Anyone working on cobalt code?

2004-01-08 Thread Geoff Buckingham
This is by now old news, but I ws wondering if anyone had allready taken a look at the RAQ code Sun released under a BSD licence just before christmas. The source is available at http://open.cobaltqube.org/ THe readme is which is in the tarball looks like this: 23 December 2003 Thank you for

Re: 20TB Storage System (fsck????)

2003-09-04 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:12:45AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Yes. Limit the number of CG bitmaps you examine simultaneously, and make the operation multiple pass over the disk. This is not that hard a modification to fsck, and it can be done fairly quickly by anyone who understands the

Re: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-03 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 03:53:53PM -0700, Max Clark wrote: Depends on whether you plan on crashing or not :) According to http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2003-July/000181.html, you may not want to create filesystems over 3TB if you want fsck to succeed. I don't know if that's

Multiple keyboards for syscons?

2003-09-02 Thread Geoff Buckingham
I am trying to find a way to use two keyboards with syscons, something like: mkfifo /tmp/mykbds cat /dev/kbd1 /tmp/mykbds cat /dev/kbd2 /tmp/mykbds kbdcontrol -k /tmp/mykbds /dev/console (The above doesn't work 'kbdcontrol: unable to obtain keyboard information: Operation not supported' )

Re: Call for thread testers

2003-08-28 Thread Geoff Buckingham
With reguards to apache, can I ask what the state of the network stack and drivers is? I last did any serious apache benchmarking a long time ago, circa FreeBSD 3.1. Then the request per second figure dropped by about 50% when you enabled the second CPU on an SMP system as the apached's fought

loader and extended ext2fs partitions?

2002-02-09 Thread Geoff Buckingham
Should the loader be able to understand ext2fs partitions within an extended (type 4) partition? I have been trying this with a disk containing a suse 7.2 install (automatic) its fstab looks like this: /dev/sda7 / ext2defaults 1 1 /dev/sda5 /boot ext2defaults 1 2

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-08 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 03:41:59AM -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote: Yes I did and it made some real differences. I enabled it on /usr as well as /var and mounted /var with the noatime option. Doing not bad for the amount of email it is pushingthing is this I/O problem never use to be an

Re: Multithreaded tcp-server or non-blocking ?

2000-11-16 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:38:14AM +0100, Nicolai Petri wrote: What's the best approach for a simple web-server(never more the 10 clients) ? Is it using pthread and a thread per connection . Or to make a non-blocking single thread server. Can people show me some simple examples of the 2

Multiple ro mounts of vinum volume

2000-07-20 Thread Geoff Buckingham
Does anybody with a knowledge of the vinum code have an opinion on the amount of work involved in getting vinum to the point that several JBODs in a FC switched fabric could be managed, as a vinum volume, by one machine, and mounted ro by that machine and several others on the switch fabric.

Re: Multiple ro mounts of vinum volume

2000-07-20 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 06:38:13PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 20 July 2000 at 18:33:42 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 20 July 2000 at 9:55:13 +0100, Geoff Buckingham wrote: Does anybody with a knowledge of the vinum code have an opinion on the amount of work involved

Re: Conflict between Intel 82558/9 and VIA MVP4?

2000-06-21 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 09:03:24AM -0700, Les Biffle wrote: We're having problems with the Intel EtherExpress 10/100 NICs in our product platform. We suspect unfavorable interaction between the 82558 and 82559 Intel parts and our motherboard chipset. Here are some specifics: We're using

Re: Re/Fwd: freebsd specific search

2000-02-02 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 11:18:23AM -0500, Michael Bacarella wrote: systems have the highest availability rate possible. Over the last few years, I have replaced almost all of our Linux-based servers with FreeBSD, due to the quality-control measures that the FreeBSD development team have

Re: PCMCIA Chipset

1999-11-08 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 08:18:17PM -1000, Richard Puga wrote: I am having trouble with a PCMCIA chipset I have a ISA to PCMCIA adaptor, it is made by ActionTec model no. PC-250 www.actiontec.com the chip on it has the following information on it; D japan DB6082 1992 DATABOOK 1992

Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ?

1999-10-27 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 12:44:42PM -0400, Ben Rosengart wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Chuck Youse wrote: One of the biggest reasons for the difference: FreeBSD, by default, performs

Re: Class C hack instead of ifconfig aliases

1999-10-20 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:02:08AM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: What do you mean by "bind a class C"? Make an interface so it will respond to incoming requests for 10.1.2.x? ewww, yuck! Is it any less elegant than having in_localaddr() trawling through each item on the address list?

Re: systat -- The alternate system clock has died...

1999-09-04 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 01:43:32AM -0700, Jaye Mathisen wrote: Hmph. Fired up systat on a recently supped 3.2-stable box (aug 30). Typed :vm, and the screen cleared, it drew the labels, then sat there for a few seconds, then said: "The alternate system clock has died, reverting to

Re: systat -- The alternate system clock has died...

1999-09-04 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 01:43:32AM -0700, Jaye Mathisen wrote: Hmph. Fired up systat on a recently supped 3.2-stable box (aug 30). Typed :vm, and the screen cleared, it drew the labels, then sat there for a few seconds, then said: The alternate system clock has died, reverting to pigs

Dell PERC LVD card (Power Edge Raid Controller)

1999-09-03 Thread Geoff Buckingham
Through a mis-order I have aquired a PERC card (Actually an AMI megaRAID) which I am happy to make available to anyone genuinly interested in working on a driver (This is the PCI RAID card that goes into Dells Power Edge servers if ordered in a RAID configuration) -- Geoff Buckingham Systems