Re: Why do soft interrupt coelescing?

2001-10-17 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:35:51 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Kenneth D. Merry wrote: [ ... ] This is actually very bad: you want to drop packets before you insert them into the queue, rather than after they are in the queue. This is because you want the probability of the drop

Re: SIC: New Patch (context diff)

2001-10-17 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:50:09 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Terry Lambert wrote: OK, I will rediff and generate context diffs; expect them to be sent in 24 hours or so from now. It's been longer than that... Sorry; I've been doing a lot this weekend. I will redo them at

NIS client does perform Ok when my duplex is right (Was: Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load)

2001-10-17 Thread Thyer, Matthew
It was my problem. My network interface was in 100Mbps half-duplex instead of 100Mbps full-duplex (the switch was in 100 full). I was using DHCP to configure the interface and for some reason it came up as half (even though a 4.3-BETA box elsewhere around here comes up in full-duplex). It

Re: NIS client does perform Ok when my duplex is right (Was: Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load)

2001-10-17 Thread Mike Smith
Should the below work ? ifconfig_xl0=DHCP media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex I don't think so. Try using the start_if script stuff to pre-set your media options before DHCP gets hold of the interface; I'm pretty sure that'll work. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone

RE: NIS client does perform Ok when my duplex is right (Was: Re:

2001-10-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17-Oct-2001 Thyer, Matthew wrote: P.S. I would still like to try using DHCP but *NOT* autonegotiating. Is this possible ? Either hack the startup script, or man 5 dhclient.conf :) (Look for medium) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software -

Re: applix 5.0 and current

2001-10-17 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:43:13PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: I've been trying to get applix 5.0 to work and I've been running into some intresting problems. The first one was that current has the getresuid syscall and the gtk12 build detects and uses it. Unfortuatly FreeBSD 3.x and 4.x

rc.diskless2 fails to create /var/log/lastlog

2001-10-17 Thread Harti Brandt
Hi, /var/log/lastlog is not in /etc/newsyslog.conf and is for this reason no created upon boot. This gives an error message each time one logs into the system. The append patch creates the file. harti Index: rc.diskless2 === RCS

Re: rc.diskless2 fails to create /var/log/lastlog

2001-10-17 Thread Brian Dean
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 04:07:28PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: Hi, /var/log/lastlog is not in /etc/newsyslog.conf and is for this reason no created upon boot. This gives an error message each time one logs into the system. The append patch creates the file. Committed. Thanks! -Brian To

Re: NIS client does perform Ok when my duplex is right (Was: Re:

2001-10-17 Thread Peter S. Housel
At Wed, 17 Oct 2001 18:32:15 +0900 (JST), Daniel O'Connor wrote: Either hack the startup script, or man 5 dhclient.conf :) (Look for medium) And then use media instead, because dhclient.conf(5) is wrong. -Peter- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current

arp: some ether addr is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! ??!?!?

2001-10-17 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
After rebuilding the kernel two days ago (Oct 15), I am getting lots of messages like these: arp: 00:30:65:de:99:32 is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! arp: 00:0a:27:b0:a7:06 is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! arp: 00:30:65:d1:2f:cc is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! arp: 00:30:65:e9:57:5e is using my IP

Re: NIS client does perform Ok when my duplex is right (Was: Re:

2001-10-17 Thread John Baldwin
On 17-Oct-01 Mike Smith wrote: Should the below work ? ifconfig_xl0=DHCP media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex I don't think so. Try using the start_if script stuff to pre-set your media options before DHCP gets hold of the interface; I'm pretty sure that'll work. Yes, this works

Re: NIS client does perform Ok when my duplex is right (Was: Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load)

2001-10-17 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:00:42PM +0930, Thyer, Matthew wrote: It was my problem. My network interface was in 100Mbps half-duplex instead of 100Mbps full-duplex (the switch was in 100 full). I was using DHCP to configure the interface and for some reason it came up as half (even though

Re: NIS client does perform Ok when my duplex is right (Was: Re:

2001-10-17 Thread Andrew Gallatin
John Baldwin writes: On 17-Oct-01 Mike Smith wrote: Should the below work ? ifconfig_xl0=DHCP media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex I don't think so. Try using the start_if script stuff to pre-set your media options before DHCP gets hold of the interface; I'm pretty

Re: Some interrupt coalescing tests

2001-10-17 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: The one thing I _would_ add -- though I'm waiting for it to be a problem before doing it -- is to limit the total number of packets processed per interrupt by keeping a running count. You would have to be _AMAZINGLY_ loaded to hit this, though;

Re: arp: some ether addr is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! ??!?!?

2001-10-17 Thread Julian Elischer
I've seen this when DHCP fails to allocate an address. On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: After rebuilding the kernel two days ago (Oct 15), I am getting lots of messages like these: arp: 00:30:65:de:99:32 is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! arp: 00:0a:27:b0:a7:06 is using my IP

Re: applix 5.0 and current

2001-10-17 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 07:13:54AM -0500, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: A workaround that I used previously is to compile up getresuid.so and run Applix with e.g. `env LD_PRELOAD=/PATH/TO/getresuid.so applix'. Thanks for the tip. I was able to get the olefilter working with a similar hack. I

Re: arp: some ether addr is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! ??!?!?

2001-10-17 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:11:45PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: I've seen this when DHCP fails to allocate an address. But I am not using DHCP. Maybe there are other machines in the LAN (it is a *big* LAN) trying to get their addresses using DHCP, and now -CURRENT shows a message whenever

Kernel seems to hang on acpi

2001-10-17 Thread Jan Knepper
Hi! I just cvsup'ed to a later CURRENT and seems to have problems booting my Dell Inspiron 5000e. The kernel seemed to hang on ACPI detection. Turning setting acpi_load=NO did not seem to make a difference. Renaming the module to ~.ko- solved the boot problem for now, however, the 3Com

RE: Kernel seems to hang on acpi

2001-10-17 Thread John Baldwin
On 17-Oct-01 Jan Knepper wrote: Hi! I just cvsup'ed to a later CURRENT and seems to have problems booting my Dell Inspiron 5000e. The kernel seemed to hang on ACPI detection. Turning setting acpi_load=NO did not seem to make a difference. Renaming the module to ~.ko- solved the boot

Re: newfs fails to build small file systems.

2001-10-17 Thread Harti Brandt
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Bruce Evans wrote: BEOn Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Harti Brandt wrote: BE BE since version 1.41 of newfs.c newfs fails to build 2MByte md-based BE file systems. We use these file systems in our diskless pc's. BE [patch snipped] Thanks, the patch worked. However: BEThe problem