Re: Building www/en

1999-06-09 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 02:23:56PM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: * From: Nik Clayton n...@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk * On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 07:41:13AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: * My question is: How do I create /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/catalog? * It doesn't

Re: RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-09 Thread Brian Feldman
On 8 Jun 1999, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: This wouldn't help the poor sod whose connection gets shot down every eight days while he's not there and doesn't know what hit him. If the poor sod hasn't touched his xterm for 8 days, he's either dead or he doesn't care if it goes away. Again,

Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-09 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, This thread has degenerated into the kind of dick-waving that suggests to the responsible list member that it's no longer worth participation. If you have nothing to say, there are many of us who would be in your debt if you'd be so kind as to say it. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe:

Re: GNU patch gone stale

1999-06-09 Thread Tony Finch
John Baldwin jobal...@vt.edu wrote: So it would seem that patch and cvs don't interact at all, unless it's a question of patch 2.5 being able to apply diffs generated by cvs diff. That is the main problem I have with patch 2.5 -- it completely fails to apply patches from `cvs diff` unless you

IBM To Buy Whistle, Maker Of Web Servers

1999-06-09 Thread Mikhail Teterin
I'm sorry, if this is not the best place to ask, but I know several Whistle people are active FreeBSD contributors. Does the announcement in Subject, see also (I hate long URLs): http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/tc/story.html?s=v/nm/19990609/tc/ibm_whistle_1.html mean, IBM is to offer

MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-06-09 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Over the past week and a bit, the INN -CURRENT source tree had a major upheaval of code, in order to fix the major problem where reader speed sucked. What used to take 1min to load up a newsgruop now generally takes mere seconds (no exaggeration, try it)... The problem is that the new code

Re: use of MMAP in new INN code...

1999-06-09 Thread The Hermit Hacker
CC'ng your suggestion to the 'kernel wizards'...right now, the only thing I have to work with is the fact that the problems started right after I upgraded INN to the new code...the rest is basically trying to followup suggestions... On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Richard Michael Todd wrote: In message

Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-06-09 Thread David E. Cross
I believe I stumbled over this as well. (As a side note, you can run DDB over a serial console too, just compile with DDB, and DDB_UNATTENDED so your system will come back if it unexpectedly panics; on the serial console send a 'break'). Anyway, I have a simple program that mmap()s a 1Gig file

Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-06-09 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, David E. Cross wrote: I believe I stumbled over this as well. (As a side note, you can run DDB over a serial console too, just compile with DDB, and DDB_UNATTENDED so your system will come back if it unexpectedly panics; on the serial console send a 'break'). And

Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-06-09 Thread David E. Cross
by break I mean a serial break condition. Take the Tx line out of your box and bring it negative 3-5 volts for a short time, that will be a break. Seriously, the break will need to be sent from the piece of equipment that is connected to the other end of the serial line. It isn't a telnet

Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-06-09 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, David E. Cross wrote: by break I mean a serial break condition. Take the Tx line out of your box and bring it negative 3-5 volts for a short time, that will be a break. Seriously, the break will need to be sent from the piece of equipment that is connected to the other

Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-06-09 Thread David E. Cross
You have more than enough space to do it to. Swap memory is not dumped, only RAM is... typicall it is dumped to the swap partition. In this case you have well more than enough. If your /etc/fstab showed /dev/da3s1b as your 1.6 gig swap partition, you would add dumpon=/dev/da3s1b to your

Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-06-09 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, David E. Cross wrote: You have more than enough space to do it to. Swap memory is not dumped, only RAM is... typicall it is dumped to the swap partition. In this case you have well more than enough. Ah, okay, then I mis-read the error ;( I have 1.6gig of swap spread

ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something?

1999-06-09 Thread The Hermit Hacker
How hard would it be to add a kernel option that would enable an alternate key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b (as suggested by one user) came through on the console line, it would drop to the debugger? I guess the next question is would this even work once the

-current problems

1999-06-09 Thread John Sconiers
I'm running 4.0-current using a snapshot(not using PAO) from 5-20-99 on a dell Latitude. I installed over 3.2 and it works fine. I attempted to build a new kernel. The kernel config and make went ok however the make install caused the machine to crash and reboot. I figured it was because I

Re: -current problems

1999-06-09 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems John Sconiers wrote: I'm running 4.0-current using a snapshot(not using PAO) from 5-20-99 on a dell Latitude. I installed over 3.2 and it works fine. I attempted to build a new kernel. The kernel config and make went ok however the make install caused the machine to crash and

A question about kld filesystems and xFS_ROOT options

1999-06-09 Thread bush doctor
Now that file systems options such as CD9660, MFS and NFS can be loaded dynamically do lines like options CD9660_ROOT #CD-ROM usable as root device still need to occur in our kernel config files if we want them usable as root devices? #;^) -- So ya want ta here da

Re: -current problems

1999-06-09 Thread John Sconiers
Hmm, I've run -current on my Latitude since I got it, and it hasn't failed on me yet... I havn't installed on it lately though, its just getting make world'ed pretty often... Thanks...I'll just cvsup and make world tonight. JOHN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with

Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-06-09 Thread Jasper O'Malley
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote: And today's trick question...how do you send a break? :( I'm telnet'd into a Livingston Portmaster, with 'telnet -E' to disable the telnet break... Any particular reason you're using the -E option? The easiest way to send a serial break on most

Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-06-09 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Jasper O'Malley wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote: And today's trick question...how do you send a break? :( I'm telnet'd into a Livingston Portmaster, with 'telnet -E' to disable the telnet break... Any particular reason you're using the -E

Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ...

1999-06-09 Thread N
And today's trick question...how do you send a break? :( I'm telnet'd into a Livingston Portmaster, with 'telnet -E' to disable the telnet break... Any particular reason you're using the -E option? The easiest way to send a serial break on most terminal servers is hitting the telnet escape

4-way SMP broken ?

1999-06-09 Thread Richard Cownie
Hi, I've been trying to install 19990604-CURRENT on a couple of SC450NX boxes. It works fine with 2 cpu's, but an SMP kernel with 4 cpu's falls over very quickly (I think while it's setting up the APIC stuff, or very shortly after - the messages about APIC bus ids appear on the screen very

Re: 4-way SMP broken ?

1999-06-09 Thread Luoqi Chen
Hi, I've been trying to install 19990604-CURRENT on a couple of SC450NX boxes. It works fine with 2 cpu's, but an SMP kernel with 4 cpu's falls over very quickly (I think while it's setting up the APIC stuff, or very shortly after - the messages about APIC bus ids appear on the screen

Re: 4-way SMP broken ?

1999-06-09 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: Hi, I've been trying to install 19990604-CURRENT on a couple of SC450NX boxes. It works fine with 2 cpu's, but an SMP kernel with 4 cpu's falls over very quickly (I think while it's setting up the APIC stuff, or very shortly after - the messages about APIC bus ids appear

Re: 4-way SMP broken ?

1999-06-09 Thread Luoqi Chen
Do you mean messages like these? FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfec08000 cpu1 (AP): apic id: 12, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfec08000 io0 (APIC): apic id: 13, version: 0x00170011, at 0xfec0 By the time

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Re: 4-way SMP broken ?

1999-06-09 Thread Tor . Egge
interesting. then why the delay in bringing up the AP? Note in the dmesg output below, that the AP only comes up during th SCSI delay. I have also added other comments to the following output. The APs need the giant kernel lock when initializing the local APIC and printing the launched

Re: 4-way SMP broken ?

1999-06-09 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article local.mail.freebsd-current/199906092225.saa01...@par28.ma.ikos.com you write: Also in trying to figure this out I looked at the DRAM probing code in /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/machdep.c:getmemsize(), and it looks as though it's not safe for 2GB (e.g. comparisons of byte addresses against

Re: 4-way SMP broken ?

1999-06-09 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: interesting. then why the delay in bringing up the AP? Note in the dmesg output below, that the AP only comes up during th SCSI delay. I have also added other comments to the following output. The APs need the giant kernel lock when initializing the local APIC and printing

Re: ENABLE_SERIAL_BREAK_KEY...or something?

1999-06-09 Thread Phil Homewood
The Hermit Hacker wrote: How hard would it be to add a kernel option that would enable an alternate key to drop to the debugger? Say have it so that if a keystroke of ~b (as suggested by one user) came through on the console line, it would drop to the debugger? Would be most excellent if