Re: Keeping track with latest kernel ? CVSweb ?

2002-02-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 28 February 2002 at 11:42:17 +1100, Andrew wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: ie a way to know that the kernel has been updated so I can compile the new one. cvsup and watch the output is probably easiest. Note that it's not possible to build a new kernel

Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet?

2002-02-20 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 19 February 2002 at 21:36:25 -0800, George V. Neville-Neil wrote: Hi Folks, Now that Luigi has put in polling support for some ethernet drivers I was wondering how much work it would be to make the remote kernel debugging run over the ethernet. I have worked on systems

Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet?

2002-02-20 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 20 February 2002 at 16:52:48 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, George V. Neville-Neil wrote: I was talking to Louis Gerbarg about this topic at the BSDCon last week. Apparently Darwin already has this functionality, so I suppose you'd like to take a look at

Re: Kernel Debugging over the Ethernet?

2002-02-20 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 20 February 2002 at 17:03:38 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Greg Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 20 February 2002 at 16:52:48 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, George V. Neville-Neil wrote: I was talking to Louis Gerbarg about this topic

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-30 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 January 2002 at 9:41:15 -0700, Nate Williams wrote: Caldera's License Agreement: http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf Thanks. However, this isn't as specific as I'd like it to be. It implies that Net1/Net2 are now 'legal', but it doesn't give explicit release

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Greg Lehey
- Forwarded message from Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:55:04 -0700 From: Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dominic Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 29 January 2002 at 15:56:32 -0800, Dion Johnson wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:05:20AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:55:04 -0700, Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, where have you heard that it's been relicensed? http://minnie.tuhs.org/PUPS

Re: vinum write spanning

2002-01-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 28 January 2002 at 18:34:10 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 09:49:59AM -0500, Jason Andresen wrote: I'm hoping there is an easy answer to this one... Is there some way vinum can be tickled such that it writes to all disks in a plex at once? For instance, say I

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-07 Thread Greg Lehey
[moved to -chat] On Monday, 7 January 2002 at 21:21:54 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 01/07/2002 7:32:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Drool away, buddy! Here's mine, and it still works (chicklet keyboard, built in cassette drive, metal filing

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 28 December 2001 at 13:23:50 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: It seems Greg Lehey wrote: Information that could be interesting is (here my values): Processor:AMD Duron 850 Motherboard: ECS K7VZA Memory:1 128 MB SIMM, 100 MHz. What FreeBSD version are you using ? I

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 28 December 2001 at 6:21:04 -0800, Keith Simonsen wrote: Greg, Do not forget to check your power supply make/model. If you search on google for AMD's recommended hardware list, double check you're power supply is listed for your cpu. This wouldn't explain why it works fine under

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 28 December 2001 at 14:46:12 -0600, Glenn Johnson wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:10:09PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: I've been using AMD processors almost exclusively in my main work machines for over 4 years, and I've been very happy with them. I'm currently running a K6/233

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 28 December 2001 at 23:12:40 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: It seems Glenn Johnson wrote: It is really hard for me to say if this is FreeBSD specific because I do not tend to stress the system much when I have Linux running. My wife has an identical system running Windows 98SE and

Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-27 Thread Greg Lehey
I've been using AMD processors almost exclusively in my main work machines for over 4 years, and I've been very happy with them. I'm currently running a K6/233, a K6/333, an Athlon 750, a Duron 850 and an Athlon XP 1700. Last August, though, I bought a machine which gave me a lot of trouble,

Re: Instead of JFS, why not a whole new FS?

2001-12-17 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 17 December 2001 at 22:50:45 -, Dave Reyenga wrote: How about writing a new filesystem based on UFS? If it's based on UFS, it's not a new file system. This would save all of the hassle that JFS would bring: licensing, porting time, etc. There are no hassles with licensing.

Re: Adding a new FS to FreeBSD

2001-12-16 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 16 December 2001 at 18:37:33 +1100, Warren Toomey wrote: I would say that FreeBSD already has a nearly-working UFS implementation. Also, the structure of UFS is so well documented in various books that, even if FreeBSD's UFS implementation was deficient, it could be rectified with

Re: Caldera and the Ancient UNIX license

2001-12-16 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 16 December 2001 at 17:18:37 +1100, Warren Toomey wrote: In article by Greg Lehey: [about if and how Caldera is enforcing the Ancient UNIX http://www2.caldera.com/offers/ancient.html. Note also that in fact they allow access to the code via license

Re: Adding a new FS to FreeBSD

2001-12-15 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 15 December 2001 at 0:39:32 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Greg Lehey wrote: Do you have small images of this FS, as well as header files that are redistributable (e.g. BSD license) and/or code? If you have the tools sources (e.g. newfs, fsck, etc.), this would be useful, as well

Re: Adding a new FS to FreeBSD

2001-12-15 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 15 December 2001 at 3:18:33 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Greg Lehey wrote: Unfortunately, it's still copyrighted. You need an SCO license; want to go and get one of them? It doesn't cost anything, but I can't give the software to anybody who hasn't agreed to the conditions

Re: Adding a new FS to FreeBSD

2001-12-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 14 December 2001 at 6:16:27 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Peter Jeremy wrote: Since JFS has come up again... Are there any papers that explain how to integrate a new filesystem into FreeBSD? The relevant chapter in the FreeBSD Developers' Handbook (16) is a bit terse :-).

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD [VOTE]

2001-12-12 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 12 December 2001 at 1:43:10 -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote: Hi, as i said also before, my intentions were never to cause havoc on the mailing list. :-) In simple terms, what i am saying is, the people who would like to port the JFS file system, should put a +1 in their next

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-11 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 11 December 2001 at 1:08:23 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Greg Lehey wrote: FS porting to FreeBSD is actually pretty trivial(*), though some transactioning changes to the FreeBSD VFS layer consumers (the system calls and NFS server code) would be necessary to make the journal roll

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-11 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 11 December 2001 at 19:42:30 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Greg Lehey wrote: Of course. But you're missing the point: ufs is *not* a port, it has been with BSD since the beginning. There is a similar list of items for JFS which would need to be addressed, with the additional issue

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long-short syndrome in first message. On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 14:01:53 -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote: hi all, this is a wild idea...suggestion... i wanted to ask if there were any _plans_ to port JFS (Journaled File

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 11 December 2001 at 10:56:17 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 17:39:35 -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: * Hiten Pandya [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011210 16:02] wrote: hi all, this is a wild idea...suggestion... i wanted to ask if there were any _plans_ to port JFS

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 22:45:22 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Hiten Pandya wrote: i wanted to ask if there were any _plans_ to port JFS (Journaled File System) to FreeBSD... Not unless you have plans. When I was an IBM employee, they would not change the license, and so it's

Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD

2001-12-10 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 10 December 2001 at 22:48:58 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Alfred Perlstein wrote: [ ... Hiten wants someone to GPLify FreeBSD ... ] I'm glad you took the time to read the marketting literature. The problem is that porting it is going to be a bit more complicated than just

Notwork solutions (was: who is postmaster?)

2001-12-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 1 December 2001 at 1:21:04 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: I've tried getting information about our (FreeBSD) mail system by mailing to postmaster but no-one answers.. so, who IS the postmaster at the moment? I

Re: UDMA33 and SiS5591 on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE

2001-12-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 2 December 2001 at 17:53:37 +1030, Richard Sharpe wrote: Greg Lehey wrote: On Saturday, 1 December 2001 at 13:05:53 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: It seems Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: Hi, I've got a box which boots up with UDMA33 but during the boot sequence gets write problems

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-30 Thread Greg Lehey
to ata-dma.c (provided by Greg Lehey, but I had to do it by hand) What did you have to do by hand? so my drive is now running at UDMA 100. Can you send me dmesg output? In particular, I had a printf output there to show what the BIOS had set. Background for other people: Richard has an IDE chip

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-28 Thread Greg Lehey
that are *all* over the map. However, when connected to a Linux box on the same network, none of these bad things occur. :( (And, we've verified the network is up by running ping in another window.) On Wednesday, 28 November 2001 at 18:22:10 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 28 November

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 28 November 2001 at 2:03:21 -0600, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011127 23:08] wrote: I've just been talking with a friend of mine from the Samba team. He's about to change jobs, and a lot of his work in future will involve FreeBSD. He's just been

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 28 November 2001 at 2:22:40 -0600, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011128 02:14] wrote: If you want me to shutup and go into a corner, it might make you feel better, but it certainly won't solve the real problem. I made it clear that my problem was

FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Lehey
I've just been talking with a friend of mine from the Samba team. He's about to change jobs, and a lot of his work in future will involve FreeBSD. He's just been doing some performance testing, and while the numbers are pretty even (since he discovered soft updates :-), he's noticing some

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 28 November 2001 at 1:56:14 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:41:18 -0700 Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I'm seeing this as well. However, this appears to be a new occurance, as we were using a FreeBSD 3.X system for our reference test platform.

Re: HPT370 RAID or Vinum?

2001-11-13 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 11 November 2001 at 22:37:58 +0100, Paul van der Zwan wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Smith wrote: These cheap controllers don't have any algorithms at all to speak of; they're just ATA controllers with BIOS code that supposedly understands striping/mirroring. There is

Re: HPT370 RAID or Vinum?

2001-11-11 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 11 November 2001 at 9:33:56 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: It seems Mike Smith wrote: Agreed. I don't think the RAIDs will have the same parameters. Most of these cheap controllers have fairly simplistic algorithms. Note that I said guess, though. In my language, that means don't

Re: Vinum problem with JBOD on a 3ware?

2001-10-30 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 30 October 2001 at 8:26:14 -0800, Jaye Mathisen wrote: I be stumped: newsfeed-inn# uname -a FreeBSD newsfeed-inn.meganews.com 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Mon Oct 29 15:08:57 PST 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/n/FreeBSD/RELENG_4-2001-10-29/src/sys/compile/NEWSFEED-INN i386

Re: I am desperate please help my hdd

2001-10-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 13 October 2001 at 19:08:24 -0400, Rob wrote: I am writing this mailing list in a desperate attempt to find out how to restore my hdd with out loosing all the data on it. Recently I added two additional hard drives to my freebsd 4.2 system. Once I booted up my system and dl'ed

Re: setjmp/longjmp

2001-10-03 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 3 October 2001 at 12:12:14 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: I suppose it must have been Peter Penchev who wrote: On Wednesday, October 03, 2001 6:14 AM, Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, 2 October 2001 at 12:43:54 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2001

Re: setjmp/longjmp

2001-10-02 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 2 October 2001 at 12:43:54 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:56:24AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Friday, 28 September 2001 at 10:12:14 -0700

Re: setjmp/longjmp

2001-09-30 Thread Greg Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Friday, 28 September 2001 at 10:12:14 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Gersh wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Bernd Walter wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 07:03:51PM +0530, Anjali Kulkarni wrote: Does anyone

Re: VM: dynamic swap remapping (patch)

2001-09-30 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 30 September 2001 at 14:55:58 -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Jos Backus [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010930 14:35] wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:23:26PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Jos Backus [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010930 12:55] wrote: AIX has SIGDANGER. Anyone care to tell me how

Re: VINUM PANIC ON -STABLE

2001-09-16 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 16 September 2001 at 20:04:46 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Greg, On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:04:27 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: Subdisk home.p0.s0: Size: 40822392320 bytes (38931 MB) State: up Plex home.p0 at offset 0 (0 B

Re: VINUM PANIC ON -STABLE

2001-09-15 Thread Greg Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Saturday, 15 September 2001 at 18:39:20 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 09:38:20 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Saturday, 15 September 2001 at 12:26:10 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4) Supply

Re: HPT370 RAID or Vinum?

2001-09-10 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 10 September 2001 at 10:11:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I am trying to install FreeBSD on a (pseudo-) hardware ATA RAID volume which consists of two striped ATA disks connected to a Highpoint HPT370 controller.Pseudo- because FreeBSD detects the individual

mmap limits (was: need help)

2001-08-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 1 August 2001 at 0:17:42 +0700, smail wrote: Hello freebsd-hackers, i need some help. my problem is about memory limit in mmap function. i can't mmap files infinitely, after some number of file mmaped in memory i've got an error, probably causing memory limit of 2 or 4 Gb.

Re: Allocate a page at interrupt time

2001-08-08 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 8 August 2001 at 0:27:23 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: void wrote: Can you name one SMP OS implementation that uses an interrupt threads approach that doesn't hit a scaling wall at 4 (or fewer) CPUs, due to heavier weight thread context switch overhead? Solaris, if I remember

Re: Allocate a page at interrupt time

2001-08-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 7 August 2001 at 1:58:21 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Bosko Milekic wrote: I keep wondering about the sagicity of running interrupts in threads... it still seems like an incredibly bad idea to me. I guess my major problem with this is that by running in threads, it's made it

Failed hack attempt (was: your mail)

2001-07-15 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 15 July 2001 at 16:51:51 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: am a kernel newbie. i tried adding code to the kernel and compiled it and installed . when i tried rebooting my new image the kernel panics with a fatal trap 12: page fault ( for which i know the reason). How do i boot the

Re: Some questions about kernel programming

2001-07-12 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 12 July 2001 at 6:58:09 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends I have some questions about kernel programming: You'd be better off sending mail like this to -hackers. I've followed up there. 1. Why I can call some system calls functions into the kernel but another

Re: Re. The Foundation [was Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral]

2001-07-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 8 July 2001 at 15:47:18 -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: Julian Stacey wrote: The sooner BOD appoint a handfull of non-execs, some nominated by core, the sooner it'll be easy to encourage Wind River to donate the trademark, before who knows what might happen at, to, or within Wind

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-21 Thread Greg Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Your MUA is a known text mutilator. You'd be better off getting a UNIX-based MUA: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 On Wednesday, 20 June 2001 at 11:16:18 +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: Jordan Hubbard [EMAIL

Writing device drivers (was: help me please)

2001-05-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 9 May 2001 at 10:40:50 +0530, Jayesh Krishna wrote: Hi guys... I am comfortable with Linux Device Drivers. Presently I am trying to write some pseudo-drivers in FreeBSD(4.2-Release). I tried out make_pseudo_driver.sh in the /usr/share/examples/drivers but it does not work :-(

Re: vinum on 2 ide drives?

2001-05-09 Thread Greg Lehey
[redirected to -questions] On Wednesday, 9 May 2001 at 19:51:05 -0700, Dan Phoenix wrote: These 2 are from running it on each on the ide drives without vinum. [root@gorbag /mnt1]# dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=16384k count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out 16777216000 bytes

Re: fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-09 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 9 May 2001 at 22:04:34 -0700, Brian W. Buchanan wrote: Any fdc driver gurus in the house? I have a bunch of old floppy disks with some text files I'd like to recover. Many of them have errors and are unreadable past a certain point in the disk. Others I can't read from at

Re: Optimal setup for large raid?

2001-05-04 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 4 May 2001 at 12:58:58 -0400, Brad L. Chisholm wrote: I sent this to -questions a few days ago, but never received any response, so I thought I'd try here. My apologies if you've seen this more than once. I'm also interested in what might be appropriate filesystem settings

The future of multiprocessors (was: SMP in 2.4 (fwd))

2001-04-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 18 April 2001 at 23:17:06 -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Dennis wrote: You think Intel isn't going to market dual/quad ia64 machines? Yes, but who'll need them? If nobody needed them, what would be the point in SELLING them ? That's never been an argument

Re: A message to freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG

2001-03-31 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 31 March 2001 at 11:15:37 -0800, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's no need to copy the spammer. Did the message bounce, BTW? Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EA6A2E8167; Sat, 31

Re: Vinum stripe size (was: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server)

2001-03-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 27 March 2001 at 0:05:03 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010326 23:47] wrote: On Tuesday, 20 March 2001 at 11:11:44 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: [Lengthy email, bear with me please, it is quite interesting. This box averages 30.0 load

Re: Vinum stripe size (was: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server)

2001-03-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 27 March 2001 at 9:39:36 +0100, Brian Somers wrote: On Tuesday, 20 March 2001 at 11:11:44 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: [Lengthy email, bear with me please, it is quite interesting. This box averages 30.0 load with no problems.] snip Average file size is about 4K.

Re: Vinum stripe size (was: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server)

2001-03-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 27 March 2001 at 17:59:23 -0500, Brandon Gale wrote: Do you think it'd be worth it to have vinum carp about what may be a non optimal stripe size? "Warning N is probably a bad idea for a stripe size, see docs" Only if it can recognize the fact correctly. How about even

Re: Vinum stripe size (was: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server)

2001-03-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 27 March 2001 at 15:15:17 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:16:53PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: No, there's no requirement for it to be a prime number. The only problem is that with 32 MB cylinder groups and a power of two stripe size and subdisk count, you end

Re: Vinum stripe size (was: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server)

2001-03-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 27 March 2001 at 16:38:33 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Greg Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010327 16:21] wrote: On Tuesday, 27 March 2001 at 17:59:23 -0500, Brandon Gale wrote: Do you think it'd be worth it to have vinum carp about what may be a non optimal stripe size? "Wa

Re: Vinum stripe size (was: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server)

2001-03-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 28 March 2001 at 1:40:27 +0100, Brian Somers wrote: On Tuesday, 27 March 2001 at 9:39:36 +0100, Brian Somers wrote: On Tuesday, 20 March 2001 at 11:11:44 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: [Lengthy email, bear with me please, it is quite interesting. This box averages 30.0 load with

Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server

2001-03-26 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 20 March 2001 at 11:04:16 -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: SWAP is never touched. :) last pid: 23395; load averages: 2.08, 2.92, 3.60up 0+01:29:58 02:03:27 1529 processes:24 running, 1505 sleeping CPU states: 40.5% user, 0.0% nice, 46.4% system, 1.1% interrupt, 12.0% idle

Vinum stripe size (was: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server)

2001-03-26 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 20 March 2001 at 11:11:44 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: [Lengthy email, bear with me please, it is quite interesting. This box averages 30.0 load with no problems.] snip Average file size is about 4K. /home/bbsusers* is on a vinum stripe'd volume with 3 Ultra160 9G 1RPM

Re: Missing support in FreeBSD for large file sizes?

2001-03-05 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 5 March 2001 at 17:23:53 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I can't understand is the reference to missing support for large file sizes - as far as I know, that's one of FreeBSD's strengths! Anybody care to guess what they mean

Re: gdb and debugging Linux binaries

2001-02-23 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 22 February 2001 at 13:55:07 -0800, Jim Pirzyk wrote: I have a question on how to debug Linux binaries. I have a core file from the linux binary, but if I use the FreeBSD gdb, it cannot find the shared libraries in /compat/linux/ If I use the /compat/linux/ /usr/bin/gdb,

Re: soft updates performance

2001-02-12 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 12 February 2001 at 15:29:17 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i've been doing some experiments with vinum, and doing a make buildworld (with obj on the same vinum) without soft-updates~ 1 hour with soft-updates ~ 40

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 7 February 2001 at 13:41:29 -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote: btw ccd requires 2 other drives am i correct? No, you can use ccd with only 2 drives. So i just remove /var/ basically from fstab ...raid0 2 drives together and mount that as var...is my basic understanding. of course of

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 7 February 2001 at 13:31:26 -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: In anycase, while VINUM is great for striping disks I recommend that you use CCD to begin with, because CCD is a whole lot less complex. You can stripe IDE drives but the two drives must be on different IDE

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 7 February 2001 at 13:16:44 -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote: On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Andrew Reilly wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:13:57PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Andre Oppermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010206 12:07] wrote: Does sendmail even use fsync()? It better. :) Quick

Re: Watch your devfs permissions in driver make_dev calls

2001-02-03 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 2 February 2001 at 20:10:10 -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: Robert Watson wrote: crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 78, 0 Dec 31 1969 pci This one may appear harmless, but it is not. It is trivially easy to create an alignment fault (fatal on an alpha) with the userland pciconf

Re: Chuck Cranor's PhD thesis on VM

2001-01-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 28 January 2001 at 21:10:34 -0700, Ronald G Minnich wrote: I am sorry I brought this up without a URL :-( I'm working on it. Garrett Rooney already posted it: http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/chuck Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address

Re: if_fxp driver info (which card then?)

2001-01-26 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 26 January 2001 at 9:47:38 -0500, Jim Sander wrote: Linux people avoid the EtherExpress because they think something is wrong with the card. Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B cards in FreeBSD These cards work well in our many 3.x and 4.x systems. But I just built up a

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-25 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 25 January 2001 at 12:54:17 -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:12:42PM -0500, Dennis wrote: At 10:58 PM 01/24/2001, Jonathan Lemon wrote: In article local.mail.freebsd-hackers/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I'll look into the Linux driver, however, and

Re: Kernel Hacking (i tried not to make it lame)

2001-01-25 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 25 January 2001 at 22:03:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey guys i know you probably get this question all the time but i am looking into getting into doing somekernel hacking first i will tell you some thing i have assumed about it: 1.) you should know atleast more

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 January 2001 at 17:08:16 -0500, Dennis wrote: I'll look into the Linux driver, however, and see if it has anything useful in it. Historically the Linux Pro/100+ driver has totally sucked and was chalk-full of magic numbers being anded and ored. That's "chock full", and

Re: if_fxp driver info

2001-01-24 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 24 January 2001 at 21:07:45 -0800, Matt Jacob wrote: I've come in in the middle of this discussion, so maybe there's something I don't know, but on the same hardware and running FreeBSD, I had no problems. Why should we want to replace the driver with something which doesn't

Daemon images (was: One thing linux does better than FreeBSD...)

2001-01-15 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 15 January 2001 at 13:40:38 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: There is one point where I have to conceed defeat to Linux. That fat little penguin is everywhere. The main reason we practically don't see beastie at all is that there is no artwork to get hold of anywhere... Please,

Daemon images (was: One thing linux does better than FreeBSD...)

2001-01-15 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 15 January 2001 at 8:41:51 -0800, Richard Hodges wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: There is one point where I have to conceed defeat to Linux. That fat little penguin is everywhere. The main reason we practically don't see beastie at all is that there is no

Re: Daemon images (was: One thing linux does better than FreeBSD

2001-01-15 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 15 January 2001 at 16:00:55 -0800, John Baldwin wrote: On 15-Jan-01 Greg Lehey wrote: On Monday, 15 January 2001 at 13:40:38 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: There is one point where I have to conceed defeat to Linux. That fat little penguin is everywhere. The main reason we

Dump analysis (was: Ideas? (fwd))

2001-01-08 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 8 January 2001 at 10:04:44 +0200, Roman Shterenzon wrote: * Roman Shterenzon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010107 10:24] wrote: Hi, Could you please take a look at : http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24019 It's my friend's PR. Can you give me some hints on how can I debug this

Re: StrongARM support? (was also: Group for porting to other proccessor families)

2001-01-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 8 January 2001 at 0:22:01 +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote: Hi all Is their a group of FreeBSD Enthusiasts that are working on porting free to embedded controllers that are not x86 I am in the process of developing a security / access / building management system, and am looking at

Re: debugging kernel buffer overwrite

2001-01-03 Thread Greg Lehey
[following up to -hackers] On Tuesday, 2 January 2001 at 14:35:39 -0500, Jeff Fellin wrote: I previous sent this mail on freebsd-current, but realize it was probably an incorrect list. So, I am reposting on to freebsd-questions. If this is still the wrong list could someone tell me the best

Re: kernel debugging suggestion needed

2001-01-02 Thread Greg Lehey
out which code it is executing (with remote debugging or ddb)? kld debugging is a bit tricky. Take a look at the debugging macros and bits that Greg Lehey put together for vinum for a starting point. You have to calculate the appropriate offset to get to the KLD code in gdb. Doug Rabson has

Re: kernel debugging suggestion needed

2001-01-02 Thread Greg Lehey
to attach to the process and somehow find out which code it is executing (with remote debugging or ddb)? kld debugging is a bit tricky. Take a look at the debugging macros and bits that Greg Lehey put together for vinum for a starting point. You have to calculate the appropriate offset to get

Re: -STABLE+vinum+smp+softupdates+CVSup(local CVS repo)==corruption?

2000-12-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 28 December 2000 at 14:03:31 +, Josef Karthauser wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:30:09PM -0500, David E. Cross wrote: I have run across a problem since updating to -STABLE a week or so ago... my CVS vinum partition would go corrupt after a few updates. I have been running

Re: -STABLE+vinum+smp+softupdates+CVSup(local CVS repo)==corruption?

2000-12-26 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 26 December 2000 at 17:30:09 -0500, David E. Cross wrote: I have run across a problem since updating to -STABLE a week or so ago... my CVS vinum partition would go corrupt after a few updates. I have been running with no softupdates on my system for a day now and no problems. Has

Optimizations (was: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c))

2000-12-19 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 19 December 2000 at 16:01:52 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:11:12PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: /* Case 1 */ /* Case 2 */ if (data) vs. free(data) free(data); Actually from an

Re: GDB Displaying all vars in a stack frame.

2000-12-08 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 8 December 2000 at 18:29:26 -0600, Stephen Hocking wrote: Is there some simple one-liner command that allows me to display the values of all the variables within the current stack frame? info local Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for

Re: Printer problems, please help

2000-11-29 Thread Greg Lehey
[redirected to -questions; I don't consider this an in-depth technical question] On Wednesday, 29 November 2000 at 21:03:10 +0100, Rink Springer wrote: [Posted this to questions too, but no one appeared to know.. maybe someone here does?] Hi, I've installed FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE on a server

Re: looking for kernel hacking info

2000-11-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 14 November 2000 at 16:32:49 -0500, Paonia Ezrine wrote: I am looking for info on programing in kernel land. System calls, howto's etc. I have not found anything that realy covers this stuff any and all help would be welcomed! The system calls are described in section 2 of the

Re: looking for kernel hacking info

2000-11-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 14 November 2000 at 21:14:25 -0500, Paonia Ezrine wrote: On Tuesday, 14 November 2000 at 16:32:49 -0500, Paonia Ezrine wrote: I am looking for info on programing in kernel land. System calls, howto's etc. I have not found anything that realy covers this stuff any and all help

Re: looking for kernel hacking info

2000-11-14 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 15 November 2000 at 10:08:45 +, visi0n wrote: The THC have a documentation about freebsd kernel space. packetstorm.securify.com/groups/thc/bsdkern.htm Repeating the full URL for the benefit of mutt users, this is

Re: Determining CPU on SMP box

2000-10-24 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 24 October 2000 at 7:37:12 -0400, Christopher Harrer wrote: Hello All, Is there a way to determine which CPU I'm currently executing on in a SMP box? I've found references to proc-p_oncpu, but I'm not sure if this is the best way to determine where I'm executing. I'd like to

Re: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR

2000-10-18 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 15 October 2000 at 13:58:15 +0200, Frank Nobis wrote: Hi, I have a IDE drive spitting out this messages: ad3: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 48562489 retrying ad3: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# 24576329 retrying ad3: UDMA ICRC WRITE ERROR blk# 69108025 retrying ad3: UDMA ICRC WRITE

Re: dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-10 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 10 October 2000 at 0:35:07 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg Lehey writes: Well, you obviously need two keyboards and two mice. I can't think of a case where that would be useful, but with x2x (in the Ports collection) you can allow different people

Re: dual console with matrox g400

2000-10-10 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 10 October 2000 at 0:51:50 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg Lehey writes: I had a PC with two graphics cards long before that. It was relatively common to have a machine with both CGA and MDA, and there were some debuggers which would handle both

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