RE: Hyperthreading and machdep.cpu_idle_hlt

2003-01-31 Thread Don Bowman
> From: Matthew Dillon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > :The cache and most of the execution hardware is shared. The > execution > :units can run something like 4 instructions per clock. If the "idle" > :logical core is in a spinloop, then it is generating instructions for > :execution, so you ar

RE: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode

2003-02-03 Thread Don Bowman
> From: Lucky Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > 1) Is there a way to prevent the FreeBSD kernel from ever > switching into > this different video mode, thus allowing me to continue to use the > built-in serial terminal? The machine is a headless server, I > don't care > if video works as long

RE: L440gx+ serial BIOS needs text mode

2003-02-03 Thread Don Bowman
> From: Terry Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... > > Anyway, it was a particular problem with the SuperMicro motherboards > with the AMI BIOS that's been the subject of the rest of this > discussion (i.e. the ones that kick out the escape sequence at the > end, for no good reason, except to s

problem with if_em and polling with RXSEQ interrupt? (and patch)

2003-02-28 Thread Don Bowman
In the if_em driver, it appears there is a possibility of a system crash when POLLING is enabled in conjunction with a link change. em_disable_intr leaves the RXSEQ interrupt enabled (which occurs when a link goes up or down). THe em_intr routine, when in polling mode, just returns (with the inte

using tip on machine that has COMCONSOLE set to serial

2003-09-16 Thread Don Bowman
This may be a dumb question, but I have a situation where machine A and B both have enabled serial console. I'm ssh'ing into A to try and debug a problem on B. I'm trying to use tip, but am getting interference from the fact that A also has a serial console. If i disable the getty, its a bit be

RE: using tip on machine that has COMCONSOLE set to serial

2003-09-17 Thread Don Bowman
From: Terry Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Don Bowman wrote: > > This may be a dumb question, but I have > > a situation where machine A and B both have > > enabled serial console. I'm ssh'ing into A to > > try and debug a problem on B. I'm trying t

RE: Bad performance

2003-09-17 Thread Don Bowman
From: sebastian ssmoller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > > i turned of acpi on startup an voila :) : gdm starts two > times faster as > before (!) (30s -> 15-17s) > > can anyone explain me why, pls ? I wonder how hot your processor is? perhaps ACPI is throttling the clock back, either duty cyc

RE: Why is em nic generating interrupts?

2003-10-09 Thread Don Bowman
From: Terry Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Michael O. Boev" wrote: > > I've got a [uniprocessor 5.1-RELEASE] router machine with > fxp and em nics. > > I've built my kernel with the following included: > > > > options DEVICE_POLLING > > options HZ=2500 > > > > and enabled p

dumb question 'Bad system call' after make world

2003-11-21 Thread Don Bowman
So i have a machine freshly installed from 5.1 mini iso. I did a cvs co of latest current sources, and accidentally did a 'make world' instead of 'make buildworld'. Now i just get 'Bad system call' when i try to do anything. i need to get the correct kernel on there, does anyone have a suggestio

RE: dumb question 'Bad system call' after make world

2003-11-22 Thread Don Bowman
From: Barney Wolff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 1:14 PM > To: Bruce Evans > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: dumb question 'Bad system call' after make world > > > On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:42:04PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Barney Wol

RE: What's changed relating to localhost then?

2003-11-22 Thread Don Bowman
From: Christian Laursen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Steve Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you telnet to 127.0.0.1 the system still believes you are > > coming from your public IP. Bizarre that. Other IPs don't act > > that way. My system has two public IPs and 127.0.0.1. If I > > telnet

serial console, inappropriate ioctl?

2003-11-22 Thread Don Bowman
I have a current system configured to use a serial console. I'm getting a 'login_tty /dev/console: Inappropriate ioctl for device' to the console every few seconds. bash-2.05b# cat /boot.config -Dh In /etc/ttys, i have set console as: console "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200" vt100 on secure

RE: Time jumping on both 4.x and 5.x ...

2003-11-29 Thread Don Bowman
From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 11:32:28AM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Content-Description: signed data > > On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:19, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > > Are all affected machines multi-processor? > > > > None. Both are i386

RE: Corrected gettimeofday() test code

2003-11-29 Thread Don Bowman
From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I forwarded the reports of timecounter problems to phk, and he asked > that people who are seeing timecounter problems provide FULL details > of their system configuration, including: > > * dmesg > > * kernel configuration > > * compiler options

awk versus gawk

2003-12-02 Thread Don Bowman
So it appears current has switched 'gawk' to 'awk'. These aren't 100% compatible, here's a little gotcha in case someone else runs into it: awk '{print var}' var='a b' works on 'gawk' (e.g. RELENG_4), but on current, will awk '{print var}' var='a b' awk: newline in string a b... at source line 1

RE: Dedicating an interrupt to a PC-Card slot

2002-10-17 Thread Don Bowman
> From: Kenneth P. Stox [mailto:stox@;imagescape.com] > > Well, I decided to have some fun and see if I could get a > Novatel Merlin > C-201 wireless modem running under FreeBSD. It seems I have run into a > bit of a roadblock. It appears that the C-201 will only speak, through > it's 16550 UAR

RE: crash with network load (in tcp syncache ?)

2002-11-02 Thread Don Bowman
> From: Galen Sampson [mailto:galen_sampson@;yahoo.com] > > Out of pure curiosity what is the reason that the Duke and > Rice patches were > never incorporated into the base system. If it really > enables the same machine > to provide 4 times the number of connections this seems like > it woul

RE: sysctl -a loops forever...

2002-12-12 Thread Don Bowman
From: Sean Chittenden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Anyone seen sysctl -a loop forever? I haven't been able to track down > the MIB that it's gettinng hung up on, but it looks like there's a > flaw in the algo that is walking through the MIBs. Given that this > halts the machine while trying to

RE: does the order of .a files matter?

2002-05-10 Thread Don Bowman
Order-dependency on the link command line has been common behaviour in linkers forever as far as I know. This includes the FSF GNU linker, as well as the system linker shipped with Unix systems. It is a useful feature, allowing one to insert other objects in front, e.g. to override 'malloc' with

RE: new zero copy sockets patches available

2002-05-18 Thread Don Bowman
> Andrew Gallatin writes: >> Kenneth D. Merry writes: >> > >> > I have released a new set of zero copy sockets patches, against -current >> > from today (May 17th, 2002). > > Hi Ken, > > I'm glad to see that you're still maintining this! > > Assuming the mutex issues get sorted out, what d