Re: Turbochannel based Alpha, quickie question

1999-10-08 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Kenneth D. Merry" writes: : Nope. You've CAMified a driver, would you like to write it? :) I started with a CAMified driver and hacked it... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Is there way to recover system from I/O lockup?

1999-10-08 Thread Sergey
Hello. It's relatively simple to force system in swap-in/out loop. The user can produce a lot of processes that use a lot of VM memory, so bringing system to unusable state, due to very big response time (hours). This is also achievable through active IO. I know about defense way - resource

3.3-STABLE panic in m_copym

1999-10-08 Thread sthaug
I have a Compaq Proliant 3000 (2 x PII-333) running 3.3-STABLE which has crashed several times with the following backtrace: #0 boot (howto=256) at ../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:285 #1 0xc0144299 in panic (fmt=0xc023eb04 "m_copym") at ../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:446 #2 0xc015ac7e in m_copym

CAM-ification - documentation

1999-10-08 Thread Nick Hibma
While on the topic: What documentation is there for CAM? I've found the following, but would like to know whether there is more - CAM specification (at Digital?) - justin's docu on freefall. Especially some help on the topic of polling would be appreciated. Otherwise I'll have to resort to

Re: Proposal for the kill-list (userland nfs)

1999-10-08 Thread Martin Blapp
Hi, warnx("WARNING: path@server syntax is deprecated, use server:path"); before line 667 of /usr/src/sbin/mount_nfs.c. But I don't see anywhere where it differentiates between delimitors and path-components. It is just a simple strchr() and the first @ or : it finds is assumed the be I've

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-08 Thread Scott Hess
Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We're running 3.3-REL on dual processor PII-450's, with a N440BX motherboard, using the onboard EtherExpress Pro (fxp) NIC and 512MB RAM. These machines are running custom software that excercises the disk, CPU and

Re: Non-standard FFS parameters

1999-10-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : Adjusting the bytes-per-inode (-i) specification in newfs should not : pose a problem. : :IOW now you say it's ok to use very high values of -i... ;-) : :Andrzej Bialecki No, I didn't say that. My recommended maximum is still 262144. Fsck should be reasonably fast with

Re: pcm sound delays

1999-10-08 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reinier Bezuidenhout writes: : What I am though experiencing is some delay in sound e.g. xgal : (xgalaga) and a few other splications. The sound is not in sync with : the application. When I quit/kill the application sound is sometimes : still generated for

Re: New command for cdcontrol(1)

1999-10-08 Thread Brian Reichert
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 02:02:48PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Josef Karthauser wrote: cdidDisplay the serial number of the cd using the method used by the cddb (http://www.cddb.org) project. pedantic URLs end with a trailing slash.

Compaq Proliant 2500 file corruptions

1999-10-08 Thread Dan Diephouse
My school has recently acquired a Compaq Proliant 2500 and we are trying to set up FreeBSD on it. I download the 3.3 kern and mfsroot disks and replaced the kernel with a custom one that had the IDA driver included in it. Everything installed fine. Then I started working on it again and

Re: New command for cdcontrol(1)

1999-10-08 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 12:44:06PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: pedantic URLs end with a trailing slash. (http://www.cddb.org/) /pedantic pedantic FDDN end in a dot. (http://www.cddb.org./) /pedantic Not in a URL, or in an email address :) Joe -- Josef KarthauserFreeBSD: How

Re: Compaq Proliant 2500 file corruptions

1999-10-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:1. I was wondering if anyone knew of any such problems, or what other :info I could provide to help figure this out. :2. There are no panics or anything. I can't seem to find an isolated :case to look at. Anyone have any idea how I would go about debugging :this? :3. Would I be better off

Re: 3.3-STABLE panic in m_copym

1999-10-08 Thread Archie Cobbs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a Compaq Proliant 3000 (2 x PII-333) running 3.3-STABLE which has crashed several times with the following backtrace: #0 boot (howto=256) at ../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:285 #1 0xc0144299 in panic (fmt=0xc023eb04 "m_copym") at ../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:446

read/write atomic?

1999-10-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I just spent a bit of time talking to the Linux Alan Cox and I was suprised to find out that it seems that Linux doesn't garantee read/write atomicity. It sounded somewhat strange however, it dawned on me that one should be using advisory locks instead of depending on that feature. Removing

Re: CAM-ification - documentation

1999-10-08 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
[ reply moved the bottom... ] Nick Hibma wrote... Warner Losh wrote... In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wilko Bulte writes: : How difficult would CAMifying a driver be? Speaking of which, has a "How to CAMify a driver" doc been written? Nope. You've CAMified a driver,

Re: read/write atomic?

1999-10-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I just spent a bit of time talking to the Linux Alan Cox and I :was suprised to find out that it seems that Linux doesn't :garantee read/write atomicity. : :It sounded somewhat strange however, it dawned on me that one should :be using advisory locks instead of depending on that feature. :

Questions regarding memory usage

1999-10-08 Thread Zhihui Zhang
Does FreeBSD have the following features: (1) Limit the physical memory it uses even if the machine has larger memory without having to pull out the memory chip physically. This should be done at the boot time. (2) Tell if a particular program has ever been swapped out. Any help is

Re: Turbochannel based Alpha, quickie question

1999-10-08 Thread Gerard Roudier
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wilko Bulte writes: : How difficult would CAMifying a driver be? Speaking of which, has a "How to CAMify a driver" doc been written? In my experience, X3T10/990D and friends + ahc_*.c + aic7xxx.c + cam/*.h (+ cam/*.c,

Re: Questions regarding memory usage

1999-10-08 Thread Mike Smith
Does FreeBSD have the following features: (1) Limit the physical memory it uses even if the machine has larger memory without having to pull out the memory chip physically. This should be done at the boot time. In -current and (I think) -stable, you can set the 'hw.physmem' tunable in

Re: Compaq Proliant 2500 file corruptions

1999-10-08 Thread Dan Diephouse
I brought the computer home with me. Below is some of the system information. I'm still stumped as to what to next...The disklabel all matches up correctly. Anyone have any more ideas? Thanks Again -- Dan Diephouse disklabel wd0 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize

Re: Compaq Proliant 2500 file corruptions

1999-10-08 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article local.mail.freebsd-hackers/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: My school has recently acquired a Compaq Proliant 2500 and we are trying to set up FreeBSD on it. I download the 3.3 kern and mfsroot disks and replaced the kernel with a custom one that had the IDA driver included in it.

Re: A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass...

1999-10-08 Thread Brian Reichert
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 06:00:08PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote: One maybe useful tip from a (mostly) lurker: turn your list email into news and read them with a decent threaded newsreader. I use inn and its mailpost script and read with trn, both in /usr/ports/news. I suggest a threaded mail

Re: New command for cdcontrol(1)

1999-10-08 Thread Jamie Bowden
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Josef Karthauser wrote: :On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 12:44:06PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: : pedantic : URLs end with a trailing slash. (http://www.cddb.org/) : /pedantic : pedantic : FDDN end in a dot. (http://www.cddb.org./) : /pedantic : :Not in a URL, or in an email

netbooting on fxp0?

1999-10-08 Thread David Gilbert
I'm somewhat aware that we have netboot code that understands 3com 3c509s and nc8390's. Last I checked, one had to burn a boot ROM for these cards and they were 10Mb. The current batch of IBM etherjets (probe as fxp0) have dhcp-enabled boot ROMs built into them. What is required to support

Re: read/write atomic?

1999-10-08 Thread Conrad Minshall
It would be great if someone could ram such a change through the standards committees. The changes nowadays are coming via "The Austin Group". See http://www.opengroup.org/austin/ and associated mailing list. Alternatively Linux could become enough of a defacto standard that we

Re: netbooting on fxp0?

1999-10-08 Thread Doug Ambrisko
David Gilbert writes: | The current batch of IBM etherjets (probe as fxp0) have dhcp-enabled | boot ROMs built into them. What is required to support these, or has | someone worked on this already. 100Mb cards could make a decent | diskless workstation/server. Look at ports/net/etherboot. It

Re: A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass...

1999-10-08 Thread Juergen Lock
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 03:43:20PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 06:00:08PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote: One maybe useful tip from a (mostly) lurker: turn your list email into news and read them with a decent threaded newsreader. I use inn and its mailpost script and

KLDs

1999-10-08 Thread James Howard
On Slashdot, in a discussion regarding QNX, someone described it with the following: Under QNX, if your driver crashes, the kernel just restarts it. After reading it, I became more interested in KLDs. My only prior experiece was installing the Linux KLD and that was done by a port.

Re: file system full

1999-10-08 Thread Chris Costello
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999, James Howard wrote: When running "strobe" (from the ports collection, it is a port scanner), I often or always get the message "file: table is full" many, many times. I have seen this under 2.2.6 through 4.0. What exactly is going wrong here and what should I do to fix

Surplus 3.2-RELEASE cds

1999-10-08 Thread Bill Swingle
Hello all, I have, piled around my desk, a little over 1000 copies of FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE. Of course I've never really been fond of cubicles and dont really need to make a cube out of all these boxes so I need to get rid of them :) If you are part of an organization that could use FreeBSD 3.2-R

RE: Compaq Proliant 2500 file corruptions

1999-10-08 Thread cucu
Just to provide some feedback, I was having the exact problem and this patch appears to resolved it. I CVSUP late afternoon, and make world with no problem on CPQ 1600 PII450 with Smart 2P controller. Thanks cuneyt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: pcm sound delays

1999-10-08 Thread Scm486
I have an ESS1869 also and it has always had sound delays. Im currently using 3.3 upgrade from 3.1 and it has always happened. MP3's and anything with sound, always chocks. I think it has to do with with DMA. Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: file system full

1999-10-08 Thread James Howard
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Chris Costello wrote: Too many open file descriptors. This has nothing to do with the file system. Is there anyway this can be gotten around? A friend has a mail server that will spontaneously do this then crash. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-08 Thread Stevan Arychuk
Thanks for your response David. Do you think the problem is isolated to just the onboard devices? Would a PCI NIC help or is it the entire N440BX board? Regards, Stevan Arychuk AvantGo Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Greenman wrote: We're running 3.3-REL on dual processor PII-450's, with a

Re: SMP + fxp0 wierdness

1999-10-08 Thread Mike Smith
Thanks for your response David. Do you think the problem is isolated to just the onboard devices? Would a PCI NIC help or is it the entire N440BX board? We've seen these symptoms on non-Intel boards. (eg. ASUS P2L, P2B). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike