Re: Real "technical comparison"

2001-05-31 Thread Doug Barton
Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > The intent of the "test" is obviously intended to show > > certain facts which we all know to be self-evident under > > strange load conditions which are patently "unreal". > > > I would suggest a better test would be to op

Re: Problem with find -fstype local ?

2001-05-31 Thread Doug Barton
Dima Dorfman wrote: > > Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gang, > > > > This may be my lack of understanding, but doing 'find / -fstype local' > > is > > definitely traversing nfs mounted directories for me in -current and > > -stable. The man page isn't 100% clear, but it seems t

Re: mylex raid card problem on 4.2-stable

2001-05-31 Thread julien
Hi, Thanx for the advice, in fact the system was 4.2-release (I previously indicated -stable), and I upgraded it to 4.3-rc2 (mly source code was 5 months older than in 4.2-release). I also upgraded the bios / firmware of the mylex... Since that (a week ago), the problem seems to be solved... btw,

RE: Preliminary Tuning man page (was Re: Benchmarking FreeBSD (was ...))

2001-05-31 Thread Koster, K.J.
Dear Michael, > > Actually, it had never occurred to me that soft-updates was a > property of a > file-system and not a global flag in the kernel. That is why > I suggested a more prominent note about soft-updates. > Until you suggested it, it never ocurred to me that it could be anything bu

Re: Kernel Fails to Boot. Errors out On MySQL

2001-05-31 Thread Valentin Nechayev
>>> Doug Barton wrote: > Once the system comes up multiuser, diagnose and fix mysql problems. For > future reference, ALWAYS disable startup scripts for third party stuff > before _starting_ the upgrade. This is especially true for remote upgrades. The pity moment is that init(8) logic is absol

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2001-05-31 Thread Heimes, Rene
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changing the date format

2001-05-31 Thread Heimes, Rene
hiho there! on our freeBSD 4.1 systems we need to customize the date format. anyone got a hint how to do that? by the way, is it possible to customize the system language to german language? thanks for your help! Mit freundlichen Grüssen, René Heimes com:con AG ...and your net works... René H

Re: Real "technical comparison"

2001-05-31 Thread Noses
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: >> I would suggest a better test would be to open _at least_ 250,000 >> connections to a server > > That would certainly qualify for the "patently unreal" part, but I don't > know what else you want to prove he

FIX needed. Was: Weird PT_DETACH

2001-05-31 Thread diman
Hello, guys. Jiangui Liu told right thing - next code fragment creates a SIGKILL immune allproc entry: --begin-- #include #include #include #include int main() { ptrace(PT_TRACE_ME, 0, 0, 0); puts(

Re: Real "technical comparison"

2001-05-31 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > I would suggest a better test would be to open _at least_ > > 250,000 connections to a server running under both FreeBSD > > and Linux. I was able to do this without breaking a sweat > > on a correctly configured FreeBSD 4.3 system. > > How abou

Re: Real "technical comparison"

2001-05-31 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Noses wrote: > Thank you for not telling it to one of my servers which is running > around with about 10 concurrent connections biting its tail. I > wouldn't like to hurt its feelings. And I've got the feeling that it > will have to bear a bit more of that beating. Inter

Re: Real "technical comparison"

2001-05-31 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Rik van Riel wrote: > > At www.spec.org I see SPECweb99 numbers for Solaris, AIX, > > Linux, Windows, Tru64, and HP-UX. FreeBSD must be hiding, > > because I don't see it. BSDI, Walnut Creek, and WindRiver > > all have failed to submit results. > > > Linux is still #1 for 1 to 4 processo

Re: changing the date format

2001-05-31 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Heimes, Rene([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.31 13:58:26 +: > hiho there! > > on our freeBSD 4.1 systems we need to customize the date format. anyone > got a hint how to do that? by the way, is it possible to customize the date(1) has information about applying a format string from the shell. strf

Re: Real "technical comparison"

2001-05-31 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Søren Schmidt wrote: > If somebody sends me the 800 US$ the software costs, or better > get me the software for free (we are a free OS right) I'll gladly > run it through a variety of machines here... If you think this is the problem, I'll happily chip in $50; it would be i

Re: Debuggers for FreeBSD

2001-05-31 Thread Brian Dean
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:21:27PM +0400, Nickolay A. Kritsky wrote: > BTW - is it true that FreeBSD kernel started supporting DRx > registers only from version 4.2? Do i need to upgrade? The kernel supported the IA32 debug registers, DR0-DR7, in 4.0-RELEASE, however, gdb did not make use o

Re: FreeBSD/VAX anyone interested?

2001-05-31 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
> Gunther Schadow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I got some VAXen 6420, big machines. Mine has 6 CPUs. I was planning > > to boot myself with Ultrix, and then go on with NetBSD. Even > > NetBSD's port-vax needs some tweaking for my hardware, XMI and > > BI bus support is blank. I am with Fre

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2001-05-31 Thread G Brehm
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Re: FIX needed. Was: Weird PT_DETACH

2001-05-31 Thread Jiangyi Liu
Hi, diman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Another problem(?) Jiangui found considers PT_DETACH ptrace(2) > call. While i'm attaching to a running process via PT_ATTACH, > PT_DETACH works well as expected. > If i instead use PT_TRACE_ME -> execve -> PT_DETACH, > chi

_ANSI_SOURCE vs. _ANSI_C_SOURCE

2001-05-31 Thread Farooq Mela
Hey -hackers, I am wondering why some operating systems use the macro _ANSI_SOURCE while others (ie Linux) use _ANSI_C_SOURCE to indicate that the source compiled is ANSI-compliant (and similarly with _POSIX_SOURCE and _POSIX_C_SOURCE). I have neither copies of the ANSI nor POSIX spec, and I don'

Fixing documented bug in env(1)

2001-05-31 Thread Dima Dorfman
Hi folks, Right now, env(1) can't be used to run programs with an equals sign in them for obvious reasons (if it isn't obvious, read the man page :-). Although this is a documented shortcoming, it's quite unnecessary given how easy it is to fix it. Any objections to allowing '--' to mean "end of