Re: Another EPIA M 9000 update (was Re: More compartive power/performance results (was Re: Lower power SMP boxes?))

2003-02-10 Thread Darryl Okahata
are now supposed to be power-factor-corrected, an ampmeter can give good results). -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green

Re: USB to IDE converter

2002-04-08 Thread Darryl Okahata
a resume (being worked on in -current, I see). * Intermittent, umass0: Phase Error, residue = 8192, hangs when transferring large amounts of data (~10MB-30MB). I'm hoping that this isn't an hardware problem. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message

Re: USB to IDE converter

2002-04-07 Thread Darryl Okahata
-storage compliant, which means that it'll be difficult (if not impossible) to get it working with FreeBSD (someone may have to write a driver for it). If it doesn't need drivers, then I'm at a loss as to suggest what to do next, except to upgrade to the latest FreeBSD-STABLE. -- Darryl

Re: freebsd-hackers-digest V5 #429

2002-03-27 Thread Darryl Okahata
be used (which is what you're using). I know that a -STABLE of around mid-February will *NOT* work (which is what makes me think that -RELEASE also doesn't work), and one as of March 19 does (but might have problems with the new ATA code). -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: HOW to debug memory corruption efficiently?

2002-01-30 Thread Darryl Okahata
a Linux version is available. There is no open-source equivalent to purify (and probably won't be, due to patent issues). The closest thing is GNU checker, but that's a pale, feeble dust speck compared to purify (assuming that you even manage to get checker working). -- Darryl Okahata

Re: Found the problem, w/patch (was Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?)

2001-12-03 Thread Darryl Okahata
. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: wake up on lan driver support

2001-11-13 Thread Darryl Okahata
enough current on the +5VSB rail to support WOL. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him

Re: wake up on lan driver support

2001-11-13 Thread Darryl Okahata
language. ] I don't think you need *support* in the driver. What you do need is for the driver/ACPI *bugs* to be fixed (any existing BIOS-configured settings like WOL need to be preserved and not destroyed by the driver). -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER

Re: wake up on lan driver support

2001-11-12 Thread Darryl Okahata
. That's it. Now, you only have to send the special WOL packets to the system to be woken up (someone's already mentioned the software, in another posting, which also does not require any special driver support). I've used both FreeBSD and Windows to send the packets. -- Darryl

Re: secure Filesystem

2001-08-23 Thread Darryl Okahata
30-35MB (20MB typ) Of course, increasing the number of buckets increased the initial cfsd size (to 14-16MB, in the case of the 1M buckets), but that's acceptable. [ And the cfsd process doesn't shrink when you cdetach ;-( ] -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: secure Filesystem

2001-08-20 Thread Darryl Okahata
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Re: secure Filesystem

2001-08-16 Thread Darryl Okahata
messages under cfs, but I've got too many files (I can't afford having a 200+MB cfsd). The memory is not freed until you unmount (and then, the memory is only free'd for use by other cfs mounts -- the process size does not, of course, shrink). -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: secure Filesystem

2001-08-16 Thread Darryl Okahata
, a 200+MB cfsd puts the system into swap h*ll pretty quickly. I think cfsd has some linked lists which thrash a lot of pages. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy

cscope open-sourced!

2000-04-19 Thread Darryl Okahata
). -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.sr.hp.com/~darrylo/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Recommended addition to FAQ (Troubleshooting)

2000-02-18 Thread Darryl Okahata
and fastest way out of these situations. Unless I'll second this. I've had memory problems in the past, and every memory checker I used said that the memory was good. Only by swapping out the bad memory (I don't have access to an hardware memory checker) was I able to fix my problems. --

Re: Severe problems with softupdates.

1999-11-12 Thread Darryl Okahata
(I appear to be the only one). If you want to see what I did, see: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=116906+120859+/usr/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-mobile/19991107.freebsd-mobile -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's person

Re: Search a symbol in the source tree

1999-10-18 Thread Darryl Okahata
/local/www/db/text/1999/freebsd-hackers/19991017.freebsd-hackers Side note: Shigio Yamaguchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] has found some issues and bugs regarding GLOBAL, and so GLOBAL is not as bad as the article makes it out to be. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message

Re: Search a symbol in the source tree

1999-10-14 Thread Darryl Okahata
ber to use different options when searching for function definitions, identifier usage, preprocessor definitions, etc., and you may still have to resort to doing a full grep because, for some searches, global is too slow. The indices for global are HUGE, and indexing takes much longer than other

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-05 Thread Darryl Okahata
Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darryl Okahata wrote: ... however, how the H*LL are the clueless newbie hordes supposed to know or learn this? As much as we'd like them to be, they're not exactly born with this knowledge, and I somehow doubt there's an "XXX for Du

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-05 Thread Darryl Okahata
b page FAQ) within a reasonable amount of time. ] -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following h

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-04 Thread Darryl Okahata
y the Major Linux Personage, I'd have to say that there's a lot of ugly truth there -- and I do really wish he was wrong. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-P

Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...)

1999-10-04 Thread Darryl Okahata
elling them via insults and the like is, well, rude. Basically, the person doesn't like the present behavior, and would like to have an alternative (or have it changed completely). This is, believe it or not, a reasonable question/belief/expectation. If it's really asked that com

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

1999-08-29 Thread Darryl Okahata
ble" (whatever this means). -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Un

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

1999-08-29 Thread Darryl Okahata
). -- Darryl Okahata darr...@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord

Re: [Fwd: [URGENT] CVS problems]

1999-08-16 Thread Darryl Okahata
help? How big is the history file size (compared to the processes' max allowed data size)? CVS has a number of brain-damanged areas; one in particular is that CVS reads the *ENTIRE* history file into memory when doing stuff ... and it's doing so simply to scan the history file line-by-line ...

Re: [Fwd: [URGENT] CVS problems]

1999-08-16 Thread Darryl Okahata
is the history file size (compared to the processes' max allowed data size)? CVS has a number of brain-damanged areas; one in particular is that CVS reads the *ENTIRE* history file into memory when doing stuff ... and it's doing so simply to scan the history file line-by-line -- Darryl

Re: vinum performance

1999-06-18 Thread Darryl Okahata
performance with the default filesystem frag size. Increasing the frag size (via newfs), increased performance substantially. -- Darryl Okahata darr...@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy

Re: vinum performance

1999-06-18 Thread Darryl Okahata
Greg Lehey g...@lemis.com wrote: On Friday, 18 June 1999 at 1:14:20 -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote: Possible marginally-related data point: with the 3.1-RELEASE vinum, and with striped drives (yes, I know the original user is using concatenated devices), I saw pretty bad write

Re: Kernel config script

1999-06-02 Thread Darryl Okahata
, and complete overkill for such an application. I'm curious: in your opinion, what is the purpose of Unix? Personally, I'd much rather use a single OS for everything -- including word processing. I don't -- today -- but that's where I'd like to be. -- Darryl Okahata darr

Re: a two-level port system?

1999-06-01 Thread Darryl Okahata
if you include the original CVS archive). -- Darryl Okahata darr...@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day

Re: Kernel config script

1999-05-31 Thread Darryl Okahata
, and attempted kicking of hind parts rather boring. I've got better and often more enjoyable things to do. For those of you who enjoy all this name-calling and dirt-flinging, I've got one thing to say: grow up and get a life. -- Darryl Okahata darr...@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER