Lazy SPLs

1999-05-20 Thread Tommy Hallgren
Hi! I'm reading http://www.BSDI.COM/products/internet/40-qna.mhtml#Q5 and found the following peice of text: "Lazy SPLs - The kernel no longer masks hardware events unless a hardware event actually occurs, avoiding many expensive operations." Does anyone know what this is? Also, maybe a related

Re: c9x (new ANSI C)

1999-05-20 Thread Bob Bishop
At 5:08 pm -0500 19/5/99, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: >[...] >I just downloaded it, and thought I'd share the fact with you - anyone >interested in the upcoming changes to ISO C may want to download it now as >well. >Get the text version as the pdf version appears corrupt. Text, PostScript and PDF ar

Re: Lazy SPLs

1999-05-20 Thread Peter Wemm
Tommy Hallgren wrote: > Hi! > > I'm reading http://www.BSDI.COM/products/internet/40-qna.mhtml#Q5 and found t he > following peice of text: > > "Lazy SPLs - The kernel no longer masks hardware events unless a hardware eve nt > actually occurs, avoiding many expensive operations." > > Doe

Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-20 Thread The Tech-Admin Dude
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I could add another one, top(1) frequently does that on this machine.. so whatever answers you get, be sure to forward them to me :). On Wed, 19 May 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > These programs are mostly tin and lynx and such interactive programs.

Re: boot troubles in 3.1

1999-05-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Sergey Babkin wrote: > > Hi! > > I have tried to install 3.1 on two machines but on both of > them I was not able to boot it after installation. The > 3.0-snapshot from May-98 worked fine on both of them. > But 3.1 did not boot. First, the MBR boot manager was not able to > boot any partition, no

Dumb IP alias confusion.

1999-05-20 Thread Chuck Youse
I didn't notice this until recently, but on our production web servers I use IP aliasing to host multiple sites on one box. Pretty normal stuff. Here's an ifconfig on one of these boxes: xl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 208.156.59.51 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 208.156.59.255 inet

Re: Dumb IP alias confusion.

1999-05-20 Thread Benjamin Gavin
Hi, You need to either set the netmask of the alias address to 255.255.255.255, or add a manual route statement: route add 127.1 That will do it. Then you will be able to get to the alias address from the aliased machine. On a side note: 1. Does anyone know how to get this same thing to

Database holywars?

1999-05-20 Thread Dan Moschuk
Greetings, I've taken up a project that will rely very heavily on remote database access. Naturally, the choice as to which database engine to use is a crucial one. I'd like to stay away from the commercial database suites (i.e. Oracle) for the time being, however I will eventually move to i

Re: Database holywars?

1999-05-20 Thread Chuck Robey
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Dan Moschuk wrote: > > Greetings, > > I've taken up a project that will rely very heavily on remote database > access. Naturally, the choice as to which database engine to use is a > crucial one. > > I'd like to stay away from the commercial database suites (i.e. Oracle

Re: timeconsuming processes on FreeBSD 3.1

1999-05-20 Thread Steven Young
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Andre Rikkert de Koe wrote: > We are an ISP and we recently installed FreeBSD 3.1 on our main > logonserver. Since than almost every day we find timeconsuming processes > running while the user isn't even logged in (anymore). These programs are I believe the easiest solutio

Re: Database holywars?

1999-05-20 Thread Dan Moschuk
| > I'd like to stay away from the commercial database suites (i.e. Oracle) for | > the time being, however I will eventually move to it once the database grows | > to over 100M records. In the meantime however, I'm debating heavily between | > MySQL and Berkeley DB with a multi-threaded socket f

Re: netbooting a freebsd kernel with 3c905B (fwd)

1999-05-20 Thread Doug Ambrisko
amo...@allstor-sw.co.uk writes: | Doug Ambrisko came up with some patches, you can find an early version | attached to PR 9480, there may be more recent versions around now. I need to update it to the latest version. Another one just came out and I see some more 905b bugs fixes are in. However,

REQ: Review inetd internal wrapping fix

1999-05-20 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, I'm looking for feedback on the fix that is attached to PR 11651, which I believe fixes wrapping for inetd's internal services. I found the code quite intense, so I'm not entirely convinced that my approach is sound. Thanks, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.or

What does VOP_WHITEOUT() do?

1999-05-20 Thread Zhihui Zhang
Can anyone tell me what does VOP_WHITEOUT() do? I can not find it in the hypertext manual pages. Thanks. -- Zhihui Zhang. Please visit http://www.freebsd.org -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majo

Re: Database holywars?

1999-05-20 Thread Chuck Robey
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Dan Moschuk wrote: > > | > I'd like to stay away from the commercial database suites (i.e. Oracle) > for > | > the time being, however I will eventually move to it once the database > grows > | > to over 100M records. In the meantime however, I'm debating heavily > betwee

Re: Database holywars?

1999-05-20 Thread Pedro J. Lobo
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Dan Moschuk wrote: > >Greetings, > >I've taken up a project that will rely very heavily on remote database >access. Naturally, the choice as to which database engine to use is a >crucial one. > >I'd like to stay away from the commercial database suites (i.e. Oracle) for >t

Re: Database holywars?

1999-05-20 Thread Chuck Robey
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Pedro J. Lobo wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 1999, Dan Moschuk wrote: > > > > >Greetings, > > > >I've taken up a project that will rely very heavily on remote database > >access. Naturally, the choice as to which database engine to use is a > >crucial one. > > > >I'd like to sta

Re: Database holywars?

1999-05-20 Thread Dan Moschuk
| ¿Have you considered PostgreSQL? It is on the ports collection, and is a | heavy duty database engine, with transactions, subqueries (only partial | support), etc. Version 6.5 will be released in about two weeks, and it | adds MVCC (multi-version concurrency control), which will improve a lot |

error 6: panic : cannot mount root(2) with PicoBSD current

1999-05-20 Thread Roger Hardiman
Help I'm trying to get the PicoBSD code on -current compiling again as it has got a bit stale. But I get a kernel Panic. I brought the kernel config files up to date. Booting with the 'dial' disk (build without ssh) panics with error 6: panic: cannot mount root (2) This comes just ater the s

Re: Database holywars?

1999-05-20 Thread Chuck Robey
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Dan Moschuk wrote: > > | ¿Have you considered PostgreSQL? It is on the ports collection, and is a > | heavy duty database engine, with transactions, subqueries (only partial > | support), etc. Version 6.5 will be released in about two weeks, and it > | adds MVCC (multi-versio

Re: Database holywars?

1999-05-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
:| ¿Have you considered PostgreSQL? It is on the ports collection, and is a :| heavy duty database engine, with transactions, subqueries (only partial :| support), etc. Version 6.5 will be released in about two weeks, and it :| adds MVCC (multi-version concurrency control), which will improve a lo

PNP Soundcards w/ diskless booting.

1999-05-20 Thread Greg Skafte
I'm using /usr/ports/net/etherboot, to boot diskless workstations. Everything is working quite well. Now some of the stations need sound, and there are an abundancy of pnp soundcards that workfine, but with the network boot I'm immediately in the kernel, no cli to config the PNP. Now if I inc

Re: Lazy SPLs

1999-05-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Tommy Hallgren wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm reading http://www.BSDI.COM/products/internet/40-qna.mhtml#Q5 and found > > t > he > > following peice of text: > > > > "Lazy SPLs - The kernel no longer masks hardware events unless a hardware > > eve >

Re: PNP Soundcards w/ diskless booting.

1999-05-20 Thread Mike Smith
> I'm using /usr/ports/net/etherboot, to boot diskless workstations. > Everything is working quite well. > > Now some of the stations need sound, and there are an abundancy of pnp > soundcards that workfine, but with the network boot I'm immediately in the > kernel, no cli to config the PNP. >

Cyclom Ye panics 3.1's SMP kernel

1999-05-20 Thread msb
Subject: Cyclades Cyclom-Ye panics with 3.1's SMP Sent:5/20/99 3:33 PM To: freebsd-...@freebsd.com freebsd-hack...@freebsd.com SUMMARY: My cyclades cyclom-Ye panics the kernel when I am running with release-3.1's smp options. Turning off SMP allows the card to

Re: c9x (new ANSI C)

1999-05-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message <19990519180151.a...@whizkidtech.net> "G. Adam Stanislav" writes: : And the MS book was outright lying (gee, surprise): It claimed that : one of the biggest advantages of C++ over C is that if you change : the C++ class, you need not recompile the code using it. What a : piece of bunk. I

Re: c9x (new ANSI C)

1999-05-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message <199905192354.taa17...@whizzo.transsys.com> "Louis A. Mamakos" writes: : Truly and example of the "less is more" concept in action. I've done : some non-trivial development in Objective-C, and I can assure you that : I haven't missed C++'s operator overloading. That's one failing of

Re: error 6: panic : cannot mount root(2) with PicoBSD current

1999-05-20 Thread John Birrell
Roger Hardiman wrote: > Help > > I'm trying to get the PicoBSD code on -current compiling again > as it has got a bit stale. But I get a kernel Panic. > > > I brought the kernel config files up to date. Booting > with the 'dial' disk (build without ssh) panics with > > error 6: panic: cannot

Re: What does VOP_WHITEOUT() do?

1999-05-20 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Zhihui Zhang: > Can anyone tell me what does VOP_WHITEOUT() do? I can not find it in the > hypertext manual pages. You can find a small documentation in the 4.4BSD daemon book. It is used when stacking filesystems (especially unionfs). Imagine you have 2 FS mounted on above the oth

Re: What does VOP_WHITEOUT() do?

1999-05-20 Thread Chuck Youse
New daemon book? I must have missed that. Do you have the full title? Chuck -Original Message- From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thursday, May 20, 1999 5:32 PM Subject: Re: What does VOP_WHITEOUT() do? >According to Zhihui Zhang: >> Can anyone tell me what d

Re: What does VOP_WHITEOUT() do?

1999-05-20 Thread R. Matthew Emerson
"Chuck Youse" writes: > New daemon book? > I must have missed that. Do you have the full title? McKusick, Bostic, Karels, and Quarterman, The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4 -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to ma

Re: What does VOP_WHITEOUT() do?

1999-05-20 Thread Chuck Youse
Oh, nevermind. I must have misinterpreted the previous post. I thought that a _newer_ book had arrived. Chuck -Original Message- From: R. Matthew Emerson To: Chuck Youse Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thursday, May 20, 1999 6:11 PM Subject: Re: What does VOP_WHITEOUT() do? >

Re: What does VOP_WHITEOUT() do?:

1999-05-20 Thread David Scheidt
On 20 May 1999, R. Matthew Emerson wrote: :"Chuck Youse" writes: :> New daemon book? :> I must have missed that. Do you have the full title? :McKusick, Bostic, Karels, and Quarterman, The Design and Implementation :of the 4.4BSD Operating System, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1996. :ISBN 0-201-549

Re: PNP Soundcards w/ diskless booting.

1999-05-20 Thread Greg Skafte
this has got it THANKS Quoting Eivind Eklund (eiv...@freebsd.org) On Subject: Re: PNP Soundcards w/ diskless booting. Date: Fri, May 21, 1999 at 01:35:08AM +0200 > On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:21:10PM -0600, Greg Skafte wrote: > > I'm using /usr/ports/net/etherboot, to boot diskless works

Re: Lazy SPLs

1999-05-20 Thread Joel Ray Holveck
>>> "Lazy SPLs - The kernel no longer masks hardware events unless a >>> hardware event actually occurs, avoiding many expensive >>> operations." >> We've been doing it for as long as I can remember, at least as far >> back as 2.0.5, probably as far back as 1.x. > My earliest memory of it was as "B

Re: Lazy SPLs

1999-05-20 Thread Mike Smith
> >>> "Lazy SPLs - The kernel no longer masks hardware events unless a > >>> hardware event actually occurs, avoiding many expensive > >>> operations." > >> We've been doing it for as long as I can remember, at least as far > >> back as 2.0.5, probably as far back as 1.x. > > My earliest memory of

RE: Lazy SPLs

1999-05-20 Thread Constantine Shkolnyy
On Thursday, May 20, 1999 7:18 PM, Joel Ray Holveck [SMTP:jo...@gnu.org] wrote: > >>> "Lazy SPLs - The kernel no longer masks hardware events unless a > >>> hardware event actually occurs, avoiding many expensive > >>> operations." > >> We've been doing it for as long as I can remember, at least a

Humour: Microsoft Announces Improved "Blue Screen of Death"

1999-05-20 Thread Julian Elischer
Newswire 5/12/99 --- Microsoft Announces Improved BSOD In a surprise announcement today, Microsoft President Steve Ballmer revealed that the Redmond based company will allow computer resellers and end-users to customize th

Re: c9x (new ANSI C)

1999-05-20 Thread G. Adam Stanislav
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:41:37PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <19990519180151.a...@whizkidtech.net> "G. Adam Stanislav" writes: > : And the MS book was outright lying (gee, surprise): It claimed that > : one of the biggest advantages of C++ over C is that if you change > : the C++ class

Re: dlopen failure

1999-05-20 Thread John Polstra
In article <373c3f3f.a99db...@cablenet.net>, Damian Hamill wrote: > I have a program that is dumping core. > > --- > Here's the gdb output; > > Program terminated with signal 6, Abort trap. > #0 0x800b728 in _kill () > (gdb) bt > #0 0x800b728 in _

pthread_cancel ?

1999-05-20 Thread Pascal Hofstee
Hi, I am currently having the author of the SDL-library on my box trying to cook up a port of the SDL-library for FreeBSD. SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) is the library used by Loki Software to build CIV:CTP As I have seen now the entire library works perfectly ;-) except for one thing Fre