aic7xxx driver & SCBs

2001-03-09 Thread Joe Albowicz
Hi, I'd like to ask if anyone can share any knowledge about how/if the number of SCBs affects performace for scsi drives. Also I would like to be able to configure the number of SCBs that the scsi driver uses. With Linux this parameter for the aic7xxx driver can be configured via "make menucon

aio_read gives ENOSYS

2001-01-29 Thread Joe Albowicz
Hi, I'm trying to write a sample program to use aio. However, I'm getting back "function not implemented." I *know* I must be doing something stupid, but I can't seem to find info on the web. Help! My code (that works on a Sun box) is below. The only difference was "-lrt" on Sun. Note tha

need help with pthreads and memory corruption problem

2001-01-23 Thread Joe Albowicz
Hello, I'm porting an application from Linux to FreeBSD and I am having some problems with the program crashing in weird/random places because of memory corruption. For example the crash can happen in STL or free or in c++ code that we have written (note that our code works just fine on Linux