Re: UP kernel on SMP machine?

2000-09-27 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [2927 07:55], Nick Sayer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >Does anyone think that setting up a non-SMP kernel on an SMP motherboard >(but with only one processor installed) might have anything to do with >this? UP kernels should work on a SMP box. And a few others agree with m

Re: max. amount of physical memory in FBSD 4.1?

2000-09-27 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
Guten tag, -On [2927 13:35], O. Hartmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] >And what is about FreeBSD 4.1? We use now TYAN's Thunder 2500 maonboard >which is capable to hold two CPUs and get equipted with max. 8GB main >memory. This is a nice option because we plan to sol

Random net errors: any guru out there?

2000-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've some random net problems using my FreeBSD 4.1 STABLE (i'm using dial-up connection). A lot of site seems to be unreachable. I get a lot of timeout errors when i try to wget, to connect to irc server, to use www, etcetc but: -ping, nslookup & traceroute give me a positive response: the site

Re: negative bytes/sec?

2000-09-27 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [2927 01:40], Roman Shterenzon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >i586_bzero() bandwidth = -1704293721 bytes/sec >bzero() bandwidth = 132802124 bytes/sec There are apparantly some issues with calculating this. As Maxim Sobolev said to me: it is archived in the current mailinglist if yo

Re: negative bytes/sec?

2000-09-27 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [2927 01:40], Roman Shterenzon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >i586_bzero() bandwidth = -1704293721 bytes/sec >bzero() bandwidth = 132802124 bytes/sec Try this, it worked for Maxim Sobolev, apparantly the data type is too small to adequately store the calculation on newer s

Re: negative bytes/sec?

2000-09-27 Thread Roman Shterenzon
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > -On [2927 01:40], Roman Shterenzon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >i586_bzero() bandwidth = -1704293721 bytes/sec > >bzero() bandwidth = 132802124 bytes/sec > > Try this, > > it worked for Maxim Sobolev,

Re: Userland ppp

2000-09-27 Thread Roman Shterenzon
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Are all the clients running on the FreeBSD box or are you routing for > other machines? Is it possible its just FreeBSD's higher performing TCP > stack? It can transfer things much faster than windows... > > Andrew > No, it's my home computer, however the same go

comapq 221 smartaddry slow down the machine

2000-09-27 Thread holger glaess
hi all... i have following problem i use a SMP mchine with 2 800 MHZ piii and 1 GB ram with FreeBSD 4.1.1 the controller ist a compaq smartarray 221 if i write a big file on harddisk the complete machine freeze for some seconds. the harddisk led have very high load and the system performance

[stable] Re: Freebsd vs. UPS

2000-09-27 Thread David Gilbert
> "Matt" == Matt Heckaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt> I have to agree with you totally. We have a Powerware 5119RM Matt> here and as far as Price:BackupTime goes, it beats APC hands Matt> down. I'm also very happy with it's quality. I have not found Matt> software to talk to it yet, but

Re: UP kernel on SMP machine?

2000-09-27 Thread Antony T Curtis
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > > -On [20000927 07:55], Nick Sayer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Does anyone think that setting up a non-SMP kernel on an SMP motherboard > >(but with only one processor installed) might have anything to do with > >this? > > U

nfs errors

2000-09-27 Thread Andrew BOGECHO
Wed Sep 27 09:31:00 EDT 2000 Hi, I have previously sent the message below to questions and net, but received no response. If anyone here has any ideas I would really appreciate it. We have recently been moving more and more to FreeBSD. The enjoyment of such a stable platform allows us to see th

Re: max. amount of physical memory in FBSD 4.1?

2000-09-27 Thread Andreas Persson
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 01:34:02PM +0200, "O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dear Sirs. > >Every step done under Linux is well documented by the press, especially here >in Germany! When Microsoft found a bug in AMD's Athlon CPUs which causes >Win2k to crash, the 4GB physical memory limit c

Re: UP kernel on SMP machine?

2000-09-27 Thread Sean O'Connell
Nick Sayer stated: : I recently set up a machine to act as a remote bridge for a remote : office. The machine has a couple of problems. I can workaround them, but : they're annoying. It occurs to me that the cause may be that it is an : SMP machine, by nature, but it only has 1 processor installed