Re: Broadcom BCM5701 Chipset problems

the receive hardware checksum was caused by small packets with certain byte patterns, NOT VLAN ENCAPSULATION. -DG David Greenman-Lawrence Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http

Re: Broadcom BCM5701 Chipset problems

My local copy of the -STABLE source tree leaves BGE_CSUM_FEATURES set on in the driver; is there a change that needs to be MFC'ed to turn these suckers off? ... There's no similar comment in the if_bge.c ... See rev 1.5 and 1.3.2.5 of if_bge.c. -DG David Greenman-Lawrence Co-founder

Re: Broadcom BCM5701 Chipset problems

to figure out what they got wrong in the algorithm, but if that were known, then it is conceivable that the problem could be fixed in software. -DG David Greenman-Lawrence Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com

Re: Broadcom BCM5701 Chipset problems

David Greenman-Lawrence wrote: Was the result a rejected packet that didn't get transferred, or transferred packets with bad checksums? If the latter, then it's workaroundable in software, which might be worth doing... if only rechecking packets with bad checksums. I fear the former makes

Re: Broadcom BCM5701 Chipset problems

* David Greenman-Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020513 13:10] wrote: The card doesn't drop the packet if the IP/TCP checksum is wrong. In my tests, I did a software checksum on the supposedly bad packet, and found it to be good every time. So it DMA's correctly, the checksum is just

Re: Broadcom BCM5701 Chipset problems

being marked good. It's not. The problem is much more complicated then that. It appears that some portions are either not added in or are added incorrectly. -DG David Greenman-Lawrence Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http

Re: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

, which is not valid. You can't sleep when there is no process context. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com Pave the road of life

Re: Swapping performance

block allocations. In other words, what you're really testing is how sequentially the blocks are paged out vs. how randomly at the swap block level. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

memory is not the bottleneck on modern hardware. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com Pave the road of life with opportunities

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

that takes a tiny amount of memory per process and uses sendfile() to crank out the bits, the bottleneck becomes the CPU for doing context switches, packet header creation, and TCP protocol processing. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

routers. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Patch to remove MFREE() macro entirely

any problems it will go into -current next week some time and then be MFC'd to stable. Looks good to me. I'm definately very much in favor of killing MFREE(). -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http

Re: bge + hardware checksum hangs

we worked around prior to deployment of the servers) - no hangs and this is with typically 30-50Mbps sustained per server out to the Internet over a two month period. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

behind the keystrokes (due to round trip + 200ms). This really makes editing files and other interactive jobs rather painful. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc

Re: Does anyone know if the Broadcom BCM5700 has problems with HW csum?

David Greenman writes: David Greenman wrote: In any case, disabling it is what ClickArray ended up doing, as well, for the Tigon II, until the firmware could be fixed. We're talking about the Tigon III (bge driver for Broadcom BCM5700/BCM5701). Crap. Thanks for the info

Re: Does anyone know if the Broadcom BCM5700 has problems with HW csum?

/if_bge.c.diff?r1=1.4r2=1.5 I believe you will find that the problem is related to the firmware handling of VLAN tagging, and that the problem only exists if VLAN tagging is enabled. You would believe wrongly, then, because the problem that I was seeing did not involve VLAN tags. -DG David Greenman Co

Re: Does anyone know if the Broadcom BCM5700 has problems with HW csum?

payload) packets. In any case, after discussing this problem with Bill Paul, I disabled input checksum in the -current driver and intend to merge that to -stable in a few days. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http

Re: Does anyone know if the Broadcom BCM5700 has problems with HW csum?

* David Greenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011215 03:12] wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: There was a commit to current a few hours ago disabling hardware checksums on recieve due to corruption problems. It will be MFC'd in three days though it's a two line fix so you could apply it your self

Re: Does anyone know if the Broadcom BCM5700 has problems with HW csum?

David Greenman wrote: In any case, disabling it is what ClickArray ended up doing, as well, for the Tigon II, until the firmware could be fixed. We're talking about the Tigon III (bge driver for Broadcom BCM5700/BCM5701). Crap. Thanks for the info. Have you manually calculated

Re: Does anyone know if the Broadcom BCM5700 has problems with HW csum?

David Greenman wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: You're probably incorrect, it doesn't matter if vlan tags are active or not, it's most likely wheather or not the firmware is being asked to handle them at all. I would think it would get the checksum wrong most of the time if that were

Re: Found NFS data corruption bug... (was Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step )

Very cool. Good job! -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: fxp driver - receive interrupt bundling

hardware, I'd be glad to know how it works on other versions of Intel's fxp cards. Pls. send your comments, suggestions etc. to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have fun! Nifty! -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http

Re: Conclusions on... was Re: More on the cache_purgeleafdirs() routine

with. There is also some cost in moving the pages between the file object and the device object. For these reasons, I would prefer that we keep the existing model, but just make sure that we can handle the degenerate case of one page per file object. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http

Re: More on the cache_purgeleafdirs() routine

goal to acheive in that case without increasing the malloc limit by at least 4X. Of course this many 1 page files is extremely rare, however, and I don't think we should optimize for it. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc

Re: mmap MAP_INHERIT question.

to be inherited across execve(2) system calls, but is currently broken. Support for the flag and reference to it in the manpage should just be removed. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc

Re: Recommendation for minor KVM adjustments for the release

to another 30,000 or so nmbclusters. That also seems like overkill for the vast majority of systems. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities

Re: exec() doesn't update access time

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:25:19PM -0700, David Greenman wrote: Guessing, I think the correct fix is probably to set the IN_ACCESS flag in ufs_open() [and similarly with other filesystems where this makes sense] if the filesystem is not mounted with the noatime flag. However, I'm not sure

Re: exec() doesn't update access time

times over the past many years and the end result is that 1) Noone really seems to care very much, and 2) There are performance reducing implications if the atime update is forced. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http

Re: exec() doesn't update access time

be mistaken. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: exec() doesn't update access time

be mistaken. Here is a patch that I just wrote that should implement the above. Please test and report results (good or bad). :-) -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life

Re: Intel ISP1100 or similar 1U experience with 4.3 stable

anyway. If you have the space, 2U is better. Why is that statement so irritating to you. Its a fact. you agree with it. So what is the problem? The problem is that you said that 1U solutions are inherently unreliable, which is not true. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project

Re: Intel ISP1100 or similar 1U experience with 4.3 stable

be ordered with one CPU. We've recently improved the cooling in our 1U server with very powerful 40mm fans that will cool an MP system more than adequately, but the power supply issue still remains. We should have a solution for that as well in a few weeks. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD

Re: Intel ISP1100 or similar 1U experience with 4.3 stable

this thread got moved to -hackers...it started out on freebsd-isp and really does not belong on this list. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities

Re: Re. The Foundation [was Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral]

donations have arrived. I believe that the financial statement released with our announcement makes it clear why this must be the case. How much do you think it will cost to transfer the trademark? -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President

Re: ftpd....

forward. Neither one of them hold a candle to the load CDROM.COM can handle. How about we import dg-ftpd instead? I'm sure we'd all like to be able to support 1TB a day of data transferred... dg-ftpd isn't freeware. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org

Re: max kernel memory

-SMP machine, NKPDE needs to be 511. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: panics with 4GB on an IBM xSeries 330

recently reported problem. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: 4GB

of the initially allocated kernel page table pages. Try upping it with 'options NKPT=64' in your kernel config file. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities

Re: Extremely large (70TB) File system/server planning

(1.62TB usable) capacity units in a 3U cabinet. It would take around 200A @ 120VAC (about 18KW) to power all of them and should fit in about 5 rack cabinets. Total cost would be about $3 million. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc

Re: Realtek card support

PS. for the record: I also still have an SMC EtherEZ 10Mb UTP and a 3Com 3c503 for those who want to work on drivers for them. Both of those should work with the ed driver. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http

Re: if_fxp driver info

o you know that the above drivers are developed by Intel? The above could easily be OS vendor supplied. It's anybody's guess without the source. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the ro

Re: if_fxp driver info

that there are some useful tidbits to be gotten out of the Intel/Linux driver, but that's about it. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe:

Re: if_fxp driver info

In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Greenman writes: "drivers for every major OS"? They have drivers for Windows, Window/NT, and Linux. Of those Linux is the closest to FreeBSD, but that's like saying that a penguin is similar to a human because they are both mammals. Pinguins

Re: if_fxp driver info

David Greenman wrote: supporting it if someone ported it over to freebsd? they have drivers for just about every other major OS except BSD. it would be nice if the driver was updated BEFORE cards and MBs that dont work started showing up on the loading dock. Every time I get a shipment we

Re: if_fxp driver info

into the Linux driver, however, and see if it has anything useful in it. Historically the Linux Pro/100+ driver has totally sucked and was chalk-full of magic numbers being anded and ored. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

the original fxp driver. Unfortunately, a few things have changed since then, especially in the SEEPROM area and the only method I have of fixing those problems these days is by reverse-engineering. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc

Re: yet another unsupported PHY in fxp driver

, this probably indicates that you're using an on-motherboard NIC (Supermicro?). I'm running out the door to the airport, however, and won't be able to get a fix to you until next week. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http

Re: sendfile for raw disk (was: zero copy TCP)

in the way that it implements zero-copy sends. In order for raw devices to work, you would need to have a raw device vm_object to hold the pages. The problem with this is that it creates cache coherency problems with any cached file data. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http

Re: yet another unsupported PHY in fxp driver

ayout in the SEEPROM. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers&qu

Re: yet another unsupported PHY in fxp driver

read from the SEEPROM. This said, I think it is generally the right approach to use a generic MII PHY software interface and at some point the driver will likely be updated for that. It is low priority, however, since it doesn't solve any problems. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Proj

Re: Moving FreeBSD towards glibc (or: FreeBSD and Hurd/Mach)

like most of it, then may I suggest that you use one of the alternatives that better suits your needs. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities

Re: mbuf re-write(s), v 0.1

nless the particular form of evolution is to make the software worse than it was. I *can* be convinced that your proposed changes are a good thing and I'm asking you to step up to the plate and prove it. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Manufacturer of high-

Re: mbuf re-write(s), v 0.1

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, David Greenman wrote: We used to do this in FreeBSD, but found that it was a bad idea for performance reasons. Freeing and reallocating memory from the high-level VM system is quite expensive and the trend in NICs these days is towards needing the code to be even

Re: mbuf re-write(s), v 0.1

by freeing the memory back to the common pool. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Manufacturer of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: freebsd bios.

the idea is pretty cool and I'd very much like it to succeed if at all possible. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Manufacturer of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe

Re: Conflict between Intel 82558/9 and VIA MVP4?

in the driver to work around this. What you need is someone with a PCI bus analyzer to look into the behavior on the bus more closely. You may wish to look for any BIOS settings that might affect the DMA - things like write buffering, burst size, etc., and tweak with those to see if you can affec

Re: sendfile should use getfp.

May I commit this? I'm going to need getfp to be non-static for some stuff I have in the queue, I figured sendfile might as well use it. Fine by me. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Manufacturer of high-performance Internet servers - http

Re: The Design and Implementation of the 4.4bsd Operating System

the best ref. Ask me again in 9 months, maybe there'll be a different answer, because another one is in the works (I think David Greenman is one of the authors of a new one) but reading that book will help a whole lot, it's very definitely not a waste of time. Correct me if I'm wrong

Re: Onboard Intel NIC

compile my kernel with your patch. Your problem is unrelated to the problems that other people were having. I'll work with you privately to narrow it down. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers

Re: Onboard Intel NIC

for it! :-) -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: Onboard Intel Networking - i82559

ably break support for those that were working, however. Let me know if it works. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opp

Re: Onboard Intel NIC

mely busy these days and if I can somehow squeeze in some quality development time inbetween multiple trips across te country, then I will. Otherwise people will either have to use the patch I mailed out or just wait. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - ht

Re: Onboard Intel NIC

t;fun" stuff (like work on free software), then I do. Life hasn't been fun for me for quite awhile. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the ro

Re: Onboard Intel NIC

for sizing the SEEPROM was taken from the NetBSD version of the driver. Thanks for your patience. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life

Re: if_fxp driver

of the not-working cards and fiddle with it. I was going to do that this past weekend, but then got sick with a virus. It's on my list. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http

Re: limiting buffer cache

in size, and varies with other activity in the system. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: limiting buffer cache

is generating that error, but it has nothing to do with file caching. Sounds like you don't have enough swap space configured. What version of FreeBSD are you using? -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet

Re: Is FreeBSD dead ?

hat you can get from the facts: This is a great thing for FreeBSD and our future couldn't be brighter. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the r

Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory...

company is to change that. In time we'll know if this was just wishful thinking. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities

Re: Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

4.0 irq 11 ^ Don't know what that is, but's not a part that is supported by the fxp driver. It would help if you could find out the part number (8255X isn't sufficient since it isn't really just one series - some of the parts are similar, and others are completely different). -DG David Greenman

Re: Is FreeBSD dead ?

As pointed to Simple answer: BSD, Inc. loses. What BSD, Inc. tries to do in the value-add arena is entirely their problem and if FreeBSD developers develop something that conflicts with BSD, Inc.'s value-add, then tough - BSD, Inc. will have to go and find another value-add. -DG David Greenman

Re: Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

. Can you look on the motherboard and find out what type of chip it uses? It should be one of: 82557, 82558, or 82559. Let me know. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http

Re: Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

). The 82559 has an integrated PHY. Looks like someone has changed the identifier again. What type of motherboard is this on (sorry if I missed this in a previous message). -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance

Re: Multiple instances of the same character device

with closing the device. If you don't care about the device driver close routine being called except on the last close, then everything should work just fine. I assume this question is related to you work on VMware for FreeBSD? -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

Re: new Intel 100Mbps card

eady added this. This should be merged into 3.x for the 3.4 release (with Jordan's permission of course). Are you going to take care of that, Peter, or would you like me to? -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet serv

Re: new Intel 100Mbps card

#define FXP_VENDORID_INTEL 0x8086 #define FXP_DEVICEID_i825570x1229 +#define FXP_DEVICEID_i825580x1030 This wouldn't be correct. The 82558 has been used for years on Pro/100+ boards and they ID as 0x1229. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

Re: new Intel 100Mbps card

take care of making the changes to the driver. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: fxp related kernel panic

Let me guess...your system has an Intel N440BX motherboard, right? If so, then it's a known problem with no solution yet. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http

Re: fxp related kernel panic

don't really know what is causing it, so just about anything is possible. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

David Greenman wrote: So if this problem is NOT related to specific hardware, how can we get the driver fixed? Talk to the maintainer (David). We've offered him cores and kernels before. Alternatively, you'll need to experiment with your setup to determine what characterises

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

through all this a while back, right?), but we've also been seing reports from people that aren't using NCR controllers. I haven't seen a report yet from someone not using an NCR/Symbios controller. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

with more data. Hotmail has troubleshooted the problem down to the NCR controller. It appears that the problem only occurs when using one of those. If they plug in an Adaptec 2940 and use it instead of the onboard NCR then the problems disappear. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

he problem go away...I'd be very interested in the results. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe:

Re: CFD: bogomips CPU performance metric

at we kept the professional FreeBSD look and feel. If we look too much like Linux, then people will just use Linux. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the ro

Re: CFD: bogomips CPU performance metric

the professional FreeBSD look and feel. If we look too much like Linux, then people will just use Linux. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life

Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16

able to me, although there may be issues with finding a bit in the minor number - I think they've pretty much all been taken. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pav

Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16

, although there may be issues with finding a bit in the minor number - I think they've pretty much all been taken. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road

Re: network performance vs. linux on small transfers

. I REALLY want to use FreeBSD over Linux on this one and need some major help to get the performance out of FreeBSD. Are you setting the TCP_NODELAY socket option on the SMTP connection? If not, then please do that and let me know if it fixes the problem or not. -DG David Greenman Co-founder

Re: network performance vs. linux on small transfers

. I REALLY want to use FreeBSD over Linux on this one and need some major help to get the performance out of FreeBSD. Are you setting the TCP_NODELAY socket option on the SMTP connection? If not, then please do that and let me know if it fixes the problem or not. -DG David Greenman Co-founder

Re: mmap bug

ation so that we can help you. Thanks. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com This small program, running as 'mmap', not 'mmap -u', can hang my machine. Is this a kn

Re: mmap bug

s well. I don't have a -current machine at the moment so I can't test it myself. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: mmap bug

you. Thanks. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com This small program, running as 'mmap', not 'mmap -u', can hang my machine. Is this a known bug in FreeBSD's

Re: mmap bug

a -current machine at the moment so I can't test it myself. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe

Re: Benchmarking server app on FreeBSD

What do you have the listen queue limit set for? What is the kern.somaxconn sysctl variable set to? -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com I'm benchmarking

Re: tcp windowsize query?

. Actually the real purpose of it is to eliminate the internal overhead that is normally imposed by the delayed ack timers, which can become substantial on large systems like wcarchive. That it has other beneficial side effects is almost accidental. :-) -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect

Re: tcp windowsize query?

. Actually the real purpose of it is to eliminate the internal overhead that is normally imposed by the delayed ack timers, which can become substantial on large systems like wcarchive. That it has other beneficial side effects is almost accidental. :-) -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect

Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)

to run a system with such a knob turned on, however, and I tend to agree with Matt that there are other better ways to solve the embedded system case. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers

Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2))

what they deserve. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)

want to run a system with such a knob turned on, however, and I tend to agree with Matt that there are other better ways to solve the embedded system case. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers

Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2))

they deserve. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body

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