Gergo Szakal wrote:
Damn, sent too soon. :-)
So it has altq. other undocumented feature is filtering by uid/gid (many
people don't know about this hence they don't switch to pf from ipfw).
That sounds good until I recall writing high-speed driver code (machine, asm,
Forth) and shudder to
Steve Mynott wrote:
On 10/18/06, Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Generally speaking I prefer the VMWare concept over the Xen concept.
Xen actually has to run two operating systems, one serving as the
master and the other as the 'guest' OS, and this compounds the
number
Bryan Berch wrote:
It is about I get rid of dial-up and get something faster. My only
other choice is Comcast broadband. My questions are:
1. Has any one used it and is it worth it?
2. What cable modem did you use?
Thanks
Bryan
I've used Motorola on three different providers and
Jamie wrote:
* snip*
The lights show 100mbs if that means anything. :-)
Jamie
It could. Dunno if Unix will even (still) DO this, but OS/2 was happy as a clam
running 'ethernet protocol' point-to-point between two boxes. No need for the
higher-level TCP/IP 'layer'.
Lean, mean, and
Paul Allen wrote:
See commit relating to revision 1.258 of if_fxp.c (in FreeBSD)
There is some evidence that this problem is not localized to fxp but common
to many driver implementations.
- Forwarded message from John-Mark Gurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Jeremy Chadwick wrote this
Sascha Wildner wrote:
New predictions from our old friend Danial Thom:
My prediction is that a year from now we'll all
be using DragonflyBSD and you guys will be
looking for a new bunch of beta-test guinea pigs.
Thanks to Ancient on #dragonflybsd for noticing.
Jamie wrote:
Just to let anyone know..
As pr. sephe's instructions I did this:
line 433 in /usr/src/sys/dev/netif/xl/if_xlreg.h
Changed this:
#define XL_MIN_FRAMELEN 60
To this:
Freddie Cash wrote:
Odd, we do the exact opposite, replacing all non-3Com NICs we come
across with 3Com NICs, for the exact same reason you do: to get
something that we know works, and works reliably. :)
No doubt in an all-3Com environment it should do ..
For Windows, Linux, and
Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
On Sun, October 8, 2006 1:39 pm, Jonas Trollvik wrote:
We *always* replace 3Com on general principal when encountered, and
at our own (not client) expense. Not about right or wrong, its about
what works *always* and what doesn't always work.
Odd, we do the exact
Jamie wrote:
*SNIP* (all details already posted)
(I use 3Com on all machines)
Without digressing into decades of *why*, I can just about guarantee that
replacing the offending card with almost-anything-else, from el-cheapo Realtek
to Gig-E Intel, probable exception of anything-SiS, will
Matthew Dillon wrote:
:Hi,
:
:I'm going to install dragonflybsd on two mail server proxies: primary and
secondary MX with milter-greylist on.
:I need to share greylist data on both of them, I can do it using a dbms and
I'll modify milter source code to store
:such data in dbms instead RAM.
:
Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
There are these times when things just go horribly wrong, yesterday my
new boss (who barely touches a computer) saw me rebooting a old FBSD4
server and asked me what that devil was, ok after some explaining he
more or less believed me.
Now he came into my office and
Victor Balada Diaz wrote:
Hi,
some of you may have noticed that sometimes when you type Ctrl + C
to stop bmake it doesn't stop. I find that behaviour annoying so
i created this patch[1] to solve it.
I find 'hard to stop' annoying enough in general to always have a second session
open,
Victor Balada Diaz wrote:
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 02:21:00AM +0800, Bill Hacker wrote:
I find 'hard to stop' annoying enough in general to always have a second
session open, uusally with 'top' in it...
A 'kill -9 bmake's PID' or a 'killall bmake's executable name'
- can cause just as much
David Aubril wrote:
Well, unfortunately, I am not a developper ; just a french teacher. I
would have love to help, but this is way too far for me. Thanks for your
answers, though.
And what is it that you have discovered that the French are willing to be
taught?
;-)
Yury Tarasievich
Matthew Dillon wrote:
The boot0 menu is run from /boot/loader.rc. You can pretty much
do whatever you want there... in the forth language :-)
Forth is a lot more than just a 'language'. It is an inherently virtual-memory,
dual-stack, virtual machine and the operating system to run
walt wrote:
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 03:05:44PM -0700, walt wrote:
Can anyone confirm this error with the latest fontconfig
from pkgsrc?
# fc-cache -v /usr/pkg/xorg/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
/usr/pkg/xorg/lib/X11/fonts/TTF: caching, 22 fonts, 0 dirs
Vladimir Mitiouchev wrote:
26 Sep 2006 10:49:11 GMT, Oliver Fromme
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
And if you did, you should newfs(8) the file system when
you replaced the cables with good ones.
Q: Why fsck is not enough?
Then re-install from your backup. DragonFly's journaling
feature allows for
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Bill Hacker wrote:
*snip*
Ordinarily NOT by the 'update'.
But by the 'updater',
(person, not process...)
On deinstallation of a package, the package's registered configurations
are compared with the versions in the share/examples directory
walt wrote:
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Bill Hacker wrote:
walt wrote:
The problem was that those config files should have been
replaced during the update!
Ordinarily NOT by the 'update'. But by the 'updater',
.. with care to preserve whatever customization
walt wrote:
Bill Hacker wrote:
...IBM-Hitachi are again safe to use...
Hearsay, or personal experience?
Experience. We've had our share of 'Deathstar' - even tracked down one of the
faults that IBM, AFAIK, never published.
Expect to find an ash-pit about 0.020 inches in diameter
Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
On Wed, September 27, 2006 3:53 pm, Bill Hacker wrote:
OTOH, we have decided to buy no more 3.5 HDD *anyway*.
2.5 are now large enough, fast enough, and reasonably well priced enough
to allow us to put the redundant arrays into 1U, and on less power,
that we now
Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
On Tue, September 26, 2006 2:59 pm, Thomas Schlesinger wrote:
I there a way to disable the appearance of the boot0 menu completely?
'fdisk -B ad0'
or maybe
'boot0cfg -B -b /boot/mbr'
or maybe
If you have a Windows boot floppy, boot from that and type 'fdisk
Gergo Szakal wrote:
Followed the advice here:
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2006-05/msg00148.html
and tried to pass thru the traffic of the whole dormitory but it does
not seem to pass packets (even with PF disabled). With OpenBSD 3.8, I
have done the same
Vladimir Mitiouchev wrote:
*snip*
PS2 Thanks God i wasn't running softupdates!
Muhh... don't be too sure...
'Softupdates' have saved me far more grief than they have ever contributed to.
Lot's of folk misunderstand what they do - and how quickly they can post if all
the kit is properly
Massimiliano Stucchi wrote:
Hi all,
we finally made it, the registration for EuroBSDCon 2006 - Milan is now
open to everybody.
Please register as soon as possible to ensure a seat for you at the
event !
go to http://www.eurobsdcon.org/register/ and complete the registration
process.
It is
Gergo Szakal wrote:
Bill Hacker wrote:
We've all been (still are) there w/r the economics.
But when funds are needed elsewhere, and 'run what hardware you have'
is mandatory, then DFLY would not be the best choice.
For that to change sooner, rather than someday-maybe, best to leave
Gergo Szakal wrote:
Bill Hacker wrote:
*BSD folk, unlike Penguins, are generally agnostic.
Use whatever is the best 'fit for the purpose'.
Using only 1 processor is not enough. An AMD K62/450 is not enough for
the amount of traffic going through. theoretically, DF *should* run
Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
I've long had a question on the shutdown process. Linux systems run a
separate shutdown script for every process that was started at boot,
and can take a minute or two to shutdown. FreeBSD and Dragonfly, as
far as I can tell, just kill all processes, flush buffers,
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
By contrast, *n*x is often irritating in that one can be sitting in the
same dir as a given binary, but if it is not on the PATH, still have to
prepend at least a './' - if not the entire path - in order to invoke
said binary.
Even CP/M or DOS ain't *that* picky!
Markus Hitter wrote:
Am 04.09.2006 um 00:16 schrieb walt:
Are you thinking about, say, pointers to my real blob which exists
on one physical server, or actually migrating blob-walt to anywhere
I'm actually needed? (Most likely to unplug the sink or the toilet.)
This could be something
Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
I'm starting to imagine the size of the Lisp image I could run on a cluster
like the kind being discussed ;-)
Jonathon McKitrick
--
My other computer is your Windows box.
Go and wath out your mouth with thoap!
;-)
Bill
it of browsers - particularly search
engines.
DFLY could be a better platform for many of these things than what is out there
now. And it is a huge and growing market.
That's what it is good for, IMNSHO.
YOMD,
Bill Hacker
Note that
lap wrote:
Justin C. Sherrill a écrit :
*snip*
(Your return email is a bad address, by the way.)
Yes I know, I get bored of being spammed. If you are not running
windows, you can send mail to me at laurent (at sign) chez (minus sign)
le (minus sign) sourd dot name . :)
LaP
Cuts both
Saverio Iacovelli wrote:
After the installation, DFly OS have got a active
sendmail server.
1) Does it need to configure a DNS server for sending
email with mail client and sendmail?
Sendmail (any MTA) will ordinarily follow the internet 'food chain' to find a
DNS.
You need not run one
Peter Avalos wrote:
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 04:41:00PM +0800, W B Hacker wrote:
Have you noticed any electrolytic capacitors - probably in VR section -
with slightly bulged tops? Some of those have taken a *long* time to work
thru the system and fail - long after the 'big wave' has largely
.
You may then use ssh to build a custom kernel, etc.
Our rackmount servers typically go their entire lives this way, with MB changes
HDD replacement, OS upgrades, etc.
HTH,
Bill Hacker
Chris Csanady wrote:
This is only somewhat related, but would it be possible to have
the getty on ttyd0 enabled by default, at least for the install cd?
I haven't tried to log into the installer account over the network,
but this does sound like the best option if you have a dhcp
server in
* be removed unless/until one of those suicide-kits is actually
installed? '~/games' as well, while we are cleaning up old mistakes.
Bill Hacker
and
sequencing of ~/etc/rc.d scripts.
HTH,
Bill Hacker
Pieter Dumon wrote:
On 7/26/06, Bill Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
complete in *seconds* what you are reporting in *minutes*.
that's what I thought too.
Something just has to be wrong with your set up.
yep, and I'd like to find out what.
Below are some logs.
Pieter
*SNIP*
time
sure.
Thanks,
Bill
thanks already,
Pieter
On 7/26/06, Bill Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
Bill Hacker wrote:
Warren Hull 25 minutes delay comes in, and I/O tuning doesn't cover
that. Too big a number for where it is being reported as happening.
Either
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:06:57AM +0800, Bill Hacker wrote:
softupdates? writing meta data with sync will be really slow.
No, not *that* slow, not even on K6-2-500 with 256 MB of SDRAM, where I
have done it on a production FreeBSD 4.8 web mx box for donkey's
Bill Hacker wrote:
*SNIP*
*Especially so* if it has a filemanager view window open and is trying
to keep it current and sorted.
Also - are you perchance logging the progress and/or appending to a file?
Bill
Pieter Dumon wrote:
*snip*
... I get the same problem for instance when untarring an
archive of some tens of MB: it takes ages.
I haven't had a DragonFly install active for over a year, but using a tarball we
all have access to - the 98.5 MB DFLY 1.6 iso, I get:
===
2U server:
time
Pieter Dumon wrote:
Hi,
how can I diagnose my disk read/write throughput under DFLy ?
my system runs well except that untarring even small tar files or
deleting files takes a lot of time (e.g. the removal of
/usr/obj/usr/src/world_i386 during a make buildworld takes about 25
minutes (I admit
Freddie Cash wrote:
On Tue, July 25, 2006 12:34 pm, Bill Hacker wrote:
Pieter Dumon wrote:
how can I diagnose my disk read/write throughput under DFLy ? my
system runs well except that untarring even small tar files or
deleting files takes a lot of time (e.g. the removal of
/usr/obj/usr/src
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
Bill Hacker wrote:
Warren Hull 25 minutes delay comes in, and I/O tuning doesn't cover
that. Too big a number for where it is being reported as happening.
Either something else - probably something *basic* but simply
overlooked - is placing demands
to some extent in the *BSD's in
general - as with lessons learned from the 'trusted' and 'secure' *BSD efforts.
IOW - DragonFly has already gone far enough that it cannot 'fail' - just succeed
to a greater or lesser degree.
;-)
Bill Hacker
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 05:04:22PM +0800, Bill Hacker wrote:
Old or new branches of X are rooted in a very different architectural
philosophy than Win vid, and would have to start over from a clean slate to
even match the sort of performance of an Amiga, BeBox, Warp
Dimitri Kovalov wrote:
--- Bill Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AMD-64 6.1-STABLE. Plus one Xeon using 6.1, i386.
Talk about an expensive boat anchor!
Dimitri
Yes, boat anchors, at least for small craft, are considerably lighter and
cheaper.
But they don't support 2+ Terabyte fast
Matthew Dillon wrote:
:On Thu, July 13, 2006 10:01 am, Dimitri Kovalov wrote:
:
: I listen to this. Very interesting. I only challange one
: thing. You say that 1.6 is more stable than FreeBSD 4.x.
: How can you make this claim? FreeBSD 4.x is installed in
: 1000s of servers and network devices
Joseph Garcia wrote:
Bill Hacker wrote:
- the snappy browser interface included with the QNX demo floppy of
many years ago.
Are you talking about that QNX enviroment that fit on just a 1.44MB
floppy? That was like 10 years ago wasn't it?
I have to admit. That thing was freaking AWESOME
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Danial Thom wrote:
My tech tried firing up 1.4 on an opteron MB with
an HT1000 chipset and, although it seems to work,
the console is literally flooding with stray irq
7 messages. Freebsd at least suppressed these
after a few, but when is someone actually going
to FIX this in BSD? Someone told
Bob Bagwill wrote:
Just in case you haven't seen this site:
http://stephenville.tamu.edu/~fmitchel/dragonfly/index.html
--
Bob
Would that this one were Gates or Ballmer
http://stephenville.tamu.edu/~fmitchel/dragonfly/photo/cw_drfly.htm
..ah, well. Dreaming is cheap enuf ;-)
.
That might yet be of value for debugging, and partly because the
emulated machine is 'standardized'.
Bill Hacker
Hiten Pandya wrote:
Emiel Kollof wrote:
Hi guys,
Forwarded to the users list (The forwarded post is below) and also a
reply to this guy. I know it's a troll, but I thought it was way too
funny for you guys to miss. It nearly made me choke on my morning
coffee. This guy owes me a new
] needs even a 1 second delay - most
of it is reporting-in from silicon before system-board BIOS POST is
complete. Motor spin-up is no longer the determinant.
Bill Hacker
[1] Discounting a still working pair of 20 MB beta Bernoulli II, a pair
of Syquest Puma 88, an NEC 2X 'MultiSpin' CD reader
) to start at power-ON means it
will usually be
ready well before the MB BIOS and other devices have finished POST, so
it is seldom an issue
even with multiple hardware RAID.
YMMV,
Bill Hacker
walt wrote:
Bill Hacker wrote:
Bob Bagwill wrote:
How are people playing with different versions of DBSD on the same
system?
[...]
- partition and slice your media into many (preferably equal sized)
portions...
I like to point out at every opportunity that DragonFlyBSD is the
*only
/
applications area, but should not have any OS-related files or needed
resources on it.
HTH,
Bill Hacker
...
and will change again, differently, next cycle.
Any 'modern' OS is too big to keep the whole thing in view, and space is
cheap.
YMMV,
Bill Hacker
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