As a side note, Irix and Solaris provide cachefs for this purpose and use
NFS filesystems as examples (others examples may include CD-ROM, etc).
Charles
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From: David Malone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 8:26 AM
To: Attila Nagy
Cc: [EMAIL P
Out of curiosity, can ipfw+dummynet do something like this?
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From: Jonathan Lemon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 1:35 PM
To: Julian Elischer
Cc: Jonathan Lemon; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to force small TCP packets?
Are your processes all created by fork() or are they unrelated? If they're
all descendants of the same process, take a look at the GNU mm library
(which is loosely based on structure of the mm_malloc library I wrote for my
company but couldn't release).
http://www.engelschall.com/sw/mm/
If they'
Also note that the version available in ports/packages for FreeBSD 4.x is
CFS v1.4.0b2. CFS v1.4.1 is available on Matt Blaze's site.
http://www.crypto.com/software/
However, the documentation doesn't seem to indicate what may have changed
between these versions.
I found this while looking for
I've noted that several include files in /usr/include use the C preprocessor
#warning directive. This isn't standard C and prevents some software from
compiling using a compiler like TenDRA. What's the current opinion on this?
Charles
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From: Terry Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>I have yet to see one person using it for anything. So far,
>it is nothing more than marketing fodder: I haven't seen one
>motherboard capable of more than 4G worth of SIMMs.
The Dell PowerEdge 6450 supports 8 GB of RAM.
http://www.dell.com/us/en/
From: R.P. Aditya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>What I'd like to see is a box like the Sun Netra x1
>
> http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hw/networking/netrax/
>
>that I can run FreeBSD on --
>
>- single PII 233
>- 1U (compact) 19" rack-mountable
>- no video, just RJ-45 RS232 port
>- 2 onbo
Don't know how this ended up on -hackers, but...
The 1U server market is indeed hot (pun intended).
Take a look at the new 1400 series from iXsystems (www.ixsystems.net --
formerly BSDi, formerly Telenet) and the Dell 1550. I've tested both systems
and was impressed by both. If you're buying mor
From: Robert Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>There was some discussion of this on freebsd-advocacy yesterday
>and today, and it sounded like it came down to poor tuning (not
>enabling soft updates, et al) in combination with a heavy reliance
>on threading, where we currently don't do so well.
From: Greg Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>And if this imaginary program is going to do that, it's equally
>easy to use a multilevel directory structure and that will make
>the life of all users of the system simpler. There's no real
>excuse for directories with millions (or even thousands) of
Here's one starting point,
http://www.rtmx.com/
They offer extensions to OpenBSD.
Charles
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From: Joao Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 11:59 AM
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Subject: real time
Does FreeBSD has any rela
Regarding aio_*, Alfred Perlstein writes:
>It's a good idea to use it for disk IO, probably not a good
>idea for network IO.
Could you elaborate?
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Try using netperf (http://www.netperf.org/) too. I've found it to be an
extremely valuable tool.
Charles
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From: Niek Bergboer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 4:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Network throughput tuning
Hi,
I run two syst
From: David O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>2. The base, system C compiler is known to produce bad code with -O2.
>We have been proclaiming this since as long as I have been with the
>Project.
Is this an issue with FreeBSD's gcc's or gcc in general? If gcc in general,
are there open
If that is a solution, should the error message be changed to
fxp0: could not map memory (Is BIOS "Plug & Play OS" diabled?)
Charles
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From: Richard Hodges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 10:16 AM
To: Rafael Tonin
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Noted.
Is there a gcc PR associated with this?
http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl
A GNATS searc for "freebsd kernel" didn't return anything.
-Charles
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From: Matt Dillon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 11:44 AM
To: Cha
From: Matt Dillon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>My understanding is that Intel focused on FP performance in the P4,
>and that it is very, very good at it. I dunno how to test it though.
>
>GCC generally does not produce very good code, but I would expect that
>it would get reasonabl
Does this update ERRATA.TXT on the FTP site too?
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.2-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT
-Charles
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From: Jordan Hubbard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 11:03 PM
To: Charles Randall
Cc: 'Alfred Perlstein&#
>From: Alfred Perlstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>1) 4.2 RELEASE has known pthreads bugs, you should upgrade to -stable.
This is the second time I've seen this mentioned on -hackers. How is a poor,
unsuspecting soul^Wdeveloper supposed to know this?
Why isn't ERRATA updated to reflect this?
The qmail FAQ specifically recommends against soft updates for the mail
queue.
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/reliability.html#filesystems
Is this incorrect?
This section also warns against async filesystems on Linux for the qmail
queue.
Charles
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From: Matt Dillon [mailto
Does this have to be a single filesystem?
If not, just provide a database front-end that maps some kind of resource
identifier to the filesystem name.
With that, you can span filers and/or filesystems. Seems like the only thing
that would be reasonable.
Charles
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From:
Server B takes over a virtual IP address of server A when server A fails.
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From: Dan Langille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:31 PM
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Subject: Re: IP Address Overtaking
DZ wrote:
> I could not fin
The first question I have when someone brings this up is, "please define
what you mean by clustering". There are multiple interpretations. Can you
elaborate?
-Charles
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From: Jamie Heckford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 10:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PR
nCipher's nFast card supports FreeBSD 3.3 and 3.4.
http://www.ncipher.com/products/nfast_specs.html
-Charles
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From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 3:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: encrypt h/w for FreeBSD?
Sorry, got
Is there a reason that ADNS won't work for this?
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/
Charles
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From: Dan Moschuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 10:51 AM
To: Greg Thompson
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: threads
These pages should answer all of your questions.
http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Alteon/
http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/SysKonnect/
I went with the NetGear GA-620 because it was cheap.
In retrospect (after talking with Bill Paul), I should have probably gone
with the Alteon AceNIC or the 3co
Could it be a boundary condition when the PCI bus gets saturated?
Charles
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From: Andreas Dobloug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 8:36 AM
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Subject: Re: Funky scheduler stuff under heavy I/O.
* Jaye Mathisen
| 8 parallel DD's
First you need to describe what you mean by clustering. It means different
things to different people.
Charles
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From: Frederik Meerwaldt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 8:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can anyone recommend a good clustering
Recent threads (by subject) on related topics are,
Implementing ioctl to set MAC address -- question.
ifconfig: changing mac address
Neither discusses supporting multiple MAC addresses, but rather explicitly
setting the MAC address in a failover condition.
It appears that Bill P
Speaking of hardware support for compression...
I've been looking for hardware accelerated zlib for a while. I even
contacted the guys zlib developers and Hi/fn and came up with nothing.
Any suggestions?
Charles
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From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thurs
adns should provide the functionality that you're looking for,
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/
Charles
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From: Ming Zhang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 7:27 PM
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Subject: Multithread safe gethostbyname() ?
I
That's not spurprising. When I tried it, Solaris 2.6 x86 didn't support
full-duplex 100Base-TX on very many devices. The DEC tulip cards were one of
the few that had drivers that supported full-duplex.
Charles
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From: Howard Leadmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunda
The mprotect manual page on Digital Unix specifies that it conforms to the
XPG4-UNIX standard.
Charles
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[Only on -hackers]
With care and a lot of patience, you can build Immunix StackGuard for
FreeBSD. I did this on 3.3-R. If there's interest, I can post build
instructions (I probably don't have time to put together a port).
Charles
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From: Ronald F. Guilmette [mailto:[EM
From: Jason Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Thread stacks have a default size of 64kB.
As you know, stack size can be explicitly set using
pthread_attr_setstacksize().
However, note that Solaris uses a pthread stack size of 1 MB. Porter beware.
>libc_r now uses growable stacks with "guard pag
lcc and TenDRA are both in available as packages.
Charles
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From: Gergely EGERVARY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 11:32 AM
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Subject: [OFFTOPIC] alt. C compiler
Hi,
is there any alternative (non-commercial) C compiler to
From: Wilko Bulte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Charles Randall wrote:
>> ... It also notes that
>> this is, "Derived from Issue 1 of the SVID."
>
>SVID == System V Interface Definition.
Interesting, my Solaris 2.6 box defines timezone as the global variable (in
On my FreeBSD 3.3R system, /usr/include/time.h includes a prototype for the
timezone() function. The timezone(3) manual page indicates that this
function is for compatibility purposes only and notes that the timezone()
function first appeared in AT&T Unix V7.
Version 2 of the Single Unix Specific
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991209/09/tech-veritas-linux
Veritas Software Now Shipping With Linux
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Reuters) Veritas Software
Corp. (VRTS.O) said on Thursday its software used to backup
data on computer systems is being shipped with Red Hat
Inc.'s Linux 6.1 Delux product.
"perlbug -ok" does the same thing for Perl. I added the first version of
this a few years ago. Perhaps "send-pr -ok"?
Charles
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From: Chris D. Faulhaber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 3:44 PM
To: Julian Elischer
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL
I'm using FreeBSD 3.3-R and have noted that there's a readdir() in libc_r
but no readdir_r().
Based on archived messages from last year, it appears that the readir() in
libc_r is not reentrant. To access readdir from multiple threads with
different DIR entries, it appears that all of the director
>From a shell,
% /sbin/ifconfig -a
that's not exactly what you were looking for, but...
Charles
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From: Santhosh Kumar M [CEC-S] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 11:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: A Question
Hi,
Can anyon
From: Julian Elischer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>I have a patch to fix the fin-wait-2 problem..
Any reason this could't be applied to -stable with a corresponding sysctl
variable?
Charles
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Done. docs/14173
Thanks,
Charles
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From: Archie Cobbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 11:14 AM
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Subject: Re: bind(2) sets errno to undocumented EAGAIN?
Charles Randall writes:
> Under w
Under what conditions does bind(2) set errno to EAGAIN? The 3.2R bind(2)
manual page does not list that as a valid value for errno when bind returns
-1.
This came up when using http_load (http://www.acme.com/software/http_load)
to stress-test a local web server. In other words, using http_load to
Bill Paul has developed a driver for the Alteon Tigon 1 and 2 cards.
http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Alteon/
FYI,
Charles
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From: David Miller [mailto:dmil...@search.sparks.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 1:55 PM
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Gigab
Bill Paul has developed a driver for the Alteon Tigon 1 and 2 cards.
http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Alteon/
FYI,
Charles
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From: David Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 1:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Gigabit ethernet suppo
The program in question does attempt to core dump when trying to fill the
memory returned from malloc when malloc returns null. It almost seems like
the attempt to dump core in an "out of swap" condition causes what seems
like a machine hang (although you can still ping the machine).
Charles
The program in question does attempt to core dump when trying to fill the
memory returned from malloc when malloc returns null. It almost seems like
the attempt to dump core in an "out of swap" condition causes what seems
like a machine hang (although you can still ping the machine).
Charles
---
The VMWare guest OS page for FreeBSD
(http://www.vmware.com/support/technotesfreebsd.html) states,
---
One caveat with all versions of FreeBSD is that there is a problem probing
for the CD-ROM device wdc1; FreeBSD sends an illegal ATAPI command to the
IDE controller and ignores the error status re
The VMWare guest OS page for FreeBSD
(http://www.vmware.com/support/technotesfreebsd.html) states,
---
One caveat with all versions of FreeBSD is that there is a problem probing
for the CD-ROM device wdc1; FreeBSD sends an illegal ATAPI command to the
IDE controller and ignores the error status r
Looks like Oleg made a mistake in posting the code. I saw an earlier version
of this in freebsd-questions and followed up with him.
I've appended the version I think he meant to include.
He's reporting this behavior with 3.2R. Runs fine with 'mmap -u', appears to
hang the machine on the second it
Looks like Oleg made a mistake in posting the code. I saw an earlier version
of this in freebsd-questions and followed up with him.
I've appended the version I think he meant to include.
He's reporting this behavior with 3.2R. Runs fine with 'mmap -u', appears to
hang the machine on the second i
Forwarded to -hackers due to a lack of response in -questions.
Charles
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From: Charles Randall [mailto:crand...@matchlogic.com]
Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 9:55 AM
To: freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org
Subject: Network problems with 3.2R as VMWare Guest OS
I've
Forwarded to -hackers due to a lack of response in -questions.
Charles
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From: Charles Randall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 9:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Network problems with 3.2R as VMWare Guest OS
I've been running 3.2R
I'd suggest that you use "tac" from GNU textutils.
Charles
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From: Kevin Day [mailto:toa...@dragondata.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 3:09 AM
To: hack...@freebsd.org
Subject: Replace/rewrite reverse.c for tail(1)
An application I use quite often requires me to rev
I'd suggest that you use "tac" from GNU textutils.
Charles
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From: Kevin Day [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 3:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Replace/rewrite reverse.c for tail(1)
An application I use quite often requires me to reverse
When this gets committed, can it be applied to both the 3.x and 4.x trees?
Thanks,
Charles
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From: Peter Edwards [mailto:peter.edwa...@isocor.ie]
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 5:55 AM
To: Peter Jeremy
Cc: w...@iki.fi; hack...@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: speed of file(1)
A
When this gets committed, can it be applied to both the 3.x and 4.x trees?
Thanks,
Charles
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From: Peter Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 5:55 AM
To: Peter Jeremy
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Subject: Re: speed of file(1)
A
From: Kelly Yancey [mailto:kby...@alcnet.com]
>I have another post on this list which begs the question: if memory given
>to us fro sbrk() is already zeroed, why zero it again if we don't have
>too if we make calloc() smarter, we could save come clock cycles.
Because the memory returned from m
From: Kelly Yancey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>I have another post on this list which begs the question: if memory given
>to us fro sbrk() is already zeroed, why zero it again if we don't have
>too if we make calloc() smarter, we could save come clock cycles.
Because the memory returned from
From: Joe Abley [mailto:jab...@clear.co.nz]
>> http://www.connectix.com/html/connectix_virtualpc.html
>
> But this only runs on the Mac, right?
Seems like it. I think that Jason was only commenting on the "coolness"
factor when compared to VMWare.
Although I haven't tried it, VMWare seems damn co
http://www.connectix.com/html/connectix_virtualpc.html
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From: Jacques Vidrine [mailto:n...@nectar.cc]
Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 3:12 PM
To: Jason Thorpe
Cc: John & Jennifer Reynolds; freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: VMware--anyone playing with it?
On 17 May 19
3.3-R is elf. However, I get the same problem if I try
configure with "configure i386-elf-freebsd".
Suggestions?
Charles
P.S. I know that 3.3-R uses gcc 2.7.2.3 internally. However, I would like to
build a separate binary for StackGuard.
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From: Charles Randa
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