Re: Recent -current Performance Drop?

2000-07-13 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I seem to see somewhat of a performance drop in the past week. You should have read the commit messages :-) I enabled malloc flags AJ by default, this has a performance cost. It will be turned off for releases of course. It has already

Re: fetch http://cgi returns -1 size

2000-07-13 Thread Jun Kuriyama
At 12 Jul 2000 08:56:11 GMT, Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bug is only in the status report, check the acutal size of fetch.out. I fixed this in a commit half an hour ago. Thanks! By the way, current implementation of fetch(1) ignores "301 redirect" silently. Is it

Re: smbfs problem

2000-07-13 Thread Boris Popov
On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, A G F Keahan wrote: I have a strange problem with smbfs, where the mounted share times out and becomes inaccessible after a period of time. I haven't been able to pinpoint the exact moment when it happens, but basically: This was a bug in the processing of

Re: fetch http://cgi returns -1 size

2000-07-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jun Kuriyama [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the way, current implementation of fetch(1) ignores "301 redirect" silently. Is it expected behavior? Should it make warning message without -v option? (or following redirection?) Uh, that's a bug. It's supposed to work. I'll be right on it. DES --

Re: fetch http://cgi returns -1 size

2000-07-13 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jun Kuriyama [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the way, current implementation of fetch(1) ignores "301 redirect" silently. Is it expected behavior? Should it make warning message without -v option? (or following redirection?) The bug is twofold: first, it doesn't handle relative redirects

Re: config/hints changes: panic booting pcvt kernel

2000-07-13 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
Just for the record: i added a printf statement to the beginning of every subroutine in file /sys/dev/kbd/kbd.c and with this additions the panic disappears and pcvt runs fine as ever. Removing the printf's from kbd.c shows the usual described panic. I'm now completely out of ideas

Re: syscons hangs with -current

2000-07-13 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:54:47 MST, Eric Anholt wrote: What I did do, I went into sys/dev/fb/vga.c and commented out the second vga head detection. Works beautifully now, though it would be better to actually figure out why it was finding another vga card. Still, it's up and running. I'd

Re: config/hints changes: panic booting pcvt kernel

2000-07-13 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On 13-Jul-00 Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: I'm now completely out of ideas Try and pin down which printf really makes a difference ? I recall a long time ago a bit of code that had calls to a function that did nothing, the comment was that it prevented an MSC optimiser bug

Network install HOWTO available.

2000-07-13 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Ok guys it's a _very_ rough HOWTO, but patches (not comments!) would be appreciated: How to install FreeBSD via Intel's netboot (PXE) http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/ enjoy. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a

dc driver and underruns (was: Strangeness with 4.0-S)

2000-07-13 Thread Stephen McKay
On Monday, 10th July 2000, Stefan Esser wrote: On 2000-07-09 20:52 +1000, Stephen McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, 8th July 2000, Stefan Esser wrote: Oh, there are renegotiations after each overrun ??? The code at the point that an underrun is detected is: printf("dc%d: TX

possible NETGRAPH/NG_ETHER bug

2000-07-13 Thread Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO
Hello All, i was working on integration of Ethernet TAP driver and NETGRAPH and found strange thing. the problem is that NG_ETHER nodes do not detach correctly when interface is gone. i was taking a very quick look at it, and, it seems to me that we are missing one reference to a node. i think

mfs errors with current from 07/12/00

2000-07-13 Thread Charles Anderson
I updated current around 6pm EDT yesterday (7/12/00) now I'm getting mfs_badop[vop_getwritemount] mfs_badop[vop_getwritemount] = 45 every now and again. I've received 10 being up 11 hours. uname -a says FreeBSD midgard.dhs.org 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Jul 12 23:59:08 GMT 2000

Re: Recent -current Performance Drop?

2000-07-13 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I turned off the malloc AJ flags, via malloc.conf. It improved 'make world' by something like 17% == mean_aj/mean_AJ. Make World Statistics -current SMP, 2xP133, 96MB RAM, IBM Superstor 9G disk. Lines is the number of lines of output produced by 'make world'. Date Lines Make Time

Re: Recent -current Performance Drop?

2000-07-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Thomas D. Dean" writes: I turned off the malloc AJ flags, via malloc.conf. It improved 'make world' by something like 17% == mean_aj/mean_AJ. Make sense, make world is dominated by gcc/cc1 which is doing a lot of malloc/free operations. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: dc driver and underruns (was: Strangeness with 4.0-S)

2000-07-13 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Stephen McKay wrote: Guess it will show up if you measure latencies (or your application is doing lots of RPCs). But as soon as there is a cheap 100baseT switch in the path to the destination, there will be store-and-forward at work ;-) Does anyone here actually measure

Re: possible NETGRAPH/NG_ETHER bug

2000-07-13 Thread Julian Elischer
I object to these patches. the idea is good but these patches are misguided.. Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO wrote: Hello All, i was working on integration of Ethernet TAP driver and NETGRAPH and found strange thing. the problem is that NG_ETHER nodes do not detach correctly when interface

RE: possible NETGRAPH/NG_ETHER bug

2000-07-13 Thread Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO
I object to these patches. the idea is good but these patches are misguided.. ok :) i did not say that is an ultimate solution :) i did not even say that they are good :) the only idea behind these patches is to show that there is a _possible_ node reference problem :) that's it :) [...]

snapshot panic

2000-07-13 Thread Ollivier Robert
I just upgraded my current system (source about 4 hours ago) and tried to snapshot a file system... (kgdb) core-file /var/crash/vmcore.6 IdlePTD 3649536 initial pcb at 2e3d60 panicstr: ffs_balloc: blk too big panic messages: --- --- #0 boot (howto=Cannot access memory at address 0xcced1ad4. )

Re: mfs errors with current from 07/12/00

2000-07-13 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:08:50 GMT, Charles Anderson wrote: I updated current around 6pm EDT yesterday (7/12/00) now I'm getting mfs_badop[vop_getwritemount] mfs_badop[vop_getwritemount] = 45 I've mailed Kirk about these, but if you read his snapshots commit message, they're probably

Re: dc driver and underruns (was: Strangeness with 4.0-S)

2000-07-13 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Stephen McKay wrote: Guess it will show up if you measure latencies (or your application is doing lots of RPCs). But as soon as there is a cheap 100baseT switch in the path to the destination, there will be store-and-forward at work ;-) Does anyone here actually

Re: **HEADS UP** if you used to cvsup the crypto repo from internat !

2000-07-13 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Polstra writes: : This is probably a candidate for UPDATING. : : That wouldn't hurt. But it actually affects _all_ branches, I : believe. So in a way, UPDATING doesn't cover enough ground. Does anybody have any text that is better than the following?

Re: **HEADS UP** if you used to cvsup the crypto repo from internat !

2000-07-13 Thread Martin Hopkins
"Warner" == Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Warner In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Polstra writes: Warner : This is probably a candidate for UPDATING. Warner : Warner : That wouldn't hurt. But it actually affects _all_ branches, I Warner : believe. So in a way,

Re: **HEADS UP** if you used to cvsup the crypto repo from internat !

2000-07-13 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Hopkins writes: : "Warner" == Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : Warner In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Polstra :writes: : Warner : This is probably a candidate for UPDATING. : Warner : : Warner : That wouldn't hurt. But it

Re: **HEADS UP** if you used to cvsup the crypto repo from internat !

2000-07-13 Thread Mark Murray
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Polstra writes: : This is probably a candidate for UPDATING. : : That wouldn't hurt. But it actually affects _all_ branches, I : believe. So in a way, UPDATING doesn't cover enough ground. Does anybody have any text that is better than the following?

Re: **HEADS UP** if you used to cvsup the crypto repo from internat !

2000-07-13 Thread Martin Hopkins
Warner In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Hopkins writes: Warner : "Warner" == Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Warner : Warner : Warner In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Polstra writes: Warner : Warner : This is probably a candidate for UPDATING.

Re: **HEADS UP** if you used to cvsup the crypto repo from internat !

2000-07-13 Thread Martin Hopkins
"Mark" == Mark Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Polstra writes: : This is probably a candidate for UPDATING. : : That wouldn't hurt. But it actually affects _all_ branches, I : believe. So in a way, UPDATING doesn't cover enough

kerneld for -current

2000-07-13 Thread Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO
Hello All, long time back there was a discussion about kerneld for FreeBSD. some people have found it useless, but some not :) anyway, alpha version of code can be found at sourceforge.net. http://sourceforge.net/projects/kerneld/ changes: - minor bug fixes - kd device improvements (now

Re: **HEADS UP** if you used to cvsup the crypto repo from internat !

2000-07-13 Thread Brian Somers
"Mark" == Mark Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Polstra writes: : This is probably a candidate for UPDATING. : : That wouldn't hurt. But it actually affects _all_ branches, I : believe. So in a way, UPDATING doesn't cover

Re: Burned by config changes?

2000-07-13 Thread Patrick Gardella
Indeed, this was the problem. I, at some time, switched it to -O2. Thanks for all the suggestions! Patrick Dan Papasian wrote: What optimizations did you use when compiling your kernel? (COPTFLAGS) If it's anything more than -O -pipe, then that may very well be your problem. -Dan

rtld-elf

2000-07-13 Thread Tony Johnson
Hmmm.. I have been experiencing a problem when I installworld with freebsd-5.0. The install breaks with rtld-elf when the install put the new copy of ld-elf.s0.1 onto my system. Most f my prgrams signal 11 until I put the old ne back. Is there smething I was supposed t do befre this??

Re: APM and SCSI : suspend

2000-07-13 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Cyrille Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: why it's not possible to suspend SCSI drives like the ATA/IDE ones ? I'm not talking about camcontrol suspend feature. if you have a mounted filesystem, and access a file onto that filesystem while the drive is suspended in this manner, the system

Re: dc driver and underruns (was: Strangeness with 4.0-S)

2000-07-13 Thread Stephen McKay
On Thursday, 13th July 2000, "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Stephen McKay wrote: Does anyone here actually measure these latencies? I know for a fact that nothing I've ever done would or could be affected by extra latencies that are as small as the ones we are discussing.

Re: dc driver and underruns (was: Strangeness with 4.0-S)

2000-07-13 Thread Scott Flatman
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Stephen McKay wrote: place. I suspect an interaction between the ATA driver and VIA chipsets, because other than the network, that's all that is operating when I see the underruns. And my Celeron with a ZX chipset is immune. I've noticed this on a VIA chipset machine.

Re: config/hints changes: panic booting pcvt kernel

2000-07-13 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hellmuth Michaelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i added a printf statement to the beginning of every subroutine in file /sys/dev/kbd/kbd.c and with this additions the panic disappears and pcvt runs fine as ever. Removing the printf's from kbd.c shows the usual