Re: Network performance roadmap.

2001-07-13 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote: [...] I think you have analysed it very well.. I can summarise: We want the ability to make the current window to be able to grow to a very large value if the link needs it. So sndbuf shold eb set high. We don't want every process buffering in

Re: Network performance tuning.

2001-07-13 Thread Julian Elischer
terry is servicing 1,000,000 connections.. so I'm sure the savings are real to him... Julian On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:47:19AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: Well, you'd be surprised. 90% of the world still uses modems, so from the point of

Re: Block Device I/O

2001-07-13 Thread Julian Elischer
we couldn't find any reason th have block devices except in teh case for exporting the nodes via NFS. The buffer caching is done at teh filesystem level, and raw-io is faster with the raw device, so it was complicating the code without giving us any real advantage.. If you need a cached device

Re: Network performance roadmap.

2001-07-13 Thread Julian Elischer
definitly don't stop. Talk to people doing stuff and get involved... On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:37:46PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: Jiangyi Liu has been working on mbuf limiting code for the past week or so. What he has is pretty complete, I

What is Automatic TCP Window Tuning

2001-07-14 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: Network performance tuning.

2001-07-15 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: cool

2000-06-16 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: netgraph support for channelized LMC 1504 PCI card?

2000-06-20 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: UDF (DVD fs)

2000-07-02 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: UDF (DVD fs)

2000-07-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Julian Elischer wrote: Indeed, makeing a ro UDF filesystem more or less useless :) I will be adding read/write later.. One must be able to walk before running! As for RO UDF, it is useful for reading UDF2.0.1 cds that don't have ISO9660 on them (I have one

Re: DEVFS

2000-07-15 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: US$100 prize for adding ESS Audiodrive support to pcm

2000-08-07 Thread Julian Elischer
Alan Clegg wrote: On a simmilar note: what about a driver for ESS Maestro 2E? I'm certainly [...] Add $100 from me. There is one that works for some folks out there by [EMAIL PROTECTED], but it does not work for me. where do you find this? -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer

Re: Maestro2E patch (Was: US$100 prize for adding ESSAudiodrivesupport to pcm)

2000-08-16 Thread Julian Elischer
version source code! :: :: This seems to have to done the trick! I now get sound out of both ::internal speakers! Yeah I'm pleased to hear that. :-) I don't on my 7500, but that isn't a worry. I'll try again when it's checked in -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer

Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you!

2000-09-14 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: device timings

2000-09-19 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: Accessing the tty structure of an opened device

2000-10-27 Thread Julian Elischer
h little system load As for the 'build in' serial driver, it depends on wht your data will look like Julian Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Streams support.

2000-11-06 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: kernel stack size?

2000-11-08 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: close call in a device ?

2000-11-08 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: KLDs and PCI?

2000-11-14 Thread Julian Elischer
.x system (I know, but is needed for this project, it will be ported to 4.x later) - Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( OZ

Re: scheduler activations in FBSD5.0?

2000-11-16 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: Remote GDB

2000-11-17 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: porting a Linux app

2000-11-23 Thread Julian Elischer
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any ways to look at powerpoint slides?

2000-11-24 Thread Julian Elischer
I have looked in the ports xlhtml seems to extract out the text but it's not exactly easy to see what is in the ppt slides. I've seen ppt presentations moved to some free S/W at usenix and BSDcon.. how was that done? -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED

oh, and any way to see visio files?

2000-11-24 Thread Julian Elischer
I forgot, I need to see visio files as well.. no mention of reading them anywhere I have found. -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( OZ) World tour 2000 --- X_.---._/ presently in: Budapest v To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: any ways to look at powerpoint slides?

2000-11-24 Thread Julian Elischer
Greg Skafte wrote: Both Star Office Applix can read ppt depending on the version of Power Point . OK I'm an idiot for not thining of staroffice I forgot it did that.. I already even have it loaded.. people can stop bombarding me now... -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer

Re: vm_pageout_scan badness

2000-12-03 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: pccard driver docs

2000-12-05 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: Packet Header Filtering

2000-12-08 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: Writing Device Drivers

2000-12-18 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: Writing Device Drivers

2000-12-18 Thread Julian Elischer
Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Julian Elischer writes: : I have the pci/isa driver skeleton pretty up-to-date, but it doesn't : have any DMA example code, nor does it have any sample code for : pccard or cardbus . Aren't there two kinds of DMA that we need to worry about

Re: New netgraph features?

2000-12-20 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: Sitting on hands (no longer Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT)

2000-12-21 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: New netgraph features?

2000-12-24 Thread Julian Elischer
Nick Sayer wrote: On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Julian Elischer wrote: Netgraph was designed to be a link-level patch-pannel within ONE machine.. I guess you might be able to use it to bridge between two networks that are on different machines... but Having successfully used

Re: New netgraph features?

2000-12-24 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: ssh - are you nuts?!?

2000-12-24 Thread Julian Elischer
void wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 02:00:54AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23 Dec, Dan Langille wrote: It is possible. It is not trivial. What leads you to believe that it's not trival? Eliza, is that you? god that takes me back! -- __--_|\ Julian

Re: Boot process robustness

2000-12-30 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: ARP question.

2001-01-02 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: kthread_exit zombification

2001-01-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, John Baldwin wrote: Unloading modules adds all sorts of new problems. Right now the WITNESS code will do bad bad things if you kldunload a module that contains a mutex. Even if the mutex is mtx_destroy'd because it still has a reference to its name in the internal

Re: kernel debugging!!!

2001-01-11 Thread Julian Elischer
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Off topic but worth it.. Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument

2001-01-12 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: adding an address family

2001-01-16 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: adding an address family

2001-01-16 Thread Julian Elischer
Mark Santcroos wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:22:12AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: So would it be possible to add another network stack at runtime or is the code not ready for that? we do this in ng_socket.c where we add our own protocol. Thanx, I didn't thought

Re: [IrDA] was: adding an address family

2001-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
.. :-) Mark -- Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre PGP KeyID: 1024/0x3DCBEB8D PGP Fingerprint: BB1E D037 F29D 4B40 0B26 F152 795F FCAB 3DCB EB8D -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( OZ) World tour 2000 --- X_

Re: [IrDA] adding new network stack

2001-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
Mark Santcroos wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 05:43:40AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: I've been looking alot at other drivers already. My device driver is heavily based on the scheme in the example. But I've made it a module so I can develop it outside the source tree. the sample

Re: Device Driver Question (bus_set_resource)

2001-01-18 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: Diagnosing unrecognized hardware

2004-03-25 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Fred Clift wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote: : pccard0: unknown card (manufacturer=0x000b, product=0x7110) at function 0 : pccard0:CIS info: D-Link, DWL-650 Wireless PC Card RevP, ISL37101P-10 Looks like this isn't a supported card. You can

Re: FAST_IPSEC bug fix

2004-03-31 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Helge Oldach wrote: Mike Tancsa: Well, its not totally a bug, but missing functionality that looks like is there but is not and is pretty important to keep lossy links functioning with IPSEC. My colleague [EMAIL PROTECTED] created the patch below

Re: UT2004?

2004-04-02 Thread Julian Elischer
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Re: HEADSUP!!! USB MFC committed..

2004-04-06 Thread Julian Elischer
catch up from the archives after some time] On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Julian Elischer wrote: The USB code in RELENG_4 has been updated to match that in -current. Please test any USB devices that are critical to you BEFORE we release 4.10 :-) p.s. there are some more MFCs to come

small USB MFC for perusal.

2004-04-15 Thread Julian Elischer
This cleans up most of the remaining MFC issues.. http://www.freebsd.org/~julian/usbdiff these are cosmetic changes to: M if_aue.c M if_cue.c M if_rue.c M uftdi.c M uhci.c M usbdi.c M uscanner.c M uvisor.c M uvscom.c and consists of: ID additions for some devices and probing additions for the

Re: [patch] Raw sockets in jails

2004-04-20 Thread Julian Elischer
hooray! Jails are used for a lot mor ethan just security stuff.. We use them for enviromment isolation. Security to us is just a minor point.. If I could I'd like to be able to turn off: blocking of raw sockets. blocking of chflags. only problem is I'd need it against 4.x.. (I guess I can

Re: [patch] Raw sockets in jails

2004-04-20 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian S.J. Peron w rites: [...] See PR #: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=65800 Could you take a peek and see how hard it would be to enforce source-IP compliance with the jail

how to flush out cache.?

2004-04-21 Thread Julian Elischer
Ok so I have an application where I need to reread a file I have just written to ensure that it went to disk correctly.. Other than reading a few GB of data, is there a way to flush out the cache copy of a file I've written? possibilities include: a file flag saying don't keep a copy after

Re: how to flush out cache.?

2004-04-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Steve Watt wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Ok so I have an application where I need to reread a file I have just written to ensure that it went to disk correctly.. Other than reading a few GB of data, is there a way to flush out the cache copy of a

Re: how to flush out cache.?

2004-04-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Julian Elischer wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Steve Watt wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Ok so I have an application where I need to reread a file I have just written to ensure that it went to disk correctly.. Other than reading a few GB

Re: how to flush out cache.?

2004-04-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Steve Watt wrote: On Apr 21, 13:28, Julian Elischer wrote: } Subject: Re: how to flush out cache.? } } On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Steve Watt wrote: } } In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: } } Ok so I have an application where I need to } reread a file I have

Re: how to flush out cache.?

2004-04-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Steve Watt wrote: On Apr 21, 13:28, Julian Elischer wrote: } Subject: Re: how to flush out cache.? } } On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Steve Watt wrote: } } In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: } } Ok so I have an application where I need to } reread a file I have

Re: how to flush out cache.?

2004-04-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 12:23 PM -0700 4/21/04, Julian Elischer wrote: Ok so I have an application where I need to reread a file I have just written to ensure that it went to disk correctly.. Other than reading a few GB of data, is there a way to flush out

Re: how to flush out cache.?

2004-04-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Stephan Uphoff wrote: mmap() and msync(..MS_INVALIDATE..) should work. hmmm that is rather interesting.. I wonder if it would work Maybe a vm guru could confirm this.. (under 4.x) Stephan Ok so I have an application where I need to reread a file

Re: how to flush out cache.?

2004-04-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Matthew Dillon wrote: : : : mmap() and msync(..MS_INVALIDATE..) should work. : :hmmm that is rather interesting.. :I wonder if it would work :Maybe a vm guru could confirm this.. (under 4.x) : Huh. If I hadn't looked at the code I would have said that

Re: Changing ttl of incoming packets

2004-04-22 Thread Julian Elischer
start with natd and chop it until you have what you want.. On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, GiZmen wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:54:15AM +0200, GiZmen wrote: Hello, Is there any way to change ttl of incoming packet to a lower value ? I had tried min-ttl option in pf packet filter but

Re: Changing ttl of incoming packets

2004-04-23 Thread Julian Elischer
yep I'd have to agree with that.. All the needed bits should already be there. On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 07:02:45PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: start with natd and chop it until you have what you want.. ports/net/tcpmssd might be easier to adopt

Re: how to flush out cache.?

2004-04-23 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Matthew Dillon wrote: Sigh. Run this program. Note that the file contains an 'A' in the first byte after you run it (hexdump -C test.dat). Thus, msync() is not destroying the page until AFTER it finishes flushing it to disk. /* * x.c */

Re: Re99: how to flush out cache.?

2004-04-23 Thread Julian Elischer
with this bug could a user zero out /etc/group or similar? I am not sure what the ramification of the bug is.. On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Stephan Uphoff wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: The idea with the fix is as follows: * It's hard to make the VM system invalidate buffers, so don't

Re: Editing /usr/include/*.h?

2004-05-03 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 3 May 2004, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: I want to modify sys/param.h to increase the value of MAXLOGNAME. I know I've done exactly this.. edit /usr/src/sys/param.h cd /usr/src make includes now teh sources and the files in /usr/include are in sync of course you are now incompatible

Re: Editing /usr/include/*.h?

2004-05-06 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 6 May 2004, leafy wrote: On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 10:44:46PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: There's another #define in another header you have to edit. I'll think of it in a minute... Ah; UT_NAMESIZE in include/utmp.h. Used to do that all the time on 2.x.x to get 16 char

Re: fsck: % done possible?

2004-05-16 Thread Julian Elischer
how about just hitting ^T? On Sun, 16 May 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: right now, my fsck is reporting: ZERO LENGTH DIR I=9222075 OWNER=root MODE=40755 SIZE=0 MTIME=May 10 17:33 2004 CLEAR? yes any way of findign out what the max I= will be, so that one can know how close to the

RE: memory mapped packet capturing - bpf replacement ?

2004-06-14 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Ed Maste wrote: Now, the questions: 1. is my interpretation of benchmark results correct? 2. if they are correct, why bpf is faster? 3. is it OK to have no mutexes for ringbuffer operations ? don't forget that bpf is not copying the entire

Re: -lthr vs. -pthread

2004-06-20 Thread Julian Elischer
this is a question for marcel, but basically this may change. In current code the thread_id of the first thread is set to be equal to the PID. Marcel and I have discussed reworking the thread_id code and in the new code this will possibly not be true. Under KSE teh original thread has probably

Re: writing ktrace output to serial port

2004-06-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Daniel O'Connor wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 23:29, Eugene Grosbein wrote: So I want to see what is happening just before my mplayer crashes the kernel. The problem is that ktracing mplayer does not help as filesystem

Re: PF_PACKET

2004-06-25 Thread Julian Elischer
check out netgraph and the ng_etf node man ng_etf On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Ivan Voras wrote: I'm trying to port open1x xsupplicant, and it uses PF_PACKET to get relevant packets (of appropriate ethernet type). I looked around in /usr/include and can't find the support, at least not under

Re: [patch] attach ipfw rules to jails

2004-07-05 Thread Julian Elischer
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Alex Lyashkov wrote: ÷ ÷ÔÒ, 06.07.2004, × 00:27, Christian S.J. Peron ÐÉÛÅÔ: I have written support for attaching ipfw rules to jails. I am looking for some testers/feedback. http://people.freebsd.org/~csjp/ip_fw_jail.diff NOTES: o Apply the patch o cd

Re: unable to copy data from the kernel to the user space

2004-07-07 Thread Julian Elischer
hmmm On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, pradeep reddy punnam wrote: hi hackers, i am new to kernel hacking , i am just trying to play with the networking code. i wrote a system call that will copy the mbuf address from the kernel to user space.. the sys call look like this 355 STD BSD { int

Re: Article on Sun's DTrace

2004-07-08 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Steven Smith wrote: It's also possible to put probes on the return instruction of the function. I'm not sure how they're actually finding that, though. I think the return probe is done by adding a call probe that changes the return address.

Re: Communication driver framework ?

2004-07-15 Thread Julian Elischer
Sifalakis, Manolis wrote: Hello all, I am new to the list as well as under the FreeBSD-hood and this is my first posting so pls forgive me if this has been asked 1000 times before (I did not manage to find it in the archive). We re planning to implement a programmable router framework for

Re: linker_load_module(NULL, modname, ...) from thread with no user process

2004-07-18 Thread Julian Elischer
Robert Watson wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: there is problem when linker_load_module() is called from a kernel thread with no associated user process, and it asks to load module by name, not by filename. With such parameters it requires looking through device.hints file.

Re: new files in kernel build

2004-07-27 Thread Julian Elischer
M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Divacky Roman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Hi, : : If I want to add some files into kernel sources, what am I supposed to do to : them compile? I added some into sys/net80211/ but they dont compile... : : I tried sys/conf/files but

Re: make quickworld? (like in DragonFly)

2004-08-11 Thread Julian Elischer
Sarunas Vancevicius wrote: On 16:07, Wed 11 Aug 04, Sarunas Vancevicius wrote: On 00:36, Wed 11 Aug 04, Geert Hendrickx wrote: Hi, is there any way (or could it be implemented) to rebuild only the changes in world and kernel sources after a cvsup? DragonFly BSD features make quickworld and make

Re: Kernel Debugging

2004-08-18 Thread Julian Elischer
Daniel O'Connor wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:41, Dennis George wrote: I am studying the kernel source of FreeBSD. I like to know the flow of packets from NIC to different modules of Kernel and then to the user-level. I studied the code and identified

Re: use after free bugs

2004-08-21 Thread Julian Elischer
Ted Unangst wrote: these are results from running Coverity's analysis over Freebsd 4.10 kernel. two improper loops: if_ef.c:566 and atapi-all.c ng_socket.c: possible double free of resp 815 and 870, depending on caller context. is this possible? I'm not seeing it.. Can you show the lines in

Re: Binding process to a fixed processor

2004-09-06 Thread Julian Elischer
Dennis George wrote: Hi all, I am working on a intel based multi processor system. I like to know how can I bind one process permanently to one processor. and other one for general use. thanks in advance Dennis which version of the system are you using?

Re: Support for SMT in latest FreeBSD

2004-09-06 Thread Julian Elischer
Dennis George wrote: Hi all, I looking for SMT capability in freeBSD.. And found the following extract in a document... saying that 4.3 BSD has no support for SMT. does the current/latest version of freeBSCD (5.2 or 6.0) has the support for SMT ?? yes.. it's the current area of

Re: Binding process to a fixed processor

2004-09-06 Thread Julian Elischer
Dennis George wrote: Hi, I am working on freeBSD 5.2. Dennis Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis George wrote: Hi all, I am working on a intel based multi processor system. I like to know how can I bind one process permanently to one processor. and other one

Re: Support for SMT in latest FreeBSD

2004-09-07 Thread Julian Elischer
Dennis George wrote: Hi, Acutally I was wondering if there is no support for SMT / SMP then can freeBSD support dual processors. Or can I utlize dual-processor in its fullness ? yes. in 5.3 or 6.0 very yes in 5.2 yes in 4.x mostly yes :-) Dennis Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: FreeBSD kernel buffer overflow

2004-09-16 Thread Julian Elischer
As you point out, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Topic: Buffer Overflow in FreeBSD Versions: All the versions of FreeBSD are broken (4.x, 5.x, 6.0) Arch: x86 Date: 16/09/2004 A buffer overflow has been found in i386/i386/trap.c syscall() function of FreeBSD official source tree. [...] As you say

Re: FreeBSD Kernel buffer overflow

2004-09-16 Thread Julian Elischer
This is standard proceedure. there is no security problem. There is not even a practical problem.. No-one is going to be able to break into your machine because of this unless they have already broken into your machine by some other method. There is an implicit understanding in the kernel that

Re: FreeBSD Kernel buffer overflow

2004-09-16 Thread Julian Elischer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is standard proceedure. there is no security problem. There is not even a practical problem.. No-one is going to be able to break into your machine because of this unless they have already broken into your machine by some other method. We all agree with it, i

Re: FreeBSD Kernel buffer overflow

2004-09-17 Thread Julian Elischer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some architectures are limited in the numer of arguments that they allow to be passed as direct values in a syscall. It is considerred pretty bad style to use too many. If one wants to pass more data then it is preferable to have a structure and pass a POINTER to it. I

Re: FreeBSD Kernel buffer overflow

2004-09-18 Thread Julian Elischer
Don Lewis wrote: On 18 Sep, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here i report a patch different from Giorgos' one. The approch is completely different: working on syscall_register() function in kern/kern_syscalls.c file. == cat kern_syscalls.diff --- kern_syscalls.c Sat Sep

Re: divert , ipfw question

2004-09-28 Thread Julian Elischer
Zrelli Saber Ben Mohamed wrote: Hi , I'm interesed in the divert mechanism and want to try it out , so I recompiled the kernel ( FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0 ) after adding the IPDIVERT option and then added the needed lines in the rc.conf file, after that , I set up ipfw to divert packets to some

Re: Wired memory monitoring

2004-10-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Jan Srzednicki wrote: Hello, I am investigating some VM issues on FreeBSD. I have noticed that wired memory grows quite rapidly on forking lots of processes. After those processes exit, it drops a bit, but still can use about 100MB after launching 3000 processes. I think it's not a leak, as

Re: Wired memory monitoring

2004-10-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Julian Elischer wrote: Jan Srzednicki wrote: Hello, I am investigating some VM issues on FreeBSD. I have noticed that wired memory grows quite rapidly on forking lots of processes. After those processes exit, it drops a bit, but still can use about 100MB after launching 3000 processes. I think

Re: syslog() reentrant when compiling with -pthread?

2004-10-06 Thread Julian Elischer
you probably want [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marc Balmer wrote: Hi I am a long time Unix developer but new with FreeBSD. I worked the last years mostly with OpenBSD. First I am overwhelmed by the number of mailing lists you guys provide. Second I am not sure if I picked the right one ;-) So please

Re: ipfw pipes: theoretical speed vs. reality

2004-11-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Justin Bennett wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, I have recently been setting up pipes to shape bandwidth on our local net. However, unless I am missing something, the TCP overhead seems quite large. If I configure the following pipe: $IPFW pipe 1 config bw 64Kbit/s

Re: Loadable Scheduler in Freebsd

2004-11-06 Thread Julian Elischer
John-Mark Gurney wrote: Devesh Shah wrote this message on Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 15:22 -0800: Based on the SYSINIT framework, I have made ULE scheduler as a loadable module but have not quite figured how to migrate from default 4bsd to newly loaded ule scheduler or is it possible at all. As

Re: Loadable Scheduler in Freebsd

2004-11-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Devesh Shah wrote: Thanks to all of you who have responded to my initial question. I would be interested in looking at such implementation if possible. I see there are about 18 other kernel files that call common scheduler interface routines defined in ul.c and bsd.c such as sched_nice(),

Re: Mysql - Linuxthreads : Still needed?

2004-11-10 Thread Julian Elischer
jesk wrote: The thread mentions that update query first then select query is faster on Linux. What did you need to change to fix that (or did one of the updates on the way to STABLE fix it)? Paul i forgot to disable HTT ;) so can you post the final numbers?

Re: Mysql - Linuxthreads : Still needed?

2004-11-10 Thread Julian Elischer
jesk wrote: so can you post the final numbers? the select procedure didnt changed much in its performance, but the update-select test performed to around 4000 queries per second. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Snapshot corruption.

2004-11-17 Thread Julian Elischer
David Gilbert wrote: I've got a medium busy server (few thousand mail messages a day, web, webmail, imap, etc) that I can fairly reliably reproduce filesystem corruption by creating multiple snapshots and deleting them. I don't think I'm up to debugging this, but I may be able to provide an

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