Re: threads and malloc/free on freebsd 8.0

2010-05-25 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (May 22), Anoop Kumar Narayanan said: I think glibc uses asynchronous free, as in it doesn't free the memory immediately.  So even though the memory is free'd its still part of the process's address

Re: threads and malloc/free on freebsd 8.0

2010-05-21 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
I think glibc uses asynchronous free, as in it doesn't free the memory immediately. So even though the memory is free'd its still part of the process's address space but present in the free pool and so it doesn't crash. -Anoop On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-04-08 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome this ?

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-30 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/30/10, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Gary Jennejohn gary.jennej...@freenet.de wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:18:59 + Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-29 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Gary Jennejohn gary.jennej...@freenet.de wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:18:59 + Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Masoom Shaikh wrote: Hello List, I was a happy

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop

2010-03-20 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
! -Anoop Good luck-- Richard On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Richard DeLaurell richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.comwrote: I have

FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop

2010-03-19 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed). Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses for about 15 secs and the

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop

2010-03-19 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Richard DeLaurell richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.comwrote: I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed

FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop

2010-03-12 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed). Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses for about 15 secs and the