Re: smbfs hang

2008-10-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris Coleman wrote: I'm doing a large transfer from an SMB mounted drive, about 2TB of files. After about 250G, it hanging. Of course any process that tries to access that drive hangs as well. Is there anyway to get those processes killed off and remount the drive without rebooting? I

Re: emulate an end-of-media

2008-02-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Tim Kientzle wrote: Why compress? It's ancient technology and will be vastly outperformed Yes, gzip or bzip2 compress better, but they also: * Are a lot slower. * Use a lot more data memory. * Require a lot more code. I don't understand what a lot more code has to do with anything.

Re: emulate an end-of-media

2008-02-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mike Meyer wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:19:33 +0100 Martin Laabs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:34:31 +0100, wrote: You might want to play with the -P option to dump. Your above could be written as: dump -aL0 -P 'compress -c' /MYFILESYSTEM | cdrecord dev=...

Re: find -lname and -ilname implemented

2008-02-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2008-02-23 16:48, M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This knee-jerk reaction against gnu find functionality baffles me. The changes are trivial and make FreeBSD more compatible. It is such an obvious no-brainer that I frankly didn't expect anybody to bat an

Re: nvi strangeness

2008-02-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: That doesn't work, however, and neither does 1,; only X,Y works, so if you want to substitute in the entire file, you first have to find out how long it is, then manually type in that number. Does 1,$ not work? That's what I always used in ed. --Alex

Re: Forcing C program to core dump

2006-12-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Niclas Zeising wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: Hello, This may be obvious to some, but after some Googling (apparently with the wrong search terms, perhaps) and reading the gcc/gdb manpages, I can't seem to find out how to get a program to produce core dumps. So I was wondering, is

Re: Fwd: Re[2]: can't get to work SMBUS or simmilar method for getting thermal sensor data

2006-10-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Andris wrote: Andris wrote: I'm having Asus A7V880 motherboard (AthlonXp, KT880, VT8237) and can't get to work any thermal viewing and control program. I've tried mbmon, healtd, consolehm etc. Some don't work at all (NO HW SENSOR AVAILABLE or simmilar message) or showing constant

Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly

2006-07-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rick C. Petty [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:49:48AM -0400, Steve Ames wrote: On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: DragonFly disklabels allow 16 entries by default, FreeBSD still limits

Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly

2006-07-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mike Meyer wrote: You assume that running out of space happens over time, but with some runaway process logging to a file, for example, the partition filling up will still happen without you expecting it. It might take a bit longer with a big disk, but 20 minutes instead of 5 minutes isn't

Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly

2006-07-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mike Meyer wrote: A further reason to separate partitions is that dump works at the level of a partition. Different partitions may have very different backup requirements, and for those of us without huge tape drives, partitioning to a size that can be dumped on one tape makes life easier.

Re: [Fwd: Interrupts question]

2006-07-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
John Polstra wrote: The problem involving the em device was solved in -current around January by making the device use a fast interrupt handler. If you can update to the latest driver from -current (if it will build on whatever version you are running), you can solve that part of the problem.

Re: [Fwd: Interrupts question]

2006-07-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Oliver Fromme wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. Can you tell me how to disable specific controllers? Were you thinking BIOS? or FreeBSD? I meant to say to disable them in the BIOS. I'm afraid there is no generic way to disable specific devices in FreeBSD anymore. That's what I

Re: [Fwd: Interrupts question]

2006-07-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Oliver Fromme wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: John Baldwin wrote: There's no easy answer on this. You'll have to run your own benchmarks. If you don't need USB, then you may just want to leave it out of your kernel which might help some. OK, thanks for the info and suggestions

Re: [Fwd: Interrupts question]

2006-07-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
John Baldwin wrote: Interrupt storm detected on irq18: uhci2; throttling interrupt source which ties to the disk interrupt. Will that be slowing things down? Would increasing the storm threshold help (especially disk performance)? Guess I'm looking for any mitigation that might be

[Fwd: Interrupts question]

2006-07-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
No responses from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone here understand what's going on? Thanks]. __ I was monitoring a machine with systat -vmstat and noticed something about the interrupts and I don't know if it's a problem or not. If it is a problem, is there anything I can do about it? The interrupts

Re: [Fwd: Interrupts question]

2006-07-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 10:22, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: No responses from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone here understand what's going on? Thanks]. __ I was monitoring a machine with systat -vmstat and noticed something about the interrupts and I don't know if it's a problem

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-05-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-05-01 14:02, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about the patch below. It restores the behavior of the beep only happening for invalid input by axeing the BSD/OS partition type from the lookup table. Much better, since this is the behavior we

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-05-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 07:36 am, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-05-01 14:02, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about the patch below. It restores the behavior of the beep only happening for invalid input by axeing the BSD/OS

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-05-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-04-30 22:34, Eric Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020572.html mentions a patch to disable the boot manager beep, and also discusses having it optional. Does something like the

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-05-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I'd certainly prefer it if the beep was turned *off* by default, but I'm not sure if that's what everyone prefers. This is why I opted for keeping the current behavior and making my personal preference an option :) The beep didn't appear until 5.X (and generated

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-05-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At the same time I also patched so that NTFS filesystem was recognised as DOS, to get rid of the ?? on standard dual-boot Win/FreeBSD machines. Huh? I did that more than a year ago: You beat me

Re: FreeBSD Crash without Errors, Warnings, or Panics

2006-04-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paul Saab wrote: The amr driver was not MPSAFE in 5.4 (i think) so you would not have run into these problems. You should be able to just take the driver from RELENG_6 and use it on a released branch. If it doesn't compile, let me know and I'll generate you a tarball or diff that will work.

Re: FreeBSD Crash without Errors, Warnings, or Panics

2006-04-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Matthew Hagerty wrote: Can anyone shed some light on this, give me some options to try? What happened to kernel panics and such when there were serious errors going on? The only glimmer of information I have is that *one* time there was an error on the console about there not being any RAID

Re: FreeBSD Crash without Errors, Warnings, or Panics

2006-04-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Matthew Hagerty wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Matthew Hagerty wrote: Can anyone shed some light on this, give me some options to try? What happened to kernel panics and such when there were serious errors going on? The only glimmer of information I have is that *one* time

No auto reboot after panic

2006-04-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
(This message started life on questions, but no responses :-( If there's a better list to try, please point me! I have no clue how rebooting actually works). Setup: Dell 2850 running i386 FreeBSD 5.4-p5 (or so), ACPI enabled and apparently working (shutdown -p or -r work fine). After a

Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-03-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Same here. As mentioned in the original message, I can use the mouse to open a new window under firefox. The new window will accept keyboard input, the old one won't. It's almost as if it's deadlocking on input. Just a me too. I used to get this with mozilla

Re: A smarter mergemaster

2005-09-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Brian Candler wrote: That's my biggest bugbear with mergemaster - it asks you about a zillion files in /etc/rc.d which you have to manually agree to overwrite just because the RCS ID has changed. In those cases where you've not altered them yourself, I think you should just get the latest

Re: How to reset root passwd FreeBSdD4.7

2005-07-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Vyacheslav Sotnikov wrote: but what to do if i have consoleinsecure in /etc/ttys? I believe you can Boot cdrom Pick Change system manager's password Type the new password. Worked fine from /stand/sysinstall, but you have to be root to do that from the command line :-) --Alex

Re: Forcing a packet through an interface (OT?)

2005-07-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mario Lobo wrote: Yeah Stefan. They do take the default route. That is what I am already doing. I even wrote a little prog using a variation of ping to do just that. The problem lies with the fact that, there is a router between my rl0 and the internet. 1) rl0 --- router --