Re: 4.4-RC NFS panic

2001-08-21 Thread simond
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 12:24:30PM +0200, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > On Tue, 21-Aug-2001 at 03:07:33 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andre Albsmeier writes: > > : As I wrote in my PR (#29845), my problems also happen with > > : the 3C589 which uses the ep driver. So we c

Re: 4.4-RC NFS panic

2001-08-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andre Albsmeier writes: : Attached below is the dmesg... It hangs only when warm booting; after : a power toggle everything is OK... ... : pcic0: Event mask 0xf stat 0x3419 : ### : ### Now it hangs until poweroff/po

Re: 4.4-RC NFS panic

2001-08-21 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Tue, 21-Aug-2001 at 23:44:40 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andre Albsmeier writes: > : I still have the hangs on a warm reboot but this is a different > : story... > > Eh? what kind of hangs and when? Attached below is the dmesg... It hangs only when warm booting

Re: 4.4-RC NFS panic

2001-08-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andre Albsmeier writes: : I still have the hangs on a warm reboot but this is a different : story... Eh? what kind of hangs and when? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 4.4-RC NFS panic

2001-08-21 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Tue, 21-Aug-2001 at 11:45:12 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Malone writes: > : Andre Albsmeier, who's seeing various network problems, is using > : the xe driver (also PCMCIA I think), but the problems go away if > : he uses an Etherexpress card on the PCI bus

Re: unpaired splbio() and splx() in vfs_unmountall()

2001-08-21 Thread Rex Luo
Dear Alfred, I have tried to add several asserts to verify its interrupt mask, however, the abnormal behaviour disappered if I did that. That's really rediculous and I don't know why? I would continue to find out what's the reason, and feedback if something new. Anyway, I re

vhost problems

2001-08-21 Thread webdesigns COMNET
Hi everyone,   For the last week I have been trying everything I know to try an work out my problem. Since it seems I have exausted all my resources, I figured I'd try here. I'm trying to export vhosts on my system and it isnt working. I'm using FreeBSD 4.4-RC, along with ipnat/ipf and my c

Re: secure Filesystem

2001-08-21 Thread Darryl Okahata
Oscar Bonilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A bigger problem is that doing anything with a file uses up 1-2KB > > PER FILE. If you want to see cfsd grow *really big*, do a "find ." of > > any large cfs-controlled hierarchy with lots of files. I'd really like > > to put my MH mail messages

Re: secure Filesystem

2001-08-21 Thread Oscar Bonilla
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 12:48:59PM -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote: > A bigger problem is that doing anything with a file uses up 1-2KB > PER FILE. If you want to see cfsd grow *really big*, do a "find ." of > any large cfs-controlled hierarchy with lots of files. I'd really like > to put my MH

Re: ld -X <== important or not?

2001-08-21 Thread John Polstra
In article <3B7FE5C2.18273.16C3288@localhost>, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How important is the -X option on ld? > >-X Delete all temporary local symbols. For most tar- > gets, this is all local symbols whose names begin > with `L'. > > I

Any ATAPI gurus out there?

2001-08-21 Thread Jim Bryant
Okay, here's the deal. My friend, whom I am trying to teach unix [4.3-stable] was having some problems on his secondary ATAPI bus. A Creative CD-ROM was the master, a HP burner was the slave. I'm a SCSI guy meself, and I think the following may be the problem, but as such, I don't know for s

Re: Recommendation for minor KVM adjustments for the release

2001-08-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > No. I have a machine with 6GB in it waiting for finishing the PAE > > tweaks. > > Are you actually going ahead with the PAE support? > > Will this be a compile-time option, so that it can be > turned off? > > I considered doin

Re: How to make bootable disk boot images with vn device?

2001-08-21 Thread Julian Elischer
Theoretically teh fdisk step is not required becasue the disklable has, in it, a dummy fdisk. This is what is called "dangerously dedicated" mode. it usually works but MIGHT confuse BIOSes if there is something tricky about the system. On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Hello, > >

Re: Zope's performance issues

2001-08-21 Thread Giorgos Verigakis
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Giorgos Verigakis wrote: > > > > The current scheme causes problems with TIME_WAIT recycling, which may > > cause long delays in establishing new connections if you're connecti

Re: Zope's performance issues

2001-08-21 Thread Giorgos Verigakis
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Mike Silbersack wrote: > The current scheme causes problems with TIME_WAIT recycling, which may > cause long delays in establishing new connections if you're connection to > the same host rapidly enough to cause TIME_WAIT recycling to be an issue. > This is why there's a hu

Re: Zope's performance issues

2001-08-21 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Mike Silbersack wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Giorgos Verigakis wrote: > > The current scheme causes problems with TIME_WAIT recycling, which may > cause long delays in establishing new connections if you're connection to > the same host rapidly enough to cause TIME_WAIT rec

Re: Zope's performance issues

2001-08-21 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Giorgos Verigakis wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > I suspect that the reload time spiking is due to our initial sequence > > number generation scheme, which is currently shared with OpenBSD. This > > will be changing RSN, which will likely change how

How to make bootable disk boot images with vn device?

2001-08-21 Thread Andre Oppermann
Hello, I've run into a (hopefully small) roadblock here. What I want to do is to make a comlete bootable 'disk' image for a IDE flash disk. This disk image should be simply dd-able to the target flash and include boot blocks and partition table etc. So far I did a flash image by putting a IDE f

Re: tunable support for ata interrupt sharing

2001-08-21 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Brooks Davis wrote: > Attached it a patch to make sharing of the main ata control interrupts > dependent on a tunable, hw.ata.shared_irqs. This is required for my new > HP Omnibook 500 to use the CMD 648 in the expansion base to work as it > appears hardwired to interrupt 15 (which is fa

tunable support for ata interrupt sharing

2001-08-21 Thread Brooks Davis
Attached it a patch to make sharing of the main ata control interrupts dependent on a tunable, hw.ata.shared_irqs. This is required for my new HP Omnibook 500 to use the CMD 648 in the expansion base to work as it appears hardwired to interrupt 15 (which is fairly logical given that there is no w

Re: Zope's performance issues (cont.)

2001-08-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Giorgos Verigakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010821 10:55] wrote: > To check if it was indeed a thread problem, I repeated my tests > using Zope-2.4.0 and python 2.1.1 > First I did a default python compilation (using libc_r) and then > using pth (GNU portable threads) > > Using the program I sent on

Re: unpaired splbio() and splx() in vfs_unmountall()

2001-08-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Rex Luo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010821 04:14] wrote: > Dear, > >I modifid kernel to write to disk directly after unmount all mounted > filesystem in boot() kern/kern_shutdown.c. However, I found that my IO requests > wouldn't have callback from device interrupt routine. I traced the codes and

Re: XMM[0-7] preserved across context switch?

2001-08-21 Thread David Malone
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:27:38AM -0500, Kevin Day wrote: > A quick peek at swtch.s seems to show that the SSE registers (XMM0-7) aren't > being preserved across context switches. Am I missing somewhere that's doing > this, or are they really not being saved now? SSE support has recently been ad

Re: wireless nic recommendations

2001-08-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wes Peters writes: : I've had no problems with this card, it is currently reaching about 6.5 : miles without an amplifier, using a 24 dB "fruit basket" antenna on the : roof of my house. What does the other end have? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: 4.4-RC NFS panic

2001-08-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Malone writes: : Andre Albsmeier, who's seeing various network problems, is using : the xe driver (also PCMCIA I think), but the problems go away if : he uses an Etherexpress card on the PCI bus of the same machine. : : It seems unlikely to be PCMCIA related (

Re: notebook HW

2001-08-21 Thread Christoph Kukulies
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 07:26:05PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:24:10PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > Is there a maiing list that deal especially with FreeBSD on notebook > > issues? > > > > If not, could it be created or is this covered by another list? (hard

XMM[0-7] preserved across context switch?

2001-08-21 Thread Kevin Day
A quick peek at swtch.s seems to show that the SSE registers (XMM0-7) aren't being preserved across context switches. Am I missing somewhere that's doing this, or are they really not being saved now? -- Kevin Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: notebook HW

2001-08-21 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:24:10PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > Is there a maiing list that deal especially with FreeBSD on notebook > issues? > > If not, could it be created or is this covered by another list? (hardware?) Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) G'luck, Peter -- I've heard that this

notebook HW

2001-08-21 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Is there a maiing list that deal especially with FreeBSD on notebook issues? If not, could it be created or is this covered by another list? (hardware?) -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the

Re: wireless nic recommendations

2001-08-21 Thread Wes Peters
Dan Cox wrote: > > Here is my situation. My house can't get DSL or cable. Our neighbors who > live 20-30 feet away do have DSL and have agreed to share the connection. To > make a long story short we have successfully set up a wireless LAN for the > two houses, we've been using a windows laptop t

Zope's performance issues (cont.)

2001-08-21 Thread Giorgos Verigakis
To check if it was indeed a thread problem, I repeated my tests using Zope-2.4.0 and python 2.1.1 First I did a default python compilation (using libc_r) and then using pth (GNU portable threads) Using the program I sent on my previous email and a hit rate of 100 I got libc_r: 243 sec, 28 real hi

Re: inet6 address host <-> network order

2001-08-21 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 09:37:49AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > What's the most portable way of converting an IPv6 address from host > to network order? Nothing like following up your own post. RFC 2553 indicates that the IPv6 address is stored in the `struct in6_addr' in network b

inet6 address host <-> network order

2001-08-21 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
What's the most portable way of converting an IPv6 address from host to network order? Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Zope's performance issues

2001-08-21 Thread Giorgos Verigakis
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Giorgos Verigakis wrote: > > > Hello, I'm using Zope application server (www.zope.org) on FreeBSD > > and I'm experiencing some serious performance issues. > > Since I hadn't noticed any problems at the past with Linux, I did

Re: Zope's performance issues

2001-08-21 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Giorgos Verigakis wrote: > Hello, I'm using Zope application server (www.zope.org) on FreeBSD > and I'm experiencing some serious performance issues. > Since I hadn't noticed any problems at the past with Linux, I did > some benchmarks to investigate it a little. > > I've w

Re: Recommendation for minor KVM adjustments for the release

2001-08-21 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > No. I have a machine with 6GB in it waiting for finishing the PAE > > tweaks. > > Are you actually going ahead with the PAE support? > > Will this be a compile-time option, so that it can be > turned off? It better be because the t

Re: Recommendation for minor KVM adjustments for the release

2001-08-21 Thread Terry Lambert
Peter Wemm wrote: > No. I have a machine with 6GB in it waiting for finishing the PAE > tweaks. Are you actually going ahead with the PAE support? Will this be a compile-time option, so that it can be turned off? I considered doing the same, about 4 months ago but it's not like I could use the

Re: 4.4-RC NFS panic

2001-08-21 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Tue, 21-Aug-2001 at 03:07:33 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andre Albsmeier writes: > : As I wrote in my PR (#29845), my problems also happen with > : the 3C589 which uses the ep driver. So we can sum up to: > : > : 1.) Intel Etherexpress PRO/100 PCMCIA (xe driver)

Zope's performance issues

2001-08-21 Thread Giorgos Verigakis
Hello, I'm using Zope application server (www.zope.org) on FreeBSD and I'm experiencing some serious performance issues. Since I hadn't noticed any problems at the past with Linux, I did some benchmarks to investigate it a little. I've written a small program that connects to Zope and tries to r

Re: 4.4-RC NFS panic

2001-08-21 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Tue, 21-Aug-2001 at 03:07:33 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andre Albsmeier writes: > : As I wrote in my PR (#29845), my problems also happen with > : the 3C589 which uses the ep driver. So we can sum up to: > : > : 1.) Intel Etherexpress PRO/100 PCMCIA (xe driver)

unpaired splbio() and splx() in vfs_unmountall()

2001-08-21 Thread Rex Luo
Dear, I modifid kernel to write to disk directly after unmount all mounted filesystem in boot() kern/kern_shutdown.c. However, I found that my IO requests wouldn't have callback from device interrupt routine. I traced the codes and use gdb to find something out. The interesting is after execu

Re: 4.4-RC NFS panic

2001-08-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andre Albsmeier writes: : As I wrote in my PR (#29845), my problems also happen with : the 3C589 which uses the ep driver. So we can sum up to: : : 1.) Intel Etherexpress PRO/100 PCMCIA (xe driver) crashes : 2.) 3Com 589D EtherLink III PCMCIA (ep driver)

Re: 4.4-RC NFS panic

2001-08-21 Thread Andre Albsmeier
On Tue, 21-Aug-2001 at 09:35:34 +0100, David Malone wrote: > > I've just done a further test. I've mounted a directory tree from > > Vaio to Vaio using localhost (lo driver) and the test has run > > smoothly. So chances would be good the bug is in the ep driver. > > Unfortunately... > > Andre A

Re: 4.4-RC NFS panic

2001-08-21 Thread David Malone
> I've just done a further test. I've mounted a directory tree from > Vaio to Vaio using localhost (lo driver) and the test has run > smoothly. So chances would be good the bug is in the ep driver. > Unfortunately... Andre Albsmeier, who's seeing various network problems, is using the xe driver