In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to run a Mylex Acceleraid 1100 in a Dell Poweredge 2450.
What is a Dell Poweredge 2450, in terms of chipset and processors?
When
running rawio against the mylex partition, the system panics within 2
minutes, always with a
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], rh@m
atriplex.com writes:
I think I will just go ahead with allocating three separate resources
for them, but I would be very interested in other opinions.
The different regions on a device often have different functionality which
may allow/call for different
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s:
Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought that at one
time FreeBSD had one of these.
This is a standard dd(1) feature. More specifically, you want to use the
conv=ascii option.
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On i86 boxes with 4M page capabilities, we want contiguous chunks
of physical address space for mmaped devices to use those larger pages
when possible.
In practice, this doesn't happen in applications linked with shared
libraries when mmap() is used in the usual way with 0 as the address
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Is there strace for FreeBSD?
There's truss(1) and ktrace(1).
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jochen.Kaiser@rr
ze.uni-erlangen.de writes:
hi ,
i am trying to play with some statistics on ip protocols. I'd like
to implement a syscall for some funcions and I wonder why
sh sr/src/sys/kern/makesyscalls.sh syscalls.master
updates files in /usr/src/sys/kern/
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hey everyone,
Sorry if you have heard this before, or if it is annoying. I just can't
seem to find any information on this.
I have been poking around my kernel for quite some time now, and I have
been doing it with various text editors and
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es:
Hi,
I'm writing a character device driver in which each minor device can be
opened more than once. When a device is opened is there a way to associate
some private data for each opened instance ?
As other people have noted, not in the
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You might want to try setting
net.inet.tcp.sendspace
net.inet.tcp.recvspace
to larger values. I have these in my /etc/sysctl.conf.
These control the default socket buffer size. Assuming postfix
is not setting the
You may be able to force gdb to pick up the right files using the
add-symbol-file
command.
Or the
sharedlibrary
command.
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is mkdir(3) guaranteed to be atomic?
Yes.
Are there filesystem type cases where this might not be the case
(NFS being my main concern )
No.
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In most cases it is impossible to declare the data read-only because
it originally had to be read-write and you can't change its attributes
later.
mprotect(2).
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Would this be an ok fix? I'm worried about the YY_PROTO() messing
things up anyone know what the point of doing it this way is?
Compatability with pre-ANSI 'C' compilers, just like __P from
/usr/include/sys/cdefs.h.
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], mjl@SD
SC.EDU writes:
I take it that the cleanup function won't be called if the program dumps
core,
Right, unless you dump core by forking a child process and doing it in that
context.
or if it is terminated with a kill(1)
The function can never be called when
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- the Linux SCSI generic device (/dev/sg*)?
We already have a far superior mechanism (/dev/pass*)
FWIW,
The Linux /dev/sg was implemented as a simple way to send SCSI commands to
media changer robots in an MO drive library for a
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
m writes:
Will the machine boot off of the second drive if the first one fails?
It depends on how you define "fail". With a hardware failure or no 0x55 0xaa
in the boot block, many BIOSes will fail over.
At least one company has hacked their
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m writes:
the header files they tell you to include are no longer correct.
The header files are pretty much standard.
So
what I would like to know is the header files I will need to include to work
with sockets. If that is not specific enough,
In message 002d01c0b924$a07d2090$8d7d1f26@dhgfhcpps5nhe1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] w
rites:
The problem is that printf's scroll off the screen. How can I write to a
file?
syslogd(8)/syslog.conf(5).
Also note that by default, on must unices the stock /etc/syslog.conf sends
kernel messages to
In message Pine.3.89.10103300924.A22782-010@umbar, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
r.org writes:
which all begs the question... what is the point of an array of size
zero?
To allow you to do variable length arrays at the end of structures in a
portable (C99) or semi-portable (gcc) way
struct
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
m writes:
And lets face it. If MS had a good product, they would have a much larger
market share and linux would be a non-issue. MS just makes shitty stuff.
Its not about "open source".
Directly, it isn't.
Indirectly, it is.
its about how well
On Wed, 04 Apr 2001 14:12:00 EDT, Amy Fong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Query: I've noticed that if I use up too much stack space, the freebsd
kernel (4.2) seems to crash very easily.
Single page sized kernel stacks aren't uncommon (I don't recall what
FreeBSD uses, but have found the "it's small,
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I saw BSDIs retail product of FreeBSD in a local bookstore the other day,
and it became sadly clear why LINUX, although highly inferior, is so much
more widely used.
Linux was much more widely used because the Jolitzes felt their i86
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Doesn't any one remember Netiquette these days and trim what they are
replying to??
No. Every month is September.
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi folks,
I have a char driver that must be opened by more than one process. The minor
index is not sufficient for this. Is there any process private data (void *)
in the devfs structure (or the opposite) I could point to with the minor
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] w
rites:
Hello,
is it possible to allocate and then maybe free memory in user space
from kernel mode, if I have struct proc of the process that memory should
belong to ?
Yes.
What is the easiest and safest method of doing this ?
Probably
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd personally suggest just tuning net.inet.tcp.*space to 64k at most.
1. Depends on your application. To avoid TCP window size related slowdowns,
it needs to be at least as large as the bandwidth delay product (multiply
bandwidth
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ane.com writes:
This is fairly easy to do for the transmit side of things and would
yield an immediate improvement in available mbuf space. For the receive
side of things we can't really do anything with existing connections
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rites:
ch = fubyte(uaddr);
And one more question, does this mean that I can't use things x = *uaddr
and *uaddr = x for userspace, but always have to use fubyte() and subyte () ?
Right.
If so, what is the reason it was done like
For reasons beyond my control, I'm stuck using FreeBSD in a real time
system and am violating my timing constraints when too many SCSI commands
complete in a short time frame and starve one of my userland real time
processes.
If the interrupt handler wokeup a kernel thread running at a lower
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David Talkington wrote:
sudo definitely helps if it's carefully administered, but it still
grants root access to a file,
This is wrong -- sudo will grant access with whatever user
privileges you wish to grant, maybe root and maybe some
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marc Tar
dif writes:
: So why is %esp displaced by 16 bytes when only 8 bytes
: are necessary (4 for $0 and 4 for $.LC0)? And couldn't
: the compiler use a single instruction such as
: subl $16,%esp or addl
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], intmktg@
CAM.ORG writes:
Perhaps, but no matter the degree of optimisation, the
16 byte of space is performed in two instructions. This
leads me to believe is it most likely a pipelining issue
for the following pushl instructions. As for subl'ing and
addl'ing 8 bytes
drew writes:
My best guess (if it isn't a bug) would be that it's there to keep the stack
on a 32 byte (IIRC, this sounds like cache line size for the newer
Intel chips)
This discussion piqued my curiosity, so I popped up the Pentium III
optomization manual. To quote it:
On Pentium II
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/* Case 1 */ /* Case 2 */
if (data) vs. free(data)
free(data);
I don't see that Case 1 obfuscates anything. In some cases I find it
clearer: Case 1 implies that
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], bsd_appliance@bemail.
org writes:
I specifically need to know, if possible, how to display hardware-
rendered character- and software-rendered pixel-based images on the
same display at the same time.
This is not possible with straight VGA.
If the graphics aren't
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], admin@bsdfan
.cncdsl.com writes:
Here's the thing about open software that still concerns me. My
background is with the major software development tools companies, so
that is my point of reference. It is great that code is available and
fixes are made and pushed out,
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m writes:
Yes but most commercial uses take advantage of the binary distribution
capability of the BSD license AFTER they've poured their corporate dollars
into enhancements. With linux you have to give your work away, making it
much less useful.
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Exactly the same in Europe, only the sharing parts are new for me.
The difference seems to be:
The problem is that in the US, it is legal to override this with the
licensing conditions. In Europe this right is inalienable.
Some courts feel
At 09:55 27/11/19 -0700, Jeff Rhyason wrote:
Is there a way that I can log a large amount of statistics
regarding kernel memory allocator activity and make that
accessible to a user process? (Something like Solaris'
crash(1m) and kmalog)
The quick solution is to config -g your kernel, and
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m writes:
I know we've discussed this before. But I cant believe its a "hardware
problem".
Standard PIC behavior is to assert IRQ7 when an IRQ line is deasserted before
it can be properly latched in.
and if you've identified it why is there no
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], dphoenix@braven
et.com writes:
Does it make sense at all to stripe primary slave,
secondary master and slave together?
I would imagine it is a waste of time , just looking for thoughts
on this vs just a single primary master IDE.
On a normal system, random access
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:13:58PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
unfortunately, there are many device structures that are passed around
via DMA and hte like that don't let you do this...
How come? The struct represents some [semi-]physical
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What question are you _really_ trying to ask?
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
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z writes:
hi,
when i am trying to port some program from ports directory (4.3stable) it
never connects to a ftp. Problem might be a firewall, there are so few ports
allowed, but 21 is. Anyone has the same experience?
Of
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ux.org writes:
I would say, use select(2).
Is there a reason this wouldn't work?
fd_set size...
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(17:13) bgd@(bgd)[~/temp] ls -alsh my_file
19120 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bgd 763M Jul 29 16:56 my_file
(17:13) bgd@(bgd)[~/temp] du -sh my_file
19Mmy_file
So the 'ls -alsh' shows a file in size of 763M, but 19M of sectors are
really
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On 18 Dec 2003 at 19:02, Dan Langille wrote:
My goal is provide a way to override values in a Makefile with values
from a local config file.
I'm getting further. What's the proper way to do an include?
The commands associated with a
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net writes:
Hi,
I installed FreeBSD 5.1 in HP Vectra VE18 PIII 450MHz with 128MB RAM and
4GB HDD.
Without ECC or even parity memory?
However I'm having problem compiling sources. Whenever I try to make buildworl
d
make stops sometime later
In article 199906242353.taa06...@smtp4.erols.com you write:
Here's one possibility, it adds a a wrap/nowrap field that goes beside the
wait/nowait field, so you would have:
ftp stream tcp nowait wrap root /usr/libexec/ftpd ftpd -l
Breaking backwards compatability is evil.
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