Re: Call for FreeBSD status reports

2005-04-15 Thread Max Laier
All, as I wrote last week: Submissions are due on April 15. Thanks a lot, and we are hoping for a big turn-out. As always this is not final, but please get your reports ready by monday and maybe let us know that you are planing to submit. Unfortunately we have a dramatically lower turn-out

Re: MDELAY()

2005-04-15 Thread Dipjyoti Saikia
Hi, DELAY() in FreeBSD uses a busy loop . I am looking for something like sleep_on_timeout() call in Linux . (dont' want to waste the CPU cycles by DELAY'ing) As I am pretty new to programming with Free BSD , can you help me with some details about equivalent implementation(wait queues etc)

Re: MDELAY()

2005-04-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:46, Dipjyoti Saikia wrote: DELAY() in FreeBSD uses a busy loop . I am looking for something like sleep_on_timeout() call in Linux . (dont' want to waste the CPU cycles by DELAY'ing) tsleep/msleep/timeout are probably what you want. -- Daniel O'Connor software and

Re: MDELAY()

2005-04-15 Thread ALeine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DELAY() in FreeBSD uses a busy loop . I am looking for something like sleep_on_timeout() call in Linux . (dont' want to waste the CPU cycles by DELAY'ing) You may want to check out timeout(9) / untimeout(9), see man 9 timeout for details. As I am pretty new to

Re: MDELAY()

2005-04-15 Thread Joseph Koshy
sleep_on_timeout() call in Linux . (dont' want to waste the CPU cycles You may want to try the manual pages. % man -k sleep | fgrep '(9)' endtsleep(9), sleepinit(9), unsleep(9) - manage the queues of sleeping processes init_sleepqueues(9) ...

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-15 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 01:08:21AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: I'll spare a lengthy write-up because I think the patch documents it well enough. It certainly appears to fix things here when doing very large block-sized writes, but it also reduces the throughput with those block

Re: immenent disk failure ?

2005-04-15 Thread Bill Vermillion
On or about Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:01 , while attempting a Zarathustra emulation [EMAIL PROTECTED] thus spake: Message: 4 Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:58:02 -0500 (CDT) From: H. S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: imminent disk failure ? ... I have a server running 4.X for almost two years now,

Re: MDELAY()

2005-04-15 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 06:03:11AM -0700, ALeine wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DELAY() in FreeBSD uses a busy loop . I am looking for something like sleep_on_timeout() call in Linux . (dont' want to waste the CPU cycles by DELAY'ing) You may want to check out timeout(9) /

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-15 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:21:08PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 01:08:21AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: I'll spare a lengthy write-up because I think the patch documents it well enough. It certainly appears to fix things here when doing very large

Re: immenent disk failure ?

2005-04-15 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:10:52AM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote: On or about Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:01 , while attempting a Zarathustra emulation [EMAIL PROTECTED] thus spake: Message: 4 Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:58:02 -0500 (CDT) From: H. S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: imminent

Re: MDELAY()

2005-04-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:34, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: You may want to check out timeout(9) / untimeout(9), see man 9 timeout for details. You should not use timeout(9) without a very good reason, the callout_* interface is prefered. Can someone add a warning to the top of the makefile

Re: MDELAY()

2005-04-15 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 01:12:42AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:34, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: You may want to check out timeout(9) / untimeout(9), see man 9 timeout for details. You should not use timeout(9) without a very good reason, the callout_* interface

core dump submissions with send-pr?

2005-04-15 Thread nahthan subramanian
Hello, I have a few recent 5.3 panics I would like to submit. send-pr always bails telling me that it is out of space, despite the fact that the local filesystems have plenty of space free: pixie# send-pr -a ./backtrace -a ./uname-output -a ./messages -a ./sysctl-a-output -a

Re: core dump submissions with send-pr?

2005-04-15 Thread Joseph Koshy
What is the proper method for submitting cores along with backtraces to the FreeBSD development team? Is it useful to submit cores, or is the backtrace sufficient? Firstly, GNATS works over email and sending in a 4GB+ MIME encoded core file could overload the mail servers of not just the