Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

> 'k, I'm starting to get the impression that FreeBSD 6.x is evil ... at > least as far as Dual-PIII servers are concerned ... on a machine that, I can't comment on your other problems - but I have a dual PIII server and say a 30% performance increase when moving to 6.x over 5.x ... and it's bee

Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

> So, unlike my supplier claims, ECC is not supposed to help against > hardware failures. > But it is the way to detect them, right? Yes!!! Absolutely. -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

> I am not looking for workarounds, like ECC. I want the box to break > immediately once any single component goes wrong... Uh, that *is* what ECC does (or can do). Without ECC your broken hardware continues to run un-noticed. With ECC you can either make it break immediatley, or log an error or

FTP insall booting from disc not floppies

I want to do a clean (i.e. wipe the disc) install of FreeBSD 5.4 onto a set of remote machines. I have access to the consoles of these machines, but no access to the media (CD or Floppy). When you isnall from floppies they bopot a bare minimum system on a memory disc which then does an FTP install

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

> Apparenlty, nobody who is claiming this has _tried_ it. Try it yourself Apparently yo misunderstood what people were claiming. Nobody said you can modify a running binary, merely that you can replace it. try deleting it and writing a new one. it does work, I do this all the time! -pcf. ___

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

> Colocation that does not include serial console access is IMHO worthless. i;ve been following this discussion with interest - what advantages does a serial concolse give you over a colo's standard KVM access ? I've never used a serial consolve with FreeBSD, though I see the phrase crop up a lot.

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

> KVM requires you to physically _be_ at the colo. ?! Not the one I have for our colo - it's a little java app where I choose a machine from a dropdown and get the video in a window on the desktop. > A serial console with an IP address and ssh capabilities (which is easy to > set up, or fairly in

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

> That's an out of the ordinary KVM. Would you mind passing on the > manufacturer of that unit, I'd like to recommend that unit to a number > of clients/associates of mine. It's an HP unit. The client is a Java program called IPViewer you donwload from their website. I did have to tweak it to run

RC4 will not install using FTP

Just been trying to install a new machine with 5.4-RC4. I normally do this using the bootonly image and FTP. But doing an FTP install always gives me the error "/: write failed, filesystem full" when it fetches the first chunk and tries to write it out. I get exactly the same problem doing an FTP

Re: RC4 will not install using FTP

> I haven't been able to reproduce this yet. I've successfully done an > FTP install both from an initial floppy boot and from an initial disc1 > CD boot. So it's not a "totally generic" problem, it might have > something to do with the pathway you are following through sysinstall. Possibly. I h

Re: RC4 will not install using FTP

> Bingo! Restarting sysinstall always causes this problem. It's a well > known problem with several open PRs (see for example bin/38854, > bin/42162 and bin/45565 - all dating back to 2002). It's 100% > recreateable by restarting sysinstall realatively early in the install > procedure, and I've

Re: NEC 1300A DVD-R writing

> Do you happen to still have the 1198_firmware_ND-1300A_WIN108.zip file? I > have not been able to find this and I think this is what I need. not sure what your question is doing here, but the answer is probably: http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_firmware.php?download_id=1517 many firmwares for that

Re: Performance issue

> Whereas, the typical result for the new rig looked more like > > 105.36 real71.10 user33.41 sys ... > 10548 involuntary context switches Now I just ran this test myself. This machine is a 2.4 gig P4 with hyperthreading enabled. Much as I am an AMD fan, I would expect

Re: Performance issue

> 5.3 ships with SMP turned on, which makes lock operations rather > expensive on single-processor machines. 4.x does not have SMP > turned on by default. Would you be able to re-run your test with > SMP turned off? I just ran a test here with SMP turned of on 5.4-RC4 (GENERIC) I got the follow

HTT/SMP does not start 2nd processor

I have two P4 machines here, both with processors supporting hyperthreading, and running identical SMP kernels from 5.4-RELEASE. One runs with two logical processors and the oother doesn't. This has been puzlling me all day. On the machine where the second CPU does not start up, HTTP is enabled in

Re: HTT/SMP does not start 2nd processor

> Make sure the acpi kernel module is being loaded on startup. See > acpi(4). It wwasnt - but I stuck 'acpi_load="YES"' in /btoo/loader.conf and now it comes up and starts the CPU's. Thanks. Wonder why it wasnt loaded automatically though ? -pcf. ___

gdb problem - program vanishes on SIGABRT

Under 4.11 I was using gcc34 and gdb6 to run and debug code. Moving to 5.4 these tools come as standard, so I am now just using the normal cc / gdb combination. I am finding that when my code breaks with SIGABRT (as the result of an unknown method being sent in this case) then I cannot get a backt

Re: gdb problem - program vanishes on SIGABRT - thread library related!

Oh, some extra information - this problem depends on the thread library I link with! If I use 'pthread' then I have the problem, if I use 'thr' then the problen goes away! -pcf. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!

> Well make up you mind, roger or wilco, not both of them, jezz no wonder > that modern communication only confuses if nobody uses the same > [EMAIL PROTECTED] protocol! Heh, yes, using that one would earn you a slap from air traffic control! Though I have to admit I did go check CAP413 just to

Re: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!

> Yeah, It's SO HARD to set rule to delete posts by the subject or > references. Umm, actually this *is* quite hard to do in FreeBSD as shipped isn't it ? -pcf. [off to read 'man mail' to see what he missed...] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing li

mysql loosing connections on 5.4

When port randomisation was added to 4.x I noticed that under heavy loading my webservers starting dropping their connections to the the mysql database. This was fixed by disabling port randomisation and everything ran very happily. When I upgraded to 5.4 I left port randomisation on, and everythi

Re: mysql loosing connections on 5.4

> Do you get a particular error and which version of mysql are you running: I get 'Lost connection to localhost' or (more commonly) 'Could not connect to localhost'. I am using mysql 4.1, but have had the problem on 4.0. I cant remember if we had the problem on versions before 4.0 > We have to us

Re: jdk1.4.2 endless loop and kernel panic in thr_suspend()

> libthr is experimental and unmaintained..it was removed in 6.0 (well, Bugger. There goes my only workaround for PR threads/80992! -pcf. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?GCC broken for amd64 ? (was Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?)

> "Julian H. Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > GCC 3.4.2 on 5.4-RELEASE has a bug for amd64, > I started avoiding that by putting > CFLAGS= -O0 > in /etc/make.conf > More info from: > Messa

RPC: Port mapper failure on 5-STABLE

Just cvsupped from 5.4-RELEASE to this afternoons stable. Did the usual trick of waiting a few minutes and ding it again to make sure I hadnt caught it mid-patch or something. Install everything, all works fine except for NFS. From 'showmount' I get "RPC: Port mapper failure" no matter what I do.

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

> You can set the environment variable LIBPTHREAD_SYSTEM_SCOPE to force > libpthread to use system scope. This is easier than rebuilding libpthread > (with SYSTEM_SCOPE_ONLY defined) and allows you to use M:N for some > applications and 1:1 for others. Is the sysctl kern.threads.thr_scope_sys sup

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

> Reread the above for the answer to your last question. Sorry, rephrased - 'How can I set that environment variable for all processes?' I'm kind of embarassed to have to ask, as this should surely be very simple, but I cant think of anywhere to set system-wide environment variables which all pro

Interrupted system calls on 5.4

Since moving from 4.11 to 5.4 I have started seeing the occasional write to a socket return with EINTR. This puzzles me, as looking at the man page for siginterrupt it says that restarting the system call is the default behaviour (and has been since BSD 4.2) if no data has been transferred. If data

Re: SMP support maturity? AMD64x2 or FX-57?

> if I should go with dual procs or just a single. The AMD64x2 is > slightly cheaper than the FX-57 so I'm leaning that way, but it > would be a rather pointless savings if SMP isn't well supported. Well, I've not triied it under amd64, but i386 SMP has been rock stable for me since I upgraded to

Re: kmem_malloc(4096): kmem_map too small: 536870912 total allocated

> I found the sources of the leak: if exim accessess ANY configuration/text > files over NFS, there will be leak. And, how often exim will be called, then > quicker your system dies. Surely this has to be a problenm wth NFS in the kernel, not with exim though? Did you log a FreeBSD PR on this ? I

Re: math/grace port: "libXcursor.so.1.0" not found ??

> I am the only FreeBSD user on the Grace mailinglist. > Apparently the dlopen() call in grace works fine > on Linux and others. But not with FreeBSD. This is not a problem with the dlopen call *or* freebsd - the problem is that it is asking for a library 'libXcursor.so.1.0' which does not exist o

upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

usually when I upgrade across major versions of BSD I wipe the whole machine and re--install from scratch. But I understand that the move to 6.0 from 5.4 is nowhere near such a big leap. So I was wondering hether I could just do this from source without any ill effects, as if I was upgrading 5.4->

Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

Thanks for all the comments - it sounds like it's a pretty safe thing to do. I have one more question though - when I upgrade a machine this wa I will remove all the ports first, so it is just back to the basic system. But Perl is now a port - should I remove this, or should I leave it alone, i.e.

Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

> You don't have to remove the ports prior to upgrading. Just recompile them > later. Why would I want to do that though ? It gives me no advantages, and some serious disadvantages (especially if I am doing this on a 'live' system). Much easier to delete everything prior to the upgrade, and then

Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

> No, nothing outside the base system is required to build the base > system. But don't nuke the ports before running cvsup :) Heh, I have done that in the past, I have to admit :-) Also must note that one should not remove ones login shell before changing back to /bin/sh if one wants to be

Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

> How is this different from a fresh install? It doesnt require physical access to the machine and a CD drive (or any of the other hoops I sometime jump through to boot the install process). Much easier. -pcf. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ciss(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x ...

>I'm specifically looking at the Proliant DL360, which has this card ... > can you provide any comments, or insight, concerning what the man page > states? Should I shy away from this controller? :( I use SMART controllers driven by the ciss driver, as well as earlier ones driven using ida,

6.0 kernel will not boot past atkbd0

Having successfully upgraded one system in-place from 5.4 to 6.0 I had a go at the second system today. This is an old Compaq proliant 1600R with two 500mhz pentium3's in it. Currently running 5.4 quite happily. so I buildworld, buildkernel, insall kernel and rebooot to check that the kernel works

Re: 6.0 kernel will not boot past atkbd0

> I have the same behavior on Compaq AP400 (2xPIII 700MHz). > The problem disappeared when I disconnect the mouse. Ah! Now that is worth knowing - I didnt even think of trying that. So does anyone know why the mouse being connected causes it to not boot ? I can rebuild the kernel without the mous

Re: 6.0 kernel will not boot past atkbd0

> We have an array of new ASUS machine connected through a KVM. These > machines panic when the kernel is probing for the mouse if ACPI is not > loaded. If a mouse is not plugged in, no panic. If ACPI is loaded and > the mouse is plugged in, it boots fine. I didnt try ACPI. I merely took the

Re: 6.0 kernel will not boot past atkbd0

> Is there any chance that the very mouse > is not working correctly? What if you change > the device and try again? very unlikely I would think - the mouse works correclt if thr machine run FreeBSD 5 or FreeBSD 5, and also under Windows2000 (it is connected via a KVM). Also someone else reported

Any vital post 6.0 fixes gone into stable ?

I'm about to start installing a whole new set of machines for production use with 6.0 on them. Normally I would just use -RELEASE, but as this is a dot-nought release I was wondering if there is anything vital which has been commited to stable, and if I should therefore sun the machines under stabl

RE: Any vital post 6.0 fixes gone into stable ?

> The ARP problem is not in -RELEASE, it was introduced in -STABLE and > fixed a day later. Ah, O.K. thanks -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EM

Re: kernel cpu entries

> UTSL: The i586 optimised routines were only ever enabled if the CPU > was identified as a 586. And these routines have been disabled since > mid-2001. See my mail in the "Odd performance problems..." thread > for more details. Got some curiuous results when I tested this today by the way. I h

Re: kernel cpu entries

> I can't see anything in the kernel source code to explain it. Since > you don't mention actual times, is the difference statistically > significant? (see src/tools/tools/ministat) Ministat says: Difference at 95.0% confidence The second set are always smaller than the first set no matter how

Re: RELENG_6: Which scheduler for SMP?

> What I am trying to decide is whether there any point in making the jump > from a very stable RELENG_5 system to RELENG_6. AIUI the ULE scheduler > and it's associated options optimize the use of multiple CPUs and by > staying with 4BSD I'm not getting the best performance from my system. I'm

How do I turn off hyperthreading on 6.0 ?

I though that machdep.hyperthreading_allowed had to be set to 1 to turn on hyperthreading ? I have a dual processor HP blade, and when I boot it up with an SMP kernel I get 4 CPU's. Setting that flag does not have any effect! Any thoughts ? I dont think I have two CPU's each with dual core and wi

Re: How do I turn off hyperthreading on 6.0 ?

> Disable it in the BIOS. The kernel can't use what isn't advertised as > available. :) true - but surely this is a bug in FreeBSD ? man smp says: "Since using logical CPUs can cause performance penalties under certain loads, the logical CPUs can be disabled by setting the machdep.hlt_logical

Re: How do I turn off hyperthreading on 6.0 ?

> If you look at top(1), which processors do you see actually running > processes? Errr, 0, 1, 2 and 3! That was my first clue that it hadn't worked as advertised! last pid: 2529; load averages: 0.53, 0.49, 0.34up 0+00:19:50 19:35:04 62

Re: How do I turn off hyperthreading on 6.0 ?

> You misunderstand the point of this sysctl. All > machdep.hlt_logical_cpus does is prevent anything from scheduling > anything on the extra logical CPUs. Sadly I am seeing all 4 processors running httpd in top (see other email) -pete. ___ freebsd-sta

Re: How do I turn off hyperthreading on 6.0 ?

> What do > > # sysctl machdep.hlt_cpus > # sysctl machdep.logical_cpus_mask > # sysctl machdep.hyperthreading_allowed machdep.hlt_cpus: 10 machdep.logical_cpus_mask: 10 machdep.hyperthreading_allowed: 0 -pete. ___ freebsd-stable

Restartable system call behaviour

I have a piece of coode which does some networking, in which I see read and write calls failing with 'Interrupted system call' from time to time. The reason it puzzles me is that I am explicitly catching every signal that could possibly be causing this, with the SA_RESTART flag set. So surely I sh

Re: 6-stable and HTT P4

> > Just got it to work though... Had to add > > machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 to loader.conf in addition to > > hlt_logical_cpus=0 > > Great. FYI, HTT will give you little or even negative performance benefits. Heh - I still cant persuade my 6.0-RELEASE to *not* use hyperthreading! have got

Re: Restartable system call behaviour

> >>I have a piece of coode which does some networking, in which I see read > >>and write calls failing with 'Interrupted system call' from time to time. > > > > You will get EINTR if the interrupt occurs before any data is read > > or written. > > Will it also happen with recv() with MSG_WAITALL

Re: Restartable system call behaviour

> To the best of my knowledge, connect() being always interruptable > is correct and well-known. Fair enough, that answers my question! > And my 4.11-STABLE system will interrupt connect() on a signal with > SA_RESTART set, which disagrees with your observations yet agrees with > the standard. P

Re: Releases

> Maybe it would reduce confusion somewhat if people would > just stop saying ``4.1-stable'' etc. Those simply do not > exist. Best idea so far, and consequently change the bit in the handbook that implies that -STABLE is a bug fix to the last release, independent of the changes to making the ne

Re: FWIW: pkg_alert development (was: Re: pkg/port dependency too l (enclosed))

> NAME > pkg_update - update an installed package Nice utility -- any chance of a switch to make it do a build rather than a pkg_add to install the new packages ? I;d fix that myself, but sadly I dont do perl. -pete. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-

Problems with COmpaq oonboard Symbios SCSI

I'm running FreeBSD on a Compaq Workstation Pro 400. The Compaq motherboard has an onboard Sybmios SCSI controller (like so many COmpaqs do) but also came with a SMART-2LS RAID controller which is what is being used to boot from. Now this all works fine, except for the fact that if I try to reboo

Re: Problems with COmpaq oonboard Symbios SCSI

> I have a Compaq Workstation AP500 at the office that will not reboot with > Win2000. Windows shuts down to the point where the screen goes blank, but > *nothing* happens after that. I chalked it up to something flaky in the > Compaq BIOS. I flashed it to the newest BIOS on the RAID controller

Re: Problem with xl driver (cvsup 2001-06-02)

> But you're right, in fact 3com cards 3c905 and 3c905c are quite > different. It is the general consensu that this affect 3C905 cards only, not any of the other 3COM cards that use the xl driver ? I have a 3C900B-TPO in a remote machine that I was going to have a try at upgrading sometime in the

Telnet problem from Windows to stable from July 18th

Has anybody seen (or has any explation for) this ?! I have a user whos login .profile consists of the line: exec bin/test.sh The script "test.sh" looks like this: #!/bin/sh echo Choose file 1 or file 2 n=`echo ${n}` FILE_NAME="" while test "${FILE_NAME}" = "" do FILE_NO=0 echo

Latest RC breaks gdomap

Until today I was running the PRERELEASE version of 4.5, and I cvsupped to 4.5-RC thisd afternoon (about 1500GMT). gdomap (GNUstep distributed objecst mapper) no longer works. Attempting to start it gives the following errors: SIOCGIFFLAGS: Device not configured SIOCGIFFLAGS: Device not configure

Re: Microtech USB6SCSI Cable - working well ?

> - what would be the diff between the DB25 (female) > and the HD50 (male) version ? I mean, is there a HD50 is the normal standard SCSI-2 connector (narrow). A very few manufacturers (Apple being the main culprit) put 25 way D connectors on the back of SCSI kit for reasons best known to th

Re: Junior Annoying Hacker Task

> And I, somehow, had failed to notice that there's no NSS on FreeBSD. > *smacks self on head* Not quite so simple after all, I guess Is this NSS as in the Mozilla crypt stuff ? If so then what does it have to do with netinfo - or is OSX netinfo different to normal netinfo ? [did they break

PC-Card

I have been running 4.5-PRERELEASE on my little laptop until recently. This had the problem that it would only boot with the pc card routing set to ISa, and then it would not talk to any cards as it appeared not to be able to get any data from them. I just upgraded it to -STABLE and both problems

Talk under 4.5

Umm, just noticed that since theupgrade to 4.5 "talk" no longer works between users on the same machine. This was working fine on 4.4. What I get is [No connection yet] [Checking for invitation on caller's machine] [Checking for invitation on caller's machine] [Checking for invitation on caller's

RE: Talk under 4.5

O.K., thanks for the pointer to inetd.conf ... I didnt look there because I didnt think I had installed the new one when I mergemastered,but apperently I did! Sorry for the noise... -pcf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: ha!

> Looking for this one I tried "/ms" and got malay instead. Which is interesting becase now this one > also gives me malay - with stars and stripes :-) -pcf. [note that my ability to recognise malay is entirely based on

SCSI bus resets under latest stable ?

CVSupped a machien yesterday that has been vert stable and heavily used for a year or so. Foollowing tthat update the machine is now spitting out these errors when the discs come under heavy load: (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1): SCSI BUS reset detected. Now this could be a complete co-incidence and som

SMP problems with latest SUP and SCSi drives

A few days ago I posted a problem with a SCSi bus on a stable machine allegedly being reset according to the messages from the kernel. I have now had time to track this down and ensure it isnt a hardware fault The symptoms are as follows: copy a set of files (e.g.): cp src/cgi-bin/**.exe copy

Re: ntp problems; am i the only one?

> This might be a firewall-issue of the university, but then, even > "ntpdate -v box-next-to-me" gives the sames behaviour. Try giving the '-u' argument to ntpdate... I needed that to get through a firewall when I used ntpdate to set the clock on my boxes. > I would be glad to know if there is a

Re: XFree86 4.2 minor woes

> I had thought about that, but changing my XF86Config to *only* have > 24bpp @ 1024x786 didn't seem to make a difference. I would have > thought this would have meant it actually ran at 24bpp. ;) Interesting, because thts exactly what I do and it works for me. I never had a problem with colour d

Re: 4.6-RC system hangs (fxp0, smp, sym)

> May 19 18:34:33 idefix /kernel: fxp0: device timeout > May 19 18:35:26 idefix /kernel: (noperiph:sym0:0:-1:-1): SCSI BUS reset detected. Interesting. I see exactly the same behaviour on a Compaq Proliant server aas of the lastest SUP. The problem is only exhibited under SMP - UP appears to work

Re: 4.6-RC system hangs (fxp0, smp, sym)

> dmesg output and mptable output would go a long ways towards somebody > being able to help you. For my system these are attached at the end of this email. > I seem to remember that you said the machines used to work just fine. > It would be helpful for you to bracket the breakage to a smaller

Re: using smbfs.sh [solution]

> cp /usr/src/contrib/smbfs/examples/smbfs.sh.sample = > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/smbfs.sh > chmod a+x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/smbfs.sh Sorry, some confusion - I know how do actually do it fine. What I am wondering is whether we should make a change to the shipped system so that either a) That file is al

Re: Should smbfs.sh.sample run at startup ?

> [ This question is off-topic for freebsd-stable, FYI. ] sorry, where should it go ? > We purposely disable the startup scripts for all ports. The user/sysadmin except that these days it isnt a port - its in the base system. -pcf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscr

RAID performance problems

I wonder if anyone can shed any light on the following, as I am starting to come to the conclusion that its possibly some BSD driver issue. I have been testing the performance of the various drives on my system using bonnie, just out of curiosity. The system has 3 different drives on it: 1) a 15k

Re: ata33 vs others?

> One small word of caution though, if you move a boot drive to the new > controller, you will have an... interesting.. time with updating your > /etc/fstab and the disklabel to get it to mount root from the right drive > and upgrade the mount to r/w. My advice would probably be to boot once wit

Linking with SSl librarie sunder 4.8-RC

Just updated the system to 4.8-RC (supped at aroudn 4pm GMT today). It all buil, installs and runs fine. But now when compiling code (which was building fine on a 4.7-STABLE from december) I get a host of errors: /usr/lib/libssl.so: undefined reference to `EVP_DigestFinal_ex' /usr/lib/libssl.so:

Ignore last...

Just found out I have to add -lcrypto to it. Would this be worth mentioning in updating ? -pcf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

procfs problems -cmdline turncated at 256 bytes ?

running 4.8 stable, the cmdline file in /proc/$$ seems to be trucated at, or before 256 bytes for very long command lines. I cant find any refernec to this behaviour in the manpage, nor does google reveal anything. I took a look in the source, but didnt properly understand what was going on - the

Re: SMP goes away after installworld (4.8-STABLE)

> I've concluded now that SMP support is a goner in the current > 4.8-stable. > Anyone else either have SMP working on 4.8-stable > and/or knows that it doesn't? I did a cvsup this morning and it builds and runs fine on an SMP system here. Compaq Proliant - twin 550MHz PIII's. No problems, ju

Is there something sppecial about pass4 ?

Machine is 4.8-STABLE smaug# camcontrol devlist at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0) at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1,da1) at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass2,da2) at scbus0 target 3 lun 0 (pass3,da3) at scbus0 target 5 lun 0 (pass4,da4) smaug# ls -l

Re: malloc does not return null when out of memory

> That probably would mean that all the software should switch to a new > way of allocating memory, but it's a start... ...its only "a start" if you consider the current behaviour to be a problem. which under most normal uses of FreeBSd (and all the other UNIXs which do this) it doesnt seem to be.

Problems sharing parallel port with 4.8-STABLE

I am trying to share a single parallel printer between a Windows XP machine and a FreeBSD machine using one of those auto-changeover parallel port switches. When both machines are running Windows this works fine, but when one of the machines is running FreeBSD then that machine hogs the connection

Security hole in ssh ?

Someone just forwarded me this link, is this old news or is it something which needs patching in FreeBSD ? The details seem sketchy, though there is a comment in there that 3.7.1p1 fixes it (whatever "it" may be). http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-September/010116.html -pcf.

Re: This here DVD-RAM thing

> Don't believe what your vendor says - for example LG's formatting tool and > documentation for Windows claims NTFS isn't possible either, but it Umm, sorry - not what I meant. What I meant was that I didnt think it was supported under 4-STABLE FreeBSD. What program did you use to format the dri

SMP/HTT problems with 4.10-BETA

I just tested the new 4.10-BETA code to see if it had improved any of the issues I had running HTTP under 4.9. Unfortunately they still seem to be present. If I have a kernel configured with SMP options and I enable HTT then I see random errors in processes. These are not the normal "signal 11" thi

Portrange randomized problems - a little bit more info...

O.K., I have been doing a lot of testing with this, though have not yet managed to generate a lot of useful data sadly. To summarise - with net.inet.ip.portrange.randomized set to 1 I am seeing failures of mysql connections from a machine back to a server on the same machine. These happen rarely,

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