Re: FreeBSD hacker 101

2008-01-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought freeBSD 7 was still current "bleeding edge?" No, that's FreeBSD 8. FreeBSD 7.0 is very close to release now, and you can already run 7-STABLE if you want to. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD hacker 101

2008-01-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"william wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That brings me to another ponder: why juniper and cisco are using > FreeBSD and not Linux even Linux performs better in an UP environment? Who said Linux performs better in a UP environment? UP performance is close to irrelevant these days anyway; ther

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-25 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Greetings, binto wrote: Hi, Sorry if a little bit insist & curious. what is result from: sysctl -a kern.ipc.maxsockbuf sysctl -a net.inet.tcp.recvspace net.inet.tcp.sendspace: 32768 net.inet.tcp.recvspace: 65536 kern.ipc.maxsockbuf: 262144 kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 262144 -- Best Wishes, Ste

Fetching thermal information from HP servers

2008-01-25 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, Any ideas what could be done to make the hardware sensors usable on HP servers? I have a bunch of DL3xx, BL2xp, BL4xxc machines running FreeBSD and all of them have: hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 8.3C hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV: 9.8C hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT: 31.3C These values are co

Re: FreeBSD hacker 101

2008-01-25 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:58:51PM +0800, william wong wrote: > That brings me to another ponder: why juniper and cisco are using > FreeBSD and not Linux even Linux performs better in an UP environment? Other posters have mentioned that there is a mix of Linux and BSD at Cisco. I don't work there

Re: Fetching thermal information from HP servers

2008-01-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:27:35AM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: > Any ideas what could be done to make the hardware sensors usable on HP > servers? I have a bunch of DL3xx, BL2xp, BL4xxc machines running FreeBSD > and all of them have: > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 8.3C > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._P

Re: FreeBSD hacker 101

2008-01-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-25 13:58, william wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That brings me to another ponder: why juniper and cisco are using > FreeBSD and not Linux even Linux performs better in an UP environment? That's probably something only Juniper and Cisco can answer with a sufficiently high degree of c

bootparamd fix for RELENG_7_0?

2008-01-25 Thread Mike Shuey
Pardon my lack of proper protocol - this is the first time I've ventured into reporting FreeBSD bugs, and I'm a bit unsure how to do so. I just spent several evenings finding out that FreeBSD's bootparamd isn't 64-bit clean. Turns out, I'm not the only one; in April, 2007, Tyler Spivey filed PR 1

HLA v1.100 is now available for FreeBSD

2008-01-25 Thread Randall Hyde
Hi All, I am pleased to announce that HLA v1.100 and the HLA standard library (v3.0) are now running natively under FreeBSD. For those who are unfamiliar with the product, HLA is a "High Level Assembler" for the 80x86. It allows you to write portable 80x86 code that runs under Windows, Linux,

Re: a new syscalls table

2008-01-25 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:51:44 -0800 "Jerry Toung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > I am trying to create an environment where you can't run my binaries on your > box and I can't run > your binaries on my system (x86 platform). > For that, I have modified the system calls table (i.e everyt

Re: a new syscalls table

2008-01-25 Thread Jerry Toung
Good point. I'll try it. On Jan 25, 2008 3:30 PM, Xin LI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jerry Toung wrote: > > Hello list, > > I am trying to create an environment where you can't run my binaries on > your > > box and I can't run > > your binaries

Re: a new syscalls table

2008-01-25 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerry Toung wrote: > Hello list, > I am trying to create an environment where you can't run my binaries on your > box and I can't run > your binaries on my system (x86 platform). > For that, I have modified the system calls table (i.e everything is off

Re: firefox flash plug in woes

2008-01-25 Thread Tim Clewlow
--- KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i have been told that freeBSD does not go well with > flash plugins for browsers, which is quite a ubiquitous > technology in websites. is there any progress on this? > i have freeBSD 6.2-STABLE and gnome desktop > Hi there, I have native firef

Re: firefox flash plug in woes

2008-01-25 Thread Braulio José Solano Rojas
On Fri, 25 de Enero de 2008, 1:31 pm, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: > > i have been told that freeBSD does not go well with > flash plugins for browsers, which is quite a ubiquitous > technology in websites. is there any progress on this? > i have freeBSD 6.2-STABLE and gnome desktop I think this subject

Re: FreeBSD hacker 101

2008-01-25 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GNU/Linux isn't tied to rpm's; Actually, rpm is part of the Linux Standard Base specification, which all major distributions implement. Debian derivatives use dpkg, but still have a full set of rpm tools.

Re: sysctl text definitions.

2008-01-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080125 07:58] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hey guys, something that I've always wanted to do was actually somehow > > export those handy description strings from the kernel SYSCTL macros > > in the least obtrusive method possi

Re: sysctl text definitions.

2008-01-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey guys, something that I've always wanted to do was actually somehow > export those handy description strings from the kernel SYSCTL macros > in the least obtrusive method possible. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~% sysctl -d dev.cpu.0.temperature dev.cpu.0.temp

Re: Fetching thermal information from HP servers

2008-01-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:27:35AM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: >> Any ideas what could be done to make the hardware sensors usable on HP >> servers? I have a bunch of DL3xx, BL2xp, BL4xxc machines running FreeBSD >> and al

a new syscalls table

2008-01-25 Thread Jerry Toung
Hello list, I am trying to create an environment where you can't run my binaries on your box and I can't run your binaries on my system (x86 platform). For that, I have modified the system calls table (i.e everything is offset by 5). All the files that need to be re-generated, have been. I ran make

how to map a vm_object the same vm address in user and kernel space?

2008-01-25 Thread John Giacomoni
I'm trying to share memory between the kernel and userspace so that I can communicate between kernel threads and userspace threads with concurrent lock-free data structures. I can do this if I use different virtual addresses in the kernel and addresses in userspace. However, this requir

Re: a new syscalls table

2008-01-25 Thread Doug Barton
You could also create a release, burn it to CD, and install from scratch. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubsc

Re: gettimeofday() in hping

2008-01-25 Thread Joseph Koshy
> OK, this is the famous problem with modern CPUs that jkoshy has declined > to work around :( There are patches for this in perforce, see > > http://perforce.freebsd.org/changeView.cgi?CH=126189 "Famous problem" indeed :). I declined the patch because it is incorrect and incomplete. First,

Re: a new syscalls table

2008-01-25 Thread Jerry Toung
Thank you for the feedback Mike. Points well taken. I'll look into the NetBSD thing. Jerry On Jan 25, 2008 3:55 PM, Mike Meyer < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:51:44 -0800 "Jerry Toung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hello list, > > I am trying to create an environment whe

Re: firefox flash plug in woes

2008-01-25 Thread icantthinkofone
Tim Clewlow wrote: --- KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i have been told that freeBSD does not go well with flash plugins for browsers, which is quite a ubiquitous technology in websites. is there any progress on this? i have freeBSD 6.2-STABLE and gnome desktop Hi there, I

Re: firefox flash plug in woes

2008-01-25 Thread Braulio José Solano Rojas
On Fri, 25 de Enero de 2008, 1:54 pm, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: > > i wanna goto youtube! {:} i already have firefox installed, is there > a special port for linux firefox? i better deinstall my existing firefox? Still think this thread should not be in hackers, however I am ccing because maybe someo

Re: vm_zone corruption 4.x

2008-01-25 Thread Doug Barton
Karim Fodil-Lemelin wrote: I have stumbled into a strange problem where my FBSD 4.x box FreeBSD 4.x is no longer supported. Your best bet at this point would be to evaluate the 7.0 release candidates, since that branch has a lot of both stability and performance enhancements. Good luck,

Re: bootparamd fix for RELENG_7_0?

2008-01-25 Thread Rink Springer
Hi Mike, On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:32:12PM -0500, Mike Shuey wrote: > I just spent several evenings finding out that FreeBSD's bootparamd > isn't 64-bit clean. Turns out, I'm not the only one; in April, 2007, > Tyler Spivey filed PR 112163 about this. He also included a simple > patch, to clear

Re: firefox flash plug in woes

2008-01-25 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Braulio José Solano Rojas wrote: On Fri, 25 de Enero de 2008, 1:31 pm, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: i have been told that freeBSD does not go well with flash plugins for browsers, which is quite a ubiquitous technology in websites. is there any progress on this? i have freeBSD 6.

vm_zone corruption 4.x

2008-01-25 Thread Karim Fodil-Lemelin
Good day, I have stumbled into a strange problem where my FBSD 4.x box keeps crashing under network traffic load. I have enabled INVARIANTS and debugging and was able to gather a trace. The context here is that a listening connection created a syncache entry sent a syn-ack and is now proce

Re: bootparamd fix for RELENG_7_0?

2008-01-25 Thread Mike Shuey
Rink Springer wrote: > Hi Mike, > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:32:12PM -0500, Mike Shuey wrote: >> I just spent several evenings finding out that FreeBSD's bootparamd >> isn't 64-bit clean. Turns out, I'm not the only one; in April, 2007, >> Tyler Spivey filed PR 112163 about this. He also inclu

Re: FreeBSD hacker 101

2008-01-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > GNU/Linux isn't tied to rpm's; Actually, rpm is part of the Linux Standard Base specification, which all major distributions implement. Debian derivatives use dpkg, but still have a full set of rpm tools. Most distributions have higher- level package mana

Re: Wrapper for Windows-only network card binary drivers on FreeBSD?

2008-01-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I Believe the linux wrapper concept was copied from the freebsd one > > which was originally called "Project Evil" > Is it the other way around (Project Evil isa ndiswrapper port, etc), > or something else.

firefox flash plug in woes

2008-01-25 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
i have been told that freeBSD does not go well with flash plugins for browsers, which is quite a ubiquitous technology in websites. is there any progress on this? i have freeBSD 6.2-STABLE and gnome desktop *--* Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (P