Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread lists
Hi All, I posted this a coupla days ago and just thought I would ask again in the hope that someone had encounted something since then. Has anyone here tried setting net.inet.ip.fastforwarding on in a high traffic enviroment? This setting DRASTICALLY speeds up transfers between boxes talking

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi All, I posted this a coupla days ago and just thought I would ask again in the hope that someone had encounted something since then. Has anyone here tried setting net.inet.ip.fastforwarding on in a high traffic enviroment? This setting DRASTICALLY speeds up transfers between boxes

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread lists
Another coupla hundred kilobytes per second? Andrew On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Hi All, I posted this a coupla days ago and just thought I would ask again in the hope that someone had encounted something since then. Has anyone here tried setting

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Another coupla hundred kilobytes per second? from what to what ? sounds like a 5% improvement or even less... cheers luigi Andrew On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Hi All, I posted this a coupla days ago and just thought I would ask again in the hope

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread lists
Another couple of 100k/sec per connection. When I was running as follows: 10mbit network - pix - freebsd gateway - internal network (100mbit) with 100mbit ethernet on the fbsd gateway, 10mbit up to the gateway (there are routers inbetween the pix and the gateway), and 100mbit on the internal

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread Julian Elischer
Luigi Rizzo wrote: Another coupla hundred kilobytes per second? from what to what ? sounds like a 5% improvement or even less... This setting DRASTICALLY speeds up transfers between boxes talking through a freebsd gateway when you are using 2 100mbit interfaces, but it

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread lists
I will take a look and see if I can get a panic message later on, unfortunatly the one box that I have running forwarding is a highly important system that I cant afford downtime on, and most of the time when it panics Im working on it remotely, but it definatly panics and the box reboots. I

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread Reinier Bezuidenhout
Has anyone here tried setting net.inet.ip.fastforwarding on in a high traffic enviroment? This setting DRASTICALLY speeds up transfers between boxes talking through a freebsd gateway when you are using 2 100mbit interfaces, but it seems to kernel panic the system after a few

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
The question is not "how fast is fast forwarding?", but "why is it crashing?" I can imagine small timing changes speeding up a session between other boxes. yes, the original poster was concerned about crashes, i was mainly concerned on the gains in fastforwarding (as fastforwarding does not

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mike Smith wrote: It seems Mike Smith wrote: Does anyone KNOW of these working under the new drivers? What about setup? I've seen plenty about people failing (in 98-99) to get tehm going but the archives are silent on the topic after that period. The hardware

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-12 Thread Jacob Bohn Lorensen
"Matthew" == Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthew :Believe me, I look at these things. Yes there is a lot Matthew going on and a :lot using memory. I normally have about Matthew 20% to 25% of my Gig of swap :used... meaning that I have Matthew allocated roughly

RE: Problem mouting NFS exports from multi-homed servers

2000-06-12 Thread Neff_Glen
Thanks for your reply. My problem, however, is that the NFS servers I'm dealing with run a plethora of OSs. Believe you me, I'd love to run FreeBSD on all of 'em, but that is simply out of my control. The '-h' option for nfsd that was introduced v4.0 would be a great fix for this. What I

Re: Fastforwarding

2000-06-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
It kinda sounds to me like the improved speed you are getting is from reduced latency rather then from higher available bandwidth. right, i got the same feeling. only 550KB on a 10MBit ethernet is kind of slow anyways. cheers luigi You may be able to get the same

Re: sendfile should use getfp.

2000-06-12 Thread David Greenman
May I commit this? I'm going to need getfp to be non-static for some stuff I have in the queue, I figured sendfile might as well use it. Fine by me. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Manufacturer of high-performance Internet servers -

Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-12 Thread Mike Smith
Not to mention "how much memory do you really gain by unloading modules"? Considering the price of RAM these days (although not as low as it was, but I won't be spending $650 US for 16M any time soon again), the few K that unloading a bunch of modules saves won't EVER

Re: Way off-topic, but anybody know how to resurrect files from FAT-12?

2000-06-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 12), Jordan K. Hubbard said: I'm sitting here in Seoul, Korea (which is very nice, by the way) and I've just managed to delete all 82 images of Kyoto off the FAT-12 format Smartcard they were on. Wh! $ simx "undelete|unerase" Primary Mirror Directory

Re: RE: Problem mouting NFS exports from multi-homed servers

2000-06-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Thanks for your reply. My problem, however, is that the NFS servers I'm :dealing with run a plethora of OSs. Believe you me, I'd love to run FreeBSD :on all of 'em, but that is simply out of my control. The '-h' option for :nfsd that was introduced v4.0 would be a great fix for this. What

Re: Way off-topic, but anybody know how to resurrect files from FAT-12?

2000-06-12 Thread Gary T. Corcoran
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: I'm sitting here in Seoul, Korea (which is very nice, by the way) and I've just managed to delete all 82 images of Kyoto off the FAT-12 format Smartcard they were on. Wh! Way back in the Dark Ages I used to hack on FAT-12 code... Going *way* back in the

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-12 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
David Gilbert wrote: I'm positive that its not a case of the working set being larger than physical memory; it's one of choice of page to swap. You are positively wrong, then. :-) Active pages are _always_ last resort with the algorithm FreeBSD uses. You mention Netscape is the only active

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-12 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 04:40:48AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: David Gilbert wrote: I'm positive that its not a case of the working set being larger than physical memory; it's one of choice of page to swap. You are positively wrong, then. :-) Active pages are _always_ last resort

Booting from Extended DOS partition

2000-06-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
I notice that the FreeBSD bootloader (boot0) explicitly prohibits booting from Extended DOS partitions (type 5). As far as I can see, an Extended DOS partition looks like a virtual disk - sector 0 contains a partition table explaining how that partition is broken up into secondary partitions.

Re: Worst case swapping.

2000-06-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
:David Gilbert wrote: : : I'm positive that its not a case of the working set being larger than : physical memory; it's one of choice of page to swap. : :You are positively wrong, then. :-) Active pages are _always_ last :resort with the algorithm FreeBSD uses. : :You mention Netscape is the

Re: Roadrunner cable modems FreeBSD

2000-06-12 Thread Nick Rogness
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Steve Hocking wrote: I've just moved from the one street in the Perth, Australia metropolitan area that didn't have cable access to Houston, where I have a plethora of choices. The apartment I'm planning to move into has Roadrunner access. Does anyone have any

Re: Way off-topic, but anybody know how to resurrect files from FAT-12?

2000-06-12 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Ah, I should also have noted that undelete.exe (which I also fetched from simtel) doesn't seem to work for me since it won't operate from a DOS box and if I shut down to DOS, the pccard services go away and I'm no longer able to mount the smartcard which I'd like to undelete files on. Catch-22.

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-12 Thread Jaye Mathisen
I have many of them up and running under 4.0, but they will only function as normal IDE controllers, not "RAID". As to teh BIOS issue, make a stripe, then make your partition that you're using not stomp on the end of the drive, and it won't overwrite that gook that the promise sticks out there.

Re: Way off-topic, but anybody know how to resurrect files from FAT-12?

2000-06-12 Thread Sergey Babkin
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: Ah, I should also have noted that undelete.exe (which I also fetched from simtel) doesn't seem to work for me since it won't operate from a DOS box and if I shut down to DOS, the pccard services go away and I'm no longer able to mount the smartcard which I'd like