Re: total hang when cu -l /dev/cuaa0

2003-10-04 Thread Christoph P. Kukulies
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:36:29PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: The modem coild also be something proprietary for which there is no driver available. When I run getty (or mgetty) on that port or when I do a cu -l /dev/cuaa0 the system freezes. Why do you expect anything

Re: total hang when cu -l /dev/cuaa0

2003-10-04 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:25:48AM +0200, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:36:29PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: You can't expect anything reliable from a device which is broken. The kernel already warned you that something seems to be questionable. In the same way you

Re: total hang when cu -l /dev/cuaa0

2003-10-04 Thread Christoph P. Kukulies
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:04:22PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bernd Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : You need a different driver for your PCI one - e.g. puc. actually, puc still uses sio/uart. puc just manages the bus resources. So puc would

CMI8330 freeBSD problem

2003-10-04 Thread Tinta Liviu
Hello Andrei, I'm now having the same problem as you deed with my ISA sound card (CMI8330). It does not work. Already I've recompiled the kernel with the following lines added to the kernel configuration file: device pcm device sbc as stated on the freeBSD.org site. If you solved your

Re: [PATCH] : libc_r/uthread/uthread_write.c

2003-10-04 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Dan Langille wrote: All our testing on this patch has been successful. I'm going to do a few more tests on different hardware under 4.8-stable. What's the next step? Commit it? Get others to test with it first? It's already in -current. You'll have to wait for

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2003-10-04 Thread Chuck Robey
I need some startup help in moving my new systems. Sure would appreciate it if I could get a pointer here on a couple of matters. My new physical location has really improved things, but my mail isn't working yet, right, and my keyboard is also going wrong. My mail has to come first, here the

Re: [PATCH] : libc_r/uthread/uthread_write.c

2003-10-04 Thread Dan Langille
On 4 Oct 2003 at 10:17, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Dan Langille wrote: All our testing on this patch has been successful. I'm going to do a few more tests on different hardware under 4.8-stable. What's the next step? Commit it? Get others to test with it first?

Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Mikulas Patocka
Hi I installed FreeBSD 4.9RC1 on P4 3GHz with hyperthreading and I see drastic slowdown when kernel with hyperthreading is booted. For example program compilation took this time: hyperthreading kernel, make -j 1 --- 1:09 hyperthreading kernel, make -j 2 --- 0:42 singlethreading kernel, make -j

Re: Is socket buffer locking as questionable as it seems?

2003-10-04 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: I keep getting these panics on my SMP box (no backtrace or DDB or crash dump of course, because panic() == hang to FreeBSD these days): panic: receive: m == 0 so-so_rcv.sb_cc == 52 From what I can tell, all sorts of socket-related calls

Re: Is socket buffer locking as questionable as it seems?

2003-10-04 Thread Sam Leffler
On Friday 03 October 2003 10:38 pm, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: I keep getting these panics on my SMP box (no backtrace or DDB or crash dump of course, because panic() == hang to FreeBSD these days): panic: receive: m == 0 so-so_rcv.sb_cc == 52 From what I can tell, all sorts of

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: Hi I installed FreeBSD 4.9RC1 on P4 3GHz with hyperthreading and I see drastic slowdown when kernel with hyperthreading is booted. For example program compilation took this time: hyperthreading kernel, make -j 1 --- 1:09

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Richard Coleman
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: I installed FreeBSD 4.9RC1 on P4 3GHz with hyperthreading and I see drastic slowdown when kernel with hyperthreading is booted. For example program compilation took this time: hyperthreading kernel, make -j 1

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:20:03PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: I installed FreeBSD 4.9RC1 on P4 3GHz with hyperthreading and I see drastic slowdown when kernel with hyperthreading is booted. For example

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Richard Coleman
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:20:03PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: I installed FreeBSD 4.9RC1 on P4 3GHz with hyperthreading and I see drastic slowdown when kernel with hyperthreading is

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Ian Dowse
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway writes: Yes, that's because (as discussed in the archives) the kernel treats it like an extra, completely decoupled physical CPU and schedules processes on it without further consideration. This is presumably the cause of the slowdown, because it's only

Re: Is socket buffer locking as questionable as it seems?

2003-10-04 Thread Brian F. Feldman
Sam Leffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 03 October 2003 10:38 pm, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: I keep getting these panics on my SMP box (no backtrace or DDB or crash dump of course, because panic() == hang to FreeBSD these days): panic: receive: m == 0 so-so_rcv.sb_cc == 52

Changing the NAT IP on demand?

2003-10-04 Thread Leo Bicknell
I'm considering options for a new project, and I think I've discovered what I think is the best idea, but I don't think current software supports the config. I'd like to get some confirmation, and comments on if it would be hard to implement. Consider: ISP #1---\ \

Re: Is socket buffer locking as questionable as it seems?

2003-10-04 Thread Wes Peters
On Saturday 04 October 2003 11:39 am, Sam Leffler wrote: On Friday 03 October 2003 10:38 pm, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: I keep getting these panics on my SMP box (no backtrace or DDB or crash dump of course, because panic() == hang to FreeBSD these days): panic: receive: m == 0

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Avleen Vig
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:54:45PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: hyperthreading kernel, make -j 1 --- 1:09 hyperthreading kernel, make -j 2 --- 0:42 singlethreading kernel, make -j 1 --- 0:45 singlethreading kernel, make -j 2 --- 0:41 [snip] Yes, that's because (as discussed in the

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Richard Coleman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:20:03PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: I installed FreeBSD 4.9RC1 on P4 3GHz with hyperthreading and I see drastic slowdown when kernel

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Mikulas Patocka
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kris Kennaway writes: Yes, that's because (as discussed in the archives) the kernel treats it like an extra, completely decoupled physical CPU and schedules processes on it without further consideration. This is presumably the cause of the slowdown, because it's