signedness in fsck

2001-12-27 Thread Kevin Day
I think I've found a bug in fsck. Some invalid values in cylinder groups don't get fixed. >From pass5.c: if (cg->cg_rotor < newcg->cg_ndblk) newcg->cg_rotor = cg->cg_rotor; else newcg->cg_rotor = 0;

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Dillon wrote: > Sorry, I meant I'd follow up with Matthew Gilbert. Also, I've > been trying to track down a crash in nfs_node that Nils Holland > has been having - he appears to have the same chipset and could > have the same problem, and he can reproduce the pan

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Dillon wrote: > Soren, if you post a patch for 4.x I will be happy to follow-up > with Brady. I've been working with Brady for several days now trying > to track down corruption in the vm_page array. I *really* want to know > if a VIA chipset patch solves his p

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Danny Braniss wrote: > > It seems Matthew Gilbert wrote: > > > > So, general question to everyone having crashes during heavy > > > > IDE workloads: Please post your /var/run/dmesg.boot > > > > output. > > > > > atapci0: port 0xd000-0xd00f at device 7.1 on > > > > You hav

Re: signedness in fsck

2001-12-27 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 02:34:40AM -0600, Kevin Day wrote: You might want to file this as a PR (using send-pr) so that it can be looked at by the filesystem gurus. I am not to sure that Kirk keeps up with -hackers Wilko > I think I've found a bug in fsck. Some invalid values in cylinder groups

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:15:56AM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Matthew Gilbert wrote: > > > So, general question to everyone having crashes during heavy > > > IDE workloads: Please post your /var/run/dmesg.boot > > > output. > > > atapci0: port 0xd000-0xd00f at device 7.1

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:15:56AM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Matthew Gilbert wrote: > > > > So, general question to everyone having crashes during heavy > > > > IDE workloads: Please post your /var/run/dmesg.boot > > > > output. > > > > >

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 02:07:22PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:15:56AM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > > > It seems Matthew Gilbert wrote: > > > > > So, general question to everyone having crashes during heavy > > > > > IDE workloa

Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers)

2001-12-27 Thread Pete French
> Anyhow since this is not always the case I did the fix for -current, > granted it should not be in the ATA driver, but since nobody else > really cared at the time Does this mean that if you dont have the ATA drivers in the kernel then you wont get the fix ? As the bug occurs under high PCI

Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspectsnew ata-driver over wd-drivers)

2001-12-27 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Pete French wrote: > > Anyhow since this is not always the case I did the fix for -current, > > granted it should not be in the ATA driver, but since nobody else > > really cared at the time > > Does this mean that if you dont have the ATA drivers in the kernel then > you wont get th

Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers)

2001-12-27 Thread Predius
There are a couple known issues going on with the VIA Chipset line (Some acknowledge by VIA partially, some not.) beyond just the 686B bug. Here's a couple sites with details. Myself, I think it's a BIOS writer's problem as well, but unfortunatly with most VIA boards, their goal is performance o

Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspectsnew ata-driver over wd-drivers)

2001-12-27 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Søren Schmidt wrote: > > Does this mean that if you dont have the ATA drivers in the kernel then > > you wont get the fix ? As the bug occurs under high PCI loads then this > > can potentially affect people with large amounts of PCI activity on > > SCSI drives too surely ? Granted I've ne

Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers)

2001-12-27 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:15:15PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Pete French wrote: > > > Anyhow since this is not always the case I did the fix for -current, > > > granted it should not be in the ATA driver, but since nobody else > > > really cared at the time > > > > Does this mean

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Nils Holland
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:45:01AM +0100, Søren Schmidt stood up and spoke: > > OK, here goes the VIA 686b patch, it is hand cut out from the bulk patches > to go into 4.5 so beware :) Well, as Matt has said, I reported a crash that he's trying to debug. Since I have the 686b in my machine, I ap

Une belle opportunité à létranger

2001-12-27 Thread Peant jean-marc
Les raisons de mon départ ne sont nullement dues aux conditions de travail, ni aux rapports humains que je qualifierai plutôt de profitables en ce qui me concerne. Simplement, je ressens le besoin d’aller voir plus loin.. Dans un souci de bon accord, j’aimerais toutefois, si cela vous est po

Distribute FreeBSD on huge cluster

2001-12-27 Thread Hassan Halta
Hi all, I hope this list will be the right list to ask this question, but any help will be appreciated. I am looking for a way that I can distribute FreeBSD on a huge cluster; 26 machines, but the problem I am running into, is if I used a sysinstall scripts, then that would allow me to install a

Re: Distribute FreeBSD on huge cluster

2001-12-27 Thread Mike Meyer
Hassan Halta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types: > I am looking for a way that I can distribute FreeBSD on a huge cluster; 26 > machines, but the problem I am running into, is if I used a sysinstall > scripts, then that would allow me to install a basic FreeBSD distribution, > and in the future, when I nee

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
This is great news! I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that Nils can't reproduce the crash any more with Soren's fix. Just to let you all know, Nils has been working his ass off helping me track his crash down. I've been pulling my hair out... I gave him patch after patch to

Re: Distribute FreeBSD on huge cluster

2001-12-27 Thread .
Hassan Halta writes: > Hi all, > > I hope this list will be the right list to ask this question, but any help > will be appreciated. > > I am looking for a way that I can distribute FreeBSD on a huge cluster; 26 > machines, but the problem I am running into, is if I used a sysinstall > scripts,

Macronix MX98315

2001-12-27 Thread Chad David
I got a PCI based 802.11b card that is not recognized by FreeBSD. They claim the card used to have a MX98713, and that the newer cards have a MX98315, but I cannot find a thing (even on the Macronix site) about the MX98315, does anybody know anything about it, like how similar it is to the 713 (o

Re: Macronix MX98315

2001-12-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:10:32PM -0700, Chad David wrote: > I got a PCI based 802.11b card that is not recognized by FreeBSD. They > claim the card used to have a MX98713, and that the newer cards have a > MX98315, but I cannot find a thing (even on the Macronix site) about the > MX98315, does

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Dillon wrote: > This is great news! I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that Nils can't > reproduce the crash any more with Soren's fix. Me too :) I have a small change that can be used if performace suffers too badly, it has not provoked the problem again on any of the

More NFS fixes - patchset.

2001-12-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
This patchset fixes a race in the nfs_node code. Basically the issue is that it is possible for the nfsnode (and the vnode) to get ripped out from under us if vget() sleeps, so we have to retry the operation. I'd like to MFC this one to -stable.

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread ian j hart
SXren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Sorry, I meant I'd follow up with Matthew Gilbert. Also, I've > > been trying to track down a crash in nfs_node that Nils Holland > > has been having - he appears to have the same chipset and could > > have the same prob

Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3

2001-12-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
Just an update: userland probram panic's FBSD 4.3-REL, FBSD 4.4-REL and FBSD 4.4-STABLE. its not hardware (unless two completly identicle systems have some type of chip problem not known yet) its not thermal problem (I can do make buildworld's all day long) If I do find it, its easy to tell: I c

Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3

2001-12-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Michael Scheidell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011227 14:26] wrote: > Just an update: > userland probram panic's FBSD 4.3-REL, FBSD 4.4-REL and FBSD 4.4-STABLE. > its not hardware (unless two completly identicle systems have some type of > chip problem not known yet) Can you provide this program or a k

Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3 (now 4.4 also)

2001-12-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
- Original Message - From: "Alfred Perlstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Scheidell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "David Malone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 3:31 PM Subject: Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3 > * M

Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3 (now 4.4 also)

2001-12-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Michael Scheidell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011227 14:34] wrote: > > > * Michael Scheidell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011227 14:26] wrote: > > > Just an update: > > > userland probram panic's FBSD 4.3-REL, FBSD 4.4-REL and FBSD 4.4-STABLE. > > > its not hardware (unless two completly identicle systems hav

Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3

2001-12-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
- Original Message - From: "Alfred Perlstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Scheidell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "David Malone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 3:31 PM Subject: Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3 > * M

Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3

2001-12-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Michael Scheidell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011227 14:48] wrote: > > same place as before: > > 0 fstatfs (p=0xce1bd260, uap=0xce216f80) at ../../kern/vfs_syscalls.c:684 > 684 error = VFS_STATFS(mp, sp, p); > 680 if ((error = getvnode(p->p_fd, SCARG(uap, fd), &fp)) != 0) > 6

Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3

2001-12-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
- Original Message - From: "Alfred Perlstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Scheidell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 4:00 PM Subject: Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3 > *mp, *sp, *p, *((struct vnode *)fp->f_data) print *mp: $1 =

Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3

2001-12-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Michael Scheidell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011227 15:11] wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Alfred Perlstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Michael Scheidell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 4:00 PM > Subject: Re: userland program panics

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Brandon S. Allbery
On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 15:20, ian j hart wrote: > Myself and others have had IDE related problems. Search > the stable and hardware mail archives for > UDMA and ICRC [and ianjhart] for examples. > > There is also the "only supports 16MxN RAM" feature. Maybe I should toss in that I've had spontane

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 15:20, ian j hart wrote: > > Myself and others have had IDE related problems. Search > > the stable and hardware mail archives for > > UDMA and ICRC [and ianjhart] for examples. > > > > There is also the "only supports 16MxN RAM" f

Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers)

2001-12-27 Thread Anthony Naggs
In article <005101c18ee1$9b5d66e0$fa01a8c0@ABERRATION>, Predius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >There are a couple known issues going on with the VIA Chipset line (Some >acknowledge by VIA partially, some not.) beyond just the 686B bug. > >Here's a couple sites with details. Myself, I think it's a BI

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Kristian K. Nielsen
Hey, It is great if you are finding a solution for the VIA-chipset. Do you have any idea if it is a simular problem that I am experiencing? I am not enough into chip code to have a clue what exactly the patch is doing - but maybe it is just decreasing the load on the kernel/system in a way that

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hey, : :It is great if you are finding a solution for the VIA-chipset. :Do you have any idea if it is a simular problem that I am experiencing? : :I am not enough into chip code to have a clue what exactly the patch :is doing - but maybe it is just decreasing the load on the kernel/system in :a

Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers)

2001-12-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
:In article <005101c18ee1$9b5d66e0$fa01a8c0@ABERRATION>, Predius :<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes :>There are a couple known issues going on with the VIA Chipset line (Some :>acknowledge by VIA partially, some not.) beyond just the 686B bug. :> :>Here's a couple sites with details. Myself, I think it'

palm sdk?

2001-12-27 Thread Ken Marx
Hi, I've sort of asked this before but maybe was too verbose. In short, has anyone been able to develope apps for palm with the palm sdk, prc-tools-*, and palm emulation (e.g., pose) on freebsd? I tried starting with pose and got immediately stumped with core dumps. Is there some tried/true wa

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-27 Thread Kristian K. Nielsen
Thanks, and here you are. The last crash I had was while trying to compile Mozilla from the port-collection, e.g. concentrated high activity: root@jkkn:/var/crash# gdb -k /usr/src/sys/compile/JKKN_KRNL/kernel.debug vmcore.4 GNU gdb 4.18 Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free s

802.11b PCI card problems (part II)

2001-12-27 Thread Chad David
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 11:31:43AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:10:32PM -0700, Chad David wrote: > > What you'll want to do is edit src/sys/dev/wi/if_wi.c, add an appropriate > entry to the definition of pci_ids for your card, and recompile your > kernel. If that works

IP queue question

2001-12-27 Thread sridharv
I was reading TCP/IP Vol 2 by douglas comer. In that he has one queue for each interface from which the IP layer processes the incoming datagrams. He has used round-robin for fairness. I checked up the BSD code and it seems to use only one queue 'ipintrq'. The ethernet driver places the mbuf

Re: IP queue question

2001-12-27 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, FreeBSD uses a single queue, but as long as you make sure that you do not fill the queue with packets coming from a single interface, you can still give some fairness to the system. Recent "DEVICE_POLLING" code in -current (hopefully going into -stable at some point) does exactly this -- an al

Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-27 Thread Greg Lehey
I've been using AMD processors almost exclusively in my main work machines for over 4 years, and I've been very happy with them. I'm currently running a K6/233, a K6/333, an Athlon 750, a Duron 850 and an Athlon XP 1700. Last August, though, I bought a machine which gave me a lot of trouble, the