Re: Broadcom BCM5701 Chipset problems

2002-05-13 Thread David Greenman-Lawrence
t;be sure that it was only bad packets being marked good. It's not. The problem is much more complicated then that. It appears that some portions are either not added in or are added incorrectly. -DG David Greenman-Lawrence Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Pr

Re: Broadcom BCM5701 Chipset problems

2002-05-13 Thread David Greenman-Lawrence
>* David Greenman-Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020513 13:10] wrote: >> >>The card doesn't drop the packet if the IP/TCP checksum is wrong. In my >> tests, I did a software checksum on the supposedly bad packet, and found it >> to be good every time.

Re: Broadcom BCM5701 Chipset problems

2002-05-13 Thread David Greenman-Lawrence
>David Greenman-Lawrence wrote: >> >Was the result a rejected packet that didn't get transferred, or >> >transferred packets with bad checksums? >> > >> >If the latter, then it's workaroundable in software, which might >> >be worth doi

Re: Broadcom BCM5701 Chipset problems

2002-05-13 Thread David Greenman-Lawrence
it was good (and by inference, good when it was bad). I was not able to figure out what they got wrong in the algorithm, but if that were known, then it is conceivable that the problem could be fixed in software. -DG David Greenman-Lawrence Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http:

Re: Broadcom BCM5701 Chipset problems

2002-05-13 Thread David Greenman-Lawrence
>My local copy of the -STABLE source tree leaves BGE_CSUM_FEATURES set >on in the driver; is there a change that needs to be MFC'ed to turn >these suckers off? ... >There's no similar comment in the if_bge.c ... See rev 1.5 and 1.3.2.5 of if_bge.c. -DG David Greenm

Re: Broadcom BCM5701 Chipset problems

2002-05-13 Thread David Greenman-Lawrence
>David Greenman-Lawrence wrote: >> >If you aren't using VLAN tagging, you shouldn't care. >> >>No, that is absolutely not correct. The checksum problems happend in many >> situations, depending on the chipset and other factors. The problem that

Re: Broadcom BCM5701 Chipset problems

2002-05-13 Thread David Greenman-Lawrence
ions, depending on the chipset and other factors. The problem that resulted in the commit to disable the receive hardware checksum was caused by small packets with certain byte patterns, NOT VLAN ENCAPSULATION. -DG David Greenman-Lawrence Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org

Re: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

2002-04-03 Thread David Greenman
ng to do a "wait" type of allocation in an interrupt context, which is not valid. You can't sleep when there is no process context. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Downl

Re: Swapping performance

2002-03-07 Thread David Greenman
terms of their physical swap block allocations. In other words, what you're really testing is how sequentially the blocks are paged out vs. how randomly at the swap block level. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

2002-02-17 Thread David Greenman
servers, not IP routers. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send ma

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

2002-02-17 Thread David Greenman
ient HTTP server that takes a tiny amount of memory per process and uses sendfile() to crank out the bits, the bottleneck becomes the CPU for doing context switches, packet header creation, and TCP protocol processing. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freeb

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

2002-02-17 Thread David Greenman
xperiance, raw memory bandwidth to DMA packets to/from main memory is not the bottleneck on modern hardware. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http:

Re: Patch to remove MFREE() macro entirely

2002-02-02 Thread David Greenman
> >If nobody sees any problems it will go into -current next week some >time and then be MFC'd to stable. Looks good to me. I'm definately very much in favor of killing MFREE(). -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org P

Re: bge + hardware checksum hangs

2002-01-28 Thread David Greenman
ness is chipset revision dependant. We're using SysKonnect cards here at Download Technologies extensively and have only seen the input checksum bug (which we worked around prior to deployment of the servers) - no hangs and this is with typically 30-50Mbps sustained per server out to the Interne

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-12-31 Thread David Greenman
ging .25-.5 seconds behind the keystrokes (due to round trip + 200ms). This really makes editing files and other interactive jobs rather painful. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Do

Re: Does anyone know if the Broadcom BCM5700 has problems with HW csum?

2001-12-16 Thread David Greenman
> >David Greenman writes: > > >David Greenman wrote: > > >> >In any case, disabling it is what ClickArray ended up doing, as well, > > >> >for the Tigon II, until the firmware could be fixed. > > >> > > >>We&#x

Re: Does anyone know if the Broadcom BCM5700 has problems with HW csum?

2001-12-15 Thread David Greenman
>David Greenman wrote: >> Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> >You're probably incorrect, it doesn't matter if vlan tags are active >> >or not, it's most likely wheather or not the firmware is being asked >> >to handle them at all. >> >>

Re: Does anyone know if the Broadcom BCM5700 has problems with HW csum?

2001-12-15 Thread David Greenman
>David Greenman wrote: >> >In any case, disabling it is what ClickArray ended up doing, as well, >> >for the Tigon II, until the firmware could be fixed. >> >>We're talking about the Tigon III (bge driver for Broadcom BCM5700/BCM5701). > >Crap

Re: Does anyone know if the Broadcom BCM5700 has problems with HW csum?

2001-12-15 Thread David Greenman
>* David Greenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011215 03:12] wrote: >> >Brooks Davis wrote: >> >> There was a commit to current a few hours ago disabling hardware >> >> checksums on recieve due to corruption problems. It will be MFC'd in >> >>

Re: Does anyone know if the Broadcom BCM5700 has problems with HW csum?

2001-12-15 Thread David Greenman
the problem occur with very small (0-4 byte payload) packets. In any case, after discussing this problem with Bill Paul, I disabled input checksum in the -current driver and intend to merge that to -stable in a few days. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.or

Re: Does anyone know if the Broadcom BCM5700 has problems with HW csum?

2001-12-15 Thread David Greenman
e problem that I was seeing did not involve VLAN tags. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Found NFS data corruption bug... (was Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step )

2001-12-12 Thread David Greenman
Very cool. Good job! -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers&qu

Re: Patch #3 (TCP / Linux / Performance)

2001-12-02 Thread David Greenman
e(). -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: fxp driver - receive interrupt bundling

2001-10-19 Thread David Greenman
ace. > >The code is tested on 82558 rev B0 hardware, I'd be glad to know how it >works on other versions of Intel's fxp cards. > >Pls. send your comments, suggestions etc. to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Have fun! Nifty! -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Proj

Re: Conclusions on... was Re: More on the cache_purgeleafdirs() routine

2001-09-22 Thread David Greenman
esystems like NFS don't have a 'device' and thus no physical block numbers to associate the cached pages with. There is also some cost in moving the pages between the file object and the device object. For these reasons, I would prefer that we keep the existing model, but just m

Re: More on the cache_purgeleafdirs() routine

2001-09-22 Thread David Greenman
out 250,000 vnodes, this is an impossible goal to acheive in that case without increasing the malloc limit by at least 4X. Of course this many 1 page files is extremely rare, however, and I don't think we should optimize for it. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebs

Re: mmap MAP_INHERIT question.

2001-08-23 Thread David Greenman
he >following? > > MAP_INHERIT This is supposed to permit regions to be > inherited across execve(2) system calls, > but is currently broken. Support for the flag and reference to it in the manpage should just be removed. -

Re: Recommendation for minor KVM adjustments for the release

2001-08-19 Thread David Greenman
>David Greenman wrote: >> >> > - I would like to cap the size of the buffer cache at 200MB, >> > giving us another 70MB or so of KVM which is equivalent to >> > another 30,000 or so nmbclusters. >> >>That also seem

Re: Recommendation for minor KVM adjustments for the release

2001-08-18 Thread David Greenman
MB or so of KVM which is equivalent to > another 30,000 or so nmbclusters. That also seems like overkill for the vast majority of systems. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave th

Re: exec() doesn't update access time

2001-07-26 Thread David Greenman
>On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:25:19PM -0700, David Greenman wrote: >>Guessing, I think the correct fix is probably to set the IN_ACCESS flag in >> ufs_open() [and similarly with other filesystems where this makes sense] if >> the filesystem is not mounted with the noatime f

Re: exec() doesn't update access time

2001-07-25 Thread David Greenman
ymantics of the access time in the relavent standards, and I seem >to recall Bruce saying that it was incorrect to indicate an access on just >an open(), but I may be mistaken. Here is a patch that I just wrote that should implement the above. Please test and report res

Re: exec() doesn't update access time

2001-07-25 Thread David Greenman
saying that it was incorrect to indicate an access on just an open(), but I may be mistaken. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send ma

Re: exec() doesn't update access time

2001-07-25 Thread David Greenman
een discussed several times over the past many years and the end result is that 1) Noone really seems to care very much, and 2) There are performance reducing implications if the atime update is forced. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraS

Re: Intel ISP1100 or similar 1U experience with 4.3 stable

2001-07-13 Thread David Greenman
ree with me, yet you are arguing >anyway. > >"If you have the space, 2U is better". Why is that statement so irritating to >you. Its a fact. you agree with it. So what is the problem? The problem is that you said that 1U solutions are inherently unreliable, which is

Re: Intel ISP1100 or similar 1U experience with 4.3 stable

2001-07-11 Thread David Greenman
an failures before things start to warm up inside. I'm not sure how this thread got moved to -hackers...it started out on freebsd-isp and really does not belong on this list. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - h

Re: Intel ISP1100 or similar 1U experience with 4.3 stable

2001-07-11 Thread David Greenman
ing an MP motherboard, can only be ordered with one CPU. We've recently improved the cooling in our 1U server with very powerful 40mm fans that will cool an MP system more than adequately, but the power supply issue still remains. We should have a solution for that as well in a few weeks. -DG

Re: Re. The Foundation [was Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral]

2001-07-10 Thread David Greenman
ards to any of its other proposed activities until sufficient >donations have arrived. I believe that the financial statement released >with our announcement makes it clear why this must be the case. How much do you think it will cost to transfer the trademark? -DG David Greenman Co-fou

Re: ftpd....

2001-07-04 Thread David Greenman
certain that Luke would happily consider >> patches, if you were to put them forward. > >Neither one of them hold a candle to the load CDROM.COM >can handle. > >How about we import dg-ftpd instead? I'm sure we'd all >like to be able to support 1TB a day of data tran

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-18 Thread David Greenman
machines to support larger databases. Don't forget to also change NKPDE as well when relocating the start of kernel VM. For kernbase = 0x8000 on a non-SMP machine, NKPDE needs to be 511. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions

Re: panics with 4GB on an IBM xSeries 330

2001-05-26 Thread David Greenman
t a few days ago, but is apparantly not the problem in the most recently reported problem. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: 4GB

2001-05-21 Thread David Greenman
eventually panic with a similar error once you start >doing some real work. > >Any thoughts? The kernel is probably running out of the initially allocated kernel page table pages. Try upping it with 'options NKPT=64' in your kernel config file. -DG David Greenman Co-founder

Re: Extremely large (70TB) File system/server planning

2001-02-06 Thread David Greenman
are 1.8TB (1.62TB usable) capacity units in a 3U cabinet. It would take around 200A @ 120VAC (about 18KW) to power all of them and should fit in about 5 rack cabinets. Total cost would be about $3 million. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, Tera

Re: Realtek card support

2001-01-31 Thread David Greenman
>PS. for the record: I also still have an SMC EtherEZ 10Mb UTP and a 3Com >3c503 for those who want to work on drivers for them. Both of those should work with the ed driver. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc.

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-25 Thread David Greenman
hese are "licensed" drivers. The linux driver is free. How do you know that the above drivers are developed by Intel? The above could easily be OS vendor supplied. It's anybody's guess without the source. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freeb

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread David Greenman
>David Greenman wrote: >> >> >supporting it if someone ported it over to freebsd? they have drivers for >> >just about every other major OS except BSD. it would be nice if the driver >> >was updated BEFORE cards and MBs that dont work started showing up on th

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread David Greenman
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Greenman writes: > >> "drivers for every major OS"? They have drivers for Windows, Window/NT, >>and Linux. Of those Linux is the closest to FreeBSD, but that's like saying >that a penguin is similar to a human beca

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread David Greenman
The current FreeBSD driver, by comparison, is about 2600 lines of code and a whole lot easier to read and maintain. I do believe that there are some useful tidbits to be gotten out of the Intel/Linux driver, but that's about it. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - htt

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-23 Thread David Greenman
, and 2) I don't have any boards that don't work correctly. I'll look into the Linux driver, however, and see if it has anything useful in it. Historically the Linux Pro/100+ driver has totally sucked and was chalk-full of magic numbers being anded and ored. -DG David Gr

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread David Greenman
manual without an NDA due to a screwup at Intel - which allowed me to write the original fxp driver. Unfortunately, a few things have changed since then, especially in the SEEPROM area and the only method I have of fixing those problems these days is by reverse-engineering. -DG David Greenm

Re: yet another unsupported PHY in fxp driver

2000-12-05 Thread David Greenman
is caused by the SEEPROM not being read properly. Since it doesn't work with 4.1, this probably indicates that you're using an on-motherboard NIC (Supermicro?). I'm running out the door to the airport, however, and won't be able to get a fix to you until next week. -DG David Gree

Re: sendfile for raw disk (was: zero copy TCP)

2000-11-18 Thread David Greenman
issus for doing this? The main issue is that sendfile() is very much VM-system centric in the way that it implements zero-copy sends. In order for raw devices to work, you would need to have a raw device vm_object to hold the pages. The problem with this is that it creates cache coherency problems

Re: yet another unsupported PHY in fxp driver

2000-10-14 Thread David Greenman
ng is wrong with the SEEPROM. Is it a SuperMicro motherboard? If so, they changed the layout in the SEEPROM. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscr

Re: yet another unsupported PHY in fxp driver

2000-10-13 Thread David Greenman
). If there is something useful indicated in the 'unsupported PHY" message that you mentioned (a type, for example), then it could easily be added. The 82559 has an integrated 82555 PHY, so I really doubt there is actually a new PHY to deal with. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD P

Re: yet another unsupported PHY in fxp driver

2000-10-12 Thread David Greenman
her things, which is also read from the SEEPROM. This said, I think it is generally the right approach to use a generic MII PHY software interface and at some point the driver will likely be updated for that. It is low priority, however, since it doesn't solve any problems. -DG David Greenma

Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach)

2000-08-25 Thread David Greenman
t FreeBSD anymore. FreeBSD is what it is; if you don't like most of it, then may I suggest that you use one of the alternatives that better suits your needs. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.c

Re: mbuf re-write(s), v 0.1

2000-07-03 Thread David Greenman
imal (say less than 1% of the total amount of time spent doing the allocs/frees). I'm not trying to 'frown upon evolution', unless the particular form of evolution is to make the software worse than it was. I *can* be convinced that your proposed changes are a good thing and

Re: mbuf re-write(s), v 0.1

2000-07-02 Thread David Greenman
>On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, David Greenman wrote: > >>We used to do this in FreeBSD, but found that it was a bad idea for >> performance reasons. Freeing and reallocating memory from the high-level >> VM system is quite expensive and the trend in NICs these days is towards &

Re: mbuf re-write(s), v 0.1

2000-06-29 Thread David Greenman
' is reached often, then you're probably not really gaining much by freeing the memory back to the common pool. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Manufacturer of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of lif

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-17 Thread David Greenman
ng only myself) that I think the idea is pretty cool and I'd very much like it to succeed if at all possible. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Manufacturer of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life wit

Re: Conflict between Intel 82558/9 and VIA MVP4?

2000-06-14 Thread David Greenman
if the Apollo chipset doesn't support some PCI operation that the Pro/100 wants, causing major problems. Unfortunately I don't believe that there isn't anything that can be done in the driver to work around this. What you need is someone with a PCI bus analyzer to look into the beh

Re: sendfile should use getfp.

2000-06-12 Thread David Greenman
>May I commit this? I'm going to need getfp to be non-static for >some stuff I have in the queue, I figured sendfile might as well >use it. Fine by me. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Manufacturer of high-performance Internet

Re: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4bsd Operating System"

2000-05-07 Thread David Greenman
ic was still going to be the copy editor, and thus one of the names on the cover. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send m

Re: "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4bsd Operating System"

2000-05-07 Thread David Greenman
> > FreeBSD OS which are a closer match than the above? >> > >> > Nope. It's still the best ref. Ask me again in 9 months, maybe there'll >> > be a different answer, because another one is in the works (I think David >> > Greenman is one of the author

Re: Onboard Intel NIC

2000-03-29 Thread David Greenman
>exists. And I cant compile my kernel with your patch. Your problem is unrelated to the problems that other people were having. I'll work with you privately to narrow it down. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator

Re: Onboard Intel NIC

2000-03-28 Thread David Greenman
o in the short term, but I'd be happy to review some patches for it! :-) -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportuniti

Re: Onboard Intel NIC

2000-03-27 Thread David Greenman
with those. The algorithm for sizing the SEEPROM was taken from the NetBSD version of the driver. Thanks for your patience. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com P

Re: Onboard Intel NIC

2000-03-27 Thread David Greenman
nd do the really important things first and if there is any time left over to do "fun" stuff (like work on free software), then I do. Life hasn't been fun for me for quite awhile. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creat

Re: Onboard Intel NIC

2000-03-27 Thread David Greenman
id in previous mail, I'll implement a solution as soon as I can find some time. I'm extremely busy these days and if I can somehow squeeze in some quality development time inbetween multiple trips across te country, then I will. Otherwise people will either have to use the patc

Re: Onboard Intel Networking - i82559

2000-03-27 Thread David Greenman
| FXP_EEPROM_EEDI; } else { This will probably break support for those that were working, however. Let me know if it works. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - ht

Re: if_fxp driver

2000-03-20 Thread David Greenman
one of the not-working cards and fiddle with it. I was going to do that this past weekend, but then got sick with a virus. It's on my list. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet ser

Re: limiting buffer cache

2000-03-18 Thread David Greenman
Uh, I'm not sure what is generating that error, but it has nothing to do with file caching. Sounds like you don't have enough swap space configured. What version of FreeBSD are you using? -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.

Re: limiting buffer cache

2000-03-18 Thread David Greenman
occurs in the VM system and is completely dynamic in size, and varies with other activity in the system. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life w

Re: Is FreeBSD dead ?

2000-03-11 Thread David Greenman
rg resources to non-WC machines in a matter of minutes. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Is FreeBSD dead ?

2000-03-10 Thread David Greenman
e punch. As pointed to Simple answer: BSD, Inc. loses. What BSD, Inc. tries to do in the value-add arena is entirely their problem and if FreeBSD developers develop something that conflicts with BSD, Inc.'s value-add, then tough - BSD, Inc. will have to go and find another value-add. -DG

Re: Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

2000-03-10 Thread David Greenman
t; >pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x1209) at 14.0 irq 11 ^ Don't know what that is, but's not a part that is supported by the fxp driver. It would help if you could find out the part number (8255X isn't sufficient since it isn't really just one series - s

Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory...

2000-03-10 Thread David Greenman
of the primary goals with the new company is to change that. In time we'll know if this was just wishful thinking. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com P

Re: Is FreeBSD dead ?

2000-03-10 Thread David Greenman
look at this in an objective and rational frame of mind. If you do, then there is only one conclusion that you can get from the facts: This is a great thing for FreeBSD and our future couldn't be brighter. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - h

Re: Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

2000-03-09 Thread David Greenman
two diodes pointing at each >other inside a circle and square). The 82559 has an integrated PHY. Looks like someone has changed the identifier again. What type of motherboard is this on (sorry if I missed this in a previous message). -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, T

Re: Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

2000-03-09 Thread David Greenman
ointy hat. Actually, it doesn't completely work. Full-duplex won't work for example, since the driver has to know the PHY type in order to set the proper mode. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance

Re: Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

2000-03-09 Thread David Greenman
t >networking going with this board. Can you look on the motherboard and find out what type of chip it uses? It should be one of: 82557, 82558, or 82559. Let me know. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-per

Re: where you.....

1999-12-22 Thread David Greenman
a "Design and Implementation" book for FreeBSD, due out in Q1 2001. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities.

Re: Multiple instances of the same character device

1999-12-11 Thread David Greenman
7;97). The simple answer is yes. The only issue has to do with closing the device. If you don't care about the device driver close routine being called except on the last close, then everything should work just fine. I assume this question is related to you work on VMware for FreeBSD? -D

Re: new Intel 100Mbps card

1999-12-06 Thread David Greenman
c" */ >#define FXP_DEVICEID_i82559 0x1030 /* New 82559 device id.. */ Oops, I forgot that you had already added this. This should be merged into 3.x for the 3.4 release (with Jordan's permission of course). Are you going to take care of that, Peter, or would you like me to

Re: new Intel 100Mbps card

1999-12-05 Thread David Greenman
0x1230 Pro/100 is working correctly, including stuff related to manual selection of the speed and duplex, then I'll take care of making the changes to the driver. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Inter

Re: new Intel 100Mbps card

1999-12-05 Thread David Greenman
> #define FXP_VENDORID_INTEL 0x8086 > #define FXP_DEVICEID_i825570x1229 >+#define FXP_DEVICEID_i825580x1030 This wouldn't be correct. The 82558 has been used for years on Pro/100+ boards and they ID as 0x1229. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architec

Re: fxp related kernel panic

1999-10-26 Thread David Greenman
e any effect on the problem. Of course I don't really know what is causing it, so just about anything is possible. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pav

Re: fxp related kernel panic

1999-10-26 Thread David Greenman
Let me guess...your system has an Intel N440BX motherboard, right? If so, then it's a known problem with no solution yet. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers -

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-12 Thread David Greenman
>David Greenman wrote: >> >> >> So if this problem is NOT related to specific hardware, how can we get >> >> the driver fixed? >> > >> >Talk to the maintainer (David). We've offered him cores and kernels >> >before. Alternatively

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-11 Thread David Greenman
>> in an Adaptec 2940 and use it instead of the onboard NCR then the problems >> disappear. > >We did this (you remember that we went through all this a while back, >right?), but we've also been seing reports from people that aren't >using NCR controllers. I h

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-11 Thread David Greenman
erises the failures and help David out with more >data. Hotmail has troubleshooted the problem down to the NCR controller. It appears that the problem only occurs when using one of those. If they plug in an Adaptec 2940 and use it instead of the onboard NCR then the problems disappear. -DG

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-07 Thread David Greenman
ry messing with the BIOS options and see if changing any of the DMA related settings will make the problem go away...I'd be very interested in the results. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet ser

Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric

1999-09-02 Thread David Greenman
;m with you on this, Keith. I'd rather that we kept the professional FreeBSD look and feel. If we look too much like Linux, then people will just use Linux. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet server

Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric

1999-09-02 Thread David Greenman
;m with you on this, Keith. I'd rather that we kept the professional FreeBSD look and feel. If we look too much like Linux, then people will just use Linux. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet server

Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16

1999-08-24 Thread David Greenman
It seems reasonable to me, although there may be issues with finding a bit in the minor number - I think they've pretty much all been taken. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - ht

Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16

1999-08-24 Thread David Greenman
a-p It seems reasonable to me, although there may be issues with finding a bit in the minor number - I think they've pretty much all been taken. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - ht

Re: network performance vs. linux on small transfers

1999-08-23 Thread David Greenman
MTP connection? If not, then please do that and let me know if it fixes the problem or not. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportuniti

Re: network performance vs. linux on small transfers

1999-08-23 Thread David Greenman
ction? If not, then please do that and let me know if it fixes the problem or not. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities.

Re: mmap bug

1999-08-11 Thread David Greenman
s like this in -current awhile back and it would be interesting to know if the hang occurs there as well. I don't have a -current machine at the moment so I can't test it myself. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of hig

Re: mmap bug

1999-08-11 Thread David Greenman
ng. Please provide more information so that we can help you. Thanks. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com >This small program, running as 'mmap', not &#x

Re: mmap bug

1999-08-11 Thread David Greenman
s like this in -current awhile back and it would be interesting to know if the hang occurs there as well. I don't have a -current machine at the moment so I can't test it myself. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator o

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