Re: Re: why desktop apps are able to kill my freebsd box?

2011-07-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Timo timo.bsdm...@gmail.com wrote: Why a faulty desktop application run as unprivileged user is able to crash my system? I mean, I know programs have bugs and sometimes they lead to crashes. I'm fine with that. But why a crashing program (for example firefox or

Re: PID 11 using 400% CPU

2011-07-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:27 AM, manish jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Dan, It looks like ppp is doing a lot of read and write operations, which keeps the disk spinning. How do I set this right ? Is there something wrong with my ppp.conf (see below) ? ppp.conf : default:  set

Re: the alternative function for inet_aton

2011-07-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:05 PM, ahmad javadi seyyedahmad.jav...@gmail.com wrote: hi I use inet_aton  function in the kernel socket programming but i have the following warrning: crypto.c:63: warning: implicit declaration of function 'inet_aton' crypto.c:63: warning: nested extern declaration

Re: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument

2011-07-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 370, Issue 2, Message: 14 On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 09:11:07 -0700 (PDT) Unga unga...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 7/4/11, Unga unga...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Unga unga...@yahoo.com Subject: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument To:

Re: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument

2011-07-05 Thread Unga
--- On Tue, 7/5/11, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: From: Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au Subject: Re: ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument To: Unga unga...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2011, 5:14 PM In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 370,

Re: PID 11 using 400% CPU

2011-07-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 05), manish jain said: On 30 June 2011 10:26, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Jun 30), Manish Jain said: I have a strange problem with my 8.1 box. After booting, the hard disk goes into a full-speed never-ending spin. To

Re: Tool to show the recent disk space consumers?

2011-07-05 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:37, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Hi, I hit this problem periodically when a lot of disk space is gone and it's hard to tell where did it go. Once it was thunderbird writing huge index file as a consequence of some bug, on another occasion it was the bug in KDE writing

Re: fubar'ed it good this time...

2011-07-05 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 15:30, Dr. A. Haakh bugrepor...@haakh.de wrote: Kurt Buff schrieb: On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 17:31, Kurt Buffkurt.b...@gmail.com  wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:50, Dr. A. Haakhbugrepor...@haakh.de  wrote: Polytropon schrieb: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:40:27 -0700,

Re: PID 11 using 400% CPU

2011-07-05 Thread Manish Jain
Hello Dan, I was having multiple problems with my x86 installation, apart from the disc spinning continuously. Despite tuning many sysctl parameters, X clients would not open for non-root users (max number of clients reached); for root, they would open, but after about 30 minutes