Re: My contributions to the close a PR campaign

2001-10-12 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 06:48:48PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: Cyrille Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: Mike Meyer wrote: [snip] conf/21722The mixer settings are lost on system reboot. This should probably be closed due to the work being done on the NetBSD rc system.

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2001-10-12 Thread himura kenshin
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Re: My contributions to the close a PR campaign

2001-10-12 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Mike Meyer wrote: Cyrille Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: Mike Meyer wrote: [snip] conf/21722The mixer settings are lost on system reboot. This should probably be closed due to the work being done on the NetBSD rc system. The same functionality can be provided as a

Valid user name

2001-10-12 Thread Yar Tikhiy
Hi there, Now adduser(8) and pw(8) differ in what a valid user name is. Adduser(8) enforces a user name to match the /^[a-z0-9_][a-z0-9_\-]*$/ regexp. OTOH, pw(8) uses the Good Old Wrong Way of checking validity-- it checks a user name against a list of *invalid* characters. I'm going to fix

Re: Imagestream WanIC-520 interface cards

2001-10-12 Thread Bsdguru
In a message dated 10/12/01 1:08:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Consider that the Hitachi controller chip used on the WANic 405 is the SAME chip that Cisco uses in it's 25xx series of routers, and the Cisco 2501 is the most used router in the world and has the most

Re: contigfree, free what?

2001-10-12 Thread mark tinguely
Patrick Cipiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] says: :We are currently working with FreeBSD 4.3 and we found out that :kldloading/kldunloading modules working with contigmalloc()/contigfree() :like if_xl.ko produces a memory leak. : :This is due to the contigfree() function which seems to

aio question

2001-10-12 Thread Kostas Magoutis
Looking at the aio implementation in 4.3 it seems that at least the aio_read path bypasses the buffer cache. Is this true or am I missing something? Thanks, Kostas Magoutis To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: My contributions to the close a PR campaign

2001-10-12 Thread Mike Meyer
Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 06:48:48PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: Cyrille Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: Mike Meyer wrote: [snip] conf/21722The mixer settings are lost on system reboot. This should probably be closed due to the

Re: Valid user name

2001-10-12 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yar Tikhiy writes: : Is there any reason to omit the period ('.') from the list of valid : characters? With the period included, the list would conform to : POSIX's definition of a valid user name. Not any more. it used to be that chown user.group would be

Re: contigfree, free what?

2001-10-12 Thread Patrick Cipiere
Mark, I also placed some checks on vm_map_delete I did that also, and as far as I understand everything works fine. The only thing I found was the fact that when contigmalloc() grabs the contig pages it sets the value of pga[i] (for i in allocated pages) note that: vm_page_t pga =

Re: Valid user name

2001-10-12 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 09:52:10AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yar Tikhiy writes: : Is there any reason to omit the period ('.') from the list of valid : characters? With the period included, the list would conform to : POSIX's definition of a valid user name.

Re: contigfree, free what?

2001-10-12 Thread Matt Dillon
:Mark, : : I also placed some checks on vm_map_delete : :I did that also, and as far as I understand everything works fine. :The only thing I found was the fact that when contigmalloc() grabs the :contig pages it sets the value of pga[i] (for i in allocated pages) :note that: vm_page_t pga =

Re: contigfree, free what?

2001-10-12 Thread mark tinguely
I can allocate the same memory block, back to back by contigmailloc and contigfree using the same if_xl structures in a PCI probe (actually I do contigmalloc/contigfree per probe call. The PCI probe gets called for each PCI device. I will print up the trace that shows the blocks are freed. I

Re: Patch to allow 4.2 driver .o to run on 4.4

2001-10-12 Thread Matt Dillon
:Sorry about the crosspost but I estimate that this reaches those who need :to see this.. : :There was a change in the 4.x kernel.h on June 15 that broke backwards :compatibility for binary distributed driver files :(distributed as .o files) It was an MFC of a patch by peter.. :but we didn't

Re: utmp(5) manpage revised

2001-10-12 Thread Terry Lambert
Yar Tikhiy wrote: Hi everybody, The current utmp(5) manpage language (not markup) has a number of drawbacks and errors: o There is no information for programmers on the actual structure of the files the page describes. It is opaque. You are not supposed to access it directly, you

Re: contigfree, free what?

2001-10-12 Thread mark tinguely
apologies, as soon as I sent that mail, I realized that I was looking at the virtual address -- duh, mark. Patrick was pointed in the right direction that the entry's object is no longer the kernel_map but is NULL, changing the release path. --mark tinguely To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: contigfree, free what?

2001-10-12 Thread Thomas Moestl
On Fri, 2001/10/12 at 10:07:10 -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: :Mark, : : I also placed some checks on vm_map_delete : :I did that also, and as far as I understand everything works fine. :The only thing I found was the fact that when contigmalloc() grabs the :contig pages it sets the value of

Re: Valid user name

2001-10-12 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 02:52:28PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: Hi there, Now adduser(8) and pw(8) differ in what a valid user name is. Adduser(8) enforces a user name to match the /^[a-z0-9_][a-z0-9_\-]*$/ regexp. OTOH, pw(8) uses the Good Old Wrong Way of checking validity-- it checks a

Severe I/O Problems

2001-10-12 Thread Jay Rossiter
Someone on -questions recommended that I forward this over here for you guys to look at. (I'm not subbed to this list) There appear to be a lot of changes that went into the filesystem and I/O code between 4.3 and 4.4. A little over a week ago I upgraded my 4.3 box to 4.4-STABLE and

Re: Severe I/O Problems

2001-10-12 Thread Matthew Jacob
Hmm. Interesting. What's the state of the ATA write caching bit? (sysctl hw.ata.wc)? If it is set to 1, try setting it to 0 in /boot/loader.conf (e.g., add hw.ata.wc=0 ) to /boot/loader.conf -matt On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Jay Rossiter wrote: Someone on -questions recommended that I

anybody working on a driver for this multi-T1 card?

2001-10-12 Thread Len Conrad
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Re: Severe I/O Problems

2001-10-12 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Jay Rossiter wrote: There appear to be a lot of changes that went into the filesystem and I/O code between 4.3 and 4.4. A little over a week ago I upgraded my 4.3 box to 4.4-STABLE and immediately I started having I/O slowdown. I do development and QA on a program

Re: FYI

2001-10-12 Thread Doug Hass
I'm providing this to the people whose addresses appear in the original messages. My apologies if this gets cross-posted or sent multiple times to the same place. As I mention below, the WANic 400 series cards and all of the RISCom/N2 series cards are now End Of Life, and only available in

Re: Severe I/O Problems

2001-10-12 Thread Jay Rossiter
This does seem to be doing some good.The beginning of the test run is hovering ~30% CPU. I'll have to wait until it finished before I can see if it effected the overall time, though. Something else that I forgot to mention, is that yesterday I did a profiled run, and the

Re: Severe I/O Problems

2001-10-12 Thread Jay Rossiter
Both. It does a lot of creation and deletion, and also does quite a bit of I/O internally to files. This is a piece of code that extracts, changes, replaces, deletes, and repacks archive container files. (zip, arj, lha, mime, you name it...)

Re: Severe I/O Problems

2001-10-12 Thread Matthew Jacob
Interesting. If this bears out, what this tells me is that in some cases enabling write cacheing on ATAs is good, but in other cases, bad (probably provides interference effects). Soren? Jordan? -matt On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Jay Rossiter wrote: This does seem to be doing some good.

Re: Severe I/O Problems

2001-10-12 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Jay Rossiter wrote: Both. It does a lot of creation and deletion, and also does quite a bit of I/O internally to files. This is a piece of code that extracts, changes, replaces, deletes, and repacks archive container files. (zip, arj, lha, mime, you name

Re: 4-port T1 PCI card with integrated csu/dsu

2001-10-12 Thread Bsdguru
n a message dated 10/12/2001 3:31:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We need to accept handoff of 4 x T1 and want to do it with FreeBSD. Is there such a card with support in FreeBSD? If not, suggestions? etinc supposedly has a prototype they are working on. I

Re: Severe I/O Problems

2001-10-12 Thread Jordan Hubbard
Erm, this would make this the first report of interference effects I've ever heard, certainly. Doesn't make it untrue, just subject to a bit more initial skepticism. Is this truly the only variable that's changing? Are we sure that the drives in question aren't simply broken in some way and

Re: Severe I/O Problems

2001-10-12 Thread Matthew Jacob
Sure- all these are excellent questions! On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: Erm, this would make this the first report of interference effects I've ever heard, certainly. Doesn't make it untrue, just subject to a bit more initial skepticism. Is this truly the only variable that's

Re: Severe I/O Problems

2001-10-12 Thread Mikko Tyolajarvi
In local.freebsd.hackers you write: There appear to be a lot of changes that went into the filesystem and I/O code between 4.3 and 4.4. A little over a week ago I upgraded my 4.3 box to 4.4-STABLE and immediately I started having I/O slowdown. I do development and QA on a program that is very

Re: 4-port T1 PCI card with integrated csu/dsu

2001-10-12 Thread Bsdguru
In a message dated 10/12/01 7:04:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: etinc supposedly has a prototype they are working on. I dont know the status however. they already have the 4-port PCISYNC card, but it has no integrated csu/dsu, requiring $2500 like this

Re: My contributions to the close a PR campaign

2001-10-12 Thread Seth Kingsley
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 10:05:27AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: I have just one question: would it be wise to have /var/db/mixer-state removed upon port deinstall, or should it be left behind, just in case? Why not remove it after using it to restore the mixer

RE: Imagestream WanIC-520 interface cards

2001-10-12 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 6:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Imagestream WanIC-520 interface cards In a message dated 10/12/01 1:08:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RE: Imagestream WanIC-520 interface cards

2001-10-12 Thread Matt Dillon
The Cisco 2600 series is great for T1's. A 2620 with a T1 card (it can take up to two) and you are done. The 2501's are ancient, don't even bother any more. You can find 2620's on EBay in the $700-$1500 range, many of which appear (in my quick look) to include a T1 card.