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1999-12-12 Thread Stefan Parvu
Hi all, I have posted this email for [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I didn't got any answer. I am running FreeBSD 3.3 Release on one laptop Toshiba and as XServer the Accelerated X 5.0.2. I am curious about one fact. Everytime when I exit from XServer I 've got: > pid 8971 (Xaccel): trap 12 with interr

Re: technical info needed

1999-12-12 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999, Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > > > > Is it called once an year or 50 times a second ? > > > > Is there a way how can I d

Re: ATAPI tape support - how to format?

1999-12-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Karl Denninger wrote: > Hi folks, > > Well, I'm in for it now ;-) > > I'm going to have to start supporting ATAPI tape drives on FreeBSD for some > business associates - they're too cheap to go SCSI. > > Some of these (if not all) require formatting, right? This leads to the > obvious

Re: technical info needed

1999-12-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999, Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > > > Is it called once an year or 50 times a second ? > > > Is there a way how can I determine it by myself ? > > > >Add a statement like > > >

Re: technical info needed

1999-12-12 Thread Julian Elischer
You can compile the kernel with -p -g and use the profiling. On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999, Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > > Is it called once an year or 50 times a second ? > > Is there a way how can I determine it by myself ? > >Add a statement like >

Re: technical info needed

1999-12-12 Thread Kip Macy
It seems like using gprof would be a little bit more useful than potentially having something print to the screen 50k times. I guess printf would be fine if you only care if something is called a lot or not at all. -Kip On Mon, 13 Dec 199

Re: technical info needed

1999-12-12 Thread Chris Costello
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999, Ilia Chipitsine wrote: > Is it called once an year or 50 times a second ? > Is there a way how can I determine it by myself ? Add a statement like printf("somefunc() being called!\n"); to the top of the function you want to 'measure'. -- |Chris Costello

technical info needed

1999-12-12 Thread Ilia Chipitsine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Dear hackers, How can I find how often is particular routine (say wdintr()) called. Is it called once an year or 50 times a second ? Is there a way how can I determine it by myself ? Regards, (îÁÉÌÕÞÛÉÅ ÐÏÖÅÌÁÎÉÑ) Ilia Chipitsine (éÌØÑ ûÉÐÉÃÉÎ) -BE

patches to always have getfh as syscall

1999-12-12 Thread Assar Westerlund
Hi, in PR kern/15452 I have sent in patches to make getfh always be in the system call table. Details are also included in the PR. Any thoughts/comments/flames? /assar To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Developer's Interface Guide for IA-64 Servers (DIG64) Adopter

1999-12-12 Thread Thrumbar Pathfinder
Attention, all FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD developers.. This is a chance we cannot ignore.. Please form up a development team with a central tram leader and get signed up for this offer. The Documentation personnel should sign up for the Contributors link to add BSD's voice in setting the guide

vi screws up relative tag paths (with patch).

1999-12-12 Thread frank
>Submitter-Id: current-users >Originator: Frank Mayhar >Organization: Subversive Atheists -R- Us >Confidential: no >Synopsis: The name of the tagfile is left in the path. >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Category: bin >Release:FreeBSD 3.4-RC i386 >Clas

RE: timezone var vs timezone() function

1999-12-12 Thread Charles Randall
From: Wilko Bulte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Charles Randall wrote: >> ... It also notes that >> this is, "Derived from Issue 1 of the SVID." > >SVID == System V Interface Definition. Interesting, my Solaris 2.6 box defines timezone as the global variable (in accordance with the Single Unix Spec

Re: loader hacks (was: Re: easyboot far into disk)

1999-12-12 Thread Mike Smith
> > > I thought rootdev was fixed a long time back. If it's not, please tell > > > me and I'll fix it again. 8) > > > > Alright I finally got around testing this with a later kern.flp > > (3.3-R actually), and it still didn't work. ... > > Well i played with this once more yesterday and now

Re: silo overflows

1999-12-12 Thread Peter Wemm
Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Gergely EGERVARY wrote: > > > > what kind of disk to you have? and the chipset? (this may seem irrelevant > > > but misconfigured DMA devices can block the cpu for long enough to cause > > > this sort of thing in some cases). ALSO check systat -

Re: timezone var vs timezone() function

1999-12-12 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 12:40:06PM -0700, Charles Randall wrote: > On my FreeBSD 3.3R system, /usr/include/time.h includes a prototype for the > timezone() function. The timezone(3) manual page indicates that this > function is for compatibility purposes only and notes that the timezone() > functi

Re: silo overflows

1999-12-12 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Gergely EGERVARY wrote: > > what kind of disk to you have? and the chipset? (this may seem irrelevant > > but misconfigured DMA devices can block the cpu for long enough to cause > > this sort of thing in some cases). ALSO check systat -vmstat while this > > is happenning a

Re: Reminder - changes to sources and such

1999-12-12 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Karl Denninger wrote: > > Can I ask why the makefiles for the world don't build in this order? > > 1. Build the "basic" GNU kit necessary to compile things. > 2. Build the LIBRARIES necessary to LINK things. > 3. Rebuild the gnu kid using (2); you now have a self-consistent >

Re: Reminder - changes to sources and such

1999-12-12 Thread Karl Denninger
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 05:31:17AM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Karl Denninger wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Just something to keep in mind > > > > I am trying to update from a Juneish -CURRENT to a current -CURRENT. > > > > I've run into two instances (the latest being the use of "colldef" in

Re: Reminder - changes to sources and such

1999-12-12 Thread Peter Wemm
Karl Denninger wrote: > Hi folks, > > Just something to keep in mind > > I am trying to update from a Juneish -CURRENT to a current -CURRENT. > > I've run into two instances (the latest being the use of "colldef" in > /usr/src/share/colldef) where older binaries are INCOMPATIBLE with the ne

Reminder - changes to sources and such

1999-12-12 Thread Karl Denninger
Hi folks, Just something to keep in mind I am trying to update from a Juneish -CURRENT to a current -CURRENT. I've run into two instances (the latest being the use of "colldef" in /usr/src/share/colldef) where older binaries are INCOMPATIBLE with the newer files they are processing, AND the

Re: silo overflows

1999-12-12 Thread Gergely EGERVARY
> what kind of disk to you have? and the chipset? (this may seem irrelevant > but misconfigured DMA devices can block the cpu for long enough to cause > this sort of thing in some cases). ALSO check systat -vmstat while this > is happenning and check that you don't have a source of spurious > inte

Re: silo overflows

1999-12-12 Thread Julian Elischer
what kind of disk to you have? and the chipset? (this may seem irrelevant but misconfigured DMA devices can block the cpu for long enough to cause this sort of thing in some cases). ALSO check systat -vmstat while this is happenning and check that you don't have a source of spurious interrupts. J

Re: ATAPI tape drive (wst0) problem.

1999-12-12 Thread Crist J. Clark
Alexander Prohorenko wrote, > Hello, > > I've got some problem and I need your help to solve it. > > uname -mrs > FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 > > dmesg output: > > wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): , removable, accel, iordy > > I've added such strings to kernel configuration file: > > options ATAPI > device

ATAPI tape support - how to format?

1999-12-12 Thread Karl Denninger
Hi folks, Well, I'm in for it now ;-) I'm going to have to start supporting ATAPI tape drives on FreeBSD for some business associates - they're too cheap to go SCSI. Some of these (if not all) require formatting, right? This leads to the obvious question: How do you format a tape for

Re: ATAPI tape drive (wst0) problem.

1999-12-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Alexander Prohorenko wrote: > Hello, > > I've got some problem and I need your help to solve it. > > uname -mrs > FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 > > dmesg output: > > wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): , removable, accel, iordy Hmm, I've gotten a failure report on one of these before, I'm afraid we dont

silo overflows

1999-12-12 Thread Egervary Gergely
hy, i still can't get rid of silo overflows :( 3.3-STABLE, a simple pentium2 system w/ external 33.6 rockwell modem attached to sio0. i see nothing special. and the overflows just still come :( what should i check/ look after? --mauzi To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

timezone var vs timezone() function

1999-12-12 Thread Charles Randall
On my FreeBSD 3.3R system, /usr/include/time.h includes a prototype for the timezone() function. The timezone(3) manual page indicates that this function is for compatibility purposes only and notes that the timezone() function first appeared in AT&T Unix V7. Version 2 of the Single Unix Specific

ATAPI tape drive (wst0) problem.

1999-12-12 Thread Alexander Prohorenko
Hello, I've got some problem and I need your help to solve it. uname -mrs FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 dmesg output: wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): , removable, accel, iordy I've added such strings to kernel configuration file: options ATAPI device wst0 Of course, I did: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV wst0 ls -al /

loader hacks (was: Re: easyboot far into disk)

1999-12-12 Thread Juergen Lock
(Cc'd to -hackers because, well, it contains hacks...) On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 10:47:30PM +0100, nox wrote: > On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 11:57:26AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Rootdev ought to work, actually. But if you get it wrong, the loader > > > > will fall back to using currdev. > > >

Re: SCSI tape minor device numbers

1999-12-12 Thread Matthew Jacob
> Can anyone interpret this for me: > > HARDWARE FAILURE asc:0,4 > > What does it mean? > > It this just the numeric code for ``Buy another tape drive''? > :-) Yes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message