Re: New BETA of Broadcom 440x chipset driver

2003-08-26 Thread Lars Eggert
and bad experiences. I would be interested if people could run their favorite net bench marks with the hw.bcm_rx_quick sysctl set to 1 (default) and 0. I didn't see a difference, but my router in the middle is the bottleneck. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences

Re: new routing protocol

2003-08-19 Thread Lars Eggert
use ns-2: http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: GEOM Gate.

2003-08-14 Thread Lars Eggert
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Re: mixer for /etc/rc

2003-03-19 Thread Lars Eggert
not a committer of course). Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Broadcom 440x support?

2003-02-21 Thread Lars Eggert
Hi, we just got an Asus P4PE board with a Broadcom 440x NIC on it - is there any driver that supports it yet? Thanks Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Packet length 1284 instead of 1280

2003-02-19 Thread Lars Eggert
help you with your question, but if you're using 4.4-RELEASE, the KAME -SNAP you're using must be ancient. There have been many fixes, especially to the MIP6 code, so upgrading to a recent -SNAP may simply make the problem go away. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information

anoncvs.freebsd.org reachability

2003-02-10 Thread Lars Eggert
. Is there a mirror somewhere? Thanks, Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: anoncvs.freebsd.org reachability

2003-02-10 Thread Lars Eggert
Wilko Bulte wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:53:25AM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote: As I understand it there are issues at USW which are being investigated. Great, thanks! In the meantime, is there an easy way to switch over my existing CVS tree to a mirror? (And is there a mirror?) Lars

Re: 5400RPM|7200RPM Cable bottleneck?

2003-01-18 Thread Lars Eggert
of the cable pipe. NFS isn't well tuned for high-RTT environments (in my case, 20ms). If you get anything reasonable working, I'd be very interested in seeing your NFS parameters. Or, if you settle on anything else (AFS, etc.), I'd be interested to hear how that compares. Lars -- Lars Eggert

Re: 5400RPM|7200RPM Cable bottleneck?

2003-01-18 Thread Lars Eggert
On 1/18/2003 2:27 PM, Terry Lambert wrote: Lars Eggert wrote: I've tried NFS mounting ISI servers at home over PPTP over a cable modem connection, and it's painfully slow - much slower than the bandwidth of the cable pipe. NFS isn't well tuned for high-RTT environments (in my case, 20ms

Re: Automount from a Solaris NIS/NFS server?

2002-12-05 Thread Lars Eggert
will give you some ideas that'll apply to your configuration. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Lars Eggert
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I would need to look at the code to be able to tell, I don't have time for that. I'd consider not having vinum work under geom a show-stopper... at least until geom can stripe. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Lars Eggert
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lars Eggert writes: I'd consider not having vinum work under geom a show-stopper... at least until geom can stripe. Well, the showstopper is in vinum. The fact that ccd(4) works seamlessly with GEOM is testament to this. For some

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Lars Eggert
Lars Eggert wrote: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Well, the showstopper is in vinum. The fact that ccd(4) works seamlessly with GEOM is testament to this. For some reason I was under the (mis?)impression that ccd was no longer being maintained... If it works with geom, we can probably move

Re: VPN Routing through gif (4) tunnel

2002-09-28 Thread Lars Eggert
NOT set up a gif tunnel. (In short, that abuses the fact that two parallel tunnels trick routing into forwarding over a tunnel mode SA, with consequences; see ftp://ftp.isi.edu/internet-drafts/draft-touch-ipsec-vpn-04.txt. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences

Re: VPN Routing through gif (4) tunnel

2002-09-28 Thread Lars Eggert
thing. When we contacted them about it, they seemed clueless about IANA and registered ports. Not the most confidence-inspiring behavior for a firewall vendor.] -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: VPN Routing through gif (4) tunnel

2002-09-28 Thread Lars Eggert
original assumption correct, that as long as the tunnel is specified correctly in the SPD, that the routing will happen automgically? Yes. Once the correct SA is in place, forwarding over the tunnel should happen. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences

Re: top shows all zeroes.

2002-09-12 Thread Lars Eggert
Patrick Thomas wrote: 2. What is to be done ? I have no reason to believe this won't crop up on 4.6.2 or later...does anyone else ? I just saw it happen on today's -CURRENT on the same laptop (has ACPI). Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute

Re: top shows all zeroes.

2002-09-12 Thread Lars Eggert
Lars Eggert wrote: I just saw it happen on today's -CURRENT on the same laptop (has ACPI). And hit send too soon, there's another datapoint. When it happens on -CURRENT, the rtc at irq8 is happily ticking along. Also, unlike the subject, top does not show all zeroes: the interrupt and idle

Re: Ultra320 drivers?

2002-08-31 Thread Lars Eggert
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Re: Ultra320 drivers?

2002-08-31 Thread Lars Eggert
(40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 34732MB (71132959 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4427C) Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Ultra320 drivers?

2002-08-30 Thread Lars Eggert
Peter Wemm wrote: Lars Eggert wrote: We just got a bunch of Dell machines that have this controller as well. Any news about support in sym? No, you want the 'mpt' driver that Matt Jacob recently committed. The 1030 has nothing in common with sym. I backported the mpt driver from -STABLE

Re: Ultra320 drivers?

2002-08-30 Thread Lars Eggert
-branded firmware somewhere, but so far, no luck. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Ultra320 drivers?

2002-08-30 Thread Lars Eggert
-branded firmware somewhere, but so far, no luck. *groan* I might have an image somewhere around... hang on... check my directory on hub- there's 1.0.6 there... That'd be great. I also emailed Dell and LSI. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute

Re: Ultra320 drivers?

2002-08-29 Thread Lars Eggert
? I have an IA64 box with a 1030 as well. :-/ We just got a bunch of Dell machines that have this controller as well. Any news about support in sym? Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Ultra320 drivers?

2002-08-29 Thread Lars Eggert
Peter Wemm wrote: Lars Eggert wrote: We just got a bunch of Dell machines that have this controller as well. Any news about support in sym? No, you want the 'mpt' driver that Matt Jacob recently committed. The 1030 has nothing in common with sym. I just saw the message on cvs-all

Re: SMP P4 Xeons out there?

2002-08-29 Thread Lars Eggert
Lars Eggert wrote: Doug White wrote: Anyone other there with multiprocessor P4 Xeon systems with Hyperthreading enabled that are seeing 4 CPUs show up on boot? Not yet, but we're expecting some Dell Precision 530s later this week - I'll let you know. Just got them, and no, 4.6

Re: top shows all zeroes.

2002-08-26 Thread Lars Eggert
conjecture, this is a server and (although I may be mistaken) does not have APM in the bios at all - I have also removed it from the kernel. dmesg tends to confirm the absence of APM. Mine's a laptop with APM enabled (BIOS + kernel). Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC

Re: IP routing question

2002-08-13 Thread Lars Eggert
gif tunnels - he'd need to use IPIP tunnels + IPsec transport mode in that case (see draft-touch-ipsec-vpn04.txt), which I recommend anyway, of course :-) I hadn't thought of using the ipfw in selector, good idea! Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute

Re: IP routing question

2002-08-13 Thread Lars Eggert
route would be picked. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SMP P4 Xeons out there?

2002-08-11 Thread Lars Eggert
Doug White wrote: Hey folks, Anyone other there with multiprocessor P4 Xeon systems with Hyperthreading enabled that are seeing 4 CPUs show up on boot? Not yet, but we're expecting some Dell Precision 530s later this week - I'll let you know. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED

/usr/lib/libtelnet.a missing on 4.6?

2002-06-26 Thread Lars Eggert
4.5 systems do. Is this a bug of the ISO image, or a deliberate change? Thanks, Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: gif(4) tunnel through MSN DSL modem

2002-06-11 Thread Lars Eggert
in the infconfig_xl0 line doesn't match the comment, which one is wrong? Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: gif(4) tunnel through MSN DSL modem

2002-06-11 Thread Lars Eggert
than gif in this instance, even though I'm less familiar with that arrangement. I'm willing to bet a beer that these problems will dissappear if you pick different subnets and IP addresses for your interfaces. This is a pretty straightforward setup. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Numerous hard hangs on TWO different ASUS P4T-E w/P4 1.6G

2002-06-08 Thread Lars Eggert
years ago, and the mailing list consensus back then was apm is not for SMP. So either it's something else, or my BIOS is lacking an option. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Numerous hard hangs on TWO different ASUS P4T-E w/P4 1.6G

2002-06-07 Thread Lars Eggert
during high loads solves the problem - are you using your audio device at all when this happens? Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Numerous hard hangs on TWO different ASUS P4T-E w/P4 1.6G

2002-06-07 Thread Lars Eggert
Precision has an onboard SCSI controller that by default shares an IRQ with the sound card. Even with no SCSI disks connected, the sound would be really choppy. When I disabled the SCSI controller in the BIOS, those problems went away. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information

Re: Project: a benchmark utility

2002-06-06 Thread Lars Eggert
be generated from this data using gnuplot or some such that would be nice, too. Any takers? You want John Heidemann's JDB! I'm using it for any number crunching I need to do for my benchmarks. http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/JDB/index.html Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC

get/setuid used instead of get/seteuid?

2002-06-05 Thread Lars Eggert
? If so, there's other system programs (e.g. reboot) that check the euid instead. (Or is the inconsistency deliberate?) Can someone shed some light on this? Thanks, Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

Re: SMP kernel freezes with nice processes.

2002-05-15 Thread Lars Eggert
priority inversion. Not much you can do about that without looking at the dnetc source any finding out which resources it holds locked. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Anyone using pptp?

2002-05-01 Thread Lars Eggert
? This is a FAQ on -net. There's been a couple of threads on this recently, and configuration examples were posted for mpd. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] USC Information Sciences Institute smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: USB Memorybird quirks

2002-04-10 Thread Lars Eggert
There is some (maybe) related code that has been sitting for a while in PR misc/32490 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/32490) Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern

Re: perfomance and regular expressions

2002-03-29 Thread Lars Eggert
}$, REG_EXTENDED+REG_ICASE); return(!regexec(re,name,0,0,0)); so, questions are: 1) is it faster to compile regex once and load it from file every time program starts ? 2) how to store in a file data of type regex_t ?? Try using flex. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information

Re: usb mass storage problems

2002-03-27 Thread Lars Eggert
been sitting in PR misc/32490 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/32490) for a while :-)Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: idprio

2002-03-26 Thread Lars Eggert
you will still see a drop in your foreground performance. Theoretically, however, you can construct scenarios where your foreground stuff is starved ad infinitum due to priority inversion. (Since some/most non-CPU resources don't support priorities and preemption.) Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL

Re: A weird disk behaviour

2002-03-05 Thread Lars Eggert
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Re: A weird disk behaviour

2002-03-05 Thread Lars Eggert
-Zhihui On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Lars Eggert wrote: I agree that it's probably caching at some level. You're only writing about 120MB of data (and half that in your second case). Bump these to a couple of GB and see what happens. Also, could you post your actual measurements? Lars

Re: A weird disk behaviour

2002-03-05 Thread Lars Eggert
of it. ... I find out the the performance of (2) is several times better than the performance of (1). Can anyone explain to me why this is the case? If (2) is better than (1), then writing *less* data is faster. Which is it, now? Lars -Zhihui On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Lars Eggert wrote

which irqs are generally good for rndcontrol?

2002-02-08 Thread Lars Eggert
have good entropy on some machines, and others on other)? Thanks, Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: which irqs are generally good for rndcontrol?

2002-02-08 Thread Lars Eggert
was a related discussion if using CPU temperature and fan speed would be good sources of entropy. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

priority disk scheduling?

2002-01-25 Thread Lars Eggert
more recent before looking into porting their stuff. Thanks, Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: cpu info in userland

2002-01-22 Thread Lars Eggert
hack in i386/27627 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/27627) that puts the CPU speed at startup into a sysctl. It's been shot down in -hackers a while ago for various (totally justified) reasons, but it does the job for me locally. :-) Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3

2001-12-20 Thread Lars Eggert
fall through the cracks sometimes. It isn't a bad idea to ping a newsgroup about a PR after some reasonable time after submission (a week or two). Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern

Re: cable modem connection problem

2001-12-10 Thread Lars Eggert
be surprised if this really was a FreeBSD issue; I really think it's the provider doing something weird. (And on Windows you'll never see the problem, since you typically reboot more frequently than every 10 hours anyway... :-) Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences

Re: cable modem connection problem

2001-12-10 Thread Lars Eggert
of the problems mentioned. Can he/she tcpdump for ARP packets? Maybe Windows' ARP cache timeout is lower than FreeBSD's. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California To Unsubscribe

Re: Nat through two DSL

2001-12-07 Thread Lars Eggert
, but not at peak performance). Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Nat through two DSL

2001-12-07 Thread Lars Eggert
could remember which paper I saw this in. Anyone know?) Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: Nat through two DSL

2001-12-07 Thread Lars Eggert
. Anders Hagman wrote: The ADSL are 500k links and I want to load share on session by session. Ah, just caught the session by session part on second reading. In this case, my prior comment about packet-level striping and TCP is moot. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information

Re: Nat through two DSL

2001-12-07 Thread Lars Eggert
session basis, you may be able to work with ipfw fwd (which does policy based forwarding) and the ipfw probability work done by Luigi. man ipfw for more info. I didn't know about that, thanks for the pointer! I use ipfw strictly as a firewall :-) Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Nat through two DSL

2001-12-07 Thread Lars Eggert
Nick Rogness wrote: On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Lars Eggert wrote: What prevents you from picking one source address for packets going out both interfaces? Your return packets won't be striped then of course. (Which could make this scheme ineffective, assuming client machines receive much more than

Re: Success! [with patch] (was Re: umass ATAPI)

2001-12-06 Thread Lars Eggert
Martin Heller wrote: I can confirm that the patches are also working flawlessly for a Pentax Optio 330 on a 5.0-current system. Great! Did you try the patch I posted (quirks added to scsi_da.c) or the one from the PR? (They're different.) Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Problem with two smbus devices

2001-12-06 Thread Lars Eggert
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Re: cable modem connection problem

2001-12-06 Thread Lars Eggert
is back to normal. Is this going out from behind the box, or coming in from the Internet? Also, do you see packet drops or RTT increases (define slow). Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern

Re: cable modem connection problem

2001-12-06 Thread Lars Eggert
before you start to see this slowdown? Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body

umass ATAPI

2001-12-03 Thread Lars Eggert
with... :-) Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: umass ATAPI

2001-12-03 Thread Lars Eggert
of entries have been MFS'ed shortly so if you had named your device we would know better if it's already special handled. Ooops, sorry - it's a Pentax Optio 430. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University

Re: Success! [with patch] (was Re: umass ATAPI)

2001-12-03 Thread Lars Eggert
). It also doesn't crash if the camera was attached *during* boot. Any clues? (Can't produce a crashdump, kernel doesn't enter DDB when crashing). Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern

RE: Success! [with patch] (was Re: umass ATAPI)

2001-12-03 Thread Lars Eggert
it up and commit it. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California smime.p7s Description: application/pkcs7-signature

NFS append race (was Re: got bad cookie vp 0xe2e5ef80 bp 0xcf317328)

2001-09-25 Thread Lars Eggert
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Re: got bad cookie vp 0xe2e5ef80 bp 0xcf317328

2001-09-25 Thread Lars Eggert
Matthew Emmerton wrote: What OS is running on the NFS client and server? I see these too, with a FreeBSD-4.4 client and SunOS 5.5.1 servers. Seen them with FreeBSD-4.2 clients to the same servers as well. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute

Re: Kernel Console speed

2001-05-02 Thread Lars Eggert
instead of 38400, and on 4.2-RELEASE. -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: apache

2001-02-26 Thread Lars Eggert
Dan Phoenix wrote: httpd in free(): warning: recursive call. What FreeBSD/apache versions is this with? I've seen the same on FreeBSD-3.4 and an older apache build from ports. Haven't (yet) seen it under 4.2 and the latest apache from ports. -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: capturing an early kernel dump

2001-02-02 Thread Lars Eggert
Peter Wemm wrote: Lars Eggert wrote: I'm playing with the networking code; by that time, the disks should have been probed. Hmm.. driver or stack? If it is a driver, then why not just kldload it? Stack. If you do a boot -v, you should see something like: 'creating disk ad0

capturing an early kernel dump

2001-02-01 Thread Lars Eggert
[Repost from last week, no answer then.] How do I capture an early kernel dump (before rc executes and sets dumpdev)? The dump partition used to be an option in the kernel config file, but that seems to have changed in 3.X or 4.X. Thanks, Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: capturing an early kernel dump

2001-02-01 Thread Lars Eggert
Lars Eggert wrote: How do I capture an early kernel dump (before rc executes and sets dumpdev)? How early? We could dump if you were prepared to hardwire in the minor and major device numbers to get to the devsw[] vectors and manually set the offsets. Not that early :-) I'm playing

capturing an early kernel dump

2001-01-26 Thread Lars Eggert
How do I capture an early kernel dump (before rc executes and sets dumpdev)? The dump partition used to be an option in the kernel config file, but that seems to have changed in 3.X or 4.X. Thanks, Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http

Re: Embarrassing CVS question.

2000-11-28 Thread Lars Eggert
the branches (/usr/src/Makefile is a good candiate for FreeBSD's /usr/src) and do a 'cvs log | more' on it. cvs status -v -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/University of Southern California S/MIME

curproc question

2000-10-31 Thread Lars Eggert
Quick question: During a system call inside the kernel, can I safely assume that curproc points to the process that issued the call? For example, will looking at curproc in ip_output() tell me which process is responsible for generating the packet? Thanks, Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: curproc question

2000-10-31 Thread Lars Eggert
wouldn't it point at the "correct" process? Maybe I could tolerate those. -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/University of Southern California S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

implementing idle-time networking

2000-09-18 Thread Lars Eggert
on if this is expected behavior? Wouldn't that mean that as packets are being generated by the socket layer, they are handed down through the kernel to the driver one-by-one, incurring at interrupt for each packet? Or am I missing the obvious? Thanks, Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED

measuring bus utilization

2000-08-10 Thread Lars Eggert
Quick question: Is there a way to measure PCI bus utilization using the P6 performance monitoring capabilities? Specifically, is BUS_DRDY_CLOCKS/ticks a a meaningful figure? Thanks, Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse

Re: clearing pages in the idle loop

2000-07-24 Thread Lars Eggert
interruptable if a 'real' process becomes runnable, but the disadvantage of having to do a context switch (albeit a relatively cheap one). That would probably be the cleanest solution. Maybe the idprio mechanism could be extended to cover this. -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: clearing pages in the idle loop

2000-07-21 Thread Lars Eggert
'm looking at (1.68, 1999/10/15), where problems found after the paper was published? Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/University of Southern California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: clearing pages in the idle loop

2000-07-21 Thread Lars Eggert
-interfering background processing (i.e. run processes/threads using *only* idle capacities); and (2) to use that mechanism for speculative techniques. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/University of Southern

Re: clearing pages in the idle loop

2000-07-21 Thread Lars Eggert
require MMU support though. Lars -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/University of Southern California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

clearing pages in the idle loop

2000-07-19 Thread Lars Eggert
. Optimizing the Idle Task and Other MMU Tricks. Proceedings 3rd USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), February 1999, pp. 229-237. -- Lars Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/University