Re: cause of reboot

2013-09-30 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/30/13 11:08 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: Also . . . grep -ri . . . On Sep 30, 2013, at 11:06, Jason Hellenthal jhellent...@dataix.net wrote: And /etc/ ? And /var/cron ? On Sep 30, 2013, at 11:00, Emre Çamalan mail...@yandex.com wrote: Yes I checked also it , such as ; grep -i

Re: weekly periodic security status

2013-08-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On 8/25/13 7:05 PM, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: And the following variables to control whether you want each check to run daily, weekly or directly from crontab (the default, backward compatible values are shown): security_status_chksetuid_enable=daily

Re: Stacking lots of IP's on a single box - any 'gotchas'?

2013-07-31 Thread Julian Elischer
On 7/31/13 5:37 PM, Karl Pielorz wrote: Hi, We've got a number of boxes we'd like to consolidate - this could mean upward of 1,500 IP's on a single box (9.1 amd64). Last time we did anything like this we hit at issue at around 900 (ntpd 'binds' by default to all available IP's - I think we

Re: Stacking lots of IP's on a single box - any 'gotchas'?

2013-07-31 Thread Julian Elischer
On 8/1/13 4:27 AM, Diane Bruce wrote: On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:47:02PM +0400, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: On 31 July 2013 13:37, Karl Pielorz kpielorz_...@tdx.co.uk wrote: Hi, We've got a number of boxes we'd like to consolidate - this could mean upward of 1,500 IP's on a single box (9.1

Re: Kernel dumps [was Re: possible changes from Panzura]

2013-07-12 Thread Julian Elischer
On 7/12/13 10:01 PM, Ed Maste wrote: On 10 July 2013 19:07, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: There was some work on something similar at one point, not sure what came of it. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-September/020164.html The code referenced there has

Re: Kernel dumps [was Re: possible changes from Panzura]

2013-07-11 Thread Julian Elischer
On 7/11/13 6:09 AM, Kevin Day wrote: Those sound useful. Just out of curiosity, however, since we're on the topic of kernel dumps: Has anyone even looked into the notion of an emergency fall-back network stack to enable remote kernel panic (or system hang) debugging, the way OS X lets you

possible changes from Panzura

2013-07-10 Thread Julian Elischer
I'm going through all the internal changes my current employer has made, categorizing them into proprietary and can feed back to FreeBSD. I will probably send out emails like this several times seeking feedback on whether a particular patch is considered useful or not.. these are verse 8.0 at

Re: Announcing: nuOS 0.0.9.1b1 - a whole NEW FreeBSD distro, NOT a fork

2013-07-08 Thread Julian Elischer
On 7/9/13 6:12 AM, Teske, Devin wrote: On Jul 8, 2013, at 11:43 AM, Chad J. Milios wrote: We also had to put one file into the etc directory on the / beneath the /etc mount so that /sbin/init can read it before /etc is mounted. There were two or three ways we could do that and each has a

Re: expanding amd64 past the 1TB limit

2013-06-27 Thread Julian Elischer
On 6/27/13 12:11 AM, Chris Torek wrote: [...] them (but I still needed the map I drew of the page tables...). care to share? :-) ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe,

Re: Logging natd translations

2013-05-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/15/13 9:52 PM, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Wed, 15 May 2013, Daniel Eischen wrote: We need to log all translations from internal IP addresses to external addresses. It's good enough to have IPv4 to Ipv4 translations for TCP streams, just one log for the start of each stream. We're using

Re: Managing userland data pointers in kqueue/kevent

2013-05-15 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/13/13 2:44 PM, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2013 11:23:45 -0700 Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote: Just as a data point, I managed 50,000 + connections, at 5,000 + a second, doing a gigabit + of traffic, mid-2000s, with the userland management of all of the socket/disk FD

Re: A problem with alq module!

2013-05-13 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/12/13 11:37 PM, Computer Network Man wrote: Dear Guys; In a fresh FreeBSD 9 or 9.1 Release if you just run these commands: # kldload alq # kldunload alq # init 0 or shutdown -p now it will panic! maybe it's a bug. We have a module which uses alq API's. MODULE_DEPEND(mymodule, alq, 1,

Re: MADV_FREE and wait4 EFAULT

2013-04-20 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/19/13 5:51 AM, Carl Shapiro wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Konstantin Belousov kostik...@gmail.comwrote: Did you ensured with e.g. ktrace and procstat -v that your assumptions hold, i.e. the addresses supplied as wait4(2) arguments are valid ? Please provide the minimal test case

Re: Need advice on sys5 shm and zero copy sockets

2013-04-02 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/8/13 4:22 AM, gary mazzaferro wrote: Hi, I was told to post this question here (Ken Merry), it would be a good place to get some help. I'm not sure this is doable without a kernel module, which I don't want to add. I'll explain what I'm attempting.. I'm designing a high speed rest motor

Re: Need advice on sys5 shm and zero copy sockets

2013-04-02 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/8/13 4:22 AM, gary mazzaferro wrote: Hi, I was told to post this question here (Ken Merry), it would be a good place to get some help. I'm not sure this is doable without a kernel module, which I don't want to add. I'll explain what I'm attempting.. I'm designing a high speed rest motor

Re: Scrolling in framebuffer syscons

2013-02-23 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/19/13 11:57 AM, Phileas Fogg wrote: Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote: On 2/16/2013 5:20 AM, Phileas Fogg wrote: Hi, i have a question about how the scrolling in a framebuffer syscons works. I'm trying to speed up the syscons on the PS3 console which is a simple framebuffer syscons. It uses

Re: Getting the current thread ID without a syscall?

2013-01-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/15/13 4:03 PM, Trent Nelson wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 02:33:41PM -0800, Ian Lepore wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 14:29 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On 1/15/13 1:43 PM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 04:35:14PM -0500, Trent Nelson wrote: Luckily it's for

Re: Is it possible to block pending queued RealTime signals (AIO originating)?

2013-01-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/9/13 7:21 AM, Richard Sharpe wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 09:20 -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: On 8 January 2013 08:15, Richard Sharpe rsha...@richardsharpe.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 07:36 -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: .. or you could abstract it out a bit and use freebsd's

Re: old style kernel configuration

2012-11-23 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/22/12 1:17 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: I've been working on removing obsolete information various documents. While going through older articles I noticed a few references to the old style kernel configuration involving

Re: old style kernel configuration

2012-11-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/21/12 5:58 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: I've been working on removing obsolete information various documents. While going through older articles I noticed a few references to the old style kernel configuration involving running config(1) manually. Is there any value in keeping this documented

Re: Memory reserves or lack thereof

2012-11-12 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/12/12 3:49 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: On 12 November 2012 15:26, Alan Cox a...@rice.edu wrote: On 11/12/2012 5:24 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: .. wait, so what exactly would the difference be between M_NOWAIT and M_WAITOK? Whether or not the allocation can sleep until memory becomes available.

Re: VIMAGE crashes on 9.x with hotplug net80211 devices

2012-10-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On 10/22/12 7:12 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: On 22 October 2012 03:08, Marko Zec z...@fer.hr wrote: The only option I can think of now is to update all of the hotunpluggable device_detach() handlers to do CURVNET_SET(ifp-if_vnet) before calling further down into the networking stack, because as

Re: cpu_spinwait in cngetc

2012-09-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/22/12 10:46 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 18/09/2012 16:25 Andriy Gapon said the following: (Why[*]) Would anyone object to a change like this? diff --git a/sys/kern/kern_cons.c b/sys/kern/kern_cons.c index 5346bc3..d17846a 100644 --- a/sys/kern/kern_cons.c +++ b/sys/kern/kern_cons.c @@

Re: [maybe spam] Re: FreeBSD 1.x Binaries Work Except under Chroot

2012-08-15 Thread Julian Elischer
On 8/14/12 6:07 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 06:28:46PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: On 8/13/12 3:33 PM, Dan Plassche wrote: Konstantin, My apologies for any confusion. Your patch solved the problem on 8.2. Static and dynamic a.out binaries from 1.1.5.1

Re: [maybe spam] Re: FreeBSD 1.x Binaries Work Except under Chroot

2012-08-15 Thread Julian Elischer
On 8/15/12 3:29 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 8/14/12 6:07 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 06:28:46PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: On 8/13/12 3:33 PM, Dan Plassche wrote: Konstantin, My apologies for any confusion. Your patch solved the problem on 8.2. Static

Re: FreeBSD 1.x Binaries Work Except under Chroot

2012-08-13 Thread Julian Elischer
On 8/13/12 3:33 PM, Dan Plassche wrote: Konstantin, My apologies for any confusion. Your patch solved the problem on 8.2. Static and dynamic a.out binaries from 1.1.5.1 are working normally in a chroot environment now. you will also have to change PID_MAX (spelling?) to be 6 I have

Re: [maybe spam] Published paper

2012-08-07 Thread Julian Elischer
On 8/7/12 5:24 PM, ali mousa wrote: Hi, I have recently published a paper related to Operating System, can you please check it out http://www.ijcsi.org/papers/IJCSI-9-4-1-77-84.pdf and tell me your opinion, looking forward to hear from you ? Certainly interesting.. I will read more of it

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread Julian Elischer
On 8/2/12 9:53 AM, Doug Barton wrote: On 08/02/2012 09:44, Garrett Cooper wrote: The Watson/Losh connection worked really well in BSDCan 2010 :). I wasn't going to mention that, since I didn't want to tell tales out of school. But the fact that remote participation actually was provided for

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-01 Thread Julian Elischer
On 8/1/12 12:45 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Attilio Rao atti...@freebsd.org wrote: As for the mbuf meeting, all I can find from it online is: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2012-June/012629.html actually nothing has happenned on this yet

Re: How to diagnose system freezes?

2012-07-31 Thread Julian Elischer
On 7/31/12 5:02 PM, Yuri wrote: One of my 9.1-BETA1 systems periodically freezes. If sound was playing, it would usually cycle with a very short period. And system stops being sensitive to keyboard/mouse. Also ping of this system doesn't get a response. I would normally think that this is the

Re: proper newfs options for SSD disk

2012-05-25 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/24/12 5:35 AM, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2012, Tim Kientzle wrote: On May 22, 2012, at 7:40 AM, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2012, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Tuesday, May 22, 2012 a las 07:42:18AM -0600, Warren Block escribió: On Tue, 22 May 2012, Matthias Apitz

Re: [jail] Allowing root privledged users to renice

2012-05-25 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/25/12 10:04 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On 25. May 2012, at 16:48 , Sean Bruno wrote: I've been toying with the idea of letting jails renice processes ... how dangerous and/or stupid is this idea? //depot/yahoo/ybsd_9/src/sys/kern/kern_jail.c#5 -

Re: PID/UID namespaces

2012-05-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/21/12 6:47 AM, David Windsor wrote: Hi, While doing some research on FreeBSD jails, I came across an item in the jails' TODO: - be able to have a separate PID space for it - be able to specify a separate UID space for it In other projects, these goals have been accomplished

Re: Is there any modern alternative to pstack?

2012-04-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/4/12 5:44 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: On 4 April 2012 01:41, Julian Elischerjul...@freebsd.org wrote: should be in ports? Not unless someone decides to become the new upstream and make a release. We do not maintain software in ports. but we do add patches to make things work on FreeBSD.

Re: Is there any modern alternative to pstack?

2012-04-03 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/2/12 10:12 AM, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday, April 02, 2012 12:39:26 pm Yuri wrote: On 04/02/2012 05:31, John Baldwin wrote: Hmm, I don't know if the port has it, but I did some work on pstack a while ago to make it work with libthread_db so it at least handles i386 ok. It needs to be

Re: Capture states of all processes at the same time

2012-03-14 Thread Julian Elischer
On 3/14/12 12:02 PM, Artem Belevich wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Maninya Mmani...@gmail.com wrote: Then typed this to force a panic: sysctl debug.kdb.panic=1 The computer just hung after this, and after waiting for a while I pressed the reboot button. It said no core dumps found

will 9.2 be called 'diehard'? or maybe Naktomi?

2012-03-13 Thread Julian Elischer
http://modcult.org/read/2008/2/20/nakatomi-socrates-bsd-9-2 ___ 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: Never forget a special trick...

2012-03-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On 3/4/12 12:47 PM, Devin Teske wrote: On Mar 4, 2012, at 12:29 PM, Phillip Spring wrote: Dear anonymous open-source enthusiasts friends, How to echo a string backwards into a terminal? For example (or something like this): # echo @_foo_$ oof Or it could be something else (that's because I

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2012-02-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/26/12 5:34 AM, Bob Bishop wrote: Hi, I'd like to hear from somebody who understands this stuff on the relative merits of blackhole routes vs firewall drop rules for dealing with packets from unwanted sources. I'm particularly interested in efficiency and scalability. Thanks the key is

Re: Blackhole routes vs firewall drop rules

2012-02-26 Thread Julian Elischer
let's try that again with the right Subject: line On 2/26/12 1:05 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/26/12 5:34 AM, Bob Bishop wrote: Hi, I'd like to hear from somebody who understands this stuff on the relative merits of blackhole routes vs firewall drop rules for dealing with packets from

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2012-02-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/26/12 1:14 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Sunday, February 26, 2012 a las 01:05:11PM -0800, Julian Elischer escribió: On 2/26/12 5:34 AM, Bob Bishop wrote: Hi, I'd like to hear from somebody who understands this stuff on the relative merits of blackhole routes vs firewall drop rules

Re: OS support for fault tolerance

2012-02-21 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/20/12 6:32 AM, Da Rock wrote: On 02/15/12 03:25, Brandon Falk wrote: On 2/14/2012 12:05 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 08:57:10AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/14/12 6:23 AM, Maninya M wrote: For multicore desktop computers, suppose one of the cores fails

Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

2012-02-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 02/17/12 14:08, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: For me as a user, that would be a much preferable approach, instilled long ago by Linux. I don't like unused stuff around, and I like to understand what I am using. Some build kernel confutation parameters minimum modules, medium modules, maximum

Re: OS support for fault tolerance

2012-02-14 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/14/12 6:23 AM, Maninya M wrote: For multicore desktop computers, suppose one of the cores fails, the FreeBSD OS crashes. My question is about how I can make the OS tolerate this hardware fault. The strategy is to checkpoint the state of each core at specific intervals of time in main

Re: OS support for fault tolerance

2012-02-14 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/14/12 9:27 AM, Rayson Ho wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Julian Elischerjul...@freebsd.org wrote: but I'm interested in any answers people may have The way other OSes handle this is by detecting any abnormal amounts of faults (sometimes it's not the fault of the hardware - eg.

Re: OS support for fault tolerance

2012-02-14 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/14/12 3:51 PM, Jan Mikkelsen wrote: Coming back to the multicore issue: The problem when a core fails is that it has affected more than its own state. It will be holding locks on shared resources and may have corrupted shared memory or asked a device to do the wrong thing. By the time

Re: [PATCH] multiple instances of ipfw(4)

2012-02-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/8/12 6:09 AM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 03:04:09PM +0100, Ermal Lu?i wrote: E 2012/2/8 Gleb Smirnoffgleb...@freebsd.org: EOn Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:02:04PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: EL if i understand what the patch does, i think it makes sense to be EL

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

2012-02-06 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/6/12 11:10 AM, Alexander Best wrote: On Mon Feb 6 12, Alexander Motin wrote: On 02/06/12 19:37, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Monday 06 February 2012 17:29:14 Alexander Motin wrote: On 02/06/12 18:01, Alexander Best wrote: On Mon Feb 6 12, Alexander Motin wrote: I've analyzed scheduler

Re: A dual-ISP hack with jail/vnet and ipfw

2012-02-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On 2/4/12 9:05 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Natd(8) knows how to deal with multiple NAT instances for different interfaces, which is useful when you have multiple ISPs. The problem with it, is that it becomes incredibly hairy to configure your IPFW rules, in particular if you have other policy

Re: [PATCH] multiple instances of ipfw(4)

2012-01-31 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/31/12 12:53 AM, Ermal Luçi wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Vadim Goncharov vadim_nucli...@mail.ru wrote: Hi Ermal Lu?i! On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:01:13 +0100; Ermal Lu?i wrote about '[PATCH] multiple instances of ipfw(4)': from needs on pfSense a patch for allowing multiple

Re: [PATCH] multiple instances of ipfw(4)

2012-01-30 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/30/12 4:01 AM, Ermal Luçi wrote: Hello, from needs on pfSense a patch for allowing multiple intances of ipfw(4) in kernel to co-exist was developed. It can be found here https://raw.github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense-tools/master/patches/RELENG_9_0/CP_multi_instance_ipfw.diff It is used in

Re: kqueue and note_rename

2012-01-25 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/25/12 10:44 AM, Matthias Zitzen wrote: Hello list, does anybody have an idea, how to obtain the new name of a renamed file after the note_rename event is fired. I'm not very familiar with filesystem-operations. I checked the typical functions like stat or lstat, but these functions are

Re: Rebooting/Halting system from kernel module

2012-01-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/22/12 2:19 AM, geoffrey levand wrote: Hi, how would i reboot/halt the system from a kernel module ? the answer is that depends.. do you want to sync the disks first? of just hard reset? ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/18/12 3:32 AM, Robert Watson wrote: Another possibility is to get some combination of {The FreeBSD Foundation, iX Systems, ...} to trawl the bug report database in a more official capacity. The problem there is that this will be a high burn-out job. I'll bring it up at the next

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/16/12 10:20 PM, John Kozubik wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Steven Hartland wrote: I was disappointed to see that 8.3-RELEASE is now slated to come out in March of 2012. This will be ~13 months since 8.2-RELEASE and is typical of a trend towards longer gaps between minor releases. ...

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/16/12 10:29 PM, Atom Smasher wrote: so i guess that means that i'm tougher than a typical laptop user... and instead of making things easier, freeBSD is getting harder. thing is, when people don't play with freeBSD on laptops and desktops, then they grow up, get real jobs, and don't

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/17/12 10:08 AM, John Kozubik wrote: Hi Ivan, [...] Fair enough. Is it the case that if funds or manpower were made available, more releases would be workable ? Or are there some deeper cultural leanings toward having fewer minor releases ? sure if you or someone is willing to

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/17/12 7:39 AM, Mark Felder wrote: Why is everyone so afraid of running -STABLE? Plenty of stuff gets MFC'd. Yeah, I agree -- running -RELEASE is difficult. Hell, it's frustrating to us that VMWare only supports -RELEASE and it took until ESX 5 to officially support 8.2! More releases /

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/17/12 9:36 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 1/17/12 4:39 PM, Mark Felder wrote: Why is everyone so afraid of running -STABLE? Plenty of stuff gets MFC'd. Yeah, I agree -- running -RELEASE is difficult. Hell, it's frustrating to us that VMWare only supports -RELEASE and it took until ESX 5 to

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/17/12 12:11 PM, Mark Saad wrote: Here are My 2 Cents , 1. Support each release longer, or develop a better way to MFS ( Merge from Stable ) bug fixes, and driver updates to RELEASE. It always seams that there are a number of things in X-STABLE I would love to have in X.3-RELEASE and

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/17/12 3:36 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 01:17 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 17/01/2012 23:46 Ian Lepore said the following: Now, before we're even really completely up and running on 8.2 at work, 9.0 hits the street, and developers have moved on to working in the 10.0

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/17/12 2:41 PM, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:57:19PM + I heard the voice of Hugo Silva, and lo! it spake thus: Come to think about it, those days are pretty much gone since 4.x (incidentally, many of us who've stuck with FreeBSD for this long think of 4.x as an

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/17/12 3:50 PM, Doug Barton wrote: First, let's do away with the whole, If you step up to help, your help will be accepted with open arms myth. That's only true if the project leadership agrees with your goals. leadership doesn't really control development here. action does. We also need

Re: * Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/17/12 7:12 PM, Devin Teske wrote: On Jan 17, 2012, at 7:05 PM, Matthew D. Fullerfulle...@over-yonder.net wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 06:49:02PM -0800 I heard the voice of Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus: 5 was not out on a limb for so long because it was a clusterfun

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/16/12 3:32 PM, William Bentley wrote: I also echo John's sentiments here. Very excellent points made here. Thank you for voicing your opinion. I was beginning to think I was the only one who felt this way. [...] We seem to have lost our way around the release of FreeBSD 7. I am all in

Re: Hardware supported by ng_frame_relay?

2012-01-15 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/13/12 11:00 PM, Jan Mikkelsen wrote: Hi, I'm looking to upgrade a system running frame relay over a Sangoma A101 card and WANPIPE. Sangoma do not support FreeBSD anymore, so I'm looking for alternatives. What hardware does ng_frame_relay support now that ar(4) and sr(4) are not in

Re: Processes' FIBs

2012-01-15 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/13/12 4:27 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:44:51PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: On 1/12/12 6:04 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote: Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On 11. Jan 2012, at 15:06 , Oliver Fromme wrote: I'm currently looking at the source code of ps, but adding

Re: Processes' FIBs

2012-01-12 Thread Julian Elischer
On 1/12/12 6:04 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote: Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On 11. Jan 2012, at 15:06 , Oliver Fromme wrote: I'm currently looking at the source code of ps, but adding a field for the FIB isn't as trivial as I thought because ps only sees struct kinfo_proc (via sysctl

Re: Using symbolic execution for analyzing scheduler performance?

2011-12-31 Thread Julian Elischer
On 12/30/11 11:34 PM, arrowdodger wrote: On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Julian Elischer jul...@freebsd.org mailto:jul...@freebsd.org wrote: On 12/30/11 9:52 AM, arrowdodger wrote: - OS kernel calls scheduler functions in some defined order. The OS doesn't really call

Re: Using symbolic execution for analyzing scheduler performance?

2011-12-30 Thread Julian Elischer
On 12/30/11 9:52 AM, arrowdodger wrote: Hi. First, let me put a little disclaimer: I have absolutely no CS education and any degree in science, no idea on how OS kernels and CPU schedulers are implemented and working. Moreover, i haven't even know math at the level needed to talk about what i'm

Re: sysctl variable question

2011-12-18 Thread Julian Elischer
On 12/18/11 12:18 PM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi all, I'm writing a small module just for fun. I would like to have two variables: - pid of type unsigned int and RW so the user can set a pid - process_name as a string RD that will display the process name associated to that pid (or a

Re: mmap implementation for cdev

2011-12-03 Thread Julian Elischer
On 12/3/11 12:42 AM, Filippo Sironi wrote: Dear all, I've a strange problem I cannot understand... I implemented a piece of code within the FreeBSD 7.2 kernel that basically allocate a per-thread memory page to store a certain amount of information that must be read and written without

Re: mmap implementation for cdev

2011-12-03 Thread Julian Elischer
On 12/3/11 2:37 AM, Filippo Sironi wrote: I need to access the memory both from user space and kernel space, I cannot do that (simply) with an mmap or thread-specific storage if I recall correctly. that's how mmap works.. if you give it pages to expose to the user, you can still access them

Re: Communication between kernel and userspace via local socket

2011-11-19 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/17/11 11:40 AM, Maxim Ignatenko wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: On 11/16/11 12:55 AM, Ed Schouten wrote: * Maxim Ignatenkogelraen...@gmail.com, 2015 21:18: I'm currently inventing the wheel^W^W^Wwriting a firewall from scratch and looking for most convenient way to establish

Re: Communication between kernel and userspace via local socket

2011-11-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/16/11 12:55 AM, Ed Schouten wrote: * Maxim Ignatenkogelraen...@gmail.com, 2015 21:18: I'm currently inventing the wheel^W^W^Wwriting a firewall from scratch and looking for most convenient way to establish communication between userspace processes and kernel part. Communication

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On 10/4/11 9:51 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Trond Endrestøltrond.endres...@fagskolen.gjovik.no writes: It's in daily use at Gjøvik Technical College (Fagskolen i Gjøvik), here in Norway. Both the mail and web servers authenticates our users by LDAP, and nscd certainly speeds up the lookups.

Re: dtrace in FreeBSD 7.2

2011-09-19 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/19/11 9:17 AM, Charlie Martin wrote: Dude, you say that like it was an option. It's understood about the realities of commercial decisions, however, if you really want to trace APPS that means user space dtrace and 7.2 just doesn't have the hooks to do non-kernel dtrace. As a side

Re: dtrace in FreeBSD 7.2

2011-09-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/16/11 1:30 PM, Charlie Martin wrote: I need to add some custom static dtrace probes in 7.2 apps; the online documentation refers only to 9 however. Can someone tell me how to replace what's done in bsd.dtrace.mk for 7.2? I' am not sure that user space dtrace suport was available in

Re: FIB separation

2011-09-07 Thread Julian Elischer
On 7/16/11 5:43 AM, Vlad Galu wrote: Hello, A couple of years ago, Stef Walter proposed a patch[1] that enforced the scope of routing messages. The general consesus was that the best approach would be the OpenBSD way - transporting the FIB number in the message and letting the user

Re: VMWare/Virtualbox virtio network drivers?

2011-09-07 Thread Julian Elischer
On 9/6/11 8:03 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: On 7 September 2011 09:32, Adam Vande Moreamvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Stephen Hocking stephen.hock...@gmail.comwrote: Am wondering if anyone has done drivers the these sorts of network interfaces that are offered by

Re: FIB separation

2011-07-29 Thread Julian Elischer
On 7/16/11 9:19 AM, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hiroki Sato wrote: Vlad Galud...@dudu.ro wrote ina718adb2-ec52-462c-a114-85053f1b2...@dudu.ro: du Hello, du du A couple of years ago, Stef Walter proposed a patch[1] that enforced du the

Re: Jails: Setting different times in jails

2011-07-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On 7/3/11 1:16 AM, grarpamp wrote: Would be nice to be able to set different times in different jails. All jails would tick in step with the system. But each jail could have it's birthtime set specifically via jail(8), jail(2), etc. Either by specification of a specific time, or an offset from

Re: [PATCH] __FreeBSD_kernel__

2011-07-03 Thread Julian Elischer
On 7/3/11 7:35 AM, Alexander Kabaev wrote: __linux__ is exactly what __FreeBSD__ is and dies not identify kernel but rather Linux as whole OS, whatever that might be these days. There does not appear to be an universal macro that identifies environment as using Linux kernel regardless of the

Re: Testing a change to printf(9)

2011-06-07 Thread Julian Elischer
On 6/7/11 12:57 PM, Dieter BSD wrote: I've been working on fixing problems with printf(9), log(9) and related functions. Today I tried converting printf(9) to write to the log rather than directly to the console, unless the log is not open, in which case the message is also sent to the console.

Re: Testing a change to printf(9)

2011-06-07 Thread Julian Elischer
On 6/7/11 6:33 PM, Dieter BSD wrote: I've been working on fixing problems with printf(9), log(9) and related functions. Today I tried converting printf(9) to write to the log rather than directly to the console, unless the log is not open, in which case the message is also sent to the console.

Re: [RELEASE] New Boot-Loader Menu

2011-05-29 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/29/11 2:53 PM, Devin Teske wrote: On May 4, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Devin Teske wrote: On May 3, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: Devin, On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 08:45:14PM -0700, Devin Teske wrote: On Apr 30, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: Devin, On Sat, Apr 30,

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

2011-05-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/27/11 11:34 AM, Warner Losh wrote: On May 27, 2011, at 10:47 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Alexander Bestarun...@freebsd.org To: rank1see...@gmail.com Cc: hack...@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:47:54 + Subject: Re: Active slice, only for a

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

2011-05-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/28/11 6:06 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: And how about this: # boot0cfg -o noupdate -s 1 Now when you choose to hit slice 2, it is only for a this one boot. Next and each boot, defaults to slice 1 Problem is, that you must see, early bootstrap, to manually choose, so this won't work

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

2011-05-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/28/11 4:06 AM, Chris Rees wrote: On 28 May 2011 10:04, Julian Elischer jul...@freebsd.org mailto:jul...@freebsd.org wrote: On 5/27/11 11:34 AM, Warner Losh wrote: On May 27, 2011, at 10:47 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com mailto:rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

2011-05-28 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/28/11 11:10 AM, Julian Elischer wrote: On 5/28/11 4:06 AM, Chris Rees wrote: On 28 May 2011 10:04, Julian Elischer jul...@freebsd.org mailto:jul...@freebsd.org wrote: On 5/27/11 11:34 AM, Warner Losh wrote: On May 27, 2011, at 10:47 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com mailto:rank1see

Re: who is in swap?

2011-05-20 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/20/11 5:32 AM, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Daniel Branissda...@cs.huji.ac.il: no, Who's on 3rd ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: who is in swap?

2011-05-20 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/20/11 2:57 PM, Sean C. Farley wrote: On Fri, 20 May 2011, Julian Elischer wrote: On 5/20/11 5:32 AM, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Daniel Branissda...@cs.huji.ac.il: no, Who's on 3rd No. I Don't Know is on 3rd. Who's on 1st. I don't KNOW who's on 1st! Sean

Re: Freebsd And the sun x4440

2011-05-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/16/12 5:42 PM, Mark Saad wrote: All I am setting up 3 sun x4440 with freebsd 7.3 amd64 . The severs have 4x 4-core opterons and 128G of ram each . Once the servers boot they are a good fit for what we are doing and preform well . The odd thing I am seeing is a long delay in boot up .

Re: OpenGrok for FreeBSD

2011-05-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/17/11 1:35 AM, Zafer Aydoğan wrote: 2011/5/13 Zafer Aydoğanza...@aydogan.de: Zafer. Hmm... there seems to be very little interest so far. Although this tool is mainly useful for developers, what is the correct mailing list to announce it ? The service seems to be good but most people

Re: NFS mount inside jail fails

2011-05-17 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/17/11 1:17 PM, Alexander Leidinger wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2011 12:56:40 -0700 Sean Brunosean...@yahoo-inc.com wrote: Silly thing I ran into today. User wanted to NFS mount a dir inside a jail. After I groaned about the security implication of this, I noted that there is a sysctl that

Re: [UPDATE] New Boot-Loader Menu -- version 1.3

2011-05-12 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/12/11 2:14 PM, Devin Teske wrote: On May 4, 2011, at 1:37 AM, Emanuel Haupt wrote: Devin Teskedte...@vicor.com wrote: Hey all, Proud to bring you version 1.3 which completes the followup suggestions made by Olivier Smedts (use autoboot_delay instead of loader_menu_timeout and change

Re: Looking for resources to get started

2011-04-22 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/22/11 10:58 AM, Robert Lorentz wrote: Hi, I'm very interested in getting started with FreeBSD development. My interests are wide but specifically core OS, performance, scheduling, cryptography, perhaps filesystems etc. I have seen the Ideas list and there is some good stuff there but

Re: Kernel Tracking Question.. regarding kernel and boot files

2011-04-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/9/11 2:51 PM, Chris Richardson wrote: On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Chuck Swigercswi...@mac.com wrote: Hi, Chris-- [ ...Reply-to: set to direct towards the most appropriate list... ] On Apr 9, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Chris Richardson wrote: I am totally new to FreeBSD. I was involved

Re: [GSoc] Timeconter Performance Improvements

2011-03-27 Thread Julian Elischer
On 3/27/11 3:32 PM, Warner Losh wrote: On Mar 26, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Jing Huang wrote: Hi, Thanks for you all sincerely. Under your guidance, I read the specification of TSC in Intel Manual and learned the hardware feature of TSC: Processor families increment the time-stamp counter

Re: [GSoc] Timeconter Performance Improvements

2011-03-26 Thread Julian Elischer
On 3/25/11 1:24 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2011-Mar-24 17:00:02 +0800, Jing Huangjing.huang@gmail.com wrote: In this scenario, I plan to use both tsc and shared memory to calculate precise time in user mode. The shared memory includes system_time, tsc_system_time and

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