vr(4) duplex problems

2003-06-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I have 4.8 vintage PC with an Epox 8K9A9I motherboard (http://www.epox.com/html/motherboard.asp?product=EP-8K9AIlang=1) which has an onboard vr(4) interface. I find that if the interface auto negotiates, it picks 100Mbit/FDX which matches the switch, but transfers are very bursty. If I force

Re: vr(4) duplex problems

2003-06-16 Thread Steven Hartland
Have you tried hardcoding both the card and the switch that sometimes helps. Steve ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kqueue alternative?

2003-06-16 Thread Tony Finch
Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Matthew Hagerty wrote: I'm writing a little application that needs to watch a file that another process is writing to, think 'tail -F'. I would say, use select(2). Is there a reason this wouldn't work? Select doesn't work with files.

Re: kqueue alternative?

2003-06-16 Thread Terry Lambert
Tony Finch wrote: Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Matthew Hagerty wrote: I'm writing a little application that needs to watch a file that another process is writing to, think 'tail -F'. I would say, use select(2). Is there a reason this wouldn't work?

Re: vr(4) duplex problems

2003-06-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Monday 16 June 2003 19:46, Steven Hartland wrote: Have you tried hardcoding both the card and the switch that sometimes helps. I can't change the switch, it is relatively stupid. Also, I'd rather not have to do that - I can just put a Alloy 1430TX card in and know it's going to work :) I

Re: vr(4) duplex problems

2003-06-16 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I have 4.8 vintage PC with an Epox 8K9A9I motherboard (http://www.epox.com/html/motherboard.asp?product=EP-8K9AIlang=1) which has an onboard vr(4) interface. I find that if the interface auto negotiates, it picks 100Mbit/FDX which matches the

Re: kqueue alternative?

2003-06-16 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:44:15AM +0100 or thereabouts, Tony Finch seemed to write: Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Matthew Hagerty wrote: I'm writing a little application that needs to watch a file that another process is writing to, think 'tail -F'. I

Kernel Support for System Call Performance Monitoring

2003-06-16 Thread Yaoping Ruan
We have been working on improving Web server performance on FreeBSD, and think you may be interested in the results and techniques we used. Specifically, we focus on the SpecWeb99 benchmark and the Flash Web Server, and have roughly quadrupled its performance. We did this by adding support for a

Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Nakal
Hi, recently, I found vidcontrol and played a bit with it. I have been looking for documents about how to output pixels (graphics) on the terminal. I could not find any. Before I give up, I want to ask here, if it is possible to do that. What I want to do is to port my applications from

Re: kqueue alternative?

2003-06-16 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Select doesn't work with files. Really? `man 2 select' says nothing about that. It just talks about 'file descriptors'. Now if it said 'socket descriptors' or 'non-file file descriptors' I would understand, but I don't think that that statement is implied by the man page. Is there something I'm

Re: kqueue alternative?

2003-06-16 Thread Eric Jacobs
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:11:10 -0700 Joshua Oreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:44:15AM +0100 or thereabouts, Tony Finch seemed to write: Select doesn't work with files. Really? `man 2 select' says nothing about that. It just talks about 'file descriptors'. Now if

Re: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Nakal wrote this message on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 20:15 +0200: recently, I found vidcontrol and played a bit with it. I have been looking for documents about how to output pixels (graphics) on the terminal. I could not find any. Before I give up, I want to ask here, if it is possible to do

Re: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Eric Jacobs
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 20:15:06 +0200 Nakal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, recently, I found vidcontrol and played a bit with it. I have been looking for documents about how to output pixels (graphics) on the terminal. See /usr/share/examples/libvgl I could not find any. Before I give up, I

Re: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:10:24PM -0400, Eric Jacobs wrote: I don't think the advantage of a GUI-based installer would be eye-candy. libdialog looks fine IMO. It would be to increase the ease of use, allow more flexibility in installations, and add more

Re: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Nakal
On Monday 16 June 2003 21:10, Eric Jacobs wrote: See /usr/share/examples/libvgl Yupp. That looks good. Thank you! I've been thinking about that too. The big question I have is whether it's a good idea to use a toolkit with a more restrictive license (GPL, LGPL, MPL), which would make it a

Re: floppy.. Was: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Juli Mallett
* Matthew D. Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Date: 2003-06-16 ] [ w.r.t. Re: floppy.. Was: Drawing graphics on terminal ] On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:43:59PM -0400 I heard the voice of Leo Bicknell, and lo! it spake thus: Another idea is to make a floppy just smart enough to load the

Re: floppy.. Was: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Don Lewis
On 16 Jun, Juli Mallett wrote: Not to turn this into too much of a bikeshed, but here's an idea I jotted down a while ago: %%% There has been a lot of talk about deprecation of floppies in upcoming releases, and I've been thinking a lot about whether or not we need to do this, and I've

Re: Kernel Support for System Call Performance Monitoring

2003-06-16 Thread Yaoping Ruan
Hi, Thanks for your interests. Just clarify that it is not a patch to boost kernel performance, but for the performance debugging tool we built, DeBox. We should be able to release the patch in a few days. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd be very interested in a copy of the patches, I have several

Re: floppy.. Was: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Eric Jacobs
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:38:06 -0500 Juli Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Network install. The floppy could include only network (and requisite) drivers, such that mass storage drivers could be pulled over the net at an early stage in the install. Ideally we would work

Re: floppy.. Was: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Leo Bicknell wrote: Some of this could be done in the current installer, if there wasn't an effort to make it still fit on a floppy. Mind you, I'd like to see the floppy based install stick around for a while, but I think FreeBSD needs to embrace the CD reality. We

Re: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Christian Brueffer
--eRtJSFbw+EEWtPj3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 03:10:24PM -0400, Eric Jacobs wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 20:15:06 +0200 Nakal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =20 Hi, =20 recently, I

Re: Drawing graphics on terminal

2003-06-16 Thread Raunchy McSmutbag
if you wanna try something nice mmap() /dev/mem and write to VGA memory =D From: Nakal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Drawing graphics on terminal Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 20:15:06 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from mx2.freebsd.org ([216.136.204.119]) by

Re: Kernel Support for System Call Performance Monitoring

2003-06-16 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 01:20:03PM -0400, Yaoping Ruan wrote: We have been working on improving Web server performance on FreeBSD, and think you may be interested in the results and techniques we used. Specifically, we focus on the SpecWeb99 benchmark and the Flash Web Server, and have

Re: vr(4) duplex problems

2003-06-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 00:40, Mike Silbersack wrote: Well, there have been a few reports of similar problems. However, back when those reports came in, there were a bunch of other problems with our if_vr driver, so everyone gave up and switched network cards before we could get to the duplex

updating a routing table entry

2003-06-16 Thread Mike Tancsa
I am trying to work around a problem, where a routing daemon (zebra) installs a subnet, that I then want to convert over to a connected route off an interface via ifconfig e.g. on vlan2 I want to add an interface on the subnet 12.0.0.112/28. Before the ifconfig I see # route get

Re: kqueue alternative?

2003-06-16 Thread Terry Lambert
Joshua Oreman wrote: I would say, use select(2). Is there a reason this wouldn't work? Select doesn't work with files. Really? `man 2 select' says nothing about that. It just talks about 'file descriptors'. Now if it said 'socket descriptors' or 'non-file file descriptors' I would