Re: Webcamd testers wanted on FreeBSD 8.2

2011-01-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
speaking of webcamd, any idea on how to debug operation of skype and webcamd ? The thread at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2010-October/011327.html indicates the problem and shows symptoms. The most recent version of webcamd (0.1.18) now supports more of my webcams but st

switching schedulers (Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default)

2011-12-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 03:11:43AM +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Tom Evans wrote: > > Real time scheduler changing would be insane! I was thinking that > > both/any/all schedulers could be compiled into the kernel, and the > > choice of which one to use becomes a bo

Re: switching schedulers (Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default)

2011-12-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:46:35AM +0100, Stefan Esser wrote: > Am 16.12.2011 09:11, schrieb Luigi Rizzo: > > The interesting part is probably the definition of the methods that > > schedulers should implement (see struct _sched_interface ). > > > > The switch from o

Re: switching schedulers (Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default)

2011-12-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 01:51:26PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On 12/16/2011 13:40, Michel Talon wrote: > > Adrian Chadd said: > > > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Can someone load a kernel module dynamically at boot-time? > >> > >> Ie, instead of compiling it in, can 4bsd/ule be loaded as a KLD at

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-22 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 04:52:50PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:14:24PM +0100, Attilio Rao wrote: > > 2011/12/15 Steve Kargl : > > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 05:25:51PM +0100, Attilio Rao wrote: > > >> > > >> I basically went through all the e-mail you just sent and identif

Re: nmbclusters: how do we want to fix this for 8.3 ?

2012-02-22 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:56:29AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: > Using igb and/or ixgbe on a reasonably powered server requires 1K mbuf > clusters per MSIX vector, > that's how many are in a ring. Either driver will configure 8 queues on a > system with that many or more > cores, so 8K clusters per po

Re: nmbclusters: how do we want to fix this for 8.3 ?

2012-02-22 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 09:09:46PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 21:52 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: ... > > I have hit this problem recently, too. > > Maybe the issue mostly/only exists on 32-bit systems. > > No, we kept hitting mbuf pool limits on 6

Re: powerd and increase in energy need

2012-03-21 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 09:32:47AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: ... > If you are trying to reduce power consumption, why are you limiting Cx > states to C2 (which save little) and not C3 (which will save a LOT of > power when the CPU is not heavily loaded). > > If it is due to the system hanging, i

Re: powerd and increase in energy need

2012-03-22 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Alexander Leidinger < alexan...@leidinger.net> wrote: > Quoting Luigi Rizzo (from Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:37:28 > +0100): > > I guess that the credit for power saving goes mostly to the CPU >> architects. Powerd only gives second-order savi

8.1R: ppp default route uses wrong Netif (with pppoe)

2010-08-11 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, I found the following problem with ppp after upgrading to 8.1 I am using ppp -ddial -nat ... over pppoe. The entry in ppp.conf has these lines (plus others not relevant here): my-provider: set line PPPoE:nfe0 ... add default HISADDR Up to 7.2 this sufficed to est

Re: 8.1R: ppp default route uses wrong Netif (with pppoe)

2010-08-15 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 07:31:32PM +0400, Michael BlackHeart wrote: > As I understand this isn't a bug but a mistype or misunderstand of config ( > see man ppp.conf ) > > I'm running myself 8.0, 8.1 and currently 8.STABLE with pppoe in this way > and never have a problem as many peolpe do. > Look

Re: Crash in dummynet.

2010-08-17 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 01:08:43PM +0200, Pawel Tyll wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm observing recurring crashes with dummynet on 8.1-RELEASE. > Abnormal things being done on the system are: > /sbin/ipfw pipe list > pipestats-`date "+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"` being done > every minute. > There are over 2000 pi

Re: Dummynet

2010-09-21 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 02:26:41PM +, Vadim Goncharov wrote: > Hi Jon Otterholm! > > On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:02:44 +0200; Jon Otterholm wrote about 'SV: Dummynet': > > >> Try to write "buckets 4096" before "mask", though this is unlikely to help, > >> there are some troubles with 8.1's change

Re: Problem with security log

2010-10-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:03:36AM +0200, Marcin wrote: >> 2010/10/13 Jeremy Chadwick : >> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:50:28PM +0200, Marcin wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> >> >> For some time in the file / var / log / security appear illegi

Re: Problem with security log

2010-10-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:43:24PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: ... > > > It sounds like the only way to solve this issue is to improve/fix the > > > msgbuf code. ?Alternatively, you could consider moving from ipfw to > > > pf(4) and use pflog(4) / pflogd(8). > > > > or you can use the log option o

how to access the SOL (Serial over Lan) port in FreeBSD ?

2010-12-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, i recently bought two motherboards with Intel AMT support, a remote management tool which among other things implements Serial Over Lan (SOL) -- which seems to be accessible via TCP port 16994 I have enabled the feature in the bios and built a client (amtterm, see http://dl.bytesex.org/release

Re: how to access the SOL (Serial over Lan) port in FreeBSD ?

2010-12-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:39:31PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:35:50 +0100 > Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > i recently bought two motherboards with Intel AMT support, > > a remote management tool which among other things implements > > Serial Ov

busybox port available (was Re: busybox and small scripting languages on FreeBSD...)

2008-08-19 Thread Luigi Rizzo
replying to a thread of a couple of weeks ago... I managed to build a reasonable subset of busybox (1.11.1) on FreeBSD, you can find patches at http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/#busybox-port The linux-specific things (e.g. those relying on /proc or system APIs that we don't have)

Re: 7.1-PRERELEASE : bad network performance (nfe0)

2008-09-29 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 09:10:29PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Arno J. Klaassen wrote: > > >However, the "request/respones" tests are awfull for my notebook (test > >repeated on the notebook for the sake of conviction) : > > Is it possible to rerun these tests with a 7.

huge cpu and memory usage by ld.so ?

2008-10-21 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On RELENG_7 (various versions between june and a few days ago) i noticed that sometimes ld.so starts using huge amounts of memory and CPU, both in terms of SIZE and RES. I saw it first on 3 different machines doing a portupgrade -a while X was active, but perhaps it is Xorg-related because even st

sd media attach problems (da/usb related)

2008-10-24 Thread Luigi Rizzo
I have a multifunction printer (EPSON DX7000 series for what matters) with an SD/CF reader in it. FreeBSD 7 correctly recognises the media (creating the entries /dev/da0 and /dev/da0s1) if the media is inserted before the printer is powered on (or the USB cable is plugged in), but it doesn't see th

nspluginwrapper / acrobat problem (was Re: huge cpu and memory usage by ld.so ?)

2008-10-28 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:31:29PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On RELENG_7 (various versions between june and a few days ago) i > noticed that sometimes ld.so starts using huge amounts of memory > and CPU, both in terms of SIZE and RES. > > I saw it first on 3 different m

diskless+pxe notes

2008-11-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, i finally decided to try and use pxeboot to replace the etherboot method I was using so far for diskless setups. The goal is to fully share the server's root and /usr directories, as documented in diskless(8). I'd like to share the following notes, hopefully to go in the manpage. chee

eeebox and FreeBSD notes

2008-11-27 Thread Luigi Rizzo
for what it is worth, i have put some notes on using FreeBSD on the EEE Box. http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/eeebox.html Most things work, the one big remaining issue is configuring X11 so that it recognises non standard resolutions e.g. 1680x1050 or similar using the "intel" driver. fee

Re: btx/pxeboot problem

2008-12-02 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 01:48:17PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: > latest pxeboot (7.1): > mother-boardNIC/LOM CPU > - --- --- > Intel SWV25 em xeonworks fine > SUN X2200bgeamd works fine > DELL PE 2950 bcexeon

Re: Samsung SCX-4200 printer

2009-01-05 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:26:23PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:44:03PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:36:35PM CET, Torfinn Ingolfsen > > said: > > > On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:14:22 +0100 > > > Harald Weis wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a way to

New disk schedulers available for FreeBSD

2009-01-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, Fabio Checconi and myself have developed a GEOM-based disk scheduler for FreeBSD. The scheduler is made of a GEOM kernel module, the corresponding userland claas library, and other loadable kernel modules that implement the actual scheduling algorithm. At the URL below you can find a tarball w

Re: New disk schedulers available for FreeBSD

2009-01-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 06:45:13PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Hi, > > Fabio Checconi and myself have developed a GEOM-based disk scheduler > > for FreeBSD. The scheduler is made of a GEOM kernel module, the >

Re: USB devices fail to attach as umass scsi da[n]

2009-01-17 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 01:20:20PM +0100, Patrick Lamaizi?re wrote: > Le Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:44:59 -0500, > grarpamp a ?crit : > > > GENERIC, RELENG_7 a few days past the 7.1 release. > > SuperMicro 370DER motherboard, most recent bios. > > The Nikon is set to mass storage. The RCA has no such op

Re: USB devices fail to attach as umass scsi da[n]

2009-01-17 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 04:14:08PM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > to apply quirks without rebuilding a kernel you can use the recent > > 'kldpatch' port ... > > "recent" as in "added within the last couple of weeks"? > I don't see it in an INDEX from Jan. 4. Sounds useful. yes, jan 13 a

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:09:52PM -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: > After rebuilding world from 7-stable after cvsup, I can no longer boot. > The loader tries to load the kernel but instead locks up with a stack > overflow. Wish I could send more details, but I'll have to find another > way to

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:38:51AM -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: > > I can't say what version of the loader it is that I'm using, but > (following Peter's advice, thanks), I've tried loader.old (about a week > old) and the latest loader (built yesterday), and both start. Where > each loader ha

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:47:24PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:38:51AM -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: > > > > I can't say what version of the loader it is that I'm using, but > > (following Peter's advice, thanks), I've tried l

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 02:19:23PM -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: > Andrew Thompson wrote: ... > >Having the following in /boot/loader.conf triggers it for me, > > > > loader_conf_files="/boot/device.hints /boot/loader.conf" > > > >You may say thats its an invalid config line but the loader shouldnt

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:18:09PM -0800, Andrew Thompson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:08:56PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 02:19:23PM -0500, Andrew Lankford wrote: > > > Andrew Thompson wrote: > > ... > > > >Having the following

RFC: side effects of fixing loader_conf_files handling

2009-01-18 Thread Luigi Rizzo
hi, in some recent commits to HEAD and stable/7 i fixed the handling of loader_conf_files so that it behaves as always intended and documented in loader.conf(5): ... loader_conf_files Defines additional configuration files to be processed right after t

Re: New BTX bootloader hangs my box

2009-01-20 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 08:25:23PM +0100, Ralf van der Enden wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently upgraded my box from FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE. > > Now, whenever I reboot my machine it hangs during the boot proces. > > I have a Fasttrak TX2 100 card in my system which is used for booting Fr

backporting dummynet's q_time change ? (svn 184414)

2009-01-23 Thread Luigi Rizzo
in your logmessage for the q_time change in dummynet http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=184414 mentions an ABI change that would prevent backporting. However, as far as I can tell, the kernel side of the change is fully self-contained in the ip_dummynet module, and the only

Re: backporting dummynet's q_time change ? (svn 184414)

2009-01-23 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:53:37AM +0300, Oleg Bulyzhin wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:10:28AM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > in your logmessage for the q_time change in dummynet > > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=184414 > > > > me

Re: backporting dummynet's q_time change ? (svn 184414)

2009-01-23 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:44:20PM +0300, Oleg Bulyzhin wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:23:12AM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > this is also in RELENG_7 but i am not sure whether this workaround > > has any drawback e.g., when curr_time passes a 32-bit boundary > &

Re: backporting dummynet's q_time change ? (svn 184414)

2009-01-23 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:25:52PM +0300, Oleg Bulyzhin wrote: ... > > understand - my question is whether there is strong objection > > in applying the real fix (the one in HEAD) rather than this > > workaround. > > In my opinion the MFC is quite safe as I explained. > > > > cheers > > luigi > >

Re: HEADS UP: Major CAM performance regression

2009-02-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 07:33:25AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: ... > >I'll try your suggestion if you have one. > > I don't have a magic universal testing suite in my back pocket, sorry. > You need to look at your expected workload and develop tests to simulate > it. When I do testing during driver

Re: laptop battery on 8.0

2009-12-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 04:11:22PM +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote: > Howdy! > Old laptop hp nx9020 with i386 8.0. > Original battery was 371785-001, 11.1 V and 4400 mAH. > New one says it is f4809 at 14.8 V. I also lost precise > measurement of remain battery time: > > hw.acpi.battery.life: 97 > hw.acpi

Re: ionice in FreeBSD?

2010-02-04 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 01:31:36PM +, Bruce Simpson wrote: > On 02/03/10 11:52, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > > > >>So I guess my question is, 'why do you need I/O scheduling, and what > >>aspect of system performance are you trying to solve with it' ? ... > There have been previous research fo

Re: ionice in FreeBSD?

2010-02-05 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 12:07:36PM +0100, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > Great work Luigi ;) > That's amazing... anyway ?is it production-ready? i would say it is pretty solid. I used it on my main workstation and desktop for a few months last year without a glitch. cheers luigi > -- > I must no

Re: ionice in FreeBSD?

2010-02-05 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 09:25:55AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 06:06:22PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 12:07:36PM +0100, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > > > Great work Luigi ;) > > > That's amazing... anyway ?is

Re: geom_sched influence on SU consistency

2010-05-05 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > I'm wondering how geom_sched influences soft-update consistency. > > To my understanding it's very important to SU, that the file system > controls writing sequences. Because geom_sched is transparent, > i.e. UFS does not know about access s

Re: Low CPU Freq responsible for xterm pixel corruption on RELENG_7

2008-01-27 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 08:54:00PM -0500, J.R. Oldroyd wrote: > Some weeks ago, I posted on the x11@ list of a problem of pixel corruption > I am seeing in xterm windows. An example of the problem can still be > seen here: > http://opal.com/jr/xterm-corruption.gif > Quick summary: Wide xter

Re: uchcom MFC?

2008-02-29 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 06:59:10PM +, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > Now that 7.0 has been cut, any chance that the uchcom driver could be MFC'd? good idea - i just built it under 6.3 and it did build and work without changing a single bit. cheers luigi > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 6.3 nfe: dead after system reset

2008-07-03 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:26:39AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > As they say - long time, no see :-) > I am back with some more details, but still with no insights. > > Let me refresh an essence of the issue. > The issue: after 'abrupt' reset/reboot of a system my nfe interface is dead. > That i

busybox and small scripting languages on FreeBSD ? (was Re: 80 Mb / enough for 7.x? OK to delete /stand/ and /modules/ ?)

2008-08-02 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 11:39:20AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: ... > I've been looking at nanobsd for a couple of applications and working to > reduce the footprint of the images without hacking special rules. With ... > If we're ever to consider building images for flash parts (not compact > fla

Re: busybox and small scripting languages on FreeBSD ? (was Re: 80 Mb / enough for 7.x? OK to delete /stand/ and /modules/ ?)

2008-08-02 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 04:07:47PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > Luigi Rizzo wrote: ... > >Also, what would you suggest as a small scripting language to be used > >in this kind of platform for implementing CGI scripts (and preferably > >able to use sockets/select) ? ... >

Re: ix? / Intel(R) PRO/10GbE

2013-02-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
eebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- -+--- Prof. Luigi RIZZO, ri...@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di I

Re: Intel 10Gb network card

2013-09-03 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Daniel Braniss wrote: > hi, > I have a hard time figuring this out, the kernel says: > ... > ix0: port > 0xecc0-0xecdf mem 0xd9e8-0xd9ef,0xd9ff8000-0xd9ffbfff irq 40 at > device > 0.0 on pci4 > CI Express Bus: Speed 5.0GT/s Width x8 > ... > > pciconf says:

Re: make struct timeval posix compliant ?

2007-07-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 01:10:46PM +0200, Matthieu Michaud wrote: > hello, > > on RELENG_6 sys/_timeval.h defines (struct timeval).tv_sec as long. > posix wants it to be a time_t. this seems to have been corrected a > long time ago in HEAD (see [1]). i took time to 'make universe' in a > REL

Re: Question about disk schedulers

2009-02-28 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 01:47:07AM -0500, Yoshihiro Ota wrote: > Hi, Luigi and Fabio: > > I have a question about the GEOM disk scheduler you announed a while ago. > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-January/047597.html > > Can you tell me how does the scheduler interact with

updated geom_sched code

2009-03-07 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi all, this is an update on the work that Fabio Checconi and I are doing on disk scheduling, which was first announced here a couple of months ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-January/047597.html Since the previous version, we have done some massive cleanup and con

Re: updated geom_sched code

2009-03-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 07:38:30PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > Luigi Rizzo wrote: ... > > Apart from that (which needs to be fixed by adding a field to the > > struct bio), we believe the code to be quite stable now, so future ... > Hi, > > Do you have some documentation a

Re: reecommendations for an 'appliance" platform ?

2009-06-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 09:13:34PM +0100, Pete French wrote: > > I'm not 100% sure, but fairly sure that you'll have a hard time > > finding something that combines the low-power standalone type spec with > > a 64-bit capable processor. Once you get the higher-end processor, > > That was my exp

skype stalls on RELENG_7 ?

2009-06-19 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, i am not sure what the situation is but i am starting seeing problems with skype (both 2.0 and 1.2) on a couple of RELENG_7 machines. One of the machines still uses linux 2.4 emulation and fc4, the other one has 2.6.16 and fc8 and is a fresh install of 7.2 In both cases, i see that skype remain

Re: skype stalls on RELENG_7 ?

2009-06-19 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:34:38PM -0400, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 22:27 +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Hi, > > i am not sure what the situation is but i am starting > > seeing problems with skype (both 2.0 and 1.2) on a > > couple of RE

Re: Merging a GCC bug fix to RELENG_7 - how?

2009-07-06 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 03:30:01PM +0100, Bruce Simpson wrote: > Hi all, > > This GCC bug bites us in the Boost regression tests in a number of places. > > Uh oh, I've stepped on the one-line fix bomb: >http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31899 >http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?view=rev

status of flash9/flash10 support in RELENG_7 ?

2009-07-24 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Does anyone know what is the status of flash9 or flash10 in RELENG_7 ? Following the thread of a couple of months ago, i tried to: - remove all linux-* ports - set the following in /etc/make.conf OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8 OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f8 - set the following in /etc

Re: status of flash9/flash10 support in RELENG_7 ?

2009-07-25 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:38:05AM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 03:35:00AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Does anyone know what is the status of flash9 or flash10 in RELENG_7 ? > > Following the thread of a couple of months ago, i tried to: > > - rem

Re: status of flash9/flash10 support in RELENG_7 ?

2009-07-25 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 06:42:44PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: ... > > i see that for 8.x you suggest using fc10, which is also something i > > tried on RELENG_7 but had similar symptoms. Is there any known reason > > why HEAD and RELENG_7 should be different in terms of linux_base support ? > > H

Re: status of flash9/flash10 support in RELENG_7 ?

2009-07-25 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 08:31:27PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:13:54 +0200 > > From: Luigi Rizzo > > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 06:42:44PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > ... > > > > i see that for 8.x you suggest using fc1

incorrect usleep/select delays with HZ > 2500

2009-09-06 Thread Luigi Rizzo
(this problem seems to affect both current and -stable, so let's see if here i have better luck) I just noticed [Note 1,2] that when setting HZ > 2500 (even if it is an exact divisor of the APIC/CPU clock) there is a significant drift between the delays generated by usleep()/select() and those com

Re: incorrect usleep/select delays with HZ > 2500

2009-09-07 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 05:36:29PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > (this problem seems to affect both current and -stable, > > so let's see if here i have better luck) > > > > I just noticed [Note 1,2] that when

Re: incorrect usleep/select delays with HZ > 2500

2009-09-08 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:08:23PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Sunday 06 September 2009 11:51:54 am Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > [Note 3] the TSC frequency is computed reading the tsc around a > > call to DELAY(100) and assuming that the i8254 runs > >

Re: incorrect usleep/select delays with HZ > 2500

2009-09-09 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 01:24:53PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday 08 September 2009 5:01:00 pm Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:08:23PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > > On Sunday 06 September 2009 11:51:54 am Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > >

Re: incorrect usleep/select delays with HZ > 2500

2009-09-09 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 04:42:05PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: ... > > > It would explain why it gets better later since the uhci(4), ohci(4) and > > > ehci(4) drivers disable the SMI# interrupts while attaching to the > > > controllers. > > > > ok makes sense -- if the SMI interrupts last longer

Re: Detecting CPU throttling on over temperature

2009-09-10 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 03:21:07PM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > > > I thought coretemp had be modified in HEAD to support Phenoms but I > > > can't find any evidence of that in SVN so I am not sure what I am > > > thinking.. > > > > How about 'k8temp'? > > /usr/ports/sysutils/k8temp > >

Re: incorrect usleep/select delays with HZ > 2500

2009-09-10 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:02:19PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, John Baldwin wrote: > > > $ARCH/isa/clock.c::DELAY(). I suppose with a few measurements > > > at different HZ values and some back of the envelope calculations > > > one could even determine estimate the frequen

Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:48:42PM +0200, Thomas Backman wrote: > I'm copying this over from the freebsd-performance list, as I'm > looking for a few more opinions - not on the problems *I* am having, > but rather to check whether the problem is universal or not, and if > not, find a possible

Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:13:31AM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Luigi Rizzo wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 09:48:42PM +0200, Thomas Backman wrote: > >>I'm copying this over from the freebsd-performance list, as I'm > >>looking for a few more opinion

Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:58:09AM +0200, Thomas Backman wrote: > > On Oct 13, 2009, at 12:35 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: ... > >hi, > >this issue (not specific to FreeBSD, and not new -- it has been > >like this forever) is discussed in some detail here > > > >

Re: 82576 + NETMAP + VLAN

2015-10-22 Thread Luigi Rizzo
ally not. When the file descriptor is registered there is an implicit sync, and there is another one when an event is posted for the file descriptor. unless there are bugs, of course. cheers luigi -- -+--- Prof. Luigi RIZ

Re: Merging r286233 to stable/10?

2015-11-07 Thread Luigi Rizzo
ribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org > " > -- ---------+--- Prof. Luigi RIZZO, ri...@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/. Universita` di Pisa TEL +39-050-2217533

Re: NETMAP and off-by-one?

2015-11-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- -----+-

Re: 82576 + NETMAP + VLAN

2016-02-09 Thread Luigi Rizzo
've no time to help with this, I'm sorry :( >> > >> > >> > -a >> > >> > >> > On 4 February 2016 at 05:00, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 11:44:47PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: >> >>

malloc(0) returns 0x800 on FreeBSD 6.2 ?

2006-12-11 Thread Luigi Rizzo
i was debugging a program on FreeBSD 6, and much to my surprise, i noticed that malloc(0) returns 0x800, as shown by this program: > more a.c #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { char *p = malloc(0); printf(" malloc 0 returns

Re: malloc(0) returns 0x800 on FreeBSD 6.2 ?

2006-12-11 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 12:54:11PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Dec 11), Dan Nelson said: > > In the last episode (Dec 11), Luigi Rizzo said: > > > i was debugging a program on FreeBSD 6, and much to my surprise, i > > > noticed that malloc(0) retu

burncd 'blank' not terminating ?

2006-12-21 Thread Luigi Rizzo
just noticed, after upgrading to 6.2RC1, that luigi# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -v blank blanking CD, please wait.. stays there forever. Eventually i gave up and ctrl-C and the application terminates, and i was able to write to the disk a valid image, which probably means that the disk h

[patch] RELENG_6 support for i945

2006-12-23 Thread Luigi Rizzo
for those interested, i have backported to RELENG_6 the i945 support that is in HEAD. The relevant patch is at http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/20061223-i945.patch and it is very simple - it touches only one file. cheers luigi _

Re: burncd 'blank' not terminating ?

2006-12-25 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 05:12:04PM +0200, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: > > Hello! > > On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Sergey N. Voronkov wrote: > >> just noticed, after upgrading to 6.2RC1, that > >> > >>luigi# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -v blank > >>blanking CD, please wait.. > >> > >> stays there forever.

[summary] Re: burncd 'blank' not terminating ?

2006-12-26 Thread Luigi Rizzo
summary: there was some discussion on how to fix the problem, in 6.x, with "burncd -f /dev/acd0 -v blank" getting stuck with this message blanking CD, please wait.. This used to work on 4.x. 6.x changes in two places: * the ioctl handler, acd_get_progress() in /sys/dev/ata/atapi-cd.c

fdformat usb floppy disks not supported on 6.x ?

2006-12-26 Thread Luigi Rizzo
is there any way to fdformat a floppy connected through usb ? luigi# fdformat da0 fdformat: not a floppy disk: /dev/da0 i am running a RELENG_6 from Dec.23 sources, and the device is the following: Dec 26 17:12:09 luigi kernel: umass0: MITSUMI MITSUMI USB FDD, rev 1.00/1.00, add

Re: [summary] Re: burncd 'blank' not terminating ?

2006-12-26 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 02:33:15AM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > summary: there was some discussion on how to > > fix the problem, in 6.x, with "burncd -f /dev/acd0 -v blank" getting > > stuck with this message > > > > blanking

Re: drm and i915 issue on Dell Latitude X1 ?

2007-01-01 Thread Luigi Rizzo
a curious thing... on my Dell Latitude X1 (scanpci -v output at the end) the drm module did not recognise the video card until i added this patch: Index: drm_pciids.h === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/drm/drm_pciids.h,v retrieving

Re: benchmark

2007-01-05 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 12:43:50AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to meashure network throughput between two 6.2-PRERELEASE boxes, > basically get maximim IP packets per second transmitted/received. > > Tried to use iperf from ports in UDP mode with 64 byte payload, > but it c

can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
[sorry if i don't post this to -ports, but i feel that this is really a -stable issue as it affects one widely used port] I am not sure if i am the only one, but on RELENG_6, linux-firefox 2 is basically unusable (see details below), while linux-firefox 1.5 is at least usable (even though it has s

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 07:37:22PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:06:45 -0800 > Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Would it be possible to resurrect the linux-firefox 1.5 > > port (under a separate name) so at least people have a choi

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:14:41PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: ... > If linux-firefox isn't working for youhere, I really don't have any The 1.5.x version _is_ working for me. It is 2.0.x that exhibits severe problems. My complaint (to get back on the topic) is that 1.5 disappeared from the

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:41:22PM +0100, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > On 1/16/07, Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So i am just advocating to keep the "stable" version around while > > the "current" one becomes stable enough. > > You

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:07:39PM +, Pete French wrote: > > If you had any idea how many RFC's IE violates and and how many bugs there > > are in it you would never have made a statement like that. > > I don't think here ever said that IE was *better*, just that it was > necessary for certai

Re: Dummynet and simulating random delay

2007-01-24 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 06:10:21PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Tue, 2007-Jan-23 14:22:54 -0500, Andresen, Jason R. wrote: > >I have a project that requires me to simulate a link with varying but > >well defined delay. The link is guarenteed to deliver packets in > >order, so I wish to maintain

Re: Dummynet and simulating random delay

2007-01-30 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 03:03:06PM -0500, Andresen, Jason R. wrote: > >From: Luigi Rizzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 06:10:21PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > >> On Tue, 2007-Jan-23 14:22:54 -0500, Andresen, Jason R. wrote: > >> &

Re: Dummynet and simulating random delay

2007-01-31 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:47:48AM -0500, Andresen, Jason R. wrote: > From: Luigi Rizzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > >yes but just curious, this is something so odd that i wonder > >if you couldn't try to reproduce the real reasons for the increase. > >Is the ext

Re: Openvpn tap uses 99% cpu time

2007-03-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:48:38PM +0200, Vlad GALU wrote: > On 3/14/07, Emile Coetzee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since the latest updates to sys/net/if_tap.c (I suspect) in 6.2-STABLE > > my openvpn tap server is using up all available CPU time (99%) > > effectively killing the box. ... >I

panic on a bios16() call with 6-stable...

2006-02-15 Thread Luigi Rizzo
in a lab of diskless machines, more or less identical (2003-2004 vintage, pentium 2.6GHz HTT, intel motherboard, ich5 chipset...), i see 5 out of 11 machine panicing on a bios16() call in sys/i386/i386/bios.c. After a bit of investigation i located the problem in the bios16() call for the 6th PNP d

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