Re: xl driver for 3Com

1999-05-29 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> wonderful! You know, I should use that myself! "Hey Bill: my network > crashed." "Well, there's probably something you could do to fix that > but I don't know the details." Yes! I like it! Instead of trying to help > people, I'll be maddeningly vague! I'll pretend to be helpful but stop You hav

Possible race in pipe device driver, esp on multi-cpu machines.

1999-05-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
A friend of mine upgraded one of his machines to a duel-cpu box and upgraded the OS to -STABLE, and he noticed that his backups were being corrupted. The corruption appears to occur when he transfers huge gzip'd tar files over a 100BaseTX network: rsh remote -n "cat remote

Re: xl driver for 3Com

1999-05-29 Thread Bob Bishop
At 1:40 am -0400 29/5/99, Bill Paul wrote: >[...] Yes! I like it! Instead of trying to help >people, I'll be maddeningly vague! I'll pretend to be helpful but stop >short of actually providing any useful information! Then everyone else >will go insane instead of me, society will collapse, and I can

PNP card info needed

1999-05-29 Thread Doug Rabson
Could anyone with any ISA plug-and-play cards, especially soundcards which currently work with FreeBSD (or which used to work prior to the new-bus merge) please send me the output of /usr/sbin/pnpinfo. I need to know all the device ids for the new-bus isapnp code. Thanks in advance. -- Doug Rabso

Re: proposed socket change (IPFW too? :)

1999-05-29 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> I'd like to propose a change in struct socket, which should increase its > functionality. It should first be noted that, along with my IPFW UID/GID > code (which would be nice to have merged into HEAD too, and if I must, I'll > clean up the ugly switch part), I included this change. Implementat

Re: PNP card info needed

1999-05-29 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> Could anyone with any ISA plug-and-play cards, especially soundcards which > currently work with FreeBSD (or which used to work prior to the new-bus > merge) please send me the output of /usr/sbin/pnpinfo. I need to know all > the device ids for the new-bus isapnp code. I have put the ones i hav

Re: PNP card info needed

1999-05-29 Thread Chris Costello
On Sat, May 29, 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > Could anyone with any ISA plug-and-play cards, especially soundcards which > currently work with FreeBSD (or which used to work prior to the new-bus > merge) please send me the output of /usr/sbin/pnpinfo. I need to know all > the device ids for the new-bu

Re: Multiproc kernel 3.1-Release & Cyclades Cyclom 8Yep PCI

1999-05-29 Thread Bruce Evans
>I commented out the SMP and FAST code, rebuilt the kernel from scratch and >the panic still occurs. Is there other code that should be disabled? Is >this fixed in 3.2? Why are there evil macro's in my computer? Why am I >asking so many questions? I committed a proper fix in /sys/i386/isa/cy.c

Re: FS tuning (Was: File system gets too fragmented ???)

1999-05-29 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 12:03:54AM -0500, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > How do people like to set up their filesystems these days? I've heard > of people who like one big fs (not generally usable anymore because of > the 1024 cyl limit), others who like the small root fs and one big fs > for everythin

Re: proposed socket change (IPFW too? :)

1999-05-29 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > I'd like to propose a change in struct socket, which should increase its > > functionality. It should first be noted that, along with my IPFW UID/GID > > code (which would be nice to have merged into HEAD too, and if I must, I'll > > clean up the ugly

Re: xl driver for 3Com

1999-05-29 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Bill Paul writes: > [...] Yes! I like it! Instead of trying to help > people, I'll be maddeningly vague! I'll pretend to be helpful but stop > short of actually providing any useful information! Then everyone else > will go insane instead of me, society will collapse, an

Re: FS tuning (Was: File system gets too fragmented ???)

1999-05-29 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Joel Ray Holveck writes: > About five minutes ago, I realized that one problem is that I recently > installed a new disk, and forgot to enable softupdates on it (doh!). > From the little I know, I don't quite understand why softupdates is a > tunefs parameter, instead of a mount flag. You shouldn

NFS problems in 2.x -- fixed in 3.x?

1999-05-29 Thread Ian Holland
In local.freebsd.hackers <199905262104.oaa09...@kithrup.com> you enscribed: > >>Yes, I was able to reproduce it. >> >>Client - FreeBSD 2.2.8-stable (PII-300Mhz) >> >>Server1 - Solaris 2.6 (UltraSparc 2) >>Server2 - FreeBSD 2.2.8 (P133 laptop) >> >>If I create a file on both servers as myself, size

Re: Algorithm used to delete part of a file

1999-05-29 Thread Brian Beattie
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > Thanks for your valuable information. This explains why I have not found > any routines in the files under /ufs/ffs and /ufs/ufs that re-organize the > on-disk image of a file in that way. If a middle part of a file is > deleted, then all the remaining

Re: PNP card info needed

1999-05-29 Thread Frank Nobis
> "Doug" == Doug Rabson writes: Doug> Could anyone with any ISA plug-and-play cards, especially Doug> soundcards which currently work with FreeBSD (or which used Doug> to work prior to the new-bus merge) please send me the Doug> output of /usr/sbin/pnpinfo. I need to know all

Re: xl driver for 3Com

1999-05-29 Thread Dennis
At 01:40 AM 5/29/99 -0400, you wrote: >Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Dennis had to >walk into mine and say: > >> I dunno what it is, but we've had customers experiencing packet loss at >> high usage on 100Mb's nets...and the problem goes away when replacing them >> with

Re: Possible race in pipe device driver, esp on multi-cpu machines.

1999-05-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
Here is a diff of one example of the corruption that is occuring which I believe to be a bug in the pipe device. This diff is out of a multi-hundred-megabyte file: staid# diff t3.cuthex t4.cuthex 86c86 < 0550 f7 7e f4 05 48 2f 28 ef 1f 9b b6 49 5d 76 f5 13 |.~..H/(I]v..| -

Re: Algorithm used to delete part of a file

1999-05-29 Thread Duncan Barclay
On 29-May-99 Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > Thanks for your valuable information. This explains why I have not found > any routines in the files under /ufs/ffs and /ufs/ufs that re-organize the > on-disk image of a file in that way. If a middle part of a file is > deleted, then all the remaining part of

Re: Algorithm used to delete part of a file

1999-05-29 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Duncan Barclay wrote: > Primarily the file system is a "block" orientated storage media where a > "block" > is the fragment size or a file system block. Addressing in the filesystem is > done on a block by block basis. As each block is a number of bytes we cannot > use byte a

Re: proposed socket change (IPFW too? :)

1999-05-29 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> It's only truly associative with the socket itself, if you think about it. > I'd like to see > what David thinks about this change, since networking is seemingly 'his' > where IPFW is > 'yours'. nothing is mine, and certainly not IPFW -- i merely added the dummynet hooks! > > On the ipfw side

Re: proposed socket change (IPFW too? :)

1999-05-29 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > It's only truly associative with the socket itself, if you think about it. > > I'd like to see > > what David thinks about this change, since networking is seemingly 'his' > > where IPFW is > > 'yours'. > > nothing is mine, and certainly not IPFW -- i

Re: symorder for FreeBSD-3.x

1999-05-29 Thread Mohit Aron
> > COFF? FreeBSD never supported COFF, to the best of my knowledge. > Sorry, should've said a.out. > You might want to take a look at objcopy(1). > I was interested in functionality given by 'symorder -c' that can localize all function and data definitions in an object file. objcopy() does

AMD PCnet - Home (AM79C978KC) (fwd)

1999-05-29 Thread Robert Watson
Forwarding this on to -hackers since -questions didn't seem to solicit much response. I've picked up two of the cards, but don't have the technical documentation for them so the best i can do is add them to the list of cards in the driver and have them probed appropriately. I'm in the process of

Re: FS tuning (Was: File system gets too fragmented ???)

1999-05-29 Thread Jacques Vidrine
On 29 May 1999 at 0:03, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: [snip] > How do people like to set up their filesystems these days? I've heard > of people who like one big fs (not generally usable anymore because of > the 1024 cyl limit), others who like the small root fs and one big fs > for everything else, an

Re: AMD PCnet - Home (AM79C978KC) (fwd)

1999-05-29 Thread Robert Swindells
>I recently heard about the "Diamond HomeFree" network cards that provide >an ethernet interface running on a traditional in-home phone system. They >supposedly situation an ethernet-style layer in one of the free frequency >ranges, and make use of an AMD chip to do this (mentioned in title). I

Re: Possible race in pipe device driver, esp on multi-cpu machines.

1999-05-29 Thread John S. Dyson
Matthew Dillon said: > > We are attempting to reproduce the problem with a smaller dataset, but > if anyone is hot on the pipe code in the kernel and can give it a > once-over > we may be able to find the bug more quickly. > After a quick code inspection (and I really don't remember

Re: xl driver for 3Com

1999-05-29 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Dennis had to walk into mine and say: > >Then *FIND THEM OUT*! Replacing the cards does not fix the problem! How > >is anybody supposed to be able to help you if a) you never tell anybody > >about the trouble, b) you destroy the test confi

PAM: Undefined symbols at runtime

1999-05-29 Thread Matthew Hunt
I have been running 3.x and 4.0-CURRENT for some time, but have never bothered using PAM. Yesterday, after a build of 4.0-CURRENT of that day, I decided to try enabling PAM by copying /usr/src/pam.conf to /etc. My problem is that login fails, due to undefined symbols in the PAM modules: May 28 2

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Re: proposed socket change (IPFW too? :)

1999-05-29 Thread David Greenman
>On Sat, 29 May 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > >> > I'd like to propose a change in struct socket, which should increase its >> > functionality. It should first be noted that, along with my IPFW UID/GID >> > code (which would be nice to have merged into HEAD too, and if I must, I'll >> > clean up the

Re: xl driver for 3Com

1999-05-29 Thread Jamie Bowden
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Bill Paul wrote: :So, tell me: just how many of you other people reading this have been :having problems with 'drivers under load' and couldn't be bothered to :actually report the problem? Hm? Well what're you waiting for?! Go on: :speak up! Take two minutes of your precious t