After upgrading a diskless client and the respective NFS server from
FreeBSD 4.1 to FreeBSD 4.6 (and now 4.7) I have been having trouble with
a process on a client blocking for about 15 seconds every 10-20
minutes. The process is an MP3 player (mpg123), so I can not really
afford to have it block
For a couple of months I've been trying to crack a puzzling problem.
After upgrading from 4.1 to 4.6 (and now to 4.7) my on-board sound card
would pause or die after playing for approximately 20 minutes with a
message:
pcm0:play:0: play interrupt timeout, channel dead
I have now managed to isola
Diomidis Spinellis wrote:
> For a couple of months I've been trying to crack a puzzling problem.
> After upgrading from 4.1 to 4.6 (and now to 4.7) my on-board sound card
> would pause or die after playing for approximately 20 minutes with a
> message:
>
> pcm0:play:0:
a 1000-line file and I
can't be sure it is 100% complete or that I will spot all required changes.
Is there a checklist or a procedure for restoring a 4.X system
configuration to a system running 6.X? Am I missing any obvious files
or directories I should copy over?
Emanuel Strobl wrote:
I'm using NO_CXX in my make.conf to strip down the base system to ~50MB
including man pages. The only problem is that groff is missing if I don't
build c++, and even if I build groff itself and the needed libstdc++ it costs
me about 10MB. If I just skip NO_CXX it's only 500
