RE: Funky scheduler stuff under heavy I/O.

2000-06-30 Thread Koster, K.J.
both the Master and Slave drives on the first channel of each controller are about 200MB's ahead of the master and slave drives on the second channel of each controller, and the gap is growing. Umm. This sounds more like your controllers are doing this. You could stick in another two IDE

Re: vinum and superblocks.

2000-06-30 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Jaye Mathisen wrote: Not sure what the right thing to do here is, or even if it's a real problem, but: I have 8 75GB IBM drives striped in a big raid 0 for monkeying with. newfs -i 131072 -v /dev/vinum/bighonkindisk seems to very nicely put all the data that newfs write out on

Re: vinum and superblocks.

2000-06-30 Thread Rasmus Skaarup
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Jaye Mathisen wrote: I have 8 75GB IBM drives striped in a big raid 0 for monkeying with. newfs -i 131072 -v /dev/vinum/bighonkindisk seems to very nicely put all the data that newfs write out on to the first disk... It least, only

Re: vinum and superblocks.

2000-06-30 Thread Rasmus Skaarup
Rasmus Skaarup wrote: By 'odd', you mean small, Søren? If this is the case, be careful not to make the size too small, which will degrade the perfomance because of the .. beacuse of the drive geometry. Best regards Rasmus To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Sticky Keys ?

2000-06-30 Thread Doug Barton
Pascal Hofstee wrote: Hi, A co-worker of mine who is mobilly handicapped, uses a Windows "Accessibillity option" called "Sticky Keys" I vaguely remember a discussion about this have you searched the mail archives? Doug -- "Live free or die" - State

Re: vinum and superblocks.

2000-06-30 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 30 June 2000 at 9:16:33 +0200, Rasmus Skaarup wrote: On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Jaye Mathisen wrote: I have 8 75GB IBM drives striped in a big raid 0 for monkeying with. newfs -i 131072 -v /dev/vinum/bighonkindisk seems to very nicely put all the data

Re: vinum and superblocks.

2000-06-30 Thread David Malone
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 09:16:33AM +0200, Rasmus Skaarup wrote: By 'odd', you mean small, Søren? If this is the case, be careful not to make the size too small, which will degrade the perfomance because of the I presumed he ment 'odd' as in 'not even' David. To Unsubscribe:

style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Martin Horcicka
Hi, I'm just reading the style(9) man page and I don't understand to two rules: 1. Citation: The kernel has a name associated with parameter types, e.g., in the kernel use: voidfunction(int fd); In header files visible to user land applications, prototypes that are visible

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Fri 2000-06-30 (11:38), Martin Horcicka wrote: 2. Citation: Indentation is an 8 character tab. Second level indents are four spaces. while (cnt 20) z = a + really + long + statement + that + needs + two lines + gets + indented + four + spaces +

RE: Funky scheduler stuff under heavy I/O.

2000-06-30 Thread Jaye Mathisen
Well, I ran it by Soren, he didn't think so. And Originally when I noticed it, I thought it was vinum (although I'm not using vinum in this case), and mentioned it to greg, and he was leaning that way as well... I'm not sure I buy the controller argument anyway. For each pair of drives on

Re: Periodic scripts [Was: Re: /etc/security - /etc/periodic/security?]

2000-06-30 Thread Fotis Georgatos
Hello all, Will we be seeing a move in this direction towards a more configurable security script? Is anyone planning it? What about a configuration language? On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Konstantin Chuguev wrote: IMO, introducing a sort of silent mode to these periodic scripts would help

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Anders Franzen
Martin Horcicka wrote: Hi, I'm just reading the style(9) man page and I don't understand to two rules: 1. Citation: The kernel has a name associated with parameter types, e.g., in the kernel use: voidfunction(int fd); In header files visible to user land

XFree86 4.0 - What are people using for dual-head video?

2000-06-30 Thread Thomas Stromberg
This discussion comes up every once in a while on the lists, and I guess it's time for an update. I havent seen anything since the 3.9.17 beta, so here we go.. What dual head video combinations are people using with XFree86 4.0 and FreeBSD? I've got a -CURRENT box right now with an AGP Riva TNT

Re: XFree86 4.0 - What are people using for dual-head video?

2000-06-30 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 08:41:42AM -0400, Thomas Stromberg wrote: It's my understanding that there still isn't support for the dual-head cards from Matrox, unless you go with a commercial X server. If anyone could point me to a dual-head compatibility list, that'd help too. I use XFree86 4.0

Re: Periodic scripts [Was: Re: /etc/security - /etc/periodic/security ?]

2000-06-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Rognes s writes: On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Fotis Georgatos wrote: Why bother with complex shell scripts when you can have most needed functionality in a single C program? I've found myself replacing 10-20 lines of shell code with a single line. WHAT? Are

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Horcicka writes: : 1. Citation: : : The kernel has a name associated with parameter types, e.g., in the kernel : use: : : voidfunction(int fd); : : In header files visible to user land applications, prototypes that are : visible must use

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anders Franzen writes: : IMHO, I would guess that it can prevent userland from typedefing own types. : I.e. If a program : makes an own type : typedef int fd: : : and then includes a header file saying : void function(int fd): : the compiler would complain about

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warner Losh writes: : Don't get us going. No, it isn't. If you run out of room, GW says Actually that should be CW not GW. CW == Conventional Wisdom. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the

invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-06-30 Thread KATO Takenori
The invlpg instruction causes strange signal 11 problem on some PentiumPro box. This problem seems to hapen when (1) mother board is very old and (2) BIOS update is not available and (3) cpuid 0x619. Following patch automatically disables invlpg when PentiumPro with cpuid 0x619 is found.

Re: XFree86 4.0 - What are people using for dual-head video?

2000-06-30 Thread Matthew Reimer
Thomas Stromberg wrote: This discussion comes up every once in a while on the lists, and I guess it's time for an update. I havent seen anything since the 3.9.17 beta, so here we go.. What dual head video combinations are people using with XFree86 4.0 and FreeBSD? I've got a -CURRENT box

Re: Sticky Keys ?

2000-06-30 Thread Mike Walker
You want accessx for X-windows. Solaris, Compaq/Digital, and SGI provide it, but I didn't see anything at www.xfree86.org Searching around the web found a version for Linux http://slappy.cs.uiuc.edu/fall98/Linux/download.html Apple has long provided good support with Easy Access. Also,

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warner Losh writes: : Don't get us going. No, it isn't. If you run out of room, GW says Actually that should be CW not GW. CW == Conventional Wisdom. I was going to point that out, but I didn't want to be

Re: style(9)

2000-06-30 Thread Chris Costello
On Friday, June 30, 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: No. Anyway, you can set your tab size to whatever you want. So long as it is a _tab_, and not 2 or 4 or 8 spaces. If you're heading into the margin constantly, you should simplify your code, or break it up into (preferably reusable)

loader and rootdev help !!

2000-06-30 Thread nathan
I have FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE (on i386) What I am trying to do is nfs root boot from the loader (?) I do: ok unload kernel ok load diskless_kernel ok set kernel=diskless_kernel ok boot -r -h Now what I understand is the -r flag will tell the kernel to overide the rootdev and use the "staticly