Re: UP kernel on SMP machine?

2000-09-27 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [2927 07:55], Nick Sayer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone think that setting up a non-SMP kernel on an SMP motherboard (but with only one processor installed) might have anything to do with this? UP kernels should work on a SMP box. And a few others agree with me

Re: max. amount of physical memory in FBSD 4.1?

2000-09-27 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
Guten tag, -On [2927 13:35], O. Hartmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] And what is about FreeBSD 4.1? We use now TYAN's Thunder 2500 maonboard which is capable to hold two CPUs and get equipted with max. 8GB main memory. This is a nice option because we plan to solve some memory

Random net errors: any guru out there?

2000-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've some random net problems using my FreeBSD 4.1 STABLE (i'm using dial-up connection). A lot of site seems to be unreachable. I get a lot of timeout errors when i try to wget, to connect to irc server, to use www, etcetc but: -ping, nslookup traceroute give me a positive response: the site

Re: negative bytes/sec?

2000-09-27 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [2927 01:40], Roman Shterenzon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: i586_bzero() bandwidth = -1704293721 bytes/sec bzero() bandwidth = 132802124 bytes/sec Try this, it worked for Maxim Sobolev, apparantly the data type is too small to adequately store the calculation on newer systems

Re: negative bytes/sec?

2000-09-27 Thread Roman Shterenzon
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: -On [2927 01:40], Roman Shterenzon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: i586_bzero() bandwidth = -1704293721 bytes/sec bzero() bandwidth = 132802124 bytes/sec Try this, it worked for Maxim Sobolev, apparantly the data type is too small

Re: Userland ppp

2000-09-27 Thread Roman Shterenzon
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are all the clients running on the FreeBSD box or are you routing for other machines? Is it possible its just FreeBSD's higher performing TCP stack? It can transfer things much faster than windows... Andrew No, it's my home computer, however the same goes to

comapq 221 smartaddry slow down the machine

2000-09-27 Thread holger glaess
hi all... i have following problem i use a SMP mchine with 2 800 MHZ piii and 1 GB ram with FreeBSD 4.1.1 the controller ist a compaq smartarray 221 if i write a big file on harddisk the complete machine freeze for some seconds. the harddisk led have very high load and the system performance

[stable] Re: Freebsd vs. UPS

2000-09-27 Thread David Gilbert
"Matt" == Matt Heckaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matt I have to agree with you totally. We have a Powerware 5119RM Matt here and as far as Price:BackupTime goes, it beats APC hands Matt down. I'm also very happy with it's quality. I have not found Matt software to talk to it yet, but we still

Re: UP kernel on SMP machine?

2000-09-27 Thread Antony T Curtis
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: -On [2927 07:55], Nick Sayer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does anyone think that setting up a non-SMP kernel on an SMP motherboard (but with only one processor installed) might have anything to do with this? UP kernels should work on a SMP box

nfs errors

2000-09-27 Thread Andrew BOGECHO
Wed Sep 27 09:31:00 EDT 2000 Hi, I have previously sent the message below to questions and net, but received no response. If anyone here has any ideas I would really appreciate it. We have recently been moving more and more to FreeBSD. The enjoyment of such a stable platform allows us to see

Re: max. amount of physical memory in FBSD 4.1?

2000-09-27 Thread Andreas Persson
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 01:34:02PM +0200, "O. Hartmann" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sirs. Every step done under Linux is well documented by the press, especially here in Germany! When Microsoft found a bug in AMD's Athlon CPUs which causes Win2k to crash, the 4GB physical memory limit came