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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: re-entrancy and the IP stack.

2001-11-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
mechnaism, do *not* use mbufs for it. *cough* kthread_setspecific() *cough* kthread_getspecific() *cough* or just fix the code to pass this around as an extra paramter. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking

Re: re-entrancy and the IP stack.

2001-11-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
queue arguments. Ah, but you can't queue static variable either. :) -- -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.' http

Re: re-entrancy and the IP stack.

2001-11-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
, an extensable stack would be an interesting project but I doubt it would be as stable nor as fast as what we already have. -- -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: buildworld breakage during make depend at usr.bin/kdump

2001-11-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
painful, let's try to make do with it, if we disconnect the new awk I feel that we will keep repeating this cycle, basically each activation will see new problems requiring another disconnect. Let's just get it fixed. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece

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

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

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: 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: 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: Possible libc_r pthread bug

2001-11-30 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Louis-Philippe Gagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011130 15:57] wrote: If at first you don't succeed... I've encountered a problem using pthread_cancel, pthread_join and pthread_setcanceltype, I'm hoping someone can shed some light. Provide me with minimal sample code and a makefile and i should

Re: Fatal trap 12 on kernel from sometime Nov. 30.

2001-12-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Edwin Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011201 21:25] wrote: Andrew, Thanks. Now my problem is that I can't cvsup. Any ideas on how to update my sources? Maybe someone could email me a patch and I could take it over with a floppy. Right now I have no access to the network with the machine

Re: pmap_collect: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2001-12-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
to increase that in your kernel config. -- -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.' http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3

Re: write.c patch

2001-12-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* David Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011203 16:50] wrote: This patch was done on -CURRENT. It is both pasted and attached to this message. Which write.c is this to be applied to? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: HEADS UP: truss(1) out of commission

2001-12-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
me also state in the author's defense (Sean i think) that it's much easier to rewrite something that has already been written than to be the initial implementor and even though it looks like it's in for a rewrite one must congratulate him on a job that has lasted us so long. -- -Alfred Perlstein

Re: wi driver: firmware %i.%i problem?

2001-12-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I lost a flamewar to get %i added to kernel printf, it has been fixed. About your card, you may have luck checking your vendor's site for a firmware upgrade. Upgrading my cards (Addtron) really worked wonders. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software

Re: Possible libc_r pthread bug

2001-12-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
for cancellation (and other things) before returning to the threads interrupted context. No way to work around this? Shouldn't the thread exit library know which stack exactly to clean up even in the context of a signal handler? -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why

Re: Possible libc_r pthread bug

2001-12-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011204 11:45] wrote: * Dan Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011204 06:26] wrote: There are already cancellation tests when resuming threads whose contexts are not saved as a result of a signal interrupt (ctxtype != CTX_UC). You shouldn't test

Re: Possible libc_r pthread bug

2001-12-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Daniel Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011204 12:32] wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Dan Eischen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011204 06:26] wrote: There are already cancellation tests when resuming threads whose contexts are not saved as a result of a signal interrupt (ctxtype != CTX_UC

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

2001-12-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jackie 'business-first' Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 16:19] wrote: As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1), I propose implementing arbitrary length argument list passing right in the operating system. Nice proposal, where's the diff? Yours sincerly, Jackie

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

2001-12-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Brian F. Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 17:11] wrote: Brandon D. Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Jackie 'business-first' Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 16:19] wrote: As a replacement for the 'functionality' present in xargs(1

Re: Possible libc_r pthread bug

2001-12-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
-cancelflags PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS) != 0)) + cfl = curthread-cancelflags; + cfl = (PTHREAD_CANCEL_ASYNCHRONOUS|PTHREAD_AT_CANCEL_POINT); + if (cfl != 0) pthread_testcancel(); /* -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL

Re: Is this a bug in the fork() code?

2001-12-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
could have some good weed here... That's not possible, since the parent is waiting the kernel will not reparent unless the parent exits, which it doesn't because it's waiting for the child. You owe the Oracle a large bong rip. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece

Re: Is this a bug in the fork() code?

2001-12-18 Thread Alfred Perlstein
); then the parent process will hang and never return. Perhaps fork1() should return EINVAL if both flags are set. Good idea. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology, start asking why software is ignoring 30 years

Re: Swap not used *at**all*

2001-12-26 Thread Alfred Perlstein
swapping is really a bad thing to have happen on a loaded machine as it can result in a cascade failure. If you look in the archives for Matt Dillon's postings on cascade failure it will explain things a lot better. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece

Re: zombie linux processes remain

2002-01-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Mikhail Teterin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020108 15:06] wrote: Hello! I'm sure, this is a bug in the program itself (graphics/mtv v. 1.2.5), but can't we do something about it? Notice the parent process id: UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 105

Re: HEADS UP: module build process changed

2002-01-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020110 17:36] wrote: Questions and comments welcome. Looks really cool, nice job. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Panic mutex filedesc structure not owned at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_mutex.c:223

2002-01-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* David Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020114 08:57] wrote: Once more, with feeling (sorry, gang... :-(). CVSupped this morning (just before 4 AM, US/Pacific (8 hrs. west of GMT) from cvsup14. Booting yielded: Seigo Tanimura has a patch for this, just remove the extranious FILEDESC_UNLOCK

Re: new panic under -current

2002-01-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Michael Reifenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020114 11:47] wrote: Hi, a new panic while surfing under X: Can you cvsup and try to reproduce this? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Kernel panic... (was Re: Netatalk broken in current? Lock order reversal?)

2002-01-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
to it). Oh, has anyone else seen these panics as well? Just wondering... It would help if someone cc'd me on these. :P -- -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.' Tax

Re: Kernel panic... (was Re: Netatalk broken in current? Lock order reversal?)

2002-01-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020116 13:30] wrote: * Emiel Kollof [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020116 13:29] wrote: * Emiel Kollof ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: exclusive (sleep mutex) Giant (0xc0462c00) locked @ /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:1102 panic: system call pwrite returning

Re: Step7, Conclusion

2002-01-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dag-Erling Smorgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020121 12:20] wrote: Andrey A. Chernov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks to all, especially to Dag-Erling. Thanks to *you* for pointing out and explaining the issues, submitting patches, and reviewing and testing mine. I'm sorry we got off on such

Re: Panic in ufs_dirbad()

2002-01-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Maxim Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020124 13:44] wrote: Any ideas? This is a reasonably recent 5-CURRENT (last makeworld/makekernel 7 days ago). This may be fallout from my initial fdlocking work, please try an update or get a debug traceback and we'll see. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: lock reversal in fdalloc()

2002-01-31 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020131 09:42] wrote: Jan 31 18:27:29 gamplex kernel: lock order reversal Jan 31 18:27:29 gamplex kernel: 1st 0xc26ea034 filedesc structure @ ./@/kern/kern_descrip.c:925 Jan 31 18:27:29 gamplex kernel: 2nd 0xc031eca0 Giant @ ./@/kern/kern_descrip.c:959 %%%

Re: panic in vfs_syscalls

2002-01-31 Thread Alfred Perlstein
() at syscall_with_err_pushed+0x1b --- syscall (61, FreeBSD ELF, chroot), eip = 0x80a4677, esp = 0xbfbff75c, ebp = 0xbfbff9b8 --- 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

Re: panic in vfs_syscalls

2002-02-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
structure @ ../../../kern/vfs_syscalls.c:3573 first acquired @ ../../../kern/vfs_syscalls.c:998 panic: recurse I've just committed a fix, please let me know if it works for you. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s technology

Re: lock reversal in fdalloc()

2002-02-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020131 10:48] wrote: * Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020131 09:42] wrote: I'm not sure that releasing the lock here is safe, but other parts of fdalloc() do this. I don't think this is safe at a glance, I think it's only safe right before

Re: lock reversal in fdalloc()

2002-02-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
be able to take a swipe at it in a couple of weeks hopefully. -- -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.' Tax deductable donations for FreeBSD: http

Re: fstat dumps core

2002-02-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
at 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.' Tax deductable donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Panics in ffs_clusteracct with todays -current

2002-02-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020204 05:26] wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, John Polstra wrote: The kernel from today's current (CVSupped 3 Feb 2002 around 17:40 PST) can't stay up for more than a few minutes without getting a page-not-present panic at line 1815 of ufs/ffs/ffs_alloc.c

Re: Non 386 testers REALLY NEEDED

2002-02-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
of days of waiting for them to appear and give decent feedback usually just committing the code will bring out a horde of involentary testers which actually gets the code stabilized. This is current, we're allowed some breakage. Cross your I's and dot your T's first though. :-) -- -Alfred Perlstein

Re: Binutils fixed in -current?

2002-02-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
have a super recent world, I'm compiling one now and will let you know if it at least fixes that for me. -- -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.' Tax

Re: gcc3.x issues

2002-02-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
David. Yeah, whatever, don't we all feel better now? :) -- -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.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http

Re: gcc3.x issues

2002-02-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Nat Lanza [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020207 10:30] wrote: On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 12:59, Alfred Perlstein wrote: These comments are not useless, most committers have day jobs that unfortunetly preclude them from having time to work on every little feature request. Furthermore asking for patches

Re: Binutils fixed in -current?

2002-02-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Andrea Campi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020208 03:51] wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:35:39PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * David W. Chapman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020206 12:33] wrote: Does anyone know if the problem with kde and other programs not working with the new binutils

Re: Binutils fixed in -current?

2002-02-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020208 07:12] wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: If you do a pkg_deletew of mozilla and then nuke /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla then reinstall it the problem should go away. pgk_deelete is broken?!? I think what happens is people like me sometimes just install

Re: Non 386 testers REALLY NEEDED

2002-02-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
of days of waiting for them to appear and give decent feedback usually just committing the code will bring out a horde of involentary testers which actually gets the code stabilized. This is current, we're allowed some breakage. Cross your I's and dot your T's first though. :-) -- -Alfred Perlstein

Re: gcc3.x issues

2002-02-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
David. Yeah, whatever, don't we all feel better now? :) -- -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.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http

Re: ucred holding patch, BDE version

2002-02-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020211 15:00] wrote: In the current world, when the thread enters userland, it does: lock giant crfree() (which includes mutexes) unlock giant This isn't needed afaik. if there are ASTs it does this once again for each AST waiting as well. And on

Re: gcc3.x issues

2002-02-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Nat Lanza [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020207 10:30] wrote: On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 12:59, Alfred Perlstein wrote: These comments are not useless, most committers have day jobs that unfortunetly preclude them from having time to work on every little feature request. Furthermore asking for patches

Re: /bin/sh: Argument list too long when compiling LINT ...

2002-02-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
+ mkdep -a (-a for append). -- -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.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Ethernet tunnel device

2002-02-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Mark Santcroos [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020220 03:52] wrote: It was indeed a linux_compat specific resource cleanup issue. I managed to create a simple linux program that had the same problem. From there on it was easy... The problem was created by Alfred's locking commit of Jan 13. (No

Re: Ethernet tunnel device

2002-02-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020220 11:13] wrote: Mark Santcroos wrote: I managed to create a simple linux program that had the same problem. From there on it was easy... The problem was created by Alfred's locking commit of Jan 13. (No hard feelings, it helped me to

Re: FreeBSD Project management (was: Patch sets to date and timing tests with Giant out of userret.)

2002-02-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020220 18:26] wrote: I'm not picking on jhb here. This is the project's fault, not any individual's. We need some kind of project management to coordinate this effort, or the results will be seriously suboptimal. I would certainly not like to see dillon go

Re: Proposed patch for /bin/sh: Argument list too long when compiling LINT ...

2002-02-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Luigi Rizzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020221 15:14] wrote: So, in this thread a few days ago i reported that the list of arguments passed to mkdep can become quite large and exceed kern.argmax, especially if your sources are not in the default place and you are compiling a file with lots of

Re: Proposed patch for /bin/sh: Argument list too long when compiling LINT ...

2002-02-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Luigi Rizzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020221 15:47] wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 03:41:46PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Luigi Rizzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020221 15:14] wrote: So, in this thread a few days ago i reported that the list of arguments passed to mkdep can become quite large

Re: Proposed patch for /bin/sh: Argument list too long when compiling LINT ...

2002-02-21 Thread Alfred Perlstein
) doesn't have that functionality I will beat it into it with a lead pipe... Luckly I can across the option. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CA updated

2002-02-22 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020222 21:56] wrote: I've finally updated the ACPI CA codebase with Intel's 20020214 drop (yes, I tagged it 0217, my bad). Woo! Go Mike! -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

How to fix malloc.

2002-02-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
, we really don't have to worry about it when freeing small structures although that puts evilness into malloc(9) consumers. Can you please consider that instead of continueing down this path of per-subsystem caches? thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece

Re: malloc_bucket() idea (was Re: How to fix malloc.)

2002-02-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020223 14:43] wrote: This is approximately what I am thinking. Note that this gives us the flexibility to create a larger infrastructure around the bucket cache, such as implement per-cpu caches and so on and so forth. What I have here is

Re: malloc_bucket() idea (was Re: How to fix malloc.)

2002-02-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
within the next half hour or so, I just wanted to make myself clear on the issue. No worries. :) Yes, and hopefully JeffR's allocator will fix our problems, that is if it ever makes it out of p4. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using 1970s

Re: [Patch: clarity] Re: PNP0303 can't assign resources

2002-02-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020224 13:12] wrote: Try the following patch; the failure message will be somewhat less cryptic, since it will tell you the proximal reason for failure out of the 5 possibles for the message you are seeing. 8-). Cool explanation, the attached patch was

Re: libusb build broken due to structure member renaming

2002-02-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020224 14:33] wrote: hello, I've got a -current-related question to ask. akbeech forwarded me his build log when trying to build the linux user-land libusb from the port which I maintain (it is below). At first I said impossible because I'd tested things

Re: -current hangs with SMP enabled

2002-02-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Kenneth D. Merry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020224 16:56] wrote: I've got a SMP machine with a Supermicro P3TDE6 motherboard. (Serverworks HE-SL chipset, dual 1.26GHz Pentium III's.) It boots just fine with a GENERIC -current kernel (sources cvsupped yesterday at ~1500 MST), but hangs (at the

Re: DOS emulation

2000-08-01 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Piotr Wo?niak [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000801 08:21] wrote: Hi, I have to run programs in Clipper/DOS under FreeBSD. Does exist a good DOS-emulator or other solving of this problem? (for example compiling source code in Clipper under FreeBSD..) Maybe 'doscmd'? Let us know. :) -Alfred To

Re: ATA66 support

2000-08-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* j mckitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000802 06:38] wrote: A friend of a friend asked me to find out how ATA66 support was coming along. Is it still necessary to disable DMA or PIO settings for it to work? There's rumors of some "problem" chipsets, but afaik 66 has been working for quite some

Re: Ugly, slow shutdown

2000-08-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Stephen McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000805 08:49] wrote: Patch 2 is smaller and possibly controversial. Normally bufdaemon and syncer are sleeping when they are told to suspend. This delays shutdown by a few boring seconds. With this patch, it is zippier. I expect people to complain

Re: Ugly, slow shutdown

2000-08-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000807 01:25] wrote: * Stephen McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000805 08:49] wrote: Patch 2 is smaller and possibly controversial. Normally bufdaemon and syncer are sleeping when they are told to suspend. This delays shutdown by a few boring seconds.

Re: Ugly, slow shutdown

2000-08-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* David Greenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000807 23:15] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Greenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously the waker-upper knows that the condition is true. Otherwise the existing code which doesn't check wouldn't work. In the expensive cases the waker-upper

Re: [Fwd: Killing slapd on FreeBSD 4.1]

2000-08-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000815 10:39] wrote: Apparently, the threads library still hasn't been fixed? Follow the link for the patch. I'm testing the change now and I'll commit it soon. Index: Makefile === RCS file:

Re: Patch test review: vop_stdaccess()

2000-08-16 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000816 14:52] wrote: Please test and review this patch: http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/vop_stdaccess.patch Not tested, but looks good, I'd like to see it applied. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: panic: reducing sbsize: lost count, uid = 1001

2000-08-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
a feeling that this is related to missing spl protection around the chgsbsize subsystem, this was probably an issue before I touched it but since I touched it last I'll have a look-see. Brian, does that makes sense? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of

Re: panic: reducing sbsize: lost count, uid = 1001

2000-08-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000823 14:29] wrote: I have a feeling that this is related to missing spl protection around the chgsbsize subsystem, this was probably an issue before I touched it but since I touched it last I'll have a look-see. Brian, does that makes sense? So far

Re: panic: reducing sbsize: lost count, uid = 1001

2000-08-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000823 15:03] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John can you try this patch and let us know if you still experiance crashes? Will do. I'll let you know what happens. Let's take a more paraniod approach

Re: panic: reducing sbsize: lost count, uid = 1001

2000-08-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000823 15:39] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's take a more paraniod approach (back out my spl in chgsbsize): Index: uipc_socket2.c Nope, that doesn't fix it. I got the same panic on the very

Re: panic: reducing sbsize: lost count, uid = 1001

2000-08-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000823 15:55] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, that doesn't fix it. I got the same panic on the very first try. hmm, when does it happen? During the transfer or at the end of the transfer

Re: panic: reducing sbsize: lost count, uid = 1001

2000-08-23 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Brian Fundakowski Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000823 22:05] wrote: On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000823 14:29] wrote: I have a feeling that this is related to missing spl protection around the chgsbsize subsystem

Re: panic: reducing sbsize: lost count, uid = 1001

2000-08-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Archie Cobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000824 14:52] wrote: I don't know if this is related to the problems you guys are looking at, but I have a box that every so often (every couple of months) panics with a "panic: recieve 1" panic. This panic happens when the socket character count is bogus

Re: 1131 unneeded includes in the kernel...

2000-09-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000919 23:51] wrote: UNNEEDED #includes in the FreeBSD kernel agp_if.c sys/kernel.h [snip] These reports would be a lot more useful if you included the last person to touch these files along with the first line of the Copyright.

Re: Initial installation console

2000-09-20 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000920 12:46] wrote: Can the configuration for bootup and initial installation be configured to detect (and configure) a serial console. This would be very useful for rackmount systems. Yes, I know it can be done manually after the installation is

Re: 'interrupt-level buffer overflows' for sio device?

2000-09-24 Thread Alfred Perlstein
will arrive later). -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: interesting problem

2000-09-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
;go away"? Don't be rude to a developer offering good advice, if you're unable to follow his instructions on how to provide a crashdump you shouldn't be running -current or you should at least ask nicely. And -current is covered in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/current-stable.html

Re: interesting problem

2000-09-27 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Tony Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000927 18:26] wrote: OK Well Here is the issue. If I put in the 2 boot floppies I get a page fault 12 after I press Q for "quit" on the visual kernel config. If I can save a crash dump before any FS's are mounted or even before I tell FBSD where to put the

Re: interesting problem

2000-09-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
the automatic reboot??? Gdb anyone? Sure, send patches, follow my previous advice or simply piss off. jeez, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: interesting problem

2000-09-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
. I think without their application of knowledge and smack-down I wouldn't have learned nearly as much. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

Re: downgrade?

2000-10-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
then doing several 'make -k installworld' followed by a 'make installworld' to make sure it's all been installed then by building a kernel using the "make buildkernel" method described in src/UPDATING. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of

Re: downgrade?

2000-10-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Salvo Bartolotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001007 12:14] wrote: Original Message On 10/7/00, 12:13:28 PM, Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: downgrade?: * Philipp Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001007 04:08] wrote: hi! is it possible to downgrade a freebsd-current

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