RE: Disk based file system cache

2001-09-24 Thread Charles Randall
As a side note, Irix and Solaris provide cachefs for this purpose and use NFS filesystems as examples (others examples may include CD-ROM, etc). Charles -Original Message- From: David Malone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 8:26 AM To: Attila Nagy Cc: [EMAIL

RE: How to force small TCP packets?

2001-09-10 Thread Charles Randall
Out of curiosity, can ipfw+dummynet do something like this? -Original Message- From: Jonathan Lemon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 1:35 PM To: Julian Elischer Cc: Jonathan Lemon; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to force small TCP

Portability of #warning in /usr/include

2001-08-27 Thread Charles Randall
I've noted that several include files in /usr/include use the C preprocessor #warning directive. This isn't standard C and prevents some software from compiling using a compiler like TenDRA. What's the current opinion on this? Charles To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

RE: secure Filesystem

2001-08-27 Thread Charles Randall
Also note that the version available in ports/packages for FreeBSD 4.x is CFS v1.4.0b2. CFS v1.4.1 is available on Matt Blaze's site. http://www.crypto.com/software/ However, the documentation doesn't seem to indicate what may have changed between these versions. I found this while looking for

RE: shared memory models/techniques

2001-08-27 Thread Charles Randall
Are your processes all created by fork() or are they unrelated? If they're all descendants of the same process, take a look at the GNU mm library (which is loosely based on structure of the mm_malloc library I wrote for my company but couldn't release). http://www.engelschall.com/sw/mm/ If

RE: How to visit physical memory above 4G?

2001-08-03 Thread Charles Randall
From: Terry Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I have yet to see one person using it for anything. So far, it is nothing more than marketing fodder: I haven't seen one motherboard capable of more than 4G worth of SIMMs. The Dell PowerEdge 6450 supports 8 GB of RAM.

RE: Intel ISP1100 or similar 1U experience with 4.3 stable

2001-07-11 Thread Charles Randall
Don't know how this ended up on -hackers, but... The 1U server market is indeed hot (pun intended). Take a look at the new 1400 series from iXsystems (www.ixsystems.net -- formerly BSDi, formerly Telenet) and the Dell 1550. I've tested both systems and was impressed by both. If you're buying

RE: Intel ISP1100 or similar 1U experience with 4.3 stable

2001-07-11 Thread Charles Randall
From: R.P. Aditya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] What I'd like to see is a box like the Sun Netra x1 http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hw/networking/netrax/ that I can run FreeBSD on -- - single PII 233 - 1U (compact) 19 rack-mountable - no video, just RJ-45 RS232 port - 2 onboard 10/100

RE: Sysadmin article

2001-06-15 Thread Charles Randall
From: Robert Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] There was some discussion of this on freebsd-advocacy yesterday and today, and it sounded like it came down to poor tuning (not enabling soft updates, et al) in combination with a heavy reliance on threading, where we currently don't do so well. Did

RE: technical comparison

2001-05-24 Thread Charles Randall
From: Greg Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] And if this imaginary program is going to do that, it's equally easy to use a multilevel directory structure and that will make the life of all users of the system simpler. There's no real excuse for directories with millions (or even thousands) of

RE: real time

2001-05-04 Thread Charles Randall
Here's one starting point, http://www.rtmx.com/ They offer extensions to OpenBSD. Charles -Original Message- From: Joao Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 11:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: real time Does FreeBSD has any

RE: write() vs aio_write()

2001-04-30 Thread Charles Randall
Regarding aio_*, Alfred Perlstein writes: It's a good idea to use it for disk IO, probably not a good idea for network IO. Could you elaborate? -Charles To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

RE: Network throughput tuning

2001-04-05 Thread Charles Randall
Try using netperf (http://www.netperf.org/) too. I've found it to be an extremely valuable tool. Charles -Original Message- From: Niek Bergboer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 4:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Network throughput tuning Hi, I run two

gcc optimization problems (RE: optimizing apache with php and nfs mounts)

2001-03-13 Thread Charles Randall
From: David O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 2. The base, system C compiler is known to produce bad code with -O2. We have been proclaiming this since as long as I have been with the Project. Is this an issue with FreeBSD's gcc's or gcc in general? If gcc in general, are there open

RE: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-06 Thread Charles Randall
From: Matt Dillon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] My understanding is that Intel focused on FP performance in the P4, and that it is very, very good at it. I dunno how to test it though. GCC generally does not produce very good code, but I would expect that it would get reasonably

RE: RE: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-06 Thread Charles Randall
Noted. Is there a gcc PR associated with this? http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl A GNATS searc for "freebsd kernel" didn't return anything. -Charles -Original Message- From: Matt Dillon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 11:44 AM To: Charles

RE: known pthread bug?

2001-02-08 Thread Charles Randall
Does this update ERRATA.TXT on the FTP site too? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.2-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT -Charles -Original Message- From: Jordan Hubbard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 11:03 PM To: Charles Randall Cc: 'Alfred Perlstein'; Paul

RE: known pthread bug?

2001-02-06 Thread Charles Randall
From: Alfred Perlstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 1) 4.2 RELEASE has known pthreads bugs, you should upgrade to -stable. This is the second time I've seen this mentioned on -hackers. How is a poor, unsuspecting soul^Wdeveloper supposed to know this? Why isn't ERRATA updated to reflect this?

RE: Extremely large (70TB) File system/server planning

2001-02-05 Thread Charles Randall
Does this have to be a single filesystem? If not, just provide a database front-end that maps some kind of resource identifier to the filesystem name. With that, you can span filers and/or filesystems. Seems like the only thing that would be reasonable. Charles -Original Message-

RE: IP Address Overtaking

2001-01-23 Thread Charles Randall
Server B takes over a virtual IP address of server A when server A fails. -Original Message- From: Dan Langille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IP Address Overtaking DZ wrote: I could not

RE: Clustering FreeBSD

2001-01-16 Thread Charles Randall
The first question I have when someone brings this up is, "please define what you mean by clustering". There are multiple interpretations. Can you elaborate? -Charles -Original Message- From: Jamie Heckford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL

RE: encrypt h/w for FreeBSD?

2001-01-05 Thread Charles Randall
nCipher's nFast card supports FreeBSD 3.3 and 3.4. http://www.ncipher.com/products/nfast_specs.html -Charles -Original Message- From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 3:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: encrypt h/w for FreeBSD? Sorry,

RE: threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-09 Thread Charles Randall
Is there a reason that ADNS won't work for this? http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/ Charles -Original Message- From: Dan Moschuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 10:51 AM To: Greg Thompson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

RE: Gigabit ethernet

2000-08-02 Thread Charles Randall
These pages should answer all of your questions. http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Alteon/ http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/SysKonnect/ I went with the NetGear GA-620 because it was cheap. In retrospect (after talking with Bill Paul), I should have probably gone with the Alteon AceNIC or the

RE: Funky scheduler stuff under heavy I/O.

2000-07-24 Thread Charles Randall
Could it be a boundary condition when the PCI bus gets saturated? Charles -Original Message- From: Andreas Dobloug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 8:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Funky scheduler stuff under heavy I/O. * Jaye Mathisen | 8 parallel DD's

RE: Can anyone recommend a good clustering software?

2000-07-11 Thread Charles Randall
First you need to describe what you mean by clustering. It means different things to different people. Charles -Original Message- From: Frederik Meerwaldt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 8:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can anyone recommend a good

RE: Multiple MAC addresses per NIC

2000-07-10 Thread Charles Randall
Recent threads (by subject) on related topics are, Implementing ioctl to set MAC address -- question. ifconfig: changing mac address Neither discusses supporting multiple MAC addresses, but rather explicitly setting the MAC address in a failover condition. It appears that Bill

RE: Hardware crypto support

2000-04-13 Thread Charles Randall
Speaking of hardware support for compression... I've been looking for hardware accelerated zlib for a while. I even contacted the guys zlib developers and Hi/fn and came up with nothing. Any suggestions? Charles -Original Message- From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..

2000-03-15 Thread Charles Randall
That's not spurprising. When I tried it, Solaris 2.6 x86 didn't support full-duplex 100Base-TX on very many devices. The DEC tulip cards were one of the few that had drivers that supported full-duplex. Charles -Original Message- From: Howard Leadmon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: The stack size for a process?

2000-01-18 Thread Charles Randall
From: Jason Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Thread stacks have a default size of 64kB. As you know, stack size can be explicitly set using pthread_attr_setstacksize(). However, note that Solaris uses a pthread stack size of 1 MB. Porter beware. libc_r now uses growable stacks with "guard

RE: [OFFTOPIC] alt. C compiler

2000-01-04 Thread Charles Randall
lcc and TenDRA are both in available as packages. Charles -Original Message- From: Gergely EGERVARY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 11:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OFFTOPIC] alt. C compiler Hi, is there any alternative (non-commercial) C compiler

timezone var vs timezone() function

1999-12-12 Thread Charles Randall
On my FreeBSD 3.3R system, /usr/include/time.h includes a prototype for the timezone() function. The timezone(3) manual page indicates that this function is for compatibility purposes only and notes that the timezone() function first appeared in ATT Unix V7. Version 2 of the Single Unix

RE: timezone var vs timezone() function

1999-12-12 Thread Charles Randall
From: Wilko Bulte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Charles Randall wrote: ... It also notes that this is, "Derived from Issue 1 of the SVID." SVID == System V Interface Definition. Interesting, my Solaris 2.6 box defines timezone as the global variable (in accordance with the Single Unix

Veritas Software Now Shipping With Linux

1999-12-09 Thread Charles Randall
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991209/09/tech-veritas-linux Veritas Software Now Shipping With Linux MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Reuters) Veritas Software Corp. (VRTS.O) said on Thursday its software used to backup data on computer systems is being shipped with Red Hat Inc.'s Linux 6.1 Delux product.

RE: Hardware list idea

1999-12-02 Thread Charles Randall
"perlbug -ok" does the same thing for Perl. I added the first version of this a few years ago. Perhaps "send-pr -ok"? Charles -Original Message- From: Chris D. Faulhaber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 3:44 PM To: Julian Elischer Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];

readdir_r vs readdir in libc_r?

1999-11-13 Thread Charles Randall
I'm using FreeBSD 3.3-R and have noted that there's a readdir() in libc_r but no readdir_r(). Based on archived messages from last year, it appears that the readir() in libc_r is not reentrant. To access readdir from multiple threads with different DIR entries, it appears that all of the

RE: A Question

1999-11-11 Thread Charles Randall
From a shell, % /sbin/ifconfig -a that's not exactly what you were looking for, but... Charles -Original Message- From: Santhosh Kumar M [CEC-S] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 11:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A Question Hi, Can

RE: FreeBSD reboots

1999-11-02 Thread Charles Randall
From: Julian Elischer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I have a patch to fix the fin-wait-2 problem.. Any reason this could't be applied to -stable with a corresponding sysctl variable? Charles To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the

bind(2) sets errno to undocumented EAGAIN?

1999-10-06 Thread Charles Randall
Under what conditions does bind(2) set errno to EAGAIN? The 3.2R bind(2) manual page does not list that as a valid value for errno when bind returns -1. This came up when using http_load (http://www.acme.com/software/http_load) to stress-test a local web server. In other words, using http_load

RE: Gigabit ethernet support?

1999-08-18 Thread Charles Randall
Bill Paul has developed a driver for the Alteon Tigon 1 and 2 cards. http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Alteon/ FYI, Charles -Original Message- From: David Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Gigabit ethernet

RE: Gigabit ethernet support?

1999-08-18 Thread Charles Randall
Bill Paul has developed a driver for the Alteon Tigon 1 and 2 cards. http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Alteon/ FYI, Charles -Original Message- From: David Miller [mailto:dmil...@search.sparks.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 1:55 PM To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject:

RE: Probably bug with allocation memory in FreeBSD-3.2-RELEASE

1999-08-17 Thread Charles Randall
The program in question does attempt to core dump when trying to fill the memory returned from malloc when malloc returns null. It almost seems like the attempt to dump core in an "out of swap" condition causes what seems like a machine hang (although you can still ping the machine). Charles

RE: Probably bug with allocation memory in FreeBSD-3.2-RELEASE

1999-08-17 Thread Charles Randall
The program in question does attempt to core dump when trying to fill the memory returned from malloc when malloc returns null. It almost seems like the attempt to dump core in an out of swap condition causes what seems like a machine hang (although you can still ping the machine). Charles

illegal ATAPI command in wdc probe?

1999-08-16 Thread Charles Randall
The VMWare guest OS page for FreeBSD (http://www.vmware.com/support/technotesfreebsd.html) states, --- One caveat with all versions of FreeBSD is that there is a problem probing for the CD-ROM device wdc1; FreeBSD sends an illegal ATAPI command to the IDE controller and ignores the error status

illegal ATAPI command in wdc probe?

1999-08-16 Thread Charles Randall
The VMWare guest OS page for FreeBSD (http://www.vmware.com/support/technotesfreebsd.html) states, --- One caveat with all versions of FreeBSD is that there is a problem probing for the CD-ROM device wdc1; FreeBSD sends an illegal ATAPI command to the IDE controller and ignores the error status

RE: mmap bug

1999-08-11 Thread Charles Randall
Looks like Oleg made a mistake in posting the code. I saw an earlier version of this in freebsd-questions and followed up with him. I've appended the version I think he meant to include. He's reporting this behavior with 3.2R. Runs fine with 'mmap -u', appears to hang the machine on the second

RE: mmap bug

1999-08-11 Thread Charles Randall
Looks like Oleg made a mistake in posting the code. I saw an earlier version of this in freebsd-questions and followed up with him. I've appended the version I think he meant to include. He's reporting this behavior with 3.2R. Runs fine with 'mmap -u', appears to hang the machine on the second

FW: Network problems with 3.2R as VMWare Guest OS

1999-08-02 Thread Charles Randall
Forwarded to -hackers due to a lack of response in -questions. Charles -Original Message- From: Charles Randall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 9:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Network problems with 3.2R as VMWare Guest OS I've been running 3.2R

FW: Network problems with 3.2R as VMWare Guest OS

1999-08-02 Thread Charles Randall
Forwarded to -hackers due to a lack of response in -questions. Charles -Original Message- From: Charles Randall [mailto:crand...@matchlogic.com] Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 9:55 AM To: freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Network problems with 3.2R as VMWare Guest OS I've been

RE: Replace/rewrite reverse.c for tail(1)

1999-07-28 Thread Charles Randall
I'd suggest that you use "tac" from GNU textutils. Charles -Original Message- From: Kevin Day [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 3:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Replace/rewrite reverse.c for tail(1) An application I use quite often requires me to reverse

RE: Replace/rewrite reverse.c for tail(1)

1999-07-28 Thread Charles Randall
I'd suggest that you use tac from GNU textutils. Charles -Original Message- From: Kevin Day [mailto:toa...@dragondata.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 3:09 AM To: hack...@freebsd.org Subject: Replace/rewrite reverse.c for tail(1) An application I use quite often requires me to

RE: speed of file(1)

1999-07-21 Thread Charles Randall
When this gets committed, can it be applied to both the 3.x and 4.x trees? Thanks, Charles -Original Message- From: Peter Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 5:55 AM To: Peter Jeremy Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: speed of file(1) A

RE: speed of file(1)

1999-07-21 Thread Charles Randall
When this gets committed, can it be applied to both the 3.x and 4.x trees? Thanks, Charles -Original Message- From: Peter Edwards [mailto:peter.edwa...@isocor.ie] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 5:55 AM To: Peter Jeremy Cc: w...@iki.fi; hack...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speed of file(1)

RE: Overcommit and calloc()

1999-07-19 Thread Charles Randall
From: Kelly Yancey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I have another post on this list which begs the question: if memory given to us fro sbrk() is already zeroed, why zero it again if we don't have too if we make calloc() smarter, we could save come clock cycles. Because the memory returned from

RE: Overcommit and calloc()

1999-07-19 Thread Charles Randall
From: Kelly Yancey [mailto:kby...@alcnet.com] I have another post on this list which begs the question: if memory given to us fro sbrk() is already zeroed, why zero it again if we don't have too if we make calloc() smarter, we could save come clock cycles. Because the memory returned from

RE: VMware--anyone playing with it?

1999-05-17 Thread Charles Randall
http://www.connectix.com/html/connectix_virtualpc.html -Original Message- From: Jacques Vidrine [mailto:n...@nectar.cc] Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 3:12 PM To: Jason Thorpe Cc: John Jennifer Reynolds; freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware--anyone playing with it? On 17 May

RE: VMware--anyone playing with it?

1999-05-17 Thread Charles Randall
From: Joe Abley [mailto:jab...@clear.co.nz] http://www.connectix.com/html/connectix_virtualpc.html But this only runs on the Mac, right? Seems like it. I think that Jason was only commenting on the coolness factor when compared to VMWare. Although I haven't tried it, VMWare seems damn cool