Re: valgrind on FreeBSD 7

2008-03-17 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Heiko Wundram wrote: Hey all! It's been some time now, and I just wanted to ping quietly whether there's any chance to get (a preview of) the valgrind adapted for FreeBSD 7. out is a futile task, I guess, as I didn't manage to find it in the FreeBSD perforce repository

Re: patches

2007-08-22 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, shyam burkule wrote: hellow can someone send me patch implementating page replacement algorithm in freeBSD Thanks Shyam No. Mike Silby Silbersack ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Examples on using RTC

2007-02-16 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/ports/emulators/rtc regards, usleep Already using / looked at that. I'm looking for something more in-depth. -Garrett The rtc port's sole purpose is to make the vmware port happier. As you probably saw, it just fakes the functions

Re: Where to start?

2007-01-23 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would guess that if a way could be found to preallocate the journal space (as with mkfile(8) in sufficiently-old systems), and then record its location in a reasonably-secure location (the superblock?), it could be accessed during recovery

Re: Where to start?

2007-01-20 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Soeren Straarup wrote: Hi I'm looking for a project. Something that would actually be used. Preferely something with kernel and geom. I have looked over the project page, but not sure where to start. /Soeren I'd like to see the ability to run gjournal without

Re: Hardening FreeBSD, does anyone have any documentation that may help?

2006-12-01 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: The code is integrated in GCC 4.1, patching if needed at all is quite contained. But we're still running gcc 3.4.6, and won't be moving to gcc 4.1 on 6.x. The gcc 3.4.6 patch is the one we're reluctant to have to support. The ABI impact is

Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

2006-08-20 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Eric Anderson wrote: I'm tired of trying to use rsync or gcp (which doesn't like symlinks often) to copy trees of files/directories using hard links, so I added the gcp-ish options -a and -l. ... Comments? Flames? Committers willing to commit? Eric Having just read

Re: Heavy system load by pagedaemon

2006-05-12 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Iasen Kostov wrote: Exactly what i did :). I set vm.pmap.shpgperproc=600 in loader.conf and about 5 min after boot the system paniced and I was not able even to see the message (either because I was pressing enter for the command or it just doesn't wait for a key).

Re: Heavy system load by pagedaemon

2006-05-12 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Iasen Kostov wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 10:27 -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: Can you provide instructions on how to create a testbench that exhibits these same problems? Can eAccelerator + PHP + Apache + some simple script + apachebench do the trick? Nope

Re: Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option

2006-04-05 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Wed, 2006-Apr-05 12:14:29 -0500, Rick C. Petty wrote: If not operator, then maybe one configurable group, defaulting to operator. Sounds like a good idea. -- Peter Jeremy What group do NFS and SMBFS shares belong to? Mike Silby Silbersack

Re: RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option

2006-04-03 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: I know we have vfs.usermount, but this is not always sufficient since the user has to own the mount point in question. What I propose is to add a ``user'' mount option ? la Linux. This would make mount and umount setuid root, but would allow much

Re: VMWARE GSX Port?

2006-02-28 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Scott Long wrote: Ashok Shrestha wrote: VMWARE GSX was released recently for free. [http://www.vmware.com/news/releases/server_beta.html] Is anyone working on a port for this? I've started on it, but I haven't made much progress yet. Scott Anyone who's interested

Re: Named requests filling up T1

2006-01-16 Thread Mike Silbersack
Thanks Matt, The answer to both is no. The domain doesn't resolve either (v.tn.co.za). It looks like the source IP changes too...sigh I tried a whois on the source IP and it was not found, so it may be spoofed? Or someone has a very messed up server... There was a thread on bugtraq

Re: 6-STABLE: HZ1000, RFC1323 non-compliance, and PF

2005-12-16 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Alan Amesbury wrote: Because we have several systems equipped with em(4)-compatible cards that are intended to accept traffic at gigabit speeds, I've configured them with HZ=2000, per the notes above. However, 6-STABLE has also included some newer pf(4) code, which is

Re: mmap() sendfile()

2005-12-12 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Cedric Tabary wrote: If it is true, doing a sendfile() on some very big files (even if not keeping the descriptor open after) will kill the cache ? Please help me to understand why this patch ? and the difference between sendfile() and mmap() at the memory or cache

Re: select(2) timeout precision

2005-11-01 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Viktor Vasilev wrote: With FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE I almost constantly get ~2 microseconds delta. That is with 100HZ kernel on PIII 500MHz or Sempron 64 2800+ Put kern.hz=1000 in /boot/loader.conf to kick it up to 1000Hz, that should improve the accuracy a lot. The

Re: Limiting closed port RST response from XXX to 200...

2005-10-18 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:51:15PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On a server I'm benchmark testing, via local host, I'm getting Limiting closed port RST response from to 200 packets/sec on the console when I'm running a lot of local

Re: Limiting closed port RST response from XXX to 200...

2005-10-17 Thread Mike Silbersack
Hi, On a server I'm benchmark testing, via local host, I'm getting Limiting closed port RST response from to 200 packets/sec on the console when I'm running a lot of local connections very quickly all at once (about 7500 per second). I've added the following:

Re: JFS2 on freebsd

2005-09-09 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: would a port of JFS2 be of interest to freebsd core? thanks -kamal There are many things that would be of interest to FreeBSD users, but that's not a good reason to start a project. If you're motivated only because you think others desire your

Re: Re: JFS2 on freebsd

2005-09-09 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Sergey Babkin wrote: OTOH, updating our ext2 code, or ntfs code (if that's even possible) would be something of use to many people, I suspect. Why not go for ext3 instead of JFS then? It has journaling in it. -SB I was thinking that as I wrote it as well, I'm not sure

Re: Parking disk drive heads

2005-08-20 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Doug Ambrisko wrote: Flash is nice but it has some issues. Atleast dropping it isn't one! Doug A. I'd be really happy if I could get a USB flash drive to last more than 8 months. Luckily, I started weekly backups after the first failure. That helped a lot when the

Re: Kernel code of reseting/ignoring tcp SYN packets

2005-08-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Minh Tran wrote: Would anyone have some hints on the clean way of injecting some code to deal with SYN packets or could you give me some ideas on which files i should look at? I really appreciate that. I saw some promising files in src/sys/netinet but they are not all

Re: ProPolice: best way to fill canary

2005-07-09 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: Thanks for you answer. In that case, which sysctl should we use ? * OpenBSD's kern.arnd (KERN_ARND) which is a front-end to the arc4random() function ? * NetBSD's kern.urandom (KERN_URND) which is using the rnd(4)

Re: ProPolice: best way to fill canary

2005-07-08 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: The second method requires to introduce the kern.arnd sysctl (KERN_ARND). FYI, note that NetBSD has kern.urandom (KERN_URND) and they define KERN_ARND to be an alias to this. Your comments will be welcome. Best regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen I don't

Re: Improving bind 9 for money

2005-05-27 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Attila Nagy wrote: Hello, I'm just doing a quick poll. If I would have a given amount of money and I would like to make bind 9 go faster (both in the terms of caching and authoritative performance) on FreeBSD, could I find the appropriate people for the job? The

Re: Broadcom 5789

2005-05-16 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 17 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone with knowledge of the Broadcom ethernet chips and the bge driver check if adding support for the 5789 is really that easy and if yes, initiate the needed steps to get the device id's in the kernel? Adding support for new chips often is

Re: ip_reass() - possibly incorrect goto

2005-03-24 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Maxim Konovalov wrote: On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, 12:08-0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi hackers, I am looking at the ip_reass() routine. In case of the 1st fragment we create the reassembly queue. After the queue has been inserted in the hash bucket, the if () code does a goto

Re: Priority Increasing

2005-02-28 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Ashwin Chandra wrote: Hi all, Ive been trying to counter the malicious effects of a forkbomb by setting the forkbomb parent and children to a PRI_MAX priority, although this is not having any effect on the system load. Basically in my code when I know which process is

Re: remote connection to mysql

2005-02-21 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Matt wrote: Hi, I'm trying to connect remotely to my database server. It is MySQL 4.1.7 which I install from ports. I created a user with permissions to connect from any remote location. I'm using Perl DBI, like this: Are you sure that you set up MySQL to accept TCP

Re: bus_dmamem_alloc strangeness

2005-02-17 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Gerald Heinig wrote: Hi hackers, I've come across weird behaviour in bus_dmamem_alloc() whilst trying to allocate small memory blocks (less than PAGE_SIZE) which have to be aligned to PAGE_SIZE. My segment size is 2048, my maximum number of segments is 1 (it MUST be

Re: malloc vs ptmalloc2

2005-02-14 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Uwe Doering wrote: Just from memory, doesn't Linux' malloc require kernel support for re-mapping memory regions, which is not available in FreeBSD? This issue came up in the discussion about FreeBSD's anemic realloc performance. Or has this kernel functionality been added

Re: Multiple hard disk failures - coincidence ?

2004-12-18 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Gary Corcoran wrote: I've just had *THREE* Maxtor 250GB hard disk failures on my FreeBSD 4.10 server within a matter of days. One I could attribute to actual failure. Two made me suspicious. Three has me wondering if this is some software problem... (or a conspiracy (just

Re: Rebooting the kernel without resetting uptime?

2004-12-05 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Stefan Midjich wrote: Hi I know a guy i respect on IRC told me this is not possible but since this is the hackers list i thought the topic at least deserves a discussion. I guess i wont be able to sit still until someone either does it or shows me why it can't be done.

Re: HD Mirroring

2004-12-02 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Andre Oppermann wrote: If you have many TCP connections to one target it may happen that you get the same source port on the originator again within the TIME_WAIT timeout. And if the ISN wrapped in the meantime the new connection will 'hang'. Just to clear this up, the

Re: MYSQL connection problem (correction re-post)

2004-12-01 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Arun; hrmm. Can you try switching the port to another port number? Perhaps a lower port number? See if you can get it to connect in that way? Makes no difference Try doing a tcpdump -n -i lo0 and see what traffic occurs when you make the connection

Re: ZFS

2004-09-16 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Sam wrote: Call me crazy, but does anyone else see this as hooey? 2^64 512B sectors is 8192 zettabytes (zetta, exa, peta, tera, ...). I'm also wondering what perversion of moore's law is applicable to storage consumption. Crappy marketing articles. Sam Maybe they're actually

Re: ZFS

2004-09-16 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Gary Corcoran wrote: Yeah, okay, there's multiple definitions of what 64-bit filesystem is referring to. So what are FreeBSD's current filesystem limitations? 2^64 bytes files, and 2^64 blocks per filesystem? But I seem to recall some problems as people were approaching a

Re: ATAPI DVDwriters (not) to buy?

2004-08-09 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 10:29:35PM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote.. duallayer media yet as I havn't been able to locate any that didn't cost an arm and a leg :) Oh, its slow for ripping as they have put in a lock for that, you can get around it by loading new

Re: Network buffer allocations: mbuma, PLEASE TEST

2004-05-28 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 26 May 2004, Bosko Milekic wrote: Hi, If you're running -CURRENT, please test this: http://people.freebsd.org/~bmilekic/code/mbuma2.diff It is several extensions to UMA and mbuf cluster allocation built on top of it. Sounds good in theory, but I'm too lazy to test it.

Re: device pooling and high interrupts

2004-04-24 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, GiZmen wrote: Hello, I am runnign freebsd 5.2.1 on 386 arch with two rl lan cards. My mainboard is on VIA KT 266A with AMD athlon 1.1. I read man polling and i have HZ=1000. My problem is that when i set up sysctl variable kern.polling.enable=1 my interrupts greatly

Re: GCC include files conundrum.

2004-03-14 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, David Gilbert wrote: The C++ FAQ referred to by iostream (not iostream.h) seems to imply that you should use iostream and sstream (no .h)... but including those files imposes a very different standard that this port is not ready to accept. It appears that (among other

Re: SPAM/virii apparently from freeBSD addresses.

2004-02-29 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Julian Elischer wrote: Somewhere out there there is a ?Virus?/?Hacker?/?Spammer? getting really annoying.. Yeah, I'm getting it too. Worst part is, clamav 0.65 doesn't pick it up. I'm waiting for the 0.67 port to be committed... Mike Silby Silbersack

RE: em0, polling performance, P4 2.8ghz FSB 800mhz

2004-02-28 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Don Bowman wrote: You could use ipfw to limit the damage of a syn flood, e.g. a keep-state rule with a limit of ~2-5 per source IP, lower the timeouts, increase the hash buckets in ipfw, etc. This would use a mask on src-ip of all bits. something like: allow tcp from

Re: Intel PRO/1000 MT onboard network card problem in FreeBSD 5.2-current

2004-02-16 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Ganbold wrote: Hi, I installed FreeBSD 5.2 and updated using cvsup on Dell Poweredge 1600SC. However still FreeBSD doesn't recognize network card. It has onboard Intel Pro/1000 MT card. What should I do in order to use this onboard Intel PRO/1000 card? I checked Intel

Re: Intel PRO/1000 MT onboard network card problem in FreeBSD 5.2-current

2004-02-16 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Ganbold wrote: Hi, Following is the output of pciconf -lv command: As others have pointed out, the problem isn't in the em driver, since the card isn't even showing up in pciconf. Either it's somehow not enabled, or FreeBSD isn't detecting the PCI bridge that the card

Re: Obtaining 75k (active) concurrent tcp sessions..

2004-02-12 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Bill wrote: I read a post that was sent to freebsd-hackers, which mentioned an individual was able to obtain 1.6 million concurrent tcp sessions, so I assume it's possible. That was with a heavily modified version of FreeBSD, you wouldn't be able to hit 1.6 million out

Re: select, sendto and ENOBUFS

2004-02-11 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Andrew wrote: The conclusion being that send, sendto and select will never block on a UDP socket and the man page just doesn't make it too clear. I'm assuming it is the same for raw sockets. UNPv1 section 6.3 seems to say that select should work for UDP...Part 2 under

Re: [call for helpers!] Tuning for the Beaver Challenge

2004-02-09 Thread Mike Silbersack
Bascially everything in section 2.2.3 (/etc/sysctl.conf) is wrong; some values may need tweaking, but changing them blindly will not be helpful. The one setting that I do suggest you keep is: kern.ipc.somaxconn=512 (128 may be too low for http testing) The settings from section 2.2.4 will

Re: problems resolving bsdcan.org?

2004-01-25 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Dan Langille wrote: I've had reports of people not being able to resolve hostnames for bsdcan.org. I do know that one of the domain's DNS servers is offline (m20.unixathome.org). But the other (nezlok.unixathome.org) is up and accepting queries (at least for all my

Re: XL driver checksum producing corrupted but checksum-correct packets

2004-01-25 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Sam Smith wrote: The thread on the OpenBSD list now contains a patch which seems to fix the problem (for me, on OpenBSD, shifting data by both NFS and ftp doing md5 checksums on the files at both ends). Although it doesn't seem to turn off hardware checksums (which is

Re: XL driver checksum producing corrupted but checksum-correct packets

2004-01-25 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Robert Watson wrote: To pick up the corrupted packet on the machine where the corruption is occurring, you might want to try hooking up the UDP checksum drop case to BPF_MTAP() for a special BPF device or rule, or have it spit them into a raw socket (probably easier).

Re: [CHECKER] bugs in FreeBSD

2004-01-19 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Matthew Dillon wrote: Well, this is fun. There are over 460 files in the 5.x source tree (360 in DFly) that make calls to malloc(... M_NOWAIT), and so far about 80% of the calls that I've reviewed generate inappropriate side effects when/if a failure

Re: FreeBSD 5.x source update and compilation problem in HP Vectra VE18

2003-12-29 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Ganbold wrote: Hi, I installed FreeBSD 5.1 in HP Vectra VE18 PIII 450MHz with 128MB RAM and 4GB HDD. However I'm having problem compiling sources. Whenever I try to make buildworld make stops sometime later saying some variable not found etc. When I check As has

Re: support for __thread

2003-12-22 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Any idea of how much effort it would take? I have no clue as to how to fix our toolchain, gooing the work in ld.so doesn't see that awful, but it's not trivial either: http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/tls.pdf I want a threaded webstone so

Re: adding more ram

2003-12-10 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I have a server with 1GB of RAM and a swap partition of 2GB i will upgrade the memory server to 2GB so my questions are: should i fix the swap partition to have now 4GB of space ? what other changes do i have to make to my system after

Re: Update: Debox sendfile modifications

2003-11-05 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Vivek Pai wrote: If you were to have sendfile issue the disk reads, how would you signal completion? I guess one approach is to make the socket buffer appear to have no space while the sendfile-initiated read is in progress, but it seems to me that such an approach would

Re: FreeBSD 5.1-p10 reproducible crash with Apache2

2003-11-05 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Branko F. Grac(nar wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Silbersack wrote: | Can you try updating to 5.1-current and see if the situation changes at | all? A lot has changed since 5.1-release. If it's still broken in | 5.1-current

Update: Debox sendfile modifications

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Silbersack
Ok, I've reread the debox paper, looked over the patch, and talked to Alan Cox about his present and upcoming work on the vm system. The debox patch does three basic things (if I'm understanding everything correctly.): 1. It ensures that the header is sent in the same packet as the first part

Re: Update: Debox sendfile modifications

2003-11-04 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Vivek Pai wrote: The one other aspect of this is that sf_bufs mappings are maintained for a configurable amount of time, reducing the number of TLB ops. You can specify the parameter for how long, ranging from -1 (no coalescing at all), 0 (coalesce, but free immediately

Re: FreeBSD 5.1-p10 reproducible crash with Apache2

2003-11-03 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Branko F. Grac(nar wrote: Machine locked up in about 5 seconds (this is 1u p4 xeon 2.4 GHz, 2GB of ~ ram). This only accours if Apache2 SSLMutex is set to 'sem' and SSLSessionCache is set to 'shm:/path(size)'. So... there are possible problems with shared

Re: Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD

2003-11-02 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Vivek Pai wrote: Before we proceed on this, I'd like to ask is there actuall a committer ready to follow up on this? We currently make our patches available on Ping's homepage, and they're relatively clean. He spent a fair bit of time getting it from a relatively ugly

Re: Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD

2003-10-26 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, David Schultz wrote: But regardless of the approach, someone has yet to demonstrate that this is actually a performance problem in the real world. ;-) I could be way wrong, but I would think that a database might mmap discontiguous segments of memory. Perhaps someone

Re: Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD

2003-10-26 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Details about what we have so far are at http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~yruan/debox/ Yaoping Ruan had mentioned this on the list before (and sent a pointer to the sendfile patches), but didn't seem to get much response. -Vivek As always, you're

Re: FreeBSD mail list etiquette

2003-10-25 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, John-Mark Gurney wrote: And patches (against FreeBSD) are highly encouraged. It rarely helps to simply point out flaws (or showing how X OS runs soo much better than FreeBSD, why are you guys even running FreeBSD?) w/o showing code to fix it. -- John-Mark Gurney

Re: High mem (4GB) support on FreeBSD 4.8

2003-10-18 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Yaoping Ruan wrote: Hi: I installed the 4.8 release on a new box with 4GB memory, and found kernel panic when I tried to write date. But the system run great with only 2GB memory. Is there any kernel compiling option in the LINT, like the high mem option in Linux?

Re: Determining CPU features / cache organization from userland

2003-10-10 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Joseph Koshy wrote: Hi -hackers, I'm looking for ways that a userland program can determine the CPU features available on an SMP machine -- processor model, stepping numbers, supported features, cache organization etc. For example, on some x86 processors the CPUID

Re: 802.11 AP Status?

2003-10-09 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Leo Bicknell wrote: I need to make a FreeBSD box be a proper 802.11 AP (BSS Mode). I've got a pile of Orinoco cards here, but they seem to still not be supported. What ever happened to that effort? Assuming they still aren't supported any recomendations on a cheap

Re: 4.8-stable kernel panic

2003-09-15 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Robert Watson wrote: If one of you has had a chance to test this properly, please go ahead and commit. I don't have remote -STABLE development boxes, so haven't been able to do any -STABLE merging since I went to BSDCon. I did get RE permission to MFC this change.

Re: 4.8-stable kernel panic

2003-09-14 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, It's been almost a month now since I posted the original message on the list and I'm wondering about the progress on resolving this problem. I still can reproduce the panics after cvs-supping to RELENG_4 ~ 23:00 EDT today. Thanks much.

Re: non reliable nmi

2003-09-04 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Don Bowman wrote: I have machdep.ddb_on_nmi=1. I can drop into the debugger with the magic key sequence. However, when i hit the NMI jumper, i don't always go there. Sometimes I do. The system is 4-way SMP [2xHTT xeon processors] with 4.7. Any suggestion on where my

Re: Dell fast ethernet 3ccfe575bt-d

2003-08-26 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Maxime Henrion wrote: M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sandeep Kumar Davu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : I was intalling freebsd on laptop and could not find the drivers for : 3ccfe575bt-d fast ethernet 10/100base-tx ethernet card. Could

Re: possible deadlocks?

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Ted Unangst wrote: My advisor Dawson Engler has written a deadlock detector, and we'd like some verification. They look like bugs, unless there is some other reason why two call chains cannot happen at the same time. Neat --

Re: mbuf cluster shortage caused kernel panic

2003-07-23 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: #uname -a FreeBSD fileserver1.smartrafficenter.net 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Mon Dec 16 19:41:03 EST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FILESERVER1 i386 Running 4.7 stable with sources CVSed on 16 Dec 2002. My fileserver

Re: mbuf cluster shortage caused kernel panic

2003-07-23 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Leo Bicknell wrote: I had a crash a few days ago on a 4.8-RELEASE box that I hadn't looked into yet, but when I saw your message I went back to take a look. I also ran out of mbuf clusters. First time on this machine, and since I've used it to test a number of high

Re: Nvidia Licensing Question

2003-07-20 Thread Mike Silbersack
This is becoming a really annoying FAQ. The reason nobody has ported the NIC driver is because the source code is not provided; it's just a binary driver with a wrapper. You'd be just as well off trying to port the Windows driver... I didn't look into the sound driver at all, it may be the

Re: AMD Opteron

2003-06-25 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Matt Bednarik wrote: Does FreeBSD support the new 64 bit AMD Opteron? I am thinking about having a dual processor opteron system built, can i stay with freebsd? As of now, 5.1 does support the opteron in 64-bit mode, but the support is still preliminary... if it's not

Re: vr(4) duplex problems

2003-06-19 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hmm, well all I could manage was a 5 port micro switch. It is made by Alloy but can autodetect crossover (MDX?). It works fine with the vr port doing autodetect, so I guess it's an interaction with the older switch. No idea how ammenable to

Re: vr(4) duplex problems

2003-06-17 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Daniel O'Connor wrote: If possible, I'd like you to try some other brands of 100/FDX hubs and see if autonegotiation works properly; this would help tell us if the problem is general, or specific to that card. I don't have any other brands of 100/FDX switches :( I

Re: vr(4) duplex problems

2003-06-16 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I have 4.8 vintage PC with an Epox 8K9A9I motherboard (http://www.epox.com/html/motherboard.asp?product=EP-8K9AIlang=1) which has an onboard vr(4) interface. I find that if the interface auto negotiates, it picks 100Mbit/FDX which matches the

Re: Expensive timeout(9) function...

2003-04-01 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Yar Tikhiy wrote: Thanks for your explanation! I hope this little thread will draw the attention of the responsible or interested parties to the warnings ;-) -- Yar The _tick routines are not easy to fix, FWIW. MII access functions are quite time consuming almost

Re: Expensive timeout(9) function...

2003-04-01 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: The _tick routines are not easy to fix, FWIW. MII access functions are quite time consuming almost any way you look at it. I'm not sure the _tick functions should even be called from a timeout(). In many ways it seems preferable to me to have

Re: Expensive timeout(9) function...

2003-04-01 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Yeah, I suppose limiting it to one mii_tick routine per second would help somewhat... but it's still a bad situation. I wasn't advocating slowing it down that much, merely trying to run it sequentially out of timeout()'s hair. shrug Either way

Re: future of all the jail patches [was: Re: jail statfs patch]

2003-03-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: Christian asks me to file a PR to better get this tracked and perhaps included in mainstream. I had seen lots of jail discussion here the last months but I think there had been few PR submission. What is the overall opinion on this - file PRs ?

RE: Disk scheduling in FreeBSD

2003-03-01 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Paul Robinson wrote: Well, I'm just a hanger-on without a commit bit, so I'll work on making it production ready in the next few weeks, post up a patch and if somebody wants to commit it, great. At the moment it's all based on 4.3-RELEASE and isn't really production

Re: ACPI: working ACPI vs broken ACPI

2003-02-15 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Martin Blapp wrote: Feb 13 17:41:05 ibm-01 kernel: ACPI-0625: *** Info: GPE Block0 defined as GPE0 to GPE31 Feb 13 17:41:05 ibm-01 kernel: ACPI-0625: *** Info: GPE Block1 defined as GPE32 to GPE63 I see similar errors on my Presario 2100US... Wild guess: Seem to

Re: Trailing whitespace in FreeBSD

2003-02-10 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Jordan K Hubbard wrote: * Obligatory trivia: I wonder how many remember that freefall was named after Rod's passion for the sport I've always wondered about that... unfortunately, the answer is much less exciting than I had expected it to be. THANKS FOR RUINING MY

Re: VIA Rhine III (MII without any phy!)

2003-01-30 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Greg Lewis wrote: Hi all, I've recently acquired a motherboard with a VIA Rhine III onboard NIC. I couldn't see support for this in the current vr(4) driver in either -current or -stable and am trying to add support for it. Having not done any kernel hacking before

Re: max simultaneous TCP connections (32,763)?

2003-01-26 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Sam Tannous wrote: I have two freebsd boxes (back to back) and I've been playing with a simple server on one machine and client on the other machine (this was simply an exercise with playing with kqueue). Both the server and the client are single processes and the

Re: NIC driver

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Eirik Nygaard wrote: I just got a new computer with a network card I don't seem to find any FreeBSD drivers for. It got a realtek 8201 chipset so I thought I could make my own driver, but I am not sure where to start. Are there any guides on how to make a simpel driver

Re: NIC driver

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Eirik Nygaard wrote: I am running 5.0-RELEASE, nothing shows up in neither dmesg nor ifconfig. It is a built-in network card on an Asus A7N266-VM motherboard. -- Eirik Nygaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, please post the output of a pciconf -l, run as root. Perhaps it's

Re: NIC driver

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Eirik Nygaard wrote: none4@pci0:4:0: class=0x02 card=0x0c111043 chip=0x01c310de rev=0xc2 hdr=0x00 rl0@pci1:8:0 is another realtek card I put into the computer to be abel to copy the pciconf -l info without manually writing it over. The network card is none4@pci0:4:0

Re: Can dhclient rely on /dev/random?

2002-12-29 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Tim Kientzle wrote: I've clocked /dev/random on -current at just about 10MB/s (on a 1GHz AMD Duron). That's plenty fast enough for generating session keys. ;-) Sounds like it, I didn't realize it was that fast. :) If this code is just used for generating occasional

Re: Can dhclient rely on /dev/random?

2002-12-28 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Tim Kientzle wrote: Policy Question: is a fast, high-quality /dev/random a gauranteed feature starting with 5.0? Yes. Technical Question: is /dev/random sufficient for the cryptographic requirements of programs like dhclient, bind, etc? Yes. I believe both of these

Re: tcp_usrreq bug ??

2002-12-05 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Aniruddha Bohra wrote: Hello The following code snippet is from netinet/tcp_usrreq.c As in the comment (and presumably correct behaviour) a RST should be sent on close if the connection is embryonic. However, if (tp-t_state TCPS_ESTABLISHED) tp =

Re: [nephtes@openface.ca: [Xmame] Use of usleep() with -sleepidle]

2002-12-04 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Stijn Hoop wrote: With the mentioned change of /etc/sysctl.conf to /boot/loader.conf, I am indeed seeing much better times on this 'benchmark'. See attached log. Not only the _select_sleep method benefits from this. What are the reasons *not* to do this? As to why

Re: [nephtes@openface.ca: [Xmame] Use of usleep() with -sleepidle]

2002-12-04 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Stijn Hoop wrote: In short, I don't think the issue has been discussed much, partially because it's so easy for those who want hz=1000 to just edit loader.conf. If you want to propose that we switch to hz=1000 by default: Nah, I'll leave that to someone who has some

Re: [nephtes@openface.ca: [Xmame] Use of usleep() with -sleepidle]

2002-12-02 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Stijn Hoop wrote: Hi, Summary: this is going to be a rather long email about the timing of various _sleep functions, compared to the same on Linux. I ran across this at the xmame mailing list, and I have seen some interesting results. One had an Athlon 1400XP, and

Re: Changing socket buffer timeout to a u_long?

2002-11-21 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, David G. Andersen wrote: Are there compelling reasons not to change the socket buffer timeout to a u_long from a u_short? This variable stores the number of ticks before the socket operation times out. -Dave (not on

Re: cvs commit: src/bin/sleep sleep.c

2002-11-20 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Tony Finch wrote: David Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BSS and modified data are not shared, and Matt is only counting zero fill and COW faults. Most of the BSS is mmapped zero pages that are copy-on-write, so in simple programs they should be mostly shared. See

Re: sfbuf problems

2002-10-26 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Ian Campbell wrote: I tried a hack sendfile replacement with write() and lseek(), just to see if that made a difference... but all it did was chew mbufs instead of sf_bufs ... How can I tell if I'm just using all available buffer space, or if it's just a leak I'm not

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