On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
I have this cleanup of libkvm sitting in my tree and it needs a little bit
of testing, especially the function kvm_proclist, which is only called from
kvm_deadprocs which is only called from kvm_getprocs when kd is not ALIVE.
The only consumer in ou
On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, Avleen Vig wrote:
After searching high and low and not finding exactly what I wanted (although
Adrian Chadd's documents came close), I decided to document a lengthy but
worthwhile procedure:
How to install a FreeBSD DomU guest in a Linux Dom0 Xen host, from scratch,
wit
On Sat, 5 Feb 2011, dieter...@engineer.com wrote:
Why would doing a printf(9) in a device driver (usb, firewire, probably
others) cause an obscenely long lockout on
/usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_sockbuf.c:148 (sx:so_rcv_sx) ?
Printf(9) alone isn't the problem, adding printfs to chown(2) does not c
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Alan Cox wrote:
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Ivan Voras wrote:
Is it possible to track by some way what kernel system, process or thread
has wired memory? (including "data exists but needs code to extract it")
No.
I'd like to analyze a system where there is a lot
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
during the last GSoC various FEATURE macros where added to the system.
Before committing them, I would like to get some review (like if macro is in
the correct file, and for those FEATURES where the description was not taken
from NOTES if the de
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Ilya Bakulin wrote:
When I was beginning this GSoC work, I primarily thought about unifying the
way to determine if particular feature exists in the kernel. Of course there
should be at least one way to check if the feature is available or not (by
definition: if I may use
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Santosh Rao Gururajan wrote:
I have a host machine with 2 ixgbe NICs. I am trying to pass the frames from
one NIC to the other with the lowest possible overhead to the host (high
speed bridge). I am wondering if I can do a rx-ring to tx-ring DMA copy
without creating a mb
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:52:48 + (GMT) Robert Watson
wrote:
The one comment I'd make is that the MAC case should indicate that "The MAC
Framework" is supported, rather than mandatory access controls being
present -- the
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Jesse Smith wrote:
I'm interested in working on the "Port prebind from OpenBSD" project
mentioned on the FreeBSD Ideas page. (
http://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage#head-d28cdd95ca1755d5afe63d653cb4926d4bdc99de
)
There isn't much to go on from the project description and I'm
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Dudinskyi Olexandr wrote:
My name is Dudinskyi Oleksandr. I am a student of National aviation
university, Ukraine. I want to participate in GSoC 2011 with your
organization.
My project: Disk device error counters, iostat –e.
I thing this project is very necessary in the
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Oleksandr Dudinskyi wrote:
I should like more specifically disclose my plan of action. One of the main
tasks is find the places where registered errors, subsequently error
analysis (their type) and separation errors related to disk and modifying
the output format. There ar
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Warner Losh wrote:
On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Dimitry Andric wrote:
This is a rather nasty hack, though. If we can make it work, we should
probably try using --sysroot instead, or alternatively, -nostdinc and
adding include dirs by hand. The same for executable and lib
On Mon, 30 May 2011, Mark Saad wrote:
So I am stumped on this one. I want to know what the IP of each
nfs server that is providing each nfs export. I am running 7.4-RELEASE
When I run "mount -t nfs" I see something like this
VIP-01:/export/source on /mnt/src
VIP-02:/export/target o
On Tue, 31 May 2011, Alexander Best wrote:
On Mon May 30 11, Dieter BSD wrote:
Chris writes:
Ports need attention. The warnings I get there are frightening.
I find it comforting that they're just that: warnings.
How do they frighten you?
High quality code does not have any warnings.
The
On Tue, 31 May 2011, m...@freebsd.org wrote:
I am looking into potentially MFC'ing r212367 and related, that adds drains
to sbufs. The reason for MFC is that several pieces of new code in CURRENT
are using the drain functionality and it would make MFCing those changes
much easier.
The prob
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, grarpamp wrote:
I know we've got polling. And probably MSI-X in a couple drivers. Pretty
sure there is still one CPU doing the interrupt work? And none of the
multiple queue thread spreading tech exists?
Actually, with most recent 10gbps cards, and even 1gbps cards, we pr
On Sun, 3 Jul 2011, exorcistkiller wrote:
Hi! I am taking a FreeBSD course this summer and I'm doing a homework. A new
system call uidkill() is to be added. uidkill(uid_t uid, int signum) sends
signal specified by signum to all processes owned by uid, excluding the
calling process itself.
I
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, exorcistkiller wrote:
Hi, I'm working on a course project in which I need to add 3 system calls.
One of which is setacl(char *name, int type, int idnum, int perms), which
set acl for a file specified by name. I used newfs as in
ftp://ftp.tw.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, s wrote:
I am trying to get some information related to the symlink which is being
accessed by the user in MAC Framework. Currently I managed to get the
uid/gid of the owner of the symlink that is being read, but now I need to
get the same information about the target, th
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Andriy Gapon wrote:
In recent branches (confirmed with 224119) builds compiled with clang
happen to throw 'Unknown error: -512' in a lot of places, making the system
unusable. (Untested on gcc compiled systems). Originally I thought the
problem was with specific programs,
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Filippo Sironi wrote:
I'm working on a university project that's based on FreeBSD and I'm
currently hacking the kernel... but I'm a complete newbie. My question is:
what if I have to call a certain function 10 times per second? I've seen a
bit of code regarding callout_*
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, exorcistkiller wrote:
Another question while I'm reading the code. In ufs_acl.c, in static int
ufs_getacl_posix1e(struct vop_getacl_args *ap), you commented: As part of
the ACL is stored in the inode, and the rest in an EA, assemble both into a
final ACL product. From wha
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Andriy Gapon wrote:
Can anybody explain to me why our _x86_ SMP topology discovery and reporting
code sometimes reports "HTT" and sometimes "SMT"? As in FreeBSD/SMP: %d
package(s) x %d core(s) x %d HTT threads vs FreeBSD/SMP: %d package(s) x %d
core(s) x %d SMT threads
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, s wrote:
I need to get some info about the socket being created by the user. What I
want to do is log all TCP/UDP outgoing connections that are being made. I
*need* to get the local and remote address, as well as the local and remote
port. I managed to get all of the remo
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, James Jones wrote:
Does anyone have a prebuilt MIPS tool chain?
For FreeBSD-related MIPS work, I generally use the FreeBSD "toolchain" target
followed by the "buildenv" environment, but that requires first building a
cross-toolchain using TARGET_ARCH and TARGET. Howeve
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Lars Engels wrote:
I just stumbled upon this rather outdated thread...
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 15:09:52 +0400, Ilya Bakulin wrote: [...]
wget curl links/lynx
This is Ports software, we may try to modify it and even send patches to
upstream, or maintain our local patches. I wan
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Monthadar Al Jaberi wrote:
I have written a dynamic loadable module using DECLARE_MODULE in
FreeBSD-Current.
And I want to iterate through the ifnet list using following code snippet:
If this is on a recent version of FreeBSD (8.x and later), then you probably
mean to
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, Jarrod Lee Petz wrote:
3. Does FreeBSD handle this situation? How? I can't seem to find much info
on TIME_WAIT assassination in FreeBSD is mentioned in RFC 6056
I'm not familiar with the RFC side here, but I can confirm that FreeBSD will
recycle TIMEWAIT connections more q
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, K. Macy wrote:
Why are you making an MD guess, the amount of padding to fit the size of a
cache line, in MI API ? Strangely enough, you did not make this assumption
in, say r205488 (picked randomly).
It has been several years, and I haven't done any work in svn in over a
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Julian Elischer wrote:
On 1/16/12 3:32 PM, William Bentley wrote:
I also echo John's sentiments here. Very excellent points made here. Thank
you for voicing your opinion. I was beginning to think I was the only one
who felt this way.
[...]
We seem to have lost our way a
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Andriy Gapon wrote:
on 18/01/2012 02:16 Igor Mozolevsky said the following:
Seriously, WTF is the point of having a PR system that allows patches to be
submitted??! When I submit a patch I fix *your* code (not yours personally,
but you get my gist).
Let me pretend that I
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Andriy Gapon wrote:
on 17/01/2012 00:28 John Kozubik said the following:
we going to run RELEASE software ONLY
My opinion: you've put yourself in a box that is not very compatible with
the current FreeBSD release strategy. With your scale and restrictions you
probably
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Doug Barton wrote:
The other thing I think has been missing (as several have pointed out in
this thread already) is any sort of planning for what should be in the next
release. The current time-based release schedule is (in large part) a
reaction to the problems we had in
On Tue, 29 May 2012, vasanth rao naik sabavat wrote:
In case of a Multicore cpu system running a multithreaded process.
For protocol control blocks there is no protection provided in the FreeBSD
9. For example, udp_close() and udp_send() access the inp before taking the
lock. Couldn't this c
On Tue, 29 May 2012, vasanth rao naik sabavat wrote:
Can somebody please reply to this email.
basically, can udp_detach() and udp_send() execute simultaneously for a
process with multiple threads? if yes, then inp reference in udp_send() will
be stale if udp_detach() free's the inp?
You ar
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Chris Rees wrote:
as well as we don't depend of /proc for normal operation we shouldn't for
say /proc/sysctl
improvements are welcome, better documentation is welcome, changes to
what is OK - isn't.
/proc/sysctl might be useful. Just because Linux uses it doesn't make
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote:
projects/armv6 branch was merged to HEAD and should be considered dead now.
This patch is a result of a joint effort by many people. Including but not
limited to:
Amazing work -- many thanks are due to to everyone who was involved!
Robert
On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, Attilio Rao wrote:
I was trying to use syslog(3) in a port application that uses threading ,
having all of them at the LOG_CRIT level. What I see is that when the
logging gets massive (1000 entries) I cannot find some items within the
/var/log/messages (I know because I sta
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, John Baldwin wrote:
I believe it was because bus reads weren't guaranteed to be atomic on
i386. don't know if that's still the case or a concern, but it was an
intentional omission.
True. If you are on a 32-bit system you can read the two 4 byte values
and then build a 6
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Carl Delsey wrote:
Indeed -- and on non-x86, where there are uncached direct map segments, and
TLB entries that disable caching, reading 2x 32-bit vs 1x 64-bit have quite
different effects in terms of atomicity. Where uncached I/Os are being
used, those differences may af
Hi Dave:
This wiki page may be of value:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/AddingAuditEvents
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, dave jones wrote:
Hello,
I know how to create system calls, but I'm a bit confused about
sys/kern/syscalls.master file
On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Vijay Singh wrote:
All. KASSERT() is a really need way of expressing invariants when INVARIANTS
is defined. However for regular, non-INVARIANTS code folks have the typical
if() panic() combos, or private macros. Would a KVERIFY() that does this in
non-INVARIANTS code make
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, vasanth rao naik sabavat wrote:
When sending data out of the socket I don't see in the code where the sb_cc
is incremented.
sb_cc reflects data appended to the socket buffer; sosend_generic() is
responsible for arranging copying in and performing flow control, but the
pr
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Pascal Hofstee wrote:
On 1/31/07, Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If we do decide to go ahead with the ABI change, there are a number of
other things that should be done simultaneously, such as changing the uid
and gid fields to uid_t and gid_t. I woul
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Kostik Belousov wrote:
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:22:59PM +, Josef Karthauser wrote:
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:57:50PM +0100, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
Note that all processes within a jail can only intefere with processes
from another jail or host as if they were on d
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Pascal Hofstee wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 13:41 +, Robert Watson wrote:
Unfortunately, things are a bit more tricky. The problem is not so much
the API, where converting size_t/int is a relative non-event, rather, the
ABI. By changing the size of a field in a data
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Josef Karthauser wrote:
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 04:36:56PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote:
cvs diff: Diffing .
Index: null_subr.c
===
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/fs/nullfs/null_subr.c,v
retrievin
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Robert Watson wrote:
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Josef Karthauser wrote:
Well, the worry would be that you would be replacing a clean error on
failure with an occasional panic, the normal symptom of a race condition.
I think I'm alright with the VFIFO case above, but I&#x
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Robert Watson wrote:
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Robert Watson wrote:
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Josef Karthauser wrote:
Well, the worry would be that you would be replacing a clean error on
failure with an occasional panic, the normal symptom of a race condition.
I think I&#
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:00:35PM -0700, Coleman Kane wrote:
What does the performance curve look like for the in-CVS 7-CURRENT tree
with 4BSD or ULE ? How do those stand up against the Linux SMP scheduler
for scalability. It would be nice to see the
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Martin Blapp wrote:
It would be really great if we could find "workload owners" who would
maintain easy-to-run benchmark configurations and also run them regularly
on a fixed hardware configuration over a long time publishing results and
testing patches. Kris has done thi
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Divacky Roman wrote:
I noticed that kern___getcwd() calls vn_fullpath1() with Giant held like
this:
mtx_lock(&Giant);
FILEDESC_LOCK(fdp);
error = vn_fullpath1(td, fdp->fd_cdir, fdp->fd_rdir, tmpbuf,
&bp, buflen);
FILEDESC_UNLOCK(fdp
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Divacky Roman wrote:
I looked at where Giant is held in the kernel and I found these interesting
things:
1) in fs/fifofs/fifo_vnops.c we lock Giant when calling sorecieve()/sosend()
this is a bandaid for fixing a race that doesnt have to exist anymore. ie.
it needs some t
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Kip Macy wrote:
Do you think that the umtx KPI may have reached the appropriate level of
maturity for writing up a man page? The KSE equivalent has had a substantive
man page for quite some time. I would be more than happy to do any of the
necessary technical copy-editing
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Vlad GALU wrote:
On 3/10/07, Kip Macy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
umtx
Is it safe/recommended to use spinlocks, like in jemalloc, for very small
portions of code? I'm particularly interested in protecting writes to a
couple of word sized ints on amd64, so the critical s
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote:
David S. Madole wrote:
From Derekj Tourneo on Friday, March 16, 2007 4:46 PM
How I recovered a lost root password in FreeBSD
Luckily I did know one user name and it had no password. cgadmin going to
the repair mode with CDROM/DVD option off the ins
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Duane Whitty wrote:
I know this is trivial material but I believe I have finally come to an
understanding about some things that I have been struggling with. Maybe by
putting this in words I can help some other newbies like myself who are
hoping to eventually understand m
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Jason Carroll wrote:
// create the local address, bind & listen
struct sockaddr_un addr;
memset(&addr, 0, sizeof(addr));
addr.sun_family = AF_LOCAL;
strncpy(addr.sun_path, "usock", UN_PATH_LEN - 1);
assert(bind(fd, (sockaddr*) &addr, sizeof(sockaddr_un)) ==
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Mike Meyer wrote:
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christoph P. Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
does anyone know whether one can run Linux applications under the underlying
FreeBSD of the MAC OS (on an Intel Core Duo mini Mac)?
No, you can't. The "underlying" FreeBSD is userl
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Coleman Kane wrote:
While it's true you can't run Linux binaries on Mac OS X, it's not for the
reason you're suggesting, and your statement regarding FreeBSD kernel code
in Mac OS X is simply incorrect. The Mac OS X kernel, XNU, contains
significant quantities of FreeBSD
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Julian Elischer wrote:
Further the idea that holding a mutex "except for when we sleep" is a
generally bright idea is also a bit odd to me.. If you hold a mutex and
release it during sleep you probably should invalidate all assumptions you
made during the period before you
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Julian Elischer wrote:
Basically you shouldn't have a recursed mutex FULL STOP. We have a couple of
instances in the kernel where we allow a mutex to recurse, but they had to
be hard fought, and the general rule is "Don't". If you are recursing on a
mutex you need to swit
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Darren Reed wrote:
I'm using FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT under vmware and there are a few issues.
Generally speaking, I would suggest sending this post to current@, not
hackers@, since your comments largely have to do between differences between
-STABLE and -CURRENT, making it
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Sergey Zaharchenko wrote:
bin/102747 has been sitting there for about 8 months, with no activity since
it was assigned to brian@, all my mail to whom bounces [CC'd just in case].
The patch attached in the PR has been working for me since, so it not being
fixed in the mai
On Sat, 26 May 2007, M. Warner Losh wrote:
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Benjamin Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: On Friday 25 May 2007 01:22:21 Alexey Mikhailov wrote:
: > [...]
: > 2. As I said before initial subject of this project was "Distributed
: > audit daemon". But after
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Nicolas Cormier wrote:
I am trying to map some data allocated in kernel to a user process (via a
syscall). I need the proc's vmspace, but the value of p_vmspace of the input
proc argument is NULL ... How can I get a valid vmspace ?
When operating in a system call, the 'td
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Nicolas Cormier wrote:
On 7/4/07, Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Nicolas Cormier wrote:
I am trying to map some data allocated in kernel to a user process (via a
syscall). I need the proc's vmspace, but the value of p_vmspace of
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Nicolas Cormier wrote:
Currently I'm just trying to play with kernel/modules/vm ... I'm a newbie in
kernel development and I just want to make a little prototype of an
in-kernel network allocator. To start I only need to map a page (1024 bytes)
from kernel to user process.
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, LI Xin wrote:
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 08:27:49PM -0400, Ighighi Ighighi wrote:
The closefrom() call, available in Solaris, is present in NetBSD since
version 3.0. It is implemented with the F_CLOSEM fcntl() available since
version 2.0.
You co
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Julian Elischer wrote:
Ed Schouten wrote:
* LI Xin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here is my implementation for FreeBSD. Some difference between my and
DragonFly's implementation:
- closefrom(-1) would be no-op on DragonFly, my version would close all
open files (From my
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, LI Xin wrote:
To RW: I have not found a suitable audit event for this, should I create a
new event?
BTW, I can add an AUE_CLOSEFROM event to OpenBSM. This may require a little
work by event consumers who will now need to know about an additional source
of implicit clos
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, ytriffy wrote:
Trap 12 occured when I rebooted PC. Sending you backtrace. My system: amd64
3200+ Venice, MB ECS nForce4 A939,Samsung 250GB and WD 250 GB, 2 memory
banks 512MB each, videocard: Geforce 6600gt 128MB, NIC on realtek chip,
sound card cirrus logic cs4281. It's v
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, sam wrote:
I am installed AUDIT
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/audit.html
# praudit /etc/auditpipe | grep "xxx"
&
# praudit /etc/auditpipe | tee file.log
&
# praudit /etc/auditpipe > file.log
this is not work
please help me
Vladimir,
Could yo
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Eric Crist wrote:
thx this not working wite up buffer-pipe to 4096 bytes
Can I ask what is in the /etc/auditpipe file?
I believe what is meant is /dev/auditpipe, which provides a live event stream
from the kernel's audit subsystem in FreeBSD 6.2 and later. You can rea
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, sam wrote:
Index: praudit.c
===
RCS file: /data/fbsd-cvs/ncvs/src/contrib/openbsm/bin/praudit/praudit.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.3
diff -u -r1.1.1.3 praudit.c
--- praudit.c16 Apr 2007 15:36:57 -1
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Max Laier wrote:
On Saturday 01 September 2007, Klaus Schneider wrote:
Well, anybody know a way to make the FreeBSD run just binaries that I have
compiled?
For example: A hacker get a access to a shell into my server, and then it
put a exploit code, but on the machine d
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Yuri wrote:
I am looking for functionality similar to Linux's /proc//fd/. I
need to know what is the file name of an open file descriptor.
/proc//fd is missing on FreeBSD.
There's something called 'fdescfs'. In /dev/fd/ it shows the list of file
descriptors. But they don
other problems, do
let me know.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
Yuri
Quoting Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Yuri wrote:
I am looking for functionality similar to Linux's /proc//fd/. I
need to know what is the file name of an open
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Yuri wrote:
I looked at the patch. It retrieves file description information through
'sysctl' calls with proprietary keys.
Isn't it better architecturally to expose the same information through
procfs interface? At least from the filesystem level and up standard tools
l
descriptor and VM information only, so it is a fairly straight forward MFC.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
Yuri
Quoting Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Yuri wrote:
Thank you for your response.
I attempted to compile procstat b
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Skip Ford wrote:
Robert Watson wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Yuri wrote:
Thank you for letting me know about this new feature procstat.
But is there any workaround in 6.3? I need to port one package that needs
to lookup file names by FDs to the current FreeBSD and need
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Andrea Campi wrote:
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:20:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm considering developing a policy/module for TrustedBSD loosely based on
the systrace concept - A process loads a policy and then executes another
program in a sandbox with fine grain
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Skip Ford wrote:
I agree regarding the duplication with ps(1) -- however, I'm generally of
the opinion that ps(1) is overburdened as tools go, and that the goals are
actually somehwat different--procstat(1) intentionally doesn't have the
ability to generate a list of proc
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Skip Ford wrote:
Thomas Hurst wrote:
* Skip Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
It would be interesting to know for sure, though, if Solaris uses
hardlinks and, if so, what their utility is called.
Nope. They *do* use hardlinks in that they have 32bit wrappers in /usr/bin
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Skip Ford wrote:
1) procstat_args() doesn't use a local variable and the buffer doesn't
get cleared between calls:
$ procstat -a 797
PID ARGS
797 audacious
$ procstat -a 795 797
PID ARGS
795 xterm -xtsessionID 11c0a801030001185368263000768
797 audacious essionID 11
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Juri Mianovich wrote:
I am sorry to repost, but I cannot get any answer on this from -net or
-questions ... is there any answer to getting this stat ? (see below)
Juri,
I recognize the importance of your point, and can shed a little light on why
things are the way they
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
Where do I find the main() [and/or other entery point] for the kernel I
tend to understand stuff better if I follow the flow of exec from the start
Everyone else is suggesting very earlier in the boot, but I think the point
where the kernel wher
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, binto wrote:
From what I read in "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating
System",said:
'However, most of the heavily used parts of the kernel have been moved out
from under the giant lock, including much of the virtual memory system, the
networking stack
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Christopher Chen wrote:
On Nov 25, 2007 12:05 PM, Christopher Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Nov 25, 2007 3:13 AM, Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At this point, Giant is gradually becoming a lock around the tty, newbus,
usb, and msdosfs cod
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
(Also when I run 4 threads with 2 cpus, each with hyperthreading, it goes
2.5 to 3 times faster - surprising since hyperthreading gets quite bad press
for its performance improvements - I should add that Linux didn't do at all
well at takin
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, vasanth raonaik wrote:
Is any one looking into this issue. Please mail me for more info.
Vasanth,
Could you file a problem report using send-pr on this problem? FreeBSD
hackers@ has a somewhat mixed subscription, and may not catch all the relevant
developers, and spit
Dear all,
I've updated the procstat(1) kernel patch and userland tool; the updated
version can be found at:
http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/20071127-procstat.tgz
The new version includes a number of changes from the old version, including:
- A number of bug fixes and cleanliness imp
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Wesley Shields wrote:
Here's an updated patch to sys/amd64/amd64/db_trace.c (it's a diff against
revision 1.81). It changes "register rbp" to be "register_t rbp" and fixes
the extra "W" in TD_IS_SWAPPED. The kernel built fine after these changes.
I'll test it out tomorr
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Skip Ford wrote:
- "-a" now means "all processes",
Thanks. :-) I'm a little surprised. You seemed pretty dedicated to a
per-process tool.
I was, but then I read your e-mail and became convinced that the first patch
that would be submitted against procstat(1) would b
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Skip Ford wrote:
Skip Ford wrote:
Robert Watson wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Skip Ford wrote:
- "-a" now means "all processes",
Thanks. :-) I'm a little surprised. You seemed pretty dedicated to a
per-process tool.
I was, but then I re
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Bert JW Regeer wrote:
Have the licensing issues been resolved with regards to DTrace? This is a
feature I was looking forward to in 7.0-RELEASE but it had been delayed
because of the licensing.
The problems had to do with non-alignment of the licensing vs. software
boun
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
Have a look at the search order of libs in linux. Correlate this with the
fact that when in linux an access is done to e.g. /lib/libX.so.y which means
that the linuxulator first looks if /compat/linux/lib/libX.so.y is there,
and if it isn't it lo
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Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 23:31:46 + (UTC)
From: Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/procstat Makefile procs
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Andrew Thompson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 11:38:45PM +, Robert Watson wrote:
Dear all, (and FYI to hackers@ where I previousl sought feedback):
I've now committed procstat(1) to CVS. I've found it to be quite a helpful
debugging tool, am particular
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Andrew Thompson wrote:
I would like to give some feedback. I listed the threads of proc 12 which
is intr,
# procstat -t 12
PIDTID COMM CPU PRI STATE WCHAN
12 13 intr 0 40 wait-
12 14 intr 0 52 w
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