it sensible to do a complete rewrite of vfs_bio.c is this? Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http

problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-06 Thread Brian Feldman
(fd, tmp, psize)); unlink(name); exit(0); } Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___)___/___/

Re: so_cred changes

1999-05-31 Thread Brian Feldman
the doc was the only thing that was committed. > > -- > Chris Costello > Exclusive: We're the only ones who have the documentation. > Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ |

so_cred changes

1999-05-30 Thread Brian Feldman
dentd? :) IPFW UID/GID support still works, but I'm cleaning up (Since I just broke it out of so_cred changes, and it can USE the cleanup.) Anyone for committing the so_cred changes? I've got the the pidentd changes here, too. Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr.

Re: proposed socket change (IPFW too? :)

1999-05-29 Thread Brian Feldman
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Re: proposed socket change (IPFW too? :)

1999-05-29 Thread Brian Feldman
-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) > > http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ngc99/ > First International Workshop on Networked Group Communication > ---+-------

Re: FS tuning (Was: File system gets too fragmented ???)

1999-05-28 Thread Brian Feldman
; Joel Ray Holveck - jo...@gnu.org >Fourth law of programming: >Anything that can go wrong wi > sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message &g

proposed socket change (IPFW too? :)

1999-05-28 Thread Brian Feldman
socket's credentials. After that, a decent identd to be shipped with FreeBSD (under the FreeBSD license, of course). How does all of this sound? I'm including the latest IPFW UID/GID patches, which have the so_cred functionality. Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___

K6-2 MTRR support done (^_^)

1999-05-27 Thread Brian Feldman
e a way to test that this works for certain, but I don't have one :/ Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \ _ \ |) | http://

K6-2 MTRR support testing

1999-05-26 Thread Brian Feldman
here. Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \ _ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___)___/___/ /*- * Copyright (c) 1999 Brian Fundakowski Feldman

freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

1999-05-24 Thread Brian Feldman
re not those of PGS Tensor. > > "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce > the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know > this is not true." Robert Wilen

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-14 Thread Brian Feldman
m) > Kazu finishing his fb(4) would be quite nice, if he has the time. > - port GGI to FreeBSD. Huh? It works for me... GGI is just the API/wrapper, and it allows output to (most useful now) X and XF86DGA (many, many more of course,, and a FreeBSD fb(4) would be cool.). > > DES >