It seems Christopher Masto wrote:
My machine panicked today for the first time since switching to the
new ATA drivers, and I noticed that I no longer have crash dumps.
Is this something that is expected to be put back in soon?
I know Søren's a busy guy, and I'm glad we have the results of
An egcs optimizer bug caused incorrect tcp checksum recalculation in libalias
for the rewritten PORT command packet and the server subsequently discard the
packet.
The following piece of C code (from TcpChecksum() in alias_util.c)
u_short *ptr;
int sum, oddbyte;
oddbyte
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 p...@originative.co.uk wrote:
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From: Peter Wemm [mailto:pe...@netplex.com.au]
Sent: 20 April 1999 21:20
To: Doug Rabson
Cc: Takanori Watanabe; freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: newbus and modem(s)
Doug Rabson wrote:
On
On 21-Apr-99 Martin Blapp wrote:
Hi,
Recently I bought a new laptop and my ed0-pccard stopped working. This
happened before the newconfig stuff came in. I first thought there were
some irq-related problems, but I wasn't able to figure out where the
problems are. The pccard-controller is
P.S.: USBDI as in, our version of it. The people from the consortium
kicked us out.
Can you elaborate on the reason that USBDI does not FreeBSD
to be involved with the consortium?
Money. We cannot pay the fee (1000 US $) to join the kindergarten aka
consortium. No company was willing
P.S.: USBDI as in, our version of it. The people from the consortium
kicked us out.
Can you elaborate on the reason that USBDI does not FreeBSD
to be involved with the consortium?
Money. We cannot pay the fee (1000 US $) to join the kindergarten aka
consortium. No company
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
NFS patch #6 is now available for -current. This patch has been
extensively tested with NFS and with FFS+softupdates and has not
screwed up yet, so I'm reasonably confident that it will not
scrap whole filesystems :-)
SMP on -current would lose the WCPU and CPU times after a while in top's
output, this seems to be fixed on my machine/mobo with the latest source.
Asus PD2 afaik dual 400mhz.
thanks guys, great work!
-Alfred
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This PR is no longer validate now that g77 has enter
the base distribution.
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yeah the clocks are not setup properly :) but otherwise i'm just
gonna say HOLY SH*T you fixed NFS! :)
We all owe Matt big for this. :)
I'm using the default mount operations, as far as NFS server
not responding messages, i have no clue, but the server is still
up and i've seen that
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
yeah the clocks are not setup properly :) but otherwise i'm just
gonna say HOLY SH*T you fixed NFS! :)
We all owe Matt big for this. :)
I'm using the default mount operations, as far as NFS server
not responding messages, i have no clue, but
Great work guys! It almost seems that -current is more stable than
-stable!
Matt
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On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
Try mounting with -d... Can I make a guess that the NFS mount is going over
100MB ethernet? I have a strong theory that the dynamic retransmit timer
needs rework for low latency connections, with high
:2 questions I had:
:
:1) you said you disabled partial writes that were causing these
:mmap() problems, they were causing problems because NFS had to
:muck with the structures directly in order to do zero copy?
: so if our NFS impelementation didn't do that it wouldn't be
:an issue probably.
:
:I would just like to say, that unlike certain zealots of other operating
:systems I've always been a bit hesitant to recommend FreeBSD over
:solaris because of this one factor (NFS).
:
:It now seems I can't think of a single reason, (I'm much more a
:cluster fan than an SMP fan) SMP just
: We all owe Matt big for this. :)
:
:
: I'm using the default mount operations, as far as NFS server
: not responding messages, i have no clue, but the server is still
: up and i've seen that message happen when a lot of pressure is
: being put on an NFS server even though everything is
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:
:With a full duplex setup collisions don't exist. In a switched setup the
:latency should be very consistent and extremely low. Something else must
:be wrong here.
I should explain this more: It isn't actually the ethernet latency
Matthew Reimer wrote:
Great work guys! It almost seems that -current is more stable than
-stable!
Matt
Funny you should mention it. I've heard this from a number of people over
the last week.. One has even suggested using a particular known-good 4.0
snapshot in preference to a 3.1-stable
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:
:I would just like to say, that unlike certain zealots of other operating
:systems I've always been a bit hesitant to recommend FreeBSD over
:solaris because of this one factor (NFS).
:
:It now seems I can't think of a single reason, (I'm much
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:2 questions I had:
:
:2) at BAFUG 2 or 3 months ago I, *cough* attempted to keep up with you
:an Julian talking about VM issues. :) Something you guys brought up
:was problems with mmap() + read()/write() no staying in sync and requireing
:an
Peter Wemm once wrote:
Great work guys! It almost seems that -current is more stable than
-stable!
Funny you should mention it. I've heard this from a number of people
over the last week.. One has even suggested using a particular
known-good 4.0 snapshot in preference to a 3.1-stable for
:Matthew Reimer wrote:
: Great work guys! It almost seems that -current is more stable than
: -stable!
:
: Matt
:
:Funny you should mention it. I've heard this from a number of people over
:the last week.. One has even suggested using a particular known-good 4.0
:snapshot in preference to a
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:
Matthew Reimer wrote:
Great work guys! It almost seems that -current is more stable than
-stable!
Matt
Funny you should mention it. I've heard this from a number of people over
the last week.. One has even suggested using a particular
Matthew Reimer wrote:
Great work guys! It almost seems that -current is more stable than
-stable!
Matt
Funny you should mention it. I've heard this from a number of people over
the last week.. One has even suggested using a particular known-good 4.0
snapshot in preference to a
While playing over here with the USB stuff, I rebooted the system and
disconnected the USB keyboard waited till the system was fully up
and re-connected the USB keyboard which resulted in the system
not attaching the USB keyboard.
A side note, someone fixed syscons so it no longer panics if
the
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:Matthew Reimer wrote:
: Great work guys! It almost seems that -current is more stable than
: -stable!
:
: Matt
:
:Funny you should mention it. I've heard this from a number of people over
:the last week.. One has even suggested using a
:I wonder if it would be too radical to suggest that the release cycle for
:4.0 be *much* shorter than the 3.0 cycle. Maintaining two branches gets
:worse and worse as time goes on and it just becomes a waste of programmer
:time. If we are reasonably careful with the 4.0 tree, I think a 4.0
On 21-Apr-99 Matthew Dillon wrote:
Most of the bug fixes have been backported to -stable. Getting the new
VM system into -stable ( which I want to do just after the 3.2 release )
is going to require brute force, though. Unfortunately, the most recent
fixes to NFS fall into
While playing over here with the USB stuff, I rebooted the system and
disconnected the USB keyboard waited till the system was fully up
and re-connected the USB keyboard which resulted in the system
not attaching the USB keyboard.
You need to be running usbd.
In any case, we need some more
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:I wonder if it would be too radical to suggest that the release cycle for
:4.0 be *much* shorter than the 3.0 cycle. Maintaining two branches gets
:worse and worse as time goes on and it just becomes a waste of programmer
:time. If we are reasonably
Don't worry quite a few fixes went into syscons so it is no
longer isa centric.
While playing over here with the USB stuff, I rebooted the system and
disconnected the USB keyboard waited till the system was fully up
and re-connected the USB keyboard which resulted in the system
not
:Speaking of, when can we expect to see this wonderfull _stability_
:improvement in -stable? I'm setting up a server here, and would
:rather have fixed NFS code in it... Yet, jumping to -current is
:officially wrong... Thanks!
:
: -mi
Well, you already see a lot of the pure bug fixes
At 01:09 PM 4/21/99 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:Speaking of, when can we expect to see this wonderfull _stability_
:improvement in -stable? I'm setting up a server here, and would
:rather have fixed NFS code in it... Yet, jumping to -current is
:officially wrong... Thanks!
:
: -mi
When running dhclient with the kernel fxp driver I get a kernel panic in
ifconfig. Might be some other things I enabled in the kernel, but I haven't
double-checked yet.
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:Hi,
:Just wondering if these changes also have the side effect of fixing the
:nmap problem that crashes 3.x boxes ? i.e. as you wrote back on 3/4/99
:
:
:The problem is a deadlock caused by the fgrep. The fgrep is mmap()ing
:the file, but then it does some really weird crap when
Kazu == Kazutaka YOKOTA yok...@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp writes:
Kazu You need to be running usbd.
Kazu In any case, we need some more work in the usb and ukbd driver code to
Kazu be able to detach the ukbd driver while the system is running.
Amancio and Nick helped me get my system
Speaking of upgrading to -current from 3.x-STABLE, I was just wondering --
does the new EGCS imply that things like apps2go Motif won't link properly
against a 4.x-CURRENT world now? It's things like this that will hold me
back, if they indeedy are a problem.
Brian
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At 01:29 PM 4/21/99 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:Hi,
:Just wondering if these changes also have the side effect of fixing the
:nmap problem that crashes 3.x boxes ? i.e. as you wrote back on 3/4/99
:
:
:The problem is a deadlock caused by the fgrep. The fgrep is mmap()ing
:the file,
Hi,
is now. My only concern is that the FreeBSD bootloader does not appear
If you are running -current as of at least last nite you will not have
any problems with the bootloader and your USB keyboard in fact
I just rebooted my test system and was able to select the kernel
to boot; previously,
Amancio == Amancio Hasty ha...@rah.star-gate.com writes:
Amancio Hi,
is now. My only concern is that the FreeBSD bootloader does not appear
Amancio If you are running -current as of at least last nite you
Amancio will not have any problems with the bootloader and your USB
Amancio keyboard
Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote:
[Partial writes]
I finally gave up on it. What NFS does now is optimize only two
write situations: ... And (2) piecemeal writes in the write-append
case.
I'm nothing like an NFS expert, so I may be talking through my hat,
but... I presume
Hi,
At 4:34 pm -0700 20/4/99, Matthew Dillon wrote:
NFS patch #6 is now available for -current.[etc]
Looks real good here. Been running two servers continuously building the
world with their /usr/obj cross-mounted on each other. Oh, and one of them
is SMP running -j8.
Great job!
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I'm only subscribed to freebsd-stable, so I missed the original thread,
but reading the lines below, a question arises:
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
Well, you already see a lot of the pure bug fixes being backported.
What you don't see in -stable are the bug fixes that also depend
I am running 4.0-current SMP, cvsup today and built an hour ago.
Everything seems OK.
Great work.
tomdean
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I'm curious, is there any plan to backport egcs to -stable or no?
No.
Also, as a side note: good thing we went with egcs, as it was just
announced that egcs is now the official gcc.
Yep, I had some inside info that this was probably going to happen.
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Funny you should mention it. I've heard this from a number of people over
the last week.. One has even suggested using a particular known-good 4.0
snapshot in preference to a 3.1-stable for a production system..
That's a little foolish since we've still not found all the egcs
optimizer
Speaking of, when can we expect to see this wonderfull _stability_
improvement in -stable? I'm setting up a server here, and would
Usually when we're sure it's not a pessimization in other ways. I
think people are getting just a bit prematurely excited here, not to
knock Matt's good work or
I wonder if it would be too radical to suggest that the release cycle for
4.0 be *much* shorter than the 3.0 cycle. Maintaining two branches gets
worse and worse as time goes on and it just becomes a waste of programmer
time. If we are reasonably careful with the 4.0 tree, I think a 4.0
I'm curious, is there any plan to backport egcs to -stable or no? Also, as a
There are no plans at this time to merge egcs over. This will only
happen if time and hindsight prove egcs to be of low enough
impact that it's suitable -stable material.
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All I'm saying (I think) is that we shouldn't allow the 4.0 release cycle
to stretch out to 2 years like the 3.0 cycle did (discounting 3.0 as a
beta release).
No argument there - the current schedule is 12 months for 4.0. 2
years far too long and merely the result of unforseen delays and
On 21-Apr-99 Viren R. Shah wrote:
Kazu be able to detach the ukbd driver while the system is running.
Amancio and Nick helped me get my system with only a USB keyboard and
USB mouse up and running. Right now I'm pretty happy with the way it
is now. My only concern is that the FreeBSD
Can newbus resource manager manage discontinuouse I/O port?
Many PC-98 devices use discontinuous I/O port like:
0x00d0, 0x10d0, 0x20d0, 0x30d0, 0x40d0, ..., 0xf0d0
Current API seems to assume contiguity and not to be able to manage
such I/O port addresses.
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The problem was not really a bios problem not sure what the guys
did to fix the boot loader probably switch to using a dos int function
to access the keyboard from the boot loader.
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On 22-Apr-99 Amancio Hasty wrote:
The problem was not really a bios problem not sure what the guys
did to fix the boot loader probably switch to using a dos int function
to access the keyboard from the boot loader.
Hmm.. what does it do now? Just talk to the keyboard controller directly?
Viren R. Shah once stated:
=Amancio and Nick helped me get my system with only a USB keyboard and
=USB mouse up and running. Right now I'm pretty happy with the way it is
=now. My only concern is that the FreeBSD bootloader does not appear to
=see keystrokes from the USB keyboard (which kinda
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
Funny you should mention it. I've heard this from a number of people over
the last week.. One has even suggested using a particular known-good 4.0
snapshot in preference to a 3.1-stable for a production system..
That's a little foolish since we've still
Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
Funny you should mention it. I've heard this from a number of people over
the last week.. One has even suggested using a particular known-good 4.0
snapshot in preference to a 3.1-stable for a production system..
That's a
what is this shit? damn, i need to tell my uncle, he used to be an
assemblies of god preacher, and he has enough choice words on those
racists to fill a book...
this shit doesn't belong here.
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Luigi is an interesting spelling of Louqi.
Or even Luoqi, as his name is actually spelled. :-)
Sorry, Mr. Chen, for the transposition of you and Luigi. Temporary
brain fade! :)
The bug was actually in libalias.
Yes, also correct.
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: Speaking of, when can we expect to see this wonderfull _stability_
: improvement in -stable? I'm setting up a server here, and would
:
:Usually when we're sure it's not a pessimization in other ways. I
:think people are getting just a bit prematurely excited here, not to
:knock Matt's good work
: work! :-)
:
: Clearly, that goes to show Luigi must have no life... :-)
:
:
:Luigi is an interesting spelling of Louqi.
:
:The bug was actually in libalias.
:
:--
:Steve
Luoqi found a bug in the compiler's optimizer. I presume someone
has/will commit a change to libalias to work
Matthew Dillon wrote:
: work! :-)
:
: Clearly, that goes to show Luigi must have no life... :-)
:
:
:Luigi is an interesting spelling of Louqi.
Whoops! Luoqi ;-)
:The bug was actually in libalias.
:
Luoqi found a bug in the compiler's optimizer. I presume someone
:Just wondering if these changes also have the side effect of fixing the
:nmap problem that crashes 3.x boxes ? i.e. as you wrote back on 3/4/99
:
:The problem is a deadlock caused by the fgrep. The fgrep is mmap()ing
:the file, but then it does some really weird crap when dealing
I was just wondering -- does the new EGCS imply that things like
apps2go Motif won't link properly against a 4.x-CURRENT world now?
My Apps2go Motif works just file post-EGCS.
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:I'm nothing like an NFS expert, so I may be talking through my hat,
:but... I presume NFS correctly supports O_APPEND semantics for
:multiple clients (as seen from the server). In this case, the
:optimization only works when there's only one client machine (though
:possibly multiple processes
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