Re: panic: vrele: missed vn_close

2001-10-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
found one minor error in fhopen() which I will correct, but I don't think anyone is using fhopen(). fhopen is used by userland NFS/AFS servers/utilities. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why

Re: Some interrupt coalescing tests

2001-10-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Mike Silbersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011012 01:30] wrote: Well, I've been watching everyone argue about the value of interrupt coalescing in the net drivers, so I decided to port terry's patch to 4.4 -current to see what the results are. The patch included applies cleanly to 4.4's if_dc,

Re: Why do soft interrupt coelescing?

2001-10-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
on the board to do what you want. No matter how hard you tweak the board, an interrupt may still trigger while you process a hardware interrupt, this causes an additional poll which can cause additional coalescing. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using

Re: Why do soft interrupt coelescing?

2001-10-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
in a bunch Mike. :-) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body

Re: current install failure

2001-10-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
of the devfs sysctl as done in vinum. If libdisk does it a different way, then vinum should be updated. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send

Re: current install failure

2001-10-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jordan Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011003 15:33] wrote: As you've already noticed, sysinstall basically tries to create the device nodes it needs under the old assumption that /dev will be mostly empty. Now that devfs is the default, phk needs to update libdisk so that it doesn't

Re: Undefined symbol __stderrp

2001-09-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
of a chance. At least tack on a smiley or let them know that you'd like them to try harder instead of just going away. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom

Re: Undefined symbol __stderrp

2001-09-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
mind those flames, they are alway there and help nothing... You've never heard the reasoning behind teaching men to fish? :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated

Re: how to make acpi go away.

2001-09-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Donny Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010925 03:40] wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: Can someone please share with us the magic to disable acpi and add it to src/UPDATING, my sound fell victim to acpi and i think I just lost my mouse to it. Now I have a lapbrick that consumes less power

how to make acpi go away.

2001-09-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Can someone please share with us the magic to disable acpi and add it to src/UPDATING, my sound fell victim to acpi and i think I just lost my mouse to it. Now I have a lapbrick that consumes less power... yay -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software

Re: top(1) takes ages to start up

2001-09-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Nick Hibma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010908 04:51] wrote: Why don't you add an early-out for namelength = 15 or put the if-statement in the loop: This is a good idea, however it fails for the case when everyone has been assigned usernames that are less than 15 characters, I would suggest putting

Re: ACPI: HEADS UP (ACPI CA update)

2001-09-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
this will fix the problem with sound (pcm) that I mailed you about earlier? -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: MALLOC/FREE macro useage.

2001-09-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010903 03:47] wrote: On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: The reason for the macro is that when the size paramter is a constant there's an evil trick that makes selecting the malloc bucket really cheap. That's not the reason. The size parameter

getting skipstone/mozilla to compile.

2001-09-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
the malloc options to see how much of a difference it makes, I would assume it could be quite substantial. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' 'Java

sound doesn't work with acpi?

2001-09-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
: Ethernet address: 00:90:d1:07:4e:22 pccard1: function 0 CCR at 0 offset 3e0: 45 80 22 ff, ff ff ff ff, ff -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' 'Java

Re: MALLOC/FREE macro useage.

2001-09-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
for the macro is that when the size paramter is a constant there's an evil trick that makes selecting the malloc bucket really cheap. Please don't remove it. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software

Re: openbios

2001-08-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
to be a replacement for PC-BIOSes, as long as it's a drop in replacement FreeBSD should run just fine on top of it, there shouldn't be any modifications needed to be done to FreeBSD. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why

Re: openbios

2001-08-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010828 16:19] wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010828 15:37] wrote: I have been wondering if fbsd people would like to move into the openbios.org direction? Well, at least I for myself would _dream_

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Carlo Dapor [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010827 13:49] wrote: How about this . . . Although not running a multi-processor machine, are there guinnea-pigs, like me, who run current and do not mind carrying Julians work in our kernel. As I understand there is no set time-line for SMPng integration,

Re: Disabling harmful keys (was: Re: PATCH: syscons.c sysctl for PC-Reboo Keys)

2001-08-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Kazutaka YOKOTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010818 03:02] wrote: I posted the following message in the stable ML the other day, but got no response. So, I will post it here again. Please follow the thread PATCH: syscons.c sysctl for PC-Reboo Keys in the stable ML for background information on

Re: Keeping User Database loaded in Mem

2001-08-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I would suggest is writing a daemon that monitors the size of the file and keeps it both mmap(2)'s and mlocked(2), this would be trivial to do and would force the system to keep the file in memory. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my

Re: quick informal survey: OpenSSH broken?

2001-07-31 Thread Alfred Perlstein
this to be your usual of breakage of ssh around -release time. :) Please keep it 1,2 at least for the time being. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing in it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: The whole libc FILE/stdio mess and 5.0

2001-07-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ever decided how it should be properly fixed, or if it should be fixed at all. considering the recent breakage wrt to PAM i'm more than happy to apply a diff to fix this. flamage will be repsonded to in my usual manner and we'll have the problem fixed. please submit patches. -- -Alfred Perlstein

Re: fatal flaw in diskcheckd...

2001-07-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
== 0x4a, scsi status == 0x0 (da4:isp3:0:5:0): removing device entry Is diskcheckd still on by default? If so, can whomever enabled it turn it off? If not I'll be 'fixing' this oversight this afternoon. thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Ok, who wrote this damn function called

Re: fatal flaw in diskcheckd...

2001-07-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matthew Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010718 16:56] wrote: Still on by default. In my queue then. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing in it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: A7A266 motherboard

2001-07-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
has the ALiMAGiK1 M1647 chipset. There are several other people with this hardware having the same problem.Is there a fix?. I doubt that FreeBSD is your problem. which version of xfree are you using? i would try installing the 4.1.0 version of xfree from ports or packages. -- -Alfred

Re: Use of M_WAITOK in if_addmulti().

2001-07-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
parameter, the INET6 code would call it with it set to zero, however most other consumers would call it with it set to one meaning they can block. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing in it? To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Lock of struct filedesc, file, pgrp, session and sigio

2001-07-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
for an assignment, unless that assignment spans multiple dependant operations or is dependant on some pre-condition, cases: /* no lock */ foo-a = 5; /* needs lock */ if (foo-b) foo-a = 5; /* might need lock to protect agianst inconsistant view */ foo-a = 5; foo-b = c; -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL

Re: Lock of struct filedesc, file, pgrp, session and sigio

2001-07-13 Thread Alfred Perlstein
frozen at creation time (i think) Work is here, it's a diff relative to FreeBSD-current + your patch. http://sneakerz.org/~bright/pg_mine.diff thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing in it? To Unsubscribe

Re: No more snapshots of -CURRENT?

2001-07-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
with -stable. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing in it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Lock of struct filedesc, file, pgrp, session and sigio

2001-07-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010712 01:45] wrote: * Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010712 01:42] wrote: * Seigo Tanimura [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010711 19:08] wrote: The patch and the results of build test are now on the web page. The discussion of ktrace(2) problem does

Re: Lock of struct filedesc, file, pgrp, session and sigio

2001-07-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
int @@ -224,9 +215,7 @@ { int error; - fhold(fp); error = (*fp-f_ops-fo_stat)(fp, sb, p); - fdrop(fp, p); return (error); } -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing

Re: Lock of struct filedesc, file, pgrp, session and sigio

2001-07-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
in a good way? -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing in it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Lock of struct filedesc, file, pgrp, session and sigio

2001-07-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010712 01:42] wrote: * Seigo Tanimura [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010711 19:08] wrote: The patch and the results of build test are now on the web page. The discussion of ktrace(2) problem does not cover the solution of BSD/OS, so it needs updating. I'm

Re: Lock of struct filedesc, file, pgrp, session and sigio

2001-07-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
to flush the cached information. Instead of that, we should watch for release of mutexes. When a process no longer holds any mutexes except for Giant, it is safe to flush cached information to ktrace. Yes, it's pretty gross. :( -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Ok, who wrote this damn

Re: Lock of struct filedesc, file, pgrp, session and sigio

2001-07-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Seigo Tanimura [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010710 03:46] wrote: On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 03:20:44 -0500, Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm going to be giving this code some testing, not that you have to wait for me to finish, but it seems like no one has stepped forward to review

Re: Lock of struct filedesc, file, pgrp, session and sigio

2001-07-09 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010707 16:43] wrote: * Seigo Tanimura [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010702 03:13] wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:04:31 +0900, Seigo Tanimura tanimura said: Seigo The results of build test with the latest patch are now at: Seigo http://people.FreeBSD.org

Re: Lock of struct filedesc, file, pgrp, session and sigio

2001-07-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010707 18:06] wrote: On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 04:42:49PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: I'm going to be giving this code some testing, not that you have to wait for me to finish, but it seems like no one has stepped forward to review this. I'd like to see

Re: TIOCSCTTY

2001-07-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
an option to allow this. The reason, I think, is that you don't want non-root users to be able to grab the console output as it may allow them to obscure evil behavior. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing

Re: RFC: Kernel thread system nomenclature.

2001-07-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
mistakes and confusion as a thread is not really a process. It gets sort of confusing, as I'm not really sure where the thread actually is, #3 or #4, it's actually 4, however you can only run 'amount of #3' threads at the same time. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Ok, who wrote

Re: Vinum + DEVFS ?

2001-06-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
for use with DEVFS. Is that still the case? I fixed that. :) Let me and Grog know if you have problems. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing in it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: [HEADS-UP]: Mbuf allocator changes

2001-06-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Bosko Milekic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010622 01:47] wrote: Hi -current people, I have recently made some significant changes to the mbuf allocator. Although I have invested, along with several other developers, very significant time in testing the newly introduced code, should any

Re: [HEADS-UP]: Mbuf allocator changes

2001-06-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alexander N. Kabaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010622 10:46] wrote: UP kernel can not be compiled in -CURRENT after your changes because kern/subr_mbuf.c references mp_ncpus variable, which is defined only in SMP case. Should this variable be moved out of #ifdef SMP? Yes, I asked for this months

Re: New Mbuf Allocator (some graphs)

2001-06-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
, or that the interface will settle down enough so that I can get started on it. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: dual athlons

2001-06-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
it was tested. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: dirpref and RELENG_4 fsck

2001-06-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
that I've reverted my current system back to RELENG_4 :-) Afaik the problem was that fsck would wipe certain stats info that dirpref would use, however I think the kernel detects absurd values and will reinit them. I could be way off about this though. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OpenBSD dirpref/softupdates code

2001-06-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
with a new layout policy that's just recently been discovered, basically there may be unforseen issues. Personally I'd like to see snapshots and background fsck backported. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start

Re: vm_pager_(de)allocate and vm_mtx

2001-05-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
as it will catch people that expect vm state to remain unchanged across several calls. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_fault.c

2001-05-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
. Hopefully swapping is working now. The changes I made are perhaps overly conservative, so there may still be some more changes coming down the pipeline to push down Giant a bit farther. ;) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology

Re: panic: mutex vm not owned

2001-05-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
. Thanks for taking the time to do this. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current

HEADS UP: I broke swapping

2001-05-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
. :) Patches, suggestions and crashdumps would be helpful. Bruce has been giving me some helpful tracebacks that I'm planning to use to stabilize the system. thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why

Re: panic: mutex vm not owned

2001-05-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
this is about all, dumping is not possible... let's hope for the best. Luckily, console based CD players also exist.grin That patch was committed to -current several hours ago. you should have version 1.57 of sys/kern/sysv_shm.c. Of course this only fixes sysv shm, not swapping. -- -Alfred

Re: panic: mutex vm not owned...

2001-05-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
); /* @@ -1689,6 +1689,7 @@ if (object) vm_object_pip_wakeupn(object, bp-b_npages); + mtx_unlock(vm_mtx); /* * release the physical I/O buffer */ -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s

Re: panic: mutex vm not owned...

2001-05-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010519 21:57] wrote: * Szilveszter Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010519 16:53] wrote: Hello everybody, I guess I was just being too happy so it had to get me this time:-) I was building Mozilla when it struck. Today's -CURRENT, kernel world in sync

Re: kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled

2001-05-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
traceback? -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body

Re: select(2) converted to use a condition variable, and optimised

2001-05-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
as a useful guide for making finer grained locks as well as error checking the new locks. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: vm_mtx

2001-04-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010423 23:27] wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: requires vm_page_queues_mtx: manipulation of vm_page_queues [snip] pmaps spotted: pmap_copy_page pmap_page_protect There is potential for nasty lock ordering conflicts here

Re: vm_mtx

2001-04-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010423 21:51] wrote: You can find the work I've done so far to make a giant vm mutex here: http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/vm.diff I've refreshed the diff, it now makes it to: vfs_default.c 545 - recurses on vm_mtx here, oops

Re: vm_mtx

2001-04-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010424 08:36] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Garrett Wollman write s: On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:51:31 -0700, Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You can find the work I've done so far to make a giant vm mutex here: The Mach code we

Re: PATCH: move struct netexport to struct mount

2001-04-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
AF_MAX and #include net/radix.h from sys/mount.h Nice, go for it. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: [RFC] RELNOTESng for 5-CURRENT

2001-04-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
/SGML, which is the markup language used for the Handbook, FAQ, and so on. [snip] I'd very much like to get comments from people. Sounds like some excellent work that was long over due. Go for it. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~slumos/on-netbsd.html

Re: PATCH to make maxfiles, maxfiles per proc boot-time tunable

2001-04-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s

vm_mtx

2001-04-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
vm_page_count_target vm_paging_target vm_paging_needed -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~slumos/on-netbsd.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: missing man's files

2001-04-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
. Was it just my badluck ? I think there was groff breakage. -Vlad To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubsc

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
to directory caching -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
n the next couple of days unless a stability issue comes up. I'll leave it to those people with low memory to remember to turn it off. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
. Meaning if we happen to copyin() a 4 meg buffer we can allow more than one process to be completing some sort of work inside the kernel other than spinning on the giant lock. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
the :kernel mutexed. The least complex way to accomplish this is to only :preempt kernel processes that hold no mutex (low level) locks. : :-- :-Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I wish it were that simple. Remember when we went to shared file descriptor arrays

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
and code paths. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
, I was 19 or 20 at the time. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Kernel preemption, yes or no? (was: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost)

2001-04-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010417 17:02] wrote: On Tuesday, 17 April 2001 at 1:19:57 -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Matt Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010415 23:16] wrote: For example, all this work on a preemptive kernel is just insane. Our entire

Re: Kernel preemption, yes or no? (was: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost)

2001-04-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matt Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010417 17:47] wrote: ... Interrupts by definition know precisely what they are going to do, so by definition they know precisely which mutexes (if any) they may need to get. This means that, in fact, it is possible to implement a check to

Re: More on Bad Bug

2001-04-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
it as is until after the release date. As far as tracking down the problem I don't have the resources in terms of hardware, code and time for that right now, however it looks like you've found a possible bug. Please keep us in the loop on this. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Kernel preemption, yes or no? (was: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost)

2001-04-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* E.B. Dreger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010417 18:36] wrote: In this case, why not have a memory allocator similar to Hoard? It doesn't work, but it's close: http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/memcache/ -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Represent yourself, show up

Re: Kernel preemption, yes or no? (was: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost)

2001-04-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* E.B. Dreger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010417 18:48] wrote: Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 18:28:40 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) interrupts are again fan-in, meaning if you block an interrupt class on one cpu you block them on all cpus When would this be a bad case

Re: SOMAXCONN -- not tunable?

2001-04-13 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ONN 3 /* int: max leng th of connection q */ usr.sbin/rpcbind/rpcbind.c: listen(fd, SOMAXCONN); -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~slumos/on-netbsd.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: NFS export to netgroup with duplicate hosts

2001-04-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Martin Blapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010412 10:11] wrote: If we manage it, mountd should soon be able to allow different mount flags for each path you export in /etc/exports. I'm sorry. But now after some investigations and talks with Robert Watson it seems to be clear that this is not

Re: fstab weirdness / UPDATING

2001-04-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
CC'ing phk, whose mailbox is obviously too empty. I think I'm seeing the same thins... At boot I see a kernel printf "warning: /var was not properly dismounted" then /var mounts. If I unmount it and fsck it it's dirty. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Represen

is it supposed to be this broken?

2001-03-31 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ices" doesn't seem to work anymore. What I'd like you to do is try to disable your floppy drive and/or lpt port without removing it from your kernel. If it's possible please let me know. thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: is it supposed to be this broken?

2001-03-31 Thread Alfred Perlstein
IRQs for anything else unless you remove the drivers from the kernel? Why? Also, is there any system in place so that I can tell a device to go away? (one that isn't pccard/cardbus) ? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.o

Re: malloc not recurseable?

2001-03-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
need to remove the signal handler's use of malloc, basically rework the problem they are trying to solve. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

top output broked?

2001-03-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
% nfsd 14848 root 960 26912K 26832K RUN1 0:04 0.00% 0.00% ld 424 bright 40 2120K 1340K select 0 0:04 0.00% 0.00% rxvt no cpu time, known issue? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org

Re: Fixing ypbind with TI-RPC

2001-03-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
and taking the first answer you get back. Is the whole reason you need to do this because you're using the xid to differentiate between the servers? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Fixing ypbind with TI-RPC

2001-03-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010326 19:57] wrote: * Bill Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010326 16:05] wrote: Why can't you just enable sigio on the reply socket, send all the requests with a 0 timeout and then wait for a signal to either interrupt the sending or to notify you when you

Re: ** HEADS UP ** portmap daemon renamed to rpcbind

2001-03-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-curre

Re: spin lock panic ...

2001-03-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-curre

Re: spin lock panic ...

2001-03-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* The Hermit Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010323 16:17] wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * The Hermit Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010323 16:09] wrote: Now, I do have DDB enabled in the kernel ... but, for the life of me, I can't seem to find any docs on the keystroke

Re: CFS - Portmap

2001-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
you run mergemaster? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: yppasswdd_server.c:692: redefinition of `struct cmessage'

2001-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
. Maybe I won't build -CURRENT for a little while :-} Don't worry, ru fixed it, I'm about to undo the whole schebang because sys/socket.h shouldn't have this definition. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "

*** HEADSUP keyserv might be broken ***

2001-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
There's rumors that something is broken in keyserv, if someone can get me a good diagnostics on how to reproduce the failure/problem I should be able to fix it. Of course patches are welcome as well. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece

Re: devfs+vinum trouble

2001-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
ad. It's on an i386 based system with source from 21th March. AOL Same here. /AOL JERKCITY T USERS MORE INFO PLZ K THNX. /JERKCITY -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start

Re: CFS - Portmap

2001-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
151udp 0.0.0.0.3.237 mountd superuser 151tcp 0.0.0.0.3.251 mountd superuser 10928305672udp 0.0.0.0.11.233 - superuser Any of you folks tried recompiling CFS? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: devfs+vinum trouble

2001-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
this. But they seem to be harmless. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usergroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: vinumconfig.c Applied, thank you. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Daemon News Magazine

Re: [FIX] Re: CFS - Portmap

2001-03-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
a chance someone will jump in with the answer you're looking for. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Daemon News Magazine in your snail-mail! http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i

** HEADS UP **

2001-03-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
the BABUG meeting on Thursday? There's gonna be a film crew from IBM-Linux there and a tutorial on netbooting. http://www.bafug.net/meetings/NextMeetingBerk.html -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: patch /bin/ls again, for mb supporting.

2001-03-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
/memcpy as suggested? + } + } + } + *ri = 0; *ri = '\0'; + printf("%s", r); + free(r); + return len; return (len); } -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Funny bug-of-the-day

2001-03-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
think only because you have "freebsd.org" in your "search" directive. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: libdevstat

2001-03-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
it sum up the stats instead of displaying them inidividually. I would look at fixing iostat because libdevstat seems to provide all the data needed. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-cu

Re: building perl 5.6.0 with `-DPERL_POLLUTE'

2001-03-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
. It will eventually go away, and the longer we keep it as a crutch, the more people are going to be hurt by it when/if it disappears completely. Those people need to fix thier modules. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS?

2001-03-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010311 02:29] wrote: I'll sneak in my experience with DEVFS+vinum here as well: vinum: loaded vinum: reading configuration from /dev/da3s1f vinum: updating configuration from /dev/da1s1e vinum: updating configuration from /dev/da2s1e

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