Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-27 Thread Kent Stewart
OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. > > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ > mailto:m...@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com > > T

Re: ATA 4K sector issues

2010-03-17 Thread Kent Stewart
12 sectors. An article on the effect is located at http://storageeffect.media.seagate.com/2010/03/storage-effect/y2-011k-looming-for-windows-xp-users/ Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ freebsd-hackers@f

Re: Possible bug in /usr/bin/makewhatis.

2001-01-17 Thread Kent Stewart
re > ... > > Could someone take a look at that? There might be other places as well. > Thanks! > > -Matt > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: soft updates performance

2001-02-11 Thread Kent Stewart
dworld obj on 2nd controller 1516.863u 442.821s 57:17.18 57.0% 1246+1450k 49613+196329io 1866pf+0w build with log on 3rd controller 1522.877u 455.119s 56:52.29 57.9% 1238+1446k 45803+196359io 1721pf+0w make world with files on 3 controllers and -j4 1547.296u 553.318s 58:16.61 60.0%

Re: soft updates performance

2001-02-12 Thread Kent Stewart
elapsed time dropped from 58:16 to 45:54 by using softupdates. Kent > > -Matt > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA ma

Re: soft updates performance

2001-02-12 Thread Kent Stewart
7;t have any of them to use to test. One other point that I would like to understand is why -j4 takes longer on all of my systems. That goes against what everyone claims should happen. Kent > > -Matt -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: soft updates performance

2001-02-12 Thread Kent Stewart
system. The folklore has it doing more but all I ever saw it produce was more competition, which resulted in a longer running buildworld. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubsc

Re: soft updates performance

2001-02-12 Thread Kent Stewart
t has said that since 3.x was the latest stable. I would add -j4 and my buildworld would slow down a few percent. Kent > > - Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Kent S

Re: soft updates performance

2001-02-12 Thread Kent Stewart
very interesting EISA/PCI combo, mfgd in 1991). > > Although Jordan's quite right in saying that using anything larger than > -j2 on a uniprocessor machine will usually be futile, in the world of SMP > things are much stranger, so it's good to experiment. (-j8 is > a

Re: soft updates performance

2001-02-12 Thread Kent Stewart
ill come after I get some timing done with ATA-100 IDE HD's on separate controllers. I haven't tried running -j2 and as soon as my base case with no "-jn" specified and softupdate finishes, I will try "-j2". Kent > > -- > Matt Emmerton -- Kent Stewart Richl

Re: soft updates performance

2001-02-13 Thread Kent Stewart
tion really slows the buildworld down. The times are in a table at http://dsl1-160.dynacom.net/freebsd/urban_legends.html kent > > -- > Ben > > "I told Paddy no, I told Steve no, I told Paul no, and Ben fell asleep." >--Kate C. (no, different Be

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-14 Thread Kent Stewart
t; -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: cvsup problems

2001-05-28 Thread Kent Stewart
y-pr.cgi?pr=27495 Kent > > Kees Jan > > > You are only young once, > but you can stay immature all your life. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers"

Re: problem on 4.1-RC (4.0-stable)

2000-07-18 Thread Kent Stewart
- > Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 > Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: problem on 4.1-RC (4.0-stable)

2000-07-19 Thread Kent Stewart
Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 09:09:47PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I updated via cvsup (cvsup from tuesday afternoon PDT), I went into > > >

Re: Kernel compile problem?

2000-09-05 Thread Kent Stewart
/sys/modules. > *** Error code 1 > > Anyone else getting this error on a build? > > I last cvsupped at 8:50am GMT+2 > > Thanks > > Andrew > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the me

Re: make buildworld fails

2000-11-30 Thread Kent Stewart
t; > > No snowflake falls in an inappropriate place. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/inde

Re: make buildworld fails

2000-12-01 Thread Kent Stewart
Dave Hayes wrote: > > Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dave Hayes wrote: > >> > >> Cvsup'd sources (tag=RELEASE_4_2_0) from scratch fail: > > I don't see a tag=RELEASE_4_2_0. There is a tag=RELENG_4_2_0_RELEASE. > > Could

Re: make buildworld fails

2000-12-01 Thread Kent Stewart
Dave Hayes wrote: > > Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I did a cvsup build of 3 systems using 4-stable when it showed up as > > 4.2-release. How did you install 4.2 and did you cvsup src-all. > > This is a 3.3-RELEASE system upgrading to 4.2, I did

Re: Floppy disk is full

2000-12-18 Thread Kent Stewart
use fdimage from the /tools directory since they are images of the floppy. Kent > > --- > Kieko AOYAMA@Compaq Computer K.K. > Tel:03-5349-4491(4491) > Fax:03-5349-7458 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: Sitting on hands (no longer Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT)

2000-12-21 Thread Kent Stewart
work. If someone popps up on -stable and says that the "Buildworld is failing" for 4-stable, it is really easy to fire off that script and find out if it is. I have one running at this time. Kent > > Steve B. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with &qu

Re: (a bit offtopic) KDE2.1.1 install

2001-07-09 Thread Kent Stewart
> I'm running a p233 with 128mgs of ram, and KDE 2.1.1 install has been > compiling ALL MORNING > > Is this unusual? First, this is a question for -questions. You shouldn't send HTML. No, it could take 12 hours or more on the p233. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richla

Re: Finding filesizes in C++ for files greater than 4gb

2001-08-01 Thread Kent Stewart
isn't specified >in the manpage, what does it lead you to assume? > > Although 64-bit file sizes have been part of FreeBSD since 2.0-RELEASE back in 1994 >[as I recall], maybe the manpages should reflect > this fact by means other than the deductive reasoning outlined above

Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit?

2001-09-14 Thread Kent Stewart
; are loaded by another kind of MBR loader (say, Grub), and they find out > > that they are placed beyond the 1023th cylinder? > > This should work, yes. I tried this with a boot1 from FreeBSD 4.4-rc and get a BTX error. I had to go back to the boot1 from 4.3 before I could boot. Ken

Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit?

2001-09-14 Thread Kent Stewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > > So.. if I read you right, booting correctly for > 1024 cylinders works > > > > if boot0 knows about it. Isn't boot0 the one in the MBR, not in the

Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit?

2001-09-14 Thread Kent Stewart
John Baldwin wrote: > > On 14-Sep-01 Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> Kent Stewart wrote: > >> > >> > Mike Smith wrote: > >> > > > >> > > > So.. if I read you righ

Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit?

2001-09-14 Thread Kent Stewart
John Baldwin wrote: > > On 14-Sep-01 Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > John Baldwin wrote: > >> > >> On 14-Sep-01 Kent Stewart wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> > >> &

Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit?

2001-09-15 Thread Kent Stewart
; multiple FreeBSD slices) I tried ad0s3 and the system was just reinstalled using a binary install. It wouldn't boot past the "-" symbol. Kent > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit?

2001-09-16 Thread Kent Stewart
W2K partition the active one and it wouldn't boot FreeBSD. Once I had a matched set, everything was ok. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: ep0 driver oddity

2001-11-01 Thread Kent Stewart
not get an ep1 along with it? > Alternatives (eg, loader.conf or something) would be fine, I know > nothing about that. > > -- >Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 > PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ > Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www

Re: power supplies

2001-09-27 Thread Kent Stewart
___+ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: se

Re: power supplies

2001-09-27 Thread Kent Stewart
Jim Bryant wrote: > > Kent Stewart wrote: > > > There are problems with PSes when you use NICs with wake up > > capability. The NIC may exceed the capability of one of your low > > amperage voltages. > > > > Kent > > How much current can wake-on-L

Re: C coding editor

2003-02-23 Thread Kent Stewart
and the last runs exclusively on X (at least on > UNIX it does). X is for programmers, too. Try it, you'll like it. > You might even find a use for that mouse. -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: aps2file doesn't work on FreeBSD

2001-12-17 Thread Kent Stewart
has a >>user ID of 0, in which case it is unmodified. The invoked shell is the >>target login's. This is the traditional behavior of su. >> >>-l Simulate a full login. >>--- >> >>You are observing none other than the expected behavior. I have

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Kent Stewart
y more SiS versions in -current. They just haven't been MFC'ed. Look for 55131039 in ata-pci.c and ata-dma.c. Kent > > If anyone has even a hint as to what else could be causing these > reboots, I'd very much appreciate it (-questions didn't really come up

Re: Error compiling src for 4.5-RELEASE on 4.0-RELEASE

2002-02-07 Thread Kent Stewart
To Serve >>http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age >> >>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 message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive.

2002-07-08 Thread Kent Stewart
loppy. Check their support web page. Kent > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscri

Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive.

2002-07-08 Thread Kent Stewart
Robert Klein wrote: > On Montag, 8. Juli 2002 23:46, Kent Stewart wrote: > >>Julian Elischer wrote: >> >>>The machiine has 1 CD drive and no floppy.. >>> > ^^ > > >>All of the manufacturers have a progr

Re: It's dead Jim

2002-08-18 Thread Kent Stewart
ery dim. If *BSD is > to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD > continues to > decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For > all practical purposes, *BSD is dead. > > Fact: *BSD is dying > > > > ________

Re: SiS 900 Ethernet card

2002-11-25 Thread Kent Stewart
d the idea of the onboard memory being 2x larger in the Intels. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: SiS 900 Ethernet card

2002-11-25 Thread Kent Stewart
just as with audio or video There should be an option in the bios called "Features Setup". In it you have a choice of "Onboard LAN" enabled or disabled. There are virtually no jumpers on SIS based motherboards. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kst

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-27 Thread Kent Stewart
OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. > > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.radan.com > > To Unsubscribe

Re: Temperature

1999-12-29 Thread Kent Stewart
=== > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its > capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewar

Re: Double buffered cp(1)

2000-04-22 Thread Kent Stewart
wait for full revolutions of the disk before you could do your next scheduled read or write I/O operation. Kent > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To Unsubscribe

Re: Double buffered cp(1)

2000-04-22 Thread Kent Stewart
me think that: > - User-space double-bufferred cp will not help at all given a decent > IO sub-system and decent devices. > - It will also not help when the controller and/or the device (as legacy > IDE) just act as an IO bottleneck for cp (double bottleneck in case of > readin

Re: Double buffered cp(1)

2000-04-22 Thread Kent Stewart
uild. There were definitely some changes there :). Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Huntin

Re: Double buffered cp(1)

2000-04-23 Thread Kent Stewart
ning at a nice of 19, still consumed 90% of > :the cpu. A buildworld on 4.0-Stable required 3500u seconds using > :gcc-2.95.2 and setiathome didn't accrue any appreciable cpu time > :during the build. There were definitely some changes there :). > : > :Kent > : > :-- > :K

Re: Double buffered cp(1)

2000-04-23 Thread Kent Stewart
share on FreeBSD. A benchmark that ran in four hours versus eight hours is a big change. I don't have a good batch system but the speed of my FreeBSD systems have a lot going for them clock wise. The Cray had 16MW (128MB) of memory and that is pretty much a starter system now days. Kent --

Re: Double buffered cp(1)

2000-04-24 Thread Kent Stewart
> George Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Tel +44 1235 544 127 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index

Re: Double buffered cp(1)

2000-04-26 Thread Kent Stewart
n UW scsi for /usr/obj was actually a little bit longer than using a UDMA66 ATA HD. The scsi was flat out at 8MB/s where as the UDMA HD was capable of 12-14MB/s. The Maxtor UDMA drive had a 2MB cache and the IBM uw was much smaller. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: Double buffered cp(1)

2000-04-26 Thread Kent Stewart
ing "Tagged Queueing Enabled" is that something I can set? The adapter is an Adaptec 2940uw. da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit) da0: 4134MB (8467200 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 527C) Kent -- Ken

Re: Double buffered cp(1)

2000-04-26 Thread Kent Stewart
Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Apr 26), Kent Stewart said: > > I just noticed that mine isn't showing "Tagged Queueing Enabled" is > > that something I can set? The adapter is an Adaptec 2940uw. > > > > da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-03 Thread Kent Stewart
since RFC 956 > FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Kent

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-04 Thread Kent Stewart
Russia was starting to put one up more than a year ago. If we don't think it matters anymore, than one of them is operational. Kent - ka7gkw > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richl

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-06 Thread Kent Stewart
n the horizon. (I *really* like the > Garmin 12 unit. :) Does anyone have a unit that picks up the Russian GLONASS satellites and well as the USA GPS? It is supposed to improve the accuracy. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.3-cities.com/~kstew

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-06 Thread Kent Stewart
uld calculate. You are going to have to calibrate the delay but that would be a function of the logic chips. It could also be close to a constant. Multipath would cause problems in the larger cities. Anyone that has tried to use a 2m handheld in Dallas is familiar with that problem :).

Include headers error in kdebase-1.1.2

2000-05-06 Thread Kent Stewart
ve two systems running FreeBSD 4.0-Stable and it occurs on both of them. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl

Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-06 Thread Kent Stewart
gt; -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wit

Re: [OT] Finding people with GSM phones (was Re: GPS heads up )

2000-05-08 Thread Kent Stewart
eBSD 4.0 and run it there. Kent > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ > > To Unsubscrib

Re: Double buffered cp(1)

2000-05-12 Thread Kent Stewart
Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > This is what I see on a buildworld with 4.0-Stable > > > > Modified /etc/make.conf and commented out CFLAGS= -Os -pipe > > 3707.4u 799.6s 1:35:52.46 78.3% 1374+1477k 56974+173232io 2337pf

Re: NFS server problems on 3.4-S, any interest?

2000-05-22 Thread Kent Stewart
gt; > Doug > -- > "Live free or die" > - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire > > Do YOU Yahoo!? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body o

UDMA-33 Error Messages

2000-06-01 Thread Kent Stewart
ounted" in messages from people having ATA read error troubles on UDMA drives. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.s

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-10 Thread Kent Stewart
a PCI slot. When I was reading it, it looked sort of like the old VL-bus, which you could use as an ISA slot. Kent > > -- > Wilko Bulte FreeBSD, the power to serve http://www.freebsd.org > http://www.nlfug.nl > > To Unsub

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-10 Thread Kent Stewart
; \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-11 Thread Kent Stewart
less than ~2MB of memory cache, which is all I had ever allowed it to use. I seem to remember an affect on how much disk cache but that part of the memory has evaporated. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News h