Re: -e option to umount?

2000-06-19 Thread Parag Patel
attention condition. This is how the MacOS does it, at least prior to MacOS X. If the CD-ROM is external and powered-down after the MacOS boots, the Mac then hangs periodically trying to ping it. Really screws up performance. :) -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

4.0 kernel size quite a bit larger than 3.4?

2000-03-19 Thread Parag Patel
anything obvious.) Thanks! -- Parag Patel # # PINHEAD config file developed from: # GENERIC -- Generic kernel configuration file for FreeBSD/i386 # # For more information on this file, please read the handbook section on # Kernel Configuration Files: # #http://www.freebsd.org/handbook

Re: 4.0 kernel size quite a bit larger than 3.4?

2000-03-19 Thread Parag Patel
like a case of being nibbled to death by cats. (Julian Elischer suggested it may be due to the newbus code which affects just about everything.) No obvious place that has eaten a bunch of space - it's pretty well scattered throughout. -- Parag Patel textdata bss dec

Re: FWIW: More questionable softupdates+vinum benchmarks

2000-02-17 Thread Parag Patel
7969.94 user 7601.81 sys 6040.56 real 7933.80 user 7643.17 sys (*MAXACTIVE to 3) (The /*raid* volumes are all on the 5 older SCSI disks, but the rest of the system is on a newer IDE disk, which is why the IDE times are better.) -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe

FWIW: More questionable softupdates+vinum benchmarks

2000-02-17 Thread Parag Patel
) tests involving find|cpio of the source tree and then buildworld -j16 on various vinum volumes. So I thought I'd forward the results to current, for what it's worth. The biggest (non)surprise is how big a difference softupdates makes. Nice! -- Parag Patel "Idiocy: Never underest

Re: FWIW: More questionable softupdates+vinum benchmarks

2000-02-17 Thread Parag Patel
my own poor-man's desktop RAID cluster with several PCI-IDE controllers and a cheap IDE master per interface (no slaves). Not quite as good as SCSI but a heck of a lot cheaper. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i

Re: Megahertz pccard

2000-02-08 Thread Parag Patel
e 4.0 boot floppies since I needed to run "make installworld" from a build on another box. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: 4.0-CURRENT SMP crash with vinum raid-5 and softupdates

1999-09-02 Thread Parag Patel
volume seems happy, with and without async. It seems likely to be some odd interaction between the raid5 code and softupdates, since the simpler mirror/striping seems to work fine with it. Ring any bells for anyone? -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: alpha kernel build failure (w/patch)

1999-07-05 Thread Parag Patel
; with this macro being set to the correct machine-specific one in some appropriate header file? I'm sure I'm missing something... Thanks! -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: stable snap for smp?

1999-05-15 Thread Parag Patel
done so I backed up to 3.1-STABLE and it seems to be fine since.) Hope this helps. I intend to update to 3.2-STABLE today... -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system.

1999-04-10 Thread Parag Patel
compiler), and gpc. I'm used to building my own compilers and cross-compilers, so it's no big deal for me either way. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Lots of warnings in 4.0-CURRENT kernel build

1999-03-06 Thread Parag Patel
everyone but me already knows is being worked on? -- Parag Patel kern/init_sysent.c:23: warning: cast discards `volatile' from pointer target type kern/kern_sysctl.c: In function `sysctl_register_set': kern/kern_sysctl.c:127: warning: cast discards `const' from pointer target type

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-09 Thread Parag Patel
the other, if I may suggest looking at and perhaps importing the OpenBSD code? The CHANGES file lists a bunch of security and bug fixes. I can't tell where the code is derived from. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current

Re: Which DHCP client

1999-02-09 Thread Parag Patel
May I suggest looking at the OpenBSD dhcp client/server? I'm not sure which one they're derived from, but the CHANGES file lists a bunch of bug and security fixes. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body

Re: some woes about rc.conf.site

1999-02-07 Thread Parag Patel
. Matthew Dillon Then why bother having rc.conf in the first place? Just wire in all the defaults straight into /etc/rc and leave rc.conf strictly for overriding the defaults only, and eliminate rc.conf.* entirely. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord

Re: some woes about rc.conf.site

1999-02-07 Thread Parag Patel
. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: msdosfs/vn trouble, doscmd nicety, fd trouble

1999-02-06 Thread Parag Patel
, and it works fine for me. -- Parag Patel === # my ~/.doscmdrc assign A: /u/parag/dos/1.44M 1440 assign B: /dev/rfd0 1440 assign C: /u/parag/dos/10M 306 4 17 assign D: /cgt/src/bin/of/ppc assign E: /u/parag/tmp #assign lpt1

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-27 Thread Parag Patel
across 2 disks. A make -j8 buildworld also succeeded early this morning at about 5am. Softupdates is turned on for all disks and all partitions except /tmp which is async mfs. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current