Memory allocation question

Hi, I'm creating an app where I want to use memory to store data so I can get at it quickly. The problem is, I can't afford the delays that would occur if the memory gets swapped out. Is there any way in FreeBSD to allocate memory so that the VM system won't swap it out? Thanks, DMK To Uns

Remote upgrade of 4.X-5.3-Stable

Hi all, I've been experimenting with upgrading 4.X to 5.3-STABLE. The challenge I've been given is that the box to be upgraded is physically inaccessible and so there's no console access. All I have to work with is ssh and scp. In our lab I built a box to 5.3-STABLE. I then used the /usr/obj d

Re: Problems with use of M_NOWWAIT in ATA

Hi, I'm wondering if this could possibly be related to a problem I was having with my 4.9-RELEASE box. Twice in two days it hung on me completely, and started spouting the following error messages: ad0 WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 -restting ad0: trying fallback to PIO mode ata0: resetting

Hyperthreading question

Hello, I'm in charge of upgrading a number of boxes from 4.8-RELEASE from 4.10-RELEASE. My problem is this section of notes from the 4.9-RELEASE errata: (28 Oct 2003) Very late in the release cycle, a change was made to the HyperThreading (HTT) support on Intel® processors. HTT support is now

Re: pkg_create broken by design?

Hi all, Just wanted to chime in that I've encountered the exact same thing, although it's a relatively recent thing... I think it happened when I ported to 4.5 from 4.2. The only solution I've found, pain in the neck that it is, is to create the destination directories on the source box. That

Re: pkg_create broken?

Julian Elischer wrote: Alternatively, the man page hints that a 'srcdir' would stop a following 'cwd' from having effect in the create phase. Just wanted to mention that order is extremely important with package creation. If you have @cwd /foo/bar; @srcdir /bar/foo your files will be picked up f

Re: pkg_create broken?

Arrgh. Forget what I just wrote about a @dstdir option. My brain shortcircuited and I believed it actually existed. Cheers, DMK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to

PUzzling sshd behaviour

Hi, I recently took one of our machines off the main network and set up a crossover cable between it and my personal box. I was looking to scp some large files over and I didn't want to swamp the network. (I use scp from force of habit, even though ftp would probably be quicker in this case.)

Re: PUzzling sshd behaviour

Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:32:52AM -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: Anyone else see this type of thing before? I did some research on the lists but all I ever saw was a problem with reading resolv.conf. That's not the case here, because it's definitely pick

Re: PUzzling sshd behaviour

Ted Faber wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:04:04PM -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: That much I know. I was just wondering why the daemon is trying DNS lookup when the IP in question is listed in /etc/hosts. I thought listings in /etc/hosts would supercede the need for a DNS lookup. Of course

Re: PUzzling sshd behaviour

Simon L. Nielsen wrote: Do you use Privilege Separation? That can give interesting results with DNS due to chroot into /var/empty... see the mailing lists archives. Argh. This frustrates me. I did some searching on various mailing lists before, and when they talked about switching into /var/emp