Re: tuning a CPU bound server

2002-05-15 Thread Omar Thameen
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:25:21PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > Mmm, mail server tuning, something I have some experience in :-) Just what I was hoping to hear! > First off, what are the specs of the server? Cpu? Disk? Memory? Network? > You mention it's a dual 800MHz. What kind of NIC does it hav

Re: laptop's modem

2002-05-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 16:23, Dmitry Shupilov wrote: > system doesn't see the modem. What should I do or where can I find > some info about it? (On windozz it works on COM4, so I try to trick > with device sioX but it didn't help). It's almost certainly a Win modem. I don't believe there ar

Re: File locking, closes and performance in a distributed filesystemenv

2002-05-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > As Terry stated you can't do that, however you could cache that the > VNODE has a lock, that would reduce the requirement for calling the > ADVLOCK VOP. You'd really have to know when the lock list went to NULL, to get any benefit out of it, since locking would still end

Re: SIGPOLL

2002-05-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Eugene Panchenko wrote: > SysV defines SIGPOLL, as well as Linux, Solaris, and (IIRC) Irix. > However, it is NOT defined in any of *BSD. In Linux it is > simple "#define SIGPOLL SIGIO". Some apps need it, thought. What are > the general policy for this: keep as *BSD and patch every SIGPOLL-app

Re: laptop's modem

2002-05-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Dmitry Shupilov wrote: > Sorry for non-topic question but HELP me! > I got laptop Compaq Armada m700 with internal modem Compaq 56K mini > PCI. After the new install FreeBSD on laptop I cannot dial out - > system doesn't see the modem. What should I do or where can I find > some info abo

Re: laptop's modem

2002-05-15 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:50:45AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Dmitry Shupilov wrote: > > Sorry for non-topic question but HELP me! > > I got laptop Compaq Armada m700 with internal modem Compaq 56K mini > > PCI. After the new install FreeBSD on laptop I cannot dial out - > > system does

Re: laptop's modem

2002-05-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:50:45AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Dmitry Shupilov wrote: > > > Sorry for non-topic question but HELP me! > > > I got laptop Compaq Armada m700 with internal modem Compaq 56K mini > > > PCI. After the new install FreeBSD on laptop I cannot

Re: laptop's modem

2002-05-15 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:11:10AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:50:45AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Dmitry Shupilov wrote: > > > > Sorry for non-topic question but HELP me! > > > > I got laptop Compaq Armada m700 with internal modem Comp

Re: laptop's modem

2002-05-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Do you mean "ltmdm", the Lucent Winmodem driver? > > Correct. [ ... ] > Win2K calls it a LT Win Modem. Definitely a Lucent. > > Did your E700 work with -STABLE? The "ltmdm" thing didn't work > > with some Lucent modems, in the same way the binary only Olicomm > > drive

Re: NFS Problems with Quantum Snapserver 4100 (BGE Cards!)

2002-05-15 Thread Jamie Heckford
Already running the card and switch port in 100BaseTX FDX (forced) :) Would use GigE if the switch supported it tho Thus spake Matthew Dillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) : > It should also work if you force the GigE card into 100BaseTX mode, > assuming the switch can deal with it. Though

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2002-05-15 Thread Rich Haney
All, I have a need to be able to determine the amount of physical memory in a machine. Looking at the man page for sysctl(), that seems to be the answer, but it behaves a oddly in that it doesn't return what I feel is the actual amount of RAM in the machine. It appears to be taking some

Problem with sysctl() and HW_PHYSMEM

2002-05-15 Thread Rich Haney
A thousand pardons for the duplicate post - forgot the subject on the original!! --- All, I have a need to be able to determine the amount of physical memory in a machine. Looking at the man page for sysctl(), that seems to be the answer, but it behaves a oddly in that it doesn't retur

Re: File locking, closes and performance in a distributed filesystemenv

2002-05-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020515 01:36] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > As Terry stated you can't do that, however you could cache that the > > VNODE has a lock, that would reduce the requirement for calling the > > ADVLOCK VOP. > You'd really have to know when the lock list went t

Re: File locking, closes and performance in a distributed filesystemenv

2002-05-15 Thread Andrew R. Reiter
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote: :* Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020515 01:36] wrote: :> Alfred Perlstein wrote: :> > As Terry stated you can't do that, however you could cache that the :> > VNODE has a lock, that would reduce the requirement for calling the :> > ADVLOCK VOP. :>

Re: File locking, closes and performance in a distributed filesystemenv

2002-05-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Andrew R. Reiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020515 09:54] wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > :* Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020515 01:36] wrote: > :> Alfred Perlstein wrote: > :> > As Terry stated you can't do that, however you could cache that the > :> > VNODE has a loc

Re: Collect process sleeping statistics

2002-05-15 Thread Zhihui Zhang
Basically I have a program that does a lot of I/O and alloctes/frees a lot of memory. The time command gives result like this: 6.239u 19.329s 7:59.76 5.3% 310+775k 3993+246io 7pf+0w I want to know why CPU is running only 5.3% of the total time. I just want know how long it is waiting for me

Re: File locking, closes and performance in a distributed filesystemenv

2002-05-15 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Tue, 14 May 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > Richard Sharpe wrote: > > Hmmm, I wasn't very clear ... > > > > What I am proposing is a 'simple' fix that simply changes > > > > p->p_flag |= P_ADVLOCK; > > > > to > > > > fp->l_flag |= P_ADVLOCK; > > > > And never resets it, and t

Re: Collect process sleeping statistics

2002-05-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Zhihui Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020515 10:33] wrote: > > Basically I have a program that does a lot of I/O and alloctes/frees a lot > of memory. The time command gives result like this: > > 6.239u 19.329s 7:59.76 5.3% 310+775k 3993+246io 7pf+0w > > I want to know why CPU is running only 5

Re: bug in pw, freebsd 4.5 [patch]

2002-05-15 Thread Geoffrey C. Speicher
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2002, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > > I'll see if I can put some time over the next few days into delving into > > it and at least getting the first step (of making the locking work more > > usefully) work. > > Hi Matt. Just wonde

Re: Collect process sleeping statistics

2002-05-15 Thread Zhihui Zhang
What if most I/O are asynchronous writes and handled by a background process (e.g. SoftUpdate syncer daemon or a special kernel daemon), then I guess the wait should have something to do with memory or buffer. But I do not know to to confirm this. Maybe some profiling or instrumentation (too much

postfix

2002-05-15 Thread O Senhor
Do you know about performance in postfix? I have on FreeBSD (4.5) box running postfix and delivering mail in 65.000 mailboxes... I know about maildirs... but, how maildir would help me??? The postfix delivery agent simply can't do the jog. This is because a lot of entries??? help please. To

Re: File locking, closes and performance in a distributed filesystemenv

2002-05-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > He could also maintain a local cache of this per vnode, basically > maintain a mirror of the lock list locally in order to see if a remote > op must be done. I think we are talking past each other. This is what I've been suggesting since my first message, but suggested

Re: File locking, closes and performance in a distributed filesystemenv

2002-05-15 Thread Terry Lambert
"Andrew R. Reiter" wrote: > :He could also maintain a local cache of this per vnode, basically > :maintain a mirror of the lock list locally in order to see if a remote > :op must be done. > > Isn't this sorta like coda? Lock cache, not data cache. It's "sort of like": http://www.blackflag.ru/

Re: Collect process sleeping statistics

2002-05-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Zhihui Zhang wrote: > Basically I have a program that does a lot of I/O and alloctes/frees a lot > of memory. The time command gives result like this: > > 6.239u 19.329s 7:59.76 5.3% 310+775k 3993+246io 7pf+0w > > I want to know why CPU is running only 5.3% of the total time. I just > want k

Re: Collect process sleeping statistics

2002-05-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Zhihui Zhang wrote: > What if most I/O are asynchronous writes and handled by a background > process (e.g. SoftUpdate syncer daemon or a special kernel daemon), then I > guess the wait should have something to do with memory or buffer. But I do > not know to to confirm this. Maybe some profiling o

remotely restoring over a live working system

2002-05-15 Thread Dan Langille
A disk in remote 4.5-stable box started to develop bad clusters. The hosting company replaced the drive for me. I now have a 4.5-RELEASE system (they have 4.5-RELEASE drives as stock items). The defective drive is almost mounted in this box. I'm tempted to tar the old disk over to the new d

Re: remotely restoring over a live working system

2002-05-15 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Dan Langille wrote: >The defective drive is almost mounted in this box. I'm tempted to tar the >old disk over to the new disk and get everything back running that way. >It's that or upgrade to stable, install about 30 or so packages, and >manually configure everything. Gree

Re: NFS Problems with Quantum Snapserver 4100 (BGE Cards!)

2002-05-15 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Already running the card and switch port in 100BaseTX FDX (forced) :) : :Would use GigE if the switch supported it tho Ack. Just rip the damn thing out and put in a normal 100BaseTX card, then (if you haven't already). The whole system will probably be happier.

Re: tuning a CPU bound server

2002-05-15 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Omar Thameen wrote: > > First off, what are the specs of the server? Cpu? Disk? Memory? Network? > > You mention it's a dual 800MHz. What kind of NIC does it have? What is the > > speed and duplex set to on it? > > Dual PIII/800 > 2G SDRAM > 2x18G IBM 10,000 rpm SCSI drives,

Re: remotely restoring over a live working system

2002-05-15 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Dan Langille wrote: > A disk in remote 4.5-stable box started to develop bad clusters. The > hosting company replaced the drive for me. I now have a 4.5-RELEASE > system (they have 4.5-RELEASE drives as stock items). > > The defective drive is almost mounted in this box. I

SMP kernel freezes with nice processes.

2002-05-15 Thread David Gilbert
I run dnetc with an argument to run two (one for each processor). If I realtime nice (not nasty) the processes, the computer freezes for a few seconds every minute or two. If I have them only regular nice'd, this does not happen. I can make a login on the machine available if this helps. Any i

Re: SMP kernel freezes with nice processes.

2002-05-15 Thread Lars Eggert
David Gilbert wrote: > I run dnetc with an argument to run two (one for each processor). If > I realtime nice (not nasty) the processes, the computer freezes for a > few seconds every minute or two. If I have them only regular nice'd, > this does not happen. "realtime nice" = idprio? If so, pro

Distributedfolding client -- BSD Networking bug fix

2002-05-15 Thread Rayson Ho
Someone on this list emailed me about a problem in the distributed folding client a while ago... Howard has an updated version, can people having problems with it try to see if it fixes the problem or not? Also, I don't have access to the source of the client. Rayson P.S. Here's his message:

Re: Distributedfolding client -- BSD Networking bug fix

2002-05-15 Thread Brian the Fist
The fixed version is not up yet, I will be posting it tomorrow. I have confirmed that the networking timeouts if you were having them, have been fixed. (By updating to a new version of the networking layer). Rayson Ho wrote: > > Someone on this list emailed me about a problem in the distribute

Re: national security backdoor in FreeBSD.

2002-05-15 Thread Matthew Emmerton
> There is a backdoor in all versions of FreeBSD that are not compiled > from source code within portmapper and telnetd. Hmm. Let's check out this logic. The binaries that ship on the FreeBSD distros are compiled from source. When I upgrade my system, I compile from source. And the backdoor o

Re: national security backdoor in FreeBSD.

2002-05-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > There is a backdoor in all versions of FreeBSD that are not compiled > > from source code within portmapper and telnetd. > > Hmm. Let's check out this logic. The binaries that ship on the FreeBSD > distros are compiled from source. When I upgrade my system, I compil

Re: national security backdoor in FreeBSD.

2002-05-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Terry Lambert writes: >Matthew Emmerton wrote: >> > There is a backdoor in all versions of FreeBSD that are not compiled >> > from source code within portmapper and telnetd. >> >> Hmm. Let's check out this logic. The binaries that ship on the FreeBSD >> distros a

4.5-RELEASE generic kernel crashing on sysctl -a

2002-05-15 Thread Gautham Ganapathy
Hi I had posted this sometime back, but didn't receive much feedback After installing 4.5-RELEASE, (BSD Mall Feb 2002 CD), when I ran 'sysctl -a', the kernel crashed with the foll message. Fault trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x6351ec0c fault code = superviso

Re: 4.5-RELEASE generic kernel crashing on sysctl -a

2002-05-15 Thread Jens Rehsack
Gautham Ganapathy wrote: > > Hi > > I had posted this sometime back, but didn't receive much feedback > > After installing 4.5-RELEASE, (BSD Mall Feb 2002 CD), when I ran > 'sysctl -a', the kernel crashed with the foll message. > > Fault trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > fault virtu

Re: national security backdoor in FreeBSD.

2002-05-15 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Terry Lambert writes: > >Matthew Emmerton wrote: > >> > There is a backdoor in all versions of FreeBSD that are not compiled > >> > from source code within portmapper and telnetd. > >> > >> Hmm. Let's check out t