-current vs. -stable network performance

2001-12-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, I am testing the forwarding performance of CURRENT vs. STABLE (both more or less up to date, unmodified, with the latest performance patches to the "dc" driver, which I am using) and I am having some surprises. STABLE can forward approx 125Kpps, whereas CURRENT tops at approx 80Kpps. This i

Re: Vinum write performance (was: RAID performance (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c))

2001-12-12 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:47:53PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 13 December 2001 at 3:06:14 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > > Currently if we have two writes in two stripes each, all initated before > > the first finished, the drive has to seek between the two stripes, as > > the second w

Re: Vinum write performance (was: RAID performance (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c))

2001-12-12 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 13 December 2001 at 3:06:14 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:54:13AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 12 December 2001 at 12:53:37 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:22:05PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 11 December 2

Re: Vinum write performance (was: RAID performance (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c))

2001-12-12 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:54:13AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 12 December 2001 at 12:53:37 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:22:05PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 11 December 2001 at 3:11:21 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > >> 2. Cache the parity blo

Re: Vinum write performance (was: RAID performance (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c))

2001-12-12 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 12 December 2001 at 12:53:37 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:22:05PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Tuesday, 11 December 2001 at 3:11:21 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: >>> striped: >>> If you have 512byte stripes and have 2 disks. >>> You access 64k which is put

Re: buildworld broken on globaldata.h

2001-12-12 Thread John Baldwin
On 12-Dec-01 Harti Brandt wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > PK> > PK>My buildworld breaks: > PK> > PK>[...] > PK>/flat/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/i386/kvm-fbsd.c:52: > machine/globaldata.h: No > PK>such file or directory > PK> > PK>Any workarounds/fixes ? > > This was

Re: panic: kernel trap doesn't have ucred

2001-12-12 Thread John Baldwin
On 12-Dec-01 Bruce Evans wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Georg-W Koltermann wrote: > >> I get a panic "kernel trap doesn't have ucred" when I try to install >> Linux ORACLE 8.1.7. > > Looks like the trap handling for invalid segment registers on return to > user mode is broken. That would panic

Re: Junior Kernel hacker task: Floppy driver mode handling.

2001-12-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Heller writes: >Hello! >After a quick glance thru the TUHS.org archives, I found a quick & dirty >hack for 4.0-Stable by Jason T. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >The README for this thing is as follows: That is where I got the inspiration to clean up our floppy

Re: Junior Kernel hacker task: Floppy driver mode handling.

2001-12-12 Thread Martin Heller
Hello! After a quick glance thru the TUHS.org archives, I found a quick & dirty hack for 4.0-Stable by Jason T. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The README for this thing is as follows: >This tarball contains a dumb hack to read and write DEC RX50 diskettes >under FreeBSD. It consists of two pieces,

Re: buildworld broken on globaldata.h

2001-12-12 Thread David Wolfskill
>Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 13:50:48 +0100 (CET) >From: Harti Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >PK>My buildworld breaks: >PK>[...] >This was broken by jhb's large commit yesterday to break globaldata in MI >and MD parts. The following patch to >gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/i386/kvm-fbsd.c let's you compile gd

Re: panic: kernel trap doesn't have ucred

2001-12-12 Thread Bruce Evans
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Georg-W Koltermann wrote: > I get a panic "kernel trap doesn't have ucred" when I try to install > Linux ORACLE 8.1.7. Looks like the trap handling for invalid segment registers on return to user mode is broken. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "u

Re: dhclient busted for -current?

2001-12-12 Thread Edwin Culp
This may explain my problem with the excite@home/attbi.com change over. According to them it is pure dhcp. Since it has always just worked when I needed it, I haven't really tested. ed Quoting Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Pierre Y. > Dampure" writes: > : A

Re: buildworld broken on globaldata.h

2001-12-12 Thread Harti Brandt
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: PK> PK>My buildworld breaks: PK> PK>[...] PK>/flat/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/i386/kvm-fbsd.c:52: machine/globaldata.h: No PK>such file or directory PK> PK>Any workarounds/fixes ? This was broken by jhb's large commit yesterday to break globaldata

Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-12 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
+---[ Terry Lambert ]-- | Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: | > | I can't argue with that; historically, IBM has never sued anyone, and | > | they were oh so happy to consider another license for the year I tried | > | to push for it for use in a FreeBSD based IBM product. Not.

Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-12 Thread Terry Lambert
Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > | I can't argue with that; historically, IBM has never sued anyone, and > | they were oh so happy to consider another license for the year I tried > | to push for it for use in a FreeBSD based IBM product. Not. > > Of course not, the GPL protects them from competit

RE: buildworld broken on globaldata.h

2001-12-12 Thread Alan Edmonds
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Poul-Henning Kamp > Sent: 12 December 2001 11:43 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: buildworld broken on globaldata.h > > > > My buildworld breaks: > > [...] > /flat/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/

Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-12 Thread Terry Lambert
Hiten Pandya wrote: > why would RMS sue, lets say me, for porting IBM's > piece of GPL'ed code to FreeBSD src/gnu. RMS wouldn't, not being directly involved. IBM might. I am a former IBM employee, of IBM GSB division (Global Small Business). I became an IBM employee when IBM bought Whistle Com

Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-12 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
+---[ Terry Lambert ]-- | | > Only the copyright holder can do this, what code of any significance has | > RMS contributed recently to this or any other project where this would be | > a consideration? | | I can't argue with that; historically, IBM has never sued anyone, a

Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-12 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
+---[ Poul-Henning Kamp ]-- | In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Kenneth Milt | on writes: | >+---[ Terry Lambert ]-- | >| | >| RMS has indicated a willingness to sue people distributing bipartite | >| distributions, where the linking is delayed

Re: Vinum write performance (was: RAID performance (was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c))

2001-12-12 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:22:05PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 December 2001 at 3:11:21 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > > striped: > > If you have 512byte stripes and have 2 disks. > > You access 64k which is put into 2 32k transactions onto the disk. > > Only if your software optimiz

buildworld broken on globaldata.h

2001-12-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
My buildworld breaks: [...] /flat/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/i386/kvm-fbsd.c:52: machine/globaldata.h: No such file or directory Any workarounds/fixes ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD si

Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-12 Thread Terry Lambert
Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: > +---[ Terry Lambert ]-- > | RMS has indicated a willingness to sue people distributing bipartite > | distributions, where the linking is delayed until installation to > | work around the letter of the GPL. Given his religious convictions, > |

Re: Hi,All

2001-12-12 Thread Terry Lambert
Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Liu Siwei wrote: > >I love FreeBSD! But.. Can it support CD-RW disc and Simplie Chinese > > Filename? A lot of files in CD-ROM that have Chinese name, how can i open it > > under FreeBSD? Oh...Oh > > What is the official name for Simplie Chinese codepage? If it is a

pam_ssh support for static PAM library

2001-12-12 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
Hi! There's a number of build problems exists with libssh, pam_ssh, and libpam triple. The major issue being that the static PAM library, libpam.a, doesn't currently support pam_ssh. There have been a semi-private discussion taking place between me and Mark Murray on the subject, and I've prepa

Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-12 Thread Hiten Pandya
hi, why would RMS sue, lets say me, for porting IBM's piece of GPL'ed code to FreeBSD src/gnu. What i will be doing (if the votes come out positive), will be exactly as how his law says... --- Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Andrew Kenneth Milt

Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Kenneth Milt on writes: >+---[ Terry Lambert ]-- >| >| RMS has indicated a willingness to sue people distributing bipartite >| distributions, where the linking is delayed until installation to >| work around the letter of the GPL. Giv

[OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-12 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
+---[ Terry Lambert ]-- | | RMS has indicated a willingness to sue people distributing bipartite | distributions, where the linking is delayed until installation to | work around the letter of the GPL. Given his religious convictions, | I can't see him *not*. Factor that

XF86 with agp.ko and mga.ko

2001-12-12 Thread Jun Kuriyama
I'm using XFree86-Server-4.1.0_2 and drm-kmod-0.9.4 with - module_path="/;/boot;/modules;/usr/local/lib/drm" agp_load="YES" mga_load="YES" linux_load="YES" - lines in /boot/loader.conf. World at 2001/12/10 is fine for me, but after installworld'ing of today's world (2001/12/12) my X se

Re: Motion for removal of xargs(1) from base system

2001-12-12 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:13:35PM -0800, Jackie 'business-first' Cook wrote: > There are days when people get tired with the lagacy code in the system - when > things of the past just have to go. Recently I got sick and tired with one of > those things. The command is, as you could have guessed f

Re: Hi,All

2001-12-12 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Liu Siwei wrote: > > Hi,All: >I love FreeBSD! But.. Can it support CD-RW disc and Simplie Chinese > Filename? A lot of files in CD-ROM that have Chinese name, how can i open it > under FreeBSD? Oh...Oh What is the official name for Simplie Chinese codepage? If it is a 1-byte charset, the