skc0: unknown media type: 0x0

2005-11-02 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Hello! After another reboot, I started getting the message in subject and thus have lost my network connection. The card used to be identified as: sk0: on skc0 [] I initially rebooted to add RAM to the machine, but have since tried to take the extra memory back out to no av

Re: Very slow writing to SATA disk

2005-10-29 Thread Mikhail Teterin
> Hmm, that does sound as problems with that disk, or maybe disk vs   > diskcontroller. Any chance you could try the disk on something else ? I'll try... > One other thing, how much mem do you have in there ? more than 4G and   > bounce buffering might get into the picture ruining the transfer ra

Re: Very slow writing to SATA disk

2005-10-29 Thread Mikhail Teterin
> Look in smartmontools I provided patches for that, its not rocket   > science you know... This attitude -- on top of the API change itself -- is not really encouraging for ISVs, you know :-) > You need to find out what the transfer rates are for the RAW disk, ie   > by doing a dd from /dev/zer

Re: Very slow writing to SATA disk

2005-10-29 Thread Mikhail Teterin
> Ask the maintainer to get it [ataidle -mi] fixed, but be warned experience > says it might hose your data... The maintainer did not break it. An incompatible change to the API did :) You are, probably, in the best position to show us, how the new API should be used. > Now, you say read speed

Re: Very slow writing to SATA disk

2005-10-29 Thread Mikhail Teterin
> Indeed, 55C is way to high for 24/7 usage, and it might be that the   > drive is choking on it and barely is able to compensate.. The reads are pretty quick... I'd like to be able to spin it down, but ataidle is broken :-( > What does SMART say ? any unusual like high correction rates or   > an

Re: Very slow writing to SATA disk

2005-10-29 Thread Mikhail Teterin
> If this drive doesn't support tagged-queueing, is the write cache > disabled?  I get that sort of performance from a (PATA) disk with > the cache disabled (hw.ata.wc="0" in loader.conf) No, just checked -- the hw.ata.wc is set to 1. Is there anything else to look at? > >According to smartctl,

Re: the current status of nullfs, unionfs

2005-03-11 Thread Mikhail Teterin
> Nullfs works better than unionfs. Unionfs worked well in 4.X. > > What about the `union' option to regular mounts? Is that safe to use? [...] > Last I checked, it [mount -ounion -mi] was very broken, but I'm not sure. BTW, how is unionfs different from nullfs with the union option? mou

Re: What about inode file system? (Re: the current status of nullfs, unionfs)

2005-03-11 Thread Mikhail Teterin
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:53:20PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > A few years ago, there was a project making a filesystem, where a file's > > name will simply be its inode number. It was intended to save on the > > name-to-inode lookups of a regular filesys

What about inode file system? (Re: the current status of nullfs, unionfs)

2005-03-11 Thread Mikhail Teterin
A few years ago, there was a project making a filesystem, where a file's name will simply be its inode number. It was intended to save on the name-to-inode lookups of a regular filesystem, for applications like Squid, which keep file names in some sort of a database already. Does anyone know, w

the current status of nullfs, unionfs

2005-03-10 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Hello! The respected manual contain dire warnings, but the Google search suggests, the situation is not *that* gloomy. For example, according to http://kerneltrap.org/node/652 , nullfs was used on Bento-cluster two years ago in 2003. Is anybody working on this file-systems? Any plans, rumours?

amdpm0: could not map i/o space

2004-09-23 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Hello! A Google search for the Subject brought up a recent thread on this list. We have an amd64 system running 5.3-BETA5, with almost-working amdpm0: amdpm0: port 0xe0-0xff,0xb400-0xb41f irq 19 at device 7.2 on pci0 amdpm0: could not map i/o space device_attach: amdpm0 attach returned 6 The p

Re: kern/13644

2000-01-24 Thread Mikhail Teterin
David Schwartz once wrote: > The man page is correct and the implementation is correct. Several people, said the man pages are broken: Bruce Evans on Dec 28: > If timeout is a non-nil pointer, it specifies > a maximum interval to wait for the selection

Re: kern/13644

2000-01-23 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Warner Losh once stated: =In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mikhail Teterin writes: =: Where does it guarantee that? Man-pages say, it is guaranteed to =: sleep no MORE then the timeout, not less. Is there some other =: specification, that's different from the man-page

Re: kern/13644

2000-01-23 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Warner Losh once stated: =In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mikhail Teterin writes: =: I understand. And this will also happen in case of a simple printf(). =: What I see, however, with select() is that it _consistently_ takes =: 9-10 msecs longer then specified to return. On an idle m

Re: kern/13644

2000-01-23 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Dan Nelson once stated: =In the last episode (Jan 23), Mikhail Teterin said: => =FreeBSD is clearly not capable of hard real-time. If I remember => =correctly, neither are any of the operating systems from which you => =quoted man pages. That makes *all* of those man pages i

Re: kern/13644

2000-01-23 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Jason Evans once stated: =I thought Bruce was pretty clear when he explained that such upper =bounds are not possible unless the operating system can make hard =real-time guarantees. His explanation contradicted ALL of the documentation I was able to find, and he chose not to co

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Marcel Moolenaar once wrote: > > > > > > I don't think this one is needed anymore ?!? > > > > It is. Without it, soffice keeps bringing up setup over and over > > instead of just starting the damn office. > > What is everybody doing? I run SO5.1 OOTB. AFAICT, there's absolutely > no need fo

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Marcel Moolenaar once wrote: > > > > > > I don't think this one is needed anymore ?!? > > > > It is. Without it, soffice keeps bringing up setup over and over > > instead of just starting the damn office. > > What is everybody doing? I run SO5.1 OOTB. AFAICT, there's absolutely > no need f

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Andre Albsmeier once wrote: > > Before running soffice for the first time -- apply the trick > > described by Andre Albsmeier on > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=432982+436209+/usr/local/www/db/text/1998/freebsd-hackers/19980628.freebsd-hackers > > > > to the freshly i

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-02 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Andre Albsmeier once wrote: > > Before running soffice for the first time -- apply the trick > > described by Andre Albsmeier on > > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=432982+436209+/usr/local/www/db/text/1998/freebsd-hackers/19980628.freebsd-hackers > > > > to the freshl

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-01 Thread Mikhail Teterin
hing else (like tcl-8.2 released two weeks ago), knowing someone else is making the so51 happening. -mi > On Wed, 01 September 1999, Will Andrews wrote: > > > > > On 01-Sep-99 Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > > If Sun doesn't release the sources this mont

Re: Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-01 Thread Mikhail Teterin
hing else (like tcl-8.2 released two weeks ago), knowing someone else is making the so51 happening. -mi > On Wed, 01 September 1999, Will Andrews wrote: > > > > > On 01-Sep-99 Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > > If Sun doesn't release the sources this mont

Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-01 Thread Mikhail Teterin
With relatively small amount of hackery, the StarOffice51 for Linux can be forced to run on FreeBSD. Both, the setup and the office itself. To run setup, you need to unzip the setup.zip (with the -L flag) and make all the libraries there known to the ld-linux.so. (I just added a new directo

Linux StarOffice51 runs on -stable

1999-09-01 Thread Mikhail Teterin
With relatively small amount of hackery, the StarOffice51 for Linux can be forced to run on FreeBSD. Both, the setup and the office itself. To run setup, you need to unzip the setup.zip (with the -L flag) and make all the libraries there known to the ld-linux.so. (I just added a new direct