On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 03:32:26PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
Why not RAID your swap? The extra reliability might not be worth very
much, but the extra performance couldn't hurt - unless you don't plan
on swapping at all. This is enough of a win that the swap subsystem
will interleave swap usage
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:42:42AM +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote:
In the less benign one that convenient binary driver that
you loaded into the kernel would contain a silent security
vulnerability. Google for Sony DRM rootkit.
I think the difference here is that NVIDIA are a little more trusted
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:14:14PM +0930, Benjamin Close wrote:
Which implements a boot menu item, sysctl tunable (hw.inflight_mode) and
prevents all wireless bluetooth drivers from attaching (probe succeeds
still).
Attaching isn't the problem.
The FAA and other international air authorities
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:46:24AM -0400, Daniel Ellard wrote:
I don't doubt that DTrace took a long time to do. However, in most
projects the design phase consumes a lot of time, and it is often the
case that unforeseen problems or changes in the feature set cost the
developers a lot of
but that file seems to be for controllers
rather than devices.
Can anyone point me in the right direction for this?
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. would be greatly
appreciated.
I am actually in a similar situation.
I know some C, and want to write a device driver for a USB device (web
cam), but I have no idea where to start.
I've searched for a beginners guide to writing device drivers but
failed miserably :-(
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 07:39:31PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
Just musing on an idea here:
I've been thinking for a while now about trying to write a tool to make
kernel configuration easier, sort of a make config (as in ports) for
the kernel, similar to what's available on some of the
confuse automation, with simplification.
Automation tools are good for frequently re-run tasks.
How often do you recompile your kernel?
exactly.
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 07:55:27PM -0700, Dennis George wrote:
Hi all,
Can anybody tell me how to find the MTU (Maximum Transmitting Unit) in
freeBSD programatically...
Define programatically?
With syscalls, or in a way that is easily repeatable?
If you just mean the latter, this will do
infinite address space is a _good_ thing. At least we won't run
out soon, right? :-)
IPv4, anyone? :-)
You can *never* have enough numbers!
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on principle.
'csh' should run pure csh, not anything else.
'sh' should be pure sh, not what Linux does and bastardize it as
/bin/bash
If someon wants a more powerful shell, they can install it themselves.
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it themselves.
Keep in mind that FreeBSD's /bin/sh is a more powerful shell than was
available in, say, v7 Unix.
Yes but AFAIK it's compatible in every way I've tried with say, Sun's
/bin/sh, and I've tried some pretty complex shell scripts.
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coding things to bash-specific
routines, and then not bothering to test they work on anything but their
own little boxes. Argh.
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On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:48:18AM -0800, Matt wrote:
Does anyone know if FreeBSD supports trunking? By that I mean spreading
network traffic over multiple interfaces to achieve a higher aggregate
I believe you can, with VLANs. Not sure about otherwise.
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I though there was a netgraph channel bonding node, but I can't remember
it's
name :(
ng_fec(4)
Is that a 5.x-ism?
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:31:06PM -0800, Peter Kieser wrote:
I have no problem with bringing up the discussion of process
checkpointing on FreeBSD, what I _DO_ have a problem with is all this
cruft about DF on the list all the time. We keep getting the, DragonFly
does it this way or
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:24:57PM +0800, Kang Liu wrote:
Delphij,
I think the base should be as *clean* as possible, it might be
better if we put nc into ports. :P
I agree. base should be minimal, everythign optional (eg 'perl' :P)
should be in ports. There people can choose the
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 01:30:59PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
It seems to me that building kernel with icc is currently broken, at
least in 5-STABLE. Could somebody investigate this?
I don't have a problem to compile it with a recent -current and a recent
icc (-stable not tested),
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:18:04PM -0400, Lanny Baron wrote:
It ends up as a religious war. There is no perfection in this world.
Perhaps the next world.
We use Qmail. But we use it because of vpopmail and our free email service
at cybertouch.org. We used to use Sendmaail. It was great but
that moving load
off the original drive to a second drive helpped reduce the number of
crashes, although they still continued to happen.
HTH.
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On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:23:07AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
the problem exits in 4.8-stable too.
Are you using any extra CFLAGS?
IIRC, using either -ffast-math or -funroll-loops causing things to
break. I can't remeber which, or if it's always true, but try disabling
any optimizations you
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 03:36:41PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote:
Hi,
I've posted this request to 'questions' with no response, so now I'll
ask 'hackers'.
I'm a hobbyist, and for my personal education, I would like to learn how
to install FBSD from an existing filesystem, rather than from FTP
fighting for CPU time, you'd see
a performance increase:
Try running 'make -j 1' twice, on two different kernel configs files
who's contents are the same.
First try it without hyperthreading and then try it with
hyperthreading.
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root, don't put them in wheel? ;-)
ducks
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to manage the application
I could try forcing DEVICE_POLLING to compile as is suggested in that
URL but I wanted to see if anyone had tried this before.
The interface is an FXP.
Thanks :)
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are limited but I might
take a stab at fixing that.
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:52:50PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
FreeBSD also keeps falling farther and farther behind Linux in the area
of advocacy (and, hence, corporate adoption). Again, this is a governance
issue. Many of the developers actually have an antipathy toward advocacy,
since they
hardware :)
I'm sure there are others I can't think of at almost midnight.. :)
I understand it is difficult to maintain the floppies. I wish I
understood them better :-) Is it not possible to have ftp install
floppies, which do nothing more than simple FTP installations?
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a cd burner. I wouldn't even say the majority of FreeBSD users have CD
burners. I think someone mentioned this.
I would love to be the 'floppy maintainer', but I know very little about
the actual process and sadly don't have the time either :(
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On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:39:34AM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote:
It would require a whole new floppy booter setup, but I can see
other OS projects using something like this as well, so perhaps
some cross work with NetBSD or OpenBSD, or even the Linux camp could
make an open source load an image
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:22:38PM +0100, Martin Nilsson wrote:
Are you aware that the FreeBSD CD:s (both 4.9 5.2) are not bootable on
a CD-ROM connected via USB? Both try to boot but hangs somewhere in the
loader. This is on our P4 Supermicro serverboards. As usual Win2K, 2K3
RedHat just
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:56:22PM +0200, Narvi wrote:
And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even
if we had 'em, don't want to burn (no pun intended ;) a CD blank just to
install an OS, when we can just (re-)use 2 floppies and do it across the
LAN from a
might take a crack at this in the next week or so.
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On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:28:11PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Friday 09 January 2004 15:00, Avleen Vig wrote:
onto floppy disks easily so users can grab what they need and use it
instead of having to second guess what sort of hardware they are likely
to be using. IMHO of course 8
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 10:57:56PM +0100, Martin Nilsson wrote:
This discussion is just like when the i386 support was removed from the
GENERIC kernel, a lot of noise about old systems that wouldn't be able
to run (or benefit) from FreeBSD 5 anyway.
No, this is nothing like that.
And,
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:08:08PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
PXE boot against an automated backup/restore service would be much more
useful for this.
Assuming they have PXE and a supported card..
One point that hasn't been made here against PXE (well, not against it,
but not in favour
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:24:38PM +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
Now, who wants to give this a try?
OK, I tried now the following:
I made copies of the 4.9 RELEASE Floppies, split the half of the
kernel and mfsroot to another floppy and added two appropriate
splitfiles.
Afterwards
prepared
to educate themselves, your attempts will ultimately fail.
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that
(1) was dealt with. I assume it was but it would be nice to be sure :-)
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 04:53:25PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote:
Forgive me if this is off-topic.
How could I force a packet to go out through an interface,
despite the default route?
You have a couple of options.
Look at CARP in 5.4, that might do what you want best.
man 4 carp
Also google for:
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:40:22AM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote:
2. SMP kernels for install. Right now we only install a UP kernel, for
performance reasons. We should be able to package both a UP and SMP
kernel into the release bits, and have sysinstall install both. It
should also
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:28:04AM -0500, Tom Wickline wrote:
Hello,
I thought you guys would get a kick out of seeing Word 2003 running on
FreeBSD..
Here is the link: http://wiki.winehq.org/Office-BSD?action=show
Thanks for putting me off my lunch.
:P
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On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:30:28AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
OTOH we've done nothing with user application code and based on the
work I've seen done by netbsd there's plenty of stuff to be fixed
there. So if you want to help out get an account and start feeding
back fixes for the user code.
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:32:33PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
Other than that, do we have general consensus that these do what they
claim? Any outstanding issues that haven't been addressed?
One request:
Please remove the two seperate rc.conf lines, and replace with just one:
rc_fancy=
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:42:26PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote:
The *entire* errata page was from 6.0; it was a mistake. This wasn't
some put on the rose-colored classes and gloss over major issues
thing. It was a long release cycle and something was forgotten. C'est
la vie. It's always a
format changed
at some point, but I've been building the kernel and world together for
6.0 and 6.1.
Any suggestions befoer I downgrade to 5.4?
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On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 02:39:19AM +0400, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
You should use kgdb rather the gdb. GDB doesn't recognizes kernel
dumps format by default.
Ah thank you!
Here's the information I found.
Any help that anyone can provide will go into a nice little crash
debugging for beginners
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:40:33AM +0400, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
Rebuild your kernel with INVARIANTS enabled and debug info. It will
provide more information in case the crash happens again.
With INVARIANTS compiled in, it doesn't leave me a core file when it
crashes :-(
Kernel config and
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:58:02AM -0700, Avleen Vig wrote:
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:40:33AM +0400, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
Rebuild your kernel with INVARIANTS enabled and debug info. It will
provide more information in case the crash happens again.
Ok, I finally got a core file
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 04:42:12PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
Well, it makes the throughput closer to symmetric when I'm pushing
traffic both ways - but at around 7MB/sec. If I only run traffic in
one direction, I get the previous behavior.
I might like to suggest that the problem is your
, which takes a lot of production time out a
server which just crashed that I'm trying to restore.
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I sent this to freebsd-questions a few minutes ago.. if anyone here can
help too I'd really be indebted :-)
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with GCC3.2?
I've tried searching archives but can only find old, vague references.
Hopefully someone here has experience.
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On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 07:35:47PM +, Robert Watson wrote:
After searching high and low and not finding exactly what I wanted
(although Adrian Chadd's documents came close), I decided to
document a lengthy but worthwhile procedure:
How to install a FreeBSD DomU guest in a Linux Dom0
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 07/07/2012 16:33, Garrett Wollman wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 16:17:53 -0700, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org said:
BIND in the base today comes with a full-featured local resolver
configuration, which I'm confident
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
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On 07/08/2012 10:10, Jason Hellenthal wrote:
From first impression it seems that drill(1) has a syntax that
leaves something to be desired like the eased use of host or dig.
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 07/08/2012 22:43, Avleen Vig wrote:
It would be silly not to keep bind-tools in base.
Sounds easy, but not so much in practice. Keeping any of the code
doesn't solve the problem of the release cycles not syncing up
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 07/08/2012 23:16, Avleen Vig wrote:
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 07/08/2012 22:43, Avleen Vig wrote:
It would be silly not to keep bind-tools in base.
Sounds easy, but not so
On Jul 9, 2012 7:57 PM, Peter Jeremy pe...@rulingia.com wrote:
On 2012-Jul-10 00:40:07 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no wrote:
They are sufficiently similar that writing a wrapper that supports a
significant subset of dig's command-line option and uses drill as a
backend shouldn't take
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
But I think you are wrong about this one aspect of your
proposed change. To discover that dig is suddenly not in the base
FreeBSD system any more some day would be just about the worst
violation of the Principle of Least
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