Re: "iowait" CPU state

2000-11-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any reason top couldn't add these up and report a %iowait > like Solaris'? Yes. It would conceal valuable information. Do the adding up in your head. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Help writing a screen saver module

2000-11-10 Thread Graham Wheeler
Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Nov 07), Dag-Erling Smorgrav said: > > Graham Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am trying to write a screen saver module that, when it kicks in, > > > will switch to the first console, and then, if a key is pressed, > > > will switch back to th

Re: printf()

2000-11-10 Thread opentrax
On 9 Nov, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Zhenhai Duan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001109 21:09] wrote: >> A simple question: >> >> Does the kernel function printf() flushes the output immediately, or it is >> possible some data is buffered somewhere and gets lost without printing >> to the console? like

Re: printf()

2000-11-10 Thread Mike Smith
> >> Does the kernel function printf() flushes the output immediately, or it is > >> possible some data is buffered somewhere and gets lost without printing > >> to the console? like the corresponding funtion in the c library. > > > > It's not buffered afaik. > > > Actually my experince in writi

Re: printf()

2000-11-10 Thread opentrax
On 10 Nov, Mike Smith wrote: >> >> Does the kernel function printf() flushes the output immediately, or it is >> >> possible some data is buffered somewhere and gets lost without printing >> >> to the console? like the corresponding funtion in the c library. >> > >> > It's not buffered afaik. >

Re: printf()

2000-11-10 Thread Mike Smith
> > Is there is way that I could perhaps demonstrate my reasoning, > such that it might be satisfactory to you? No. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the t

Re: printf()

2000-11-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
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Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Koster, K.J.
Dear All, Last night I cvsupped my trusty old Compaq Deskpro XL 6200 from 4.0-release to 4.2-beta. As part of that process, I seem to have lost support for the on-board NIC (lnc0: PCNet/PCI Ethernet Adapter, PC-net-32 VL-Bus). What is the newest version of FreeBSD that will propely support that

Re: printf()

2000-11-10 Thread opentrax
On 10 Nov, Mike Smith wrote: >> >> Is there is way that I could perhaps demonstrate my reasoning, >> such that it might be satisfactory to you? > > No. > Then, should I take it you concede the point? Jessem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: printf()

2000-11-10 Thread Mike Smith
> On 10 Nov, Mike Smith wrote: > >> > >> Is there is way that I could perhaps demonstrate my reasoning, > >> such that it might be satisfactory to you? > > > > No. > > > Then, should I take it you concede the point? No. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his r

Re: printf()

2000-11-10 Thread Zhenhai Duan
Thanks for all of your replies. The reason I asked this question is that I really saw some incomplete print out on FreeBSD 3.3. My intuition is that the printout is buffered some where, otherwise, I would expect either there is a complete printout, or no printout at all. --Zhenhai On Fri, 10 Nov

Re: "iowait" CPU state

2000-11-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 10), Dag-Erling Smorgrav said: > void <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there any reason top couldn't add these up and report a %iowait > > like Solaris'? > > Yes. It would conceal valuable information. Do the adding up in your > head. I can't see how it would conceal i

Re: What about rc.shutdown.local?

2000-11-10 Thread Jan Grant
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Christoph Sold wrote: > Better still would be /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh called automatically > with parameter stop. To do so, insert This is all nice (BTDT) although I find the *.sh pattern quite annoying, due to the alphabetisation issue. When I make these mods I tend to use

Re: USB-to-SCSI converter

2000-11-10 Thread James FitzGibbon
* Nick Hibma ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001109 17:31]: > Hm, I missed the zip story. You seem to have all the bits that are > necessary in your kernel. > > Could you compile your kernel/module with UMASS_DEBUG defined and send > me the output after an attach? As it turns out, I got it working, but on

Re: PCI interrupt routing across PCI:PCI bridges

2000-11-10 Thread Terry Lambert
> Following is a patch to route interrupts for devices on the child side of > a PCI:PCI bridge. I don't have any easy way to test this, unfortunately. > > If anyone would care to eyeball it before I commit it, I'd greatly > appreciate that. FWIW, this matches my reading of my paper copy of t

Re: aio_read() broken functionality.

2000-11-10 Thread Terry Lambert
> According to manual the aio_offset field of the "aiocb" structure > is ignored in the aio_read() call. So one can read the file only from > beginning. Very bad for me. :-( > > Will this bug be fixed in FreeBSD 5.0? The bug was fixed a long time ago, but the man page was never updated.

Re: USB-to-SCSI converter

2000-11-10 Thread Nick Hibma
This makes sense as the adapter is not a ful controller, just a cheapo interface. You cannot select the SCSI id from the USB driver. Nick On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, James FitzGibbon wrote: > * Nick Hibma ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001109 17:31]: > > > Hm, I missed the zip story. You seem to have all th

Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Thierry Herbelot
"Koster, K.J." wrote: > > Dear All, > > Last night I cvsupped my trusty old Compaq Deskpro XL 6200 from 4.0-release > to 4.2-beta. As part of that process, I seem to have lost support for the > on-board NIC (lnc0: PCNet/PCI Ethernet Adapter, PC-net-32 VL-Bus). > > What is the newest version of

Re: USB-to-SCSI converter

2000-11-10 Thread Chris Dillon
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Nick Hibma wrote: > This makes sense as the adapter is not a ful controller, just a > cheapo interface. > > You cannot select the SCSI id from the USB driver. Hmm.. Since I was looking for a "true" USB-SCSI controller, obviously this thing won't work. If it only works with

Re: printf()

2000-11-10 Thread Terry Lambert
> A simple question: > > Does the kernel function printf() flushes the output immediately, or it is > possible some data is buffered somewhere and gets lost without printing > to the console? like the corresponding funtion in the c library. There is no buffering comparable to that of the stdio p

Re: What about rc.shutdown.local?

2000-11-10 Thread Terry Lambert
> > > It would be nice to have a /etc/rc.shutdown.local called by > > > /etc/rc.shutdown, > > > to implement custom shutdown procedures. This is currently done by > > > editing rc.shutdown, but you have to remember about it when you run > > > mergemaster. > > > > Better still would be /usr/local/

Re: printf()

2000-11-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zhenhai Duan writes: : Does the kernel function printf() flushes the output immediately, or it is : possible some data is buffered somewhere and gets lost without printing : to the console? like the corresponding funtion in the c library. Yes. It can be buffered,

Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Koster, K.J." writes: : 3Com 3c503ISA I think so. The ed driver supports this : DEC EtherworksISA : DEC DE205 ISA don't know about these. lnc driver supports them maybe ? : SMC EtherEZ ISA ed driver. : RealTek "TP-Link" P

Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Bill Paul
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Dear All, > > Last night I cvsupped my trusty old Compaq Deskpro XL 6200 from 4.0-release > to 4.2-beta. As part of that process, I seem to have lost support for the > on-board NIC (lnc0: PCNet/PCI Ethernet Adapter, PC-net-32 VL-Bus). Ok,

Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Nate Williams
> : 3Com 3c503ISA > > I think so. The ed driver supports this I'm pretty sure the ed driver doesn't support the 503. I think we dropped support for the 503 a *REALLY* long time ago (2.1 days...) > : DEC EtherworksISA > : DEC DE205 ISA > > don't know about these. ln

Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Mike Smith
> > : 3Com 3c503ISA > > > > I think so. The ed driver supports this > > I'm pretty sure the ed driver doesn't support the 503. I think we > dropped support for the 503 a *REALLY* long time ago (2.1 days...) You are probably confusing it with the 501 or 505. The 503 is basically an

Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Nate Williams
> > > : 3Com 3c503ISA > > > > > > I think so. The ed driver supports this > > > > I'm pretty sure the ed driver doesn't support the 503. I think we > > dropped support for the 503 a *REALLY* long time ago (2.1 days...) > > You are probably confusing it with the 501 or 505. The 503

Re: Legacy ethernet cards in FreeBSD

2000-11-10 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Nate Williams wrote: > > : 3Com 3c503ISA > > > > I think so. The ed driver supports this > > I'm pretty sure the ed driver doesn't support the 503. I think we > dropped support for the 503 a *REALLY* long time ago (2.1 days...) How difficult is it to check the s

Re: "iowait" CPU state

2000-11-10 Thread Arjan de Vet
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >> > not how busy the disks are. I want relative data, not absolute. >> >> systat -vmstat? > >Thank you! This gets the me disk %busy, which is one of the things I >was looking for. Now, can anyone tell me how to tell what percentage of That was somet

Re: Repeatable STL core with -pthread

2000-11-10 Thread Terry Lambert
> > The program will core after about 10 seconds, every time. > > It would appear that there is an issue with some low-level allocator in the > > STL as shipped in 4.x. > > Dude. The STL implementation that ships with g++ isn't thread safe. > In fact, if you read the STL portion of the C++ sp

Re: aio_read() broken functionality.

2000-11-10 Thread Terry Lambert
> > * Dmitry Sychov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001109 13:06] wrote: > > Greetings. > > > > According to manual the aio_offset field of the "aiocb" structure > > is ignored in the aio_read() call. So one can read the file only from > > beginning. Very bad for me. :-( > > > > Will this bug be fixed in

Re: "iowait" CPU state

2000-11-10 Thread Terry Lambert
> Thank you! This gets the me disk %busy, which is one of the things I > was looking for. Now, can anyone tell me how to tell what percentage of > processor time is being spent waiting for disk I/O to complete? Uh, none? If there is disk I/O pending, the processor just runs a different process

Re: What about rc.shutdown.local?

2000-11-10 Thread Greg Black
Jan Grant writes: > > Better still would be /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh called automatically > > with parameter stop. To do so, insert > > This is all nice (BTDT) although I find the *.sh pattern quite annoying, > due to the alphabetisation issue. When I make these mods I tend to use > the SysV-sty

RE: [OT] serial protocol analyzer

2000-11-10 Thread Robert A. Wheeler
I had a need for something like this - I modified a serial cable such that it had four connectors: DB9#1 goes to device A DB9#2 goes to device B DB9#3 and DB9#4 goes to a "monitoring" system on COM1 and COM2 #1 TX is connected to #2 RX AND #3 RX #1 RX is connected to #2 TX #2 TX is connected