On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Heiko Wundram wrote:
Hey all!
It's been some time now, and I just wanted to ping quietly whether there's any
chance to get (a preview of) the valgrind adapted for FreeBSD 7.
out is a futile task, I guess, as I didn't manage to find it in the FreeBSD
perforce repository th
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Antipov Dmitry wrote:
[originally posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all,
recently I've tried a few benchmarks around pipe throughput on Linux vs.
FreeBSD.
Everyone interesting can see my stuff at http://213.148.29.37/PipeBench, and
initial post to Linux kernel developers
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, shyam burkule wrote:
hellow
can someone send me patch implementating page replacement algorithm in
freeBSD
Thanks
Shyam
No.
Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > /usr/ports/emulators/rtc
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > usleep
>
> Already using / looked at that. I'm looking for something more in-depth.
> -Garrett
The rtc port's sole purpose is to make the vmware port happier. As you
probably saw, it just fakes th
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would guess that if a way could be found to preallocate the
journal space (as with mkfile(8) in sufficiently-old systems),
and then record its location in a reasonably-secure location
(the superblock?), it could be accessed during recovery without
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Soeren Straarup wrote:
Hi
I'm looking for a project.
Something that would actually be used.
Preferely something with kernel and geom.
I have looked over the project page, but not sure where to start.
/Soeren
I'd like to see the ability to run gjournal without reformat
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
The code is integrated in GCC 4.1, patching if needed at all is quite
contained.
But we're still running gcc 3.4.6, and won't be moving to gcc 4.1 on 6.x.
The gcc 3.4.6 patch is the one we're reluctant to have to support.
The ABI impact is l
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Eric Anderson wrote:
I'm tired of trying to use rsync or gcp (which doesn't like symlinks often)
to copy trees of files/directories using hard links, so I added the gcp-ish
options -a and -l.
...
Comments? Flames? Committers willing to commit?
Eric
Having just read
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Iasen Kostov wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 10:27 -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote:
Can you provide instructions on how to create a testbench that exhibits
these same problems? Can eAccelerator + PHP + Apache + some simple script
+ apachebench do the trick?
Nope
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Iasen Kostov wrote:
Exactly what i did :). I set vm.pmap.shpgperproc=600 in loader.conf and
about 5 min after boot the system paniced and I was not able even to see
the message (either because I was pressing enter for the command or it
just doesn't wait for a key).
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On Wed, 2006-Apr-05 12:14:29 -0500, Rick C. Petty wrote:
If not operator, then maybe one configurable group, defaulting to operator.
Sounds like a good idea.
--
Peter Jeremy
What group do NFS and SMBFS shares belong to?
Mike "Silby" Silbersack
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
I know we have vfs.usermount, but this is not always sufficient since
the user has to own the mount point in question. What I propose is to
add a ``user'' mount option ? la Linux. This would make mount and
umount setuid root, but would allow much m
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Scott Long wrote:
Ashok Shrestha wrote:
VMWARE GSX was released recently for free.
[http://www.vmware.com/news/releases/server_beta.html]
Is anyone working on a port for this?
I've started on it, but I haven't made much progress yet.
Scott
Anyone who's interested i
> Thanks Matt,
>
> The answer to both is no. The domain doesn't resolve either
> (v.tn.co.za). It looks like the source IP changes too...sigh I tried
> a whois on the source IP and it was not found, so it may be spoofed? Or
> someone has a very messed up server...
There was a thread on bugtraq
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Alan Amesbury wrote:
Because we have several systems equipped with em(4)-compatible cards
that are intended to accept traffic at gigabit speeds, I've configured
them with HZ=2000, per the notes above. However, 6-STABLE has also
included some newer pf(4) code, which is fund
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Cedric Tabary wrote:
If it is true, doing a sendfile() on some very big files (even if not
keeping the descriptor open after) will kill the cache ?
Please help me to understand why this patch ? and the difference between
sendfile() and mmap() at the memory or cache level..
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Viktor Vasilev wrote:
With FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE I almost constantly get ~2 microseconds
delta. That is with 100HZ kernel on PIII 500MHz or Sempron 64 2800+
Put kern.hz=1000 in /boot/loader.conf to kick it up to 1000Hz, that should
improve the accuracy a lot.
The opti
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:51:15PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
On a server I'm benchmark testing, via local host, I'm getting Limiting closed
port RST response from to 200 packets/sec on the console when I'm running a
lot of local
> Hi,
>
> On a server I'm benchmark testing, via local host, I'm getting Limiting
> closed
> port RST response from to 200 packets/sec on the console when I'm
> running a
> lot of local connections very quickly all at once (about 7500 per second).
> I've
> added the following:
>
> net.inet.
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Sergey Babkin wrote:
OTOH, updating our ext2 code, or ntfs code (if that's even possible) would
be something of use to many people, I suspect.
Why not go for ext3 instead of JFS then? It has
journaling in it.
-SB
I was thinking that as I wrote it as well, I'm not sure w
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
would a port of JFS2 be of interest to freebsd core?
thanks
-kamal
There are many things that would be of interest to FreeBSD users, but
that's not a good reason to start a project. If you're motivated only
because you think others desire your wor
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
Flash is nice but it has some issues. Atleast dropping it isn't one!
Doug A.
I'd be really happy if I could get a USB flash drive to last more than 8
months. Luckily, I started weekly backups after the first failure. That
helped a lot when the s
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Minh Tran wrote:
Would anyone have some hints on the clean way of injecting some code to deal
with SYN packets
or could you give me some ideas on which files i should look at? I really
appreciate that.
I saw some promising files in src/sys/netinet but they are not all clea
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
Thanks for you answer. In that case, which sysctl should we use ?
* OpenBSD's kern.arnd (KERN_ARND) which is a front-end to
the arc4random() function ?
* NetBSD's kern.urandom (KERN_URND) which is using the rnd(4)
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
The second method requires to introduce the kern.arnd sysctl
(KERN_ARND). FYI, note that NetBSD has kern.urandom (KERN_URND) and
they define KERN_ARND to be an alias to this.
Your comments will be welcome.
Best regards,
--
Jeremie Le Hen
I don't se
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Attila Nagy wrote:
Hello,
I'm just doing a quick poll.
If I would have a given amount of money and I would like to make bind 9 go
faster (both in the terms of caching and authoritative performance) on
FreeBSD, could I find the appropriate people for the job?
The modif
On Tue, 17 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could someone with knowledge of the Broadcom ethernet chips
and the bge driver check if adding support for the 5789 is
really that easy and if yes, initiate the needed steps to get
the device id's in the kernel?
Adding support for new chips often is that
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, 12:08-0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi hackers, I am looking at the ip_reass() routine. In case of the
1st fragment we create the reassembly queue. After the queue has
been inserted in the hash bucket, the if () code does a " goto
in
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Ashwin Chandra wrote:
Hi all, Ive been trying to counter the malicious effects of a forkbomb
by setting the forkbomb parent and children to a PRI_MAX priority,
although this is not having any effect on the system load.
Basically in my code when I know which process is acting
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Matt wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to connect remotely to my database server. It is MySQL 4.1.7
which I install from ports. I created a user with permissions to connect
from any remote location. I'm using Perl DBI, like this:
Are you sure that you set up MySQL to accept TCP connec
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Gerald Heinig wrote:
Hi hackers,
I've come across weird behaviour in bus_dmamem_alloc() whilst trying to
allocate small memory blocks (less than PAGE_SIZE) which have to be
aligned to PAGE_SIZE.
My segment size is 2048, my maximum number of segments is 1 (it MUST be
contiguous
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Uwe Doering wrote:
Just from memory, doesn't Linux' malloc require kernel support for re-mapping
memory regions, which is not available in FreeBSD? This issue came up in the
discussion about FreeBSD's anemic realloc performance. Or has this kernel
functionality been added
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Gary Corcoran wrote:
I've just had *THREE* Maxtor 250GB hard disk failures on my
FreeBSD 4.10 server within a matter of days. One I could
attribute to actual failure. Two made me suspicious. Three
has me wondering if this is some software problem... (or
a conspiracy (just
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Stefan Midjich wrote:
Hi
I know a guy i respect on IRC told me this is not possible but since this is
the hackers list i thought the topic at least deserves a discussion. I guess
i wont be able to sit still until someone either does it or shows me why it
can't be done.
Faking
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Andre Oppermann wrote:
If you have many TCP connections to one target it may happen that you
get the same source port on the originator again within the TIME_WAIT
timeout. And if the ISN wrapped in the meantime the new connection
will 'hang'.
Just to clear this up, the problem
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Arun;
hrmm.
Can you try switching the port to another port number? Perhaps a lower port
number?
See if you can get it to connect in that way?
Makes no difference
Try doing a "tcpdump -n -i lo0" and see what traffic occurs when you make
the connection
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Gary Corcoran wrote:
Yeah, okay, there's multiple definitions of what "64-bit filesystem"
is referring to. So what are FreeBSD's current filesystem limitations?
2^64 bytes files, and 2^64 blocks per filesystem? But I seem to recall
some problems as people were approaching a t
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Sam wrote:
Call me crazy, but does anyone else see this as hooey? 2^64 512B
sectors is 8192 zettabytes (zetta, exa, peta, tera, ...).
I'm also wondering what perversion of moore's law is applicable to
storage consumption.
Crappy marketing articles.
Sam
Maybe they're actually d
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Wilko Bulte wrote:
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 10:29:35PM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote..
duallayer media yet as I havn't been able to locate any that didn't cost
an arm and a leg :)
Oh, its slow for ripping as they have put in a lock for that, you can
get around it by loading new firm
On Wed, 26 May 2004, Bosko Milekic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you're running -CURRENT, please test this:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~bmilekic/code/mbuma2.diff
>
> It is several extensions to UMA and mbuf & cluster allocation
> built on top of it.
Sounds good in theory, but I'm too lazy to tes
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, GiZmen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am runnign freebsd 5.2.1 on 386 arch with two rl lan cards. My mainboard
> is on VIA KT 266A with AMD athlon 1.1.
> I read man polling and i have HZ=1000. My problem is that when i set up
> sysctl variable kern.polling.enable=1 my interrupts great
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> Has anyone got it installed under FreeBSD?
> I got the demo to run and install pretty well (for some reason I can't play it
> in KDE, I have to drop back to twm otherwise my system hangs), but the full
> game doesn't install :(
I only have it running
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, David Gilbert wrote:
> The C++ FAQ referred to by iostream (not iostream.h) seems to imply
> that you should use iostream and sstream (no .h)... but including
> those files imposes a very different standard that this port is not
> ready to accept. It appears that (among othe
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Somewhere out there there is a ?Virus?/?Hacker?/?Spammer?
> getting really annoying..
Yeah, I'm getting it too. Worst part is, clamav 0.65 doesn't pick it
up. I'm waiting for the 0.67 port to be committed...
Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Don Bowman wrote:
> You could use ipfw to limit the damage of a syn flood, e.g.
> a keep-state rule with a limit of ~2-5 per source IP, lower the
> timeouts, increase the hash buckets in ipfw, etc. This would
> use a mask on src-ip of all bits.
> something like:
> allow tcp f
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Ganbold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Following is the output of pciconf -lv command:
As others have pointed out, the problem isn't in the em driver, since the
card isn't even showing up in pciconf. Either it's somehow not enabled,
or FreeBSD isn't detecting the PCI bridge that the card
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Ganbold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed FreeBSD 5.2 and updated using cvsup on Dell Poweredge 1600SC.
> However still FreeBSD doesn't recognize network card. It has onboard Intel
> Pro/1000 MT card.
> What should I do in order to use this onboard Intel PRO/1000 card? I
> checked
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Bill wrote:
> I read a post that was sent to freebsd-hackers, which mentioned an
> individual was able to obtain 1.6 million concurrent tcp sessions, so I
> assume it's possible.
That was with a heavily modified version of FreeBSD, you wouldn't be able
to hit 1.6 million out
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Andrew wrote:
> The conclusion being that send, sendto and select will never block on a
> UDP socket and the man page just doesn't make it too clear. I'm assuming
> it is the same for raw sockets.
>
> UNPv1 section 6.3 seems to say that select should work for UDP...Part 2
> u
Bascially everything in section 2.2.3 (/etc/sysctl.conf) is wrong; some
values may need tweaking, but changing them blindly will not be helpful.
The one setting that I do suggest you keep is:
kern.ipc.somaxconn=512 (128 may be too low for http testing)
The settings from section 2.2.4 will _proba
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Robert Watson wrote:
> To pick up the corrupted packet on the machine where the corruption is
> occurring, you might want to try hooking up the UDP checksum drop case to
> BPF_MTAP() for a special BPF device or rule, or have it spit them into a
> raw socket (probably easier).
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Sam Smith wrote:
> The thread on the OpenBSD list now contains a patch which
> seems to fix the problem (for me, on OpenBSD, shifting data
> by both NFS and ftp doing md5 checksums on the files at both
> ends). Although it doesn't seem to turn off hardware
> checksums (which
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Dan Langille wrote:
> I've had reports of people not being able to resolve hostnames for
> bsdcan.org. I do know that one of the domain's DNS servers is
> offline (m20.unixathome.org). But the other (nezlok.unixathome.org)
> is up and accepting queries (at least for all my
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Well, this is fun. There are over 460 files in the 5.x source tree
> (360 in DFly) that make calls to malloc(... M_NOWAIT), and so far
> about 80% of the calls that I've reviewed generate inappropriate
> side effects when/if a failure
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Ganbold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed FreeBSD 5.1 in HP Vectra VE18 PIII 450MHz with 128MB RAM and
> 4GB HDD.
> However I'm having problem compiling sources. Whenever I try to make buildworld
> make stops sometime later saying some variable not found etc. When I check
As has
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Any idea of how much effort it would take? I have no clue as to
> how to fix our toolchain, gooing the work in ld.so doesn't see
> that awful, but it's not trivial either:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/tls.pdf
>
> I want a threaded webstone
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I have a server with 1GB of RAM and a swap partition of 2GB i will upgrade
> the memory server to 2GB so my questions are:
>
> should i fix the swap partition to have now 4GB of space ?
>
> what other changes do i have to make to my syste
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, [ISO-8859-1] "Branko F. Grac(nar" wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Mike Silbersack wrote:
>
> | Can you try updating to 5.1-current and see if the situation changes at
> | all? A lot has changed since 5.1-release.
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Vivek Pai wrote:
> If you were to have sendfile issue the disk reads, how would you signal
> completion? I guess one approach is to make the socket buffer appear to
> have no space while the sendfile-initiated read is in progress, but
> it seems to me that such an approach wou
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Vivek Pai wrote:
> The one other aspect of this is that sf_bufs mappings are maintained for
> a configurable amount of time, reducing the number of TLB ops. You can
> specify the parameter for how long, ranging from -1 (no coalescing at
> all), 0 (coalesce, but free immediatel
Ok, I've reread the debox paper, looked over the patch, and talked to Alan
Cox about his present and upcoming work on the vm system.
The debox patch does three basic things (if I'm understanding everything
correctly.):
1. It ensures that the header is sent in the same packet as the first
part o
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, [ISO-8859-1] "Branko F. Grac(nar" wrote:
> Machine locked up in about 5 seconds (this is 1u p4 xeon 2.4 GHz, 2GB of
> ~ ram).
>
> This only accours if Apache2 SSLMutex is set to 'sem' and
> SSLSessionCache is set to 'shm:/path(size)'.
>
> So... there are possible problems with
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Vivek Pai wrote:
> Before we proceed on this, I'd like to ask is there actuall a committer
> ready to follow up on this? We currently make our patches available on
> Ping's homepage, and they're relatively clean. He spent a fair bit of
> time getting it from a relatively ugly
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Details about what we have so far are at
> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~yruan/debox/
>
> Yaoping Ruan had mentioned this on the list before (and sent a
> pointer to the sendfile patches), but didn't seem to get much
> response.
>
> -Vivek
As always,
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, David Schultz wrote:
> But regardless of the approach, someone has yet to demonstrate
> that this is actually a performance problem in the real world. ;-)
I could be way wrong, but I would think that a database might mmap
discontiguous segments of memory. Perhaps someone fa
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> And patches (against FreeBSD) are highly encouraged. It rarely helps
> to simply point out flaws (or showing how X OS runs soo much better than
> FreeBSD, why are you guys even running FreeBSD?) w/o showing code to fix it.
>
> --
> John-Mark Gurne
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Yaoping Ruan wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I installed the 4.8 release on a new box with 4GB memory, and found
> kernel panic when I tried to write date. But the system run great with
> only 2GB memory. Is there any kernel compiling option in the LINT, like
> the "high mem" option in Linu
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> Hi -hackers,
>
> I'm looking for ways that a userland program can determine the CPU
> features available on an SMP machine -- processor model, stepping
> numbers, supported features, cache organization etc.
>
> For example, on some x86 processors the CPU
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>
> I need to make a FreeBSD box be a proper 802.11 AP (BSS Mode). I've
> got a pile of Orinoco cards here, but they seem to still not be
> supported. What ever happened to that effort?
>
> Assuming they still aren't supported any recomendations on a chea
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Robert Watson wrote:
> If one of you has had a chance to test this properly, please go ahead and
> commit. I don't have remote -STABLE development boxes, so haven't been
> able to do any -STABLE merging since I went to BSDCon. I did get RE
> permission to MFC this change.
>
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It's been almost a month now since I posted the original message on the
> list and I'm wondering about the progress on resolving this problem.
>
> I still can reproduce the panics after cvs-supping to RELENG_4 ~ 23:00 EDT
> today.
>
> Than
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Don Bowman wrote:
> I have machdep.ddb_on_nmi=1.
> I can drop into the debugger with the magic
> key sequence. However, when i hit the NMI
> jumper, i don't always go there. Sometimes
> I do.
> The system is 4-way SMP [2xHTT xeon processors]
> with 4.7.
>
> Any suggestion on
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sandeep Kumar Davu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > : I was intalling freebsd on laptop and could not find the drivers for
> > : 3ccfe575bt-d fast ethernet 10/100base-tx ethernet
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Ted Unangst wrote:
>
> > My advisor Dawson Engler has written a deadlock detector, and we'd like
> > some verification. They look like bugs, unless there is some other
> > reason why two call chains cannot happen at the same time.
>
>
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> I had a crash a few days ago on a 4.8-RELEASE box that I hadn't
> looked into yet, but when I saw your message I went back to take a
> look.
>
> I also ran out of mbuf clusters. First time on this machine, and
> since I've used it to test a number of hi
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote:
> #uname -a
> FreeBSD fileserver1.smartrafficenter.net 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Mon Dec
> 16 19:41:03 EST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FILESERVER1 i386
>
> Running 4.7 stable with sources CVSed on 16 Dec 2002.
>
> My file
This is becoming a really annoying FAQ.
The reason nobody has ported the NIC driver is because the source code is
not provided; it's just a binary driver with a wrapper. You'd be just as
well off trying to port the Windows driver...
I didn't look into the sound driver at all, it may be the same
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Thomas Chaffic Mowad wrote:
> Someone thought that the kernel might need more memory so we tried
> increasing VM_KMEM_MAXSIZE too 500 megs and then that caused a panic when
> we booted up.
>
> So we're kinda stuck here and any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> -
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Matt Bednarik wrote:
> Does FreeBSD support the new 64 bit AMD Opteron? I am thinking about
> having a dual processor opteron system built, can i stay with freebsd?
As of now, 5.1 does support the opteron in 64-bit mode, but the support is
still preliminary... if it's not co
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> Hmm, well all I could manage was a 5 port micro switch. It is made by Alloy
> but can autodetect crossover (MDX?). It works fine with the vr port doing
> autodetect, so I guess it's an interaction with the older switch.
>
> No idea how ammenable to so
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > If possible, I'd like you to try some other brands of 100/FDX hubs and see
> > if autonegotiation works properly; this would help tell us if the problem
> > is general, or specific to that card.
>
> I don't have any other brands of 100/FDX switches
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> I have 4.8 vintage PC with an Epox 8K9A9I motherboard
> (http://www.epox.com/html/motherboard.asp?product=EP-8K9AI&lang=1) which has
> an onboard vr(4) interface.
>
> I find that if the interface auto negotiates, it picks 100Mbit/FDX which
> matches t
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >Yeah, I suppose limiting it to one mii_tick routine per second would help
> >somewhat... but it's still a bad situation.
>
> I wasn't advocating slowing it down that much, merely trying to run it
> sequentially out of timeout()'s hair.
Either way
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >The _tick routines are not easy to fix, FWIW. MII access functions are
> >quite time consuming almost any way you look at it.
>
> I'm not sure the _tick functions should even be called from a timeout().
>
> In many ways it seems preferable to me to
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> Thanks for your explanation!
>
> I hope this little thread will draw the attention of the
> responsible or interested parties to the warnings ;-)
>
> --
> Yar
The _tick routines are not easy to fix, FWIW. MII access functions are
quite time consuming alm
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> Christian asks me to file a PR to better get this tracked and perhaps
> included in mainstream.
>
> I had seen lots of jail discussion here the last months but I think
> there had been few PR submission.
>
> What is the overall opinion on this - file PR
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Paul Robinson wrote:
> Well, I'm just a hanger-on without a commit bit, so I'll work on making it
> production ready in the next few weeks, post up a patch and if somebody
> wants to commit it, great. At the moment it's all based on 4.3-RELEASE and
> isn't really production r
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Martin Blapp wrote:
> Feb 13 17:41:05 ibm-01 kernel: ACPI-0625: *** Info: GPE Block0 defined as GPE0
> to GPE31
> Feb 13 17:41:05 ibm-01 kernel: ACPI-0625: *** Info: GPE Block1 defined as GPE32
> to GPE63
I see similar errors on my Presario 2100US...
> Wild guess: Seem to r
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Jordan K Hubbard wrote:
> * Obligatory trivia: I wonder how many remember that freefall was named
> after Rod's passion for the sport
I've always wondered about that... unfortunately, the answer is much less
exciting than I had expected it to be.
THANKS FOR RUINING MY BELI
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Greg Lewis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've recently acquired a motherboard with a VIA Rhine III onboard NIC.
> I couldn't see support for this in the current vr(4) driver in either
> -current or -stable and am trying to add support for it. Having not
> done any kernel hacking befo
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Sam Tannous wrote:
> I have two freebsd boxes (back to back) and I've
> been playing with a simple server on one machine
> and client on the other machine (this was simply
> an exercise with playing with kqueue). Both the
> server and the client are single processes and the
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Eirik Nygaard wrote:
> none4@pci0:4:0: class=0x02 card=0x0c111043 chip=0x01c310de rev=0xc2 hdr=0x00
>
> rl0@pci1:8:0 is another realtek card I put into the computer to be
> abel to copy the pciconf -l info without manually writing it over.
> The network card is none4@pci0
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Eirik Nygaard wrote:
> I am running 5.0-RELEASE, nothing shows up in neither dmesg nor
> ifconfig. It is a built-in network card on an Asus A7N266-VM
> motherboard.
>
> --
>
> Eirik Nygaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ok, please post the output of a "pciconf -l", run as root. Perha
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Eirik Nygaard wrote:
> I just got a new computer with a network card I don't seem to find any
> FreeBSD drivers for. It got a realtek 8201 chipset so I thought I
> could make my own driver, but I am not sure where to start. Are there
> any guides on how to make a simpel drive
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> I've clocked /dev/random on -current at
> just about 10MB/s (on a 1GHz AMD Duron). That's
> plenty fast enough for generating session keys. ;-)
Sounds like it, I didn't realize it was that fast. :)
> If this code is just used for generating occasional
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Policy Question: is a fast, high-quality
> /dev/random a gauranteed feature starting with 5.0?
Yes.
> Technical Question: is /dev/random sufficient
> for the cryptographic requirements of programs
> like dhclient, bind, etc?
Yes.
> I believe both of
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Aniruddha Bohra wrote:
> Hello
> The following code snippet is from netinet/tcp_usrreq.c
>
> As in the comment (and presumably correct behaviour) a RST should
> be sent on close if the connection is embryonic. However,
> if (tp->t_state < TCPS_ESTABLISHED)
> tp = tcp_c
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > In short, I don't think the issue has been discussed much, partially
> > because it's so easy for those who want hz=1000 to just edit loader.conf.
> > If you want to propose that we switch to hz=1000 by default:
>
> Nah, I'll leave that to someone who has
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> With the mentioned change of /etc/sysctl.conf to /boot/loader.conf, I am
> indeed seeing much better times on this 'benchmark'. See attached log. Not
> only the _select_sleep method benefits from this. What are the reasons *not*
> to do this?
>
> > As to w
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Thierry Herbelot wrote:
> the line :
> kern.hz="1000"
> must be placed in /boot/loader.conf
>
> TfH
Good catch, thanks.
Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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