Re: FYI: 3Ware 9650 can cause data corruption

2007-10-04 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Peter B wrote: 3ware 9650 in RAID6 mode with firmware version 3.08.00.004 seems to cause data corruption when rebuilding a single disc with raid6. http://www.webmasternetwork.se/f4t23551.html (Swedish) I thought this was serious enough for people to know. If another mailinglist is more appropia

FYI: 3Ware 9650 can cause data corruption

2007-10-04 Thread Peter B
3ware 9650 in RAID6 mode with firmware version 3.08.00.004 seems to cause data corruption when rebuilding a single disc with raid6. http://www.webmasternetwork.se/f4t23551.html (Swedish) I thought this was serious enough for people to know. If another mailinglist is more appropiate for this kind

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Oct 4, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Daniel Eischen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071004 06:05] wrote: His point about telling us what you're really doing, so we might off other ways to do it is valid. We don't know why you are using homeg

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Julian Elischer
Attilio Rao wrote: 2007/10/3, Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: * Daniel Eischen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071002 19:46] wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Hi guys, we need critical sections for userland here. This is basically to avoid a process being switched out while holdi

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Attilio Rao
2007/10/3, Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * Daniel Eischen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071002 19:46] wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > >Hi guys, we need critical sections for userland here. > > > > > >This is basically to avoid a process being switched out while holdi

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Daniel Eischen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071004 06:05] wrote: His point about telling us what you're really doing, so we might off other ways to do it is valid. We don't know why you are using homegrown user-level spinlocks instead of pthread mutexes.

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071004 04:15] wrote: > Quoting Alfred Perlstein, who wrote on Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:19:02AM -0700 > .. > > * Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071004 03:01] wrote: > > > Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Do you have: > > > > > > > > a

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Daniel Eischen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071004 06:05] wrote: > > His point about telling us what you're really doing, so we might > off other ways to do it is valid. > > We don't know why you are using homegrown user-level spinlocks > instead of pthread mutexes. Priority ceiling mutexes and runnin

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071004 03:28] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It's not worth my time to engage someone with your mind set, you > > posses neither the technical nor interpersonal skill to be useful > > to me. > > This could be the beginning of a

Re: SCSI and SAN

2007-10-04 Thread Tom Judge
Sharad Chandra wrote: Hello, How to distinguish if /dev/da* devices are internal scsi drivers or LUNs of external SAN? Is there any tool? Thanks for any advice. Sharad Chandra ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: How to enable more than 256 pty's?

2007-10-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-04 18:05, Vlad GALU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 10/4/07, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On 2007-10-02 15:41, Vlad GALU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>On 10/2/07, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Vlad GALU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The symptom

Re: How to enable more than 256 pty's?

2007-10-04 Thread Vlad GALU
On 10/4/07, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-10-02 15:41, Vlad GALU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/2/07, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Vlad GALU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > The symptoms were exhibited even with rev. 1.16. I've CC'ed him s

Re: How to enable more than 256 pty's?

2007-10-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-02 15:41, Vlad GALU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/2/07, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Vlad GALU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The symptoms were exhibited even with rev. 1.16. I've CC'ed him so > > > he can catch up with the thread. > > > > Which symptoms?

Re: SCSI and SAN

2007-10-04 Thread Eric Anderson
Sharad Chandra wrote: Hello, How to distinguish if /dev/da* devices are internal scsi drivers or LUNs of external SAN? camcontrol devlist -v Might help you.. Eric ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: SCSI and SAN

2007-10-04 Thread Wilko Bulte
Quoting Sharad Chandra, who wrote on Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 05:25:00PM +0530 .. > Hello, > > How to distinguish if /dev/da* devices are internal scsi drivers or > LUNs of > external SAN? > > Is there any tool? /var/run/dmesg.boot I would think. And then you would need to map things manual

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071004 03:01] wrote: Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Do you have: a) Evidence or a paper to prove that this is a bad idea? I need evidence or a paper to prove that it is a bad idea to allow

SCSI and SAN

2007-10-04 Thread Sharad Chandra
Hello, How to distinguish if /dev/da* devices are internal scsi drivers or LUNs of external SAN? Is there any tool? Thanks for any advice. Sharad Chandra ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: Recommended S-ATA controller?

2007-10-04 Thread Richard Collyer
Peter B wrote: What PCI 32/33 S-ATA controller is recommended for a x86/FreeBSD-6 system that is stable and reliable in terms of hardware design, and software drivers ? My current Promise card is said to abuse PCI burst mode, in essence it will exploit to tight timing margins. And the motherboar

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Wilko Bulte
Quoting Alfred Perlstein, who wrote on Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:19:02AM -0700 .. > * Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071004 03:01] wrote: > > Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Do you have: > > > > > > a) Evidence or a paper to prove that this is a bad idea? > > > > I need

Recommended S-ATA controller?

2007-10-04 Thread Peter B
What PCI 32/33 S-ATA controller is recommended for a x86/FreeBSD-6 system that is stable and reliable in terms of hardware design, and software drivers ? My current Promise card is said to abuse PCI burst mode, in essence it will exploit to tight timing margins. And the motherboard doesn't have a

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's not worth my time to engage someone with your mind set, you > posses neither the technical nor interpersonal skill to be useful > to me. This could be the beginning of a wonderful friendship... > For context see my replies in this thread to Kip

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071004 03:01] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Do you have: > > > > a) Evidence or a paper to prove that this is a bad idea? > > I need evidence or a paper to prove that it is a bad idea to allow a > userland process to hold the

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you have: > > a) Evidence or a paper to prove that this is a bad idea? I need evidence or a paper to prove that it is a bad idea to allow a userland process to hold the CPU indefinitely? > b) A helpful suggestion? Why don't you tell us what you'r

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071004 02:05] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi guys, we need critical sections for userland here. > > > > This is basically to avoid a process being switched out while holding > > a user level spinlock. > > Yeah, great idea, c

Re: Critical Sections for userland.

2007-10-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi guys, we need critical sections for userland here. > > This is basically to avoid a process being switched out while holding > a user level spinlock. Yeah, great idea, cooperative multitasking is the new black! DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL