debugging a proc's kernel stack...

1999-09-13 Thread greg
se processes when it locked up... (see "repeated deadlocks in FS ..." on the smp list for more info about the problem)... thanks alot, greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

cache-friendly scheduling for SMP

1999-09-16 Thread greg
iscusses scheduling processes to not thrash the cpu caches? Or if there's anything in place, how I can take advantage of it, etc. I got stumped on the idea a while ago, so I'm really curious... thanks, Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe

debugging a proc's kernel stack...

1999-09-13 Thread greg
se processes when it locked up... (see "repeated deadlocks in FS ..." on the smp list for more info about the problem)... thanks alot, greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

cache-friendly scheduling for SMP

1999-09-16 Thread greg
iscusses scheduling processes to not thrash the cpu caches? Or if there's anything in place, how I can take advantage of it, etc. I got stumped on the idea a while ago, so I'm really curious... thanks, Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: Default value for UIDs

2011-06-28 Thread Greg Lewis
Think of ten years down the line. > >>> > >> > >> Best part would be to find every port that doesnt need a statically > >> allocated UID/GID and just dynamically allocate them after a certain > >> range '3-5' or whatever for ~20,000 ports

GSoC mutex contention profiling and lock order verification

2012-04-01 Thread Greg Miller
The pthread mutex contention profiling and lock order verification entry on the ideas list caught my eye. I'm looking for a potential mentor, and any ideas or suggestions about what's desired in such a tool. The ideas page lists jeff@ as a contact, but I've not gotten a response as yet, so does an

Re: sendmail disabled, but 'service -e' lists it as enabled

2012-04-25 Thread Greg Larkin
endmail_submit_enable="NO" sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" That will cover all bases, in case some other tool depends on the value of sendmail_enable. Hope that helps, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.

Re: considering i386 as a tier 1 architecture

2013-04-01 Thread Greg Miller
On 4/1/13, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > You're assuming that maintaining i386 as a tier 1 platform really *does* > add significantly to our workload. Indeed. We don't seem to be running into a ton of issues on this front, and I do still find my 32-bit only Atom-based netbook useful when traveling

Re: how do I build a single app?

2013-06-17 Thread Greg Larkin
gt; > David Lee from Tennessee Hi David, You can build a single application like so: cd /usr/src/bin/csh && make install Just replace "bin/csh" with the tool you are interested in building, and you should be all set. Regards, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/

Instruction fault panic while installing 6.2 on VMware Server

2007-02-23 Thread Greg Larkin
rienced at kernel configuration either. Does anyone have an idea how to troubleshoot this problem? Thank you for any help! Regards, Greg Larkin machine i386 cpu I486_CPU ident VMWAREC3 makeoptions DEBUG=-g# Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols o

RE: Instruction fault panic while installing 6.2 on VMware Server

2007-02-26 Thread Greg Larkin
> > Hi, > > On 2/23/07, Greg Larkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm creating a standard FreeBSD 6.2 ISO image that I can use to > > perform unattended installations into VMware Server virtual > machines. > >

RE: Instruction fault panic while installing 6.2 on VMware Server

2007-03-01 Thread Greg Larkin
> > > On 02/24/07 05:44, ghozzy wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 2/23/07, Greg Larkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> I'm creating a standard FreeBSD 6.2 ISO image that I can use to > >> perform unatt

RE: Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware onwindows XP ?

2007-03-02 Thread Greg Larkin
FreeBSD as a guest OS under VMware. Follow the thread a little way, and you'll see an example kernel config file, too. Best of luck, Greg Larkin ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-01 Thread Greg Troxel
I had a Linux shared library problem on NetBSD that I think it might be helpful to mention. thunderbird (and firefox) set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to pick up their own modules. When acroread is invoked to display a pdf attachment, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is still set, and this causes acroread to read a BSD librar

RE: cvs question

2008-01-21 Thread Greg Larkin
bcommand builds directories the way cvs checkout does. Without it, update will only operate on directories that are already in your sandbox. Regards, Greg Larkin SourceHosting.net, LLC http://www.sourcehosting.net/ ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.or

Re: strdup(NULL) supposed to create SIGSEGV?

2008-04-23 Thread Greg Black
ople not to step into the wilderness of undefined behaviour. > There is no valid argument for doing segfault instead of above behavior. If you can find an alternative that is not actually wrong, then by all means share it. To me, it seems like a good choice. Clearly, I

Cable quality (was: poor ethernet performance?)

1999-07-18 Thread Greg Lehey
n this subject is of the same nature as the advice to use loudspeaker cables with at least 20mm**2 cross section, preferably driven by tube-based amplifiers. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Booting from vinum?

1999-07-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 17 July 1999 at 22:51:17 +0400, Alex Povolotsky wrote: > Hello! > > Is it possible to have a root partition on vinum'ed disk and benefit from > mirroring? If yes, how do I do it? Not yet. It's on the drawing board. Greg -- See complete headers for addres

Re: vinum is cool. anyone bitten recently?

1999-07-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 17 July 1999 at 15:07:12 -0500, Craig Johnston wrote: > Well, I'm looking into doing striping and mirroring on a new webserver > I am bringing up (3.2-stable) and I have to say, vinum looks very cool. > It took me like half an hour to get it going from first contact. >

How much memory do we need to install?

1999-07-19 Thread Greg Lehey
AFAIK, the minimum memory for installation is still 5 MB, and the problems people had with 8MB machines failing to install was a bug, right? What's the current status? Greg - Forwarded message from Thierry Herbelot - > Delivered-To: freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > Date:

problems with the integrated tcp-wrappers.

1999-07-20 Thread Greg Skafte
I've just recently switched from using the tcpwrappers port to the native tcpwrappers implemention the following config entries worked on the port but are not working with the native teln...@xxx.yyy.84.2 ftpd rlog...@xxx.yyy.84.2 r...@xxx.yyy.84.2 nta...@xxx.yyy.84.2 :\ KNOWN :\

Re: polling in device driver

1999-07-21 Thread Greg Lehey
and wakeup from the lower half when you get an interrupt. It's difficult to give an example from the code you show. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, h

Re: deny ktrace without read permissions?

1999-07-23 Thread Greg Lehey
ing how an > executable with '--x--x--x' perms works by ktrace'ing its execution. > > My question to the -hackers is: is this a useful semantic? Yes, I think so. > Would it break anything if added? Not that I can think of. But that doesn't mean anything. Greg --

Re: Which /etc-files do I need until vinum is initialized?

1999-07-27 Thread Greg Lehey
vinum start mount /etc elif [ -n "$vinum_drives" ]; then vinum read $vinum_drives mount /etc fi Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: adding to periodic/weekly

1999-07-27 Thread Greg Lehey
n path order? unique numbers required? > > Which method is generally best, and why? > Are any of these methods really naughty? Interesting question. I don't have any personal preferences, though I put my stuff in /etc/crontab or my private crontab out of habit. But this is probably m

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-02 Thread Greg Lehey
ts, so I'm not too worried about the FS > block size. What have people observed with trying larger FS block > sizes? I don't know if anybody has tried larger FS blocks than 8 kB. I once created a file system with 256 kB blocks (just to see if it could be done). I also tried 512 kB

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-02 Thread Greg Lehey
kB transfer in about 300 µs. The average rotational latency of a disk running at 10,800 rpm is 2.8 ms, and even with spindle synchronization there's no way to avoid rotational latency under these circumstances. > Spindle Sycronisation won't bring you that much on modern HDDs - I

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-05 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 23:20:45 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:59:46PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 8:12:17 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: >> >>> For UFS/FFS there is nothing worth seting the stripesize to low. >&

Re: Usenix 93 paper on hardware profiling of 386BSD

1999-08-07 Thread Greg Lehey
valid any more. > > Try my home page: > > http://www.employees.org/~amcrae > > The link is: http://www.employees.org/~amcrae/papers/final_usenix.pdf Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Kernel debugging questions

1999-08-19 Thread Greg Lehey
l is already running when you attach to it, so you don't say 'run', you say 'c[ontinue]'. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Mandatory locking?

1999-08-22 Thread Greg Lehey
e an additional fcntl function which performs mandatory locking? I think that it's probably a good idea to implement (3), and also to do (2), possibly subject to a sysctl knob. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Un

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-22 Thread Greg Lehey
a fcntl call that causes other > programs to return an error or block if they try to open that > file while the first program holds an open descriptor? Correct. I suppose it's worth discussing what the default should be. Should they get EAGAIN or block? Obviously you'd want a

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-22 Thread Greg Lehey
ot apply to processes with appropriate privilege. That's a strange thing to say. Should we do away with locks in the kernel too? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-22 Thread Greg Lehey
as simple as a wrapper around whatever program your users are > running that is causing whatever the problem is. I'm accessing a file that any program might want to open. Redesigning everything isn't an option. On Monday, 23 August 1999 at 7:29:32 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: &

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-23 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 23 August 1999 at 8:47:34 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <19990823152849.h83...@freebie.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: > >>> Why should it be made unavailable ? >> >> So that certain multiple accesses can be done atomically. > >

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-23 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 23 August 1999 at 9:47:40 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <19990823162813.i83...@freebie.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: > >>>>> Why should it be made unavailable ? >>>> >>>> So that certain multiple accesses can be

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-23 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 23 August 1999 at 15:28:01 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 3:28 PM +0930 8/23/99, Greg Lehey wrote: >> I'm a little surprised that there's any objection to the concept >> of mandatory locking. In transaction processing, locking is not >> optional

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-23 Thread Greg Lehey
k file read completes In fact, fcntl locking is range locking, not file locking, so as long as the two users don't want to access the same part of the file. > That seems extremely dangerous, given all the time that such a thing > hasn't been around.

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-23 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 23 August 1999 at 23:34:34 -0400, Christopher Masto wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 12:52:10PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> No, I think you're confusing opening and locking. It's something like >> this: >> >> User 1

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-23 Thread Greg Lehey
t;> releases the lock; > > Exactly. You said that mandatory locking means that user A's correct > use of locking means that user B doesn't have to be careful. That's > not the case, since A can step in between B's read and write. B doesn't have to be careful a

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-24 Thread Greg Lehey
ly end up with a broken mailbox. >> >> what you do is this: >> lockf -k $mailfile cat ${mailtmp} >> $mailfile > > Which doesn't support Greg's arguments for mandatory locking, as > you're now doing locking in both programs. Well, it doesn't supp

Locking in Vinum (was: Mandatory locking?)

1999-08-24 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 August 1999 at 10:59:34 +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: > Hi Greg, hackers list, > > I don't want to express an opinion about the need or otherwise > for mandatory locking, but I would appreciate a teensy > clarification of the problem domain: > > On Mon,

Re: Locking in Vinum (was: Mandatory locking?)

1999-08-24 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 25 August 1999 at 1:52:38 +, Terry Lambert wrote: >>> I don't want to express an opinion about the need or otherwise >>> for mandatory locking, but I would appreciate a teensy >>> clarification of the problem domain: >>> >>> On

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-24 Thread Greg Lehey
bout mandatory locking. Yes, you're right, FreeBSD has no merit, so why bother even reading the mailing lists? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscr

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-24 Thread Greg Lehey
#x27;s LOCKREC function. > All the files need not have this option. there must be a way to > specify that "this file needs mandatory locking" to the kernel. That's a point for discussion. > I don't know what all changes are needed in the kernel.. but I'm > th

Re: Locking in Vinum (was: Mandatory locking?)

1999-08-24 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 August 1999 at 22:28:10 -0700, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > In article <19990825113518.d83273.kithrup.freebsd.cvs-...@freebie.lemis.com> > you write: >> Correct. I lock a stripe at a time. > > What people need to realize is that Greg is doing this locking in us

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-24 Thread Greg Lehey
me of the opinions that have been voiced in this thread. Of course, that's all they are, and they show the origins of their owners. Any system with multiple concurrent accesses requires locking. Only UNIX uses advisory locking. It almost does the job, so nobody has tried to fix things. But th

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-25 Thread Greg Lehey
a file - how do you know if the process holding the file is killed > if it's remote? NSK is a prorietary operating system ("NonStop Kernel", previously known as Guardian, previously known as TOS), not UNIX. There is no NFS, and there is no distinction between network access and l

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 25 August 1999 at 19:53:22 -0400, Christian Kuhtz wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 09:09:33AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 25 August 1999 at 6:05:11 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: >>>> All the files under Tandem's NSK has mandatory l

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-27 Thread Greg Lehey
FS code, > and written up patches to support Jordan's class project of making > the NFS server locking work), but it should be a healthy start > down the right road, I think. > > Might even fix a couple of NFS bugs as a side benefit... > > Anyway, Sean's also right abo

locking revisited

1999-08-27 Thread Greg Lehey
formation */ #defineF_SETLKW9 /* F_SETLK; wait if blocked */ We could add a F_SETMANDLOCK or some such. Any thoughts? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key

Cheap link (was: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?)

1999-08-28 Thread Greg Lehey
So I'm looking at a cheap (hardware > and software) way of getting data in and out of a PC with IP support and > such. It just makes sense in my POV to use a NIC. It's capable of 10 > Mbps and has most of the circuitry for preparing data for transmission > on it. If you will, it

Re: locking revisited

1999-08-28 Thread Greg Lehey
plex to another? You've missed another message of mine, where I said that this issue has no relevance to Vinum. > 2. I'll bet there are some standards, at least in development. Have you > done a few searches? Sure. The important one was in the attachment: System V has a standard

RELENG_3 and diskless booting

1999-09-02 Thread Greg Skafte
please followup only in hackers. I've Just cvsuped freebsd RELENG_3 as of this evening (~21:00 mdt) and using a rom built with etherboot 4.1b9 which has worked flawlessly for the last couple of months. Tonight I getting Searching for server... My IP xxx.yyy.zzz.www Server IP aaa.bbb.ccc.dd

Re: Init(8) cannot decrease securelevel

1999-09-06 Thread Greg Black
that need to use elevated securelevels. -- Greg Black -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: debugging a proc's kernel stack...

1999-09-13 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 13 September 1999 at 20:00:02 +, greg wrote: > Hi, I want to see where some a deadlock is occurring in the kernel. I've got > a dump with a bunch of processes in the inode or namecache state. > > Can anybody give me a hint about how to find a proc's "kern

Re: Kernel debugging questions

1999-09-16 Thread Greg Lehey
t;> do so, but it works with assembly. > > kadb also works with assembly. That being said, I much prefer ddb to > kadb, and of course remote gdb is *much* nicer. [catching up] The nice thing about kadb is that it has a usable macro languge. Greg -- See complete headers for address, hom

Re: panic() the system from the console (was: Re: kern/13721: There is no way to force system panic from console)

1999-09-18 Thread Greg Lehey
've just had the situation. So: I believe that panicing the system is also a security problem. But sometimes people have hangs and just want to get a dump. Installing DDB is overkill for this situation; how about a key attribute that panics the system? It would probably make sense to have a

Re: csup or svn

2010-09-26 Thread Greg Lewis
tinue to do what you do... or > > Yes you can use SVN ports/devel/subversion-freebsd Or you can use cvsup (it doesn't segfault on that file). -- Greg Lewis Email : gle...@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond

Re: csup or svn

2010-09-27 Thread Greg Lewis
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:13:14AM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Isn't that a step backwards? Segfaulting seems like a bigger step backwards to me ;) > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Greg Lewis wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:34:34PM -0400, jhell wrote: > >>

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

2008-07-03 Thread Greg Black
On 2008-07-03, Rob Lytle wrote: > > You can get rid of the nag screens by putting "BATCH=yes" into > > /etc/make.conf. (Not that this negates your other points.) > > What the hell does "yes" mean? That all option boxes are checked, or none > at all? I have never seen this explained anywhere.

Re: request for testers - xen support for domU in head

2008-08-22 Thread Greg Larkin
this question: Does this mean that Amazon EC2 will be able to boot FreeBSD instances? Thank you, Greg ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Distributed SSH attack

2009-10-02 Thread Greg Larkin
could set up DenyHosts and contribute to the pool of IPs that are attempting SSH logins on the Net: http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/faq.html#4_0 It also looks like there's been quite a spike of SSH login activity recently: http://stats.denyhosts.net/stats.html Hope that helps, Greg - -- Greg

Re: package building failure irritation

2010-02-26 Thread Greg Larkin
installed first, so I would change your script like so: cd $port make clean make deinstall make depends# just to be safe make install make package-recursive On the other hand, this is similar to what Tinderbox (http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com/README.html), so perhaps that would be a solution

Re: package building failure irritation

2010-02-26 Thread Greg Larkin
log file and # returns to the original shell dos2unix /tmp/build.log # Gets rid of ^M chars Then post /tmp/build.log somewhere for me to review. Thank you, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ -

Re: Something rotten in ports (was Re: package building failure irritation)

2010-03-12 Thread Greg Larkin
Have you tried just setting PORTSDIR and letting bsd.port.mk set the rest of the paths with their defaults that are relative to PORTSDIR? If that works, then we can start hunting for places that are not handling absolute vs. relative paths correctly in bsd.port.mk. Hope that helps, Greg - -- Gre

Re: fsck and large file system

1999-05-12 Thread Greg Lehey
to 3.{1,2} help? It doesn't seem to be a FreeBSD issue. > It is a Pentium 166. During the "iozone" test, there seems to be > only a few (less than 10) interrupts from the DPT card per second > ("systat -vm 1"). Am I losing interrupts (it would seem so)... ? I t

DPT performance (was: fsck and large file system)

1999-05-13 Thread Greg Lehey
you analysed the reasons for this discrepancy? If you can't get rid of the problem, it's not exactly an advertisement for DPT. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.o

Re: Problems with Ethernet programming

1999-05-13 Thread Greg Lehey
for hackers and devel : >Sorry please for my message. I posted it into the question mailing list >but haven't got any help. -hackers is the correct list for this sort of question. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.co

real time stuff

1999-05-13 Thread Greg Skafte
Even though its for linux, and linux is really a different animal, has anyone who is interested in realtime stuff looked at http://www.rtlinux.org they have a whack of patches against 2.0.36 and 2.2.1. -- Email: ska...@worldgate.com Voice: +780 413 1910Fax: +780 421 4929

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Greg Lehey
H^H^H^H^HCompaq use this for their NonStop Ethernet. The machine has two ethernet boards. If one goes down, the other assumes its identity. It seems there's a need, and the possibility. Would somebody like to suggest a syntax? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 14 May 1999 at 21:15:33 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 14), David Scheidt said: >> On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: >> :It seems there's a need, and the possibility. Would somebody like >> :to suggest a syntax? >> >> ifco

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 14 May 1999 at 21:41:23 -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > :On Friday, 14 May 1999 at 21:15:33 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > :> > :> And the next step would be to make the kernel realize that two cards > :> ifconfig'

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 14 May 1999 at 21:54:02 -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > : > :If you have two different nets, why do you need the same Ethernet > :address? > : > > Transparent redundancy. With them both up on the same MAC address, if

Re: Debugging

1999-05-16 Thread Greg Lehey
hat, you're limited to ddb or serial gdb. There's some stuff in the online handbook about how to set up serial gdb, and in LINT about how to set up ddb. Note that the flags for the serial device have changed in *some* versions of FreeBSD, so check your LINT file for the correct flags. G

Re: Debugging

1999-05-18 Thread Greg Lehey
a 0x80, which you need to set (along with 0x10, it appears) to run remote debugging. I'm guessing a bit at this, since I haven't had time to look at the code, but 0x90 works for me. Doug? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com

Re: Debugging

1999-05-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 18 May 1999 at 9:17:03 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Tue, 18 May 1999 16:34:55 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> In fact, there's also a 0x80, which you need to set (along with 0x10, >> it appears) to run remote debugging. I'm guessing a bit at this, &g

PNP Soundcards w/ diskless booting.

1999-05-20 Thread Greg Skafte
I'm using /usr/ports/net/etherboot, to boot diskless workstations. Everything is working quite well. Now some of the stations need sound, and there are an abundancy of pnp soundcards that workfine, but with the network boot I'm immediately in the kernel, no cli to config the PNP. Now if I inc

Re: PNP Soundcards w/ diskless booting.

1999-05-20 Thread Greg Skafte
this has got it THANKS Quoting Eivind Eklund (eiv...@freebsd.org) On Subject: Re: PNP Soundcards w/ diskless booting. Date: Fri, May 21, 1999 at 01:35:08AM +0200 > On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:21:10PM -0600, Greg Skafte wrote: > > I'm using /usr/ports/net/etherboot, to

Visiting Hong Kong and China

1999-05-25 Thread Greg Lehey
ailing lists for the duration. For those who are expecting to see me at USENIX: yes, I'll be there :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe f

Book stores [was: Re: serial ports]

1999-05-27 Thread Greg Black
title that is not available locally, there is always amazon.com which works pretty well for me. -- Greg Black -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: xl driver for 3Com

1999-06-01 Thread Greg Black
fixing any possible problems there. As for Dennis, he's just not worth responding to. He has a bad reputation as a total waste of space with an attitude problem as big as Texas. Just ignore him. -- Greg Black -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscr

DE driver in RELENG_3 vs RELENG_2_2

1999-06-02 Thread Greg Skafte
I'm running several osicom 2340 quad ethernet cards under RELENG_2_2 with few issues (quad digital 21140). I've setup a testbox 1 hd has RELENG_2_2 a second disk has RELENG_3 (cvsuped yesterday). Under RELENG_3 the nic pauses underload, regardless of which port is being used. Gated is runni

Re: DE driver in RELENG_3 vs RELENG_2_2

1999-06-02 Thread Greg Skafte
are these all dec 21x4x cards or not Quoting Doug Ambrisko (ambri...@whistle.com) On Subject: Re: DE driver in RELENG_3 vs RELENG_2_2 Date: Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 04:39:45PM -0700 > Greg Skafte writes: > | I'm running several osicom 2340 quad ethernet cards under RELENG_2_2 w

Re: Kernel config script:

1999-06-03 Thread Greg Black
ildren for all their needs. And it never crashes and nor do any of the applications they use. This is a pretty good arrangement. -- Greg Black -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-04 Thread Greg Black
y speaking, it's a good idea to make sure that test code is at least decent before starting to puzzle over what it does. -- Greg Black -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12

1999-06-04 Thread Greg Black
o at least make it correct so that other people don't have to waste their time on irrelevant issues. Of course, if it is the broken test code that provokes a panic, that should be stated up front as part of the test case. -- Greg Black -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Device drivers (was: looking for a reference manual)

1999-06-15 Thread Greg Lehey
al. Some (but unfortunately not all) kernel functions and structures are described in section 9 of the manual. Look at intro(9) for a start. There's also a tutorial at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ddwg/ddwg.html. But you'll find that you'll have to read a lot of other dr

Re: vinum performance

1999-06-17 Thread Greg Lehey
2 such units performance drops to 2.5 Meg/sec. This seems like a >> drastic drop in performance. Any ideas what I am doin incorrectly? > > Try to place those drives on two different SCSI controllers. That wouldn't be the problem with a concatenated plex. Greg -- See complete hea

Re: vinum performance

1999-06-17 Thread Greg Lehey
he raw disk. How are you measuring performance? I'd recommend rawio (ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/rawio.tar.gz). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: vinum performance

1999-06-17 Thread Greg Lehey
of 2 such units performance drops to 2.5 Meg/sec. This seems like a >> drastic drop in performance. Any ideas what I am doin incorrectly? > > Try changing stripe size. How big is it right now? This was a concatenated plex. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phon

Re: vinum performance

1999-06-17 Thread Greg Lehey
ce >> of 2 such units performance drops to 2.5 Meg/sec. This seems like a >> drastic drop in performance. Any ideas what I am doin incorrectly? > > You've accidentally striped subdisks on the same drive? ;--) > > Like Greg Lehey said, you haven't really prov

Re: vinum performance

1999-06-17 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 17 June 1999 at 22:36:49 +0300, Narvi wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Thursday, 17 June 1999 at 11:10:08 +0300, Narvi wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, David E. Cross wrote: >>> >>>> I have a drive that

Re: vinum performance

1999-06-17 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 17 June 1999 at 15:50:10 +0300, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > > g...@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) writes: > >>> You've accidentally striped subdisks on the same drive? ;--) >>> >>> Like Greg Lehey said, you haven't really provided enough de

Remote serial gdb--status?

1999-06-17 Thread Greg Lehey
p, -parenb). I don't know what else to look for. Any ideas? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
tem, and I had to use the fixit floppy to rewrite the partition table. Nothing got lost, but it was a real pain. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page

Re: vinum performance

1999-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 1:14:20 -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Thursday, 17 June 1999 at 3:43:10 -0400, David E. Cross wrote: >>> I have a drive that is rated at ~16 Meg/

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
gt;> system, and I had to use the fixit floppy to rewrite the partition >> table. Nothing got lost, but it was a real pain. > > hit a similar problem the other day, i think i managed to fix it > withouth the floppy by mounting again the root partition on /mnt > and there acting appr

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 18:44:50 +0930, Mark Newton wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Those of you who were at Usenix may have picked up a free copy of a >> UnixWare 7 CD-ROM from SCO. If so, be careful when installing it. > > SCO has been a real pain in the bum about

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 11:29:53 +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Greg Lehey wrote: >> FreeBSD, which has the partition number explicitly in the device name. >> In my case, FreeBSD was on partition 2, devices /dev/rwd0s2a and >> /dev/rwd0s2e. It was moved to parti

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