Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-14 Thread Christoph P. Kukulies
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 03:58:16PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Clifton Royston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Today an important (no backup of course) 46 GB IBM Deskstar IDE disk crashed. This specific line of drives is infamous for a failure rate that's at least a full order of

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-14 Thread Christoph P. Kukulies
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 12:25:02PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: Thanks for all the helpful tips so far. It is a DLTA 307045 (3.5) Don't know whether this is a 75GXP. It is one of the dreaded models experience shows that all models after this has some kind of

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-14 Thread Søren Schmidt
Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: Thanks for all the helpful tips so far. It is a DLTA 307045 (3.5) Don't know whether this is a 75GXP. It is one of the dreaded models experience shows that all models after this has some kind of problems, no wonder they sold out :) I'm getting either these: ad2:

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-14 Thread Søren Schmidt
Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: It is now dumping and I'm at 2.7 GB meanwhile. No more errors since the last one at LBA=67 . Are these LBS identical to the block #? Yes. Maybe I'll give it another try (when this pass is through) and dump from the beginning. I'm about to get me a second

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-14 Thread Christoph P. Kukulies
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:42:18PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: the whole image including partition table so that I will not have to scan the disk for the start of the filesystems. Dont get another DTLA/AVER IBM disk, you will just have the same problem again

Re: off topic - disk crash

2004-03-14 Thread soralx
With certain directories or files I get READ_DMA timeouts and also the system hangs totally when a certain type of error occurs. ad2: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retryinmg (2 retries left) LBA=24703729 ad2: WARNING - READ_DMA Interrupt was seen but but timeout fired LBA=24703729 ad2: WARNING -

Mozilla sucking file descriptors

2004-03-14 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
Has anybody else seen Mozilla just start munching file descriptors the longer it runs? I've seen it with at least Phoen^WFirebird 0.6 and the current Firebi^WFirefox. It just keeps going 'till it maxes out the system. fstat(1) doesn't show much directly, but with -v it spits a crapload of

GCC include files conundrum.

2004-03-14 Thread David Gilbert
I attempted to argue that audio/tclmidi wasn't broken... and the ports maintainer fired back with http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-5-latest/tclmidi-3.1.log Now... I started investigating this and found that this was all due to some differences in C++ over the years. The error on bento

Re: GCC include files conundrum.

2004-03-14 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, David Gilbert wrote: The C++ FAQ referred to by iostream (not iostream.h) seems to imply that you should use iostream and sstream (no .h)... but including those files imposes a very different standard that this port is not ready to accept. It appears that (among other

Re: GCC include files conundrum.

2004-03-14 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 07:55:18PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: I attempted to argue that audio/tclmidi wasn't broken... and the ports maintainer fired back with http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-5-latest/tclmidi-3.1.log Now... I started investigating this and found that this was all

Re: GCC include files conundrum.

2004-03-14 Thread David Gilbert
Craig == Craig Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Craig You have a few options: Craig (1) Learn enough C++ so that you can apply the necessary Craig patches to fix audio/tclmidi so that it compiles with Standard Craig C++ headers (such as sstream). Craig (2) gcc 3.3 has

Re: Mozilla sucking file descriptors

2004-03-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 07:32:15PM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: Has anybody else seen Mozilla just start munching file descriptors the longer it runs? I've seen it with at least Phoen^WFirebird 0.6 and the current Firebi^WFirefox. It just keeps going 'till it maxes out the system.

Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?

2004-03-14 Thread Wes Peters
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 21:29:54 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) alleged: Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of the classic trade-offs in making a 'server' vs. 'workstation' operating system. Workstations require a strong preference for interactive over background tasks so

Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?

2004-03-14 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sigh. Nobody really does compute-bound tasks anymore, do they? I really miss scientific programming. Actually, my wife is a molecular biologist and eats CPU hours with milk and sugar for breakfast. She expressed her satisfaction yesterday at finding out

Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?

2004-03-14 Thread Colin Percival
At 07:32 15/03/2004, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Actually, my wife is a molecular biologist and eats CPU hours with milk and sugar for breakfast. She expressed her satisfaction yesterday at finding out that her latest program only takes four and a half hours per data set. But honey, says I, you

Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?

2004-03-14 Thread Wes Peters
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 07:42:59 + Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] alleged: At 07:32 15/03/2004, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Actually, my wife is a molecular biologist and eats CPU hours with milk and sugar for breakfast. She expressed her satisfaction yesterday at finding out that her