Re: 650 MB MFS?

1999-07-17 Thread David Miller
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : > :Are there any design limits to mfs? I want to use cdrecord to write to a > :dozen or so CD's at once, and fear making lots of coasters if I run them > :all off a single on-disk file. However, a CD only holds 650 MB, so it > :seems like I could ha

Tuning web benchmarks

1999-08-03 Thread David Miller
2 MB ram, but the problems come with smp/apic configured or not. No interesting messages show up in dmesg or /var/log/* It looks like it's having trouble creating all the open sockets, and quits at the first such occurance. Any hints as to what to look for next? Thanks, --- David Miller To U

Gigabit ethernet support?

1999-08-18 Thread David Miller
Any supported cards in 3.2.x? The HCL pages don't list any:( Thanks, --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Gigabit ethernet support?

1999-08-23 Thread David Miller
Any supported cards in 3.2.x? The HCL pages don't list any:( Thanks, --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body

Re: Volume managers (was: Separate boot partition?)

1999-05-11 Thread David Miller
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Dom Mitchell wrote: > On 8 April 1999, Greg Lehey proclaimed: > > I can't see why not, since it's possible now. What we still need to > > do is find a way to extend a file system, but that's a ufs issue > > (which has a solution), not a volume manager issue. > > What about sh

DVD-ram

1999-06-29 Thread David Miller
Apologies if this should be on -scsi Has anyone done any work with dvd-ram drives under FreeBSD? I will soon need to duplicate dvd-ram media and would very much like to do it under unix. All I need to start with is the ability to read/write the raw device. Currently the drive is recognized

Re: DVD-ram

1999-06-30 Thread David Miller
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, crypt0genic wrote: > I have a Lacie DVD-RAM drive, it work great under windows, here is the DMESG > i g > et from it, I hope this is of some help. > > acd0: drive speed 1033KB/sec, 256KB cache > acd0: supported read types: > acd0: Audio: play, 255 volume levels > acd0: Mecha

[Off Topic] ODBC and yahoo

1999-07-13 Thread David Miller
:( 2) Anyone know what Yahoo is doing? They've got freebsd webservers, last I knew. Any info on how they're setup would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, --- David Miller To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

650 MB MFS?

1999-07-15 Thread David Miller
Would FreeBSD handle an mfs of this size? Thanks! --- David Miller To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

linked files on iso9660?

2001-02-14 Thread David Miller
I'm trying to back up some freebsd systems on cdrom. My intention is to have one which people can look at specific file on, or pax/tar/dump over on top of a live, minimally installed OS. /stand has 31 file of considerable size: on a standard system they're all hard links to the same file. All h

fast PCI + quad port ethernet?

2001-02-26 Thread David Miller
Does anyone have any real world experience with the upper performance end of freebsd based routers? Specifically, I'm wondering if the Znyx ZX374 card with its 66MHz bus is really worth twice the money of the adaptec Quartet64 board with a 33 MHz 64 bit bus. The intended mobo for it would be a t

[OT] Fibre channel enclosures?

2001-03-10 Thread David Miller
Apologies for the off topic nature of the question... I see FC drives for sale unbelievably cheap in a number of places. megahaus.com has 36 GB IBM FC drives for $219, pricewatch has 9 GB and 18 GB drives from seagate and IBM for under $100. The issue, of course, is that one needs a low cost en

[OT] parallel port for IO?

2001-04-13 Thread David Miller
Hi all;) Anyone know of a way to get a low cost port of some kind to to simple state change detection? The specific purpose is to time external events which are triggered by breaking an LED light beam. Millisecond resolution would be fine. I was thinking of sampling the parallel port repeatedl

Re: UDF (DVD fs)

2000-07-05 Thread David Miller
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Julian Elischer wrote: > > I am working on UDF support. > > I have at present a program that reads a udf filesystem > > and am working (today) on making it into an "mtools" like > > program that allows access to the contents in a useful manner.

Limits of TCP in FreeBSD kernel?

2000-09-23 Thread David Miller
Hi All:) I'm looking at building an eight or twelve port fast ethernet router, and I got to wondering how well a FreeBSD box could handle that much traffic. Assume, for the moment, that hardware is not an issue. Assume that I have a gigahertz processor, 4 way interleaved memory, 4 separate fast

Multipath routing in 4.x?

2000-09-25 Thread David Miller
I searched the archives and found a few references to patches for 2.x for multipath routing. I'd like not to have to go that far back. How did something as useful as this to anyone using freebsd as a router not make it into release 3 and 4? Is there any work going on to add it? Thanks! --

Swap numbers in systcl?

2000-10-16 Thread David Miller
Hi All:) I'm looking to write a self throttling program which will use all the resources on my system without driving it into oblivion. I can tell when the CPU is used up, or when load average goes too high, or when I'm using more of the network than I want. But I'm not sure what to check to se

Boot off USB SanDisk?

2000-10-20 Thread David Miller
SanDisk makes a IDE-like flash card one could plug into a $30 USB flashcard reader. Would FreeBSD have any idea how to boot off such a beast? Alternatively, anyone know of an ISA/PCI adapter with enough bios on it to boot off a similar flash? Thanks, --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to [

UDP limits in dns server?

2000-11-19 Thread David Miller
Hi All:) I'm testing a honking reverse resolver system for use in resolving web logs. It's an Abit KT7 system with 1.1 GHz processor and 768 MB of ECC ram running 4.1-stable as of about a month ago. I'm looking up the IP addresses with up to 1500 or so processes each taking a list of addresses

Re: UDP limits in dns server?

2000-11-19 Thread David Miller
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Mike Silbersack wrote: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, David Miller wrote: > > I've increased net.inet.udp.recvspace to 192k. Is there anything else I > > can do to tune the system? I'm particularly perplexed that a K6-200 > > system I had was cpu b

[OT] alarm() question

2001-11-30 Thread David Miller
Apologies for this being more C than freebsd, but I did say OT in the subject... In the most basic use of an alarm, like this: #include #include #include sig_t signal(int sig, sig_t func); static void bzzt() { printf("In routine bzzt now, timer expired after 3 seconds\n"); } main() {

Overriding ARG_MAX

2002-01-04 Thread David Miller
Apologies if this belongs on -questions. I couldn't find what I needed in the archives or handbook. I have a system where I need/want to handle lots of files in a single directory. Lots as in 100-200K files. ls | wc -l breaks because the value of ARG_MAX in sys/syslimits.h is too small. If I

Re: Overriding ARG_MAX

2002-01-04 Thread David Miller
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > David Miller wrote: > > Apologies if this belongs on -questions. I couldn't find what I needed in > > the archives or handbook. > > > > I have a system where I need/want to handle lots of files in a single > >

Re: allocating memory

2002-06-06 Thread David Miller
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Miguel Mendez wrote: > Except Itanium is nowhere production ready, so you probably need > something else, e.g. sparc or ppc. Mips is also a nice arch to work > with, btw, unfortunately SGI hardware is extremely expensive. Are there any estimates of when freebsd will move to 6

setsockopt() weirdness

2002-07-14 Thread David Miller
I'm probably doing something basic wrong, but I'm getting a very inconsistent response when using setsockopt to set the SO_RCVTIMEO to seven seconds or more. The program included works on a 4.3R system, a 4.4R and a 4.6stable system SUPd June 24. The systems are a 486, 800 MHz P-III, and 1.1 GH

Re: setsockopt() weirdness

2002-07-14 Thread David Miller
On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 10:49:56AM -0400, David Miller wrote: > > I'm probably doing something basic wrong, but I'm getting a very > > inconsistent response when using setsockopt to set the SO_RCVTIMEO to > > seven second

Re: setsockopt() weirdness

2002-07-14 Thread David Miller
On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 11:49:46AM -0400, David Miller wrote: > ... > > HZ is set to 5000; the machine is intended to process several tens of > > thousands of very small packets per second, and interrupt processing was a > > big

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

2002-07-26 Thread David Miller
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > There is no multi-target command that I know of. You are absolutely > correct in your bandwidth calculations... a SCSI bus should have no > problem at all duping the data 8 times to each of 8 CDR's, and the > operating system ought t

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

2002-07-29 Thread David Miller
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :As for the general concept, I can say it works fine. I built a system > :with nearly 30 DVD-ram drives on 6 separate scsi channels. At first I > :tried using a utility that would read from the input image (on hard > :disk) and write it out to all th

DVD-ram

1999-06-29 Thread David Miller
Apologies if this should be on -scsi Has anyone done any work with dvd-ram drives under FreeBSD? I will soon need to duplicate dvd-ram media and would very much like to do it under unix. All I need to start with is the ability to read/write the raw device. Currently the drive is recognized

Re: DVD-ram

1999-06-30 Thread David Miller
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, crypt0genic wrote: > I have a Lacie DVD-RAM drive, it work great under windows, here is the DMESG i g > et from it, I hope this is of some help. > > acd0: drive speed 1033KB/sec, 256KB cache > acd0: supported read types: > acd0: Audio: play, 255 volume levels > acd0: Mechani

[Off Topic] ODBC and yahoo

1999-07-13 Thread David Miller
:( 2) Anyone know what Yahoo is doing? They've got freebsd webservers, last I knew. Any info on how they're setup would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, --- David Miller To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

650 MB MFS?

1999-07-15 Thread David Miller
Would FreeBSD handle an mfs of this size? Thanks! --- David Miller To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 650 MB MFS?

1999-07-17 Thread David Miller
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : > :Are there any design limits to mfs? I want to use cdrecord to write to a > :dozen or so CD's at once, and fear making lots of coasters if I run them > :all off a single on-disk file. However, a CD only holds 650 MB, so it > :seems like I could h

Tuning web benchmarks

1999-08-03 Thread David Miller
2 MB ram, but the problems come with smp/apic configured or not. No interesting messages show up in dmesg or /var/log/* It looks like it's having trouble creating all the open sockets, and quits at the first such occurance. Any hints as to what to look for next? Thanks, --- David Miller To U

Gigabit ethernet support?

1999-08-18 Thread David Miller
Any supported cards in 3.2.x? The HCL pages don't list any:( Thanks, --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Gigabit ethernet support?

1999-08-23 Thread David Miller
Any supported cards in 3.2.x? The HCL pages don't list any:( Thanks, --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the

Alternate ftpd?

1999-12-19 Thread David Miller
Hello all:) I'm looking for an alternate ftpd which allows me to take certain (configurable) actions based on the receipt of certain files. For exmple, I want to "process" a tar file full of jpg images upon receipt. I know there are alternatives. I can run swatch on the log file or torture sys

Need help with crash debug

2000-02-27 Thread David Miller
Running FreeBSD 3.2-Release, with SMP enabled in the config file. FWIW, SMP_prvspace definately isn't in the symbol file: staging-1:STAGING-1# strings kernel.debug |grep SMP_ _SMP_prvstart SMP_ioapic SMP_prvpt Pointers to existing docs I should have known about most welcome. Pointers/clues/a

Re: Need help with crash debug

2000-02-28 Thread David Miller
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Joerg Micheel wrote: > David, > > I haven't done too much debugging with FreeBSD either. A few small > notes, however. > > I don't think the gdb version shipped is ready to handle SMP kernels. > This is a deficiency, not sure someone is working on it, I believe not. > Wow

group permissions question

2000-02-28 Thread David Miller
Probably a simple question for the hackers in these parts... I have a process which runs as root and is supposed to be started by /usr/local/etc/rc.d/script.sh. This process looks at a queue file, and a table and decides to setuid to some user. No great mysteries here If the process is sta

NCR/FXP and coredumps

2000-03-22 Thread David Miller
Two item: 1) I managed to crash an intel N440BX mobo with an fxp card and the onboard ncr drivers. Lots of network traffic (ping floods) and disk IO (rawio in parallel on two disks) took it down in something like two hours. I know this is a known bug, I'm just offering core dumps and testing ser

RE: ps does not work after a cvsupdate to 4.0-STABLE

2000-05-09 Thread David Miller
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Henk Wevers wrote: > > Yes i did, i found the solution in the Dutch FreeBSD mailinglist > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > FAQ IIRC. > > libkvm is out of sync. [make libkvm and ps] > This did work fine. I suffered the same problem, and got to wondering; why would make buildworld afte

Re: ps does not work after a cvsupdate to 4.0-STABLE

2000-05-10 Thread David Miller
On Tue, 9 May 2000, James Housley wrote: > > > > > This did work fine. > > > > I suffered the same problem, and got to wondering; why would make > > buildworld after the cvsup not do this? I thought the whole point of > > buildworld was to compile and install everything as a coordinated set? >