Re: Kernel config script

1999-06-08 Thread Warner Losh
In message 199905302213.raa05...@home.dragondata.com Kevin Day writes: : 1) The kernel config options are only documented in LINT, which really isn't : meant for that sorta thing, and I'll admit, they're not documented well. : (contrast linux's config where you can hit ? and get a few paragraphs

Re: Kernel config script

1999-06-08 Thread Warner Losh
In message 14162.35022.502546.522...@r84aap011262.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com Robert Huff writes: : How often _do_ people rebuild their kernels? (On non-testing : machines.) On my stable machines never, or very rarely. I have machines in my basement that tend to have 200-500 day uptimes

Re: m3socks and cvsup

1999-06-08 Thread Warner Losh
In message 19990601190941.46f9f29...@localhost.localdomain Christian Murray writes: : I have some problems with m3socks and cvsup. I've never been able to make this work. You might try -P m and adding a netcat redirector or 10 on your gateway machine. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: The choice of MAXPHYS

1999-06-08 Thread Warner Losh
In message pine.gso.3.96.990603101914.28480a-100...@sol.cs.binghamton.edu Zhihui Zhang writes: : The value of MAXPHYS is chosen to be 64K for the maximum raw I/O transfer : size. I am wondering why it is not set larger. I don't think that it is possible to guarantee that you can do a larger

Re: m3socks and cvsup

1999-06-08 Thread Udo Schweigert
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:24:36AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message 19990601190941.46f9f29...@localhost.localdomain Christian Murray writes: : I have some problems with m3socks and cvsup. I've never been able to make this work. You might try -P m and adding a netcat redirector or 10

Re: The choice of MAXPHYS

1999-06-08 Thread Warner Losh
In message 19990603231216.a36...@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com Jos Backus writes: : On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 07:30:20PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: : 20 bits. But older cards can do no more than 64 kB. : : Indeed, 20 bits (=1 Mbyte) for the address, 16 bits for the transfer counter : (offset). Isn't that

Re: m3socks and cvsup

1999-06-08 Thread Warner Losh
In message 19990608084217.a5...@alaska.cert.siemens.de Udo Schweigert writes: : I'm using it (runsocks cvsup -P m) for a year now and it works without : any problems. (Since cvsup 16 the -P m is not needed, so runsocks cvsup : should so it). Oddd. I can't get mine to work. I always get a

Re: The choice of MAXPHYS

1999-06-08 Thread Jos Backus
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:53:54AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: Isn't that 24 bits for addresses? You can dma from an ISA card to anywhere in the first 16M... Arrgh, yes, I'm terribly confused. Sorry 'bout that. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ Reliability means never

Killing NIC's

1999-06-08 Thread Leif Neland
I seem to have killed my 2.NIC. Both probe and init as usual, and can read from the net (trafshow) but can't transmit. I removed both from the pc, without removing the netcable. (Trying to resolve an IRQ-conflict) Is this a bad-thing (tm) ? If something went broke from this, I would expect it to

Re: m3socks and cvsup

1999-06-08 Thread Udo Schweigert
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 01:36:21AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message 19990608084217.a5...@alaska.cert.siemens.de Udo Schweigert writes: : I'm using it (runsocks cvsup -P m) for a year now and it works without : any problems. (Since cvsup 16 the -P m is not needed, so runsocks cvsup :

Re: The choice of MAXPHYS

1999-06-08 Thread Chuck Youse
I believe the DMA chip itself provides 20 bits, and external circuitry extends the remaining 4 bits. Chuck Youse Director of Systems cyo...@cybersites.com -Original Message- From: Warner Losh i...@harmony.village.org To: Jos Backus jos.bac...@nl.origin-it.com Cc: Wilko Bulte

Wierd behavour from G++28!

1999-06-08 Thread Josef Karthauser
Strange. I'm having a wierd time trying to get a package called Swish++ working. It's a C++/STL based program, which the author recommends compiling up with Gcc2.8 or higher. So... I've installed gcc-2.8.1 glibstdc++-2.8.1.1, and compiled it up. Strangely however, the 'search' part of it core

Re: FS tuning (Was: File system gets too fragmented ???)

1999-06-08 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: No, I don't think there's much point in doing that before Kirk McKusick removes the restrictions on the soft updates code. When that happens, we can make soft updates non-optional and turn on soft updates on all file systems by default. I hope *that* doesn't

Re: Wierd behavour from G++28!

1999-06-08 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Strange. I'm having a wierd time trying to get a package called Swish++ working. It's a C++/STL based program, which the author recommends compiling up with Gcc2.8 or higher. So... I've installed gcc-2.8.1 glibstdc++-2.8.1.1, and compiled it up. Strangely however, the 'search' part

Re: Wierd behavour from G++28!

1999-06-08 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:45:39AM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: (gdb) bt #0 0x8052c0f in ostream::flush () at /usr/include/ctype.h:149 #1 0x8052912 in ostream::operator () at /usr/include/ctype.h:149 #2 0x804995f in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfbfdb54) at search.c:219 (gdb) l Or

Re: Wierd behavour from G++28!

1999-06-08 Thread Thomas David Rivers
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:45:39AM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: (gdb) bt #0 0x8052c0f in ostream::flush () at /usr/include/ctype.h:149 #1 0x8052912 in ostream::operator () at /usr/include/ctype.h:149 #2 0x804995f in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfbfdb54) at search.c:219 (gdb) l

Re: Wierd behavour from G++28!

1999-06-08 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:03:03PM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x8052c0f in ostream::flush () at /usr/include/ctype.h:149 149 } Is it because the program's compiled using the wrong includes?

Re: The choice of MAXPHYS

1999-06-08 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Jos Backus wrote ... On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:53:54AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: Isn't that 24 bits for addresses? You can dma from an ISA card to anywhere in the first 16M... Arrgh, yes, I'm terribly confused. Sorry 'bout that. Be happy, you're not alone ;-) | / o / / _

Re: m3socks and cvsup

1999-06-08 Thread Warner Losh
In message 19990608120755.a92...@alaska.cert.siemens.de Udo Schweigert writes: : Is your cvsup linked dynamic? If not, runsocks wont work. No. That's the problem... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

edited xcircuit to current version, now what?

1999-06-08 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
I've edited the makefile in the portes, and the source, to install xcircuit 2.0a10 rather than 1.7 (1.7 can't open its own files, it seems). the old patch-aa was *** Imakefile.orig Thu Mar 12 12:22:41 1998 --- Imakefile Sun May 17 15:52:05 1998 *** *** 31,37 #

Segfault in longjmp() ?

1999-06-08 Thread Dan Moschuk
The machine is a SMP 3.0-RELEASE box. A heavily threaded program is segfaulting in the longjmp() function. Any ideas what would cause this? Regards, Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Segfault in longjmp() ?

1999-06-08 Thread Thomas David Rivers
The machine is a SMP 3.0-RELEASE box. A heavily threaded program is segfaulting in the longjmp() function. Any ideas what would cause this? Regards, Dan You could have trashed your jmp_buf... (i.e. you're passing bad data to longjmp().) Just a thought... - Dave

Re: Segfault in longjmp() ?

1999-06-08 Thread John Birrell
Dan Moschuk wrote: The machine is a SMP 3.0-RELEASE box. A heavily threaded program is segfaulting in the longjmp() function. Any ideas what would cause this? A bug in the thread exit code. This was fixed at the 13th hour during the release of 3.2. -- John Birrell - j...@cimlogic.com.au;

Re: Segfault in longjmp() ?

1999-06-08 Thread Daniel Eischen
Dan Moschuk wrote: The machine is a SMP 3.0-RELEASE box. A heavily threaded program is segfaulting in the longjmp() function. Any ideas what would cause this? Libc_r or Linuxthreads? There are some known problems WRT signal handling in libc_r. I think they've been mostly fixed (with

Re: edited xcircuit to current version, now what?

1999-06-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: I've edited the makefile in the portes, and the source, to install xcircuit 2.0a10 rather than 1.7 (1.7 can't open its own files, it seems). See the section in the handbook on porting. These kinds of questions are better sent to freebsd-ports

Re: Wierd behavour from G++28!

1999-06-08 Thread Brian Somers
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:03:03PM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x8052c0f in ostream::flush () at /usr/include/ctype.h:149 149 } Is it because the program's compiled using the wrong includes?