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Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-11 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Julian Elischer wrote: > Does anyone KNOW of these working under the > new drivers? What about setup? They are supported by the ATA driver, setup as usual, ie none they just work... > I've seen plenty about people failing (in 98-99) > to get tehm going but the archives are silent on th

one ups, many machines

2000-06-11 Thread Leif Neland
How does handle it when one ups drives many machines? Wire the ports in parallel, and have an ups-daemon on each? Or just connect the ups port to one machine, and have this send a message to the others when the power is failing? And after a suitable time, turn off the ups regardless if the main

RE: one ups, many machines

2000-06-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 11-Jun-00 Leif Neland wrote: > How does handle it when one ups drives many machines? Use the NUT port.. /usr/ports/sysutils/nut/ Last I looked it was a little unpolished, but the basic framework is there to have a single UPS work for multiple machines. --- Daniel O'Connor software and netw

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2000-06-11 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
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Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-11 Thread Mike Smith
> Does anyone KNOW of these working under the > new drivers? What about setup? > I've seen plenty about people failing (in 98-99) > to get tehm going but the archives are silent on the topic > after that period. The hardware support lists don't mention > them either. They work OK, but you need t

Re: What, exactly, does this mean?

2000-06-11 Thread Dave Hayes
Kelly Yancey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you up PMAP_SHPGPERPROC, you increase the number of > pv_entries created at boot time. However, I am not informed enough > to say how high you can safely increase PMAP_SHPGPERPROC. What is the upper bound related to? What are the dangers in increasing

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-11 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mike Smith wrote: > > Does anyone KNOW of these working under the > > new drivers? What about setup? > > I've seen plenty about people failing (in 98-99) > > to get tehm going but the archives are silent on the topic > > after that period. The hardware support lists don't mention > > the

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-11 Thread Mike Smith
> It seems Mike Smith wrote: > > > Does anyone KNOW of these working under the > > > new drivers? What about setup? > > > I've seen plenty about people failing (in 98-99) > > > to get tehm going but the archives are silent on the topic > > > after that period. The hardware support lists don't men

Re: What, exactly, does this mean?

2000-06-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Dave Hayes wrote: > Kelly Yancey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you up PMAP_SHPGPERPROC, you increase the number of > > pv_entries created at boot time. However, I am not informed enough > > to say how high you can safely increase PMAP_SHPGPERPROC. > > What is the upper

Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread David Gilbert
I'm running a 700Mhz K7 with 256M of RAM as my workstation. I have two fast SCSI drives with a Gig of swap between them. The system shouldn't normally be a bottleneck as a workstation. I find, however, that there seem to be some bad worst-case senerios popping up rather often. Netscape is a go

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I'm running a 700Mhz K7 with 256M of RAM as my workstation. I have :two fast SCSI drives with a Gig of swap between them. The system :shouldn't normally be a bottleneck as a workstation. : :I find, however, that there seem to be some bad worst-case senerios :popping up rather often. :...

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread David Gilbert
> "Matthew" == Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> :Now the application in question (Netscape) usually runs Matthew> around 50 to :75 megs, so that swapping activity is Matthew> effectively swapping an amount Matthew> 50-75MB is a lot, but if you have 256MB of ram it can'

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Believe me, I look at these things. Yes there is a lot going on and a :lot using memory. I normally have about 20% to 25% of my Gig of swap :used... meaning that I have allocated roughly double my RAM in :applications. : :And when this worst-case happens, memory is full... but the only :active

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread Kent Stewart
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :Believe me, I look at these things. Yes there is a lot going on and a > :lot using memory. I normally have about 20% to 25% of my Gig of swap > :used... meaning that I have allocated roughly double my RAM in > :applications. > : > :And when this worst-case happens,

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread Brian Hechinger
Kent Stewart drunkenly mumbled... > > Netscape reallys goes to pot in a hurry if you allow it to use more > than 1-2MB of memory cache. A friend was seeing a terrible response > and tracked it back to Netscape's memory cache. He had a lot of memory > and started out with something on the order of

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-11 Thread Julian Elischer
Mike Smith wrote: > > > Does anyone KNOW of these working under the > > new drivers? What about setup? > > I've seen plenty about people failing (in 98-99) > > to get tehm going but the archives are silent on the topic > > after that period. The hardware support lists don't mention > > them eithe

getting the kernel environment?

2000-06-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
How does one get the environment passed from the loader to the kernel from userland? Yes, I see the sysctl_kernenv in kern_environment.c, but I'm having trouble decyphering as how to use it. thanks, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in th

Re: getting the kernel environment?

2000-06-11 Thread Mike Smith
> How does one get the environment passed from the loader to the > kernel from userland? > > Yes, I see the sysctl_kernenv in kern_environment.c, but I'm having > trouble decyphering as how to use it. Use the sysctl lookup function to get the OID for kern.environment, then tack an integer on th

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread David Scheidt
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Brian Hechinger wrote: :Kent Stewart drunkenly mumbled... :> :> Netscape reallys goes to pot in a hurry if you allow it to use more :> than 1-2MB of memory cache. A friend was seeing a terrible response :> and tracked it back to Netscape's memory cache. He had a lot of memor