Re: optimizing apache with php and nfs mounts

2001-03-14 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:51:19PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Well... when you 'gzip -9' something, it just takes longer, it doesn't sometimes corrupt your data (afaik). Hmm. gzip seems to be pretty good about those things. I guess it's one of the few GNU programs to be that way. :^)

Re: optimizing apache with php and nfs mounts

2001-03-14 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:19:31AM -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote: However, even the pgcc web page describes -O2 as safe. I won't even to there... Yes, scanning thru the ML leads me to believe some of these optimizations are pretty much untested. Which is kinda funny, since the ia32 bits are

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-14 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [20010310 01:00], Lyndon Nerenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Perhaps a first step towards leaning on the vendors for documentation is to publically declare our support for those vendors who *do* release documentation under reasonable terms. One way to do this is to acknowledge those vendors

OP make import?

2001-03-14 Thread Koster, K.J.
Dear All, In the interest of a unified BSD ports tree, is anyone working to integrate the diffs for the make from openpackages into the FreeBSD codebase? Kees Jan You are only young once, but you can stay immature all your life. To

Re: ecc kld for FreeBSD 4.2

2001-03-14 Thread Chris Dillon
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Chris Sears wrote: THANKS! and compliments on your name. It was a quick and simple port to see if people were interested. I've sent it to the author/maintainer Dan Hollis but I haven't gotten a response yet. He has an email list on Yahoo/Groups and there is occasional

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-14 Thread Dennis
At 06:35 AM 03/14/2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: -On [20010310 01:00], Lyndon Nerenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Perhaps a first step towards leaning on the vendors for documentation is to publically declare our support for those vendors who *do* release documentation under reasonable

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010314 08:14] wrote: A better strategy would be to welcome ALL vendors AND binary distributions (who may release source under NDA if they chose) so that the best products could be available for FreeBSD without the adversity of the "geek-revolution" that you

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-14 Thread Dennis
At 11:32 AM 03/14/2001, you wrote: Dennis wrote: At 06:35 AM 03/14/2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: -On [20010310 01:00], Lyndon Nerenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Perhaps a first step towards leaning on the vendors for documentation is to publically declare our support for those

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010314 09:21] wrote: At 12:09 PM 03/14/2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010314 08:14] wrote: A better strategy would be to welcome ALL vendors AND binary distributions (who may release source under NDA if they chose) so that the best

Re: systat -vmstat or iostat IO help

2001-03-14 Thread Matt Dillon
:It will use all available memory for disk caching if possible, but it :only caches things you've accessed at least once so I would say you :simply haven't accessed more then 650MB or so worth of file data. : :Is it correct to say that cached file data (file content) :is taken into

aout assembler: anybody still cares about it?

2001-03-14 Thread Ariff Abdullah
greet. anybody? I end up compilling kde2.1 on 2.2.x with few strange sigsegv from the aout assembler. I took the hint and try to repeat the same manner using 4.x and -CURRENT Seems like it's deal with pic generated code. ( /usr/libexec/aout/as , using gcc-2.95.2 and egcs-1.1.2 ) I already fix it

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-14 Thread Nate Williams
You cant strong-arm companies into making their intellectual properly rights publicly available. its a losing argument. Strange, in that it worked for a number of video-card vendors when XFree86 either dropped support and/or never supported the card in question. Nate To Unsubscribe: send

Re: ecc kld for FreeBSD 4.2

2001-03-14 Thread Chris Sears
Mike (and Paul) I'm fixing this so that it doesn't use the 2.x PCI compatibility interface; there's a lot of other real ugliness in here, some of which is probably worth throwing out. I'm not exactly sure what you meant here. Do you mean the pci_readcfg calls? I thought they were low-level

Re: OP make import?

2001-03-14 Thread Michael Lucas
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:46:16AM +1300, Dan Langille wrote: On 14 Mar 2001, at 13:23, Koster, K.J. wrote: In the interest of a unified BSD ports tree, is anyone working to integrate the diffs for the make from openpackages into the FreeBSD codebase? I think people might be waiting for

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-14 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:37:34AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: ALL the time. Microsoft has given the UC-Davis security and formal verification lab a multi-year grant to look at this problem. (the approach being researched is "model checking") How does one get the forms for these sort

Upgrade gone BAD!

2001-03-14 Thread Michael Aronsen
Hey not sure this is the right list but here we go: bladerunner:~ $ftp ftp.freebsd.org Bad system call (core dumped) keeps comming with most commands after i used the 4.1-REL - 4.x-STABLE upgrade kit - any ideas how to salvage this system ? Michael Aronsen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-14 Thread Dennis
At 02:31 PM 03/14/2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: -On [20010314 17:38], Dennis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 06:35 AM 03/14/2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: That's what Soeren and me did. HighPoint was very forthcoming with documentation and as part of that synergy they put

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-14 Thread Dennis
At 01:47 PM 03/14/2001, you wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:09:15AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: how many times does windows crash because of poorly written drivers rather than flaws in the core OS? (*) ALL the time. Microsoft has given the UC-Davis security and formal verification lab

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-14 Thread Dennis
At 02:31 PM 03/14/2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: -On [20010314 17:38], Dennis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 06:35 AM 03/14/2001, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: That's what Soeren and me did. HighPoint was very forthcoming with documentation and as part of that synergy they put

Re: optimizing apache with php and nfs mounts

2001-03-14 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:58:40AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: I won't even to there... Well, the only reason I mentioned it.. was that the pgcc folks don't seem to be too delusioned about the dangers. -ON (N 2) is regarded as at least possibly in danger of generating incorrect code. Not

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-14 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:41:53PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: With 2000 and above, your system will check for non-digitally signed dll's and etc. Being signed has nothing to do with correctly working. The project I was speaking about wanted to be able to do something about you buying that

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-14 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:51:14PM -0500, Dennis wrote: Why would they need to do that? Every time you load a program it updates the libraries, breaking older programs. Its a philosophical problem. You dont need a grant to figure it out. You JUST DON'T GET IT [academic research]. And any

Re: optimizing apache with php and nfs mounts

2001-03-14 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:12:41PM -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote: Not untested -- but you should go grab a graduate text on compiler optimizations and familiarize yourself with the complexity of the problem. Care to recommend any starting places. You've piqued my interest.

Parallel Programing in FreeBSD

2001-03-14 Thread das
Hi, i'm trying to do some programming on freebsd and i can't find 'asm/io.h'. this must be for security reasons. so how do i talk to the parallel port? Thanks, Dave Seddon here's the really simple bit of code i'm trying to use: #include stdio.h #include unistd.h /* needed for

Re: Parallel Programing in FreeBSD

2001-03-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010314 16:11] wrote: Hi, i'm trying to do some programming on freebsd and i can't find 'asm/io.h'. this must be for security reasons. so how do i talk to the parallel port? Thanks, Dave Seddon Generally it's a good idea to use "man -k" with

Re: Parallel Programing in FreeBSD

2001-03-14 Thread Mike Smith
Hi, i'm trying to do some programming on freebsd and i can't find 'asm/io.h'. this must be for security reasons. so how do i talk to the parallel port? See /usr/share/examples/ppi, and the ppi(4) manpage. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals

device driver dev. book

2001-03-14 Thread Jerry Toung
Hi Readers, Does anyone of you know about a book that would deal specifically with FreeBSD device drivers dev.? If yes let me know. Most of the books in the field are written for Linux and so on. Thanks. Jerry. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers"

Needs some autoconf + pthread + etc. clue

2001-03-14 Thread Doug Barton
I'm trying to reduce the number of patches in one of my ports, but neither I nor the author of the software knows the solution to this problem. The patch I'm trying to eliminate is: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/xscreensaver/files/patch-ab?rev=1.7 that refers to -lXmu -lXt

Re: httpfs

2001-03-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 03:15:15AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: A few of us were talking on IRC tonight about how cool it would be to have an httpfs filesystem -- then it occurred to me we almost have this already, in the form of the (under-utilised) portalfs. Portalfs works by handing off