Re: Problem with FreeBSD

1999-09-16 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:06:59 MST, Mike Smith wrote: > > Actually, as with many such cases, the floppy disk driver turned out to > > be flakey. We resolved this via private mail. > > Driver, or drive? The BIOS is the driver at this point in time. Argh! Thanks. I meant the floppy drive. Ciao,

Re: does gdb on 3.3RC have thread support? (fwd)

1999-09-16 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > Thanks, I figured as much. I just thought I remember being told at one > > point that gdb's thread support on FreeBSD had improved. Given a choice > > between adding thread support to GDB myself and developing my application > > on NT, which by the wa

panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-16 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>>Number: 13721 >>Category: kern >>Synopsis: There is no way to force system panic from console [...] >>Release:FreeBSD 3.3-RC >>Organization: >Server >>Environment: >>Description: >Under some rare circumstances there is a real need to reboot system via kernel >'s panic

Re: High Performance I/O (more)

1999-09-16 Thread Christopher Sedore
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Christopher Sedore wrote: > > > My ideas for this are a little different than what I've seen proposed thus > > far, more along the lines of creating something that acts as both an event > > queue and a IOCP. Ideally this wo

pmake binaries for Solaris

1999-09-16 Thread Wolfram Schneider
I ported pmake to SunOS 5.5.1, 5.6, and 5.7. The port based on the FreeBSD-4.0-current make version from 9th September 1999. I successfully compiled pmake itself and the FreeBSD Web server. The binaries are available at http://www.de.freebsd.org/~wosch/src/pmake/ -- Wolfram Schneider http://wo

Re: pmake binaries for Solaris

1999-09-16 Thread bush doctor
Out of da blue Wolfram Schneider aka (wo...@cs.tu-berlin.de) said: > I ported pmake to SunOS 5.5.1, 5.6, and 5.7. The port based on the > FreeBSD-4.0-current make version from 9th September 1999. > > I successfully compiled pmake itself and the FreeBSD Web server. > > The binaries are available a

Re: kern/13075 (was: Re: aio_*)

1999-09-16 Thread Christopher Sedore
I filed a followup with a patch (against 4.x, but it will probably work just as well against 3.x, but I don't have a handy way to try it). -Chris On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > > The aio_* stuff (I use a custom patched

Re: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-16 Thread Warner Losh
In message <199909160948.saa02...@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Kazutaka YOKOTA writes: : case _PANIC_KEY_ : #if !defined(SC_DISABLE_REBOOT) && !defined(SC_DISABLE_PANIC) : if (securelevel <= 0) : panic(); : #endif : break; : : Any opinion

Re: pmake binaries for Solaris

1999-09-16 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, bush doctor wrote: > Out of da blue Wolfram Schneider aka (wo...@cs.tu-berlin.de) said: > > I ported pmake to SunOS 5.5.1, 5.6, and 5.7. The port based on the > > FreeBSD-4.0-current make version from 9th September 1999. > > > > I successfully compiled pmake itself and the Fr

cache-friendly scheduling for SMP

1999-09-16 Thread greg
I'm trying to run 1-2 processes with very large memory footprints on my P2 SMP machine. I'm finding that the process switches cpu's quite often, which obviously isn't good for the caches on the CPU. Can anybody point me to a paper, mailing list discussion, etc. that discusses scheduling proces

boston globe article....

1999-09-16 Thread Gregory_D_Moncreaff
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/business/Even_better_than_Linux+.shtm l To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: High Performance I/O (more)

1999-09-16 Thread Jayson Nordwick
>Events could also (I haven't thought this out, so please forgive me if >there's an obvious bugaboo here) return additional information about the >descriptor/whatever. One nice possibility would be outgoing buffer space >on sockets. This may or may not be worth the coding effort. > First, If y

Re: pmake binaries for Solaris

1999-09-16 Thread bush doctor
Out of da blue The Hermit Hacker aka (scra...@hub.org) said: > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, bush doctor wrote: > > > Out of da blue Wolfram Schneider aka (wo...@cs.tu-berlin.de) said: > > > I ported pmake to SunOS 5.5.1, 5.6, and 5.7. The port based on the > > > FreeBSD-4.0-current make version from 9th S

Re: boston globe article....

1999-09-16 Thread bush doctor
Out of da blue gregory_d_moncre...@res.raytheon.com aka (gregory_d_moncre...@res.raytheon.com) said: > http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/business/Even_better_than_Linux+.shtml Looks like that url should be ... http://www.boston.com/technology/plugged.shtml #:^) -- So ya want ta here

Re: cache-friendly scheduling for SMP

1999-09-16 Thread Keith Stevenson
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:25:52PM +, greg wrote: > I'm trying to run 1-2 processes with very large memory footprints on my P2 > SMP > machine. I'm finding that the process switches cpu's quite often, which > obviously isn't good for the caches on the CPU. > > Can anybody point me to a pap

Re: cache-friendly scheduling for SMP

1999-09-16 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Keith Stevenson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:25:52PM +, greg wrote: > > I'm trying to run 1-2 processes with very large memory footprints on my P2 > > SMP > > machine. I'm finding that the process switches cpu's quite often, which > > obviously isn't good for th

Re: kern/13075 (was: Re: aio_*)

1999-09-16 Thread Wes Peters
Christopher Sedore wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > Do you by any change have an idea how to fix PR kern/13075 > > (signal is not posted for async I/O on raw devices) > > Yes. There is no code to post the signal unless the job is of the lio > variety. Writing a fix

Re: kern/13075 (was: Re: aio_*)

1999-09-16 Thread Christopher Sedore
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Christopher Sedore wrote: > > > > On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > > Do you by any change have an idea how to fix PR kern/13075 > > > (signal is not posted for async I/O on raw devices) > > > > Yes. There is no code to post the sig

Re: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-16 Thread Doug
> As the originator suggested in his subsequent posting to the PR > database, we can defined "panic" key and handle it in syscons > as follows: Would not the 'panic' option in DDB be enough to handle this, or am I missing something? I'm not opposed to adding a panic() key combo, just wonde

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-16 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 10:51:13PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: > >Peter Wemm wrote: >> >>On newer motherboards, it's addressable on the SMB bus (along with >>the SIMMS, the LM78/LM75/etc, the embedded LM75 in the newer CPU, >>etc). Anyway, the newer devices are programmable to do things like >>the 4-

nuking a vnode

1999-09-16 Thread Nick Hibma
How do I nuke vnodes? This is the NetBSD code that needs to be emulated: /* locate the major number */ for (maj = 0; maj < nchrdev; maj++) if (cdevsw[maj].d_open == ulptopen) break; /* Nuke the vnodes for any open instances (calls c

Re: nuking a vnode

1999-09-16 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: > > How do I nuke vnodes? This is the NetBSD code that needs to be emulated: > > /* locate the major number */ > for (maj = 0; maj < nchrdev; maj++) > if (cdevsw[maj].d_open == ulptopen) > break; > >

Re: nuking a vnode

1999-09-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: > > How do I nuke vnodes? This is the NetBSD code that needs to be emulated: > > /* locate the major number */ > for (maj = 0; maj < nchrdev; maj++) > if (cdevsw[maj].d_open == ulptopen) > break; > >

Re: nuking a vnode

1999-09-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: > > > > > How do I nuke vnodes? This is the NetBSD code that needs to be emulated: > > > > /* locate the major number */ > > for (maj = 0; maj < nchrdev; maj++) > > if (cdev

Re: kern/13075 (was: Re: aio_*)

1999-09-16 Thread Wes Peters
Christopher Sedore wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Christopher Sedore wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > > > > Do you by any change have an idea how to fix PR kern/13075 > > > > (signal is not posted for async I/O on raw devices) > > >

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-16 Thread Takanori Watanabe
In message <19990916220426.04...@breizh.free.fr>, Nicolas Souchu wrote: >On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 10:51:13PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: >> >>Peter Wemm wrote: >>> >>>On newer motherboards, it's addressable on the SMB bus (along with >>>the SIMMS, the LM78/LM75/etc, the embedded LM75 in the newer CPU,

Re: Kernel debugging questions

1999-09-16 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 21 August 1999 at 15:37:40 +0200, Assar Westerlund wrote: > Zhihui Zhang writes: >> Thanks for your response. I can not think of those points myself. >> However, on page 7 of the book "Panic! Unix system crash dump analysis", >> it says that a debugger named kadb in SunOS can load th

TLB miss handler for alpha running FreeBSD-4.0

1999-09-16 Thread Mohit Aron
Hi, as I understand it, TLB misses on the alpha are handled by the software (as opposed to x86 where they are handled in hardware). Can someone help me with the FreeBSD code. I'm trying to locate the kernel code that implements the TLB handler. I'd appreciate if someone can tell me how the

Re: cache-friendly scheduling for SMP

1999-09-16 Thread Arun Sharma
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:25:52PM +, greg wrote: > Can anybody point me to a paper, mailing list discussion, etc. that discusses > scheduling processes to not thrash the cpu caches? Or if there's anything in > place, how I can take advantage of it, etc. I got stumped on the idea > a while

Re: Multiple NAT alias addresses

1999-09-16 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > - Trailing spaces and empty lines are ignored. > > - A `#' sign will mark the remaining of the line as a comment. > > > > Reviewed by:Ari Suutari > > > > Perhaps the parser is skipping my redirect_port lines? > > > Yeah, I committed this chang

Re: does gdb on 3.3RC have thread support? (fwd)

1999-09-16 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > Thanks, I figured as much. I just thought I remember being told at one > > point that gdb's thread support on FreeBSD had improved. Given a choice > > between adding thread support to GDB myself and developing my application > > on NT, which by the w

panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-16 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>>Number: 13721 >>Category: kern >>Synopsis: There is no way to force system panic from console [...] >>Release:FreeBSD 3.3-RC >>Organization: >Server >>Environment: >>Description: >Under some rare circumstances there is a real need to reboot system via kernel >'s pani

Re: High Performance I/O (more)

1999-09-16 Thread Christopher Sedore
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Christopher Sedore wrote: > > > My ideas for this are a little different than what I've seen proposed thus > > far, more along the lines of creating something that acts as both an event > > queue and a IOCP. Ideally this w

pmake binaries for Solaris

1999-09-16 Thread Wolfram Schneider
I ported pmake to SunOS 5.5.1, 5.6, and 5.7. The port based on the FreeBSD-4.0-current make version from 9th September 1999. I successfully compiled pmake itself and the FreeBSD Web server. The binaries are available at http://www.de.freebsd.org/~wosch/src/pmake/ -- Wolfram Schneider <[EMAIL P

Re: pmake binaries for Solaris

1999-09-16 Thread bush doctor
Out of da blue Wolfram Schneider aka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I ported pmake to SunOS 5.5.1, 5.6, and 5.7. The port based on the > FreeBSD-4.0-current make version from 9th September 1999. > > I successfully compiled pmake itself and the FreeBSD Web server. > > The binaries are available at >

Re: kern/13075 (was: Re: aio_*)

1999-09-16 Thread Christopher Sedore
I filed a followup with a patch (against 4.x, but it will probably work just as well against 3.x, but I don't have a handy way to try it). -Chris On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > > The aio_* stuff (I use a custom patched

Re: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-16 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kazutaka YOKOTA writes: : case _PANIC_KEY_ : #if !defined(SC_DISABLE_REBOOT) && !defined(SC_DISABLE_PANIC) : if (securelevel <= 0) : panic(); : #endif : break; : : Any opinions? I can see this being useful on

Re: pmake binaries for Solaris

1999-09-16 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, bush doctor wrote: > Out of da blue Wolfram Schneider aka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > I ported pmake to SunOS 5.5.1, 5.6, and 5.7. The port based on the > > FreeBSD-4.0-current make version from 9th September 1999. > > > > I successfully compiled pmake itself and the FreeB

cache-friendly scheduling for SMP

1999-09-16 Thread greg
I'm trying to run 1-2 processes with very large memory footprints on my P2 SMP machine. I'm finding that the process switches cpu's quite often, which obviously isn't good for the caches on the CPU. Can anybody point me to a paper, mailing list discussion, etc. that discusses scheduling proce

boston globe article....

1999-09-16 Thread Gregory_D_Moncreaff
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/business/Even_better_than_Linux+.shtm l To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: High Performance I/O (more)

1999-09-16 Thread Jayson Nordwick
>Events could also (I haven't thought this out, so please forgive me if >there's an obvious bugaboo here) return additional information about the >descriptor/whatever. One nice possibility would be outgoing buffer space >on sockets. This may or may not be worth the coding effort. > First, If

Re: pmake binaries for Solaris

1999-09-16 Thread bush doctor
Out of da blue The Hermit Hacker aka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, bush doctor wrote: > > > Out of da blue Wolfram Schneider aka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > > I ported pmake to SunOS 5.5.1, 5.6, and 5.7. The port based on the > > > FreeBSD-4.0-current make version from 9th Se

Re: boston globe article....

1999-09-16 Thread bush doctor
Out of da blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] aka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/business/Even_better_than_Linux+.shtml Looks like that url should be ... http://www.boston.com/technology/plugged.shtml #:^) -- So ya want ta here da roots? Dem that feels it knows it

Re: cache-friendly scheduling for SMP

1999-09-16 Thread Keith Stevenson
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:25:52PM +, greg wrote: > I'm trying to run 1-2 processes with very large memory footprints on my P2 SMP > machine. I'm finding that the process switches cpu's quite often, which > obviously isn't good for the caches on the CPU. > > Can anybody point me to a paper

Re: cache-friendly scheduling for SMP

1999-09-16 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Keith Stevenson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:25:52PM +, greg wrote: > > I'm trying to run 1-2 processes with very large memory footprints on my P2 SMP > > machine. I'm finding that the process switches cpu's quite often, which > > obviously isn't good for the ca

Re: kern/13075 (was: Re: aio_*)

1999-09-16 Thread Wes Peters
Christopher Sedore wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > Do you by any change have an idea how to fix PR kern/13075 > > (signal is not posted for async I/O on raw devices) > > Yes. There is no code to post the signal unless the job is of the lio > variety. Writing a fix

Re: kern/13075 (was: Re: aio_*)

1999-09-16 Thread Christopher Sedore
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Christopher Sedore wrote: > > > > On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > > Do you by any change have an idea how to fix PR kern/13075 > > > (signal is not posted for async I/O on raw devices) > > > > Yes. There is no code to post the si

Re: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: Thereis no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-16 Thread Doug
> As the originator suggested in his subsequent posting to the PR > database, we can defined "panic" key and handle it in syscons > as follows: Would not the 'panic' option in DDB be enough to handle this, or am I missing something? I'm not opposed to adding a panic() key combo, just wond

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-16 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 10:51:13PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: > >Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>On newer motherboards, it's addressable on the SMB bus (along with >>the SIMMS, the LM78/LM75/etc, the embedded LM75 in the newer CPU, >>etc). Anyway, the newer devices are programmable to do

nuking a vnode

1999-09-16 Thread Nick Hibma
How do I nuke vnodes? This is the NetBSD code that needs to be emulated: /* locate the major number */ for (maj = 0; maj < nchrdev; maj++) if (cdevsw[maj].d_open == ulptopen) break; /* Nuke the vnodes for any open instances (calls

Re: nuking a vnode

1999-09-16 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: > > How do I nuke vnodes? This is the NetBSD code that needs to be emulated: > > /* locate the major number */ > for (maj = 0; maj < nchrdev; maj++) > if (cdevsw[maj].d_open == ulptopen) > break; > >

Re: nuking a vnode

1999-09-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: > > How do I nuke vnodes? This is the NetBSD code that needs to be emulated: > > /* locate the major number */ > for (maj = 0; maj < nchrdev; maj++) > if (cdevsw[maj].d_open == ulptopen) > break; >

Re: nuking a vnode

1999-09-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: > > > > > How do I nuke vnodes? This is the NetBSD code that needs to be emulated: > > > > /* locate the major number */ > > for (maj = 0; maj < nchrdev; maj++) > > if (cde

Re: kern/13075 (was: Re: aio_*)

1999-09-16 Thread Wes Peters
Christopher Sedore wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Christopher Sedore wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > > > > Do you by any change have an idea how to fix PR kern/13075 > > > > (signal is not posted for async I/O on raw devices) > > >

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-16 Thread Takanori Watanabe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nicolas Souchu wrote: >On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 10:51:13PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: >> >>Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>On newer motherboards, it's addressable on the SMB bus (along with >>>the SIMMS, the LM78/LM75/etc, the embedded LM75 in the newer CP

Re: Kernel debugging questions

1999-09-16 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 21 August 1999 at 15:37:40 +0200, Assar Westerlund wrote: > Zhihui Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Thanks for your response. I can not think of those points myself. >> However, on page 7 of the book "Panic! Unix system crash dump analysis", >> it says that a debugger named kadb

TLB miss handler for alpha running FreeBSD-4.0

1999-09-16 Thread Mohit Aron
Hi, as I understand it, TLB misses on the alpha are handled by the software (as opposed to x86 where they are handled in hardware). Can someone help me with the FreeBSD code. I'm trying to locate the kernel code that implements the TLB handler. I'd appreciate if someone can tell me how th

Re: cache-friendly scheduling for SMP

1999-09-16 Thread Arun Sharma
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:25:52PM +, greg wrote: > Can anybody point me to a paper, mailing list discussion, etc. that discusses > scheduling processes to not thrash the cpu caches? Or if there's anything in > place, how I can take advantage of it, etc. I got stumped on the idea > a whil

Re: Multiple NAT alias addresses

1999-09-16 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > - Trailing spaces and empty lines are ignored. > > - A `#' sign will mark the remaining of the line as a comment. > > > > Reviewed by:Ari Suutari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Perhaps the parser is skipping my redirect_port lines? > > > Yeah, I

Re: nuking a vnode

1999-09-16 Thread Nick Hibma
> int major; > dev_t dev; > struct vnode *vp; > > major = ultp_cdevsw.d_maj; > dev = makedev(major, self->dv_unit) > vp = SLIST_FIRST(&dev->si_hlist); if (vfinddev(dev, VCHR, &vp)) VOP_REVOKE(vp, REVOKEALL); #if 0 > if (vp) { > VOP_REVOKE(vp. REVOKEALL); > } #endif > re