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2003-03-31 Thread Manish Sapariya
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Debugging FreeBSD 4.7 using gdb remote machine

2003-03-31 Thread Manish Sapariya
Hi all, I am trying to debug the FreeBSD 4.7 kernel using gdb remote debugging. However I am not able to do it properly. The kernel breaks in properly when I run "target remote /dev/cuaa1" command on my developement machine. However when I try to "step, next, continue" in the code it simply hangs,

Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek

2003-03-31 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes: : "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes: : > : address wrong to not finding it at all (I believe it r

Mbuf Question

2003-03-31 Thread Stalker
Hey Just a quick question, we have a bsd box that is running out of mbufs, its just constantly increasing and we cant quite shut down a process at a time to find the cause since its a live box. So what i would like to know, is, is it possible to code a program to see how many mbufs are allocated

Mbuf Question

2003-03-31 Thread Cole
Hey I have a quick question. Is it possible to find out which mbuf clusters are allocated to specific programs that are running or is that impossible. If it is possible, then could someone point me in the right direction for reading material or the functions / libraries that i would need to lo

Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek

2003-03-31 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > An address that works. Without further knowledge of your laptop, it > is impossible for me to say. You will have to find this out by trial > and error. Some folks like 0xf800, others like 0x4 and > one uses 0xd4000, but the last one I do

Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek

2003-03-31 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes: : "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > An address that works. Without further knowledge of your laptop, it : > is impossible for me to say. You will have to find this out by trial : > and error

Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek

2003-03-31 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe I should add a stinkpad to my wish list :-) I'll trade you mine for a reasonably recent Dell or FujitsuSiemens laptop :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing l

Re: jiffy.

2003-03-31 Thread Evan S.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Yes, but it would be easier to answer your question if you told us > what you need the information for. Sorry; I'll be more specific. I'm porting a deadline-scheduler from Linux over to FreeBSD that determines deadines by using jiffies. For example

Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek

2003-03-31 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote: > 0xf800 seems to work on my StinkPad (still can't get the serial > port to work though). It still complains about an "invalid BAR > number: 27(06)". Plenty of ACPI errors too, but I don't really expect > much from an IBM laptop. T

Re: jiffy.

2003-03-31 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Evan S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yes, but it would be easier to answer your question if you told us > > what you need the information for. > Sorry; I'll be more specific. I'm porting a deadline-scheduler from Linux over > to FreeBSD that determines deadines by using jiffies. For example,

Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek

2003-03-31 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Matthew N. Dodd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thankfully, APM works great on the older Thinkpads. for some definition of "great" which includes the APM BIOS suddenly deciding to suspend the laptop after 30 seconds even when the mains cord is plugged in. >

Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek

2003-03-31 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote: > for some definition of "great" which includes the APM BIOS suddenly > deciding to suspend the laptop after 30 seconds even when the mains > cord is plugged in. You've got a 600 series right? What model and bios revision? (Find out wi

Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek

2003-03-31 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Matthew N. Dodd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What model and bios revision? (Find out with the 'vpd' driver or go > into the BIOS setup.) Yep, a 600E (2645BG). I don't know exactly what BIOS version I have, but I kept it fairly up to date until a fellow committer who shall remain nameless ran

Re: jiffy.

2003-03-31 Thread Wilkinson,Alex
erm...what are jiffies ? - aW Sorry; I'll be more specific. I'm porting a deadline-scheduler from Linux over to FreeBSD that determines deadines by using jiffies. For example, process 1's deadline is when jiffies=10 and so on. I just discovered the global variable

Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek

2003-03-31 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote: > Regarding vpd, some documentation (at least in NOTES) would be nice. > I shouldn't have to RTFS to understand what you're talking about. Build /sys/modules/bios/vpd, install/load it, read the kernel output. It also provides all the inf

vm_fault and nfs_getpages errors

2003-03-31 Thread Vladimir Terziev
Hi All, I have a diskless machine, which runs FreeBSD 4.7-R and samba on it. The machine has NFS mounted swap and filesystems on one of my servers. In fact the server is FreeBSD 4.7-R too. From time to time I get the following messages from kernel: nfs_getpages: error 1

Re: jiffy.

2003-03-31 Thread Anthony Naggs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wilkinson,Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >erm...what are jiffies ? http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=jiffy The last definition on the page starts: jiffy n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on your computer (see tick). Often one AC cycl

Re: BSD tar (was Re: Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about filetypes...)

2003-03-31 Thread Tim Kientzle
Jordan K Hubbard wrote: Given ample personal experience with this issue, all I can say is that actions speak a lot louder than words where it's concerned. :-) On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 11:47 AM, Tim Kientzle wrote: I've given up trying to argue for a well-designed package file format. tar w

Re: Debugging FreeBSD 4.7 using gdb remote machine

2003-03-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:02, Manish Sapariya wrote: > Only once I was ablt to debug successfully. > In my VMWARE setup also I can do the debugging without > any problem. > > I even faced the same problem with different set of machines. > > Is there anything that I am missing in configuration or gdb s

Re: Debugging FreeBSD 4.7 using gdb remote machine

2003-03-31 Thread Manish Sapariya
Hi, I would try reducing your serial port speed. I have had trouble doing anything above 9600 baud which is quite irritating :( Actually I am running with 9600 baud only. Would it help if I further reduce baud? Anyway, I shall run it with still lower baud and check. Thanks and Regards, Manis

Re: Debugging FreeBSD 4.7 using gdb remote machine

2003-03-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:04, Manish Sapariya wrote: > >I have had trouble doing anything above 9600 baud which is quite > > irritating > > > >:( > > Actually I am running with 9600 baud only. > Would it help if I further reduce baud? > Anyway, I shall run it with still lower baud and check. Hmm, wort

Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek

2003-03-31 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes: > : address wrong to not finding it at all (I believe it reports "No > : station address in CIS!") and refusing to attach. > It always didn't find it, you jus

Re: wait()/alarm() race condition

2003-03-31 Thread Peter Edwards
> Greetings, > > I have a loop which calls wait(), and I want another function to be > called > as close to once per minute as possible. Pseudo code: > [snip example] > > My concern is there is a small possibility that the alarm signal is > delivered after the if() but before the wait. So it is