Re: tiny lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c correction

2010-03-06 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Fri, 05.03.2010 at 12:38:40 -0800, Xin LI wrote: On 2010/03/05 11:59, Alexander Best wrote: Xin LI schrieb am 2010-03-05: On 2010/03/05 11:26, Alexander Best wrote: hi there. does this look right? Not to me, the value is not to be used this way and the comments above the code

Re: Scripting sysinstall(8) to create use multiple slices on a disk?

2010-03-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Josh Paetzel jpaet...@freebsd.org wrote: On Friday 05 March 2010 07:01:00 John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 04 March 2010 4:33:29 pm David Wolfskill wrote: For reasons that may well be idiosyncratic, I like to set up FreeBSD machines to have at least 2 bootable

Re: namei() returns EISDIR for / (Re: svn commit: r203990 - head/lib/libc/sys)

2010-03-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Jaakko Heinonen j...@freebsd.org wrote: On 2010-02-28, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:   http://people.freebsd.org/~jh/patches/lookup-root.diff I have updated the patch taking some of bde's comments into account. The new version also includes updates for namei(9)

Re: tiny lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c correction

2010-03-06 Thread Alexander Best
Ulrich Spörlein schrieb am 2010-03-06: On Fri, 05.03.2010 at 12:38:40 -0800, Xin LI wrote: On 2010/03/05 11:59, Alexander Best wrote: Xin LI schrieb am 2010-03-05: On 2010/03/05 11:26, Alexander Best wrote: hi there. does this look right? Not to me, the value is not to be used this

Re: Scripting sysinstall(8) to create use multiple slices on a disk?

2010-03-06 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Saturday 06 March 2010 02:41:30 Garrett Cooper wrote: (Attempts to avoid shoe flying in his direction from randi@ :/), FWIW, sysinstall(8) is a good starter tool and it has a lot of the information that you need in order to complete an install (especially if you're doing it from

RE: mac_mls mac_biba mac_lomac patches to fix ptys_equal mib support for new /dev/pts in FreeBSD 8

2010-03-06 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Selphie Keller wrote: - (2) Could you let me know how your login.conf + user labels are configured, and show me the output of ps -axZ | grep sshd? /etc/login.conf label configurations I use Staff users: label=mls/2(low-high) Deamons: label=mls/equal(equal-equal) Insecure

Re: ACPI/power implementation causing performance loss with i7/Nehalem turbo boost

2010-03-06 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/05/10 20:14, Kevin Day wrote: Recently I bumped into something very weird. In some CPU heavy workloads, FreeBSD ran faster inside VMware's ESX hypervisor than it did running natively on bare metal. Simple pure CPU applications (such as openssl speed) would run 10-30% faster on

RE: mac_mls mac_biba mac_lomac patches to fix ptys_equal mib support for new /dev/pts in FreeBSD 8

2010-03-06 Thread Selphie Keller
Robert, I have security.mac.mls.revocation_enabled set to 0, sshd was running as mls/equal(equal-equal) and my staff user was running as mls/2(low-high) and sshd gave the error message: Feb 25 21:46:14 labyrinth sshd[90850]: error: /dev/pts/5: Permission denied Feb 25 21:46:14 labyrinth