Re: Devloper

1999-07-18 Thread Doug White
to be killed first and > > those that ought to be killed last in low-memory situations Doug White Internet: dwh...@resnet.uoregon.edu| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite| www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Multiple NAT alias addresses

1999-09-13 Thread Doug White
meone can note any inconsistencies that would be great. Doug White Internet: dwh...@resnet.uoregon.edu| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite| www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscri

Re: Multiple NAT alias addresses

1999-09-14 Thread Doug White
bank) and see if those work. I can't attach gdb to a running -g'd version of natd, it just segfaults. :( > > Does natd support multiple alias addresses, or am I missing something > > obvious? > > > Definitely supports! > > BTW, what version you are on? 3.2-R

Re: Multiple NAT alias addresses

1999-09-14 Thread Doug White
1.2.3.5:80 -> 212.110.138.4:49960 > In [TCP] [TCP] 212.110.138.4:49960 -> 1.2.3.5:80 aliased to >[TCP] 212.110.138.4:49960 -> 192.168.2.201:80 > Redirections are happening. Very odd. I'm going to adjust the configfile so that it has no comments or bla

Re: Multiple NAT alias addresses

1999-09-16 Thread Doug White
.1.1.2:ssh There is some logic in natd to handle the wrong case so that it is equivalent to the right case, but that logic may be flawed. > I just copied your config file from your original posting, see attached. > But PLEASE MAKE SURE you have no trailing whitespaces at the end

Re: Redirection service

1999-05-12 Thread Doug White
ying to redirect a specific service, or all requests for a particular IP address? Doug White Internet: dwh...@resnet.uoregon.edu| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite| www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

USENIX scribe bit

1999-05-27 Thread Doug White
Julian mumbled something about: > how about doug white :-) > He mentionned being a bit short on cash to go to USEnix I need the plane ticket & hotel ... I have the student membership so the actual show is like $100. The plane and hotel could break my measly credit cards, not to menti

Re: USENIX scribe bit

1999-05-27 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Alex Belits wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 1999, Doug White wrote: > > > If anyone had a DV (FireWire) camera they could make available, I could > > ship my mac G3/350 down and edit the data it into video clips, then serve > > it with QuickTime Streamin

3.1 panic: vm_page_unwire: invalid wire count: 0

1999-06-18 Thread Doug White
3 #3 0xf0157851 in procfs_rwmem (curp=0xf4861ba0, p=0xf476c3c0, uio=0xf4868f40) at ../../miscfs/procfs/procfs_mem.c:256 256 vm_page_unwire(m, 1); (kgdb) print m $8 = (struct vm_page *) 0x100 Thoughts? Hints? Buttons to push? Thanks! Doug White

RE: CDROM drive doesn't probe if no CD present [Was:cannot mount cd indicates bad ide cd drive - replace?]

1999-06-22 Thread Doug White
essage on the console after this mount > indicating success. > It did not appear in this script output, obviously. Bizarre. That may be a driver bug or your drive is getting into an inconsistent state if it doesn't boot with a CD present. What brand/model of CD drive is it? Doug White

Re: pthreads and kqueue

2001-01-24 Thread Doug White
ment your solution, though ... from the sounds of it, you can only have one concurrent connection to your authentication server via this library, which sounds extremely lame. Do the clients just sit around forever until the server returns? The serialization this library forces isn&#

Re: pthreads and kqueue

2001-01-26 Thread Doug White
ou have any! Also, your proprietary library has to be threadsafe too. Particularly if it blocks... it'll probably block the whole process instead of the individual thread. Unless we figured out a way to fix that :) Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL

Re: NFS server out of mbuf's?

2001-01-26 Thread Doug White
gt; logs and such. Sudden network outages during periods of high activity will cause mbuf cluser consumption to increase. 'netstat -m' is your friend. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: FreeBSD specific strftime(3) format specifiers

2001-02-01 Thread Doug White
; should be submitted to gcc developers and the changes will get into > our tree on next gcc source import? I believe there is a -fformat-extensions flag that gets around this problem. Check out the kernel build for the actual flag as it's used there. Doug White

Re: Suboptimal mmap of devices on i86

2001-02-01 Thread Doug White
using the previous syscall(2) interface? They die horribly? That's not acceptable. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting - PXE/diskless

2001-02-01 Thread Doug White
h boxes. > > i labeled the disks with: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda0 bs=1k count=1 > disklabel -Brw da0 auto This is a bug in the adaptec BIOS. Don't do this for boot disks. Use fdisk/real slices instead. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL

Re: apache

2001-02-26 Thread Doug White
2001] [alert] Child 777 returned a Fatal error... > Apache is exiting! > httpd in free(): warning: page is already free. > > > anyone seen this before? > i do have some things on nfs apache accesses.. Don't put the scoreboard & lock file on NFS. The Apache docs say this i

Re: DNS rules etc

2001-03-26 Thread Doug White
e firewall is a bit tenuous at best. You generally want to use a separate host for mail, etc. and just NAT it through. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: creating an fdisk partition in an automated way

2001-04-04 Thread Doug White
> But I can not for the life of me figure out how to do it the right way. fdisk -I is your friend. (DANGER: THIS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- READ THE MAN PAGE FIRST!) Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: your mail

2001-04-05 Thread Doug White
op of the > kernel. > i aim to make ufs run as a module on FreeBSD, which > surely would require a lot of serious kernel > code<-entry points. It shouldn't be too bad as long as you force the loader to load the module, otherwise you run into a chicken & egg problem. Doug Wh

Re: creating an fdisk partition in an automated way

2001-04-07 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, dannyman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:58:12PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > [...] > > fdisk -I is your friend. (DANGER: THIS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- READ THE MAN > > PAGE FIRST!) > > Yeah ... I use it. It seems to do the right thing. Then disklabel doe

Re: lockf in apache

2001-04-11 Thread Doug White
ce a request, finished serving, then goes to > select again, all the rest (499) have to wake up and reaffirm thier > desire to select(). We haven't applied wakeup_one() to select() yet? (I think I've argued about this before.) Someone get cracking! :) Doug White

Re: Shoutcast, high cpu, threads

2001-04-18 Thread Doug White
serv use select() in it's main loop? I've seen applications that use a zero timeout for select() and when they're idle the select() loop runs really fast. This certainly sucks for multiuser systems but for dedicated boxes it allows for great response time. Doug White

Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

2001-04-18 Thread Doug White
t, the Project even had one or two emulator boxes, software and hardware, supplied by AMD. Where did those go? (Yes I know the emulator is ass-slow and a gigantic beast, but it does work, right?) Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.Fr

Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

2001-04-24 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:51:17PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > (Yes I know the emulator is ass-slow and a gigantic beast, but it does > > work, right?) > > The public simulator took 12 hours to get to the twirler of our

Re: KEvent doesnt return and KEvent sample troubles

2001-05-02 Thread Doug White
look at the EVFILT_VNODE type in the kqueue(2) manpage. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Should I worryy?

2001-05-19 Thread Doug White
s 329M, whild df says 54k. Two things mainly cause du-vs-df sizing problems: . hardlinks . sparse files Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: how to set dumpdev

2005-04-30 Thread Doug White
zation. > > But I don't find 'dumpdev' referenced anywhere under /usr/src/sys/boot/. Is > the documentation wrong? It wouldn't be there, but it alos loks like that tunable has gone away when GEOM took over definign the dump device. Now it needs a struct to specify the tar

Re: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related?

2005-05-19 Thread Doug White
gt; >#9 0xc05b21a6 in tcp_close (tp=0x0) at /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_subr.c:783 > > > > There's something wrong here: If tcp_close() is passed NULL it will panic > > at this point when it tries to dereference tp. > > Starting to stretch m

Re: High Availability Freebsd?

2000-06-20 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Robert Withrow wrote: > - Warm (or hot) standby. Put me on the 'interested' list for this, particularly for the network end. I have 'VRRPd for FreeBSD' on my very-long-range-todo but I doubt I have the skills right now to implement i

Re: Problem with Adaptec scsi card

2000-06-22 Thread Doug White
bably some sort of interference. It also could be a device that just can't take the heat. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: I would like to know more about VFS and VM

2000-06-26 Thread Doug White
ning the VM system. http://www.daemonnews.org/ > I'm requiring unionfs/nullfs to be working to use in jails. > I'm ready to give some time to make changes in implementation to be working. If you're starting from nothing you have a lot to learn. Doug White|

Re: sysinstall script disklabel problems -- help

2000-06-29 Thread Doug White
what is wrong? Could someone also perhaps post some examples that > do work? Hint: don't. :-) I suggest looking at the PicoBSD install disk for a tried-and-true way of doing this. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Un

Re: stray interrupts in 4.0

2000-07-01 Thread Doug White
than 1 MB. This is in the archives and the FAQ at www.freebsd.org. This is normal. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: NATD errors on 5.0

2000-07-05 Thread Doug White
tion. Check your rules... try running open to start out with then restrict as needed. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: driver

2000-07-07 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Sergio Faustino wrote: > To make the QuickCam (grayscale) work with Windows NT machines you > must install an NT driver. I'd like to know as to get this driver. Ask in a NT forum, then. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAI

Re: Interrupt Handler?

2000-07-14 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > Where/How does one implement a hardware interrupt handler? I haven't done this > sort of thing since the days of DOS. I imagine its a lot different in *nix. :) Yes, you write a kernel device driver. Doug White| F

Re: Boot loader problem workaround

2000-07-15 Thread Doug White
fdisk -a -1 ad0 would just set it instead of asking. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

suprising mount root behavior

2000-07-21 Thread Doug White
one from fstab (and subsequently fail)? Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: kevent()/kqueue() in a multithreaded environment

2000-07-27 Thread Doug White
se kqueue to *implement* threads. :-) AFAIK kqueue hasn't been made threadsafe, you'll have to bug [EMAIL PROTECTED] about it. Patches gladly accepted :) Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EM

Re: CRACK - Dreamweaver

2000-07-31 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Richard Stoodley wrote: > Hi Can you tell me where I can get Crack www.virtualcrack.com Go send yourself some. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: FreeBSD belly up with big config

2000-08-05 Thread Doug White
interface list to use some other data structure. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: freebsd and non-preemtive threads

2000-08-17 Thread Doug White
y is available. Select-based "threads" aren't too difficult to set up in C, you could use http://www.nightmare.com/medusa, a Python implementation, as a starting point. Also most NNTP servers have been using techniques like this for years. The key to these types of s

Re: fam and fmon?

2000-08-17 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > Does anyone have fam working with fmon yet? The sgi page has a few > mentions of it but they're a few months old. man kqueue Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To

RE: freebsd and non-preemtive threads

2000-08-17 Thread Doug White
ementation of select-based threading. We've done a somewhat trivial port of it to kqueue and are working on a better integration module. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Testers wanted: nsswitch

2000-08-22 Thread Doug White
, I was forced to work with nsswitch -> host.conf issue. I think we all like the semantics, but I recall a large discussion about a year ago that NetBSD's nsswitch is serializing, which for heavy DNS use is a major performance hit. I don't recall if a design ever came out of it. Doug Whi

Re: Auto DMA vs. Manual DMA Settings... FBSD 3.51

2000-08-25 Thread Doug White
supports UDMA33 > however, so that's not really an issue. I'd suggest upgrading to a proper DMA66 cable and see if that helps. > My question ... can I use the ad driver from 4.x with 3.51-RELEASE? This > problem doesn't occur under 4.0 or 4.1-RELEASE/S

Re: Cyclades Cyclom Ze (64 serialportboard)

2000-08-31 Thread Doug White
ted to use but the card wouldn't init. We put it in a standard pentium box and it worked. We still have that card with a 16 port box that I've been tempted to play with. We ended up using good ol' cisco 2511s. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to S

Re: Cyclades Cyclom Ze (64 serialportboard)

2000-09-02 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Arjan Knepper wrote: > Doug White wrote: > > > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Arjan Knepper wrote: > > > > > Anyone experience with this board? > > > Any comments? Recomandations? > > > > I have a ze card that we bought for use

Re: Need quick help.

2000-09-05 Thread Doug White
physical network. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: my crummy diskless howto page

2000-09-15 Thread Doug White
the mfsroot image. Mike Smith can elaborate. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: putting FreeBSD in an extended partition

2000-09-25 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Zhiui Zhang wrote: > > I am wondering whether there is a good reason for not putting FreeBSD in a > DOS extended partition. Good luck booting it. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscr

Re: putting FreeBSD in an extended partition

2000-09-26 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Zhiui Zhang wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Doug White wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Zhiui Zhang wrote: > > > > > > > > I am wondering whether there is a good reason for not putting FreeBSD in a > > > DOS extended partitio

Re: writing to disk

2000-09-29 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Marc Tardif wrote: > What is the quickest way of writing large amounts of data to disk? Sequentially. Disks run an order of magnitude faster if they have sequential data. Don't get too fancy with the ordering since the disk driver will just reorder it for you. Do

Re: IDE drives doing BBR?

2000-10-04 Thread Doug White
=/dev/ad1 bs=4k' works great; takes about an hour to scrub the entire disk. Run until clean. Running it right now in fact. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: mfsroot over nfs and optional install.cfg ??

2000-10-19 Thread Doug White
them apart and see what they do. > Then, the other question is, how the heck does sysinstall get launched? If I > can get at a script that launches sysinstall, I could set an install.cfg for > sysinstall to run instead of having to point at differnt install.cfg's via &g

Re: irq status

2000-11-01 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Jamie Heckford wrote: > Is their a tool out their or does anyone have a quick bit of code / hack that > will "probe" all of the irqs on my box and tell me which ones are used / > available?? dmesg | grep irq Doug White| FreeBSD:

Re: post-install of kernal sources, maxusers max?

2000-11-08 Thread Doug White
P processes and 50 SMTPD processes > simulatenously, 256 meg RAM. Small processes. > On the postfix list, it seems someone has heard from several FreeBSD > "experts" that FreeBSD should not be run at above maxusers = 128, > while somebody else said they were running

Re: kqueue()/kevent(), select() and poll()

2000-11-19 Thread Doug White
ents of the new > kernel thread. > > Do you think it's possible and that it won't cause some portability problems ? Also, select() works on more descriptors than kqueue/kevent() does currently (i.e. NFS). Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Really odd "BTX halted" problem booting FreeBSD on VALinuxhardware

2000-10-29 Thread Doug White
s. 3. Try to boot the box; watch BTX die in the same place every time. The Adaptec BIOS is doing something really fugly when it doesn't find proper partition tables on the disks. It does it if ANY of the disks are done 'dangerously dedicated.' The easy solu

Re: PXE boot problem.

2000-11-30 Thread Doug White
mtftp-tmout code 4 = unsigned integer 8; >option PXE.mtftp-delay code 5 = unsigned integer 8; Problem #2: This is not required, and is in fact wrong. tftp != mtftp. Unless you have an MTFTP server around ... I highly suggest doing it the old fashioned way with boot-file. PXE wi

Re: diskless/pxe boot

2000-12-18 Thread Doug White
o know what PXE version you were using and on what device. For newer PXE revs (2.X), you want build 082 or later. Everything before is broken in some way. The 0.99c version of the Boot Agent (on older fxp cards) is fine, however. The Intel 810 firmware is quite broken; a fixed one will be ava

Re: ARP question.

2001-01-02 Thread Doug White
s this nasty bad habit of broadcasting ARPs on all interfaces. For this reason multihomed Linux boxes should be banned. We got tired of it at my previous job and patched around it on the linux machine. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.or

Re: kernel debugging suggestion needed

2001-01-02 Thread Doug White
te debugging or ddb)? kld debugging is a bit tricky. Take a look at the debugging macros and bits that Greg Lehey put together for vinum for a starting point. You have to calculate the appropriate offset to get to the KLD code in gdb. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [

Re: BSD dlopen and such

2001-01-04 Thread Doug White
yscalls have to be translated, otherwise if you were running as root and loaded a linux lib into a freebsd binary, then that lib called fcntl(), your system would reboot :) Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail t

Re: Starting natd

2001-07-26 Thread Doug White
s static nat). You can specify an IP and rc.network autodetects to use -n or -a. natd_interface="a.b.c.d" is ok (at least on 4.2) Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Collecting System Statistics Programatically

2001-07-27 Thread Doug White
n get memory utilization stats from sysctl; look in the 'vm' group. CPU usage still has to come from kmem I think. Check the vmstat / top code. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: if_sf bug

2001-10-03 Thread Doug White
figure it with IP 0.0.0.0. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Duping a hard disk

2001-10-23 Thread Doug White
#x27;s a bit dated, but I've used the same system with PXE netbooting to install tons of machines. It can NFS mount just about anything, so you can rig your own autoconfig scheme so you don't need to set the machine name & IP manually :) Doug White

Re: Tracking down "BTX halted"

2001-11-16 Thread Doug White
Sen that they will not tolerate DD disks. Put proper partition tables on them and they should behave. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Tracking down "BTX halted"

2001-11-17 Thread Doug White
m. Happens to me on L440GX+ boards. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: stange probelm with vmstat

2001-11-20 Thread Doug White
in /dev and the sgid on > vmstat. > Everything right. Can any one tell what i did thtat messed up my 4.1? This generally happens if you don't boot your kernel with loader(8). Make sure you're booting your kernel the right way ... delete /boot.config, particularly if it mentions

Re: BPF - Packet Reception

2001-11-26 Thread Doug White
l, so many packets are > getting dropped. BPF isn't a high-performance interface. If you need something faster, you should add your code to the kernel network stack. Then you will get a call to your code for every packet input of the type you're looking for. Doug White

Re: left over shells/processes

2003-05-30 Thread Doug White
the shell and any > processes attached to it. > how can we kill these leftover shells & processes if this occurs? Is your app handling SIGHUP? If not, the app will stay running, as well as its parents. -- Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ramdisk??

2003-06-09 Thread Doug White
I've looked for howto's online but haven't found anything. any > suggestions Did you find rc.diskless2, which sets all this up for you? This is a good description of how to use it (and set up other stuff for diskless/readonly media systems): http://neon1.net/

Re: flush on close

2003-09-11 Thread Doug White
nt options? I believe this is correct (and safe) behavior for the default case. -- Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: Creative Labs Nomad via usb ?

2001-12-20 Thread Doug White
s product 0x0222, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 3 > > Has anyone looked at this to see if you could send files to it > from FreeBSD ? Try adding the vendor/product ID to usbdevs then rebuild umass. I suspect it requires a bit more than that :) Doug White| FreeBSD: The P

Re: Looking for a sysctl logger

2001-12-23 Thread Doug White
s), but I was hoping for something more > general purpose. And no, I don't want to write it in perl : -) > I'm trying to make it low impact, hence c. mrtg? :-) You're just calling sysctl and returning the result; it could be done in a very short shell script. Doug White

Re: what slice did I boot from?

2002-01-05 Thread Doug White
ld compatibilty slice will certainly get you in hot water. I've been thinking about hacking up some forth to handle this switching programatically, so you get a nice menu to pick which FreeBSD slice to boot from if you enable the feature. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Powe

Re: sessionlimit

2002-01-05 Thread Doug White
ly implemented anywhere. sessionlimit may be one such option. I'd suggest checking login(8) since that's what generally enforces the limits (libutil just reads them). Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send

Re: what slice did I boot from?

2002-01-05 Thread Doug White
gt; though harder to do an automatic fallback, perhaps. You try boot0 ... that's where my problem showed up. One would boot but the other says "Invalid partition." This is a heavily hacked install though (since sysinstall won't let you put a second / into a second slic

Re: what slice did I boot from?

2002-01-06 Thread Doug White
n't know why, and I'm pretty > sure I don't want to know :=) That's a distinct possibility. I made it with sysinstall but I made the previous slice a wierd size (not a power of 2). sysinstall probably didn't quite justify it to the BIOS's want. I'll have to

Re: How well does EVFILT_AIO work?

2002-01-13 Thread Doug White
ispose of the threads and streamline your code. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: kernel contribution guidance

2002-01-19 Thread Doug White
Do whatever you want. :-) Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: kevent() in another thread

2002-01-19 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Floris 'Tamama' van Gog wrote: > I read that kevent/kqueue weren't very thread-safe. Where did you read this? kqueue/kevent are perfectly threadsafe. Now, whether kevent is useful in threads is a totally different matter Doug White

Re: natd UDP errors with PPP demand dial

2002-02-04 Thread Doug White
of the rules not getting installed before natd fires up. Are you using ppp.linkup (or equivalent) to configure ipfw in this case? Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscrib

Re: chowning problem or somthing...

2002-03-12 Thread Doug White
estuser4 > %whoami > root > %uname -r > 4.5-RELEASE Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Interesting sysctl variables in Mac OS X with hw info

2002-03-15 Thread Doug White
eir comparison charts and it seems a lot easier than grepping > /var/run/dmesg.boot. :) I've been asked several times about how to get CPU speed information for inventory purposes. People would really like the speed number printed on the chip, not what it's currently running

Re: fault VA=0x0 segfaults.

2002-03-18 Thread Doug White
ams with linux binary compat. though freebsd compiled > programs does segfaults too sometimes .. I'm sure its not corrupted > memory cause everything was working before. This belongs on -questions. Two words: Bad Memory Doug White| FreeBSD: The

Re: Need help accessing a chipset register

2002-03-19 Thread Doug White
on of the southbridge, then hooking it to a driver would be tricky without some serious hackery to whatever driver is grabbing that device/function. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Getting more system information

2002-03-30 Thread Doug White
ore I asked. But I > need it in tar.gz format, while the source files on > ftp.freebsd.org has something different. Yeah, a split tar.gz format. 'cat swhatever.* | tar xzf -' You might find http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ more useful. Doug White| FreeBSD: The

Re: Is a debug kernel slower than a non-debug one ?

2002-04-05 Thread Doug White
ary with debugging symbols is left in /sys/compile/MYKERNEL/kernel.debug while the actual kernel is stripped before installation into /kernel. If the debugging kernel was actually loaded it would be gigantic :) This is all detailed in the Handbook section on kernel debugging, btw. Doug White

Re: Is a debug kernel slower than a non-debug one ?

2002-04-06 Thread Doug White
ecify a debugging kernel to kgdb as the exec-file and it will load properly. > > This is all detailed in the Handbook section on kernel debugging, > > btw. > > Hmm, that needs to be fixed, then. The Developer's Handbook, section 16, has the details. It seems to match up wit

Re: USB to IDE converter

2002-04-06 Thread Doug White
'daX' device ever gets associated with the device however. > > Does anyone have any experience with this product and/or know what it > may take to get it working under FreeBSD? 'camcontrol rescan 1'? Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL

Re: Hardlinks...

2002-04-08 Thread Doug White
t/bin/copykeys.sh -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 186 Feb 14 2001 /root/bin/copykeys.sh* Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Is natd the right tool?

2002-04-11 Thread Doug White
; > ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> -p @192.168.7.251 www.foo.com > ; (1 server found) > ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch > ;; res_nsend to server 192.168.7.251: Connection refused You need to reflect the TCP port as well. Doug White| FreeBSD: Th

Re: missing libraries, and how to find them.

2002-04-25 Thread Doug White
ck it up. > The patches to ldd will. They will recurse on down forever. I realize this is probably extremely rare, but does it catch circular dependencies? You don't want it looping off into forever. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | w

Re: missing libraries, and how to find them.

2002-04-27 Thread Doug White
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Mike Meyer wrote: > It lists both libraries once, showing the dependencies between > them. When it finds a library, it adds it to the list if it isn't > already on it. It keeps listing what's in a library until all of them > are listed. Sounds like a g

Re: Updating to stable

2002-04-27 Thread Doug White
ble, I hate it when it happens too, but sometimes they are necessary. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: PnP OS Problem

2002-05-01 Thread Doug White
m not sure that works anymore.) Not all BIOSen work properly even with PNP BIOS off -- they miss devices, sound cards being the most common. PCI is of course immune from these problems since it has resource assignment built-in. Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED

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