Re: OT: In defense of a GUI (was: atapicam, blah, blah)

2007-05-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
. -- Peter Jeremy pgpU5quC6PbBR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xorg 7.2 start problem

2007-05-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
this problem on one system (the one where I thought the upgrade had gone the most cleanly). font-alias _is_ installed but most of my pcf.gz files are corrupt (20 bytes long). 'portupgrade -f' on my fonts is fixing this but I'm not exactly sure why it occurred to start with. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: RTC clock doesn't generate interrupts

2007-05-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
? Setting the time/date will have the same effect. -- Peter Jeremy pgpASPfJ8ofXo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RTC clock doesn't generate interrupts

2007-05-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
that's important). Enabling powerd will reduce the CPU clock and so exacerbate any problem you have with excessive interrupt latency. I can't suggest what might be the underlying cause of that latency. -- Peter Jeremy pgp7zJhUvUNgt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: clock problem

2007-05-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
). -- Peter Jeremy pgpNDrmLVcVm1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Incorrect df -k output??

2007-05-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
) A combination of UFS and/or fsck bugs and system crashes have lost space. Shutdown or reboot to single user mode and explicity fsck /var. Since you have already bounced the server, it is unlikely to be option a (unless the same process has just grabbed the space again). -- Peter Jeremy

Re: clock problem

2007-05-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
processing). -- Peter Jeremy pgpJEPlEZfjXb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Incorrect df -k output??

2007-05-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
the line above this but I suspect it mentions (NO WRITE) because you are running fsck on a mounted filesystem. The FS needs to be unmounted before running fsck. -- Peter Jeremy pgpjpkZKiS0WF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: acd and iostat [was Re: FreeBSD vs Region Code DVDs]

2007-05-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
out that cd0, acd0 and pass0 reference the same device). -- Peter Jeremy pgprOTHzHAuRY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Can't make buildworld in 6-STABLE

2007-05-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
-pipe CC=/usr/bin/cc CXX=/usr/bin/g++ I'd remove all 4 of these flags. 'CC' and 'CXX' in particular are wrong for buildworld because most of buildworld uses a temporary cross-compiler. -- Peter Jeremy pgpDG2sUuKPe0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: (no subject)

2007-05-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
to answer this. Note that, based on my experiences trying to resolve a faulty-on- delivery laptop with HP Support , I would not recommend buying HP at all. -- Peter Jeremy pgpUmDHcj3Xmp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Limiting the number of probed interfaces?

2007-05-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
)) + DEVICE_PROBE(child); #if 0 child-flags |= DF_REBID; #endif -- Peter Jeremy pgphv475G7lpX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: question: +swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed

2007-04-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
tool to report the swap utilisation by process on FreeBSD. (Though I have written such a tool for Tru64). -- Peter Jeremy pgpWLbTKgGRf1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: tproxy on freebsd

2007-04-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
. The only problems I've run into are bugs in the IPfilter window handling code. -- Peter Jeremy pgpY0XtCZ7DMQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Changing Console Resolution - Vidcontrol

2007-04-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
is professional. If you really need eye-candy to make your FreeBSD box look like it's running MS Windows, see splash(4) -- Peter Jeremy pgpdDT36PjJg7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
and either swapping the disk(s) or the entire system. -- Peter Jeremy pgpcE3zNJGkFJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
... -- Peter Jeremy pgp02GwLpUBHf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fork wedging (I think)

2007-03-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
. -- Peter Jeremy pgpELwKI4AEpf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fork wedging (I think)

2007-03-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
not respond... How difficult would it be to build a test system somewhere where the console was accessible? I don't think you are going to make progress without console access. -- Peter Jeremy pgpDLePiwDGc9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem with portupgrade

2007-03-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
your /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf with the sample version? -- Peter Jeremy pgp2ln9OhAsFT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fork wedging (I think)

2007-02-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
in /rescue and use './sysctl' (and other commands in rescue). I think you will still be able to execute static executables in the current directory vis a relative path even if the FS is deadlocked. (As long as your shell isn't trying to write command history to a file). -- Peter Jeremy

Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

2007-02-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
is definitely the worst case - I agree that this is very difficult for software raid to recover from. Note that even with hardware raid, there are still lots of failure points. The least reliable parts of a current computer are the CPU and PSU fans, not the disks. -- Peter Jeremy pgpMu4rg4CR3U.pgp

Random Network is unreachable on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-02-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
to any keep state keep frags group 10 pass in quick on fxp1 proto icmp from any to any keep state keep frags group 10 block in log quick all group 10 block in quick on fxp0 all head 11 ... block in log quick all group 11 block in log all fwall# -- Peter Jeremy pgpnmXT5jXzeM.pgp Description: PGP

Re: 6.2 bge regression

2007-01-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
but it recovers in a second or so (it's OK by the time ntpdate wants the network). I presume you find that ifconfig is still reporting no carrier once it's in multi-user mode. -- Peter Jeremy pgpLuJzvo8Qa5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Loosing spam fight

2007-01-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
SMTP. According to the SMTP specs, I am perfectly at liberty to tell you that I can't accept your mail right now, please try again later. -- Peter Jeremy pgpvKL9pCcmYU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bridging problems on IP address conflict

2007-01-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
the IP address on the bridge device, though that should not be related to your problem. -- Peter Jeremy pgpKa41LjSwfb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Dummynet and simulating random delay

2007-01-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
anything better than very coarse delay variation. -- Peter Jeremy pgpzPF9H6j7Au.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: tcpdump, rl, sis, fxp and multicast problems

2007-01-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
. -- Peter Jeremy pgpsNM4cAl6HT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Source MAC addresses when bridge(4) used

2007-01-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, 2007-Jan-07 18:58:18 -0500, Sten Daniel Srsdal wrote: Peter Jeremy wrote: I've just noticed an number of unpexected IP address changed MAC messages on one of the hosts in my network. It is connected via a FreeBSD bridge to the rest of my network (there aren't enuf network ports in my

Re: saving power in a Dell Poweredge 750.

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
, ... it all adds up. I can't specifically help with the Dell. -- Peter Jeremy pgpbxuESZuYiO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: make buildworld is always braking at various points

2007-01-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
pthread_md.h; 5) None of the test build boxes are reporting any problems. Please try running a memory test, or swapping your RAM. -- Peter Jeremy pgpFKiYH7vLfm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Source MAC addresses when bridge(4) used

2007-01-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
with rl0). Secondly, why is laptop1 reporting a list of address moved messages from tl0 to rl0 without matching movements from rl0 to tl0? -- Peter Jeremy pgpOFFOFSZqhY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: burncd 'blank' not terminating ?

2006-12-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
drives (or via atapicam) and uses an obscure device naming approach. I am also more comfortable making /dev/acd0 mode 0666 than doing the same to /dev/pass0 -- Peter Jeremy pgpWc5G1GzHIB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 6.1-RELEASE / 6.2 Kernel Crash...

2006-12-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
with antique AlphaServers that get very temperamental if they are rebooted or power-cycled after being on and running for several years. -- Peter Jeremy pgpD7ZzupDycZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
/commercial/consult_bycat.html and find someone to provide whatever level of support you want. -- Peter Jeremy pgp7DHGh8ozjT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Cached file read performance with 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
) and find where the time is really spent. -- Peter Jeremy pgpwMiCYrtVYB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Acer Aspire WLMi 5102 with AMD Turion 64 X2 system hanging with powerd on 6.2-RC1 and 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
. -- Peter Jeremy pgpLYEeqY23X0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mounting smbfs as non-root

2006-12-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
this and similar problems. I think the solution is to make it (at least optionally) setuid on FreeBSD. I have this on my todo list but haven't gotten around to it yet. -- Peter Jeremy pgpYpqqilDYW5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Mounting smbfs as non-root

2006-12-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
at the kern.iconv MIB tree which confirms the above but doesn't get any me any closer to a solution. This is the same on two 6.2-PRERELEASE systems and I get the same behaviour on an oldish 7-current system. Does anyone have any suggestions on what is going wrong? -- Peter Jeremy

Re: Problems unmounting/fssyncking extern UFS filesystem

2006-11-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
data. As an experiment, I suggest creating or deleting a FS tree on an otherwise idle system and looking at the 'dirtybuf' value reported by 'systat -v 1'. See how many sync's and how long it takes to get it to blank (0). -- Peter Jeremy pgpxS6pQQXEBP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
that you've found such a big difference. -- Peter Jeremy pgpXS8PUKwh0c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
. This would be the best of both worlds. If I had any free time, I would even work on this myself. -- Peter Jeremy pgpmuXQVJO6OO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
harder (bacause they need to understand they need to look in .../lib32 ISO .../lib). -- Peter Jeremy pgp6zCSH8jPxZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
Though this still turns a single write into 2 reads and 2 writes. Basically: Don't use RAID-5. -- Peter Jeremy pgpWeb9QHY05E.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
is always triggered. -- Peter Jeremy pgpXrDVFGe4sP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RELENG_6 does not compile

2006-09-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
the same place, or does it move around? The latter is virtually certainly a hardware problem. Are you using non-standard make options? Note that just because memtest didn't find a RAM problem doesn't guarantee that your RAM is good. Pattern sensitive errors can be very difficult to trigger. -- Peter

Re: panic unloading bluetooth module

2006-09-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
I see (which is possibly related) is that if ng_ubt is not loaded, I get a single ugen1 attached message. If ng_ubt is loaded, I get two identical messages: ubt0: Broadcom HP integrated Bluetooth module, rev 1.10/0.17, addr 2 though the rest of the probe/attach looks sane. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: NFS locking: lockf freezes (rpc.lockd problem?)

2006-08-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
PCATCH isn't specified on the sleep. -- Peter Jeremy pgpWFCSDFpOmv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NFS locking: lockf freezes (rpc.lockd problem?)

2006-08-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, 2006-Aug-27 22:55:55 +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On server, tcpdump -p -s 1500 -w file -i iface host client host ip Recent tcpdumps appear to want the ethernet frame size rather than the MTU: Specifying 1500 appears to truncate full-size frames. Try '-s 1516' instead. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: 16M RAM enough for FreeBSD 6.1?

2006-08-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
and need a minimum of 24MB last I checked. Once you have FreeBSD installed, it will limp along in 16MB (though not very happily). I strongly suggest you find a SODIMM to expand it. -- Peter Jeremy pgp8Sla873Ncg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 16M RAM enough for FreeBSD 6.1?

2006-08-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, 2006-Aug-27 11:00:30 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:13:29 +1000 Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The CD-ROMs create a RAMdisk and need a minimum of 24MB last I checked. And I guess that the floppies work in the same way? Yes. Once you have FreeBSD

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
situation is a flag to toggle between the two approaches, together with two different titles to make it clear which is being used. -- Peter Jeremy pgpi7kgmNNaFt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Unexplained kernel panic on 5-STABLE (now in 6-STABLE)

2006-08-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
this error from an IDE disk when the CD-ROM slave on the same bus was flaky. -- Peter Jeremy pgph8WO3y2Wlu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE: Unexplained power off

2006-08-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
great idea, I'll try it. Do I need a null-model cable to do it? Assuming you are going to join two normal computer serial ports together, yes. -- Peter Jeremy pgpBkquO0QkGW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE: Unexplained power off

2006-08-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
, I've had hardware fail _during_ an upgrade. The first time it was obvious because the system crashed. The second time, a PCMCIA modem just stopped working at exactly the same time as I upgraded my kernel. That took a lot of head- scratching before I twigged. -- Peter Jeremy pgpokDio7rvl9.pgp

Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE: Unexplained power off

2006-08-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
a serial console and logging it on another box to see if anything is written to the console before it dies. -- Peter Jeremy pgpuBZZd1VJU8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Help my Harddrive stopped working!

2006-08-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
in the box? I'd check all the cables on the off-chance that one is lose as well as re-seating the controller. If none of this helps, I suspect you have a choice of restoring from backups or using the services of one of the data recovery companies. -- Peter Jeremy pgpyWSowBGs8m.pgp Description

Re: Sound device reported but no devices created

2006-07-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
are not the clearest here. snd_ess(4) implies that all three drivers are needed but snd_sbc(4) has no reference to it - which is what confused me. -- Peter Jeremy pgpmNw0jBuEPT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Sound device reported but no devices created

2006-07-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
: ESS 18xx DSP on sbc0 I suspect the problem is that sbc0 is not triggering attachment of pcm0 but I'm uncertain why. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- Peter Jeremy pgpjNBhOfnkYL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sound device reported but no devices created

2006-07-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sun, 2006-Jul-30 12:10:54 +0800, Ariff Abdullah wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:43:52 +1000 Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to get sound working on a Compaq Armada 1580 with a recent 6-STABLE. With devices 'sound' and 'snd_sbc' built into the kernel and no hints, I get

Re: Memory management

2006-07-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
? Do you have any tools to monitor memory usage of processes ? ps(1) -- Peter Jeremy pgpYlM6L9c5ab.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: filesystem full error with inumber

2006-07-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 2006-Jul-26 13:07:19 -0400, Sven Willenberger wrote: One of my machines that I recently upgraded to 6.1 (6.1-RELEASE-p3) is also exhibiting df reporting wrong data usage numbers. What did you upgrade from? Is this UFS1 or UFS2? Does a full fsck fix the problem? -- Peter Jeremy

Re: Xen dom0 support?

2006-07-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, 2006-Jul-22 06:56:44 -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: Does FreeBSD support Xen 3 dom0 yet??? It looks like work is in progress. See http://www.fsmware.com/ What's the current status of domU support? See http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/OSCompatibility -- Peter Jeremy

Re: How to setup polling on 'bge' interface

2006-07-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
. (My testing also suggests that I don't really need to do any tweaking because the limiting factor is the gigabit interfaces rather than the V20z). -- Peter Jeremy pgpMPGKdXFs4w.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: MySQL and default memory limits (mysqld: Out of memory)

2006-07-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
to it. This isn't quite enough if you have 4GB RAM. -- Peter Jeremy pgpPna19fy7xV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-6.1 binary upgrade script

2006-07-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
of your key and FreeBSD SO key (0xCA6CDFB2) that are counter-signed by each other? -- Peter Jeremy pgpi5U6qviUzV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 6.1-RELEASE won't boot on Compaq 1580

2006-07-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, 2006-Jul-01 08:02:56 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: I've just acquired a couple of old Compaq Armada laptops. I can successfully install 6.1-RELEASE but the system won't boot from the HDD: The MBR menu displays but pressing F1 (the FreeBSD partition) just beeps. Pressing F3 (the Compaq

6.1-RELEASE won't boot on Compaq 1580

2006-06-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
models with 4.11 so I wasn't expecting any problems. Before I start re-writing boot0.S, does anyone have any suggestions on how to debug this or what I've missed? -- Peter Jeremy pgpPxRvWikbIW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
) is currently unsuitable for them. -- Peter Jeremy pgpCzMs0W9tP4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What denotes a 'blocked' process?

2006-06-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
these counters onto ps output. State 'D' and 'W' should catch most of them. You might find it useful looking through the MWCHAN column for anything looking suspicious. -- Peter Jeremy pgpMYVQSfkNHN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

2006-06-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
between the northbridge and the CPU (including the cache). Some caches (eg Alpha) have parity to help here. Mainframes typically have ECC or parity on _all_ datapaths (including through the ALU) to catch those errors. -- Peter Jeremy pgpDBoWJivs0T.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Effects of changing tar's -b option.

2006-06-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
should look at increasing net.inet.tcp.sendspace and maybe net.inet.tcp.recvspace, or using an intervening program on hostA that does its own re-buffering. -- Peter Jeremy pgpG7EqbGqXO2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RELENG_6_1 unstable also ...

2006-06-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
a marginal DRAM cell. -- Peter Jeremy pgpQweltzDuE4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Powerd: Adaptive mode causing a hard hang

2006-06-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
and have only had a single hang in the past four months. -- Peter Jeremy pgpHl4a1DWqvN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: unmounting a filesystem safely that doesn't exist anymore

2006-06-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
of the superblock and is cleared when a filesystem is mounted. It will be set only if the filesystem is cleanly unmounted. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: How can I know which files a proccess is accessing?

2006-06-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
message but lsof needs to very closely match your running kernel: You should have the kernel sources installed when you build lsof. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: Error while 'make buildworld' in terminal.o

2006-06-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
and then running make clean. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (bsd)tar is broken on 6.1

2006-05-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
could support it - though tar(5) states dates before the epoch are not handled consistently. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: 6.1-stable crash

2006-05-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
tested in -current is supposed to be commited. There are also fairly regular postings pointing out that _all_ software has bugs. Some of these bugs will cause crashes. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Odd RS232 problem

2006-05-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 2006-May-23 19:23:20 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I would hope that 9600 baud wouldn't be *too* fast for a 2GHz CPU :( That depends on what else is sharing the IRQ. PLIP can give you 10's of msec of latency. PIO disks can also destroy latency as can NE2000-style NICs. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
boxes against the risks of the update system being subverted. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 4.11 snapshots?

2006-05-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
better. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fxp0: ethernet freezes sporatically ...

2006-05-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
... If the problems are frequent enough, maybe you could try running tcpdump on the network at both ends. That might give you a better idea of what is going wrong. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
. This is plain ridiculous. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cc can't build 32-bit executables on amd64

2006-05-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
needed to make this work as a general case. -- Peter Jeremy pgpyhrAPOMoIJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RELENG_4 - 5 - 6: significant performance regression

2006-04-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
get a panic, you can debug it without needing to rebuild the kernel. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD 4.9 losing mbufs!!!

2006-04-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
intends to migrate to 6.1 shortly, he probably wants to avoid an unnecessary round of regression testing. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs on 6.1-RC

2006-04-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 2006-Apr-11 16:28:18 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: Don't do that :( It's a well-known limitation that FreeBSD doesn't handle devices with mounted filesystems spontaneously disappearing. Patches to fix this would be welcomed with open arms. -- Peter Jeremy pgpm0U529E6AX.pgp Description

Re: Maximum Swapsize

2006-04-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
to leave lots of windows lying around idle for long periods. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Needs suggestion for redundant Storage

2006-04-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
to your management that clearly points out the risks. Keep a notarised copy for yourself and make sure yout CV is up to date. You can rest assured that you will be the scaegoat when it all goes wrong. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: Disappointed-new

2006-04-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
found that fxp performs much better than dc, tl and tx NICs. I've had fairly bad experiences with bge under even moderate load (though the one in my laptop seems OK). /metoo -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Needs suggestion for redundant Storage

2006-04-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386).

2006-04-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
at the inside and so the best I/O performance is usually at the end of the disk. The only way to get a 'fair' comparison is to use separate identical disks with identical partition layouts for each of your OS installs. If disk I/O is an issue, maybe even newfs the partitions for each test. -- Peter

Re: Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386).

2006-04-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, 2006-Apr-08 20:41:36 +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: PJ Backup your amd64 environment and install i386. You can re-install PJ the amd64 once the testing is finished. The best benchmark is always PJ your own application. Or, even better, use spare

Re: Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386).

2006-04-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new feature: private IPC for every jail

2006-04-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 2006-Apr-04 12:46:58 +0100, Robert Watson wrote: On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: By merging the prison ID into the IPC ID, a non-jailed process can be allowed to see (and control) jailed IPC without needing any changes to ipcs/ipcrm. A non-jailed process won't be able to attach

Re: cron jobs running 6 times

2006-04-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
that you only have one copy of cron running and your crontab only has one copy of the cron jobs. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: [HACKERS] semaphore usage port based?

2006-04-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
the old standby: You have the source code. You should be able to get things to work by expanding prison_check() into cr_cansignal() and changing the error return from ESRCH to EPERM. Having not tried this, I can't comment on possible adverse side-effects. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: new feature: private IPC for every jail

2006-04-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
. The disadvantage is restricting the ranges of various counters - though I believe they are overly generous by default. This doesn't really address the problem of SysV IPC and jails becoming more intimately entwined. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: new feature: private IPC for every jail

2006-04-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
messier because SysV IPC has no concept of GC (another brain-dead mis-feature). The implementation should be a JKH project - I don't need the feature and can't currently justify the time to implement it. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

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