Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-28 Thread Julian Elischer
yeah but not a SINGLE person has said to not commit the patch to style(9) so I'm going to do it later tonight.. (It doesn't make extra braces MANDATORY but it does ALLOW them.) julian (if this doesn't bring some NEYs I'll be amazed..) On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > Beyond that it

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-28 Thread Julian Elischer
so far you are the first and only objector.. which makes you outnumbered by 10 to 1 on email counts.. On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > >yeah but not a SINGLE person has said to not commit the patch to style(9) > > Of course I object. > > >so I'm going to do it later tonight.. > > If

Re: Ideas?

1999-01-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, IdiotSwitch Editor wrote: > I can't code, so I wouldn't know how to implement these. Or even if it's > possible. > > Parallel device loading. I know that freebsd's boot sequence can continue > loading new devices while waiting for other devices to respond with irq's > and

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, John Polstra wrote: > In article , > Julian Elischer wrote: > > so far you are the first and only objector.. > > which makes you outnumbered by 10 to 1 on email counts.. > > Uh, votes last longer than 8 hours around here. You should give &g

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > style(9) is supposed to document KNF. It is not supposed to document > best coding practices, julian's preferences or bde's preferences. KNF is not a static thing that cannot be changed. KNF is in effect whatever is written in style(9). In case I hadn't

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 29 January 1999 at 16:26:53 +1100, John Birrell wrote: > > I'm sure they might. But they'd be wrong. I do believe that > maintaining a coherent style is a Good Thing. I just dislike the > particular style, but since it doesn't significantly

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-29 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > When it comes to code, do you not agree that the trained eye knows which > operators to seek to first in an expression? I can't think of an analogy > in the English language, since one doesn't "seek to" commas, one simply > reads from left to right.

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-29 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Giving folks the go-ahead to use parens as a form of documentation is > misguided and will end in tears. MHO. > Giving people the ability to quickly prove that the code matches the comments when they're upto their behinds in alligators is not going

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-29 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > if ((a < 0) && (b < 0)) > Personally while I KNOW (after wasting a second thinking about it) that the example below is the same as that above, I ALWAYS code as above. It takes me about 1/5th the time to know what it means. > if (a < 0 &&

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-01-29 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > of intelligibility. Consider one possible expansion > > if (((allocationfail | (IGNOREFAILUREMASK & (incount % BLKSIZE))) ^ failures) != 0) or if (((allocationfail | (IGNOREFAILUREMASK & (incount % B

KLD confusion..

1999-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
Take the following scenario: compiled in: module A kldstat -v shows module 'A' kldload A damned thing succeeds. e.g. [phaser.whistle.com] 516 kldstat -v Id Refs AddressSize Name 12 0xf010 1c8198 kernel.try Contains modules: Id Name 1 r

Re: Bug in piperd

1999-02-04 Thread Julian Elischer
I've been seeng lockups in 3.0 where as is in piperd, but the stack trace has always looked as if the problem was in soft updates or the syncer daemon.. Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Ha. I've been slowly reducing MAXMEM on my test box to force it to > swap more heavily running buildworld a

Re: Bug in piperd

1999-02-04 Thread Julian Elischer
Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : > :I've been seeng lockups in 3.0 where as is in piperd, > :but the stack trace has always looked as if the problem was in soft > :updates or the syncer daemon.. > : > > It's quite possible for as to be in 'piperd' when some other unassociated > crash occurs, s

Re: Floppy Tape Driver.....

1999-02-06 Thread Julian Elischer
OR, get teh changes needed (that were removed) from the fd driver.. (you can find them using the CVS web-pages) and the correct files, and get it all working again.. One of the problems was that there was no-one that the intersecting set of developers who could maintain the driver, and people wh

Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?

1999-02-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Judging by the traffic on it over the last year it's in use widely. On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Brian Handy wrote: > >I stumbled upon the (undocumented) gpib driver today - apparently for > >the "National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT board", according to > >LINT. Apart from staticization sweeps,

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-08 Thread Julian Elischer
I agree. having a DHCP client can make the difference between being able to get ont he net at all and not being able to get on the net. On 9 Feb 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Steve Kargl writes: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > If we want FreeBSD to have any credibility as a workstati

Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/

1999-02-09 Thread Julian Elischer
I'm not convinced that DHCP CLIENT needs to have everything wide open. It sends a broadcast, but the response is directed. On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > In article > <19990209082922.17759.qmail.kithrup.freebsd.curr...@rucus.ru.ac.za> you write: > >- DHCP-WIDE requires you to have

Re: How the hell does one create a new bus?!

1999-02-14 Thread Julian Elischer
The trouble is Doug, that until there IS a developer's guide, the only person capable if moving PCI and ISA to your scheme, is you. and as you pointed out.. you're short of time right now.. This stuff is very cryptic. On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > I hope I've explained some things.

Re: HELP: vm_fault

1999-02-15 Thread Julian Elischer
I'd move forward, not back.. take the 3.1 release that will be available in a day or so.. 3.0 was a bit experimental still. On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, T.D. Brace wrote: > > Can anyone give me a hand with this problem? Machines are dropping like > flies from this, one I haven't managed to get back at

Re: VM patch.. SMP and SO5.0

1999-02-16 Thread Julian Elischer
who's looked at this. It looks to me that this is serious stuff spliting the pmap out of the vmspace structure is a big change. caertainly a logical move but requires checking.. I guess it should be refered to the VM cabal. I presume that this is to be done in conjunction with the linuxthread

Re: SMP and SO5.0

1999-02-16 Thread Julian Elischer
I'm not sure why you need a different page directory for each processor. what's your thinking on this? You might add some comments in your patches so that if becomes more obvious what you are doing... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the

Re: SMP and SO5.0

1999-02-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote: > You may try my patch at http://www.freebsd.org/~luoqi, which would allow > linux threads to run on SMP. I've gone through these patches and I can see that they are really needed for SMP where address spaces are shared. There are details I didn't get, suc

Re: axp kernel breakage

1999-02-18 Thread Julian Elischer
huh? can you expand on this... On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:21:17 GMT, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > It should be fixed now. > > Thanks! Kernel's back down 100KB in file size. :-) > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd

Re: softupdate panic, anyone seen this? (fwd)

1999-02-18 Thread Julian Elischer
[Expanded audience] This is a generic problem with the present VFS system and also with some specific parts of FreeBSD. There is "bleed-over" of all sorts of parameters from filesystems and devices that they are mounted on and devices that are sourced from them. (e.g. blocksizes etc.) luckily at

Re: mount -o union broken recently?

1999-02-25 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, John Polstra wrote: [...] > > Here, you did the union mount on top of an existing mount point (da1). > I don't know for sure, but I suspect that this is the only case in > which union mounts are designed to work. I was led to believe (last time I read the code) that any di

Re: mount -o union broken recently?

1999-02-26 Thread Julian Elischer
you want to commit? (after you sir...) julian On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, John Polstra wrote: > In article , > Tony Finch wrote: > > Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > > >i just experienced the above today while trying diskless, and while > > >ls only seems to return the entries for the topmost directory,

Re: mount -o union broken recently?

1999-02-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, John Polstra wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > you want to commit? > > > > (after you sir...) > > No, really, after you ... :-) Done in 3.1 and 4 julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Request for review: changes to if_vlan.c

1999-03-03 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, John Polstra wrote: > In article <18961.920316...@critter.freebsd.dk>, > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > > > For some reason, some people around our camp-fire, have a hard time > > understanding that compiletime enumeration of potential options > > is a concept that died

Re: ATA not quite peachy

1999-03-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Oi! If you have softupdates on the LS120 drive, be aware that soft updates has been known to have odd behaviour with some drive types (e.g. IDE drives in 1-(non-multiblock) block mode, and floppy drives. I wouldn't be surprised if LS120 drives had the capacity to confuse softupdates.. julian On

Re: Device FS?

1999-03-03 Thread Julian Elischer
FreeBSD has had a devfs that is not genrally useful for over 2 years. The code to make it useful was removed from the tree due to various reasons that can be argued ither way. I haven't had the inspiration to re-write it as it needs to be changed to take into account some new developments in FreeBS

Re: Device FS?

1999-03-04 Thread Julian Elischer
oh yeah.. also check out SOFT UPDATES http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/contrib/sys/softupdates/ On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Shawn Leas wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 01:13:08AM -0600, Shawn Leas wrote: > > I heard (or thought so) a long time ago that FreeBSD > > had a devfs like filesystem.

Re: NFS Troubles Continued.

1999-03-05 Thread Julian Elischer
Is this on 4.x or 3.x? Matt Dillon has been working on softupdates/NFS interactions. if 4.x then he has changes that may help all this.. some will be back ported to 3.x when I get to it.. julian On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, RT wrote: > Yesterday being daring I installed SoftUpdates. Works great local

Re: 4.0-19990311-SNAP bootblock install weirdness

1999-03-12 Thread Julian Elischer
I had the same problem.. I had to reinstal the old booteazy off a backup before my system would boot again. I have booteasy on dsk0, and used fdisk -b on dsk1 after installing hte new bootblocks (3stage). It stopped booting and nothing I could do woul dmake it boot till I manufactured a new bootea

Re: Checklist for testing new -4.x kernels ( -current ).

1999-03-14 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Exceptions are made for people who really know what they are doing, verses > only think that they know what they are doing :-) > > * Do not use any loadable modules, compile the needed modules into the > kernel directly. To double

Re: repeated ufs_dirbad() panics on 4.0-c

1999-03-16 Thread Julian Elischer
Mikhail A. Sokolov wrote: > > Hello, > > we're experiencing repeated 4.0-C (as of today, something around 12:00 > GMT, 1999-03-16) ufs_dirbad() panics, which are the > following (below), which usually occur when squid is running. The box > doesn't have ccd, nor vinum nor anything fancy in it's c

Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ???

1999-03-17 Thread Julian Elischer
sth...@nethelp.no wrote: > Amen. > > > > Does this mean ata disks won't come under CAM/da ? > > If not, can we PLEASE rename SCSI disks back to ``sd''? > > Agreed. I see no justification for the sd -> da change if > the ATA disks won't (eventually) be included. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Status of 'tee' firewall action

1999-03-29 Thread Julian Elischer
Unfortunatly the 'tee' option is quite a bit more complicated than it looks.this is because teh normal way that packets get to divert sockets and the way it'd have to get there from a 'tee' are kinda incompatible. It can be done but it's just not quite as straight forward as it first appears.. ju

Re: nfs_getpages: error 4, vm_fault

1999-03-29 Thread Julian Elischer
You might try instrumenting nfs/nfs_bio.c to find where the EINTR is coming from. If it's reproducible then you should be able (with a few reboots) to track it back quite a distance. julian On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 mest...@visi.com wrote: > > Greetings, > > I am running two machines with current f

Re: support for larger memory

1999-03-30 Thread Julian Elischer
Kelly Yancey wrote: > > Time and time again we have all seen people get bit in the rear because > BSDI compatibility was broken. Broken for a good cause, mind you, because > FreeBSD seemed to lose a little of that "power to serve" when it died > horribly on newer servers :) > So, the good news

Re: support for larger memory

1999-03-31 Thread Julian Elischer
One presumes that the BSDI binaries fail without the diff? :-) julian On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Thomas Stephens wrote: > John Polstra wrote: > >In article <199903302319.paa43...@apollo.backplane.com>, > >Matthew Dillon wrote: > >> > >> Has anyone tried implementing the %ebx solution yet? >

Re: SMP users (important)

1999-04-02 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > Now, if you're not using Luoqi's patches to enable multithreaded > address spaces, you can stop reading here. If you are, you'll > need to patch i386/i386/swtch.s as follows: My suggestion is that we apply Luoqi's %fs patch to -current rather than have t

Re: kernel panic

2002-12-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Peter Schultz wrote: Are you actually using IPV6 or do you have IPV6 on your network segment? It'd be nice to know wheich modules are loaded at 0xc04a0a74, 0xc04a0b20 and 0xc04a0e51. There is some way to make gdb know abouth the modules too but I haven't kept up with it.

anyone using the ng_fec node?

2002-12-27 Thread Julian Elischer
I have some changes to make to this node and would like to find someone who can test them. Julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Jail detection

2003-01-03 Thread Julian Elischer
We have some software we'd like to behave slightly differently if it is in a jail. What methods do people use to detect they are in a jail? procfs/curproc might work but I don't want to depend on procfs. ps aux can be used but seems rather heavyweight. Something like a sysctl would be best. I cou

Re: Jail detection

2003-01-03 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ju > lian Elischer writes: > > > >We have some software we'd like to behave slightly differently if it is > >in a jail. > > > >What methods do people use to detect they are in a jail? > >procfs/curproc might work but I

Re: troubles with realplay-er

2003-01-04 Thread Julian Elischer
me too On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > This Linux program used to work well, but now it crashes (with SIGABRT) > some URLs, such as > > pnm://rm.content.loudeye.com/~iii-600111/0255135_0101_00_0002.ra > pnm://rm.content.loudeye.com/~a-600111/0631342_0103_00_0002.ra >

Re: pthread ^T problem on recent -CURRENT: death in libc_r mutex

2003-01-05 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Robert Watson wrote: > > Updating to Jan 4 kernel generates the same failure mode for me: following What makes you think it's the kernel? > a ^T, I get a core dump. If I run it outside of gdb and then run gdb on > the core dump, I get the following: To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Geom disklabel/fdisk issues?

2003-01-13 Thread Julian Elischer
I think that one of the things we need to do is declare a new flag in disklabel that declares that the disklabel has been converted to use relative offsets. if the flag is not set then absolute offsets are expected.. That would give a way for us to move forward while still allowing partitions to c

Re: Geom disklabel/fdisk issues?

2003-01-13 Thread Julian Elischer
I agree with that too. On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ju > lian Elischer writes: > > > >I think that one of the things we need to do is declare a new flag in > >disklabel that declares that the disklabel has been converted to use > >relative offset

Re: Geom disklabel/fdisk issues?

2003-01-13 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, walt wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Julian Elischer writes: > > > >>I think that one of the things we need to do is declare a new flag in > >>disklabel that declares that the disklabel has been converted to use > >>relati

Re: (FWD) cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha trap.c vm_machdep.csrc/sys/ddb db_ps.c src/sys/i386/i386 critical.c exception.s genassym.ctrap.c vm_machdep.c src/sys/ia64/ia64 trap.c vm_machdep.c src/sys/kerninit_main.c kern_clock.c kern_exec.c kern_exit.c kern_

2003-01-26 Thread Julian Elischer
or simply check out the newer sources. On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, David O'Brien wrote: > For those trying to actually get some FreeBSD work done today, one may > avoid this commit by: > > cd /sys ; cvs up -D '2003/01/26 03:40:00 PST' > > > - Forwarded message from David Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: (FWD) cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha trap.c vm_machdep.csrc/sys/ddb db_ps.c src/sys/i386/i386 critical.c exception.s genassym.ctrap.c vm_machdep.c src/sys/ia64/ia64 trap.c vm_machdep.c src/sys/kerninit_main.c kern_clock.c kern_exec.c kern_exit.c kern_

2003-01-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:05:31PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > or simply check out the newer sources. > > Looking at the commit you made, it doesn't seem to address the other > issues of the commit this

last KSE changes

2003-01-28 Thread Julian Elischer
Unfortunatly, due to a misunderstanding, the last KSE changes were committed prematurely. Not prtematurely from a functional Point of View, but prematurely from a perspective of 'checking other architectures'. The rumour mill has been running wild on this but **AS FAR AS I KNOW** the breakages ha

Re: Profiling kills -current?

2003-01-30 Thread Julian Elischer
hmm first I've heard of it but I'll check.. (david's offline for a week) On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Robert Watson wrote: > > Looks like recent commits may have broken profiling of user applications; > or rather, it's also causing the kernel to crash. I suspect (but have not > confirmed) it was the

Re: Profiling kills -current?

2003-01-30 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: > hmm first I've heard of it but I'll check.. > (david's offline for a week) > > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Robert Watson wrote: Wow that was impressive.. not even a message on the serial console.. Am digging.. To Unsub

Re: Profiling kills -current?

2003-01-30 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > hmm first I've heard of it but I'll check.. > > (david's offline for a week) > > > > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Robert Watson wrote: > &g

Re: last KSE changes

2003-01-31 Thread Julian Elischer
Your sources are way out of date.. specifically I think it looks like sys/proc.h is not being updated.. On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Philip Paeps wrote: > On 2003-01-28 11:24:41 (-0800), Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The rumour mill has been running wild on this but **A

Re: Hyperthreading and machdep.cpu_idle_hlt

2003-01-31 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > >> AT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,,ACC> > >> > >> It has HTT set but it's only a 1.2GHz box and I heard somewhere that only > >> 2+ GHz P4's had hyperthreading. I noticed some MFCs to stable that > >> suggested hype

Re: Hyperthreading and machdep.cpu_idle_hlt

2003-01-31 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 31-Jan-2003 leafy wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:45:56PM -0500, Trish Lynch wrote: > >> I have the .dat's for you, unfortunately, the output is different, so > >> you'll have to modify the .cfg for gnuplot :) > >> > >> -Trish > > I have HT

Re: Hyperthreading and machdep.cpu_idle_hlt

2003-01-31 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 31-Jan-2003 Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > > > >> >> AT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,,ACC> > >> >> &g

Re: Cisco vpnclient

2003-01-31 Thread Julian Elischer
what is the protocol they are using? On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > Cisco is offering a VPN client for Linux. I wonder if it would be possible > to run this under FreeBSD. An extra linux kernel module is being built. > Is this already the 'ruled out'? > > If this won't work

hold off on commits

2003-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
I'm trying to generate and commit a correct backout of David's changes. but since I have to synthesise the backout patch from cvs and check it could people refrain from updating the following files? I believe this is the complete set that are involved. (if you know of any others let me know) alph

split out patch

2003-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
I'm working on backing out david's patch. Part of his megacommit was a patch that should ahve been separatly handled. I have split it out.. Can people have a look at it and see if it makes sense. http://www.freebsd.org/~julian/lock.diff basically locks need to be per thread but were per proces

end of hold-off

2003-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
I've reverted the patch in question. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: split out patch

2003-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
still no comments? this patch seems to be working, but a review from another developer would be good.. particularly re: the point mentionned.. On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: > > I'm working on backing out david's patch. > > Part of his megacommit was a patch

Re: split out patch

2003-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ju > lian Elischer writes: > > >still no comments? > > Julian, you sent this out a few hours ago, after people had spent > a lot of time and getting quite frustrated trying to get you to > DTRT with your mentee's ina

Re: Style fixups for proc.h

2003-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
I don't know about the protection with a '_'. It's not standard and usually the name matches that used in the actual function. It's certainly not part of style(9) that I've ever noticed and it's generally noy done that way.. is there a move to do this on all the other files? On Sat, 1 Feb 2003,

Re: Style fixups for proc.h

2003-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Mark Murray wrote: > > Why not fix the compiler & lint instead of cluttering up > > declarations? > > Can we at least get proc.h to have a consistent style of > function parameter usage? Sure. let's be consistent with all the other .h files in the kernel. what does a quick

Re: split out patch

2003-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 10:47 AM -0800 2003/02/01, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > still no comments? > > > > this patch seems to be working, but a review from another developer > > would be good.. particularly re: the point mentionned.. >

Re: split out patch

2003-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Brad Knowles wrote: > > > At 10:47 AM -0800 2003/02/01, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > still no comments? > > > > > > this patch seems to be working, but a

did the backout solve anything?

2003-02-01 Thread Julian Elischer
In an attempt to understand where and how the last KSE patch may have been broken, I'd like to know if there is anyone who had a system "magically cured" by the backout. (Assuming you had the 'ticks' patch beforehand). If so, can you tell me what your system was doing wrong beforehand, and wha

Re: make buildkernel failure

2003-02-03 Thread Julian Elischer
read "UPDATING" and look for teh paragraph about the new scheduler options. I disagree strongly with needing an option to keep the current scheduler.. I think no option should give teh default scheduler.. after all, you need one... On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Nick H. -- Technical Support Engineer wrote

Re: Preview: GEOMs statistics code.

2003-02-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > Now, discussion time: > > The timestamps cost something to make, and my plan was to only collect > them while a monitoring program is running. (Is this a good idea ?) > probably it is a good idea though it does lead to the possibility of

vnode locking question.

2003-02-05 Thread Julian Elischer
Is there ever a case when a vnode is locked for longer than the duration of the syscall that locked it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

RE: vnode locking question.

2003-02-06 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 05-Feb-2003 Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > Is there ever a case when a vnode is locked for longer than the duration > > of the syscall that locked it? > > Shouldn't be. That would be a bug I believe. Userl

Re: vnode locking question.

2003-02-07 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Hiten Pandya wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:53:08AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote the words in effect >of: > > > > > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > > > > On 05-Feb-2003 Julian Elischer wrote: >

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Attila Nagy wrote: > Hello, > > > > I'll try to reproduce the thing on my machine as soon as possible. > > > Perhaps it was just because it was Monday, who knows... > > Meanwhile I found out that my problem is 100% reproducible. > Since then, I contacted Kirk McKusick, who

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-10 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Attila Nagy wrote: > Hello, > > > > I also gave him access to our machine, which has a 1.2 TB filesystem > > > on it. > > I have a 1.9TB FS about 4 km from him.. > That's great! > Could you please contact him? (do you also have this problem, BTW?) He also has a login on t

Re: Does bg fsck have problems with large filesystems?

2003-02-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Attila Nagy wrote: > Hello, > > > He also has a login on the machine for testing but it's turned off at > > the moment I'll turn it on again if he asks. > I've already sent him a mail. BTW, is a simple login (I mean, for example > ssh) enough for this task? I would think at

Re: FEC with ng_fec.ko on 5.0-RELEASE

2003-02-13 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Barkley Vowk wrote: > So I've upgraded my cluster to 5.0-RELEASE, everything is running fine, so > I move the fileserver to 5.0-RELEASE, everything is fine. I attempt to > configure the fileserver to use the 4 network cards in a fec bundle, this > blows up unhappily. > > I

resource usage overflow

2003-02-16 Thread Julian Elischer
In the resource usage we have teh following values calculated.. longru_ixrss; /* integral shared memory size */ longru_idrss; /* integral unshared data " */ longru_isrss; /* integral unshared stack " */ in statclock

Re: resource usage overflow

2003-02-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > 3/ would 64 bits be enough? We are getting both bigger and faster > > 64000 times faster and 64000 times bigger and we are back at seven > > seconds. 640 times faster and 640

question on profiling code

2003-02-16 Thread Julian Elischer
In addupc_intr, if the increment cannot be done immediatly, the addres to increment the count for is stored and the increment is done later at ast or userret() time... is there any reason that the address of the PC needs to be stored? why is the address from the frame at that time not useable?

Re: question on profiling code

2003-02-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > In addupc_intr, if the increment cannot be done immediatly, the addres > > to increment the count for is stored and the increment is done later at > > ast or userret() time... &

Sparc assembler quesion...

2003-02-17 Thread Julian Elischer
anyone have an answer? Index: sparc64/sparc64/exception.S === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/sparc64/sparc64/exception.S,v retrieving revision 1.59 diff -u -r1.59 exception.S --- sparc64/sparc64/exception.S 26 Jan 2003 03:38:30 -

Re: Sparc assembler quesion...

2003-02-17 Thread Julian Elischer
oh yeah I also tried line 2319 as lduw as well (my guess) On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: > > anyone have an answer? > Index: sparc64/sparc64/exception.S > === > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/

KSE status at end of Sunday

2003-02-17 Thread Julian Elischer
A busy day, saw myself, jon and Jeff working on varous tasks. We have the meat of signal delivey to threads in place (work by Jon and Jeff) though there may be soem corner cases to work out. We ahve also reapplied David Xu's patches (with soem minor exceptions in the profiling code that I amstill

Re: multithreaded binaries dump core in linux emulation

2003-02-18 Thread Julian Elischer
Linux has changed their threading ans is adding some threading 'support' into the kernel. It is unlikely that our emulation supports that support yet. it would certainly be nice to know what they are doing.. On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Enache Adrian wrote: > I'm using a very recent FreeBSD-current ( ~

config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
I have just gone through the process of upgrading or installing several hundred machines, and Thst includes altering or editing many config files in /etc. I like the way that rc.conf is handled, in that defaults/rc.comf can be updated and only the local changes live in r.conf. I wish that more fil

Re: config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < >said: > > > What would be really cool is if more config files could > > do 'includes' so that you could have a syslogd.local.conf > > wher eall your local entries could be. In addition you could make it > > look in /usr/local/etc/syslogd.conf fo

Re: config files and includes.

2003-02-20 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, John De Boskey wrote: > - Julian Elischer's Original Message - > > > > I have just gone through the process of upgrading or installing several > > hundred machines, and Thst includes altering or editing many config > > files in /etc. I like the way that rc.conf > >

Re: Removal of netns

2003-03-04 Thread Julian Elischer
I thought nwfs used it? On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Tim Robbins wrote: > Is there a compelling reason why I shouldn't remove netns? That is, does > it serve a purpose now that it could not serve if it was moved to the > Attic? > > > Tim > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsub

Re: Bluetooth stack for FreeBSD

2003-03-06 Thread Julian Elischer
yes as soon as we get some +ve feedback about it.. i.e. if it works for you let us know and af we don't hear anything -ve and do hear +ve, we'll commit it :-) (Or rather I'll commit it for Maksim). On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Christian Brueffer wrote: > > Are there any undertakings on the way to update

Re: a question about FreeBSD

2010-08-27 Thread Julian Elischer
On 8/26/10 10:10 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:07:11PM +0800, ccuiy...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all: A quick question about the FreeBSD. In my lab, there is a multicore machine and i install a FreeBSD system on it. I wonder to know how to see the utilization for

Re: gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

2010-09-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/17/10 4:45 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: Hi. My company was in need for functionality similar to nextboot(8), but on boot loader level, so we can have two partitions we boot from where one is known to be good and the other is used for upgrades. We upgrade by dd(1)ing entire partition imag

-current under Xen

2010-09-26 Thread Julian Elischer
After bruce C gave me the hint of kern.eventtimer.periodic=1, I was able to boot -current on my vps at rootbsd.com, but it hangs on reboot.. some time before the unmounts as the file systems need to be cleaned on the next successful boot. Has anyone had any experience with this? unfortunately

Re: MAXCPU preparations

2010-09-27 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/27/10 8:26 AM, Sean Bruno wrote: Does this look like an appropriate modification to libmemstat? Sean //depot/yahoo/ybsd_7/src/lib/libmemstat/memstat.h#4 - /home/seanbru/ybsd_7/src/lib/libmemstat/memstat.h @@ -28,12 +28,13 @@ #ifndef _MEMSTAT_H_ #define_MEMSTAT_H_ +

Re: Hang near end of kernel probes since r213267 (likely earlier)

2010-10-03 Thread Julian Elischer
On 10/3/10 6:14 AM, David Wolfskill wrote: On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 02:52:19PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 03/10/2010 14:28 David Wolfskill said the following: [snipped] Can't you just drop to DDB prompt and examine where the threads are? Eh -- thanks for the reality check; I needed that. :

Re: FYI: USB 3.0 support and the XHCI driver is now fully committed to FreeBSD-current

2010-10-05 Thread Julian Elischer
On 10/5/10 2:58 PM, Mark Atkinson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/05/2010 11:39, Mark Atkinson wrote: On 10/05/2010 10:09, Mark Atkinson wrote: Root mount waiting for: usbus3 usbus0 [hang, waits forever...] Well reverting to r213377 exhibits similar behavior, so I

don't forget the open source storage summit 25th -27th SF bay area

2010-10-15 Thread Julian Elischer
FreeNAS will be there.. if you are going to be there, show the flag! http://nexenta-summit2010.eventbrite.com/ Julian ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any ma

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