Re: JetDirect 500X and FreeBSD

2000-04-01 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: Does anyone have any experiance or information about using HP JetDirect 500X Printer Hubs with FreeBSD ? This is mission critical for my company, so any information greatly appriciated. These things have an LPD server built in IIRC, so your could

Re: Adventures with gcc: code vs object-code size

2004-03-21 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote: I am not a compilier guru, so I suspect it would take me hours to pin this down. I don't want to do that, so I'm wondering if anyone understands how such a minor code-change can POSSIBLY cause such a huge change in resulting object file... I

Re: malloc vs ptmalloc2

2005-02-14 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
David Schultz wrote: Other than that, I don't know enough details about ptmalloc to speculate, except to say that for most real-world workloads on modern systems, the impact of the malloc implementation is likely to be negligible. Of course, test results would be interesting... Some language

Re: Looking for ANSI/VT100 code replacement.

2005-05-22 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
alexander wrote: However burncd being a C app uses fprintf. Can I replace the functionality of fprintf under x86asm by using only syscalls? fprintf(3) is most likely doing buffered I/O in the burncd case, which for a tty defaults to line buffered. Your code is doing unbuffered I/O, which

Re: FreeBSD Crash without Errors, Warnings, or Panics

2006-04-13 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: {...} Several times now I have had Linux servers (and production quality ones, not built by me ones :-)) die in a somewhat similar fashion. In every case the cause has been either a flaky disk or a flaky disk controller, or some combination. I've seen an instance of

RE: Hi!Dear FreeBSD!

2003-02-19 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Paul Robinson wrote: Seriosuly Terry, I can't tell if you were joking or not, but nobody is going to play with opengis stuff, just because it would be a neat way of showing where user groups are. :-) No, but there are active OSS GIS packages - GRASS comes to mind, and I

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2002-06-11 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
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Re: signals in apps built with -pthread

2002-06-20 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Daniel Eischen wrote: Try the patch included at the bottom. Thanks! I will, but I don't have the library sources installed at the moment so it will be a few days before I can test. -- Andrew I MacIntyre These thoughts are mine alone... E-mail: [EMAIL

Re: signals in apps built with -pthread

2002-06-29 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Daniel Eischen wrote: Andrew MacIntyre wrote: {...} The attached C code is a simple example of a signal handling situation which works in the non-threaded interpreter, but fails in a threaded interpreter. {...} Try the patch included at the bottom. {...} Index

unexpected behaviour of malloc() on 7.0/amd64

2008-09-17 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
[If this is not an appropriate forum for this query, please suggest a more appropriate one] In investigating a Python 2.6rc1 regression test failure on FreeBSD 7.0/amd64, as far as I can tell, malloc() does not return NULL when available memory (including swap) is exhausted - the process just

Re: unexpected behaviour of malloc() on 7.0/amd64

2008-09-17 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
Jason Evans wrote: Andrew MacIntyre wrote: In investigating a Python 2.6rc1 regression test failure on FreeBSD 7.0/amd64, as far as I can tell, malloc() does not return NULL when available memory (including swap) is exhausted - the process just gets KILLed. Using ulimit -v to set a virtual

Re: heap limits: mmap(2) vs. break(2) on i386

2009-11-28 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
Maxim Sobolev wrote: Jason Evans wrote: I would set MAXDSIZ to 0, so that the maximum amount of memory is available for mapping shared libraries and files, and allocating via malloc. This may cause problems with a couple of ports that implement their own memory allocators based on sbrk,

Re: disassembler

2010-09-05 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
Aryeh Friedman wrote: I should of said USB drive I just think of all USB drives as flash drives... it is a Lacie external drive If this is a 3.5 drive with an external power supply, then the drive itself might be okay but the circuitry adapting it to the USB connector might have developed a