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

2001-04-17 Thread janb
IIRC, didn't the NT driver for some NIC (Intel?) switch to polling, anyway, under heavy load? The reasoning being that you _know_ that you're going to get something... why bother an IRQ hit? THis is very interesting. How does this affect performance? JAn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

SSLeay refuses to build.

2001-03-10 Thread janb
I am trying to make the port p5-Net-SSLeay-1.05 (as a dependency for webmin). The make stops and askes for the location of OpenSSL. A 'where openssl' results in '/usr/bin/openssl'. The SSLeay build will not accept /usr/bin, /usr/bin/, or /usr/bin/openssl . It always reponds with : "Could not find

Re: SSLeay refuses to build.

2001-03-10 Thread janb
No. I will try this right now. I still fail to see why the port would not find the thing. A simple 'where' statement does the trick... I any case, thanks for the help JAn On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010310 10:26] wrote: I am trying to

Re: current paging strategy

2000-12-04 Thread janb
what exacly do you mean with critical path, here? JAn On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Bernd Walter wrote: On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 12:45:30AM -0800, David Greenman wrote: Interesting. THis needs about two bytes per page for the counter? Actually, we found that a single byte per page was

Re: Other Linux stuff...

2000-11-28 Thread janb
It's not a matter of our emulator. The problem is that Linux allows the execution of shared objects. Technically speaking this is wrong and our ELF loader doesn't do that. We can change our ELF loader, but that would Could you elaborate on this, please. I am interested in what is meant with

Re: libc.so.4 not found

2000-11-25 Thread janb
I am not sure, if anybody care for this fix, but I just copied libc.so.5 to libc.so.4 when kde was complaining about not finding it. I am not sure if this should work, but it does work just fine... JAn On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, David O'Brien wrote: On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 12:44:34PM -0600, Bill

kde2 upgrade fails in wierd fashion

2000-11-25 Thread janb
This is strange. I deinstalled all kde11 type ports and then made installed the kde2 port. However, each time I got and startx, I stay with kde 1.1.2. I am using Xfree86 4.01 and a reasonably recent version of CURRENT. Has anybody got an explanation for this behavior? To Unsubscribe: send

Re: slight improvement in locore.s?

2000-11-23 Thread janb
It does not impair readability. As long as that is true, I believe its prudent to save every byte possible... Only my 2 cents worth. JAn On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, David Greenman wrote: locore.s includes: #define ALLOCPAGES(foo) \ movlR(physfree), %esi ; \ movl

state of usb?

2000-11-21 Thread janb
What is the current state of the usbd? I keep getting messages that complain about a host controller error and a shutdown of the usb interface. And I don't even have any devices on my usb ports... JAN To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the

/etc/local/rc.conf not working?

2000-11-19 Thread janb
the rc.conf on my computer sets the sendmail enable flag to NO, and yet on bootup the sendmail daemon is started. ps -ax confirms this with sendmail: accepting connections JAn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: /etc/local/rc.conf not working?

2000-11-19 Thread janb
OOPs, well this was the problem. That leaves me wondering, why this is on two places... Thanks, JAN On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Doug Barton wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the rc.conf on my computer sets the sendmail enable flag to NO, and yet on bootup the sendmail daemon is started. ps -ax

fonts won't show in Xfree86

2000-11-18 Thread janb
I just reinstalled from the snap server. Now, whenever I go int Xwindows, I get wierd stuff instead of characters. It looks almost as if the fonts have been replaced with barcodes. If I go an move the window such that it is obstructed behind something and then move it back, sometimes the

Re: ATA RAID - sysinstall solution

2000-11-08 Thread janb
OK, i tested this. Sysinstall works fine now, and the system installs OK from the SNAP 5 ftp server. ON reboot, however, the computer thing refuses to boot of the RAID device. After the BIOS message "verifying DMI.."(or similar) the system hangs. Does anybody know why this could be? jan On

latest build install disks broken

2000-11-07 Thread janb
I tried the latest build from current.freebsd.org. (11-7) I tried multiple floppies to make sure that it was not a problem with bad sectors (fdimage should catch this anyway). On boot from the kern.flp image the computer stops at the boot loader with the message elf_loadexec: cannot seek can't

install disk problem

2000-11-04 Thread janb
I am installing the current version of freebsd with the install floppies. The installation breaks of with the error message that it cannot create the device in /dev. It seems to me that the ar device entry for the raid I am using is not on the disk by default, and sysinstall is unable to create

RE: making an install CD

2000-11-01 Thread janb
I tried this, but the make fails with error install:/usr/obj/usr/src/include/osreldate.h: No such file or directory I just got the brand new current source, rebuilt the world and updated the kernel. If the source file is supposed to be there, its probably missing on the server. Any toughts - am

current paging strategy

2000-11-01 Thread janb
What paging strategy does FreeBSD currently use? Is it LRU or some approximation to it? How much memory does this strategy take up in its current implementation? Thank you for any information or links, Jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in

Re: current paging strategy

2000-11-01 Thread janb
Interesting. THis needs about two bytes per page for the counter? JAn On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, David Greenman wrote: What paging strategy does FreeBSD currently use? Is it LRU or some approximation to it? How much memory does this strategy take up in its current implementation? It's

making an install CD

2000-10-31 Thread janb
I would line to make an Install CD with a non-release kernel and sysinstall. Only the newer software supports the device I want to install on, So I need both the new kernel and sysinstall. Does anybody have a link to instructions for making an install CD with the 'current' state. jan To

Wierdness with cvsup

2000-10-31 Thread janb
I am using cvsup to update my sources. in the supfile, there is a line that states *default compress. The comment above indicates to comment this out when you have a fast connection. I DO have a fast connection (100+ K sustained to ftp.freebsd.org) But when I comment this line out, cvsup

Re: INVARIANTS and -current

2000-10-31 Thread janb
Could someone give a quick explanation what INVARIANTS does? JAn On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Boris Popov wrote: On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Eivind Eklund wrote: I want to enable INVARIANTS by default in -current. This result in some slowdown, but it also makes it more likely that we'll find bugs

/stand/sysinstall fdisk won't work

2000-10-29 Thread janb
After installing the latest version of the current source, /stand/sysinstall's fdisk will not find any devices. Can anybody tell me what I forgot to do? I did do the /dev/MAKEDEV all. JAn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the

Re: /stand/sysinstall fdisk won't work

2000-10-29 Thread janb
Thank you all for the help JAn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

HPT 370 on abit KT7-RAID

2000-10-28 Thread janb
This has been discussed here before, but I just got my mainboard and wanted totry this out. The BIOS RAID does not work for me either - no surprise here. So I was trying to use vinum, but disklabel gives me different information than fdisk does. According to the disklabel command, my harddrives