Re: Keeping track with latest kernel ? CVSweb ?

2002-02-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 28 February 2002 at 11:42:17 +1100, Andrew wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: > >> ie a way to know that the kernel has been updated so I can compile the >> new one. > > cvsup and watch the output is probably easiest. Note that it's not possible to build a new ke

Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet?

2002-02-20 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 20 February 2002 at 17:03:38 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 20 February 2002 at 16:52:48 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: >>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, George V. Neville-Neil wrote: >>> >>>

Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet?

2002-02-20 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 20 February 2002 at 16:52:48 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, George V. Neville-Neil wrote: > >>> I was talking to Louis Gerbarg about this topic at the BSDCon last >>> week. Apparently Darwin already has this functionality, so I suppose >>> you'd like to take a

Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet?

2002-02-20 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 19 February 2002 at 21:36:25 -0800, George V. Neville-Neil wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Now that Luigi has put in polling support for some ethernet drivers > I was wondering how much work it would be to make the remote kernel debugging > run over the ethernet. I have worked on systems

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-30 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 January 2002 at 9:41:15 -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > Caldera's License Agreement: > > http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf Thanks. However, this isn't as specific as I'd like it to be. It implies that Net1/Net2 are now 'legal', but it does

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 29 January 2002 at 15:56:32 -0800, Dion Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:05:20AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:55:04 -0700, Nate Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>>>> And, where have you heard t

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Greg Lehey
- Forwarded message from Nate Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:55:04 -0700 > From: Nate Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Dominic Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Nate Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subje

Re: vinum write spanning

2002-01-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 28 January 2002 at 18:34:10 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 09:49:59AM -0500, Jason Andresen wrote: >> I'm hoping there is an easy answer to this one... >> >> Is there some way vinum can be tickled such that it writes to all disks >> in a plex at once? For instance

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-07 Thread Greg Lehey
[moved to -chat] On Monday, 7 January 2002 at 21:21:54 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 01/07/2002 7:32:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >>> Drool away, buddy! Here's mine, and it still works (chicklet >>> keyboard, built in cassette drive, metal fi

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 28 December 2001 at 23:12:40 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Glenn Johnson wrote: >> It is really hard for me to say if this is FreeBSD specific because I do >> not tend to stress the system much when I have Linux running. My wife >> has an identical system running Windows 98SE

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 28 December 2001 at 14:46:12 -0600, Glenn Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:10:09PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> I've been using AMD processors almost exclusively in my main work >> machines for over 4 years, and I've been very happy with them. I

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 28 December 2001 at 11:57:44 +0100, Nils Holland wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:10:09PM +1030, Greg Lehey stood up and spoke: >> I've been using AMD processors almost exclusively in my main work >> machines for over 4 years, and I've been very happy wit

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 28 December 2001 at 6:21:04 -0800, Keith Simonsen wrote: > Greg, > > Do not forget to check your power supply make/model. If you search on google > for AMD's recommended hardware list, double check you're power supply is > listed for your cpu. This wouldn't explain why it works fine u

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 28 December 2001 at 13:23:50 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Greg Lehey wrote: >> Information that could be interesting is (here my values): >> >> Processor:AMD Duron 850 >> Motherboard: ECS K7VZA >> Memory:1 128 MB SIMM, 100

Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-27 Thread Greg Lehey
I've been using AMD processors almost exclusively in my main work machines for over 4 years, and I've been very happy with them. I'm currently running a K6/233, a K6/333, an Athlon 750, a Duron 850 and an Athlon XP 1700. Last August, though, I bought a machine which gave me a lot of trouble, the

Re: Instead of JFS, why not a whole new FS?

2001-12-17 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 17 December 2001 at 22:50:45 -, Dave Reyenga wrote: > How about writing a new filesystem based on UFS? If it's based on UFS, it's not a new file system. > This would save all of the hassle that JFS would bring: licensing, > porting time, etc. There are no hassles with licensing.

Re: Caldera and the Ancient UNIX license

2001-12-16 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 16 December 2001 at 17:18:37 +1100, Warren Toomey wrote: > In article by Greg Lehey: > [about if and how Caldera is enforcing the Ancient UNIX >http://www2.caldera.com/offers/ancient.html. Note also >that in fact they allow access to the code via >

Re: Adding a new FS to FreeBSD

2001-12-16 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 16 December 2001 at 18:37:33 +1100, Warren Toomey wrote: > I would say that FreeBSD already has a nearly-working UFS > implementation. Also, the structure of UFS is so well documented in > various books that, even if FreeBSD's UFS implementation was > deficient, it could be rectified w

Re: Adding a new FS to FreeBSD

2001-12-15 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 15 December 2001 at 3:18:33 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> Unfortunately, it's still copyrighted. You need an SCO license; want >> to go and get one of them? It doesn't cost anything, but I can't give >> the software

Re: Adding a new FS to FreeBSD

2001-12-15 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 15 December 2001 at 0:39:32 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >>> Do you have small images of this FS, as well as header files that >>> are redistributable (e.g. BSD license) and/or code? >>> >>> If you have the tools sources (

Re: Adding a new FS to FreeBSD

2001-12-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 14 December 2001 at 6:16:27 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Peter Jeremy wrote: >> Since JFS has come up again... Are there any papers that explain how >> to integrate a new filesystem into FreeBSD? The relevant chapter in >> the FreeBSD Developers' Handbook (16) is a bit terse :-). >>

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD [VOTE]

2001-12-12 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 12 December 2001 at 1:43:10 -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote: > Hi, > > as i said also before, my intentions were never to cause havoc on > the mailing list. :-) > > In simple terms, what i am saying is, the people who would like to > port the JFS file system, should put a +1 in their next

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-11 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 11 December 2001 at 19:42:30 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> Of course. But you're missing the point: ufs is *not* a port, it has >> been with BSD since the beginning. There is a similar list of items >> for JFS which would need

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-11 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 11 December 2001 at 1:08:23 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >>> FS porting to FreeBSD is actually pretty trivial(*), though some >>> transactioning changes to the FreeBSD VFS layer consumers (the >>> system calls and NFS server code) woul

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 22:48:58 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > [ ... Hiten wants someone to GPLify FreeBSD ... ] > >> I'm glad you took the time to read the marketting literature. >> >> The problem is that porting it is going to be a bit more complicated >> than

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 22:45:22 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Hiten Pandya wrote: >> i wanted to ask if there were any _plans_ to port >> JFS (Journaled File System) to FreeBSD... > > Not unless you have plans. When I was an IBM employee, they would > not change the license, and so it's i

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 11 December 2001 at 10:56:17 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 17:39:35 -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: >>> * Hiten Pandya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011210 16:02] wrote: >>>> hi all, >>>> >>>> this is a wild i

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long-short syndrome in first message. On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 14:01:53 -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote: > hi all, > > this is a wild idea...suggestion... > > i wanted to ask if there were any _plans_ to port > JFS (Journaled F

Re: UDMA33 and SiS5591 on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE

2001-12-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 2 December 2001 at 17:53:37 +1030, Richard Sharpe wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Saturday, 1 December 2001 at 13:05:53 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: >> >>> It seems Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>>I've got a bo

Notwork solutions (was: who is "postmaster"?)

2001-12-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 1 December 2001 at 1:21:04 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > >> Julian Elischer wrote: >>> >>> I've tried getting information about our (FreeBSD) mail >>> system by mailing to "postmaster" but no-one answers.. >>> >>> so, who IS the postmaster

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-30 Thread Greg Lehey
saging). > > I have upgraded to 4.4-STABLE, and have hacked in some changes to ata-dma.c > (provided by Greg Lehey, but I had to do it by hand) What did you have to do by hand? > so my drive is now running at UDMA 100. Can you send me dmesg output? In particular, I had a printf o

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 28 November 2001 at 2:22:40 -0600, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Nate Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011128 02:14] wrote: >> >> If you want me to shutup and go into a corner, it might make you feel >> better, but it certainly won't solve the real problem. > > I made it clear that my pr

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 28 November 2001 at 2:03:21 -0600, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011127 23:08] wrote: >> I've just been talking with a friend of mine from the Samba team. >> He's about to change jobs, and a lot of his work in future will

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-28 Thread Greg Lehey
arallel connections. > > The connections hang, abort, and those that complete have numbers that > are *all* over the map. However, when connected to a Linux box on the > same network, none of these bad things occur. :( > > (And, we've verified the network is up by running ping i

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 28 November 2001 at 1:56:14 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:41:18 -0700 > "Nate Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> FWIW, I'm seeing this as well. However, this appears to be a new >> occurance, as we were using a FreeBSD 3.X system for our reference test

FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Lehey
I've just been talking with a friend of mine from the Samba team. He's about to change jobs, and a lot of his work in future will involve FreeBSD. He's just been doing some performance testing, and while the numbers are pretty even (since he discovered soft updates :-), he's noticing some signifi

Re: HPT370 RAID or Vinum?

2001-11-13 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 11 November 2001 at 22:37:58 +0100, Paul van der Zwan wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Smith wrote: These "cheap controllers" don't have any algorithms at all to speak of; they're just ATA controllers with BIOS code that supposedly understands striping/mirror

Re: HPT370 RAID or Vinum?

2001-11-11 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 11 November 2001 at 9:33:56 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Mike Smith wrote: >>> Agreed. I don't think the RAIDs will have the same parameters. Most >>> of these cheap controllers have fairly simplistic algorithms. Note >>> that I said "guess", though. In my language, that

Re: HPT370 RAID or Vinum?

2001-11-10 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 11 September 2001 at 7:41:06 +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Greg Lehey wrote: >>> I reckon if the RAID functions are implemented in HPT BIOS (in software), >>> I'll be better off with Vinum. >> >> Ultimately, all RAID is soft

Re: Vinum problem with JBOD on a 3ware?

2001-10-30 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 30 October 2001 at 8:26:14 -0800, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > I be stumped: > > newsfeed-inn# uname -a > FreeBSD newsfeed-inn.meganews.com 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Mon Oct 29 >15:08:57 PST 2001 >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/n/FreeBSD/RELENG_4-2001-10-29/src/sys/compile/NEWSFEED-INN

Re: I am desperate please help my hdd

2001-10-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 13 October 2001 at 19:08:24 -0400, Rob wrote: > I am writing this mailing list in a desperate attempt to find out how to > restore my hdd with out loosing all the data on it. Recently I added two > additional hard drives to my freebsd 4.2 system. Once I booted up my system > and dl'

Re: setjmp/longjmp

2001-10-03 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 3 October 2001 at 12:12:14 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > I suppose it must have been Peter Penchev who wrote: >> On Wednesday, October 03, 2001 6:14 AM, Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Tuesday, 2 October 2001 at 12:43:54 -0700, Julian Elisch

Re: setjmp/longjmp

2001-10-02 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 2 October 2001 at 12:43:54 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:56:24AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] >>>

Re: VM: dynamic swap remapping (patch)

2001-09-30 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 30 September 2001 at 14:55:58 -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Jos Backus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010930 14:35] wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:23:26PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>> * Jos Backus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010930 12:55] wrote: AIX has SIGDANGER. >>> >>> Anyone ca

Re: setjmp/longjmp

2001-09-30 Thread Greg Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Friday, 28 September 2001 at 10:12:14 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Gersh wrote: >> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Bernd Walter wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 07:03:51PM +0530, Anjali Kulkarni wrote: Doe

Re: VINUM PANIC ON -STABLE

2001-09-16 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 16 September 2001 at 20:04:46 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Greg, > > > On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:04:27 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> >>> Subdisk home.p0.s0: >>> Size: 40822392320 bytes (38931 MB) >>> State: u

Re: VINUM PANIC ON -STABLE

2001-09-16 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 16 September 2001 at 13:00:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 11:42:38 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> 6) Supply an extract of the file /var/log/messages. >>> >>> Sep 12 14:06:10 depot login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0 >>

Re: VINUM PANIC ON -STABLE

2001-09-15 Thread Greg Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Saturday, 15 September 2001 at 18:39:20 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 09:38:20 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Saturday, 15 September 2001 at 12:26:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 4

Re: HPT370 RAID or Vinum?

2001-09-10 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 10 September 2001 at 10:11:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I am trying to install FreeBSD on a (pseudo-) hardware ATA RAID volume which > consists of two striped ATA disks connected to a Highpoint HPT370 > controller."Pseudo-" because FreeBSD detects the individua

mmap limits (was: need help)

2001-08-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 1 August 2001 at 0:17:42 +0700, smail wrote: > Hello freebsd-hackers, > > i need some help. my problem is about memory limit in mmap function. > i can't mmap files infinitely, after some number of file mmaped in > memory i've got an error, probably causing memory limit of 2 or 4 Gb

Re: Allocate a page at interrupt time

2001-08-08 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 8 August 2001 at 0:27:23 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > void wrote: >>> Can you name one SMP OS implementation that uses an >>> "interrupt threads" approach that doesn't hit a scaling >>> wall at 4 (or fewer) CPUs, due to heavier weight thread >>> context switch overhead? >> >> Sola

Re: Allocate a page at interrupt time

2001-08-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 7 August 2001 at 1:58:21 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Bosko Milekic wrote: >>> I keep wondering about the sagicity of running interrupts in >>> threads... it still seems like an incredibly bad idea to me. >>> >>> I guess my major problem with this is that by running in >>> threads,

Failed hack attempt (was: your mail)

2001-07-15 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 15 July 2001 at 16:51:51 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > am a kernel newbie. i tried adding code to the kernel > and compiled it and installed . when i tried rebooting > my new image the kernel panics with a fatal trap 12: > page fault ( for which i know the reason). How do i > boot t

Re: Some questions about kernel programming

2001-07-12 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 12 July 2001 at 6:58:09 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Friends > > I have some questions about kernel programming: You'd be better off sending mail like this to -hackers. I've followed up there. > 1. Why I can call some system calls functions into the kernel but >anoth

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

2001-07-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 8 July 2001 at 15:47:18 -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > Julian Stacey wrote: >> The sooner BOD appoint a handfull of non-execs, some nominated by core, >> the sooner it'll be easy to encourage Wind River to donate the trademark, >> before who knows what might happen at, to, or within W

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-21 Thread Greg Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Your MUA is a known text mutilator. You'd be better off getting a UNIX-based MUA: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 On Wednesday, 20 June 2001 at 11:16:18 +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: > Jordan Hubbard <[EMAIL PROT

Re: fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 9 May 2001 at 22:04:34 -0700, Brian W. Buchanan wrote: > Any fdc driver gurus in the house? > > I have a bunch of old floppy disks with some text files I'd like to > recover. Many of them have errors and are unreadable past a certain point > in the disk. Others I can't read from a

Re: vinum on 2 ide drives?

2001-05-09 Thread Greg Lehey
[redirected to -questions] On Wednesday, 9 May 2001 at 19:51:05 -0700, Dan Phoenix wrote: > > > These 2 are from running it on each on the ide drives without vinum. > > [root@gorbag /mnt1]# dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=16384k count=1000 > 1000+0 records in > 1000+0 records out > 16777216000 byt

Writing device drivers (was: help me please)

2001-05-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 9 May 2001 at 10:40:50 +0530, Jayesh Krishna wrote: > Hi guys... > I am comfortable with Linux Device Drivers. Presently I am trying > to write some pseudo-drivers in FreeBSD(4.2-Release). I tried out > make_pseudo_driver.sh > in the /usr/share/examples/drivers but it does not work

Re: Optimal setup for large raid?

2001-05-04 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 4 May 2001 at 12:58:58 -0400, Brad L. Chisholm wrote: > I sent this to -questions a few days ago, but never received > any response, so I thought I'd try here. My apologies if you've > seen this more than once. > > I'm also interested in what might be appropriate filesystem > settings

Re: SMP in 2.4 (fwd)

2001-04-19 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 19 April 2001 at 10:10:51 -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 19-Apr-01 Dennis wrote: >> I understand there is a language thing, but I went out of my way to say >> that i wasnt saying that SMP shouldnt be supported. It already is, and its >> been done very cleanly in a way that doesnt c

The future of multiprocessors (was: SMP in 2.4 (fwd))

2001-04-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 18 April 2001 at 23:17:06 -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Dennis wrote: > >>> You think Intel isn't going to market dual/quad ia64 machines? >> >> Yes, but who'll need them? > > If nobody needed them, what would be the point in SELLING > them ? That's never been an

Re: A message to freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG

2001-03-31 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 31 March 2001 at 11:15:37 -0800, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's no need to copy the spammer. Did the message bounce, BTW? > Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP > id 8EA6A2E8167; Sat, 3

Re: Vinum stripe size (was: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server)

2001-03-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 28 March 2001 at 1:40:27 +0100, Brian Somers wrote: >> On Tuesday, 27 March 2001 at 9:39:36 +0100, Brian Somers wrote: On Tuesday, 20 March 2001 at 11:11:44 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: > [Lengthy email, bear with me please, it is quite interesting. > This box averages

Re: Vinum stripe size (was: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server)

2001-03-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 27 March 2001 at 16:38:33 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010327 16:21] wrote: >> On Tuesday, 27 March 2001 at 17:59:23 -0500, Brandon Gale wrote: >>>>> Do you think it'd be worth it to have vinum carp about wha

Re: Vinum stripe size (was: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server)

2001-03-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 27 March 2001 at 15:15:17 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:16:53PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> No, there's no requirement for it to be a prime number. The only >> problem is that with 32 MB cylinder groups and a power of two stripe

Re: Vinum stripe size (was: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server)

2001-03-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 27 March 2001 at 17:59:23 -0500, Brandon Gale wrote: >>> Do you think it'd be worth it to have vinum carp about what may >>> be a non optimal stripe size? >>> >>> "Warning N is probably a bad idea for a stripe size, see docs" >> >> Only if it can recognize the fact correctly. > > How

Re: Vinum stripe size (was: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server)

2001-03-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 27 March 2001 at 9:39:36 +0100, Brian Somers wrote: >> On Tuesday, 20 March 2001 at 11:11:44 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: >>> [Lengthy email, bear with me please, it is quite interesting. >>> This box averages 30.0 load with no problems.] >>> >>> >>> >>> Average file size is about 4K

Re: Vinum stripe size (was: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server)

2001-03-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 27 March 2001 at 0:05:03 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Greg Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010326 23:47] wrote: >> On Tuesday, 20 March 2001 at 11:11:44 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: >>> [Lengthy email, bear with me please, it is quite interesting. >>

Vinum stripe size (was: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server)

2001-03-26 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 20 March 2001 at 11:11:44 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: > [Lengthy email, bear with me please, it is quite interesting. > This box averages 30.0 load with no problems.] > > > > Average file size is about 4K. /home/bbsusers* is on a vinum > stripe'd volume with 3 Ultra160 9G 1RPM d

Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server

2001-03-26 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 20 March 2001 at 11:04:16 -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: >>> SWAP is never touched. :) >>> >>> last pid: 23395; load averages: 2.08, 2.92, 3.60up 0+01:29:58 02:03:27 >>> 1529 processes:24 running, 1505 sleeping >>> CPU states: 40.5% user, 0.0% nice, 46.4% system, 1.1% interrupt,

Kernel open(2) (was: Questions about kernel space functions)

2001-03-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 9 March 2001 at 19:37:45 -0500, kaworu wrote: > > Perhaps this is not the right place to post this, if so, I apoligize. This is the correct place. -questions is not. > But, I have a dilema. Is there any documentation I can find which > gives the arguments for all kernel space funct

Re: Missing support in FreeBSD for large file sizes?

2001-03-05 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 5 March 2001 at 17:23:53 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> What I can't understand is the reference to missing support for large >> file sizes - as far as I know, that's one of FreeBSD's strengths! Anybody >> care to guess what they

Re: gdb and debugging Linux binaries

2001-02-23 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 22 February 2001 at 13:55:07 -0800, Jim Pirzyk wrote: > > I have a question on how to debug Linux binaries. I have a core > file from the linux binary, but if I use the FreeBSD gdb, it cannot > find the shared libraries in /compat/linux/ If I use the /compat/linux/ > /usr/bin/gd

Re: soft updates performance

2001-02-12 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 12 February 2001 at 15:29:17 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Danny Braniss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> i've been doing some experiments with vinum, and doing a make buildworld >> (with obj on the same vinum) >> without soft-updates~ 1 hour >> with soft-updates

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 7 February 2001 at 13:16:44 -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote: > On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Andrew Reilly wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:13:57PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>> * Andre Oppermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010206 12:07] wrote: Does sendmail even use fsync()? >>> >>> It bette

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 7 February 2001 at 13:31:26 -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: > > In anycase, while VINUM is great for striping disks I recommend that > you use CCD to begin with, because CCD is a whole lot less complex. > You can stripe IDE drives but the two drives must be on different IDE >

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 7 February 2001 at 13:41:29 -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote: > > btw ccd requires 2 other drives am i correct? No, you can use ccd with only 2 drives. > So i just remove /var/ basically from fstab ...raid0 2 drives together > and mount that as var...is my basic understanding. > of course

Re: Watch your devfs permissions in driver make_dev calls

2001-02-03 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 2 February 2001 at 20:10:10 -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > >> crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 78, 0 Dec 31 1969 pci > > This one may appear harmless, but it is not. It is trivially easy to create > an alignment fault (fatal on an alpha) with the userland pcicon

Re: Chuck Cranor's PhD thesis on VM

2001-01-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 28 January 2001 at 21:10:34 -0700, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > I am sorry I brought this up without a URL :-( > > I'm working on it. Garrett Rooney already posted it: http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/chuck Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address

Re: if_fxp driver info (which card then?)

2001-01-26 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 26 January 2001 at 9:47:38 -0500, Jim Sander wrote: >>> Linux people avoid the EtherExpress because they think something is >>> wrong with the card. > >> Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B cards in FreeBSD > >These cards work well in our many 3.x and 4.x systems. > >But I just buil

Re: Kernel Hacking (i tried not to make it lame)

2001-01-25 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 25 January 2001 at 22:03:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hey guys i know you probably get this question all the time but i am looking > into getting into doing somekernel hacking first i will tell you some thing i > have assumed about it: > 1.) you should know atleast more progra

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-25 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 25 January 2001 at 12:54:17 -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:12:42PM -0500, Dennis wrote: >> At 10:58 PM 01/24/2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >>> In article >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> you write: > >>I'll look into the Linux driver, however, and s

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 January 2001 at 21:07:45 -0800, Matt Jacob wrote: >> >> I've come in in the middle of this discussion, so maybe there's >> something I don't know, but on the same hardware and running FreeBSD, >> I had no problems. Why should we want to replace the driver with >> something which

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 January 2001 at 17:08:16 -0500, Dennis wrote: > >> >>>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. >> >> That's "ch

Re: Daemon images (was: One thing linux does better than FreeBSD

2001-01-15 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 15 January 2001 at 16:00:55 -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 15-Jan-01 Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 15 January 2001 at 13:40:38 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>> >>> There is one point where I have to conceed defeat to Linux. >>> &g

Daemon images (was: One thing linux does better than FreeBSD...)

2001-01-15 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 15 January 2001 at 8:41:51 -0800, Richard Hodges wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> There is one point where I have to conceed defeat to Linux. >> >> That fat little penguin is everywhere. >> >> The main reason we practically don't see beastie at all is that >>

Daemon images (was: One thing linux does better than FreeBSD...)

2001-01-15 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 15 January 2001 at 13:40:38 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > There is one point where I have to conceed defeat to Linux. > > That fat little penguin is everywhere. > > The main reason we practically don't see beastie at all is that > there is no artwork to get hold of anywhere... > >

Dump analysis (was: Ideas? (fwd))

2001-01-08 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 8 January 2001 at 10:04:44 +0200, Roman Shterenzon wrote: > * Roman Shterenzon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010107 10:24] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Could you please take a look at : >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24019 >> It's my friend's PR. Can you give me some hints on how can I de

Re: StrongARM support? (was also: Group for porting to other proccessor families)

2001-01-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 8 January 2001 at 0:22:01 +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote: > Hi all > > Is their a group of FreeBSD Enthusiasts that are working on porting > free to embedded controllers that are not x86 I am in the process of > developing a security / access / building management system, and am > lookin

Re: debugging kernel buffer overwrite

2001-01-03 Thread Greg Lehey
[following up to -hackers] On Tuesday, 2 January 2001 at 14:35:39 -0500, Jeff Fellin wrote: > > I previous sent this mail on freebsd-current, but realize it > was probably an incorrect list. So, I am reposting on to > freebsd-questions. If this is still the wrong list could > someone tell me the

Re: kernel debugging suggestion needed

2001-01-02 Thread Greg Lehey
while (I guess it enters into some dead loop). Is there a way >>> to attach to the process and somehow find out which code it is executing >>> (with remote debugging or ddb)? >> >> kld debugging is a bit tricky. Take a look at the debugging macros and >> bits that

Re: kernel debugging suggestion needed

2001-01-02 Thread Greg Lehey
; to attach to the process and somehow find out which code it is executing >> (with remote debugging or ddb)? > > kld debugging is a bit tricky. Take a look at the debugging macros and > bits that Greg Lehey put together for vinum for a starting point. You have > to calculate the

Re: -STABLE+vinum+smp+softupdates+CVSup(local CVS repo)==corruption?

2000-12-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 28 December 2000 at 14:03:31 +, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:30:09PM -0500, David E. Cross wrote: >> I have run across a problem since updating to -STABLE a week or so ago... >> my CVS vinum partition would go corrupt after a few updates. I have been >> ru

Re: -STABLE+vinum+smp+softupdates+CVSup(local CVS repo)==corruption?

2000-12-26 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 26 December 2000 at 17:30:09 -0500, David E. Cross wrote: > I have run across a problem since updating to -STABLE a week or so ago... > my CVS vinum partition would go corrupt after a few updates. I have been > running with no softupdates on my system for a day now and no problems. >

Optimizations (was: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c))

2000-12-19 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 19 December 2000 at 16:01:52 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:11:12PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: >> /* Case 1 */ /* Case 2 */ >> if (data) vs. free(data) >> free(data); > > > Actually

Re: GDB Displaying all vars in a stack frame.

2000-12-08 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 8 December 2000 at 18:29:26 -0600, Stephen Hocking wrote: > Is there some simple one-liner command that allows me to display the values of > all the variables within the current stack frame? info local Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for addre

Re: Printer problems, please help

2000-11-29 Thread Greg Lehey
[redirected to -questions; I don't consider this an in-depth technical question] On Wednesday, 29 November 2000 at 21:03:10 +0100, Rink Springer wrote: > [Posted this to questions too, but no one appeared to know.. maybe someone > here does?] > > Hi, > > I've installed FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE on a se

Re: looking for kernel hacking info

2000-11-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 15 November 2000 at 10:08:45 +, visi0n wrote: > > The THC have a documentation about freebsd kernel space. > > packetstorm.securify.com/groups/thc/bsdkern.htm Repeating the full URL for the benefit of mutt users, this is http://packetstorm.securify.com/groups/thc/bs

Re: looking for kernel hacking info

2000-11-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 14 November 2000 at 21:14:25 -0500, Paonia Ezrine wrote: > > >> On Tuesday, 14 November 2000 at 16:32:49 -0500, Paonia Ezrine wrote: >>> I am looking for info on programing in kernel land. System calls, howto's >>> etc. I have not found anything that realy covers this stuff any and all

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