Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Mark Sergeant
And this is where ? I just tried it and received the error message of no manual entry for tuning. Cheers, Mark On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 01:43:10 -0400, Brent Verner said: On 15 Jun 2001 at 00:38 (-0500), Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: | Mike Silbersack wrote: | | | Matt's

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:45:57AM -0500, Mark Sergeant wrote: And this is where ? I just tried it and received the error message of no manual entry for tuning. It was added to the system on 2001-05-27 so if your system is older than that you won't have it. Cheers, Mark On Fri, 15

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Mark Sergeant
Ahh ok, Well I am going to wait a little while before make worlding as it seems a few too many things I use are broken for now. Cheers, Mark On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:14:57 +0200, Erik Trulsson said: On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:45:57AM -0500, Mark Sergeant wrote: And this is where ?

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Robert Withrow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: :- oops, rc2 isn't started. too bad. I think that is exactly the desired design. The RC *system* starts things correctly, but the manager, *bypassing* the RC *system* can start and stop things exactly as he wished. For debugging or

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Robert Watson wrote: How about /var/run/{$deamon}.pid? So, one of the things I've always hated (and loved) about UNIX is the pid system. One of the problems I have with (foo).pid is that pid's are rapidly recycled, so if a daemon dies, there's no way to track that unless you're a parent

Re: signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN) patch solving SUSv2 compatibility issue

2001-06-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Matt Dillon wrote: Umm. Terry, I really have no idea what you are talking about. I am talking about being able to get the previous behaviour. What historical behavior? That FreeBSD was not properly dealing with SIG_IGN when every other UNIX does? So you are saying that

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Kevin Way wrote: i don't have the code in front of me, but basically it went like this nfs: PROVIDE: nfs REQUIRE: nfsd statd lockd nfsd: PROVIDE nfsd REQUIRED portmap mountd statd: PROVIDE statd REQUIRE nfsd FWIW: sendmail does not _require_ DNS, but it operates better in the presence of

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Devin Butterfield wrote: On Thursday 14 June 2001 9:13, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Rajappa Iyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010614 22:23] wrote: http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm Any obvious reasons why FreeBSD performed so poorly for these people? Because

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Rajappa Iyer wrote: http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm Any obvious reasons why FreeBSD performed so poorly for these people? Here is a repeat of my post to -advocacy: -- Terry The article is meaningless. Too bad they titled it Which OS is Fastest for

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Mike Silbersack wrote: Rather than a tuned configuration, what would be useful is a script that would evaluate a system and give tuning hints. This might be simple for someone familiar with shell scripting or perl. It could do something like: [ ... Eliza program for FreeBSD ... ] Doing

modified natd again

2001-06-15 Thread Urban Olsson
Hi again, I´m still working on my modified natd and have encountered a problem again. What I have done so far is to exchange the alias module with my own aliasing module. The problem this time is that when I send a packet (ping) from the internal machine to the external network the aliasing

reset the target machine with remote gdb.

2001-06-15 Thread Juan Fco Rodriguez Hervella
Hi: I am debugging a kernel with remote gdb, using a serial line. I do the following: 1. boot -d, gdb, step (in target machine) 2. gdb -k kernel.debug Some time later, I get a SIGSEV segmentation fault. This is normal, because I am doing very changes to the kernel. My question is the

Re: strangeness in web interface of send-pr

2001-06-15 Thread Nik Clayton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 13 June 2001 8:57 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I have a few hours to spare tonight, and I was using the query-pr-summary.cgi script to view the open PRs. [snip] Looks like this has been resolved. However, if this is something you

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:09:19AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Mike Silbersack wrote: Rather than a tuned configuration, what would be useful is a script that would evaluate a system and give tuning hints. This might be simple for someone familiar with shell scripting or perl. It could

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Michael Sinz
Terry Lambert wrote: Rajappa Iyer wrote: http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm Any obvious reasons why FreeBSD performed so poorly for these people? Here is a repeat of my post to -advocacy: -- Terry The article is meaningless. Too bad they

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-15 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:14:24PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: : Second, Eivind has already done : some excellent work in this area. Take a look at : http://people.freebsd.org/~eivind/newrc.html for more info. With all due respect to Eivind, he's reinventing the wheel. This is a

Run states (Was: import NetBSD rc system)

2001-06-15 Thread Mike Meyer
Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: Run levels or run states? It would be damned useful, for every embedded system I've ever used FreeBSD for (four now, but who's counting?) to be able to say: o Start _all_ the standard FreeBSD stuff, I'm using this thing as my developement

RE: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Charles Randall
From: Robert Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] There was some discussion of this on freebsd-advocacy yesterday and today, and it sounded like it came down to poor tuning (not enabling soft updates, et al) in combination with a heavy reliance on threading, where we currently don't do so well. Did

RE: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread scanner
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Charles Randall wrote: Did anyone offer to contact Lyris directly to identify a configuration which would have fared better in their tests? Since their application is available for FreeBSD, it is in our best interests for to help them out. On a side note, I did contact

Re: reset the target machine with remote gdb.

2001-06-15 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:10:41PM +0200, Juan Fco Rodriguez Hervella wrote: Hi: I am debugging a kernel with remote gdb, using a serial line. I do the following: 1. boot -d, gdb, step (in target machine) 2. gdb -k kernel.debug Some time later, I get a SIGSEV segmentation fault. This

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Ted Faber
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:43:10AM -0400, Brent Verner wrote: On 15 Jun 2001 at 00:38 (-0500), Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: | Mike Silbersack wrote: | Matt's performance manpage covers a lot of this, but is probably not as | easy to digest as an interactive script. | What do I type to

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Dragos Ruiu
I would heartily endorse having the out of the box FreeBSD install be tuned better... Sysadmin can't be knocked for not doing the tuning as running an out of the box config is what a vast majority of users do, imho, so their performance tests and the poor results from FreeBSD are perfectly

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Dragos Ruiu wrote: I would heartily endorse having the out of the box FreeBSD install be tuned better... Sysadmin can't be knocked for not doing the tuning as running an out of the box config is what a vast majority of users do, imho, so their performance tests and

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-15 Thread Kevin Way
FWIW: sendmail does not _require_ DNS, but it operates better in the presence of DNS, even though it can provide degraded service without it. The same goes for sendmail's need for syslogd. Thus there are both hard and soft requirements. Lack of soft requirements means degraded, but

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: [ ... Eliza program for FreeBSD ... ] Doing this is non-trivial. Many of the things they should have tuned can not be tuned except at compile time. I think you just hit the nail on the head and managed to identify the problem... regards, Rik --

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Matt Dillon
:On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Dragos Ruiu wrote: : : I would heartily endorse having the out of the box FreeBSD install be : tuned better... : : Sysadmin can't be knocked for not doing the tuning as running an out of : the box config is what a vast majority of users do, imho, so their : performance

Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-15 Thread Jordan Hubbard
I've had several marketing types approach me recently for details as to whether or not Microsoft was using the BSD TCP/IP stack and/or user utilities, and though it's always been common knowledge in the community that they were, when I set about to prove it I found it to be less easy than I'd

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-15 Thread Steve B.
What I read awhile back was MS licensed from BSDi their TCP/IP stack for use in W2K. Steve B. - Original Message - From: Jordan Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 1:57 PM Subject: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? I've

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-15 Thread Jordan Hubbard
Do you have a pointer to what you read? I really need HARD evidence here, not just anecdotal stuff. Thanks! - Jordan From: Steve B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:59:51 -0700 What I read awhile back was MS

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-15 Thread Joseph A. Mallett
Do you happen to have any of their Winsock propoganda handy (specifically developer materials or winsock.h header file)? I know for a fact that they have said repetedly that some of it was taken directly from Berkely. I'm just not sure where... I'm going to start digging through my stuff to see

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-15 Thread Nate Williams
I've had several marketing types approach me recently for details as to whether or not Microsoft was using the BSD TCP/IP stack and/or user utilities, and though it's always been common knowledge in the community that they were, when I set about to prove it I found it to be less easy than

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-15 Thread Joseph A. Mallett
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winsock/apistart_9g1e.htm mentions BSD, not sure if is direct enough. I'm downloading the SDK right now so I can grepmonkey through the latest and greatest headers, etc. HTH -- [ Joseph Mallett[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ http://srcsys.org ] [ xMach

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-15 Thread Peter Pentchev
With the full knowledge that what I'm saying will probably be of no use, I have a personal friend who is a Microsoft certified developer, with full access to the source code of most Windows versions and other well-known Microsoft apps. He has told me more than once that, yes, the NT TCP/IP stack

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:23:21PM -0400, Rajappa Iyer wrote: http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm Any obvious reasons why FreeBSD performed so poorly for these people? Yes, it's not very difficult to guess why. If you read the tuning(7) manpage in recent 4.x

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-15 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Jordan Hubbard: Do you have a pointer to what you read? I really need HARD evidence here, not just anecdotal stuff. Thanks! If you do a strings on ftp.exe (at least in win95), you should find some BSD copyright strings. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=-

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Matt Dillon
:softupdates later on). Write-back caching is disabled in the disks, :even if they support it. This is yet another step towards making the :default installation of FreeBSD as reliable a system as it can be. Well, not any more... we caved in on that one because the performance loss was

Re: import NetBSD rc system [summary]

2001-06-15 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jordan Hubbard writes: : I think that since we use CVS around here, we should simply import the I agree. Let's just cvs import the NetBSD stuff verbatim and unmodified on a vendor branch, but allow for limited commits to those files by folks that have really been

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-15 Thread Jordan Hubbard
This is a good reference, but sadly it only really refers to the sockets paradigm as first popularized by BSD, which means they could have followed the API without touching a single line of BSD code. To reiterate: What I'm looking for is some true, hard evidence that Microsoft has used BSD code

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-15 Thread Jordan Hubbard
Thanks, that represents the first hard hit I've seen yet: root@winston- strings FTP.EXE |grep University of California @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California. Now if we can just locate something in the kernel or a well-used DLL.. - Jordan From: Ollivier Robert

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:05:17PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: I've had several marketing types approach me recently for details as to whether or not Microsoft was using the BSD TCP/IP stack and/or user utilities, and though it's always been common knowledge in the community that they

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-15 Thread Jordan Hubbard
From: Joseph Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:50:00 -0400 (EDT) Well, looking through headers, a lot of stuff says taken from the BSD file..., namely winsock.h and winsock2.h, at the very least it

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-15 Thread Steve B.
I'll see if I can dig it up it was awhile back in one of the trade magazines or their ezine. Steve B. - Original Message - From: Jordan Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 2:01 PM Subject: Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-15 Thread Jon Parise
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:47:21PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: Thanks, that represents the first hard hit I've seen yet: root@winston- strings FTP.EXE |grep University of California @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California. Here's one more: (echo) [system32]$

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Josh Osborne
On Friday, June 15, 2001, at 02:37 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:23:21PM -0400, Rajappa Iyer wrote: http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm Any obvious reasons why FreeBSD performed so poorly for these people? Yes, it's not very difficult

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 06:31:12PM -0400, Josh Osborne wrote: On Friday, June 15, 2001, at 02:37 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:23:21PM -0400, Rajappa Iyer wrote: http://www.sysadminmag.com/articles/2001/0107/0107a/0107a.htm Any obvious reasons why FreeBSD

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 15), Jordan Hubbard said: Thanks, that represents the first hard hit I've seen yet: root@winston- strings FTP.EXE |grep University of California @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California. But this probably just means that FTP.EXE is based

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Matt Dillon
:Of course, assuming dirpref and Ian's new directory cache have been MFC'd :by the time 4.4 comes out, it will scream on that same benchmark. : :Mike Silby Silbersack Yup! Even without dirpref. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-15 Thread Sergey Babkin
Jordan Hubbard wrote: I've had several marketing types approach me recently for details as to whether or not Microsoft was using the BSD TCP/IP stack and/or user utilities, and though it's always been common knowledge in the community that they were, when I set about to prove it I found it

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: :softupdates later on). Write-back caching is disabled in the disks, :even if they support it. This is yet another step towards making the :default installation of FreeBSD as reliable a system as it can be. Well, not any more... we caved in on

high cpu spikes

2001-06-15 Thread Dan Phoenix
nfs_getpages: error 70 vm_fault: pager read error, pid 72424 (httpd) I get occasional cpu spikes for like 10-20 sec occasionally wondering what this is from.i am thinking nfs timeout maybe i am ready got maxusers set to 500. -- Dan

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Giorgos Keramidas writes: Installing an operating system (be it FreeBSD, linux, Windows or what else) and failing to tune the system to perform as good as possible for the application, is no decent way of doing a benchmark. And when is comes to benchmarks, you have to tune ALL the systems

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-15 Thread Sergey Babkin
Terry Lambert wrote: Robert Withrow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: :- oops, rc2 isn't started. too bad. I think that is exactly the desired design. The RC *system* starts things correctly, but the manager, *bypassing* the RC *system* can start and stop things exactly as he

Re: modified natd again

2001-06-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Urban Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another strange thing is that when I try to use tcpdump it doesn´t show all packets. No packets are dropped by kernel but tcpdump have received packets but don´t show them. Could this in some way be related. Use the -n option. DES -- Dag-Erling

Re: strangeness in web interface of send-pr

2001-06-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can clearly see that (in line 3), I have chosen to view only PRs whose state is `open' AND (line 2) severity is `critical', in an effort to help closing first those PRs that are more important. Just ignore the severity and priority. They are

Mergemaster bug + new feature [patch]

2001-06-15 Thread James
It seems I have found a couple bugs, I noticed that mergemaster was always saying that the install failed, the file has to be merged manually even thought the install was successful. It would seem that the recent commit is using install test rm but the install program will already have

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread G. Adam Stanislav
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 02:22:39AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Matt has explained this better than I could ever do, in his tuning(7) manpage -- a recent, but very valuable addition to our manpages. It, indeed, must be very recent: I have upgraded my system just last month, but I have no

Re: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread clark shishido
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 09:45:53PM -0500, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 02:22:39AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Matt has explained this better than I could ever do, in his tuning(7) manpage -- a recent, but very valuable addition to our manpages. It, indeed, must be

Re: high cpu spikes

2001-06-15 Thread Matt Dillon
: : :nfs_getpages: error 70 :vm_fault: pager read error, pid 72424 (httpd) : : :I get occasional cpu spikes for like 10-20 sec occasionally :wondering what this is from.i am thinking nfs timeout maybe :i am ready got maxusers set to 500. : :-- :Dan error 70 is 'stale NFS file