Re: ATAPI CDROM trouble

2000-01-14 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 14-Jan-00 Soren Schmidt wrote: > Dont define this until you know the drive is functioning otherwise, > LOTS and I mean LOTS of atapi devices dont do DMA even if advertised. Would it be possible to implement this as something like a 'quirk list'? ie list known good (or bad) drives and enabl

What's wrong with this picture?

1999-09-12 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
last pid: 548; load averages: 2.94, 2.55, 2.30up 0+01:05:36 00:14:35 64 processes: 4 running, 60 sleeping CPU states: 50.4% user, 48.2% nice, 1.2% system, 0.2% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 81M Active, 18M Inact, 18M Wired, 5004K Cache, 11M Buf, 1108K Free Swap: 200M Total, 1624K Used,

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

1999-09-12 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 12-Sep-99 Mike Smith wrote: > What's wrong is that you're being stupid. Bah > Come on, you know better than that. The % totals are averages over the > last sampling period, while the CPU number just indicates the last CPU > that the process ran on. Hmm.. > It wasn't - I thought yo

RE: arplookup 127.0.0.1 failed: could not allocate llinfo

1999-01-17 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 19-Nov-99 Luoqi Chen wrote: > configured. Under BSD4.4, there's no need to add such a route, it will be > automatically generated by the kernel. So the simplest solution to this > problem is to delete all `route add xxx 127.0.0.1' statements from the > script. Any chance of getting that c

RE: modules in ports

1999-12-03 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 03-Dec-99 Nick Hibma wrote: > Has anyone ever devised a good way to put a module in a port? Well the skip port creates a module.. > Maybe it is the more general question of how to relate modules to > other parts of the base system, like the kernel, downloadable firmware > files, etc. Ur

SMPng panic message

2000-09-21 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
Hi, When I boot an SMP kernel (updated 2 days ago) I get the following panic message -> panic: cpu_switch: chooseproc returned NULL cpuid = 0; lapic_id = db> tr Debugger(..) panic(..) sw0_3(2,c03876f8,0,0,0) at sw0_3 msleep(c038f958,0,30,c03890dc,64) at msleep+0x235 random_kthread(c038

RE: Linux devel doesn't work with glibc libs

1999-02-03 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 03-Feb-99 Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > When trying to link, it complains about libc.os.6 vs libc.so.5. This makes > life rather difficult when trying to test glide programs against my version > the /dev/3dfx driver. Can someone commit the RedHat dev system (m

RE: DoS from local users

1999-04-11 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 09-Apr-99 Dmitry Valdov wrote: > cat > qqq > echo $$ > echo ~/qqq|~/qqq|~/qqq|~/qqq|~/qqq > > Ctrl-D > > ./qqq > > Is there Any way to fix it? Give your users process limits. ie change the login class they use so it restricts the maximum number of processes they can run. --- Dani

SMP & APM

1999-05-05 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
Hi, Has anyone tried having APM and SMP in the same kernel? It panic()'s mine :) Basically the machine panics a few seconds after I do 'apmconf -e'. apm seems to return normal values though. I've attached a sample output from APM, dmesg and my kernel config. I get a trap 12: page fault in kernel

Re: SMP & APM

1999-05-05 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 05-May-99 Luoqi Chen wrote: > > Also, nm kernel.debug | sort shows that 0xc0208a4c is in Xbpt > Are you sure it's in Xbpt? Xbpt has only 6 lines of code and none of them is > likely to generate a page fault. What's the address of symbol Xbpt? Yeah, well, it didn't look likely to me either bu

Re: SMP & APM

1999-05-05 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 05-May-99 Luoqi Chen wrote: > My SMP vm sharing commit broke APM. Please try out this patch, That patch seems to have fixed it! Great stuff :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so

Re: FTP passive mode - a new default?

1999-05-26 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 26-May-99 Nick Hibma wrote: > Is there a list of pro-/cons- available? > > - it is slower, but by how much and on which types of lines (low/high > latency, low/high bandwidth)? > > - any (windows) tools not supporting it? Well funnily enough some servers won't allow passive mode, and I

Re: Anybody working on dset utility for ELF?

1999-05-28 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 29-May-99 Jan B. Koum wrote: > Uhm.. I thought that is what /sbin/kget does, no?! It would appear so (I didn't even know kget existed :) But it isn't in any .rc files, so presumably it isn't automagic. Presumably it would be trivial to add though, ie have 'kget /boot/kernel.conf' somew

RE: What is MTRR all about???

1999-06-04 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 04-Jun-99 bush doctor wrote: > Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled, default memory type is uncacheable > > What is MTRR? Using the web based cross referencing tool I came up with MTRR's are a way to tell the p

Re: What is MTRR all about???

1999-06-05 Thread Daniel J. O'Connor
On 05-Jun-99 bush doctor wrote: > No man page yet. No horrors tho'. Man pages and info files are great, > but there's nothing like reading through the sources ... #;^) Well given that the source contains help information its not a bad problem.. I think the author is a tad busy at the moment :