Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 22:51:43 Rick C. Petty wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 04:09:09PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: I usually want to see ps(1) output in easily-read columns. Without width limits, this can't be guaranteed. I would strongly object to the complete removal of any

Re: Partial kvm dumps

2009-08-26 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:45:58 +0300 Mikolaj Golub to.my.troc...@gmail.com wrote: http://code.google.com/p/trociny/downloads/list I would like to hear what other people think about this. It looks very useful for me. At least as a first step it would be nice to extend KVM to work with partial

Re: GA-MA780G-UD3H motherboard

2009-08-26 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 25/08/2009 21:34 Sam Fourman Jr. said the following: Meanwhile, if you interested in any information about this motherboard - data dumps, outputs from tools, etc - please let me know, I will try my best to provide that. it would be interesting to see a dmesg as a starting point. Please

Re: AMD SB700 SMBus controller driver

2009-08-26 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 26/08/2009 01:27 said the following: Could you please forward me the patch to make it work in polling mode ? I'd like to test it as I've been trying to make intpm work with a SB400 (which should be quite the same as yours) but system hangs when I try to force polling mode (didn't have

NMI running X with dual-monitor

2009-08-26 Thread ivan anyukov
Hi guys, I'm running 7.2-STABLE on a Thinkpad T60. When connecting a second monitor to my docking station sometimes my FreeBSD freezes. kgdb on the vmcore-file says non-maskable interrupt trap Some details: X.Org 1.5.3 using the radeon-Driver I think the problem appears when moving xterms from the

Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch

2009-08-26 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Tim Kientzle kient...@freebsd.org writes: The difference between ps, ps -w, and ps -ww is pretty significant for Java, in particular. Java command lines are typically enormous (thank you, CLASSPATH) which makes ps -ww often more annoying than it's worth. Java command lines aren't necessarily

Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch

2009-08-26 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Ivan Radovanovic riv...@gmail.com writes: I think software should evolve to be better rather then to stick with something done the wrong way, even that has been done maybe 30 years ago - that is why behavior should be changed. It is never too late to do the right thing ;-) Are you also going

Need some help understanding a jail system call.

2009-08-26 Thread bert wiley
Hello I found this code under a project called jailNG which has some system calls for doing jail stuff. Im still new to freebsd and im stumped on what this code is actually doing. In the source from the project there are few function calls that look like it creates and access the jail layer.

Re: Need some help understanding a jail system call.

2009-08-26 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
bert wiley bertwi...@gmail.com writes: No where in the code do i ever see any access to the jail.h type systems calls Because at that stage in the development process, the system calls in sys/jail.h belong to the old implementation. so does the syscall(375, JAIL_CREATE, argv[1]); actually

enable ECC in OS code?

2009-08-26 Thread Andriy Gapon
Here is a question that I am afraid I know an answer for. I have some ECC capable hardware: 1) Athlon II with embedded memory controller that can do ECC 2) DRAM modules with ECC Assuming that ECC data lanes are connected between the two on motherboard, and given that BIOS doesn't perform any ECC

Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch

2009-08-26 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- You/Dag-Erling (Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:20:59 +0200) * | Tim Kientzle kient...@freebsd.org writes: | The difference between ps, ps -w, and ps -ww is pretty | significant for Java, in particular. Java command lines | are typically enormous (thank you, CLASSPATH) which makes | ps -ww often

Intermittent system hangs on 7.2-RELEASE-p1

2009-08-26 Thread Linda Messerschmidt
I'm trying to troubleshoot an intermittent Apache performance problem, and I've narrowed it down using to what appears to be a brief whole-system hang that last from 0.5 - 3 seconds. They occur every few minutes. I took the rather extreme step of doing ktrace -t cnisuwt -i -d -p 1 and then I

Re: Intermittent system hangs on 7.2-RELEASE-p1

2009-08-26 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 3:03:13 pm Linda Messerschmidt wrote: I'm trying to troubleshoot an intermittent Apache performance problem, and I've narrowed it down using to what appears to be a brief whole-system hang that last from 0.5 - 3 seconds. They occur every few minutes. One thing to

MBR hack for serial console

2009-08-26 Thread remodeler
I am hoping for input on a patch I want to apply to the MBR of a FreeBSD 8-BETA3 AMD64 server. I need a serial console on this server. The ASUS motherboard (amibios) has PCI and PCI-e expansion slots, and a Moschip MCS9820 UART (serial board) is installed at pci0:3:5:0. The amibios can be

Re: Intermittent system hangs on 7.2-RELEASE-p1

2009-08-26 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Linda Messerschmidt wrote: I'm trying to troubleshoot an intermittent Apache performance problem, and I've narrowed it down using to what appears to be a brief whole-system hang that last from 0.5 - 3 seconds. They occur every few minutes. One thought would be to use ps

Re: enable ECC in OS code?

2009-08-26 Thread Steve Watt
In 4a954a35.4030...@icyb.net.ua, a...@icyb.net.ua wrote: Here is a question that I am afraid I know an answer for. I have some ECC capable hardware: 1) Athlon II with embedded memory controller that can do ECC 2) DRAM modules with ECC Assuming that ECC data lanes are connected between the two on