Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-13 Thread Terry Lambert
into the IRIX version of XFS, without IRIX becoming GPL'ed? Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-13 Thread Terry Lambert
resoloution doesn't really matter, but if it is seen as an issue which needs to be addressed, the only value which could reasonably require this is the modification time, and there is sufficient free space in the inode to be able to provide for this (there are 2x32 bit

Re: gethostbyaddr() and threads.

1999-08-13 Thread Terry Lambert
in FreeBSD, it should; I haven't checked). Of course, my ideal world would update all of the Makefiles for all of the network utilities (including the ports) to know about libresolver explicitly, but that's unlikely to come to pass. Terry Lambert

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version of XFS, without IRIX becoming GPL'ed? Given that they say they're dropping IRIX and going with Linux, I

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: Has anyone mentioned to them that they will be unable to incorporate changes made to the GPL'ed version of XFS back into the IRIX version of XFS, without IRIX becoming GPL'ed? Given that they say they're dropping IRIX and going

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
. The big volume for MIPS is embedded, or so I am told. For an interesting take on all this visit www.mipsabi.org Uh, that site is dead, as of the end of this month. See the first link ("announcement"). Ter

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
no source was attributed. Either that, or press zealotry. Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Filesystem question...

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
this, but session ID's are not supported over a single VC by all LANMan servers. NetWare has the same problem, FWIW, as does NUC (a client FS for NetWare). Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting

Re: Whither makefiles for src/crypto/telnet/* ?

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
than gold at the time. That's why all real antique tea cozy's have functional locks. Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
l the *BSD's need to do the same thing here. :-) One other suggestion I've heard is to split the 64 bits we have for time into 44 bits for seconds, and 20 bits for microseconds. That's more than enough modification resolution, and also pushes things to past year 500,000 AD. Versioning the i

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-16 Thread Terry Lambert
would cover this easily. Ugh. But possible... I agree it's ugly, but it has the advantage that it doesn't grow the on-disk inode. A lot of flks have designs on the remaining 64 bits free. :-) Well, so long as we can resolve the issue for a long, long time; I plan on being around to have

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-18 Thread Terry Lambert
le it... 8-). :-) I bet by then (559447 AD) we won't be using ffs, so the problem will be moot. :-) Unless I'm the curator of a computer museum... 8-). Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opin

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-18 Thread Terry Lambert
Make sure that the system you are talking to over the proxy is not assumed to be a FreeBSD system (e.g. don't assume that the vfs_default stuff exists on the other end of the proxy, or that it would be functional). Ter

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-18 Thread Terry Lambert
-(. You could actually think of it this way, as well: only FS's that contain vnodes that provide backing should implement VOP_GETPAGES and VOP_PUTPAGES, and all I/O should be done through paging. Right. That's part of UBC. :-) Yep. Again, if NetBSD doesn't hav

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-18 Thread Terry Lambert
(and the response, back). Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-19 Thread Terry Lambert
Terry Lambert wrote: Make sure that the system you are talking to over the proxy is not assumed to be a FreeBSD system (e.g. don't assume that the vfs_default stuff exists on the other end of the proxy, or that it would be functional). Now, Terry, that is ridiculous. One has

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-23 Thread Terry Lambert
le it... 8-). :-) I bet by then (559447 AD) we won't be using ffs, so the problem will be moot. :-) Unless I'm the curator of a computer museum... 8-). Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opin

Re: BSD XFS Port BSD VFS Rewrite

1999-08-24 Thread Terry Lambert
Make sure that the system you are talking to over the proxy is not assumed to be a FreeBSD system (e.g. don't assume that the vfs_default stuff exists on the other end of the proxy, or that it would be functional). Ter

Re: Locking in Vinum (was: Mandatory locking?)

1999-08-24 Thread Terry Lambert
viding patches for -- this for literally years). Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16

1999-08-24 Thread Terry Lambert
ding a bit :in the minor number - I think they've pretty much all been taken. Cripes! Now that is really annoying. da0a is 4,0 and da1a is 4,8. Use devfs (it doesn't require major/minor numbers). Terry Lambert

Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16

1999-08-24 Thread Terry Lambert
ed "snapshot", to allow for backups to occur on running FS's (and if the backups were "taking too long", that regular soft-updates operations would eventaully stall as a result). Terry Lambert [EMAIL PRO

Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16

1999-08-24 Thread Terry Lambert
with the preexisting partition space. Too bad you are not as willing to abandon your existing partition space as quickly as you are willing to abandon your historical disklabel format, or you wouldn't be having this problem. 8-). Terry Lambert

Re: Locking in Vinum (was: Mandatory locking?)

1999-08-24 Thread Terry Lambert
reebsd.org. Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-25 Thread Terry Lambert
ller would lay it out? I guess this all moderately re-begs the "struct fileops" question, yet again, too... 8-(. Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-25 Thread Terry Lambert
ve access to some set of data, but this seems like something that should be done using file permissions. SUID/SGID are stored as part of the file permission bits. Kind of makes the choice obvious, in retrospect. 8-). Terry Lambert

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-25 Thread Terry Lambert
cated well over NFS. Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-25 Thread Terry Lambert
it to reap the process status. Not that this matters, of course, since a zombie has already engaged in resource tracking cleanup via _exit(). 8-p. Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-25 Thread Terry Lambert
ssionalism, not because "software is magic" and not because "software is this amorphorous thing" and not because "the software is too complex for one mind to grasp all of it". Anyone who tells you any different is either lying or a hardware engineer.

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-26 Thread Terry Lambert
ere isn't. I think this is what fit's Greg's bill the best: implict, forced participation in the locking protocol. It's also the only safe bet, if you have badly behaved processes, since explicit locking can fail, in that case. Terry Lambert

Re: Looking for good QA tests...

1999-08-26 Thread Terry Lambert
contact Doug Ambrisko. He may be interested, assuming that these tests achieve formal standing for acceptance testing. Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my

Re: dropped connections (fwd)

1999-08-26 Thread Terry Lambert
uot; and "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System", in paticular, the section on both tty handling on on-to-off DCD transition for a tty on which modem control is enables, and on pty handling in the case that the master is closed.

Re: undocumented vfork behaviour?

1999-08-26 Thread Terry Lambert
. Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" i

Very Bad Bug: current, 4.2, 4.3

2001-04-17 Thread Terry Lambert
I mentioned a very bad bug on the -arch list a while back, which occurred when To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

BAD BUG: Second try

2001-04-17 Thread Terry Lambert
eed about a gig of memory. Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: cdr and cdrw with 4.3 release

2001-05-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Tom wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to use a cdr/cdrw with 4.3 release? I want to use it with my sony vaio f580 (notebook). I have the option of usb or pcmcia. Can you tell me which models are known to work? Thanks for your help. Please mail all responses to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vm balance

2001-05-01 Thread Terry Lambert
[ ... merging vnode and vm_object_t ... ] Kirk McKusick wrote: Every vnode in the system has an associated object. Every object backed by a file (e.g., everything but anonymous objects) has an associated vnode. So, the performance of one is pretty tied to the performance of the other. Matt

Re: vm balance

2001-05-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kirk McKusick writes: Every vnode in the system has an associated object. No: device vnodes dont... I think the correct solution to that is to move devices away from vnodes and into the fdesc layer, just like fifo's and sockets.

Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

2001-05-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Michael C . Wu wrote: I have been hearing about GaAs since the beginning of my college career. One chemistry professor put it rather well, Gallium Arsenide based semiconductors are considered the future of semiconductors, and always will be the future of semiconductors. Hitachi has a GaAs

Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

2001-05-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: Now think about this. Microsoft Visual C++ will be *the* industry compiler for Itainium. Their compiler is already working and has ILP support. Plus Intel makes its own compiler which plugs into Visual Studio. Both the Microsoft and Intel compilers for ILP are going

Re: Proposed struct file (was Re: vm balance)

2001-05-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Matt Dillon wrote: This is all preliminary. The question is whether we can cover enough bases for this to be viable. Here is a proposed struct file. Make f_data opaque (or more opaque), add f_object, extend fileops (see next structure), Added f_vopflags to

Re: Getting peer credentials on a unix domain socket

2001-05-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Alfred Perlstein wrote: Someone had some patches for a getpeercreds() syscall, but I wasn't happy with it considering we already have the sendmsg() stuff to pass credentials along with the fact that the initial creator of a socket may be long gone before it's used to connect to something.

Re: Getting peer credentials link management overpartitioning

2001-05-08 Thread Terry Lambert
William E. Baxter wrote: [ ... Subject: ... ] And as Alfred points out, perhaps unintentionally, the information should be passed at connect(), because the client process may exit before accept() returns. Many simple servers require credentials and nothing more. In such cases, there is

Re: no keyboard

2001-05-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Ingo Flaschberger wrote: the problem is, when i connect after the boot a keyboard at the box, it is not recognized. at the colocations we often need access to this boxes (not remote access). is there a solution for this problem? Note : this is a way to kill your keyboard :

Re: squeeze freeBSDs' kernel size

2001-05-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Aman wrote: kldstat shows the kernel as a loaded module. does it mean the kernel after getting in the core is resident to it's complete physical size. Its complete physical size... only including static BSS allocations. my question is, does the pagedaemon carry out any sort of paging or

Re: Question about building source

2001-05-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: dave $ cd /usr/src dave $ make installworld DESTDIR=/vol1/FreeBSD dave will install the entire OS into /vol1/FreeBSD? Yes (or it should be). dave Has anyone ever tried this? ;) You should have already seen the result that uses make installworld

Re: Question about building source

2001-05-09 Thread Terry Lambert
Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: tlambert2 FWIW: This breaks if you have updated your C++ compiler, tlambert2 since the .mk files incorrectly override the paths for tlambert2 thing like the RTTI header files and the CRT0 stuff... We have chroot(8) already, no problems:) Perhaps the original

Re: Question about building source

2001-05-10 Thread Terry Lambert
Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: tlambert2 It still breaks. See bsd.orig.mk; you _can't_ use a tlambert2 compiler other than one installed in the default location, tlambert2 or it will override the compiler defaults which tell it tlambert2 where the correct header and crt0 files live. Really.

Re: Question about building source

2001-05-12 Thread Terry Lambert
David Mr. Hackers O'Brien wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:28:41AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: If it doesn't work as you have said, make release' also _doesn't_ work; we cannot make a distribution. Obviously, it's wrong:) I think you are missing the facts: ... o Look in /usr

SSH Must Die

2001-05-12 Thread Terry Lambert
This whole ssh B.S. is very annoying. After an upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3 using a CDROM boot plus upgrade menu option, SSH stops working, for no good reason (_any_ reason is no good). It complains about RSA not being in libcrypto, even though nm shows that that claim is full of crap. Yes, I have

Re: kernel boot up problem

2001-05-12 Thread Terry Lambert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply. I first tried to change the IRQ from the BIOS. I saw that the IRQ of both the cards changes together. The machine has 4 CPUs and I am booting from CPU #1. The bios shows 4 PCI slots. The Plug and Play OS entry in the BIOS is set to No. Any

Re: adding a new function to libc

2001-05-12 Thread Terry Lambert
Daniel Hemmerich wrote: Any comments, suggestions, swears concerning adding a new function, strndup(), to libc? So that instead of permitting it to attempt to allocate a large chunk of memory, it is possible to give it a max length. How about just knowing what you are passing to the

Re: kernel boot up problem

2001-05-12 Thread Terry Lambert
Mike Smith wrote: You don't have to change anything; IRQ sharing is allowed by PCI (and in fact, unless you change the slot the card is in, you can't change one without changing the other). [ ... ] I am using FreeBSD 3.3 on a proprietary machine. ** -- Terry

Re: adding a new function to libc

2001-05-12 Thread Terry Lambert
To follow myself up: Any comments, suggestions, swears concerning adding a new function, strndup(), to libc? So that instead of permitting it to attempt to allocate a large chunk of memory, it is possible to give it a max length. How about just knowing what you are passing to

Re: SSH Must Die

2001-05-12 Thread Terry Lambert
Jordan Hubbard wrote: ssh works just fine for me in 4.3. You must be doing something wrong. I used that sysinstall thing Jordan wrote to upgrade from a 4.2 to a 4.3 system. Is that what I'm doing wrong? ;^). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: SSH Must Die

2001-05-12 Thread Terry Lambert
Erik Trulsson wrote: Exactly how is rpping it out of FreeBSD supposed to make ssh work? I don't necessarily want it to work or not work, I just want it to quit being a pain in my backside. If it can't be made to upgrade correctly, then ripping it out also satisfies the criteria necessary to

Re: SSH Must Die

2001-05-12 Thread Terry Lambert
j wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2001 06:24, Terry Lambert wrote: This whole ssh B.S. is very annoying. After an upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3 using a CDROM boot plus upgrade menu option, SSH stops working, for no good reason (_any_ reason is no good). You did make the needed additions

Re: SSH Must Die

2001-05-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Mike Silbersack wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: Mike Silbersack wrote: 1. Is ssh working yet? Yes, it is working perfectly. The only problem is that it now works slightly differently to what people have expected. ie: it treats sshv1 rsa keys as totally seperate to

Re: SSH Must Die

2001-05-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:24:48PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Jordan Hubbard wrote: ssh works just fine for me in 4.3. You must be doing something wrong. I used that sysinstall thing Jordan wrote to upgrade from a 4.2 to a 4.3 system. Is that what I'm

Re: wint_t

2001-05-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Valentin Nechayev wrote: Modern Unicode allows character codes more than 65534. wchar_t(65536) is Egyptian glyph;) Maximum allowed AFAIR is 2**31-1. So at least 32 bits integer type required if you don't want adapt system to former millennium requires. This argument came up on

Re: wint_t

2001-05-18 Thread Terry Lambert
Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Terry Lambert wrote: Internationalization, in general, is the process of taking code, and making it so that it is possible to localize it into a particular -- monolingual -- locale. You need spacial software to deal with multilingual text; the vast majority

Re: -R for make update ?

2001-05-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Wilko Bulte wrote: Hi Is there any specific reason why one needs to be able to write a lock to the CVS repo when running 'make update' to get a freshly checked out source? Yeah: you aren't running your CVS server in pserver mode, and so are trying to do a lock, either in your local copy,

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-22 Thread Terry Lambert
and ] throughput requirements and have always blamed our use of FreeBSD for it. You may wish to point out to them that their F5 boxes are running FreeBSD. Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Nadav Eiron wrote: I ran tests that I think are similar to what Jason ran on identically configured FreeBSD and Linux/ReiserFS machines. ResierFS is much much faster than UFS+softupdates on these tests. [ ... ] Both tests were done with postmark-1.5, 6 files in 1 transactions.

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-22 Thread Terry Lambert
void wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:40:11PM -0600, Matt Simerson wrote: When did that change? As of March which was the last time I had my grubby little hands all over a F5 BigIP box in our lab, it was NOT running FreeBSD. It runs a tweaked version of BSDI's kernel. I

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-24 Thread Terry Lambert
] Terry Lambert writes: ] ] I don't understand the inability to perform the trivial ] design engineering necessary to keep from needing to put ] 60,000 files in one directory. ] ] However, we can take it as a given that people who need ] to do this are incapable of doing computer science

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-24 Thread Terry Lambert
is the write cache on the drive. FreeBSD with soft updates will operate within 4% of the top memory bandwidth; see the Ganger/Patt paper on the technology. Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting

Re: panics with 4GB on an IBM xSeries 330

2001-05-25 Thread Terry Lambert
. Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-25 Thread Terry Lambert
cases (up to a maximum observed difference of a factor of 15). Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-25 Thread Terry Lambert
special purpose tools are a better fit. Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-25 Thread Terry Lambert
treating an FS as if it were a relational database? It is a tool intended to solve an entirely different problem set. You are bitching about your hammer not making a good screwdriver. Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

2001-05-25 Thread Terry Lambert
, it wouldn't have been a problem. NB: Write caching isn't a problem: it's the drive lying out its arse and telling us that the write was committed to stable storage, when in fact it was only cached, which is the problem. Terry Lambert

Real technical comparison

2001-05-30 Thread Terry Lambert
This postmark test is useless self flagellation. The intent of the test is obviously intended to show certain facts which we all know to be self-evident under strange load conditions which are patently unreal. We already knew the limitations on putting many files in a directory; the only useful

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Dave Hayes wrote: You can't make that assumption just yet (although it seems reasonable). We really don't know exactly what the problem they are trying to solve is. Network news sites running old versions of software (as an example, I know someone who still runs CNEWS) have very clear

Re: help about a project

2001-05-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Jesús Arnáiz wrote: Hi! I'm working on a project in which I need to develop and installer able to install Internet/intranet servers. I want to do it compiling FreeBSD binaries and, the program, only have to copy these on the new system. The problem is with some packages like

Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

2001-05-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Ed Hudson wrote: the cost of soft updates, and the cost of hw.ata.wc=0 enclosed is a .jpeg of an xgraph of the following interactive test: [ ... ] hw.ata.wc=0, soft-updates enables. hw.ata.wc=0, soft-updates disabled. hw.ata.wc=1, soft-updates disabled. the

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Andrew Reilly wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 07:25:16PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: One of my personal mail folders has 4400 messages in it, and I've only been collecting that one for a few years. It's not millions, but its a few more than the 500 that I've seen some discuss here as a

Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

2001-05-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Mike Silbersack wrote: As to technical arguments for enabling write caching under uncertain power conditions, I can't come up with any. (Until the BIO_ORDERED work is done; is anyone actually working on it?) Apparently IBM has finally released an IDE drive that can do tagged command

Re: Debuggers for FreeBSD

2001-05-30 Thread Terry Lambert
Nickolay A. Kritsky wrote: Hi all. I am using assembly language to write some useful programs for my FreeBSD 3.3_release and i need some debugger. I am not happy with gdb. Can you tell me if there is some Soft-ICE type debuggers under this OS ? SoftICE is actually overkill; ddd and

Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

2001-06-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Kris Kennaway wrote: 1. Have the ata driver leave the write cache setting alone by default, providing a sysctl which can cause disabled or enabled if requested. When the default is allowed, put something in dmesg which says Note: Write caching may be enabled. See ata(4) for the

Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

2001-06-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Mike Silbersack wrote: As a friend of mine says I can make it go as fast as you want, if it doesn't have to work... You entirely missed my point. Yes, we could leave it at 0. But if so, we should tell people so that they can make an informed choice. If we don't make the choice obvious,

Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

2001-06-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Peter Wemm wrote: Terry Lambert wrote: Mike Silbersack wrote: 1. Have the ata driver leave the write cache setting alone by default, providing a sysctl which can cause disabled or enabled if requested. When the default is allowed, put something in dmesg which says Note: Write

Re: Real technical comparison

2001-06-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Rik van Riel wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: The intent of the test is obviously intended to show certain facts which we all know to be self-evident under strange load conditions which are patently unreal. I would suggest a better test would be to open _at least_

Re: Real technical comparison

2001-06-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Albert D. Cahalan wrote: This postmark test is useless self flagellation. The benchmark tests what it was meant to test: performance on huge directories. Which is useless, since only degenerate software results in huge directories. I have yet to see one example of software which would

Re: Real technical comparison

2001-06-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Rik van Riel wrote: How about a real benchmark? Good question indeed. All proposed benchmarks in this thread have been geared heavily towards one system or the other and are not at all industry standard benchmarks. At www.spec.org I see SPECweb99 numbers for Solaris, AIX, Linux,

Re: Real technical comparison

2001-06-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Rik van Riel wrote: Thank you for not telling it to one of my servers which is running around with about 10 concurrent connections biting its tail. I wouldn't like to hurt its feelings. And I've got the feeling that it will have to bear a bit more of that beating. Interesting,

Re: What changed in ld?

2001-06-01 Thread Terry Lambert
G. Adam Stanislav wrote: At 09:30 01-06-2001 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: This would be a question for the GNU Binutils mailing list to find out why they changed anything. Thank you. I did as you suggested, and found a solution. I give: what was the soloution? -- Terry To Unsubscribe:

Re: UFS large directory performance

2001-06-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Matt Dillon wrote: I can see this really helping mail queue performance, especially when coupled with softupdates, and also helping samba (windoz likes to scan directories), and perhaps even squid to a degree. The new code is interesting; it will be enlightening to see it's

Re: general speed differences between 4.1.1-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE

2001-06-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Mike Silbersack wrote: On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: First of all, they do not run circles around FreeBSD; they kill the virgin reliability on the alter of the bloody god Benchmark. Ok, Terry, you've made it clear that you hate IDE, you hate linux, and you pretty much

Re: How to recompile kernel after minor changes?

2001-06-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Jiangyi Liu wrote: Hi all, After just changing a little in sys/kern/kern_sig.c, how can I rebuild the kernel fast? I think it should not take such a long time as 'make buildkernel' does. Anyway, just kern_sig.c need to be recompiled and the kernel can be linked. So how do you guys do in

Re: UFS large directory performance

2001-06-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Ian Dowse wrote: The only potential problem I see here is that you could end up seriously fragmenting the malloc pool you are using to allocate the slot arrays. And, of course, the two issues you brought up in regards to regularing memory use. Thanks for the comments

Re: UFS large directory performance

2001-06-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Ian Dowse wrote: Nice idea, but I'm not sure I see the benefit of partially reclaiming second-level arrays. Because it is a hash array, there isn't really the concept of a working set; a directory that is `in use' will rarely see many create/rename/delete operations on a small fixed set of

Re: How to disable software TCP checksumming?

2001-06-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Bill Fenner wrote: The TCP checksum protects more than just the contents of the packet on the wire; it's also a (somewhat) weak check on the contents of your packet sitting in memory, and as it's going over the bus in your computer between memory and peripherals and for other end-to-end

Re: [Patch?] signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN) is against SUSv2

2001-06-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Cejka Rudolf wrote: There is following paragraph in SUSv2: If a process sets the action for the SIGCHLD signal to SIG_IGN, the behaviour is unspecified, except as specified below. If the action for the SIGCHLD signal is set to SIG_IGN, child processes of the calling processes

Re: read(2) and ETIMEDOUT

2001-06-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Ian Dowse wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Graham Barr writes: Also why does this happen only every few hours ? There is a lot of data going through these connections maybe the timer for SO_RCVTIMEO is not being reset. But then we have another server, with a similar number of

Re: Why does fsck try to fsck a CDROM?

2001-06-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Dave Hayes wrote: David O'Brien -Hackers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You mentioned though that your CDROM is /. How about posting the real /etc/fstab from your root partition for us to have a look at? There is none. No default fstab exists. There is no Dana, only Zuul... I think that

Re: How to disable software TCP checksumming?

2001-06-09 Thread Terry Lambert
Assar Westerlund wrote: Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This all came from IP headers being 14 bytes long, instead of 16. Hu? An IPv4 header (not including options) is 20 bytes long. Sorry; ethernet header. The problem is the 14 bytes making the code unaligned on a 32 or 64

Re: How to disable software TCP checksumming?

2001-06-09 Thread Terry Lambert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread is baffling. The bottom line is that you cant trust data coming into your machine, and you have to checksum it. The link level check only verifies that what was sent by the last forwarding point is the same as what you got, but in NO WAY implies that

Re: Strange request: Reading RX-50 (aka DEC Rainbow 100) disks

2001-06-13 Thread Terry Lambert
Warner Losh wrote: I have the need to read a whole pile of DEC Rainbow 100 floppies. I can do it on the DEC Rainbow, but that's a huge pita since it isn't networked. I'd like to either connect a RX-50 drive to my machine, or use a 1.2M 5.25 floppy drive that I can scrounge easily enough

Re: [Patch?] signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN) is against SUSv2

2001-06-13 Thread Terry Lambert
Cejka Rudolf wrote: Ok, I repeat it once again - in the full: If I use sigemptyset(sa.sa_mask); sa.sa_flags = 0; sa.sa_handler = SIG_IGN; sigaction(SIGCHLD, sa, NULL); zombies are still created in FreeBSD, which is against SUSv2. You are correct: --- SIG_IGN If the action for the

Re: How to disable software TCP checksumming?

2001-06-13 Thread Terry Lambert
Louis A. Mamakos wrote: Setting aside the degree to which you choose to be paranoid about where data can be corrupted, and the likelyhood thereof-- there is an architectural issue here, which is that the CRC provided by your friendly neighborhood Ethernet NIC card only protects the data

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