Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question)

1999-01-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 199901242201.raa17...@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, Garrett Wollman write s: On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 13:11:12 -0800, Mike Smith m...@smith.net.au said: Backwards compatibility is one thing, but new nodes should be named, not numbered. OID_AUTO is bogus because it perpetuates the numbering

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 04:21:16PM -0800, Amancio Hasty ha...@rah.star-gate.com wrote: http://www.developer.com/experts/expertspanel.html click on Bar's Guide to the the Interactive Fiction and after the page finishes loading click Back on Netscape's tool bar. Instant core -dump. You

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Amancio Hasty
I think this is the first step to show the bug . The next step is to pray that the netscape developer is listening so he can fix it . I think is odd that the bug doesn't happen with the linux version of netscape. Cheers, Amancio On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 04:21:16PM -0800,

Re: kvm question

1999-01-25 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: On Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:04:15 -0800 (PST), Archie Cobbs arc...@whistle.com said: Peter pointed out that having the sysctl's as symbols was a nice advantage of the current system. How important is this? I don't think it's important at all.

New Syscons and GGI

1999-01-25 Thread Tommy Hallgren
Hi! Now that the console system is restructured, shouldn't we consider using GGI instead of inventing the wheel? I happened to find this link and they seem to be positive to supporting FreeBSD. http://synergy.caltech.edu/~ggi/mailinglist/ev-mar98/139.html == Regards: Tommy - The source of all

Re: beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed

1999-01-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : Basically this consists of a bit of code in /etc/rc and, later tonight, : an /etc/rc.diskless script ( a new script ). : :before you reinvent the wheel, have you looked at my code in :http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/diskless981113/ : :this is sliglthly pout of date wrt what i have now

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-25 Thread Alex Povolotsky
199901250453.uaa00...@apollo.backplane.comMatthew Dillon writes: archive:/cvs# time dd if=/dev/zero of=test2 bs=32k count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 33554432 bytes transferred in 13.700387 secs (2449159 bytes/sec) 0.000u 2.728s 0:13.75 19.7% 357+1405k

(cont.) New Syscons and GGI

1999-01-25 Thread Tommy Hallgren
I found this log of an GGI irc meeting. http://www.uk.ggi-project.org/irc/irc-980920-log == Regards: Tommy - The source of all good beers... thallg...@yahoo.com _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: 3.0-CURRENT - RELENG_3: trouble ?

1999-01-25 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
Marco van Hylckama Vlieg wrote: I'm running 3.0-CURRENT at the moment, last timme I built world is about 2 or 3 weeks ago I guess. What I want to do is go to 3.0-RELEASE and from then start keeping track of the 3.x-STABLE branch. Since I've read a lot about various problems people had with

Re: New Syscons and GGI

1999-01-25 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Tommy Hallgren wrote: Hi! Now that the console system is restructured, shouldn't we consider using GGI instead of inventing the wheel? I happened to find this link and they seem to be positive to supporting FreeBSD. http://synergy.caltech.edu/~ggi/mailinglist/ev-mar98/139.html

Re: beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed

1999-01-25 Thread Luigi Rizzo
: Basically this consists of a bit of code in /etc/rc and, later tonight, : an /etc/rc.diskless script ( a new script ). : :before you reinvent the wheel, have you looked at my code in :http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/diskless981113/ ... I was basically just cleaning up stuff I've

Re: keymaps

1999-01-25 Thread Don Lewis
On Jan 21, 9:40pm, Warner Losh wrote: } Subject: Re: keymaps } In message 199901220043.laa22...@lightning.itga.com.au Gregory Bond writes: } : my vote: A version of the standard keymap with CapsLock and LeftCtl } : functions swapped so the control key is under my left finger like } : God

Re: beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed

1999-01-25 Thread Peter Wemm
Luigi Rizzo wrote: [..] I haven't seen how you suggest to buildpopulate the MFS filesystems -- right now i use a rather crude method of putting all the stuff in a tgz archive on the server and expanding it at runtime on the client. I haven't solved the problem with passwords (i.e. i just copy

IDE DMA problems? (4.0-current as of 01/24/99 ~01:10)

1999-01-25 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, Just finsihed upgrading to 4.0-Current, and both my machines now come up with: wd0: DMA failure, DMA status 0 wd0: DMA failure, DMA status 0 wd2: DMA failure, DMA status 0 wd2: DMA failure, DMA status 0 wd1: DMA failure, DMA status 0 wd3: DMA failure, DMA status 0 wd3: DMA failure, DMA

Re: IDE DMA problems? (4.0-current as of 01/24/99 ~01:10)

1999-01-25 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Karl Pielorz wrote: This is due to Julians commit in 1.183 (IIRC) of wd.c, its bogus :( The following patchh cures the mess, and fixes a couble of other nits as well: -Søren Index: wd.c === RCS file:

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I've a feeling that somewhere there is a memory problem. Netscape-specific perhaps, but I suspect otherwise due to what I've seen. For example: the one machine that I have which will constantly dump core when Netscape is run is an HP Vectra. I've tried 3.0, 2.2.8, all current patches, etc.

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-25 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:08:19PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: Can you find out what chipset is in this guy? There's support for anything Intel or VIA, Promise UDMA cards, Cyrix MediaGX, and Acer Aladdin IV/V right now. See kern/9550. The driver *used* to support my SiS chipset, but it

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-25 Thread Lee Cremeans
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 12:11:01PM +0300, Alex Povolotsky wrote: 199901250453.uaa00...@apollo.backplane.comMatthew Dillon writes: archive:/cvs# time dd if=/dev/zero of=test2 bs=32k count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 33554432 bytes transferred in 13.700387 secs

Re: DEVFS, the time has come...

1999-01-25 Thread Brian Somers
[.] So I'd like to make another attempt to get agreement on the next step here, so that *something* can happen. We need to get more people using DEVFS, so we can gain some experience feedback. I don't think DEVFS has any issues that are not surmountable. However, at some point you must

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-25 Thread Lee Cremeans
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 04:09:27PM +0300, Alex Povolotsky wrote: 19990125080617.a3...@tidalwave.netLee Cremeans writes: ide_pci0: VIA 82C586x (Apollo) Bus-master IDE controller rev 0x06 on pci0. 7.1 Don't you know if I can upgrade only one file, ide_pci.c? STABLE seems to not much

Re: KVA/KVM shortages

1999-01-25 Thread Geoff Buckingham
Previously on Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 06:09:41PM +, Geoff Buckingham wrote: : On tuesday I crashed a machine after it ran out of kvm. (dual PII 400 with : 768MB RAM) poking about in the code adding: : : options VM_KMEM_SIZE=(24*1024*1024) : options

Re: IDE DMA problems? (4.0-current as of 01/24/99 ~01:10)

1999-01-25 Thread Karl Pielorz
Søren Schmidt wrote: This is due to Julians commit in 1.183 (IIRC) of wd.c, its bogus :( The following patchh cures the mess, and fixes a couble of other nits as well: [snip] Thanks, the patch fixed the problem... -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe

Stale files in /usr/lib

1999-01-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, The following files are not being created by installworld: /usr/lib/crt0.o /usr/lib/c++rt0.o /usr/lib/gcrt0.o /usr/lib/scrt0.o /usr/lib/sgcrt0.o /usr/lib/kztail.o /usr/lib/kzhead.o Am I correct in assuming they're stale and can be removed? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Failure to make buildworld on RELENG_3

1999-01-25 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
I completely re-cvsuped the sources and I still get errors in libpam. Here is my make.conf: # $Id: make.conf,v 1.70 1998/10/16 03:26:54 peter Exp $ # # This file, if present, will be read by make (see /usr/share/mk/sys.mk). # It allows you to override macro definitions to make without changing

Re: DEVFS, the time has come...

1999-01-25 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Dear Archie, Can you point all people (and me of course) who want to test DEVFS to some common information about DEVFS (usage, possible advantages/disadvantages etc.)? I think some FAQ or so will be nice. It's really will help us to go further with this issue. Sincerely, Maxim Archie Cobbs

Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question)

1999-01-25 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 15:55:50 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com said: Strings are a whole lot more portable then integer assignments. Nonsense. Strings are not portable at all -- they only exist in FreeBSD. The reference implementation (4.4BSD) and its other

Re: Stale files in /usr/lib

1999-01-25 Thread John Polstra
In article 399.917273...@axl.noc.iafrica.com, Sheldon Hearn a...@iafrica.com wrote: The following files are not being created by installworld: /usr/lib/crt0.o /usr/lib/c++rt0.o /usr/lib/gcrt0.o /usr/lib/scrt0.o /usr/lib/sgcrt0.o /usr/lib/kztail.o /usr/lib/kzhead.o Am I correct in

Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question)

1999-01-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 199901251615.laa19...@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, Garrett Wollman write s: On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 15:55:50 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com said: Strings are a whole lot more portable then integer assignments. Nonsense. Strings are not portable at all -- they

Re: Death to LKM screen savers? (was: Re: HEADS UP: i386 a.out L

1999-01-25 Thread John Polstra
In article 19990124225936p.wghi...@wghicks.bellsouth.net, W Gerald Hicks wghi...@bellsouth.net wrote: And if you have cvsup-mirror loaded (running cvsupd), you can even use cvsup against your local repository. Seems a good bit faster than regular CVS for checkouts and updates. It is

broken installworld when OBJLINK= yes

1999-01-25 Thread Holm Tiffe
Hi, after several days fiddeling with the cvs and source trees I've finnaly found out, that setting OBJLINK= yes in /etc/make.conf breaks installworld's. Buildworld is successfully building the entire tree, but after that the obj link in the source-tree is pointing to an /usr/obj/aout/something

Re: Stale files in /usr/lib

1999-01-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:32:17 PST, John Polstra wrote: Yes, they all reside in /usr/lib/aout now. So then for a machine that makes world with -DNOAUT they don't exist, assuming all ports have been rebuilt for an ELF world, yes? Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Stale files in /usr/lib

1999-01-25 Thread John Polstra
On 25-Jan-99 Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:32:17 PST, John Polstra wrote: Yes, they all reside in /usr/lib/aout now. So then for a machine that makes world with -DNOAUT they don't exist, -DNOAOUT assuming all ports have been

Re: Can't mount root. Really need help...

1999-01-25 Thread Leif Neland
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Chris Knight wrote: Greetings, I have learned a very valuable lesson. No matter how many time I have made world, I shouldn't do it while I'm tired. Last night I synced my tree and made world. I rebooted, and was going to remake my kernel after the boot. That

Re: Stale files in /usr/lib

1999-01-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:20:06 PST, John Polstra wrote: Note, without those files you'll never again be able to link an a.out program on the machine. Are you sure you really want that limitation? As I understand it, the only times this hurts me are: 1) When I want to build binaries for

Dynamic sysctl registration

1999-01-25 Thread Doug Rabson
I've made some changes to sysctl to allow nodes to be declared dynamically either by loading kld modules which contain SYSCTL declarations or, in theory, by generating oids from some other kernel data such as the device tree. To recap for those that are interested, the existing scheme uses linker

Re: beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed

1999-01-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
: 'kern.conf_dir' which the kernel initially sets to nothing. : :ok, i can only suggest that if you replace the sysctl kern.conf_dir :variable with a shell variable as i did, you can achieve a more :portable result (this also in light of Jordan's idea of having a :2.2S CD being made... putting

Re: beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed

1999-01-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
I sure did, but I never committed them. I would have to redo them at this point. The patch was to have MFS maintain a persistant file, so you could fsck the file as if it were a disk and then the mfs mount it. Security is an issue, but it depends on how your password file is

Re: KVA/KVM shortages

1999-01-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
If you can get a kernel core, run vmstat -m on it to see what the state of the allocation hoppers was. -Matt Matthew Dillon dil...@backplane.com :As no one seemed to

Re: Stale files in /usr/lib

1999-01-25 Thread Jason C. Wells
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, John Polstra wrote: On 25-Jan-99 Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:32:17 PST, John Polstra wrote: Yes, they all reside in /usr/lib/aout now. So then for a machine that makes world with -DNOAUT they don't exist,

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-25 Thread Alex Povolotsky
19990125083308.b3...@tidalwave.netLee Cremeans writes: On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 04:09:27PM +0300, Alex Povolotsky wrote: 19990125080617.a3...@tidalwave.netLee Cremeans writes: ide_pci0: VIA 82C586x (Apollo) Bus-master IDE controller rev 0x06 on pc i0. 7.1 Don't you know if I can upgrade

Re: Stale files in /usr/lib

1999-01-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:06:15 GMT, Jason C. Wells wrote: I did make buildworld with -DNOAOUT on -stable and it went fine. I did make installworld and it croaked because it couldn't find the afforementioned files. Well, their absence certainly doesn't blow up installworld on a -current

Re: beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed

1999-01-25 Thread Luigi Rizzo
: 'kern.conf_dir' which the kernel initially sets to nothing. : :ok, i can only suggest that if you replace the sysctl kern.conf_dir :variable with a shell variable as i did, you can achieve a more ... That's what I had originally, but extracting the machine's IP address is not

Re: kvm question

1999-01-25 Thread Thomas Valentino Crimi
Excerpts from FreeBSD-Current: 24-Jan-99 Re: kvm question by Archie co...@whistle.com Whether libkvm should even exist in a perfect world (it shouldn't) is an entirely different question. For now, we're stuck with it until somebody changes *everything* to use sysctl instead. Just as a

Re: DEVFS, the time has come...

1999-01-25 Thread Julian Elischer
yo, brian, are you on 'net'? have you had a look at the netgraph stuff? particularly the kernel nodes that we use in conjuntion with mpd, and the usserland modules of mpd that we use with it? On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Brian Somers wrote: [.] So I'd like to make another attempt to get

Re: DEVFS, the time has come...

1999-01-25 Thread Archie Cobbs
Brian Somers writes: So I'd like to make another attempt to get agreement on the next step here, so that *something* can happen. We need to get more people using DEVFS, so we can gain some experience feedback. I don't think DEVFS has any issues that are not surmountable. However, at

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Andrew Gordon
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: I really don't understand the problems that everyone is having, myself. I've been running netscape (communicator 4.5) in -current for ages now and just switched to 4.0 without any problems. My netscape still continues to function just fine and

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Archie Cobbs
Nate Williams writes: I am current as of today 4.0, I have communicator 4.5 downloaded some time ago (November more or less) directly from netscape and installed in /usr/local/netscape with a link to /usr/local/bin/netscape and I have been using it all day with no problems. My intranet if

Reboot after intense disk activity

1999-01-25 Thread Mike Zanker
I've been having a problem ever since I moved from 2.2.8-STABLE to 3.0-CURRENT (all elf). After long periods of intense disk activity (e.g. rm -rf * in /usr/obj or a make world) my keyboard seems to become less responsive and I can hear a quick burst of disk activity with each key press. On a

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:28:10 GMT, Andrew Gordon wrote: One variable may be available memory. On my system, with default datasize limit of 16M from login.conf, Netscape coredumps very frequently. Aha! That figures. Since I upgraded to CURRENT, with its login.conf which defaults to

Re: Stale files in /usr/lib

1999-01-25 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote: [..\ I did make buildworld with -DNOAOUT on -stable and it went fine. I did make installworld and it croaked because it couldn't find the afforementioned files. You need to make installworld with -DNOAOUT too. Otherwise it _will_ look for a.out stuff

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
:One variable may be available memory. On my system, with default datasize :limit of 16M from login.conf, Netscape coredumps very frequently. With :datasize unlimited, Netscape eats all the available swap (this system is :64M real 128M swap) and kills the system that way. I currently run

Re: Dynamic sysctl registration

1999-01-25 Thread Archie Cobbs
Doug Rabson writes: I've made some changes to sysctl to allow nodes to be declared dynamically either by loading kld modules which contain SYSCTL declarations or, in theory, by generating oids from some other kernel data such as the device tree. To recap for those that are interested, the

Re: kvm question

1999-01-25 Thread Archie Cobbs
Thomas Valentino Crimi writes: Whether libkvm should even exist in a perfect world (it shouldn't) is an entirely different question. For now, we're stuck with it until somebody changes *everything* to use sysctl instead. Just as a question, how much of a performance difference is there

Re: Dynamic sysctl registration

1999-01-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 199901252212.oaa18...@bubba.whistle.com, Archie Cobbs writes: Doug Rabson writes: If anyone is interested in seeing diffs (approx 23k), please contact me. I'm interested.. could you email me the diffs? I'm more interested in whether these patches can be committed... ? Have Poul,

removing f2c from base distribution

1999-01-25 Thread Steve Kargl
Ladies and Gents, I have completed the portification of f2c and its support library. In principle, src/usr.bin/f2c, src/lib/{libI77,libF77,libf2c}, and src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/f77 can be moved into the attic in -current (4.x). Appropriate adjustments to the Makefile files in src/usr.bin, src/lib, and

libbind, etc.

1999-01-25 Thread Archie Cobbs
Right now we build libbind (so named, etc. can link) but don't install it in /usr/lib. However, there are parts of it that would be very nice to have available to user programs.. in particular the event library (see: nroff -man /usr/src/contrib/bind/lib/isc/eventlib.mdoc ) I would like to make

Same module loaded twice?

1999-01-25 Thread Archie Cobbs
In the output below, notice there are two modules named ng_sync_sr loaded in the kernel object (due to a typo), and moreover there's a netgraph module loaded in both the kernel object and the netgraph.ko object.. $ kldstat -v Id Refs AddressSize Name 14 0xf010 1be82c

Req: make update target in ports/doc

1999-01-25 Thread Ben Stuyts
Hello, Would it be possible to add a make update target to the top Makefile in ports and doc? Similar to the Makefile in /usr/src, so that it does something like cvs -q update -P -d. It would keep the Makefiles more orthogonal, and in any case, make update types easier than cvs -q update

link_elf: symbol lkmexists undefined

1999-01-25 Thread Donald J . Maddox
Since building a new kernel and a full 'make world' on Jan 24, I am seeing this at boot: avail memory = 62210048 (60752K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel kernel at 0xf02cc000. Preloaded elf module msdos.ko at 0xf02cc09c. Preloaded elf module procfs.ko at 0xf02cc13c. Preloaded elf module if_tun.ko at

Addition to /etc/rc, maybe

1999-01-25 Thread Brian Feldman
How does this look? --- src/etc/rc.orig Mon Jan 25 17:39:07 1999 +++ src/etc/rc Mon Jan 25 17:43:52 1999 @@ -152,6 +152,16 @@ clean_var fi +# Load the vn module, if enabled. +if [ X$vn_enable = XYES ]; then + echo Loading vn module. + if [ -f /modules/vn.ko ]; then +

Re: dummynet causes crash?

1999-01-25 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: which version of ip_dummynet are you using. There were lately a few changes to fix a problem related to route entries being freed in the wrong way. .(02:36:11)(r...@bright.reserved) ipfw add pipe 1 ip from server to cvsup.freebsd.org (long pause

Re: Heads up! New swapper and VM changes have been committed to -4.x

1999-01-25 Thread Brian Feldman
On 24 Jan 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Boris Staeblow b...@dva.in-berlin.de writes: Beside your suggestions there are much more programs which use libkvm: /bin/ps/ /libexec/rpc.rstatd/ /sbin/ccdconfig/ /sbin/dmesg/ These are statically linked, and must be relinked after

usb driver broken?

1999-01-25 Thread Alex Le Heux
Hi, Am I the only one who gets this when he tries to compile a kernel with the usb drivers in it? cc -c -O -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wredundant-decls -Wimplicit -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wuninitialized -Wformat -Wunused

Re: Can't mount root. Really need help...

1999-01-25 Thread Chris Knight
At 06:29 PM 1/25/99 +0100, Leif Neland wrote: On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Chris Knight wrote: Greetings, I have learned a very valuable lesson. No matter how many time I have made world, I shouldn't do it while I'm tired. Last night I synced my tree and made world. I rebooted, and was going

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-25 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: : I haven't cvs updated in 24 hours, if the Acer is newly committed then I'll : have to update again and retry. The CTX is using the Acer. : : ide_pci0: Acer Aladdin IV/V (M5229) Bus-master IDE controller rev 0x20 int a irq 0 on

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-25 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 19:40:38 EST, Brian Feldman wrote: I say this because I am down to ~2.5MB/s on each hard drive, a MB or so decrease; I also seem to be reading (bs=512k) from the CD uncooked device at the right speed (~2MB/s), but it takes up 40% of the CPU, which seems to be just PIO.

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 19:40:38 EST, Brian Feldman wrote: : : I say this because I am down to ~2.5MB/s on each hard drive, a MB or : so decrease; I also seem to be reading (bs=512k) from the CD uncooked :... : :Since I rebuilt world shortly after Matt's VM surgery started, I've also :noticed this --

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-25 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: :On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 19:40:38 EST, Brian Feldman wrote: : : I say this because I am down to ~2.5MB/s on each hard drive, a MB or : so decrease; I also seem to be reading (bs=512k) from the CD uncooked :... : :Since I rebuilt world shortly after

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Andrew Gordon
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: :One variable may be available memory. On my system, with default datasize :limit of 16M from login.conf, Netscape coredumps very frequently. With I've been using netscape on a 24bit color system for well over a year and have never had a

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
: I would like to know if your transfer rate improves or not, and by : how much. : : #if 0 : if (cnt.v_inactive_count / 3 page_shortage) { : maxlaunder = 0; : launder_loop = 0; : } else : #endif : { :

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Luke
Aha! That figures. Since I upgraded to CURRENT, with its login.conf which defaults to unlimited resources, my frequent netscape core dumps have gone away. I hadn't realized why until now. Suggestion: wwhen people complain about Netscape, ask them to mail us back the output of ``ulimit

PPP (userland) troubles ?

1999-01-25 Thread Alexander Sanda
Hi! I'am not sure where this comes from, but at the moment I have some troubles with the userland ppp. The symptoms: After establishing the connection and setting the defaultroute *nothing* works, that means, the line seems to be completely dead. Not even the peer can

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Forrest Aldrich
My setup is about the same. I just modified all my login.conf defaults to be unlimited/infinity. Still the same crappy core dumps. Forrest On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 08:47:29PM -0500, Luke wrote: Aha! That figures. Since I upgraded to CURRENT, with its login.conf which defaults to

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-25 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: : I would like to know if your transfer rate improves or not, and by : how much. : : #if 0 : if (cnt.v_inactive_count / 3 page_shortage) { : maxlaunder = 0; : launder_loop = 0; : } else

Re: IDE DMA works, I'll be a...

1999-01-25 Thread Brian Feldman
And here's with Soren's (sorry, I don't have any kind of European keyboard mapping) patch. {/home/green}$ diff3 iozone.old iozone iozone.newer 1:15,16c Writing the 100 Megabyte file, 'iozone.tmp'...37.320312 seconds Reading the file...37.710938 seconds 2:15,16c Writing the 100

Re: usb driver broken?

1999-01-25 Thread Christopher Nielsen
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Alex Le Heux wrote: Am I the only one who gets this when he tries to compile a kernel with the usb drivers in it? Nope. I ran into this same problem, but I haven't had a chance to query the list about it. This is produced by having USB_DEBUG turned on in your kernel

HEADS UP! (kernel thread support)

1999-01-25 Thread Julian Elischer
The Linuxthreads changes in the system that have been optioned out for a while have been enabled after testing by many people. this will require a recompile of at least PS and probably the usual culprits, (libkvm etc) (unless of course you've already been running with the support turned on.)

Re: DEVFS, the time has come...

1999-01-25 Thread Brian Somers
yo, brian, are you on 'net'? have you had a look at the netgraph stuff? particularly the kernel nodes that we use in conjuntion with mpd, and the usserland modules of mpd that we use with it? Eh, dunno :-/ What's netgraph (it rings bells - have you mentioned it before ?) ? -- Brian

Another heads-up (threads stack support)

1999-01-25 Thread Julian Elischer
This commit also requires a recompile of the usual cuplits. Part of the reason for this commit is to make the thread-stack and non thread stack cases be the same from the point of view of non kernel programs. his allows the 'VM_STACK' option to be turned on and off entirely vi kernel

Re: usb driver broken?

1999-01-25 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
I had this problem too. It seems that the code included when you define USB_DEBUG has suffered some bitrot. Drop this out of your kernel config, and these compile time errors will go away. louie Hi, Am I the only one who gets this when he tries to compile a kernel with the usb drivers in

Re: HEADS UP! (kernel thread support)

1999-01-25 Thread Manfred Antar
At 06:41 PM 1/25/99 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: The Linuxthreads changes in the system that have been optioned out for a while have been enabled after testing by many people. this will require a recompile of at least PS and probably the usual culprits, (libkvm etc) (unless of course you've

Re: keymaps

1999-01-25 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
I recently looked at keymaps in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps and found many minor errors. In addition to that, there is so much inconsistency among existing keymaps. True that national keyboards have different layout of regular keys (alphanumeric keys and symbol keys). But, it is absurd that

Re: HEADS UP! (kernel thread support)

1999-01-25 Thread Julian Elischer
yes On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Manfred Antar wrote: At 06:41 PM 1/25/99 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: The Linuxthreads changes in the system that have been optioned out for a while have been enabled after testing by many people. this will require a recompile of at least PS and probably the

Re: DEVFS, the time has come...

1999-01-25 Thread Archie Cobbs
Brian Somers writes: yo, brian, are you on 'net'? have you had a look at the netgraph stuff? particularly the kernel nodes that we use in conjuntion with mpd, and the usserland modules of mpd that we use with it? Eh, dunno :-/ What's netgraph (it rings bells - have you mentioned

Re: DEVFS, the time has come...

1999-01-25 Thread Archie Cobbs
Maxim Sobolev writes: Can you point all people (and me of course) who want to test DEVFS to some common information about DEVFS (usage, possible advantages/disadvantages etc. I think some FAQ or so will be nice. It's really will help us to go further with this issue. I agree.. and I've bugged

Re: DEVFS, the time has come...

1999-01-25 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
- What other code beside the installer (if any) uses libdisk? Nothing does. That probably says something in and of itself. :) - What are the relevant installer files in the source tree? /usr/src/release/sysinstall. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with

Re: beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed

1999-01-25 Thread Bill Trost
Luigi Rizzo writes: :I haven't seen how you suggest to buildpopulate the MFS filesystems -- ... There isn't much to build. Most of the MFS filesystems start out empty. ok here we use a different approach. For simplicity I am using a single MFS system with all

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Eugeny Kuzakov
Вы писали: Nate Williams writes: I am current as of today 4.0, I have communicator 4.5 downloaded some time ago (November more or less) directly from netscape and installed in /usr/local/netscape with a link to /usr/local/bin/netscape and I have been using it all day with no problems.

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
On 26-Jan-99 Andrew Gordon wrote: On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: :One variable may be available memory. On my system, with default :datasize :limit of 16M from login.conf, Netscape coredumps very frequently. With I've been using netscape on a 24bit color system for well

cvsup build failure

1999-01-25 Thread Randy Bush
4.0-current as of today. i am trying to make cvsup and blooie! new source - compiling ../src/TreeComp.m3 new source - compiling ../src/FSServer.m3 new source - compiling ../src/FSServerU.m3 new source - compiling ../src/Main.m3 - linking cvsupd /usr/lib/aout/crt0.o: file

Re: 4.0-Current, netscape halts system

1999-01-25 Thread Reginald S. Perry
I have been having these X lockups with the linux netscape 4.5 running. I may have exacerbated it when I installed the linux realplayer and macromedia flash plugins. I would like to have a methodology to help debug this, but I have just this one system to use as the debug system. I do also have