Re: Quick question: AIO / SMP / process-based threading

2001-07-01 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 03:51:10AM +, E.B. Dreger wrote: Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 22:28:29 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you point to some specific PRs about this or crashdumps before (or at least while) taking pot shots at the AIO implementation? In the mean

Re: libc_r locking... why?

2001-07-01 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 03:52:56PM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote: Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 19:56:40, eddy+public+spam (E.B. Dreger) wrote about Re: libc_r locking... why?: A Token may not be enough because writes may be reordered. AFAIK it's false for i386 architecture. Please correct me

Re: libc_r locking... why?

2001-06-29 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 03:44:03PM +, E.B. Dreger wrote: Again, I am *not* using pthreads. Worker thread = totally separate process, created via rfork(2). One process blocks, others continue running. I can't see how you make shure that on SMP systems all CPUs have the same meaning from

Re: libc_r locking... why?

2001-06-29 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 06:44:29PM +, E.B. Dreger wrote: Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 20:33:51 +0200 From: Bernd Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't see how you make shure that on SMP systems all CPUs have the same meaning from memory content. Normaly you would use a mutex or similar

Re: What happens to a connection between a select and accept...

2001-06-25 Thread Bernd Walter
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:09:01AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quick question. Anyone know how gracefully the kernel handles a socket connection that is killed by the client between a select and accept call? I don't expect any problems,

How to write to multiple tape drives

2001-06-25 Thread Bernd Walter
I want to use multiple tapes drives at the same time so I need a way to send or read data without having to block. aio_* is not a solution because it's not portable to NetBSD. Is there another portable solution than vfork? -- B.Walter COSMO-Project

Re: reset the target machine with remote gdb.

2001-06-15 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:10:41PM +0200, Juan Fco Rodriguez Hervella wrote: Hi: I am debugging a kernel with remote gdb, using a serial line. I do the following: 1. boot -d, gdb, step (in target machine) 2. gdb -k kernel.debug Some time later, I get a SIGSEV segmentation fault. This

Re: read(2) and ETIMEDOUT

2001-06-08 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 03:20:58PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: : :On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:33:50AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: : : : : :Thanks, I will try setting errno, but I don't think it is signals. : :I have been running truss on the process. The relevant part is : : :

Re: [hackers] Re: Large MFS on NFS-swap?

2001-02-25 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 05:44:13PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: "Matt" == Matt Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [... my newfw bomb deleted ...] Matt I had a set of patches for newfs a year or two ago but never Matt incorporated them. We'd have to do a run-through on newfs to Matt

Re: Large MFS on NFS-swap?

2001-02-24 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 04:08:04PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: We have an application which is precompiled, for linux, and stupid. It uses (at times large) scratch files. We want to run this on our diskless machines (CPU farm) to cut the per-cpu cost of the computation ($200/drive starts

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-20 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:24:34PM -0700, Edward Elhauge wrote: OK, vinum is good. But my understanding is that you can't use vinum on your root partition. By Murphy's Law it always seems to be root that gets screwed up. And that also causes the biggest problems because then you have to yank

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-20 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:48:06PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Bernd Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000920 13:43] wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:24:34PM -0700, Edward Elhauge wrote: OK, vinum is good. But my understanding is that you can't use vinum on your root partition. By Murphy's

Re: Anyway to ipfw filter based on MAC address?

2000-08-30 Thread Bernd Walter
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 11:31:06PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 07:02:03PM -0700, Jaye Mathisen wrote: Just exactly what I said in the Subject. I want to filter on the ethernet MAC address. I guess the "ip" in "ipfw" just wasn't obvious enough that it is an IP

Re: help with restoring sh

2000-08-24 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:33:37AM +0100, Theo PAGTZIS wrote: Hi all, I have been upgrading from 3.4 to 4.1 and during the reboot I get a permission denied when it tries to exec the /bin/sh. I am trying to restore the file with one that is functioning properly..however I do not know

Re: Multiple ro mounts of vinum volume

2000-07-22 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 06:33:42PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 20 July 2000 at 9:55:13 +0100, Geoff Buckingham wrote: A thing that might bite you here is that ufs is currently limited to 1 TB per volume. Vinum doesn't have that restriction: if you want to create a 20 TB volume,

Re: panic: vm_map_entry_create: kernel resources exhausted

2000-07-17 Thread Bernd Walter
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 07:52:01PM +0200, Gergely EGERVARY wrote: hello all, I have to set up a box able to run 5000 processes. I have the hardware for it (i386 architecture, lots of RAM, lots of CPU power) I'm playing with VM parameters, tuning everything possible, but can't get more

Re: Remote syslog with a tag ?

2000-06-14 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:52:22AM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: On Tue 2000-06-13 (22:40), Bernd Walter wrote: I've often thought it would be nice to be able to get syslogd to make choices based on hostname. I'm sure a patch would be easy enough to produce, but the trick would

Re: Remote syslog with a tag ?

2000-06-13 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 05:12:41PM +0100, David Malone wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 11:07:27AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 13), Johan Kruger said: The man page says " ... and the first word in the message after the date matches the program, the action

Re: [REPOST] Re: How do I get port inside kernel.... (fwd)

2000-06-07 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 10:13:26AM +0530, G.B.Naidu wrote: Thanks a lot for your reply. It's quite useful. But I have some more questions generated of this study of nfs code and sendfile(2) code. The question is about getting a proc structure. Here it is. As you all know that every system

Re: [REPOST] Re: How do I get port inside kernel.... (fwd)

2000-06-07 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 04:58:41PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:09:06 +0200, Bernd Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: current process? Is it safe if I use proc0 to pass the proc structure to call socreate() and sobind()? How safe it is to use curproc structure

sockets in kernelmodule

2000-02-27 Thread Bernd Walter
Is it valid to use proc0 for socreate() and sobind() in kernel? In my case I need to create a TCP connection which is used from different processes and which may be reconnected from different processes. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de [EMAIL

Re: Severe problems with softupdates.

1999-11-12 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 08:11:49PM +, Josef Karthauser wrote: Kirk mentioned that he was confident that softupdates was 'safe', but I've had files (from a previous crash - recovered from) in lost+found that I didn't touch, and no-way should have become disconnected from the file system

Re: SCSI disk naming problem

1999-10-02 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 01:15:53PM +0300, Narvi wrote: On Fri, 1 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] That's an interesting argument on the part of a few people. The commercial UNIX I first adminned had wired down, short names for disks (rz0,

Re: quad_t and portability

1999-08-07 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 05:38:48PM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: "Brian F. Feldman" wrote: On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Don Lewis wrote: On Aug 6, 3:29pm, Sheldon Hearn wrote: } Subject: quad_t and portability } } Hi folks, } } I want to patch wc(1) so that it uses quad_t instead of

Re: quad_t and portability

1999-08-07 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 05:38:48PM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: Brian F. Feldman wrote: On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Don Lewis wrote: On Aug 6, 3:29pm, Sheldon Hearn wrote: } Subject: quad_t and portability } } Hi folks, } } I want to patch wc(1) so that it uses quad_t instead of

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-05 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 10:53:54AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 23:20:45 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:59:46PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 8:12:17 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: For UFS/FFS there is nothing worth

Re: netstat broken for -N -M?

1999-08-05 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 05:21:49PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: I'm seeing on a -stable system that netstat will always print values obtained from sysctl rather than from the core file specified. Can anybody confirm this? It doesn't seem like feature to me... Interesting - I got similar

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-05 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 10:53:54AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 23:20:45 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:59:46PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 8:12:17 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: For UFS/FFS there is nothing worth

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-03 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:59:46PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 8:12:17 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: For UFS/FFS there is nothing worth seting the stripesize to low. It is generally slower to acces 32k on different HDDs than to acces 64k on one HDD

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-03 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 01:35:54PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 11:11:39 +0800, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: No, it would cause a higher I/O load. Vinum doesn't transfer entire stripes, it transfers what you ask for. With a large

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-03 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:16:06PM +0800, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: No, it would cause a higher I/O load. Vinum doesn't transfer entire stripes, it transfers what you ask for. With a large stripe size, the chances are higher that you can perform the

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-03 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:59:46PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 8:12:17 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: For UFS/FFS there is nothing worth seting the stripesize to low. It is generally slower to acces 32k on different HDDs than to acces 64k on one HDD

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-02 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 01:35:54PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 11:11:39 +0800, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: No, it would cause a higher I/O load. Vinum doesn't transfer entire stripes, it transfers what you ask for. With a large

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-31 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 05:42:57PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Brian F. Feldman" writes: : And how about having : if (securelevel 3) : return (EPERM); : in bpf_open()? There are no security levels 3. I'd be happy with 0. This is

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-31 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 01:17:44PM -0400, Ben Rosengart wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Bernd Walter wrote: That would mean you can't run a secured DHCP server :( I think only the client needs BPF. Anyway, you just start the server in the rc files, before securelevel is raised. AFAIK

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-31 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 05:42:57PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message pine.bsf.4.10.9907301619280.6951-100...@janus.syracuse.net Brian F. Feldman writes: : And how about having : if (securelevel 3) : return (EPERM); : in bpf_open()? There are no security levels 3.

Re: So, back on the topic of enabling bpf in GENERIC...

1999-07-31 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 01:17:44PM -0400, Ben Rosengart wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Bernd Walter wrote: That would mean you can't run a secured DHCP server :( I think only the client needs BPF. Anyway, you just start the server in the rc files, before securelevel is raised. AFAIK

Re: Which /etc-files do I need until vinum is initialized?

1999-07-27 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 05:12:49PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: each. But I think you could eliminate these ones: /etc/gettytab /etc/login.conf /etc/ttys I'm not shure on /etc/ttys - init reads it already for singleuser-mode to check if /dev/console is secure. -- B.Walter

Re: Which /etc-files do I need until vinum is initialized?

1999-07-27 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 05:12:49PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: each. But I think you could eliminate these ones: /etc/gettytab /etc/login.conf /etc/ttys I'm not shure on /etc/ttys - init reads it already for singleuser-mode to check if /dev/console is secure. -- B.Walter

Re: setiathome crashes 3.2?

1999-06-28 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 10:09:22PM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: I seem to recall seeing this someone (this may not be the right list.) But - I downloaded the 3.2 Seti@home and starting running it on a left-over 75mhz laptop I have. It seems to crash the laptop (silently lock it

Re: setiathome crashes 3.2?

1999-06-28 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 10:09:22PM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: I seem to recall seeing this someone (this may not be the right list.) But - I downloaded the 3.2 s...@home and starting running it on a left-over 75mhz laptop I have. It seems to crash the laptop (silently lock it

Re: Volume managers (was: ufs/ffs resize?)

1999-06-27 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 09:33:45AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 0:35:54 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: I think one of the difficulty of growing a FS is that you have to choose whether you need the FS to be contiguous or not. The latter case makes it much more

Re: ufs/ffs resize?

1999-06-26 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 02:15:01PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: :anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems? : :aaron It has been brought up a couple of times but nobody has tried to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable project if

Re: ufs/ffs resize?

1999-06-26 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 02:00:41PM -0700, Aaron Smith wrote: anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems? I wrote one. It is place on ftp://ftp.cosmo-project.de/pub/growfs My tool will grow a UFS filesystem to the current size of the partition. There is still one big problem

Re: ufs/ffs resize?

1999-06-26 Thread Bernd Walter
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 02:15:01PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: :anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems? : :aaron It has been brought up a couple of times but nobody has tried to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable project if

Re: softupdates problem?

1999-06-13 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 12:13:43AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: I had a 3.2 stable (from 30 May 1999)machine panic tonight, trying to load the oss driver, which is not too shocking. What was shocking was the damage done to my filesystem. The automatic fsck failed, with an UNEXPECTED SOFT

Re: Bad sectors on vinum volym

1999-06-09 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 03:11:23PM +0200, John Andersson wrote: I seem to have some bad sectors on my vinum volume, fsck reports the following and does not seem to be able to fix it: THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE WRITTEN: 44609178, 44609179, * FILE SYSTEM STILL DIRTY * *

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-16 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 12:12:29PM -0700, Justin C. Walker wrote: It seems there's a need, and the possibility. Would somebody like to suggest a syntax? The precedent would be the socket ioctls SIOCGIFHWADDR and SIOCSIFHWADDR. The Linux emulator suppors the get-only version

Re: ifconfig: changing mac address

1999-05-16 Thread Bernd Walter
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 12:26:37AM -0700, Steve Rubin wrote: This is not how Etherchannel works. Anyone from cisco here care to explain better than I possibly could? On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 08:28:55PM -0700, John Milford wrote: You have to have the capibility on the switch, and

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