Re: Call fo comments - raising vfs.ufs.dirhash_reclaimage?

2013-08-28 Thread Gary Jennejohn
one could argue that they usually don't have large numbers of files cached in memory at any given time. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: HDD write cache

2013-02-02 Thread Gary Jennejohn
maybe modifying the driver? -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: CAM disk I/O starvation

2012-04-18 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:30:15 -0700 Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 17 April 2012 12:15, Gary Jennejohn gljennj...@googlemail.com wrote: I still have the old problem kernel around, but it's probably not instrumented for any meaningful diagnoses. Well do you know which version

Re: CAM disk I/O starvation

2012-04-17 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:39:12 -0700 Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: On 11 April 2012 10:21, Gary Jennejohn gljennj...@googlemail.com wrote: Just for the archive my bad disk performance seems to have been fixed in HEAD by svn commit r234074.  Seems that all interrupts were being

Re: CAM disk I/O starvation

2012-04-11 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 14:27:43 -0700 Jerry Toung jryto...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/3/12, Gary Jennejohn gljennj...@googlemail.com wrote: It would be interesting to see your patch. I always run HEAD but maybe I could use it as a base for my own mods/tests. Here is the patch [patch

Re: CAM disk I/O starvation

2012-04-05 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 05:22:46 +0200 Alexander Leidinger alexan...@leidinger.net wrote: On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 14:27:43 -0700 Jerry Toung jryto...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/3/12, Gary Jennejohn gljennj...@googlemail.com wrote: It would be interesting to see your patch. I always run HEAD

Re: CAM disk I/O starvation

2012-04-03 Thread Gary Jennejohn
mods/tests. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Where and when /etc/fstab is checking during boot

2012-03-05 Thread Gary Jennejohn
. Is this the correct behavior? Shouldn't the fstab file be read completely once and not twice? man 5 fstab It isn't explicitly stated, but implied, that fsck(8), mount(8) and umount(8) parse fstab every time they're invoked. It's a feature. -- Gary Jennejohn

Re: [RFT][patch] Scheduling for HTT and not only

2012-02-06 Thread Gary Jennejohn
lag, but it was quite minor. The buildworld time also seemed to be pretty much the same as with 4BSD. Seems like a good start on improving ULE. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: boot0.S empty #ifdef

2011-12-06 Thread Gary Jennejohn
#ifdef ONLY_F_KEYS #endif These seem to be there to act as reminders for command line options which can be used to build boot0. They're also documented in Makefile. These are actually used later in the code. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers

Re: who is in swap?

2011-05-21 Thread Gary Jennejohn
Know is on 3rd. Who's on 1st. I don't KNOW who's on 1st! Natcherly -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu

2011-04-25 Thread Gary Jennejohn
menu designed from the ground up. Although I personally never use the boot menu it's nice to see someone trying to make it more usable for the average FreeBSD user. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: machdep.hlt_cpus not safe with ULE?

2011-02-19 Thread Gary Jennejohn
sched_4bsd.c makes use of hlt_cpus_mask. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: memstick.img is bloated with 7% 2K blocks of nulls

2011-02-15 Thread Gary Jennejohn
that mutually exclusive options aren't used together. See the manpage; it's pretty clear from it that only certain combinations of options are allowed. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: [maybe spam] Re: linux PF_PACKET compatibility

2011-02-12 Thread Gary Jennejohn
operating systems exist. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: empty function macros

2011-01-30 Thread Gary Jennejohn
sensible way of dealing with this issue? i saw some reiserfs code which does the following to silence compilers: #define FUNC(sb) do { } while (0) What happens if you treat it like a real function call and put ';' after it? -- Gary Jennejohn (gj

Re: rtld optimizations

2011-01-26 Thread Gary Jennejohn
, although it doesn't seem to have broken anything either. -- Gary Jennejohn (gj@) ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr

Re: xterm -C and TIOCCONS vs. PRIV_TTY_CONSOLE

2011-01-07 Thread Gary Jennejohn
it. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2010-12-24 Thread Gary Jennejohn
don't understand your error, post again. Hint: look at /sys/kern/sys_generic.c:^ioctl -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers

Re: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2010-12-24 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 19:37:37 +0330 Mohammad Hedayati hedayati...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Gary Jennejohn gljennj...@googlemail.comwrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:17:18 +0330 Mohammad Hedayati hedayati...@gmail.com wrote: I'm writing a simple char device. So far

Re: new cpuid bits

2010-11-19 Thread Gary Jennejohn
in the text? -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: [CFT+RFC] patch to buildworld with heimdal from ports

2010-11-16 Thread Gary Jennejohn
the maintainer of the component? Garrett, where would one look for such an important detail? Source file somewhere? libgssapi doesn't have an official maintainer. Usually the committers who touch it the most are deemed responsible. Seems that dfr@ and uqs@ fit the bill. -- Gary Jennejohn

Re: [PATCH] Simplify uart_bus_pci_probe

2010-11-06 Thread Gary Jennejohn
:). Thanks! -Garrett This is definitely much less convoluted and easier to understand than the old code! I'd commit it, if I still had my src commit bit :) -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: csup or svn

2010-09-27 Thread Gary Jennejohn
updated my CVS tree with csup - no problems. The suggestion to delete src/access,v and try again is probably the way to go. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

Re: One-shot-oriented event timers management

2010-09-01 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:27:36 +0300 Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org wrote: Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:07:38 +0300 Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org wrote: Yes, as I have said, at this moment empty ticks skipped only while CPU is in C2/C3 states. In C1 state

Re: One-shot-oriented event timers management

2010-09-01 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:44:26 +0300 Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org wrote: Alexander Motin wrote: Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:11:48 +0200 OK, this is purely anecdotal, but I'll report it anyway. I was running pretty much all day with the patched kernel and things

Re: One-shot-oriented event timers management

2010-09-01 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:15:41 +0200 Gary Jennejohn gljennj...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:44:26 +0300 Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org wrote: Updated patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/timers_oneshot6.patch Patch also includes some optimizations to reduce lock

Re: One-shot-oriented event timers management

2010-08-31 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:11:48 +0200 Gary Jennejohn gljennj...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:07:38 +0300 Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org wrote: Gary Jennejohn wrote: Hmm. I applied your patches and am now running the new kernel. But I only installed the new kernel

Re: One-shot-oriented event timers management

2010-08-30 Thread Gary Jennejohn
only C1 enabled. Is that it? Unfortunately, it appears that only C1 is supported :( -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers

Re: One-shot-oriented event timers management

2010-08-30 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:07:38 +0300 Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org wrote: Gary Jennejohn wrote: Hmm. I applied your patches and am now running the new kernel. But I only installed the new kernel and didn't do make buildworld installworld. Mu systat -vm 1 doesn't look anything like

Re: disassembler

2010-08-27 Thread Gary Jennejohn
' is not an ordinary file There are quite a few diassemblers under ports but I doubt they're designed to work on raw disks. If you just want to save the data then why not plug the disk into a different box and save them? -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd

Re: disk I/O, VFS hirunningspace

2010-07-14 Thread Gary Jennejohn
/sysctl.conf. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: using cupsd instead of base lpr [was Re: [HEADS UP] Kernel modules don't work properly in FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 (solved)]

2010-06-25 Thread Gary Jennejohn
without (active) user intervention. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

using cupsd instead of base lpr [was Re: [HEADS UP] Kernel modules don't work properly in FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 (solved)]

2010-06-24 Thread Gary Jennejohn
/bin is _before_ /usr/local/bin in my PATH. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: using cupsd instead of base lpr [was Re: [HEADS UP] Kernel modules don't work properly in FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 (solved)]

2010-06-24 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:30:26 +0200 Alban Hertroys dal...@solfertje.student.utwente.nl wrote: On 24 Jun 2010, at 9:23, Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:15:09 -0700 Ted Faber fa...@isi.edu wrote: (/usr/local/bin/ preceeds /usr/bin in my path so I can use the lpr commands

Re: Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file

2010-06-21 Thread Gary Jennejohn
. High time to fix this botheration, isn't it? This has been discussed in some mailing list (don't remember which) before. IIRC the problem is caused by the mechanism used to check commits from svn into CVS. I doubt it's easy to fix and IMO not worth the bother. -- Gary Jennejohn

Re: Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file

2010-06-15 Thread Gary Jennejohn
(is it not actively developed already?), but csup is relatively recent and alive. Once it has a CVS mode, maybe it could be adjusted? csup already has a CVS mode, at least in 9-current. I don't use older versions of FreeBSD so I don't know whether it supports CVS there. -- Gary Jennejohn

Re: Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file

2010-06-14 Thread Gary Jennejohn
a problem as a result. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: GSoC: registration of optional kernel features via sysctl: a question to the community

2010-06-10 Thread Gary Jennejohn
that the host system is going to match the target system. I don't find one single file in the ports tree which uses kern.features. But I just checked what's in the tree, not what may be in the ports themselves, i.e., I didn't extract/configure any ports. -- Gary Jennejohn

Re: How to Include Headers for siginterrupt() and vsnprintf()

2010-05-19 Thread Gary Jennejohn
moving stdlib.h and string.h up near the top. stdlib.h includes sys/cdefs.h which defines (most) of these macros, like __XSI_VISIBLE. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: utimes(2): changing the birth time

2010-05-12 Thread Gary Jennejohn
() explicitly checks that the new time is less than va_birthtime. Interestingly enough, there's code in the routine to handle what this comment in utimes(2) mentions, but it's not implemented yet. Ideally a new system call will be added that allows the setting of all three times at once. -- Gary

Re: ioctl, copy string from user

2010-04-30 Thread Gary Jennejohn
it statically (char name[MAXLEN]), then it gets copied as whole to the kernel space, isn't it ? Look at the definition of _IOW() in /sys/sys/ioccom.h. It should become obvious what's going on. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: What tty changes - question on porting ltmdm and hcfmdm to FreeBSD 8

2010-04-24 Thread Gary Jennejohn
. AFAIK there is no easy way to fix this and there are no backwards compati- bilty shims or magic header files. The fundamental problem with ltmdm is that it's a KLD and has to grovel around in the guts of the kernel. That makes fixing it decidely non- trivial. -- Gary Jennejohn

Re: there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking?

2010-04-23 Thread Gary Jennejohn
/libpng.so.6. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: /sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC COMPAT_FREEBSD7 a prerequisite for COMPAT_IA32

2010-04-22 Thread Gary Jennejohn
? (Does that translate as I'm lazy ? ;-) The switch is documented in /usr/src/UPDATING on my box. This is the usual place for this kind of heads-up. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: /sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC COMPAT_FREEBSD7 a prerequisite for COMPAT_IA32

2010-04-22 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:54:29 +0200 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Hi, Reference: From: Gary Jennejohn gary.jennej...@freenet.de Reply-to: gary.jennej...@freenet.de Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:14:40 +0200 Message-id: 20100422111440.69a01

Re: there is a way to avoid strict libraries linking?

2010-04-14 Thread Gary Jennejohn
/libmap.conf. See the man page for libmap.conf(5). -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-04-03 Thread Gary Jennejohn
probably can switch to v0, but you won't be able to see it. The only sure-fire way is to hook up a screen (terminal, laptop or another computer) to a serial port. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Newbie question: kernel image a dynamically linked binary?

2010-04-01 Thread Gary Jennejohn
. See the appropriate man page. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Problems understanding this piece of code...

2010-03-29 Thread Gary Jennejohn
. This must be used as the source address for the movsb. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-28 Thread Gary Jennejohn
/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org umm, how do I do that ? Add this to /boot/loader.conf vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=0 -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing

Re: ntfsprogs

2010-03-18 Thread Gary Jennejohn
they won't get lost in the noise. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-13 Thread Gary Jennejohn
with two ATA/IDE DVD drives and they work as long as I have device ata in my kernel config. That's all I need. They appear as /dev/cd0 and /dev/cd1. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: tty or script(1) weirdness?

2010-03-11 Thread Gary Jennejohn
it. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: bus_space_tag, bus_space_handle

2010-03-11 Thread Gary Jennejohn
to know what the best method would be for writing to these registers, the best way to go about getting bus_space_tag, and handle for the connected pci device. Im currently using FreeBSD 7.x. Take a look at pciconf(8). Might help. --- Gary Jennejohn

Re: Automated kernel crash reporting system

2010-03-04 Thread Gary Jennejohn
it ? This feature is mentioned as a mechanism which could be used as part of the automatic reporting functionality. So it's not quite the same thing. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

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

2010-03-01 Thread Gary Jennejohn
] Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link to be removed. ls -ldo / drwxr-xr-x 44 root wheel - 1536 Feb 28 18:36 / ls -ldo /proc dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Sep 7 2008 /proc --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd

Re: `make cleanworld` and /usr/obj/lib32/usr/src

2010-02-28 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:49:58 +0100 (CET) Alexander Best alexbes...@wwu.de wrote: how about something like this? Based on a quick look it seems OK to me. Have you tested it? --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: VirtualBox and vtophys

2010-02-24 Thread Gary Jennejohn
actions. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: `make cleanworld` and /usr/obj/lib32/usr/src

2010-02-22 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:20:14 +0100 (CET) Alexander Best alexbes...@wwu.de wrote: hi there, anybody fancy the idea of including /usr/obj/lib32/usr/src in the cleanworld target on amd64? Seems like a reasonable thing to do. --- Gary Jennejohn

Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off

2010-01-27 Thread Gary Jennejohn
in an else-if clause. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Leaks in libc?

2010-01-27 Thread Gary Jennejohn
of U*X recover memory used by applications when the applications exit. This is not a real leak. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: [PATCH] linprocfs dofilesystems

2010-01-10 Thread Gary Jennejohn
Thanks You should file a PR with this, if you haven't done so already. Patches which are only sent to mailing lists tend to get lost. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Suggestion: rename killall to fkill, but wait five years to phase the new name in

2009-12-22 Thread Gary Jennejohn
(and /rescue) rather than /usr/bin? --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: old/unupdated xterm entries in termcap db

2009-12-10 Thread Gary Jennejohn
be a good starting point. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: [Patch] Updated termcap entries for xterm

2009-12-10 Thread Gary Jennejohn
and mrxvt and see no regressions. However, I didn't try it with a VT as xterm. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr

Re: old/unupdated xterm entries in termcap db

2009-12-09 Thread Gary Jennejohn
in ports under src. The only practical way to keep termcap up to date would be for the committer updating the port to also check and update termcap under src. The problem with this is that most ports committers aren't authorized to make commits under src. --- Gary Jennejohn

Re: acl_from_text leaking memory

2009-11-16 Thread Gary Jennejohn
that it works without side effects would definitely be convincing and increase the chances of getting it committed. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any

Re: acl_from_text leaking memory

2009-11-16 Thread Gary Jennejohn
) with the (void *)acl_t as an argument. Please use an acl_free(void *obj_p) call afterwards to avoid leaking memory. The suggested fix was appplied to HEAD today. Apparently, the man page should now be updated. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers

Re: NUMA support; tweaking TCP for GPRS

2009-11-13 Thread Gary Jennejohn
the new Delay Tolerant Networking protocol developed by Vint Cerf for NASA in FreeBSD. Supposedly it's already in Android. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

Re: Why is default value of NKPT so small? mfsroot

2009-11-07 Thread Gary Jennejohn
)? Well, the header files all semm to have #ifndef NKPT in them. Try doing NKPT=xxx;export NKPT before compiling the kernel and see what happens. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: rmdir(2) and mkdir(2) both return EISDIR for argument /

2009-11-07 Thread Gary Jennejohn
in the comments that this is the case and could be a problem if vfs_lookup.c is changed for some reason? That's what I do when I have to use something like this. But we don't want to turn this into a gigantic bikeshed - we already have enough of those. --- Gary Jennejohn

Re: [patch] add pwait utility

2009-11-07 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:24:46 +0100 Jilles Tjoelker jil...@stack.nl wrote: I propose adding a small new utility to /usr/bin: pwait. Similar to the Solaris utility of the same name, it waits for any process to terminate. Why not /bin so it can be used before /usr is mounted? --- Gary Jennejohn

Re: help needed to fix contrib/ee crash/exit when receiving SIGWINCH

2009-10-23 Thread Gary Jennejohn
appeared in (FreeBSD'ish? version of) ee 1.5.0. SIGWINCH is handled in new_curse.c, but it's not being compiled/linked. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

Re: help needed to fix contrib/ee crash/exit when receiving SIGWINCH

2009-10-23 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:50:24 +0200 Gary Jennejohn gary.jennej...@freenet.de wrote: On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:58:43 +0400 pluknet pluk...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/23 Antony Mawer li...@mawer.org: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: hi

Re: Running a program through gdb without interfering

2009-10-09 Thread Gary Jennejohn
for gdb, section 5.3 Signals. It's possible to tell gdb how to handle signals, e.g. stop vs. nostop, etc. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: DDB capture buffer

2009-09-13 Thread Gary Jennejohn
it's a good idea, as long as you put a warning in UPDATING for people using e.g. embedded devices with little memory. It's reasonable to expect such users to customize their kernel configs. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ral0 interface hangs with the message No buffer space available

2009-08-24 Thread Gary Jennejohn
it is which you are using. The down/up frees it up because all queued transmits are discarded. This should never happen in normal operation. You haven't really provided any useful information to allow further analysis. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd

Re: concurrent sysctl implementation

2009-07-25 Thread Gary Jennejohn
] I'm currently running the patch under AMD64 and haven't noticed any regressiosn yet. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers

Re: diagnosing freezes (DRI?)

2009-04-17 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:18:36 +0300 Kostik Belousov kostik...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:47:55AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: Gary Jennejohn wrote: deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: This kernel output really looks bad: Wai tSiynngc i(nmga xd is6k0s ,s evcnoonddess) rfeomra

Re: diagnosing freezes (DRI?)

2009-04-16 Thread Gary Jennejohn
because you have SMP and don't have `options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128' in your kernel config. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: diagnosing freezes (DRI?)

2009-04-11 Thread Gary Jennejohn
. I don't seem to have that sysctl. You sure that's the correct name? It's definitely in 8-current. Seems to be set to 0 as default. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: some questions about 32 bit / 64 bit

2009-04-03 Thread Gary Jennejohn
desktop for years and never had any real problems. Of course, this is _not_ a laptop, so YMMV. But several people have reported in various MLs that they're using their laptops in 64-bit mode with success. Try it in 64-bit mode. If you have problems, then consider 32-bit mode. --- Gary Jennejohn

Re: Google SoC 2009 Idea

2009-02-26 Thread Gary Jennejohn
a while to get up to speed. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: /var/log/messages logs appear in the output of sysctl -a

2009-01-07 Thread Gary Jennejohn
this as root on the console then you were simply seeing kernel output interleaved with the output from sysctl. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send

Re: Watchdog for Boser (HS-7001)

2008-12-01 Thread Gary Jennejohn
error (core dumped) MOV DX, 2EH MOV AL, 87H OUT DX, AL OUT DX, AL Userland is not allowed to write to ports. That's the bus error you see. Also without a call to the exit syscall at the end, it will segfault. See io(4), i386_get_ioperm(2), i386_set_ioperm(2), mem(4). --- Gary

Re: dd if=/dev/mem can hang a machine?

2008-11-30 Thread Gary Jennejohn
. With some hardware just reading a register can be harmful. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is difference between /etc/rc called programs and ones called after login prompt shows up

2008-08-23 Thread Gary Jennejohn
don't know the setup well enough to be helpful. I have no idea which script handles modules installed by ports and when it is invoked. You could try moving fuse.ko to /boot/modules and modify loader.conf to load fuse.ko at boot time. --- Gary Jennejohn

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years

2008-07-17 Thread Gary Jennejohn
invoke sysinstall on a running system to slice/partition/etc a new drive [radically trimmed Cc list] sade(8) is supposed to take the place of sysinstall for disk operations. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: kernel HEAD userland 7.0-REL?

2008-07-04 Thread Gary Jennejohn
to test kernels. cd /usr/src;make -s installkernel KODIR=/boot/test;cd nextboot -k test reboot This does a one-time start using the test kernel under /boot/test. Your other option is to describe the problem and ask if anyone using 8-current has encountered it. --- Gary Jennejohn

Re: setting up a local cvsup server

2008-07-03 Thread Gary Jennejohn
lrwx-- 1 root wheel 8 May 16 2007 FreeBSD.cvs - /u2/ncvs 2) then just start cvsupd with reasonable command line options. I use -C 2. Then just create supfiles on the client and point them at your server. It's really rather trivial. --- Gary Jennejohn

Re: eeePC 900 with SSD reducing writes

2008-06-24 Thread Gary Jennejohn
to the same physical sector and never saw any errors. The manufacturers have really good internal wear leveling algorithms which are totally transparent to the user. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Looking for *cheap* embedded platform w- 2 ethernets

2008-06-22 Thread Gary Jennejohn
suggestions?? We build our own ARM9 based board: http://www.small-control.de/FSB-A920-1.html http://www.small-control.de/FSB-A920-1-APG.html Looks like it's soldered by hand. Is it? --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Introduction

2008-04-25 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:46:02 -0400 David Forsythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My name is David Forsythe and I'll be working on allowing parallel builds in the ports collection for Summer of Code this year. This would definitely be of benefit! Good luck. --- Gary Jennejohn

Re: new SATA chipsets support

2008-03-13 Thread Gary Jennejohn
? These are guaranteed not to work, unless you want to port the Linux drivers. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new SATA chipsets support

2008-03-13 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:49:52 -0400 Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Gary Jennejohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't speak to this, but why not use a board which is already known to work? I'm using a Gigabyte M61P-S3 myself. I think that drivers

Re: insufficient power for Xcraft HD enclosure

2008-01-20 Thread Gary Jennejohn
. This should allow your laptop to provide enough juice to start the disk spinning without violating the USB specification. If your laptop has only one USB port then you're SOL. The case seems to have no provision for attaching an external power supply. --- Gary Jennejohn

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-13 Thread Gary Jennejohn
this is a mystery to me. Just my 2 Euro-cents. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: handling pdfs?

2007-12-02 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:09:14 -0500 Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Jennejohn wrote: xpdf allows printing of page ranges. I use it all the time. I'm not sure why, maybe I have too poor a font selection here, but the fonts, I mean, the onscreen fonts that xpdf seems to choose

Re: handling pdfs?

2007-11-28 Thread Gary Jennejohn
, use ps2pdf to convert them and then pdfjam to combine them. It's enough of a roundabout that I don't know if it's worth it or not. xpdf allows printing of page ranges. I use it all the time. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

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