Re: Power consumption in desktop computers
On 2003-12-27 19:59 -0800, Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 05:41 pm, Martin Cracauer wrote: I found that the requirment to run Mozilla Firebird outpaces this CPU. It's really too bad, if it wasn't for that thing I could happily run my old hardware forever. Have you tried Opera? My laptop is a PII-300; Opera 7 runs quite nicely and Firebird takes 3 or 4 minutes to start. There are a few things Opera doesn't do, or doesn't do well, but I usually just avoid those (flash, for instance.) KDE apps also run just fine on this old, slow hardware. I second the Opera 7 recommendation; I run it on my P2-400 laptop and have grown used to its speed and versatility. Running the Linux Opera binary allows the flashplayer to be used; in Opera 7 this works quite well. As can be expected, the Flash apps suck CPU but at least the Flash navigation menus should be usable. The Acrobat and Real plugins also work with linux-opera. Opera's session management is unmatched as well; it's another must-have browser feature now that I've experienced it. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter How do I read this file? mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You uudecode it. http://zer0.org/~gsutter/ I I I decode it? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Call for Participation--USENIX Annual Technical Conference, UseBSD and Freenix Tracks
Call for Participation--USENIX Annual Technical Conference, UseBSD and Freenix Tracks Daily Daemon News complete story and comments: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=4273 Submitted By : Alex Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED] = UseBSD Submission Deadline: January 5, 2004 UseBSD will be a one-day special interest group (SIG) session hosted as part of the 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference in Boston (June 27 -July 2, 2004). UseBSD will showcase ways in which creative members of the BSD community are making use of BSD - on the desktop, in embedded applications, in corporate data centers, in computational clusters, in business environments, and more! The UseBSD Program Committee solicits proposals for presentations related to BSD-derived systems. Submission guidelines, suggested topics and conference details are available on the USEBSD page: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/usebsd.html Murray Stokely, FreeBSD Mall, Inc. UseBSD Program Chair Chris Demetriou, Broadcom Kostas Magoutis, IBM Research Kirk McKusick, Consultant Robert Watson, Network Associates Laboratories UseBSD Program Committee FREENIX Track Call For Papers http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/freenix.html Submission Deadline: December 16, 2003 FREENIX is the forum on free and open source software. New this year, the 2004 FREENIX track will have special emphasis on two related areas: I. Userland Application and Systems Development: Desktop applications P2P and web-based systems Libraries, toolkits and infrastructures Scripting languages and applications Novel algorithms and applications System management tools Software development tools Print systems II. Free and Open Source Software Engineering: Project-centric: Software specification and design methodologies, novel implementation techniques, testing, deployment, readability and security, performance and scalability Process-centric: Team governance, administration and management; planning and forecasting; measuring progress and assessing quality Integrating tools and theologies In addition, we would also welcome submission on a wide variety of topics including: Technical aspects of commercial use of free software Graphical user interface tools Interesting deployment of free software Large-scale system management Nontechnical aspects including business, legal Security and Documentation Submission guidelines and conference details are available on our website: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/freenixsubmit.html Please join us in developing the best technical conference program ever! Bart Massey, Portland State University Keith Packard, Hewlett-Packard Cambridge Research Lab 2004 FREENIX Program Chairs --- SAVE THE DATE! 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '04) June 27-July 2, 2004, Boston, Massachusetts http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/ = Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll http://zer0.org/~gsutter/ be warm for the rest of his life. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD Developer Status Report: July 2002 - August 2002
On 2002-10-03 15:38 -0400, Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: July - August 2002 Status Report -- FreeBSD Security Officer Team URL: http://www.freebsd.org/security/ Contact: Jacques Vidrine [EMAIL PROTECTED] In September, the FreeBSD Security Officer published a new PGP key (ID 0xCA6CDFB2, found on the FTP site and in the Handbook). This aligned the set of those who possess the corresponding private key with the membership of the security-officer alias published on the FreeBSD Security web site. It also worked around an issue with the deprecated PGP key being found corrupted on some public key servers. The key in the published handbook remains: pub 1024R/73D288A5 1996-04-22 FreeBSD Security Officer [EMAIL PROTECTED] This was verified from the www copy of the handbook as well as the FTP site. The key is also unavailable from pgpkeys.mit.edu. Where can I get this new key? -- Gregory S. Sutter Heisenberg might have been here. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD msg37228/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What hardware do you use ?
On 2002-05-13 14:09 -0700, Doug White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 May 2002, David [ISO-8859-1] Siebörger wrote: That's hardly the worst of it. The ServerWorks OSB4 ATA controller has been known to cause data corruption with Seagate drives. Have you isolated it to Seagates only? our problematic rackables have seagate drives, but I don't have any other mfr drives (maxtor, ibm) to test it with. I have a possible problem with the Tyan S2518GN and a Maxtor 80GB disk. Didn't have time to play with it--I just shoved in a Promise ATA/133 controller and now the disk is really fast. I haven't tried updating the BIOS from the default v106 yet. Greg, not very helpful -- Gregory S. SutterFnord. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD msg34513/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What hardware do you use ?
On 2002-05-11 10:49 +0800, Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 May 2002, Doug White wrote: usually have onboard everything, including dual fxp's nowadays. But they have the ServerWorks curse. . Tyan makes some interesting stuff, but as with all ServerWorks based stuff, stay far, far away from the base ATA33 controller. Even the cheap what serverworks curse ? i may not have been aware of an issue here. could someone please let me know about this ? The Serverworks chipsets max out at ATA/33. Not very fast. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Five million battered women in mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] this country, and I've always http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ eaten mine plain... hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD msg34289/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!
On 2002-01-07 13:28 -0800, Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh my god. I don't even *remember* writing this one! This was when I was 18. Google's archive isn't complete but they've done an incredible job getting as much as they have. Yes, Google is indeed great. Now everyone can go back and find my first USENET posting, which was to alt.life.sucks. Sigh. :) Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter My reality check just bounced. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD msg30772/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
syscons problem
Yokota-san, I am experiencing a problem with syscons and init when I have a certain line in my kernel configuration file, and am hoping that you can fix the bug. My system is a recent 4-STABLE, although the problem also showed up in an April 24 4-STABLE. I do not have a -CURRENT box. FreeBSD trurl.zer0.org 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #6: Wed May 16 17:44:58 PDT 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GEN i386 Here is a diff between a working kernel configuration file (GEN) and a non-working one (GEN.not): trurl gsutter /sys/i386/conf $diff -u -0 GEN.not GEN --- GEN.not Wed May 16 17:12:42 2001 +++ GEN Wed May 16 17:49:06 2001 @@ -61 +61 @@ -optionsSC_HISTORY_SIZE=8000 +#options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=8000 I have not tested with other SC_HISTORY_SIZE values. When I boot with a kernel compiled with the SC_HISTORY_SIZE=8000 option, I observe the following: 1. No gettys are spawned. If I ssh in, I can manually start gettys. 2. Processes remain in zombie state after exiting. This occurs whether they exit normally, or are killed with any signal. These two symptoms lead me to believe that init(8) is being adversely affected by the syscons history size option. If I can be of assistance in tracking down this problem, please let me know. Regards, Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Frotz! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD PGP signature
Re: if_fxp - the real point
On 2001-03-10 21:56 -0600, Peter Seebach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of idle curiousity, has the NIH syndrome died down enough that it might hypothetically be possible for the three major *BSD camps to cooperate on this kind of thing? Form an organization the purpose of which is to get access to driver docs *for all three systems*? An organization which can claim to represent 2N or 3N users, instead of N, *might* be able to get people to listen more closely... Especially if it maintained a page describing hardware and vendor relations, and a lot of people got in the habit of linking to it. Does Intel care if there's a page saying "Intel has refused to provide specs, so we are obliged to recommend Frobozz Magic Ethernet instead"? Probably not, but they *might*. More than they care about mutterings on mailing lists, certainly. Peter, This sounds like something that Daemon News might be able to help with. Are you interested in spending some time on it? Our staff is stretched very thin right now and can't really take on any more projects without additional volunteers. If you or another interested party has the time, though, I think that the attempt should be made and that Daemon News is the right umbrella for it. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter The measure of a man is the way mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] he bears up under misfortune. http://www.daemonnews.org/--Plutarch hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: httpfs
On 2001-03-10 13:36 -0500, Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: A few of us were talking on IRC tonight about how cool it would be to have an httpfs filesystem -- then it occurred to me we almost have this already, in the form of the (under-utilised) portalfs. Portalfs works by handing off everything to a userland daemon which handles the actual transaction request, so you could easily imagine extending it to provide an http method similar to the tcp method it currently has for initiating tcp connections. I need not remind you that file systems front-ending onto random protocols are a bad idea for a huge number of reasons :-). Could you give me the three biggest reasons, IYO? I don't seem to know any of them. Thanks! Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Five million battered women in mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] this country, and I've always http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ eaten mine plain... hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Writing Device Drivers
On 2000-12-17 22:12 -0700, Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sergey Babkin wrote: David Preece wrote: At 13:02 17/12/00 +, you wrote: Does anyone have any good tips to get started / HowTo's, or some simple examples that will give me knowledge like the PC Speaker or something simple like that? This is turning into a FAQ, but don't worry about it. The usual answer is to take one of the existing drivers and work out what it does. There's Look at the DaemonNews (www.daemonnews.org), the Blueprints column. If I remember the months correctly, in the July 2000 issues there is an introduction into FreeBSD device drivers by Alexander Langner, and in June and August issues there are my articles on CAM (SCSI) drivers and ISA device drivers respectively. There also were articles on the Netgraph networking subsystem and on writing drivers as modules. I believe that these articles have been turned into sections of the Handbook as well but I'm not sure where exectly in Handbook they are. It's about time for an article index at DN, isn't it? Yes. As soon as any of us can find time to do the work. We need to get our ezine into our database. It involves a bit of scripting, some searching through email archives, categorization, then the import. All of it's just text/html now; we weren't very thoughtful at first. Greg -- Gregory S. SutterFnord. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Is this how to use Freebsd?
On 2000-11-02 20:56 -0800, Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Daniel C. Sobral [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001102 19:26] wrote: 1) please wrap lines at 70 characters when posting to the list. Furthermore, DO NOT send html-formatted messages. I, for one, delete without even reading all html-formatted messages. I usually do as well, but mutt sometimes decodes them to plain text, some mailers send mail in such a way that mutt doesn't those I nuke with extreme prejudice. :) This works really well in making HTML mail very readable. Substitute w3m if you wish: klapaucius gsutter ~ $ grep lynx .mailcap text/html; lynx -restrictions=all -dump -force_html %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter I got a 1GHz Athlon for my girlfriend. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Good trade! http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Routing issues
On 2000-10-15 13:40 -0600, Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thierry Herbelot wrote: Gregory Sutter wrote: I'm setting up a network that looks like this: --InternetRouter---Firewall | | /--- host SwitchNAT-- host | \- host |\- etc... - | | email ns In other words, a fairly typical small network. I've got an 8-IP subnet; all hosts outside the NAT have real IPs: router: 1.2.3.193 firewall: 1.2.3.196 fxp0 1.2.3.197 fxp1 nat: 1.2.3.198 email:1.2.3.194 ns: 1.2.3.195 The problem I'm having is with my routing. Surprise. Here is the routing table for the firewall: default 1.2.3.193 fxp0 1.2.3.193 link#1 fxp0 1.2.3.192/29link#2 fxp1 1.2.3.196 lo0 1.2.3.197 lo0 The gateway_enable (net.inet.ip.forwarding) is also enabled on the firewall. with a *routing* firewall, like the one you are using, you must have two different IP subnets, one for each physical interface (or else, the kernel will not know which interface to use to send a packet). You can handle it by using host routes to the interior computers, but that is messy. The bridging was the key that I was missing. Turning it on instantly resulted in a working network with the configuration described above. The default route, since it's a host route anyway, is entered with interface fxp0, and the rest of the 1.2.3.192/29 network is routed with interface fxp1. DestinationGatewayFlags Refs Use Netif Expire default1.2.3.193 UGSc1 163304 fxp0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 00 lo0 1.2.3.192/29 link#2 UCSc30 fxp1 = 1.2.3.193 0:f:cf:7f:ff:f4UHLW1 32 fxp0 1032 1.2.3.196 0:df:f7:f6:1f:f6 UHLW0 106 lo0 1.2.3.197 0:f:bf:f:df:f1 UHLS02 lo0 net.inet.ip.forwarding: 1 net.link.ether.bridge_cfg: fxp0:1,fxp1:1, net.link.ether.bridge: 1 net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw: 1 Thanks to all who replied! Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter "How do I read this file?" mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "You uudecode it." http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ "I I I decode it?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Routing issues
I'm setting up a network that looks like this: --InternetRouter---Firewall | | /--- host SwitchNAT-- host | \- host |\- etc... - | | email ns In other words, a fairly typical small network. I've got an 8-IP subnet; all hosts outside the NAT have real IPs: router: 1.2.3.193 firewall: 1.2.3.196 fxp0 1.2.3.197 fxp1 nat: 1.2.3.198 email:1.2.3.194 ns: 1.2.3.195 The problem I'm having is with my routing. Surprise. Here is the routing table for the firewall: default 1.2.3.193 fxp0 1.2.3.193 link#1 fxp0 1.2.3.192/29link#2 fxp1 1.2.3.196 lo0 1.2.3.197 lo0 The gateway_enable (net.inet.ip.forwarding) is also enabled on the firewall. From the firewall, I can reach any host with no problems. However, from hosts inside the firewall, I cannot reach outside, and vice versa. I feel I must be missing something obvious, but have played with routes for hours to no avail. Does anyone see a problem with the routing of this network? Greg -- Gregory S. SutterComputing is a terminal addiction. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: HELP
On 2000-06-04 13:26 +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BSD in this context refers to Berkeley Systems Development and refers to a particularly stable variant of UNIX most stemming from a single common source called 4.4BSD BSD is Berkeley Software Distribution, not Berkeley Systems Development. Take a look at this for the history: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Heisenberg might have been here. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: I will be in Japan and Korea from June 7th through June 15th
On 2000-06-02 21:45 -0400, Sergey Babkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, is any FreeBSD event planned for Usenix ? I would be interested in meeting/looking at all the giants of FreeBSD thought :-) Yes! We're having both a BSD BoF (with each BSD getting some time on the stage) and a Daemon News BoF. Times and places will be announced at USENIX. See you there, Sergey! Greg -- Gregory S. SutterComputing is a terminal addiction. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Netgraph article
On 2000-03-03 09:24 -0800, Archie Cobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For anyone interested in reading about netgraph(4), including technical information about developing your own node types, etc., here is an article that I wrote for this month's Daemon News 'blueprints' column.. http://www.daemonnews.org/23/netgraph.html Hey, that's pretty nifty. ;) If anyone else is interested in writing a solid tech article, please contact me! (I'm the keeper of the blueprints column.) Greg -- Gregory S. SutterThe best way to accelerate Windows mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is at 9.8 m/s^2. http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: NFS unmounts while reboot ?
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 09:16:57PM +0200, Martin Blapp wrote: As I notized, a FreeBSD NFS-client does not unmount it's NFS-mounts during reboot. This can cause problems on the One could just made a quick and dirty solution as Linux has, like one line in rc.shutdown: umount -Avt nfs As you mentioned, this could hang 'reboot', which is _completely_ unacceptable. One of the other two solutions would be far superior. Probably a timeout on the umount. There must also be a way to skip this step entirely, since sometimes machines have to be rebooted by getting lucky with the timing of the reboot command while in a state of resource starvation (possibly through a runaway process, etc). Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Failing sardine factory cans employees! mailto:gsut...@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: K6/3 on 3.2-STABLE - PROBLEM SOLVED
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 03:44:32PM -0700, John Plevyak wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 02:33:48PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: :I am experiencing reproducible crashes with FreeBSD (3.2-STABLE) on :a K6/3-450 running on an ASUS P5S-VM motherboard. The problem is highly :repeatable (happens about 1/4 of the way through compiling the kernel) :and goes away if a K6/2-450 is substituted for the K6/3-450 with :all other things held equal. Are you overclocking your K6/3-450? Even if not, try running it at a slower clock rate. If reducing the clock fixes the problem, you might have a bad cpu or you might have a grey-market cpu that was re-marked up for a higher clock speed then it can actually handle. After rechecking all the jumpers it turns out that the supplier had set the core voltage to 2.2V instead of 2.4V! Interesting that the error was reproducible, if this was the cause of it. The problem never varied from that exact point? I'd like to say that I find that a testament to the precision of modern computer hardware, but I'm still having trouble believing that the incorrect voltage setting caused a specific, always-reproducible problem. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Heisenberg might have been here. mailto:gsut...@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Max simultaneous NFS mounts?
What is the (default) maximum number of simultanous NFS mounts in FreeBSD 2.2.8 and 3.2? I was looking at 3.2 and it appears that 63 is the max, and this is tunable with kernel config option NFS_MUIDHASHSIZ. Is this correct? What is the maximum possible setting? Last, where could I have found this information myself? Thanks very much. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Software is like sex; it's better mailto:gsut...@pobox.com when it's free. -- Linus Torvalds http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Max simultaneous NFS mounts?
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 11:16:23PM -0700, Gregory Sutter wrote: What is the (default) maximum number of simultanous NFS mounts in FreeBSD 2.2.8 and 3.2? I was looking at 3.2 and it appears that 63 is the max, and this is tunable with kernel config option NFS_MUIDHASHSIZ. Is this correct? What is the maximum possible setting? Bleah. Strike that. NFS mounts don't seem to be any different from normal mounts, so they just get inserted into mountlist, which is a CIRCLEQ. This means that the only limitation is the amount of available kernel memory, correct? Greg -- Gregory S. SutterCole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage. mailto:gsut...@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Max simultaneous NFS mounts?
What is the (default) maximum number of simultanous NFS mounts in FreeBSD 2.2.8 and 3.2? I was looking at 3.2 and it appears that 63 is the max, and this is tunable with kernel config option NFS_MUIDHASHSIZ. Is this correct? What is the maximum possible setting? Last, where could I have found this information myself? Thanks very much. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter "Software is like sex; it's better mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] when it's free." -- Linus Torvalds http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: Fix/tuning to improve slow NFS writes?
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 04:50:51AM -0400, Alfred Perlstein wrote: On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Doug wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: : So, the big question is whether there is anything we can tune to speed up :the writes. The freebsd machines are NFS clients to the sun servers doing :most of the web processing. Overall performance on the reads seems to be :best with nfs v3 over udp, which is what I'm using now. All of the web :server directories are soft mounted directly, with no amd currently in use. Could tuning any of the NFS options in the kernel help? Matt, could you give any tips? I should have mentioned, I have 20 nfsiod's running. I started so many initially to help in the stress testing I was doing, but I left them running because the servers are handling from 2-4 requests per second and we have lots of ram in the boxes. Is there a way to figure out how many are getting used concurrently, or is too many not a problem? You need to run 'nfsd' on the servers, not nfsiod. nfsd - run on server nfsiod - run on client He's talking about the client boxes, just measuring from the server side. Reference the second sentence at top. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Failing sardine factory cans employees! mailto:gsut...@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: BSD voice synthesis
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 10:17:05AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: Try Free B S D. Tricks like that used to work well with the simple ones available for home computers decades ago. (Anyone else here ever use SAM the Software Automated Mouth for the Atari 800 or Commodore 64?) No, but I used it for the Apple ][. It was a cool program. :) Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Bureaucrats cut red tape -- lengthwise. mailto:gsut...@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: replacing grep(1)
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:37:35PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Jamie Howard (howar...@wam.umd.edu), with a little help from yours truly, has written a BSD-licensed version of grep(1) which has all the functionality of our current (GPLed) implementation, plus a little more, in one seventh the source code and one fourth the binary code. I move that we replace GNU grep in our source tree with this implementation, once it's been reviewed by all concerned parties. This implementation's performance on large files will have to be radically improved before it is an adequate substitute for GNU grep. One-seventh the source and one-fourth the binary is great, as long as it has full functionality. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Mostly Harmless mailto:gsut...@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
maxfiles == maxfilesperproc ?
hax0rs, In sys/conf/param.c (in -STABLE), both maxfiles and maxfilesperproc are set equal to MAXFILES. This doesn't make much sense to me. It seems that maxfiles should be set to be greater than maxfilesperproc by default, so that one process can't consume all of the file descriptors. I noticed this while building a system that will be running some very large processes with many open files, so set maxfilesperproc on that box equal to MAXFILES - 512, but this metric is not appropriate for systems with small MAXUSERS (like GENERIC). So... 1. Should maxfiles be, by default, larger than maxfilesperproc? 2. If so, how much is necessary and appropriate? Regards, Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter "How do I read this file?" mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"You uudecode it." http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ "I I I decode it?" PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
maxfiles == maxfilesperproc ?
hax0rs, In sys/conf/param.c (in -STABLE), both maxfiles and maxfilesperproc are set equal to MAXFILES. This doesn't make much sense to me. It seems that maxfiles should be set to be greater than maxfilesperproc by default, so that one process can't consume all of the file descriptors. I noticed this while building a system that will be running some very large processes with many open files, so set maxfilesperproc on that box equal to MAXFILES - 512, but this metric is not appropriate for systems with small MAXUSERS (like GENERIC). So... 1. Should maxfiles be, by default, larger than maxfilesperproc? 2. If so, how much is necessary and appropriate? Regards, Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter How do I read this file? mailto:gsut...@pobox.comYou uudecode it. http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ I I I decode it? PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog?
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 10:56:05PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: 'siobi' is someone trying to open the serial console, for whatever reason. Without knowing who it was that was stuck there, it's hard to guess what is going on. D'uh, sorry. Long day. It was amd that was hung in the siobi state. No way to clear it without rebooting the box. Dang. Now I need that stack dump from amd that you posted and I deleted. Specifically, it'd be handy to know why amd felt it was necessary to open the console. http://www.egroups.com/group/freebsd-hackers/40590.html Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter My reality check just bounced. mailto:gsut...@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 05:43:21PM +0930, Kris Kennaway wrote: You know, it occurred to me that with all the time wasted typing up messages in this thread someone (e.g. Matt) could have instead coded up a simple non-overcommit model, given it to the nay-sayers and said Run this and see what I mean about making your system unusable :-) Or with all the time that Matt wasted typing up messages in this thread, he could have been putting forth his efforts in some worthwhile direction. Now will y'all either do your research and come up with some hard numbers, or kill this poor thread so people can go back to doing their work? (Or in short, put up or shut up.) Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Software is like sex; it's better mailto:gsut...@pobox.com when it's free. -- Linus Torvalds http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
MAXUSERS
What is the maximum number that MAXUSERS can currently be set to, in the following environments: 3.2-STABLE 4.0-CURRENT Also, what is the limiting factor for this setting? MAXFILES? maxproc? Regards, Greg -- Gregory S. SutterVery funny, Scotty. mailto:gsut...@pobox.com Now beam down my clothes. http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
