Re: DVD burner failure on FreeBSD: the LUN appears to be stuck

2013-06-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
to get a new burner if the problem persists. (I read about 18x DVD speed with that model. So it must be more than five years old.) Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: Performance improvement to strnlen().

2013-05-27 Thread Lee Thomas
ibc/string/strnlen.c(revision 250951) +++ b/head/lib/libc/string/strnlen.c(working copy) @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ /*- - * Copyright (c) 2009 David Schultz + * Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Xin LI + * Copyright (c) 2013 Lee Thomas * All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and bi

Re: Performance improvement to strnlen().

2013-05-27 Thread Lee Thomas
On 2013-05-27 04:37, Václav Zeman wrote: On 26 May 2013 21:01, Lee Thomas wrote: On 2013-05-26 08:00, Václav Zeman wrote: On 05/25/2013 10:27 PM, Lee Thomas wrote: + lp = (const unsigned long *)((uintptr_t)str & ~LONGPTR_MASK); + va = (*lp - mask01); + vb = ((

Re: Performance improvement to strnlen().

2013-05-26 Thread Lee Thomas
On 2013-05-26 08:00, Václav Zeman wrote: On 05/25/2013 10:27 PM, Lee Thomas wrote: + lp = (const unsigned long *)((uintptr_t)str & ~LONGPTR_MASK); + va = (*lp - mask01); + vb = ((~*lp) & mask80); I do not think that this correct C. This is type punning violating the

Re: Performance improvement to strnlen().

2013-05-26 Thread Lee Thomas
On 2013-05-26 08:00, Václav Zeman wrote: On 05/25/2013 10:27 PM, Lee Thomas wrote: + lp = (const unsigned long *)((uintptr_t)str & ~LONGPTR_MASK); + va = (*lp - mask01); + vb = ((~*lp) & mask80); I do not think that this correct C. This is type punning violating the

Re: Performance improvement to strnlen().

2013-05-26 Thread Lee Thomas
On 2013-05-26 08:00, Václav Zeman wrote: On 05/25/2013 10:27 PM, Lee Thomas wrote: + lp = (const unsigned long *)((uintptr_t)str & ~LONGPTR_MASK); + va = (*lp - mask01); + vb = ((~*lp) & mask80); I do not think that this correct C. This is type punning violating the

Performance improvement to strnlen().

2013-05-25 Thread Lee Thomas
g. endianness, but I haven't tested it for correctness or performance on anything other than x86... And finally, there is some other low-hanging fruit in the other strn* functions. Would it be worth it for me to give those the same treatment? Thanks, Lee Thomas Test platform:

Re: [patch] reducing arp locking

2012-11-09 Thread Fabien Thomas
Le 9 nov. 2012 à 12:18, Alexander V. Chernikov a écrit : > On 09.11.2012 13:59, Fabien Thomas wrote: >> >> Le 9 nov. 2012 à 10:05, Alexander V. Chernikov a écrit : >> >>> On 09.11.2012 12:51, Fabien Thomas wrote: >>>> >>>>

Re: [patch] reducing arp locking

2012-11-09 Thread Fabien Thomas
Le 9 nov. 2012 à 10:05, Alexander V. Chernikov a écrit : > On 09.11.2012 12:51, Fabien Thomas wrote: >> >> Le 8 nov. 2012 à 11:25, Alexander V. Chernikov a écrit : >> >>> On 08.11.2012 14:24, Andre Oppermann wrote: >>>> On 08.11.2012 00:24, Alex

Re: [patch] reducing arp locking

2012-11-09 Thread Fabien Thomas
Le 8 nov. 2012 à 11:25, Alexander V. Chernikov a écrit : > On 08.11.2012 14:24, Andre Oppermann wrote: >> On 08.11.2012 00:24, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote: >>> Hello list! >>> >>> Currently we need to acquire 2 read locks to perform simple 6-byte >>> copying from arp record to packet >>> ethern

Re: Training wheels for commandline (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
I am sorry everybody I simply don't get this conversation - Implement it as a port - add it to bash/zsh/tcsh as an option - feel free - But if objective is to make a vanilla FreeBSD easier to use - I can think of 10,000 things (give or take a couple of 1000's) that would be a more wothy target.

Re: install-prompt for missing features (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Thursday 05 Jul 2012 13:09:05 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > > ... something like this would be *really* valuable to ease > > the transition for people coming from a Linux background. > > I'm sure some folks here would count this as a reason *not* > to provide it >:-> >

Re: ifconfig accepting hostname as ipv4 address

2012-06-08 Thread Thomas Rasmussen
hostnames in firewall configs are a bad idea: You want the system to boot and work correctly regardless of whether the systems DNS servers were responsive at boot time or not. Best regards Thomas Steen Rasmussen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing

Re: what's wrong with cd9660 fs

2012-04-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
imilar lapse with byte addresses would already rollover at 4 GiB. Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: what's wrong with cd9660 fs

2012-04-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
ia plans to not yet reach the size limit. Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: what's wrong with cd9660 fs

2012-04-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
e extents. /usr/src/sys/fs/udf/udf_vnops.c bears in function udf_bmap_internal() a comment: * If the offset is beyond the current extent, look for the * next extent. Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ freebsd-hacke

Did something change with ioctl CAMIOCOMMAND from 8.0 to 9.0 ?

2012-04-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
e inspected online at http://libburnia-project.org/browser/libburn/trunk/libburn/sg-freebsd.c The (union ccb) idx->ccb for this ioctl at line 231 if (ioctl(idx->fd, CAMIOCOMMAND, &(idx->ccb)) == -1) { is set up in this function beginning at line 160 static int sg_in

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Haven't you heard? CD's are so yesterday... ;) Just wait until the holodiscs come out. :)) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mail

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
to a problem between hardware, firmware, and the SYSLINUX programs. Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
work, then we should inform Ubuntu to upgrade their xorriso to 1.1.0 or later. (Up to now i only know that the correct size silences warnings of Linux fdisk about "different physical/logical beginnings".) Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ free

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
FreeBSD boot loader. Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
7 64 1423896 a 1 Nevertheless these two commands work and open access to the image content: mount -t cd9660 /dev/da0 /mnt mount -t cd9660 /dev/da0s1 /mnt (The ISO has two superblocks and two directory trees.) Does your hardware boot from USB stick at all ? Is its firmware (U)EFI rather

Re: pmc(3): when are the counters updated?

2012-03-12 Thread Fabien Thomas
Le 11 mars 2012 à 16:45, Vitaly Magerya a écrit : > Hi, folks. I'm trying to use pmc(3) to analyze code fragments, and > I've run into strange behavior: the counter values returned by > pmc_read(3) sometimes show no increment between readings, but are > updated a second later; even if the PMC in

Re: Patch for PR ports/157342: devel/gdb (Invalid selected thread)

2011-11-02 Thread Lee Thomas
Excellent! Thanks for fixing that. Lee Thomas On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 11:01:22 +0100, Luca Pizzamiglio wrote: Hi Lee, On devel/gdb 7.3.1 there is big stability problem with threaded application. I experimented several segmentation faults using gdb 3.7.1 ports/162093 it's my mantainer-upda

Patch for PR ports/157342: devel/gdb (Invalid selected thread)

2011-11-01 Thread Lee Thomas
#x27;t have any other machines to test it on. Could someone please A) review this patch, B) test it, and/or C) tell me who to send it to / what the correct procedure is for getting it reviewed and/or applied? Thank you for your help. Regards, Lee Thomas --- /freebsd_ports/devel/gdb/files/fbsd-th

Re: my git development snapshot(s)

2011-10-03 Thread Fabien Thomas
On Sep 22, 2011, at 11:26 PM, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:52:43 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: >>> On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 12:14:38 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: Just decided to follow the global tren

Re: my git development snapshot(s)

2011-09-20 Thread Fabien Thomas
At some point in time (when i've migrated my server from i386 to amd64) the git-svn metadata was corrupted (perl problem). Maybe this problem is related as my original clone does not have the problem. I will try to restore and force push a new repo. Fabien

Re: my git development snapshot(s)

2011-09-20 Thread Fabien Thomas
git merge-base upstream/svn_trunk upstream/svn_stable_8 does not work. it seems that at some point in time it was working. (upstream = live tree, origin = my sandbox) I will need to dig a little more to understand the problem. Regards, Fabien ___ freeb

Re: my git development snapshot(s)

2011-09-20 Thread Fabien Thomas
On Sep 20, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > [adding Fabien Thomas to the CC: list] > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> >> Just decided to follow the global trends and trying to throw all of my >> local/private chang

Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
> I think you mean UPDATING :) perhaps. But reporting bugs is nicer than long discussion threads. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgp9H9Hlo9DqO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [ECFT] pkgng 0.1-alpha1: a replacement for pkg_install

2011-03-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
> >> more sooner than later, so... maybe just save a copy? > > > > I even can rm -rf / by accident. > > What's your solution to this? :) > > rm -rf / > rm: "/" may not be removed referring to the CVS, this should improve the approach.

Re: Is there a boot manager that can handle this?

2010-08-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
ot.mountfrom=ufs:ad0s1a } menuentry "FreeBSD (or GNU/kFreeBSD), via /boot/loader" { set root=(hd0,1,a) kfreebsd /boot/loader } So the command obviously has changed from "freebsd" to "kfreebsd". Have a

Re: Is there a boot manager that can handle this?

2010-08-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
red system. I did this with FreeBSD and Solaris before i found the necessary GRUB2 menu examples. Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Solved: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
put into boot/loader.conf: kern.geom.label.debug=1 and to reboot for seeing the ufsid in the boot log. Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
i am downloading FreeBSD-8.0-RELENG_8-20100318-JPSNAP-amd64-dvd1.iso I still have 2 partitions unused on the disk. For now i can afford to install a real system. > Good luck! :) I will cry for help when being stuck. Have a nice day :) Thomas ___

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
ten hal stuff on Linux does not work. The usual remedy is killall hald-addon-storage.) First i'll have to learn how to get a X desktop. Then i have to see whether hald does any harm. Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org ma

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Ouch! :) Yeah. What happened to good old group "floppy" ? camcontrol devlist tells the particular device files. (I learned today on my way to ahci.) Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
vise about filing a bug report. Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
missions for these device files: acd, pass, cd, xpt. The port of xfburn generously (or daringly) writes into /etc/devfs.rules : # rules for grip and xfburn support add path 'acd*' mode 0666 add path 'cd*' mode 0666 add path 'pass*' mode 0666 add path 'xpt

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
the configuration (or whathever happened). > Btw there also is siis(4) [...] for > SiliconImage sata controllers. > [...] sas controllers If somebody has such hardware then i would be interested to hear whether it works with libburn. Anybody is invited to ask for support. Have a nice

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
spects at all. Many thanks for your advise. Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
300 card=0x79191458 chip=0x79191002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 r...@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x02 card=0xe0001458 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
writing. The same drive works well at USB or inside the computer at SATA. Nevertheless i would like to get eSATA ready so that i can test SATA drives without opening the computer box. Have a nice day :) Thomas

-reply:<4b7f7f02.1000...@freebsd.org>

2010-02-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
red as seekable are S_IFREG and S_IFBLK. Actually tested only with optical drives and USB sticks. To my knowledge ioctl(BLKGETSIZE) works only on S_IFBLK.) Have a nice day :) Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: Why kernel kills processes that run out of memory instead of just failing memory allocation system calls?

2009-05-21 Thread Thomas Hurst
commit/ -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst http://hur.st/ ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Setting the mss for socket

2009-04-02 Thread Thomas Wahyudi
Patrick Tracanelli wrote: Luiz Otavio O Souza escreveu: Hello hackers, Is there a way to set the mss for a socket ? Like you can do in linux with setsockopt(TCP_MAXSEG) ? So i can set the maximum size of packets (or sort of) from a simple userland program. you mean sysctl -w net.inet.tcp

Re: Announcement: PmcTools callchain capture for RELENG_7

2008-09-23 Thread Fabien Thomas
Thomas, that brings PmcTools' callchain capture features to 7-STABLE. Thank you, Fabien! The patch is linked to from the PmcTools wiki page: http://wiki.freebsd.org/PmcTools. The current file name is: "patch-callchain-FreeBSD-7- STABLE-2008-07-12.gz". As the file name indicates,

Re: Announcement: PmcTools callchain capture for RELENG_7

2008-07-31 Thread Fabien Thomas
For those like me that need FreeBSD 6.3 support i can provide a patchset upon request (That have only been tested on system wide profiling). Fabien Le 13 juil. 08 à 07:05, Joseph Koshy a écrit : Hello List(s), I am very pleased to announce a patch, by Fabien Thomas, that brings PmcTools

Re: new syslogd option for adding local timestamp

2008-02-20 Thread Thomas Vogt
Hi David Am 20.02.2008 um 22:12 schrieb David Malone: Hi Thomas, The -T option looks reasonable to me - can you submit a PR and let me know what number it is. I'll have a look at making the change. Thank you. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=120891 Regards, T

new syslogd option for adding local timestamp

2008-02-20 Thread Thomas Vogt
Hi list I ported the -T option from netbsd syslogd.c to freebsd syslog. "Add a -T flag to syslogd, which causes it to use local time for messages received from the network. Useful for collecting logs from devices which do not have correct time or if you need localtime anyway. It does not replace

Re: How to get filename of an open file descriptor

2007-11-18 Thread Thomas Hurst
ut the commands themselves are all seperate. A quick glance at the OpenSolaris source repository finds: http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/ptools/ i.e. they're just a bunch of losely related commands under the ptools banner. -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hu

Re: page fault & degaradation performance

2007-11-07 Thread Thomas Hurst
ning through cache. It's nice seeing syslogd go into pfault while there's 5G of inactive memory and 300MB cache just waiting to be recycled. There would seem to be some room for tuning on at least some systems. -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst http://hur.st/ _

RE: boot loader

2007-10-26 Thread Thomas Ching
Thanks for sharing your thoughts/opinions; I am glad that there are at least some things that I can try. Thomas -Original Message- From: Matthew D. Fuller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 3:48 PM To: Doug Barton Cc: Thomas Ching; freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

RE: boot loader

2007-10-26 Thread Thomas Ching
o more readings regarding how I might perform the following: " However in order to set the new slice bootable you'd have to then use the disk editor" 3. I guess what you are saying is that if I go with the upgrade path release 4->5->6, I can do "in place" upgrade over

boot loader

2007-10-26 Thread Thomas Ching
inking about doing the same with LINUX as the new OS? :-) Any information you can provide is highly appreciated. Thanks !! Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-16 Thread Thomas Hurst
ve received every time I've mentioned these things I'm guessing they aren't seen by others all that often, but maybe one or both are vaguely relevent to your situation. -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst http://hur.st/ ___ freebsd-hacke

Re: FreeBSD & Hot pluggable disks (SATA?)

2007-07-26 Thread Thomas Hurst
ht I'd filed a PR about it, but I can't seem to find it... I also have an 8 port Marvell SATA controller (88SX6081) which needs an atacontrol reinit to pick up new devices, but otherwise seems to work fine. -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst http://hur.st/ __

Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-28 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Thursday 28 June 2007 14:44:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > --- Thomas Sparrevohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > ... > > > > > I have Vista Home edition ruinning any FreeBSD without any problems and > > without having to do anything special -

Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-28 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Thursday 28 June 2007 11:33:39 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > I have Vista Home edition ruinning any FreeBSD without any problems and > > without having to do anything special - That is on CURRENT > > ruinning: No such word > ruining: Wrecking, destroying > running: Working accepta

Re: MS Vista vs FreeBSD's bootloader

2007-06-28 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Thursday 28 June 2007 03:08:34 Garrett Cooper wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi; > > > > FWIW, if you just got your new computer with Windows Vista installed and > > were > > hoping to dual boot FreeBSD on it, let me tell you that FreeBSD's bootloader > > will screw things up. > > > > Mi

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-14 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Monday 14 May 2007 09:25:12 'Michel Talon' wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:33:23AM +0100, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: > > > > converted INDEX > > into postgresSQL because I was playing around with making a message queue > > based approach - > > an

RE: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-14 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
> There is a > reason why people have been discussing this for ten years without > getting anywhere. > I suspect that is because that by and large the ports system works ;-) - Having Played around with a couple of Linux distributions - my impression is that "ports" offers a much more manageable

RE: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
> > The second point is most important here. This whole thread exists > because people consider the existing ports system to be too slow. How > is using XML going to help with that at all? > But which part? The /var half of the equation - well that depends on the operation - Lookup? E.g

RE: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
> On Sunday, 13 May 2007 at 17:04:20 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:00:46PM +0100, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: > > > > > The answer is another INDEX/storage structure > > > > Great, I look forward to your detailed proposal. > > > &

RE: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
> On Sunday 13 May 2007 23:00, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: > > The on-disk format seems to be the wrong angle on the issue - The > > current structure Works well - but it has a number of drawbacks - > > however it no way clear whether that The answer is another > > INDEX/

RE: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
> FYI, "Using XML" and other buzzword-compliance is not currently on the > table either. Let's all try to maintain some focus, OK? > Well - I now heard the SQL buzzword quite a bit ;-) - but whatever - No matter what angle I take on the register/make INDEX timing issues they are insignificant

RE: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
ion - then people can use SQL/ flat files / existing structures But the tools we still only need one common interface to XML > -Original Message- > From: Benjamin Lutz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 May 2007 19:42 > To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Cc: Thomas

Re: DPS Initial Ideas

2007-05-13 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Sunday 13 May 2007 11:37:57 Peter Jeremy wrote: > > The options I can see are: > - Ignore the existence of INDEX - which makes computing dependencies > very time consuming > - Fully rebuild INDEX via "make describe" whenever you update any ports > - this takes of the order of an hour > - F

RE: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests

2007-03-29 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
That is puzzling - I running using on a Nvidia Nforce 590 SLI based machine with no problems using Raid - Mind you this Dell implementation uses only Raid0 - What release are you running? - I have had success With both 6.2, 7.0-Current and AMD-6.2 and AMD-7.0 - On the 64bit there was issues with th

Re: Ralink driver and FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-02-21 Thread Thomas David Rivers
> > A couple of things. > > - The newer rt2661.c driver has not been MFC'd to 6.2. That is most > likely why your card is not working. > - 'ifconfig' when run as root will load the module for a network > driver provided it is a) in the path and b) name if_ name>.ko > >-Kip >

Re: Ralink driver and FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-02-20 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Forent Thoumie wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 23:05 -0500, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > I've got a Dell Dimension 4100 (circa 2000) running FreeBSD 6.2. > > > > I plugged in a Linksys WMP54G wireless PCI card, which should > > be supported by the &#

Linksys WMP54G + ndis = panic

2007-02-20 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Well - I gave up on the ral(4) driver - seems it doesn't support the WMP54Gv4.1 linksys card. So - I've got ndis working. I can ifconfig ndis0, set the ssid and wepkey, etc... And - DHCP will get the wireless configured (IP address, default route, etc...) But - on the first packet after that (

Ralink driver and FreeBSD 6.2?

2007-02-20 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I've got a Dell Dimension 4100 (circa 2000) running FreeBSD 6.2. I plugged in a Linksys WMP54G wireless PCI card, which should be supported by the 'ral' driver. However, my pciconf says: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:9:0: class=0x028000 card=0x00551737 chip=0x03011814 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor =

Weird behaviours with SATA DVD Drives

2007-02-11 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
p Regards Thomas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ollecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2006-08-07 Thread Thomas Hurst
> I see there is a tunable for tweaking, but I'm not certain what I'm > really tweaking. Any hints or guidelines? PV entries are related to the amount of memory that's shared between processes. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-May/000695.html explains a b

Re: FLEX, was Re: Return value of malloc(0)

2006-06-29 Thread Thomas David Rivers
"Randall Hyde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > BTW, if anyone is intrested in the full FLEX source, it's part of the HLA > (High Level Assembler) source package found here: > > > http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AsmTools/HLA/HLAv1.84/hlasrc.zip > Just wondering if those guys knew that IBM calls their mainfra

Re: Kernel Fatal Trap 12

2006-04-19 Thread Thomas SOETE
when the isp router restart :-/ I'll continue to test the hardware Thanks to Kris & Steve -- Thomas SOETE Etudiant Ingénieur Télécom - Enic Télécom Lille 1 Etudiant Master Recherche, Conception de Systèmes Embarqués - LIFL WWW : http://toms.netcv.org/ Mail & MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Kernel Fatal Trap 12

2006-04-19 Thread Thomas SOETE
Hum, is there a way to have a little idea of which hardware begun to fail ? -- Thomas SOETE Etudiant Ingénieur Télécom - Enic Télécom Lille 1 Etudiant Master Recherche, Conception de Systèmes Embarqués - LIFL WWW : http://toms.netcv.org/ Mail & MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GTalk : [EMAIL PROTE

Kernel Fatal Trap 12

2006-04-19 Thread Thomas SOETE
n ? If you could help me to find why my gateway crash allmost each time the adsl connection drop it'll be nice :) Thanks, -- Thomas SOETE Etudiant Ingénieur Télécom - Enic Télécom Lille 1 Etudiant Master Recherche, Conception de Systèmes Embarqués - LIFL WWW : http://toms.netcv.org/ M

Re: SB Live 7.1 soundcard trouble

2005-12-06 Thread Thomas Karpiniec
to compile then install as a .deb package, but I can testify that this is the only way I have ever seen that has given me seamless sound (currently using eSound daemon) completely OS-wide. Good luck & regards, Thomas K ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.or

Re: Backup methodes

2005-11-08 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Carlos Silva aka |Danger_Man| ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > what is the best method to backup network information and local disk > information with another disk? dump/restore performs snapshotted incremental backups of complete filesystems. -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst

flock() returns EHOSTUNREACH on 5.3 with 4.5 NFS server

2005-10-05 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I'm applying flock() to a file that is on an NFS server. The program calling flock() is built on a 4.5 system, with the 4.5 libraries, etc... The NFS server is a 4.5-RELEASE system. The program running on a 4.5-release system doesn't display any problems. But - when I run that same program o

Re: Ancient FreeBSD releases online

2005-07-03 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Sunday 03 July 2005 10:05, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Fedt - Jeg tror at jeg stadigvaek har nogle of de originale CD'er - > ftp://phk.freebsd.dk > > ./386BSD/cd1.iso > ./BSD4.4-LITE/cover.pnm > ./BSD4.4-LITE/cd1.iso > ./BSD4.4-LITE/cd2.iso > ./BSD4.4-LITE/cd3.iso >

Re: Debugging UMA allocation

2005-06-05 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Sunday 05 June 2005 13:17, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: Ok - After a hand held trace - here are what happens In the call to uma_zcreate for the "PROC" object the slab_zalloc ends up being called twice - it in turn calls vm_map_lock and establishes the first time a exclusive sleep mu

Re: Debugging UMA allocation

2005-06-05 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Sunday 05 June 2005 12:31, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: Ups - two useless files included - please ignore the plugins.txt and the dmesg - it should have been > Hi > > One of the changes introduced after the 27/05 causes a panic in the initial > boot phases in the > > The panic

Debugging UMA allocation

2005-06-05 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
Hi One of the changes introduced after the 27/05 causes a panic in the initial boot phases in the The panic occurs on my Dell Lattitude C640 when using both my own kernel and the GENERIC kernel. The panic is _mtx_lock_sleep: Recursed on non-recursive mutex in system map I have traced the t

Re: mergemaster improvement (auto-update for not modified files)

2005-05-04 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 06:38, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > The technical reasons are very simple. If a new system call is > created, and programs use that new system call, then if you do an > installworld before you boot the kernel, that can result in binaries > not working. This has happened with

Re: ATAPICAM for ATA-MKIII

2005-03-31 Thread Thomas Quinot
t that this weekend. Thomas. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Libre Software Meeting 2005 : Call for contributions

2005-03-05 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
Volunteers should contact Thomas Petazzoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Ludovic Courtès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> by June 2005. Speakers are encouraged to write a small paper (6 to 12 A4 sheets) summarizing their presentation (in an open format such as PostScript or PDF). Ludovic Courtès and Thom

Re: RFC: backporting GEOM to the 4.x branch

2005-02-28 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Monday 28 February 2005 00:15, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Roland Dowdeswell wrote: > > [ cc'ing [EMAIL PROTECTED], because there has been talk > > of GBDE there in the past.] > > So what? If the write fails in the middle, reading sector will just > produce garbage. I don't think that it's differen

Re: List of fake vs. real SATA drives.

2004-11-22 Thread Thomas Wolf
computer. Ah, please tell me more about it, is this a ST3120827AS? (I would need the exact PartNo.) What controller dou you have and finally, on which version of FreeBSD? Many thanks in advance Thomas -- Thomas Wolf Wiener Software Fabrik Dubas u. Wolf GMBH 1050 Wien, Mittersteig 4 ___

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-06 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Wednesday 06 October 2004 02:31, Matthew Dillon wrote: The university I used to work for had something like it and it got 99% of the cases > Yow. 78 messages and counting. Er, 79 now. I'll bet poor Giorgos > wishes he never started this thread! Get ready. get set DIVE! >

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-03 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
A simple and pragmatic solution is to use alias in what ever shell you are using e.g. alias rm to rm -i. There used to be a simple "delete" command or script that basically moved all files into a ".deleted" directory insted of actually deleting the files - From a practical point of view it does

Re: Protection from the dreaded "rm -fr /"

2004-10-02 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Everyone, If I'm remembering correctly - the historical way to do this is to alias the "rm" command to something that else that checks the arguments and complains appropriately (and then executes /bin/rm.) Typically with just a shell alias. That keeps you from accidently doing something.

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-07 Thread Thomas Moestl
accesses needed in each iterations, that may already be the cause of such a delay. I have no hardware to test this, so all of the above is just a wild- assed guess; but maybe it is of use (and sorry for the spam if it is not). - Thomas -- Thomas Moestl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ht

Re: Squid, SquidGuard, FreeBSD

2004-05-01 Thread Thomas-Martin Seck
* Ed Stover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers]: > Has any one successfully done squid with squidGuard on a FreeBSD later then > 4.5 ? I have made it work on 4.5 but nothing later because of the berkly db > changes after 4.5, if you have made contentent filtering work on > FreeBSD

Chance for FreeBSD ADSM/TSM client from Tivoli/IBM

2004-03-31 Thread thomas mayr
clients. > [..] We , Leopold-Franzens-Universitaet Innsbruck Institut of Computer Science, use TSM for our backups. A FreeBSD client would help us _very_ much. We currently have 5 BSD Servers that need to be backupped, with more expected. best regards and many thanks, thomas mayr -- Thomas

custom sysctls

2004-03-20 Thread Thomas Wolf
ing, CTLFLAG_RW, &something, sizeof(something), "Some useful info"); /* - */ Build with the following Makefile: KMOD= wsf_sysctl SRCS= wsf_sysctl.c NOMAN= CFLAGS+= -I${.CURDIR}/.. .include Thank you for any comment

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 v/s FreeBSD 4.9 MFLOPS performance (gcc3.3.3 v/s gcc2.9.5)

2004-02-16 Thread Thomas Moestl
nately that would require changes to crt1, so it would pose a compatibility problem. - Thomas -- Thomas Moestl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0015675/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tmm/ "Oh, great altar of passive entertai

Broadcom 440x

2003-12-16 Thread Thomas G. Knight
I saw that you had posted a message regarding the Broadcom 440x drivers. I was just wondering if you ever found a driver and if so where at? Thanks for any info Thomas Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

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