Re: mylex dac960pl and FreeBSD 4.3 - bus_dmamap_load

2001-05-08 Thread Gordon Tetlow
Hmm, I just went through all of the mlx related files and none of them changed between 4.2-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE. So it looks like there is something more sinister going on. -gordon On Mon, 7 May 2001, Matt Groener wrote: I have been trying to get anyone to respond to this issue as well. I

Re: CFLAGS Optimization

2001-05-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:55:14PM +0100, Nuno Teixeira wrote: Hi Guilherme, OK. But I'd like to know if I should use CFLAGS in a OS like FreeBSD. I know that I have good optimizations on Linux, but I don't know if in FreeBSD is the same, and I'm afraid of putting the FreeBSD stability in

Re: mylex dac960pl and FreeBSD 4.3 - bus_dmamap_load

2001-05-08 Thread Mike Smith
Hmm, I just went through all of the mlx related files and none of them changed between 4.2-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE. So it looks like there is something more sinister going on. This is a known problem. I don't know what's up, and I can't reproduce it (as I don't have any of these cards). I

RE: CFLAGS Optimization

2001-05-08 Thread Juha Saarinen
:: The risk is the same in Linux; they both use gcc, and it's gcc which :: has the optimizer bugs. It's more common to use absurd gcc :: optimizations in the Linux community for some reason (perhaps they're :: used to code misbehaving, so additional brokenness from the gcc :: doesn't add much

Re: CFLAGS Optimization

2001-05-08 Thread Mike Smith
:: The risk is the same in Linux; they both use gcc, and it's gcc which :: has the optimizer bugs. It's more common to use absurd gcc :: optimizations in the Linux community for some reason (perhaps they're :: used to code misbehaving, so additional brokenness from the gcc :: doesn't add

RE: CFLAGS Optimization

2001-05-08 Thread Juha Saarinen
:: It would be more accurate to say that Linux and FreeBSD have a compiler :: with optimiser bugs, but that's widely known. Don't sound so :: surprised. 8) Heh, no, I'm not surprised, but I think the truth is probably inbetween... maybe the code fed to the compiler isn't always as perfect as it

Re: mylex dac960pl and FreeBSD 4.3 - bus_dmamap_load

2001-05-08 Thread Gordon Tetlow
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Mike Smith wrote: This is a known problem. I don't know what's up, and I can't reproduce it (as I don't have any of these cards). I suspect that it may be an issue with non-page-aligned I/O and the very limited scatter-gather that these cards support. On Mon, 7 May

RE: CFLAGS Optimization

2001-05-08 Thread Juha Saarinen
:: Perhaps you'd be more comfortable if we changed the documentation to :: remove all references to any -O switch with a number attached? Dunno. In my experience, any -O switch with a number attached creates problems when compiling the kernel/userland on FreeBSD, so it seems pointless to have

Re: IPFW Questions

2001-05-08 Thread Marius
Redirected to Questions... *snip* 1) Why are the same rules used twice? *snip* To catch packets both before and after NAT translation. The NAT rule in between them changes the source or destination of some packets that pass through it. So we check it twice. 2) What does this

RE: CFLAGS Optimization

2001-05-08 Thread Jordan Hubbard
I don't know why the optflags produce broken code on FreeBSD, but not with Linux. I don't know how you managed to reach THAT conclusion. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message

Re: CFLAGS Optimization

2001-05-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:23:07AM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote: Aren't we sick of this thread yet? Yes. Perhaps you could take the lesson for the next time someone asks you to please read the archives instead of dragging out the same tired thread all over again. Kris PGP signature

Re: CFLAGS Optimization

2001-05-08 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:23:07AM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote: :: Perhaps you'd be more comfortable if we changed the documentation to :: remove all references to any -O switch with a number attached? Dunno. In my experience, any -O switch with a number attached creates problems when

RE: CFLAGS Optimization

2001-05-08 Thread Juha Saarinen
:: Yes. Perhaps you could take the lesson for the next time someone asks :: you to please read the archives instead of dragging out the same tired :: thread all over again. Nobody said that. I trust you will chastise all the other participants in this thread for having the temerity to drag out

Re: CFLAGS Optimization

2001-05-08 Thread Donn Miller
Erik Trulsson wrote: I have had both userland and kernel compiled using -O2 without noticing any problems. On the other hand I didn't notice much of a performance gain either so I decided that the extra compile time wasn't worth it. Translation: don't even think about using optimization

Oracle,

2001-05-08 Thread cornwall
Is there any way that Oracle will work on FreeBSD? I have version 4.2 Stable FreeBSD and would like to install a reliable and stable database package for personal and production usage. Thank you, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in

Re: CFLAGS Optimization

2001-05-08 Thread Victor R. Cardona
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:23:07AM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote: I don't know why the optflags produce broken code on FreeBSD, but not with Linux. Actually, -O 2 does produce broken code in Linux. The reason -O2 is used more often on a Linux system is because you never recompile the entire

invalid hostname

2001-05-08 Thread R.D. Lacoste
ok, this has got me confused : # finger user Login: userName: user Directory: /home/userShell: /bin/tcsh Last login Tue May 8 12:17 (EDT) on ttyp0 from invalid hostname No Mail. what the hell is invalid hostname? so I checked the source code : (from lib/libutil/logwtmp.c. similar

Re: Oracle,

2001-05-08 Thread Mike Meyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] types: Is there any way that Oracle will work on FreeBSD? I have version 4.2 Stable FreeBSD and would like to install a reliable and stable database package for personal and production usage. This is asked - and answered - on -questions every few months. Check the

Re: Oracle,

2001-05-08 Thread Calvin NG
Greetings, I have gotten the linux version of Oracle 8 to work on FreeBSD before (about 1 year ago). If you will kindly search the FreeBSD mail archive, you should be able to find my previous post. Also, go a search on Deja news, (groups.google), there are some how-tos out there