Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-07 Thread John S. Dyson
Arun Sharma said: bread ffs_read ffs_getpages vnode_pager_getpages vm_fault --- slow_copyin ffs_write vn_write dofilewrite write syscall getblk finds that the buffer is marked B_BUSY and sleeps on it. But I can't figure out who marked it busy. This looks like the

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-07 Thread Brian Feldman
One of the problems that would make it sensible to do a complete rewrite of vfs_bio.c is this? Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) |

Re: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-07 Thread Morten A. Middelthon
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Jake Burkholder wrote: I spent most of the day recompiling X and what not. All the patches applied cleanly, there are some rejects with MESA, but I think that has to do with tags and comments at the beginning of files. Everything compiled fine, and the module loads,

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-07 Thread John S. Dyson
One of the problems that would make it sensible to do a complete rewrite of vfs_bio.c is this? Specifically for that reason, probably not. However, if the effort was taken as an entire and encompassing effort, with the understanding of what is really happening in the code regarding policy

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-07 Thread John S. Dyson
Brian Feldman said: In the long-standing tradition of deadlocks, I present to you all a new one. This one locks in getblk, and causes other processes to lock in inode. It's easy to induce, but I have no idea how I'd go about fixing it myself (being very new to that part of the kernel.)

Strange kernel messages

1999-06-07 Thread Alexander Maret
Hello, I got the following kernel messages. Does anybody know what caused this messages? Is this the first sign of upcoming problems? Jun 5 21:05:01 mail /kernel: 128 v_inactive_target R *Handler Int Jun 5 21:05:01 mail /kernel: 129 v_inactive_count R *Handler Int Jun 5 21:05:01 mail

panic at FIONREAD ioctl() may be due to syscall()

1999-06-07 Thread swjeong
I am using FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE I met panic. Panic occured at FIONREAD ioctl(). I found it was called at rdchk() at rbsb.c in lrzsz 0.12.16 packages. Before panic, there was kernel warning message --- b_to_q to a clist with no reserved cblocks. Is it related ? Following is gdb output for core

Re: Extra text modes via vidcontrol...

1999-06-07 Thread bush doctor
Quoting Kazutaka YOKOTA (yok...@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp): [snip, snip] Are you sure you enabled options VM86 in the kernel configuration file and loaded the vesa module by the boot loader? Hmmm ... When I added options VM86 to my kernel config file I get: su-2.02# config BANTU

Re: Extra text modes via vidcontrol...

1999-06-07 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
Are you sure you enabled options VM86 in the kernel configuration file and loaded the vesa module by the boot loader? Hmmm ... When I added options VM86 to my kernel config file I get: su-2.02# config BANTU BANTU:135: unknown option VM86 Unknown option used - it is VERY important that you do

Re: wfd.c and ATAPI Zip

1999-06-07 Thread Junichi Satoh
My thoughts now are: 1) My two drive are somewhat 'rogue' in that they don't conform to the driver's expectations. 2) When the driver was written, the '!strcmp' should be 'strcmp' since strcmp returns 0 when equal (-1 or 1 when or ), in which case my patch makes sense: ---

Re: Extra text modes via vidcontrol...

1999-06-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Kazutaka YOKOTA yok...@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp writes: su-2.02# config BANTU BANTU:135: unknown option VM86 Unknown option used - it is VERY important that you do make clean make depend before recompiling Kernel build directory is

Re: wfd.c and ATAPI Zip

1999-06-07 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Junichi Satoh wrote: Hmm... I have an ATAPI ZIP drive: wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI/23.D, removable, intr, iordis wfd1: medium type unknown (no disk) wfd1: buggy Zip drive,

egcs - kernel?

1999-06-07 Thread Christoph Kukulies
What is the status of the EGCS compiler WRT kernel build? (And world build in general?) -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies k...@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: egcs - kernel?

1999-06-07 Thread Chris Costello
On Mon, Jun 7, 1999, Christoph Kukulies wrote: What is the status of the EGCS compiler WRT kernel build? (And world build in general?) It's been working great for ages in -CURRENT. I don't know how it may handle in -STABLE, though. -- Chris Costello

Re: Extra text modes via vidcontrol...

1999-06-07 Thread bush doctor
Quoting Dag-Erling Smorgrav (d...@flood.ping.uio.no): Kazutaka YOKOTA yok...@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp writes: su-2.02# config BANTU BANTU:135: unknown option VM86 Unknown option used - it is VERY important that you do make clean make depend before recompiling

linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-07 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Could one say that Linux vs. FreeBSD kernels are conceptually different what task scheduling, queueing, interrupt handling, driver architecture, buffer caching, vm etc. is concerned? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies k...@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Multilingual Installer for 3.2-RELEASE (Re: pccard boot.flp...)

1999-06-07 Thread HOSOKAWA Tatsumi
In 199906060553.oaa24...@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp I wrote, Thank you. Now I'm working on updated sysinstall messages. I'll send the URL of message.lt_EN, *.TXT, *.hlp files to translate when I finished this work. I want translators to other languages. I finished updating indices of

Re: wfd.c and ATAPI Zip

1999-06-07 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
Here is a patch that checks for the revision numbers instead of simply the inquiry string (and adds my buggy revision): --- wfd.c.orig Thu Feb 18 17:06:08 1999 +++ wfd.c Mon Jun 7 12:02:25 1999 @@ -243,17 +243,21 @@ return -1; /* -* The IOMEGA ZIP 100, at

RE: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-07 Thread Alton, Matthew
Yes, quite. -Original Message- From: Christoph Kukulies [SMTP:k...@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de] Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 10:59 AM To: hack...@freebsd.org Subject: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different? Could one say that Linux vs. FreeBSD kernels are

Q: xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped!

1999-06-07 Thread Anthony Bourov
Hi, I am running a FreeBSD server, and I am running into this problem very often. The machine stops responding and instead outputs 1000s of xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped! xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped! xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped! xl0: no memory

Re: Multilingual Installer for 3.2-RELEASE (Re: pccard boot.flp...)

1999-06-07 Thread HOSOKAWA Tatsumi
In article 199906071600.baa09...@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp hosok...@itc.keio.ac.jp writes: Currently, following binary package is compiled with English, Japanese and Korean support. As a result of increased size of boot.flp, Japanese and Korean support is now merged again into the same boot.flp

question about Pacific Sierra HPF

1999-06-07 Thread Ilia Chipitsine
Hi, anybody here knows what is it about ? /usr/home/ilia/test-hpf hpf hello.f90 Pacific-Sierra Research VAST-HPF V5.1C 23:17:54 6/ 7/99 HPF programhello /home/ilia/fortran-cd/vast/vhpf_linux/lib//libvhpf_pvm.a(envnproc.o): In function

Re: Q: xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped!

1999-06-07 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Anthony Bourov had to walk into mine and say: Hi, I am running a FreeBSD server, and I am running into this problem very often. The machine stops responding and instead outputs 1000s of xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped!

help with I/O optimization with object

1999-06-07 Thread Zhihui Zhang
While studying the file ufs_readwrite.c, I see routines like uiomoveco() that calls vm_uiomove() in vm_map.c. I am almost sure that these are new in FreeBSD 3.x. The comment in ffs_read() says not a VM based I/O requests == not headed for the buffer cache. This does not make sense to me

Re: wfd.c and ATAPI Zip

1999-06-07 Thread Mike Smith
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Junichi Satoh wrote: Hmm... I have an ATAPI ZIP drive: wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI/23.D, removable, intr, iordis wfd1: medium type unknown (no disk) wfd1: buggy

Re: wfd.c and ATAPI Zip

1999-06-07 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Mike Smith wrote: 12.A, 21.*, and 23.* are known to be buggy...13.A doesn't appear to be. Since the current method of sorting out the revisions doesn't seem to be perfect, would it be acceptible to consider them all buggy unless known not to be (i.e. compare

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-07 Thread Arun Sharma
Christoph Kukulies k...@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de writes: Comments from someone who's studied Linux for a while and has started studying FreeBSD only recently. Could one say that Linux vs. FreeBSD kernels are conceptually different what task scheduling, queueing, interrupt handling,

Re: wfd.c and ATAPI Zip

1999-06-07 Thread Mike Smith
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Mike Smith wrote: 12.A, 21.*, and 23.* are known to be buggy...13.A doesn't appear to be. Since the current method of sorting out the revisions doesn't seem to be perfect, would it be acceptible to consider them all buggy unless known not to be (i.e. compare

Re: wfd.c and ATAPI Zip

1999-06-07 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: I have an off-brand (NEC) Zip Drive with: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy/12.A which does have buggy firmware; I also have another one with: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI/13.A that has no problem when I remove the 64 block limitation.

netiso tree (fwd)

1999-06-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
-Alfred -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 15:23:57 -0400 From: Spud Taylor ornery_...@yahoo.com To: freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Subject: netiso tree We have been using Free BSD and BSDI since 1992. There was a descision to eliminate the netiso and netccitt

Re: netiso tree (fwd)

1999-06-07 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Alfred Perlstein scribbled this message on Jun 7: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 15:23:57 -0400 From: Spud Taylor ornery_...@yahoo.com To: freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Subject: netiso tree We have been using Free BSD and BSDI since 1992. There was a

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
... what version of the operating system? -Matt : In the long-standing tradition of deadlocks, I present to you all a new one. :This one locks in getblk, and causes other processes to lock in inode. It's :easy to induce, but I have no idea how

Re: netiso tree (fwd)

1999-06-07 Thread Andy Doran
The 'netiso' and 'netccitt' trees are still included in NetBSD. - ad On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 15:23:57 -0400 From: Spud Taylor ornery_...@yahoo.com To: freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Subject: netiso tree We

Re: help with I/O optimization with object

1999-06-07 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: While studying the file ufs_readwrite.c, I see routines like uiomoveco() that calls vm_uiomove() in vm_map.c. I am almost sure that these are new in FreeBSD 3.x. The comment in ffs_read() says not a VM based I/O requests == not headed for the

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-07 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: ... what version of the operating system? -Matt 4.0-CURRENT : In the long-standing tradition of deadlocks, I present to you all a new one. :This one locks in getblk, and causes other processes

Re: Strange kernel messages

1999-06-07 Thread Brian Feldman
I don't know why it's there, but that seems to be the sysctl tree. Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-07 Thread Howard Goldstein
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 18:38:51 -0400 (EDT), Brian Feldman gr...@unixhelp.org wrote: : On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: : ... what version of the operating system? : 4.0-CURRENT 3.2R too... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the

Session leader releasing the ctty

1999-06-07 Thread Eugene M. Kim
Hello, I'm having a trouble programming a special login shell, and would like to hear any opinions on this. I want this shell (which automatically becomes a session leader) to release its ctty but remain unterminated (the ctty must be taken by its child). However, there seems to be no easy way

Re: Session leader releasing the ctty

1999-06-07 Thread Julian Elischer
you might look to see if 'screen' (in ports) has something that does this when it disconnects from a session. (just an idea) julian On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Eugene M. Kim wrote: Hello, I'm having a trouble programming a special login shell, and would like to hear any opinions on this. I

kernel panic maybe due to VM instability in 3.1R

1999-06-07 Thread Jeong Sung Won
I am using FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE I met panic. Panic occured at FIONREAD ioctl(). I found it was called at rdchk() at rbsb.c in lrzsz 0.12.16 packages. Before panic, there was kernel warning message --- b_to_q to a clist with no reserved cblocks. Is it related ? Following is gdb output for core

Re: Multilingual Installer for 3.2-RELEASE (Re: pccard boot.flp...)

1999-06-07 Thread CHOI, Junho
HT == HOSOKAWA Tatsumi hosok...@itc.keio.ac.jp writes: HT Now, the Current Translation Status is: HT --- HT JapaneseKorean HT

Re: sgmlformat making release

1999-06-07 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I too see this type of failure until I can download the appropriate distfiles into /usr/ports/distfiles... The file /etc/resolv.conf is copied from /etc to the chroot area and is probably ok. I typically find that my upstream domain name server is not responding correctly when this

Re: Session leader releasing the ctty

1999-06-07 Thread Brian Somers
Hello, I'm having a trouble programming a special login shell, and would like to hear any opinions on this. I want this shell (which automatically becomes a session leader) to release its ctty but remain unterminated (the ctty must be taken by its child). However, there seems to be no

Re: Multilingual Installer for 3.2-RELEASE (Re: pccard boot.flp...)

1999-06-07 Thread HOSOKAWA Tatsumi
In article 86r9nn8nzl@hamhae.wdb.co.kr c...@wdb.co.kr writes: It means that I should update my messages.ko_KR translation after last translation? And, what is the meaning, almost okay? Sorry, I added many message ID's yesterday. The new message.lt_EN can be found in the translation kit.