Note on setting higher mbuf and mbuf cluster limits

2007-05-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
ns but netstat -m doesn't report any limits being hit. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Development

2007-05-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
the hardware. I really have to think about it. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Root password restrictions

2007-05-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
ootLogin declaration in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to 'without-password' (which basically means: only via authenticated public keys). -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: no gcc 4.1after rebuild

2007-05-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
Just copy the entire contents of your /etc/mk.conf and the entire contents of your /etc/make.conf into the email. And label which one is which. -Matt Matthew Dillon

Re: no gcc 4.1after rebuild

2007-05-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
4.x in order to use gcc 4.x. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: rebuild DragonFly using gcc 4.1

2007-05-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
e/DragonFly-1.8/All/ :> for the release branch. : :Matt - can you update DNS to point the CNAME for pkgsrc.dragonflybsd.org :to this new location? Ok, change made. -Matt

Re: libm update plans?

2007-05-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
are so few implementations around. Are you sure this is part of C99? -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: 2 NIC's on the same subnet.

2007-05-04 Thread Matthew Dillon
different subnets... doesn't matter). -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: no "chekcsums" for current

2007-05-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
latest release which is 1.8.1 and not mess around with HEAD. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Green console on Dell flat panel 153 monitor

2007-05-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
vidcontrol, without going into X, and see if that clears it up. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: gcc 4.x for DragonFlyBSD

2007-05-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
stake could corrupt a filesystem so I am asking people to be ultra careful with HEAD for the next few weeks. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: gcc 4.x for DragonFlyBSD

2007-05-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
HEAD (the main development branch) is going through a lot of changes right now and should only be used by people willing to test those changes. -Matt

Re: MD support (again)

2007-04-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
is :deprecated in favour of mdmfs and mdconfig in other BSD's. : :Thanks, :Morgan Not that I know of, but I certainly welcome an implementation because it really isn't too hard to do. -Matt Matt

Welcome new committer - Hasso Tepper

2007-04-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
I would like welcome Hasso Tepper as our newest committer! -Matt

Re: 3ware raid card driver

2007-04-15 Thread Matthew Dillon
the year (though I hope to get something into beta for the July release). -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: benchmarks

2007-04-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: benchmarks

2007-04-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
leave them turned on in both development and release kernels, because getting good, useful crash dumps is more important to us then the slight (and usually unnoticeable) reduction in performance. -Matt Matt

Re: dd vs. truncate for creating vkernel root images

2007-04-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: comparing cvsup vs. rsync

2007-04-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Matt, : :something is weird with the permissions: : :%rsync crater.dragonflybsd.org::dragonfly_cvs/src/crypto/heimdal/Attic/ :drwxrwxr-x1024 2005/03/28 05:35:43 . :-r--rw-r-- 20313 2005/03/28 05:35:43 ChangeLog,v :[..] :-r-xrwxr-x3242 2005/03/28 05:35:43 compile,v : :why are

Re: comparing cvsup vs. rsync

2007-04-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
I am now running an rsync server on crater.dragonflybsd.org, serving the cvs repository as 'dragonfly_cvs'. rsync -a rsync://crater.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly_cvs blahblah -- Unfortunately I don't know how to get rsyncd to just log statistics on completion, and it insists

Re: comparing cvsup vs. rsync

2007-04-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
have to run the master rsync daemon there. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Happy easter everyone

2007-04-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
! -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: USB flash drive oddity

2007-04-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: USB flash drive oddity

2007-04-04 Thread Matthew Dillon
command will dump the info. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: vkernel observations and time

2007-04-04 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi, : :I have been playing about with vkernels some more and have noticed :weirdness with time - which i suppose can be more than expected :running in userland. : :For example if the real machine is heavily loaded u can get some odd :results when doing stuff in the vkernel: : :> :> time sleep 10

Re: OpenBSD IPV6 bug found

2007-04-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: A great BSD-compatible UPS?

2007-04-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hello, : :Thanks for informing about the "apcupsd", it seems :quite interesting. : :Anyone can recommend me some models for a home server :installation with a some low power machines and a few :powered ones (two classic UltraSPARC machines, a 64bit :X86 with more than four SATA2 HDD...)? : :Do I

Re: where's the installer?

2007-03-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
eo Yah. I screwed up when I built the nrelease. I have removed the ISO and am rebuilding it now. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: pkgsrc question

2007-03-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Based on what i've been reading i should be able to create a binary :package of something after its installed, however if i do 'bmake :package' after i already did 'bmake install' it fails with errors, and :the only way to fix this is to 'pkg_delete ' and then do :'bmake package'(which not only c

Re: Website Download Page broken links

2007-03-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
en't being built any more. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: vkernel crash?

2007-03-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:i assume no chance in the future of net booting a vkernel from iscsi san :or will "ANVIL" provide a cleaner solution to having the vkernel/vmachine :filesystem available should the actual machine running it die and have :some monitoring solution to start the virtual machine on another box? : :

Re: vkernel crash?

2007-03-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi, : :A quick follow up: : :I was unable to see what the actual console was displaying as the :screen was in suspend and i could not awaken it. : :I have tried to repeat the problem for the last few hours and so :far have not been able reproduce the issue. : :Mike. There could be something

Re: dragonflybsd.org domain back up

2007-03-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
! -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: New mirror

2007-03-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On 17.03.2007, at 19:09, Matthew Dillon wrote: :> :ftp://ftp.estpak.ee/pub/DragonFly :> :http://ftp.estpak.ee/pub/DragonFly :> :rsync://ftp.estpak.ee/DragonFly Ok, its on the download page now. -Matt

Re: vkernel crash?

2007-03-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

dragonflybsd.org domain back up

2007-03-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
I blew up the dragonflybsd.org domain when I upgraded the box running the DNS. The new version of bind disallows certain constructions (domain names with underscores), and as per normal stupidity it decided to stop serving the entire file. Its all fixed now.

Re: To be a new DFly commiter

2007-03-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
Well, hmm. Kinda out of the blue, and I don't want to discourage anyone who is this enthusiastic, but I have a few buts of my own. 1. a) chg default password_format do blowfish since there are known algoritm of collision for md5. I don't think this is a big issue. When I was doing

Daylight Savings time changes - U.S. and other locales

2007-03-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
ving to upgrade the whole machine. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: website has two versions of download.shtml

2007-03-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
s so I can write to them? I can't modify the .htaccess :file to add the redirect for this change. Yah, no problem. Done. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [REPOST] Last mounted on...?

2007-03-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I'm noticing a change in the expected behavior of fsck...the "last :mounted on" field is missing. I did see the message a while back :that Matt Dillon posted acknowledging that this was broken: : :Matt Dillon wrote: :> I've noticed this too. The last mounted on information is stored in :> the su

Re: wiki log of #dragonfly irc channel

2007-03-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
ave it :as is. : :--Peter Yah, it's pretty silly. People have been logging IRC sessions and putting them up on the web for over a decade. Nobody should have any expectation of privacy on IRC. -Matt

Re: Not receiving mailing lists

2007-02-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
ut it looks like it did, so I reset it. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Feb 23 00:52:48 crater sendmail[91334]: l1N8o6ga091309: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay

Re: wiki log of #dragonfly irc channel

2007-02-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
ll if he :even wants to have an IRC bot on the system.) If someone else could :provide a running log, it'd be helpful. I am not particularly fond of running IRC bots or servers. -Matt

Re: Drivers of DF

2007-02-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: wip/jdk14: okay

2007-02-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
definitely warrants a bump. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Plans for 1.8+ (2.0?)

2007-02-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
filesystem makes available. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Plans for 1.8+ (2.0?)

2007-02-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
e replication on the other hand will be fully integrated into the filesystem. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Plans for 1.8+ (2.0?)

2007-02-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :On Mon, February 19, 2007 5:37 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: : :> I have many requirements that need to be fullfilled by the new :> filesystem. I have just completed the basic design work and I feel :> quite confident that I can have the basics working by our Summer :>

Re: Plans for 1.8+ (2.0?)

2007-02-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
ost likely. However, I won't be leading that particular project. Hehe. I'm more an infrastructure guy. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Plans for 1.8+ (2.0?)

2007-02-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
rs the ultimate ability to fine-tune a cluster. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Slip Tag

2007-02-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
: The preview tag could do with a slip - it's lagging behind the :release in some areas. You are absolutely right. I have slipped the preview tag for HEAD. -Matt Matthew D

Re: Slip Tag

2007-02-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
f which, a bunch of stuff has been MFCd, we should probably shoot for a .1 at the end of this month. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: security issues and DragonFly

2007-02-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
me, Joerg, and Simon. It doesn't get much traffic. If you want to pounce on the issue of security maintainance I would be happy to add you to that list too! -Matt Matthew D

Re: security issues and DragonFly

2007-02-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
ther BSDs and I need to mention DragonFly also. It's a very good idea, please do. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Upgrading bootblocks

2007-02-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
w -B /dev/ad1s1 auto -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: BSDTalk interview with Matt :D

2007-02-08 Thread Matthew Dillon
h probably doesn't help things for non-english speakers. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: UFS disklabel recovery/restore?

2007-02-06 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Debugging vkernels with gdb

2007-02-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
n the VKERNEL itself will be caught by GDB, so you will get a lot of breaks in the debugger that you have to 'cont' through. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: vkernel migration

2007-02-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: clustered (file) system on multiple host

2007-02-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
all comes down to managing the conflict space. The fewer conflicts there are, the larger the spaces that can be reserved. That's the jist of how it can be done efficiently. -Matt Matthew Dillon

Re: Plans for 1.8+ (2.0?)

2007-01-31 Thread Matthew Dillon
take up the ball on these items. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :Note that this is not meant to be demanding at all, I am just interested, because there is no

Re: Digg This (was Re: DRAGONFLY-1.8.0 RELEASED!)

2007-01-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
d. The main site is fairly low bandwidth. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

DRAGONFLY-1.8.0 RELEASED!

2007-01-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
bugs that we couldn't track down in time for this release. We are planning a 1.8.1 release in a few weeks to address these. http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ -Matt Matt

Re: write news article about virtual kernel

2007-01-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
:That's what I was saying: It's a debugging tool to develop a driver, :and once it's "done", it can just be loaded into the host kernel :instead of the virtual kernel. If that virtual kernel is there for the :express purpose of hosting drivers and not untrusted processes and :users, then security

Rolling release today (right now) - official announcement tomorrow

2007-01-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
I am doing a final cvs update and rolling the release right now. It will be announced tomorrow (to give mirrors time to get a copy), but the ISO will be on the main site before noon PST. -Matt

Re: write news article about virtual kernel

2007-01-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
he implement is. As a debugging tool it might be useful, but that is about as far as I would ever consider taking it. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :Than

Re: Sound stuttering at high I/O activity

2007-01-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
its because we missed releasing critical section, but you should get a panic in that case so it must be interrupt routing or something like that. This will have to be investigated after the release. -Matt Mat

Re: write news article about virtual kernel

2007-01-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
ot well tested and I expect it would be rather slow. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :Feel free to reply off-list. : :Thanks! : : Jeremy C. Reed : :p.s. Now to read the wiki and man page about it ... :)

1.8-RELEASE branched! HEAD is now 1.9! Official release on Monday.

2007-01-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Journals and jscan

2007-01-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
like to work on this! -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Journals and jscan

2007-01-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
tal I am not going to worry about it for this release, but please remind me after the release and I will look into the bad path problem. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: When will 1.8 be branched?

2007-01-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
I am branching the tree today. But, guys, the release date hasn't change. Branch != release. I pushed back the release date to late January in December and haven't puished it back a second time. The only thing that has been pushed back since has been the branch date. Th

HEADS UP - Kernel configuration file changes

2007-01-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
there are three directives and the 'machine' directive has been reverted to its original definition. platformpc32 machine i386 machine_archi386 -Matt Matt

Re: live CD question

2007-01-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi all, : :I am trying to build a custom Dragonfly live CD and have some :questions. I am basically following the instructions for NetBSD posted :here: :http://wiki.netbsd.se/index.php/How_to_build_your_own_NetBSD_LiveCD :... : :>>Creating the directory tree :Now create another directory with a cu

Re: Watching TV with DragonFly

2007-01-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
dling that case. Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Journals and jscan

2007-01-16 Thread Matthew Dillon
ay should mostly work. It is fairly easy to debug issues that pop up by also using the -d option to generate human readable debug output. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Virtual Kernel Update - 14 January

2007-01-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
release is in 2 weeks. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: RFR: Port of FreeBSD *context routines to DFly

2007-01-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
the FP context in the structure and will allow better handling of the floating point state. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Request for swapcontext and getcontext to be ported to our libc

2007-01-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :So is the current context code going into cvs HEAD or whats happening? : :Petr I'm going to let the discussion continue for another day or two but I will note that Matt is the person doing the work so it depends on how much time he has available to do the libc version prior to the

Re: Request for swapcontext and getcontext to be ported to our libc

2007-01-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
Ok, well, I'll bring up a counterpoint - one that argues for it to remain in userland. When I examine the FreeBSD code, the ONLY thing the kernel does that one needs to be in kernel mode for is setting the signal mask. That's it. Everything else can be done in userland.

Re: Request for swapcontext and getcontext to be ported to our libc

2007-01-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
if one is talking about operating in virtualized environments (any sort of virtualization), having to do a system call at all is very, very expensive. -Matt Matthew Dillon

Re: RFR: Port of FreeBSD *context routines to DFly

2007-01-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
ptions in the kernel build are for. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: RFR: Port of FreeBSD *context routines to DFly

2007-01-12 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Heads up: TLS system calls being renamed

2007-01-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
ld be sure to completely rebuild both the kernel and the world. Old libraries will remain compatible, since the syscall number and function arguments haven't changed. -Matt Matt

Re: changes in Firefox are not kept

2007-01-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
download somewhere. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: changes in Firefox are not kept

2007-01-04 Thread Matthew Dillon
set to ? -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Release Schedule for 1.8

2007-01-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :> Include ALTQ in generic? Hmm. I would personally rather not, unless :> a really good case is made for including it. : :The only reason why I say this is the fact that many would like to use BSD flavors as home routers with transfer rate limiting, and regular lines don't require

Re: Release Schedule for 1.8

2007-01-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
retty good. : :Timothy I'd say, build a release from CVS. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Oops..partitioning error

2007-01-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Release Schedule for 1.8

2007-01-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
ly installed ISO. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Release Schedule for 1.8

2007-01-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Tue, January 2, 2007 1:11 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: :> I would like to make it the :> default for the 2.0 release 6 months from now. : :Is it going to be 2.0 so that we don't have a 1.10, or are there other :targets for that release? I was hoping (without any idea of

Re: Release Schedule for 1.8

2007-01-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
Well, my biggest issue for this release is that all the packages that compiled and ran on 1.6 also compile and run now. One thing I would like people with extra (test) machines to do is to do a clean install and then build their packages starting with a clean slate and see wha

Re: 'CD server'

2007-01-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
ly possible to do it. No existing OS does a very good job at it, not even windows. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Release Schedule for 1.8

2007-01-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
-Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Diary page updated

2007-01-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
I have updated our Diary page with all the work done to date! Quite a bit of work was accomplished last semester! I'm really impressed! http://www.dragonflybsd.org/status/diary.shtml -Matt

Release Schedule for 1.8

2007-01-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
* The CVS tree will be branched in two weeks, on Sunday, January 14th * The 1.8 release is slated for January 28th. I would like people to start testing release oriented bits if possible. We have about two weeks before the CVS tree is branched, and two weeks after it is bran

Happy New Year!

2007-01-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
Happy New Year from the West Coast! -Matt

Re: Problems booting - stack overflow at boot menu [ updated ]

2006-12-31 Thread Matthew Dillon
. Undoing it all would be a major task in of itself. -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Problems booting - stack overflow at boot menu [ updated ]

2006-12-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
eeds to be put to :rest? : :-- :Matt Emmerton I don't think its your hardware. I think the loader is just too complex and it makes it a real pain to figure out what the cause of these failures are. -Matt

Re: help over "rsync vs cvsupd perfmance"

2006-12-30 Thread Matthew Dillon
The best thing to do if you intend to mess around with multiple versions of DragonFly is to pull down the CVS tree rather then the source code and learn a few basic CVS commands to checkout whatever version you want. -Matt

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