kernel panic in -current, ithread or newcard related ?

2001-04-15 Thread Jesper Skriver
About every other time I boot my IBM ThinkPad 600E I get this panic (hand typed, as I don't have a second machine here to be able to use a serial console). Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode Fault virtual address = 0x28 Fault code = supervisor read, page

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-15 Thread Matt Dillon
: : I notice that this option is off by default. Can you give a general idea :of when it should be enabled, when it should be disabled, and what bad :things might result with it on? : :Thanks, : :Doug There's no downside, really. The directory cache is so tiny without it that you

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Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-15 Thread Peter Wemm
"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > > I notice that this option is off by default. Can you give a general > >idea of when it should be enabled, when it should be disabled, and what bad > >things might result with it on? > > It consumes a full page per-directory even though the majority of > directori

Typo in src/release/Makefile, rev 1.161 (PATCH INCLUDED)

2001-04-15 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
There is a small typo in src/release/Makefile rev 1.161; not 'kernel', but 'KERNEL' is correct. -- - Makoto `MAR' MATSUSHITA --- Makefile.dist Mon Apr 16 10:02:01 2001 +++ MakefileMon Apr 16 10:02:52 2001 @@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ make KERNEL=${KERNEL} DESTDIR=${RD}/

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-15 Thread Matt Dillon
:It is my understanding that with the new directory layout strategies, this :will be improved somewhat. ie: a single page is much more likely to cache :up to 8 directories. : :Cheers, :-Peter :-- :Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] :"All of this is for nothing if

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-15 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>There's no downside, really. It just seems inelegant to have a system that, on paper, is so inefficient. Can't we do better? -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Failed using CD-ROM as root filesystem

2001-04-15 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
I've tried to use (bootable) CD-ROM as root filesystem (I want have this because it's good alternative of fixit.flp), but it seems that GENERIC kernel doesn't understand where is root filesystem. What I did are: - make a 2.88MB boot floppy image, which contains: * GENERIC kernel (gzippe

FIO* doc added to tty.4 (review)

2001-04-15 Thread John W. De Boskey
Hi, I've been doing some tty related work and found the FIO* requests don't seem to be documented. I've added some reasonable doc to tty.4 and put up the the diff and html forms: http://people.freebsd.org/~jwd/doc/tty.4.html http://people.freebsd.org/~jwd/doc/tty.4.diff Any comments a

Re: FW: Filesystem gets a huge performance boost

2001-04-15 Thread Matt Dillon
: :>There's no downside, really. : :It just seems inelegant to have a system that, on paper, is :so inefficient. Can't we do better? : :-- :Justin I don't consider it inefficient. Sure, if you look at this one aspect of the caching taken out of context it may appear to be inefficie