Doug Rabson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We don't need the lock prefix for the current SMP implementation. A lock
prefix would be needed in a multithreaded implementation but should not be
added unless the kernel is an SMP kernel otherwise UP performance would
suffer.
Modulo the issue of UP vs SMP
Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Although function calls are more expensive than inline code,
they aren't necessarily a lot more so, and function calls to
non-locked RMW operations are certainly much cheaper than
inline locked RMW operations.
This is a fairly key statement in context, and
Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:mode 1 17.99 ns/loop nproc=1 lcks=no
:mode 3 166.33 ns/loop nproc=1 lcks=yes
...
:This is a K6-2 350. Locks are pretty expensive on them.
Wow, now that *is* expensive! The K6 must be implementing it in
microcode for it to be that bad.
I
Hi Warner,
Without commenting on the need to have an emulator in the kernel,
doesn't -msoft-float work faster?
Yes it does. The kernel has to emulate an 80x87, giving you the
following sequence:
a) trap to kernel
b) decode FP instruction
c) fetch operands - possibly including copyin()
d)
cvs-cur 5518 breaks building libgcc with:
c++ -c -I/usr/obj/3.0/cvs/src/tmp/usr/include/g++ -O -pipe
-I/3.0/cvs/src/gnu/lib/libgcc/../../../contrib/egcs/gcc/config
-I/3.0/cvs/src/gnu/lib/libgcc/../../../contrib/egcs/gc
c -I. -fexceptions -DIN_GCC -I/usr/obj/3.0/cvs/src/tmp/usr/include
"Scot W. Hetzel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You'll also want to use:
make world -DWANT_AOUT=YES
to have the a.out libraries built.
You'll also need the a.out X11 libraries, and last time I tried,
they built OK, but wouldn't work.
Peter
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/usr/src/gnu/lib/libgcc/../../../contrib/egcs/gcc/cp/new1.cc:28:
/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/include/g++/exception:9: syntax error before string
constant
*** Error code 1
This is due to the Bison-Yacc change. I did builds of the
Alec Wolman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The version of tar that comes with freebsd (v1.11.2 with local
freebsd modifications) has a bug: if you attempt to copy large
files ( 2GB) it will silently truncate the large file.
...
There is a new version of gnu tar (v1.13) that has support for
large files.
Geoff Rehmet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sysctl -d needs fixing. :-)
No, sysctl -d needs _implementing_. I've looked into this myself.
I brought it up on -hackers in mid-February, and here in early June.
"sysctl -d" invokes sysctl({0,5,...},...) (sysctl.c:show_var()).
kern_sysctl.c documents
David Scheidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Almost all fast (12X or so) CD-ROM drives are variable speed.
To put this a different way, the data on CD's is stored at a constant
lineal density (closely related to the wavelength of the laser).
Audio CDs are read using constant-linear-velocity, the
Ian Whalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My card is identified as 3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL.
FWIW, I'm running a kernel about 30 hours old with a 3Com 3c905-TX
Fast Etherlink XL and I'm not seeing this problem.
At a quick quess, something in the miibus support broke the 3C905B
support.
I'm trying to build a `net' PicoBSD on a -current system and am
running into problems that appear to be inside make(1) (and how it
imports/exports/treats MAKEFLAGS).
I thought I'd try to shrink things by stripping the ISDN and RADIUS
support out of ppp (amongst other things), but ppp/i4b.c kept
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 02:39:23 +1000, Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(Judging by the headers, this item spent a couple fo days getting from
Chuck to hub).
This kind of thing, where there is no bug ... where the subject is a
request for a new feature, isn't this kind of thing the wrong way for
Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Jeremy wrote:
I appear to have two complete copies of gcc - one in src/contrib/gcc
and another in src/contrib/egcs/gcc.
src/contrib/gcc is where gcc used to live. Then along came egcs with a
cygnus-style tree that ended up in src/contrib/egcs (v1.1.1
to
-current using `make upgrade'. Why should I need to FTP a kernel
from another machine to go from 3.x to 4.x?
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. This increases the likelihood that it will break -stable.
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On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 09:20:53AM +1000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
At 12:59 PM 9/28/99 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 09:11:31AM +1000, Greg Lehey wrote:
Good software shouldn't panic.
I wish _I_ could convince some people of this :-(.
It can be difficult to consider what
special shellscripts with '#!/ibin/sh' or similar, or be
explicitly invoked (eg /ibin/sh foo). I don't think this is a real
problem.
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disk for /tmp. :(
Solutions:
1) Use -pipe
2) Don't use softupdates
3) Use a RAMdisk (eg MFS) instead of a physical disk (which makes the
previous point irrelevant).
I don't recall seeing anyone mention problems like this (though they
might be on lists I don't read).
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and softupdates - it to mount
/tmp async. Since you're going to blow it all away on the next
reboot anyway, it doesn't really matter if the a crash trashes the
FS (which is the major problem with async mounts).
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On 1999-Oct-06 11:33:51 +1000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On 1999-Oct-06 09:55:26 +1000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
I've seen softupdates nearly eliminate disk io for systems that used
an abmornal amount of temp files, but the fact that it can destabilize
sentence...
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#!/bin/sh?). Unless
you specify NOATIME, each of these read accesses implies an atime
update within the inode. Making these synchronous probably would
be a big performance hit.
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mount(2,8) and O_FSYNC in open(2) be noted. Only problem is that
O_FSYNC isn't documented :-(.
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nbufkv, but that was with 64k blocks. Other than that, I can't
find any reference to nbufkv here, in the PR list or in the sys
commitlogs.
Does anyone have any ideas? Should I just go back to 8K/1K blocks?
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On 1999-Oct-25 07:41:59 +1000, I wrote:
I've temporarily attached a Seagate ST32151N to a 1542B on a -current
system to try and setup the disk for another system. Unfortunately,
although the disk reports it is OK, I can't read or write.
I finally got it to work by disabling the SYNC negotiation
On 1999-Nov-03 15:59:38 +1100, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:Well, bootp in the kernel has to die too.
Huh? And replace it with what? BOOTP is the only way to get an NFS
root and swap.
Sun uses reverse ARP to do this. Reverse ARP _is_ a hack, but it _is_
an alternative to BOOTP.
Peter
To
On 1999-Nov-03 16:15:03 +1100, Mike Smith wrote:
On 1999-Nov-03 15:59:38 +1100, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:Well, bootp in the kernel has to die too.
Huh? And replace it with what? BOOTP is the only way to get an NFS
root and swap.
Sun uses reverse ARP to do this. Reverse ARP _is_
aging code and
device drivers associated with the paging devices could be made
pageable.
In fact, the above all sounds so obvious and simple that I wonder
if I'm missing something...
Peter
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On 1999-Nov-03 23:58:00 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are no new CTM-deltas on 'ctm.freebsd.org'
at least 22 hours.
The last e-mail delta I have is cvs-cur.5804, which arrived here at
0808UTC (about 5 hours before your message). I would have expected to
receive 5805 (or at least
On 1999-Nov-09 05:01:43 +1100, Luoqi Chen wrote:
+ "=D" (addr), "=c" (count) :
+ "r" (bsh + offset), "0" (addr), "1" (count) :
+ "%eax", "memory");
You may use "+D" and "+c" for the in-out operands,
"+D"
On 1999-Nov-09 09:53:44 +1100, Theo PAGTZIS wrote:
If there are bugs that are resolved in
3.3-STABLE then the 3.4-RC should entail NO new functionality even if this is
supplemental.
This (presumably) means that new functionality should only be
introduced at major releases (eg 3.0, 4.0 etc).
I'm trying to enable a generic ISA multiport SIO card in -current from
just before the signal changes and get presented with the above panic
when the first SIO port on the card is attached. Since it seemed to
be a problem with the resource allocation, I tried turning on
RMAN_DEBUG, but that just
On 1999-Nov-12 12:35:01 +1100, Mark Newton wrote:
Peter Jeremy wrote:
I'm trying to enable a generic ISA multiport SIO card in -current from
just before the signal changes and get presented with the above panic
when the first SIO port on the card is attached.
Well... the first port
On 1999-Nov-24 06:35:16 +1100, Kris Kennaway wrote:
o unsafe use of the str*(3) functions; strcat/strcpy/sprintf c.
I wonder how many instances of the potentially unsafe functions there are
in the source tree? :)
A 'grep | wc' equivalent over the source tree gives:
gets110
strcat
On 1999-Nov-24 09:26:26 +1100, David O'Brien wrote:
A 'grep | wc' equivalent over the source tree gives:
gets110
strcat 2860
strcpy 4717
strncat 167
strncpy1514
sprintf6839
vsprintf133
*ouch* :-)
This means nothing out of context. I hope we
On 1999-Nov-24 10:21:17 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a) This is what an unsafe function call looks like
Without checking a lot of the call context, it is very difficult
to categorically state that a particular function call is safe or
not. As an example, consider the following:
foo(const
Thanks to Marcel's latest Makefile.inc1 changes (1.92), a -current
buildworld running on an older -current system now progresses much
further - in fact it now completes :-).
There are, however still a few problems - as far as I can tell, these
are all related to the wrong version of perl being
On 1999-Nov-24 12:02:59 +1100, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
I don't see any reason, for
example, why anyone should still be using gets()
To take gets() as an example, of the 110 occurrences that gid found in
-current, the following files contain actual calls to gets() (rather
than declarations,
On 1999-Nov-24 15:33:14 +1100, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
I'd like to note something. Strcat isn't necessarily unsafe, and strncat()
isn't necessarily safe.
I wasn't implying that. In fact, I believe the semantics of strncat()
put it into the `hard to use correctly' category (or maybe
On 1999-Nov-26 05:09:20 +1100, Greg Lehey wrote:
I don't suppose it would be that big a deal to remove the old driver,
but what speaks against leaving it in the tree along with a comment in
the GENERIC config file saying "if you use antediluvial disk hardware,
you may prefer to use an old driver
On 2000-Mar-02 07:10:39 +1100, Lyndon Nerenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm too lazy to look right this second ;-) ... do atexit() functions get
run when a process takes (say) a segmentation fault?
Nope. If there's no userland signal handler, the process will never
return to userland after a
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Apart from my stupidness of not checking the location of the binary
first -- what did I do wrong, and what's the recommended way of
handling this? Am I supposed to rm /usr/bin/ssh each time I install a
new release or snapshot? I can't believe that.
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Apart from my stupidness of not checking the location of the binary
first -- what did I do wrong, and what's the recommended way of
handling this? Am I supposed to rm /usr/bin/ssh each time I install a
new release or snapshot? I can't believe that.
On 2000-Mar-07 06:29:17 +1100, Dave Boers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is rumoured that Arun Sharma had the courage to say:
Compiling Mozilla with make -j 2 got -current to lock up, twice in
succession. I'm running a fairly recent snapshot (a week or two old)
on a Dual celeron box (BP6) with
On 2000-Mar-08 13:55:45 +1100, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I also had to remove
/etc/ssh. Somehow, /usr/local/bin/scp seems to pick up data
from /etc/ssh and tries to invoke /usr/bin/ssh, no matter
what. :-(
I can't explain that. My installed-from-ports scp exec's
On 2000-Mar-06 21:39:11 +1100, Matthew Sean Thyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My computer had been stable all winter (with setiathome runnning full
time) but suddenly come the Australian summer it started freezing.
And it's been the coldest summer for something like 5 years...
How about these
On 2000-Mar-07 06:29:17 +1100, Dave Boers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is rumoured that Arun Sharma had the courage to say:
Compiling Mozilla with make -j 2 got -current to lock up, twice in
succession. I'm running a fairly recent snapshot (a week or two old)
on a Dual celeron box (BP6) with
On 2000-Mar-13 12:01:03 +1100, Paul Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
id = strtoul(p, (char **)NULL, 10);
if ((errno == ERANGE) || (id = UID_MAX)) {
warnx("%s max uid value (%lu)", p, UID_MAX);
return (0);
}
You can do this now. Just add the following:
pid_t
On 2000-Mar-10 12:06:18 +1100, Mikhail Teterin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Will the -current version of FreeBSD run on a multi-CPU axp machine and
use all of the CPUs?
Not yet, but Real Soon Now.
Would that be a reliable box (assuming the admin
sometimes knows what he is doing)?
-current
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:07:47 +1100, Paul Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Jeremy wrote:
You can do this now. Just add the following:
pid_t UID_MAX = ~0;
somewhere before the code.
I assume you meant uid_t,
Ooops, I did :-(. And this should probably be
uid_t
On 2000-Mar-13 14:45:16 +1100, John Birrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the linker gives me the weak symbol version which refers to
_thread_sys_nanosleep (i.e. the syscall), instead of the nanosleep
function in libc_r.
Out of interest, why does nanosleep appear in libc_r.a as a weak
symbol version
On 2000-Mar-07 05:35:04 +1100, Ian Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
my $packed = "\0\0\xc0\x7f";
print STDERR "len: ", length($packed), " bytes: ", unpack("H*", $packed), "\n";
my $float = unpack("f", $packed);
print STDERR "float done\n";
print STDERR "float: $float\n";
Looking at the resultant
On 2000-Mar-14 15:42:52 +1100, Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 05:28:47PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
...
#define isschar(type) (!isfloat(type) issigned(type) sizeof(type) == 1)
This is marvellous in it's
On 2000-Mar-16 15:04:00 +1100, Donn Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Basically, gcc is a very good compiler. But, it isn't exactly the
best compiler to use for optimization. Someone told me that Sun's and
DEC's compilers, for example, blow away gcc in terms of speed. But,
they aren't portable.
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 04:32:36AM +1000, Matthew Dillon wrote:
I can just see all the coolness seeping out. Now guys, we have to
have as a goal something at least as comparable as what IBM did
with one of their mainframes. Oh, say, lets shoot for being able to
run 4000 copies
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 12:50:51AM +1000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
What I'm calling for is a vote if we'll rely on this type of behavior
(32 bit stores being atomic with respect to readers) or not, or
perhaps to rely on it but mark it somehow so people can "fix it"
if the need arises later by
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 04:44:08AM +1000, David Gilbert wrote:
Also... I have noticed that several modules don't want to compile in
the kernel without -O, including kern_synch.c (undefined reference to
__cursig) and atomic.c (inconsistent operand constraints in an `asm').
I am aware of problems
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 06:43:03PM +1000, Omachonu Ogali wrote:
I don't know whether to hand this to -doc or here, so I'll take the risk
of here, patch simply adds comments to sysctl variables.
Before you get too enthusiastic about adding description strings to the
declarations, you might like
On 3/04, John Polstra wrote:
[don't allocate big structs on kernel stack]
Many years ago, I wrote a tool that analysed stack requirements by
parsing the assembler output from the compiler. It determined the
stack frame requirements and built a call flow graph to determine
total stack depth.
On 2000-Apr-14 22:49:40 +1000, Steve Ames [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's always struck me a bit odd... I thought 'MAKEDEV std' made
the generic set of devices and that 'MAKEDEV all' should make... well..
_ALL_. *shrug*
What do you define as `all'? Say I have a big FTP server with 8 wide
SCSI
On 2000-Apr-14 23:40:53 +1000, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Jeremy write
s:
Many years ago, I wrote a tool that analysed stack requirements by
parsing the assembler output from the compiler.
...
Commit it either as a general tool or as a kernel
On 2000-Apr-18 08:07:45 +1000, "Jordan K. Hubbard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As for the lists being tedious and long: I've sorted the content by
relevance, and it was my hope that over time they would shrink to
zero if we annoyed people enough with them.
I think that's too much annoyance,
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 09:48:18PM +1000, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
If that's the _only_ point, then Garrett Wollman's idea should work
perfectly. Stick the files under CVS, just agree that they should
never be revised, but rather that new versions should be imported in a
different directory and the
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:
OpenSSL includes asm code for several platforms to speed up various
operations. Currently we don't build any of this - the attached patch
turns on asm code for Pentiums and above (it relies on an uncommitted
patch to sys.mk which defined MACHINE_CPU
As one of the proponents of the change, my apologies for not taking
part in this thread earlier - I am way behind in my reading of most of
the lists.
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 11:11:42AM +1000, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Instead of using only alphabetic characters, the patch uses the following
character
On 2000-Jun-22 15:22:12 -0500, Chris Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it would be a very good idea to enable softupdates by default
when a new filesystem is created. Modify newfs to do this and use
tunefs only if you want to _disable_ softupdates on a filesystem.
My only concern with
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 08:46:40AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
That theory is not correct, I have seen multiple Alpha machines reporting
buffer underruns as well. No ATA disk in sight there..
I get the same thing on AS4000/AS4100 machines running Tru64. I'm
inclined to believe it's a design flaw
I am looking at moving various hosts from 4.x to 5.1 but have run into
a problem with my test machine. I've successfully installed
5.1-RELEASE (from CD) but want to rebuild the system to customise it
to its environment.
The machine in question does not have enough local disk space to hold
both
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:02:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A couple of times, now, on both FBSD-5.1-CURRENT and FBSD-4.8-STABLE whilst
running with 2MB of RAM, cvsup has croaked with the following error:
Out of interest, how do you get either 4.x or 5.x to run in 2MB? I
found running
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:54:10PM -0500, Chip Norkus wrote:
My company is working on a new hosting infrastructure, and I'd like to use
FreeBSD if possible, so any help at all would be greatly appreciated as
we plan to use these machines for some time.
Note that 5.x is not yet production
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:27:00AM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
I have a file .fsck_snapshot in /usr (of 7 GB ?!)
-r 1 root wheel 7220781056 Aug 22 18:08 .fsck_snapshot
The '7GB' does not mean you'll free up 7GB of disk space by freeing
it. IIRC, it's actually the size of the
I have a system running 5.1-RELEASE-p2 which is an NFS client of
another FreeBSD (4.x) machine. When I have the NFS mount via a VLAN
the system reliably hangs (no response to console, including
Ctrl-Alt-Esc). This is a default NFS mount (no options) and I am
trying to do a buildworld with
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:30:28AM +0200, YazzY wrote:
Isn't the ATAng code great?
It makes it affordable to get a 9007199253773098MB CF for the price of a
32 MB card.
Now I am taking backups of the internet on it.
:)
The old ATA code (in -stable) can only manage to expand my 3102MB disk
to
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:59:11PM +0200, Philipp Grau wrote:
Next problem is that /etc/rc.d/ntpd is evaluated before /etc/rc.d/devfs (see
the output of rcorder /etc/rc.d*) So the start of ntpd fails because it is
requires the devfs link. Ntpd likes to open /dev/refclock-0.
What should I do to
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 05:00:49PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
[re-ordering rc.d scripts]
This is a known shortcoming in the new rc system. Luke Mewburn
commented on it in a talk recently but does not yet have a
satisfactory solution.
Can you describe in more detail what you mean by this is a
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 02:52:29PM +0200, sebastian ssmoller wrote:
then i moved the disk from the hardware used during install into the
production environment which includes VIA 82C8363 (Apollo KT133A)
...
everything worked fine again. BUT: launching gdm needs a lot of time,
same for gnome2. when
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:13:09PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
Incidentally, if you are getting wrapping even without this, you can use a
serial console to capture the output. I've had to do this for doing nasty
ACPI debugging with lots of the options enabled.
For kernel spew, you can also increase
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:15:50PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
sebastian ssmoller wrote:
here is my lmmon output.
Motherboard Temp Voltages
255C / 491F / 528KVcore1: +3.984V
Vcore2: +3.984V
Fan Speeds + 3.3V: +3.984V
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:21:20PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
We'd like to get a new poll on the stability and readiness of 4.9.
Last night I upgraded my laptop and it hung partway thru the boot
(immediately after the pcm0: line in the dmesg below). Powering
it off and back on made it boot
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 06:35:12PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:21:20PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
We'd like to get a new poll on the stability and readiness of 4.9.
Last night I upgraded my laptop and it hung partway thru the boot
(immediately after the pcm0: line
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:54:06PM -0400, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
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Well, I didn't know somebody was patching it, so I started using the
following in ripit.pl (not exactly as below) instead of 'dagrab':
dd if=/dev/acd0t01 ibs=2352 obs=2048 | sox -t raw -r 44100 \
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:43:21PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
Perhaps 'The Complete FreeBSD' by Greg Lehey will help out.
Not any more. I removed that chapter from the book. The chapter's
available (also covers UUCP) if anybody wants it; just ask. But it
seems that Willem has already
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:39:12AM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
But PPP has the same problem:
the interfaces do not show up when listing them with 'ifconfig -a'
And trying to config it:
router# ifconfig sl0 1.2.3.4 4.5.6.7
ifconfig: interface sl0 does not exist
Try 'ifconfig sl0 create'
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:54:55PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
If your FXP is not generating any interrupts at all, i think that the polling
code in it is probably broken.
Is the polling code in -current different to that in -stable?
I have a system running 4.6-STABLE (or so) with DEVICE_POLLING
[This may get duplicated if my outgoing work e-mail gets fixed]
On 2003-Oct-16 11:29:36 -0700, Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Earthlink often sucks in terms of customer service. If they would
just designate a couple of common markers as known SPAM, the
problem would have gone away
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:45:21PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
I've noticed a lot of bad problems with Hynix memory lately; your
mileage may vary. At Whistle we had a problem with memory with Gold
contacts, and didn't have any problems with the ones with Tin.
A good rule of thumb is to make sure
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:13:27PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
After reading a FREENIX
paper this summer on a Linux ethernet console driver, I took a pass at
implementing ethernet console support for FreeBSD.
A very worthy cause. I'm sure this has come up before but I think
you're the first
[I'm a long way behind with my e-mail]
On 2001-Aug-12 14:22:00 +0200, Michael Reifenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
at least the linux emulation is missing some ipc functionality:
[SEM|SHM]_INFO [SEM|SHM]_STAT.
Whilst not Linux related, there's a lot of general SysV Semaphore
cleanup in PR
On 2001-Sep-21 10:45:42 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, this error may only be caused if:
1. The previous ``buildworld'' installed new headers in
${WORLDTMP}/usr/include.
2. The next ``buildworld'' was run with -DNOCLEAN.
(Only in this case ${WORLDTMP}/usr/include
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:26:37PM +1000, I wrote:
I have an old -CURRENT system[1] that can't do a buildworld any more,
even with the latest bsd.{prog,lib}.mk changes (1.101 and 1.98). I
delete /usr/obj before the buildworld, which writes off the above
scenarios. Is anyone else seeing
Sorry for mot responding sooner.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:27:58PM -0600, Jim Bryant wrote:
cc -c -g -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi
-nostdinc -I- -I. -I../../..
On 2001-Nov-22 11:26:19 -0800, Landon Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I do a make buildworld I get an error about an incomplete type for
field 'inc4_route'. I've read the /usr/src/UPDATING and found no real
references to this type of problem.
Am I jumping too far between 4.3-REL and
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 02:00:26PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
The following patch to replace the linear array (which it realocs if too
small)
(which it scans linearly) with a hash-table can makle a DRASTIC change
to how DU perfomrs for us in this environment.
Sounds good.
I must stress that
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