Re: threads and malloc/free on freebsd 8.0

2010-05-25 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 22), Anoop Kumar Narayanan said: >> I think glibc uses asynchronous free, as in it doesn't free the memory >> immediately.  So even though the memory is free'd its still part of the >&

Re: threads and malloc/free on freebsd 8.0

2010-05-21 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
I think glibc uses asynchronous free, as in it doesn't free the memory immediately. So even though the memory is free'd its still part of the process's address space but present in the free pool and so it doesn't crash. -Anoop On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last epi

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-04-08 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: >> On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh wrote: >> >>> lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome >>> this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-30 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Paul B Mahol wrote: > On 3/30/10, Anoop Kumar Narayanan wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Gary Jennejohn >> wrote: >>> On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:18:59 + >>> Masoom Shaikh wrote: >>> >>>&g

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-29 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:18:59 + > Masoom Shaikh wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: >> > Masoom Shaikh wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello List, >> >> >> >> I was a happy FreeBSD user, just before I installed FreeBSD8.0

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop

2010-03-20 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
something... Thank you HP ! -Anoop > > Good luck-- > > Richard > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Richard DeLaurell >> wrote: >> >>On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop K

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop

2010-03-19 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Richard DeLaurell wrote: >>On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan >>wrote: >>I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with >>absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed). >>In

FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop

2010-03-19 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed). Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses for about 15 secs and the co

FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop

2010-03-12 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed). Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses for about 15 secs and the co