libl.a in libipsec

2000-03-28 Thread Dimitar Peikov
These days I've cvsup-ed to current and start to 'make world' from my 3.4 RELEASE. Everything was ok, till making /usr/src/lib/libipsec where some dependencies of /usr/src/lib/libl.a was not found? Any ideas? I'm not subscribed to freebsd-current, thats please reply and to me! thanks

Re: Please test for 8G-OVER-Booting with /boot/loader

2000-03-28 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
John Baldwin wrote: Looks good to me, but I need to test it to make sure. I will also look at seeing if I can squeeze the int 13 extension installation check into boot1 and boot0 so that they will use packet mode automatically as well. I recall comments (by rnordier/msmith) to the effect

Re: libl.a in libipsec

2000-03-28 Thread Yoshinobu Inoue
These days I've cvsup-ed to current and start to 'make world' from my 3.4 RELEASE. Everything was ok, till making /usr/src/lib/libipsec where some dependencies of /usr/src/lib/libl.a was not found? Any ideas? I am checking it now, but not yet clear why it happens. In old

Re: libl.a in libipsec

2000-03-28 Thread Nickolay Dudorov
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yoshinobu Inoue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These days I've cvsup-ed to current and start to 'make world' from my 3.4 RELEASE. Everything was ok, till making /usr/src/lib/libipsec where some dependencies of /usr/src/lib/libl.a was not found? Any ideas? I am

Re: buildworld failure

2000-03-28 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Yoshinobu Inoue wrote: Any idea? [...] /usr/src/lib/libipsec/ipsec_get_pol icylen.c -o ipsec_get_policylen.So cc -fpic -DPIC -O -pipe -I/usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libipsec -DIPSEC_DEBUG -DIPSEC -D INET6 -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include -c

Re: buildworld failure

2000-03-28 Thread Yoshinobu Inoue
I had the same build failure. There is a suggestion to fix the build failure in cvs messages. Is that the way to solve it? I am trying buildworld again with no libl in libipsec Makefile, as previous Dimitar's message. If it is OK(and will be OK), I'll commit the fix. Yoshinobu Inoue To

cvs repository nits and gnats

2000-03-28 Thread Doug Barton
Greetings, I'm working on a new project and had the need for a clean set of sources on a new machine. In the course of setting it all up I neglected to copy over my .cvsrc file which has (amongst other things) 'co -P'. In checking out the sources for RELENG_4 I ended up with a large

Re: DDB and dumping disk

2000-03-28 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:50:12 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: I wasn't complaining, on the contrary! I was happily surprised it was way faster than the SCSI dump. =) So now the only question is whether our existing bootstrapping infrastructure already has some way to use your

Re: DDB and dumping disk

2000-03-28 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [2328 12:55], Sheldon Hearn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:50:12 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: I wasn't complaining, on the contrary! I was happily surprised it was way faster than the SCSI dump. =) So now the only question is whether our existing

Re: DDB and dumping disk

2000-03-28 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:02:06 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: I can then dump when typing: db panic Damnit. So I've just committed bogus advice in dumpon(8). :-( Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of

Re: DDB and dumping disk

2000-03-28 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [2328 13:15], Sheldon Hearn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:02:06 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: I can then dump when typing: db panic Damnit. So I've just committed bogus advice in dumpon(8). :-( No not really. Your patch is a step in the right

Re: libl.a in libipsec

2000-03-28 Thread Yoshinobu Inoue
I am checking it now, but not yet clear why it happens. In old environments, libl.a seemed to be already installed at that time, but now it doesn't exist at libipsec build time. libl.a isn't necessary for libipsec building at all. The error now is the result of adding

Re: Please test for 8G-OVER-Booting with /boot/loader

2000-03-28 Thread John Baldwin
On 28-Mar-00 Daniel C. Sobral wrote: John Baldwin wrote: Looks good to me, but I need to test it to make sure. I will also look at seeing if I can squeeze the int 13 extension installation check into boot1 and boot0 so that they will use packet mode automatically as well. I recall

Re: DDB and dumping disk

2000-03-28 Thread Gary Jennejohn
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven writes: I am currently only trying to figure out why the DDB way doesn't trigger savecore to recognise the dump. Maybe because kern.dumpdev has a different value and savecore can't find a dump on it ? Have you tried setting kern.dumpdev by hand and then manually

Re: libl.a in libipsec

2000-03-28 Thread Nickolay Dudorov
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yoshinobu Inoue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am checking it now, but not yet clear why it happens. In old environments, libl.a seemed to be already installed at that time, but now it doesn't exist at libipsec build time. libl.a isn't necessary for libipsec

Re: libl.a in libipsec

2000-03-28 Thread Yoshinobu Inoue
Thanks, after removing libl related dependency from libipsec Makefile, buildworld just passed libipsec part. libl.a was not used on the first place. :- I'll commit the fix. It seems to me (and my buildworld agree with this) that 'liby' is also not necessary for building of

Re: DDB and dumping disk

2000-03-28 Thread Bruce Evans
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Gary Jennejohn wrote: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven writes: I am currently only trying to figure out why the DDB way doesn't trigger savecore to recognise the dump. Maybe because kern.dumpdev has a different value and savecore can't find a dump on it ? Have you

Re: DDB and dumping disk

2000-03-28 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:51:54 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: I think savecore will find the dump provided dumplo is consistently initialized, so the only problem with starting dumps at the start of the device is that this will clobber the label if the device contains the label. Given that the

Re: libl.a in libipsec

2000-03-28 Thread Bruce Evans
Sorry I broke the world. old environments, libl.a seemed to be already installed at that time, but now it doesn't exist at libipsec build time. It was never installed in the temporary build tree, except possibly in old, broken versions of /usr/src/Makefile* which built and installed it

kernel trap 9

2000-03-28 Thread Wm Brian McCane
I am having a serious problem trying to build a new kernel for my machine. I was running 'current' and have now 'downgraded' to 4.0-RELEASE to try and fix the problem. When I try to boot my machine, it goes into the bootstrap loader okay, and waits 10 seconds, then the screen flashes and the

current.freebsd.org ftp misconfig ?

2000-03-28 Thread James FitzGibbon
Is this a transient situation, or is current down for maintainance ? [central-01:james] ~ (2) ftp -a current.freebsd.org Connected to usw2.freebsd.org. 220 usw2.freebsd.org FTP server (Version wu-2.6.0(1) Tue Jan 25 00:05:38 CST 2000) ready. 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail

Re: libl.a in libipsec

2000-03-28 Thread Yoshinobu Inoue
It seems to me (and my buildworld agree with this) that 'liby' is also not necessary for building of 'libipsec'. liby is used. Linking to the static version of it isn't good. I think it results in functions from liby.a being included in libipsec.so. Since liby.a isn't compiled with

Re: 'machine/param.h' required for 'sys/socket.h'

2000-03-28 Thread Yoshinobu Inoue
sys/socket.h: #ifdef _NO_NAME_SPACE_POLLUTION #include machine/param.h #else #define _NO_NAME_SPACE_POLLUTION #include machine/param.h #undef _NO_NAME_SPACE_POLLUTION #endif I like this for a quick fix. Only define _ALIGN() like the current ALIGN(). Don't define all the

Re: DDB and dumping disk

2000-03-28 Thread Bruce Evans
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: Given that the moment at which dumpdev is set seems important, I think it's probably better for me to back these isntructions out of the dumpon(8) manual page and wait for something less tricky. Do you agree? Yes. The man page is also misleading

Re: DDB and dumping disk

2000-03-28 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [2328 17:40], Bruce Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: Given that the moment at which dumpdev is set seems important, I think it's probably better for me to back these isntructions out of the dumpon(8) manual page and wait for something less

SMP patch breaks non SMP kernel build

2000-03-28 Thread Alain Thivillon
. astpending is now undefined (/usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sig.c:1168) . some calls to get_mplock and rel_mplock are made without #define SMP conditionnal compile in following modules: kern_exec kern_exit kern_sig kern_sync mfs_vfsops mem trap To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: SMP patch breaks non SMP kernel build

2000-03-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
:. astpending is now undefined (/usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sig.c:1168) : :. some calls to get_mplock and rel_mplock are made without #define SMP : conditionnal compile in following modules: : : kern_exec : kern_exit : kern_sig : kern_sync : mfs_vfsops : mem : trap Hoya!... ok, I'll

SMP kernel broken at cvsup Tue Mar 28 11:56:07 BST 2000

2000-03-28 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, Appears to boot OK, but then won't answer to network or console, not even CtlAltEsc to DDB. Screen saver kicks in OK though. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 [EMAIL PROTECTED]fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK To Unsubscribe:

Re: SMP kernel broken at cvsup Tue Mar 28 11:56:07 BST 2000

2000-03-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi, : :Appears to boot OK, but then won't answer to network or console, not even :CtlAltEsc to DDB. Screen saver kicks in OK though. : :-- :Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 :[EMAIL PROTECTED]fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK Make sure

Strange new ppp warnings

2000-03-28 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi, After upgrading my box to the 4.0-STABLE, I've discovered that ppp started produce regular warnings I've never seen before: Warning: nat_LayerPull: Dropped a packet What does it mean and what implications may it have? -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: SMP patch breaks non SMP kernel build

2000-03-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
:. astpending is now undefined (/usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sig.c:1168) : :. some calls to get_mplock and rel_mplock are made without #define SMP : conditionnal compile in following modules: : : kern_exec : kern_exit : kern_sig : kern_sync : mfs_vfsops : mem : trap Ok, should be fixed

Kernel trace question (kernel doesn't compile _without_ -O)

2000-03-28 Thread David Gilbert
I'm puzzled over the following kernel trace. 'm' in frame 6 is clearly not null... but in frame 5, it is. I have compiled the ng_l2tp module without -O... just in case that was the problem, but line 391 (the for loop) explicitly tests m for NULLness anyways. Also... I have noticed that several

Re: cvs repository nits and gnats

2000-03-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Doug Barton wrote: src/TODO-2.1, src/usr.sbin/xntpd, etc. There were a large number in contrib, probably detritus from imports, etc. I'm not sure if this is significant, it obviously doesn't do any harm. I just thought I'd mention it. CVS has no concept of removing a

Re: SMP kernel broken at cvsup Tue Mar 28 11:56:07 BST 2000

2000-03-28 Thread Bob Bishop
At 09:52 -0800 28/3/00, Matthew Dillon wrote: Make sure you haven't confused it between the patch set and the commit I made last night. Do a cvs update and then a cvs diff to make sure things haven't gotten confused. Just blew /sys away and checked it out afresh. Same result I'm

Resource allocation error in new pnp code

2000-03-28 Thread D. Rock
Hi, I already mentioned this bug a few months ago but didn't got a reply. Maybe I'm the only one who is affected by this bug. I have several PnP cards in my system (see attached output of pnpinfo). Especially one card requests a resource: I/O Range 0x100 .. 0x3ff, alignment 0x1, len 0x1

Warnings when linking against libc_r

2000-03-28 Thread Bush Doctor
I'm seeing the following diagnostics with applications linked against libc_r cc -O -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -g -Wall -o .libs/structs structs.o -L/usr/local/lib ../../ggi/.libs/libggi.so -lc_r /usr/local/lib/libgg.so /usr/local/lib/libgii.so -Wl,--rpath

Re: Please test for 8G-OVER-Booting with /boot/loader

2000-03-28 Thread Charles Anderson
I have a Thinkpad 600X here that I installed freebsd on the third partition, but couldn't boot because of the 1024 cylinder bit, so I booted a Fixit floppy mounted my freebsd partitions, installed this patch, patched boot1 to always try packet mode and copied it over to the ntfs boot partition

Re: cvs repository nits and gnats

2000-03-28 Thread Doug Barton
Thanks for the response... On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Doug Barton wrote: src/TODO-2.1, src/usr.sbin/xntpd, etc. There were a large number in contrib, probably detritus from imports, etc. I'm not sure if this is significant, it obviously

periodic daily output (passwd diffs)

2000-03-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
When I changed my passwords from DES to MD5, I noticed this little thing with periodic daily output. Backup passwd and group files: passwd diffs: 1,2c1,2 root:(password):0:0::0:0:Superuser:/root:/bin/csh toor:(password):0:0::0:0:Bourne-again

UP kernel performance and Matt Dillon's patches

2000-03-28 Thread Gary Jennejohn
I'm running a UP machine with Matt's latest changes. I was just compiling a new kernel and noticed the my PS/2 mouse under X was very sluggish. I never noticed this sort of behavior before the changes, even while doing ``make -j8 buildworld''. The compile was running on a UW SCSI disk on an

Re: Please test for 8G-OVER-Booting with /boot/loader

2000-03-28 Thread NAKAJI Hiroyuki
Thanks, Charlie. In [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Charles Anderson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C I have a Thinkpad 600X here that I installed freebsd on the third C partition, but couldn't boot because of the 1024 cylinder bit, so C I booted a Fixit floppy mounted my freebsd partitions, installed C

Re: Warnings when linking against libc_r

2000-03-28 Thread Chris Costello
On Tuesday, March 28, 2000, Bush Doctor wrote: I'm seeing the following diagnostics with applications linked against libc_r ... Do not directly link with libc_r. Instead, use the -pthread gcc flag. It will properly compile and link your program with the correct thread bits. -- |Chris

Re: kernel trap 9

2000-03-28 Thread Chris Costello
On Tuesday, March 28, 2000, Wm Brian McCane wrote: Fatal trap 9: general protection fault in kernel mode pointers, etc Why did you remove the vital information needed to track down and fix the problem? -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |A paperless office has about as much chance as a

Re: UP kernel performance and Matt Dillon's patches

2000-03-28 Thread Gary Jennejohn
Alfred Perlstein writes: * Gary Jennejohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000328 14:04] wrote: I'm running a UP machine with Matt's latest changes. I was just compiling a new kernel and noticed the my PS/2 mouse under X was very sluggish. I never noticed this sort of behavior before the changes, even

Re: UP kernel performance and Matt Dillon's patches

2000-03-28 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
I havn't noticed this behavior... or any other performance hits and I'm running a kernel that was cvsupped about 5 10 minutes ago.. and recompiled about 5 minutes ago... = | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS

Re: periodic daily output (passwd diffs)

2000-03-28 Thread Thimble Smith
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 07:49:23PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: At first glimpse, everything seems identical.. so, where is the difference? I realized that I had changed ONLY the password, and this was shown in the diffs in this strange way--since the password is clipped from the output of

Re: DDB and dumping disk

2000-03-28 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: Your patch is a step in the right direction. I am currently only trying to figure out why the DDB way doesn't trigger savecore to recognise the dump. Did you try "call setdumpdev(0xf00)" with the proper show disk/ yet? It's probably

Re: Warnings when linking against libc_r

2000-03-28 Thread bush doctor
Out of da blue Chris Costello aka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: On Tuesday, March 28, 2000, Bush Doctor wrote: I'm seeing the following diagnostics with applications linked against libc_r ... Do not directly link with libc_r. Instead, use the -pthread gcc flag. It will properly compile

Dual Pathing to SCSI/FC devices.

2000-03-28 Thread Carl Makin
Is anyone working on/considering this? I'm about to start hooking FreeBSD boxes up to a *big* disk array which has the ability to make LUNS appear on multiple interfaces. Being able to access LUNS via multiple paths could be a reasonable performance gain, as well as enhancing reliability.

Re: Strange new ppp warnings

2000-03-28 Thread Brian Somers
Hi, After upgrading my box to the 4.0-STABLE, I've discovered that ppp started produce regular warnings I've never seen before: Warning: nat_LayerPull: Dropped a packet What does it mean and what implications may it have? This is pretty strange. I've just added a diagnostic to

Re: Dual Pathing to SCSI/FC devices.

2000-03-28 Thread Matthew Jacob
Yes, we very much has considered this. What's your issue about this, per se? Right now there's no framework code to directly exploit or prohibit multiple paths to the same disk, whether via Fibre Channel or SCSI. On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Carl Makin wrote: Is anyone working on/considering this?

Re: periodic daily output (passwd diffs)

2000-03-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:33 PM -0500 3/28/00, Thimble Smith wrote: On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 07:49:23PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: At first glimpse, everything seems identical.. so, where is the difference? I realized that I had changed ONLY the password, and this was shown in the diffs in this strange

Major # please :)

2000-03-28 Thread David E. Cross
I am just about finished with a device driver for PCI DIO boards based around the 8C255 (number may be wrong ;). Specifically this is for the ComputerBoards DIO-24H DIO board. I have been using the 'development' major #, and I am ready to go about getting it committed into the CVS tree for

Re: Dual Pathing to SCSI/FC devices.

2000-03-28 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Matthew, On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: Yes, we very much has considered this. What's your issue about this, per se? Well, the driver for asking was my management asking if FreeBSD supported this, as we're going to do it on AIX (with the Dual Pathing Option) and with Solaris

Re: Warnings when linking against libc_r

2000-03-28 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush Doctor writes: : I'm seeing the following diagnostics with applications linked against libc_r Don't link against -lc_r. Use -pthread. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Dual Pathing to SCSI/FC devices.

2000-03-28 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: Yes, we very much has considered this. What's your issue about this, per se? Well, the driver for asking was my management asking if FreeBSD supported this, as we're going to do it on AIX (with the Dual Pathing Option) and with Solaris

Re: Major # please :)

2000-03-28 Thread Mike Smith
Meaning no offense, but I can't think of a single good reason to write a device driver for one of these cards. (Unless you're trying to do pattern generation, and an 8255 is a terrible choice for that.) Worse than that though, there's _no_ standard for these cards' implementation, so a

Re: Major # please :)

2000-03-28 Thread David E. Cross
Meaning no offense, but I can't think of a single good reason to write a device driver for one of these cards. (Unless you're trying to do pattern generation, and an 8255 is a terrible choice for that.) Worse than that though, there's _no_ standard for these cards' implementation, so a

Re: current.freebsd.org ftp misconfig ?

2000-03-28 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Good luck getting an answer. Nobody seems willing to answer this question. :( Tom Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, James FitzGibbon wrote: Is this a transient situation, or is current down for maintainance ? [central-01:james] ~ (2) ftp -a current.freebsd.org Connected

Re: UP kernel performance and Matt Dillon's patches

2000-03-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I'm running a UP machine with Matt's latest changes. I was just :compiling a new kernel and noticed the my PS/2 mouse under X was very :sluggish. I never noticed this sort of behavior before the changes, :even while doing ``make -j8 buildworld''. : :The compile was running on a UW SCSI disk on

Re: UP kernel performance and Matt Dillon's patches

2000-03-28 Thread Chris Piazza
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 11:37:55PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: I'm running a UP machine with Matt's latest changes. I was just compiling a new kernel and noticed the my PS/2 mouse under X was very sluggish. I never noticed this sort of behavior before the changes, even while doing ``make -j8

Re: SMP kernel broken at cvsup Tue Mar 28 11:56:07 BST 2000

2000-03-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
:At 09:52 -0800 28/3/00, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Make sure you haven't confused it between the patch set and the :commit I made last night. Do a cvs update and then a cvs diff to :make sure things haven't gotten confused. : :Just blew /sys away and checked it out afresh. Same result

Re: cvs repository nits and gnats

2000-03-28 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slightly more serious was the presence of various lock files/directories. Specifically, one in src/games/primes killed my co as an unpriviliged user because it was set 700 and owned by root. The co failed because it

Very weird assembly failure (was Re: UP kernel performance and Matt Dillon's patches)

2000-03-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
I found a couple of minor nits, but only one real bug. In i386/swtch.s I forgot to change out a WANT_RESCHED for AST_RESCHED: sw1a: call_chooseproc /* trash ecx, edx, ret eax*/ testl %eax,%eax CROSSJUMP(je, _idle, jne) /*

Re: UP kernel performance and Matt Dillon's patches

2000-03-28 Thread Geoff Rehmet
Matthew Dillon writes : :I'm running a UP machine with Matt's latest changes. I was just :compiling a new kernel and noticed the my PS/2 mouse under X was very :sluggish. I never noticed this sort of behavior before the changes, :even while doing ``make -j8 buildworld''. : :The compile was

Re: Dual Pathing to SCSI/FC devices.

2000-03-28 Thread Carl Makin
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: Umm, okay. Is this with Veritas DMP or VCS? Good question. DMP I think. I'm not sure what VCS is. an active-active configuration. If you use Greg Lehey's VINUM in FreeBSD, I'm not clear about what it's role in terms of recognizing redundant paths

Re: Very weird assembly failure (was Re: UP kernel performance and Matt Dillon's patches)

2000-03-28 Thread Chris Piazza
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 07:48:00PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: I found a couple of minor nits, but only one real bug. In i386/swtch.s I forgot to change out a WANT_RESCHED for AST_RESCHED: The problem is that a kernel build is not reporting any errors! WANT_RESCHED does

Re: Very weird assembly failure (was Re: UP kernel performance and Matt Dillon's patches)

2000-03-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
: problems. If WANT_RESCHED defaults to 0 by being undefined, then : the reschedule flag is never cleared when a context switch is made : and this could certainly lead to problems. : :Changing it to AST_RESCHED did not fix the problem for me. : :-Chris Ok. I'm seeing the same

Re: UP kernel performance and Matt Dillon's patches

2000-03-28 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
Yeah, I was wrong before.. I just had to really hit the system hard before I noticed this behavior... it get's pretty bad... the mouse get's jumpy, and the keyboard input is really slow... = | Kenneth Culver |

New SMP changes

2000-03-28 Thread Manfred Antar
I just noticed something with a new kernel with a Fresh world as of 1 hour ago. I'm running 2 setiathome's one for each CPU (Pentium pro) and the machine has suddenly turned into a slug It's worse than a 286 machine I used to own. It's amazing !!! It worked with this setup before the changes

Re: Dual Pathing to SCSI/FC devices.

2000-03-28 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: Umm, okay. Is this with Veritas DMP or VCS? Good question. DMP I think. I'm not sure what VCS is. Veritas Cluster Server an active-active configuration. If you use Greg Lehey's VINUM in FreeBSD, I'm not clear about what it's role in

Newbie question...

2000-03-28 Thread George Neville-Neil
Hi, I'm just starting to work with FreeBSD-Current so I can add some software back into the mix. I've read the handbook, and the FAQ (and I've been a Unix, and Real Time developer for many years so I'm not new to programming) but I have a few questions that don't seem to be in the

Re: Reading from bad disk ?

2000-03-28 Thread Leif Neland
It seems Warner Losh wrote: ... mount it in front of the drive to get it to run at a reasonable temperature. W/o the fan, it was running at 58C or so. With the fan it runs at 39C or so. I've included the script that I use to find this information out. Ken Merry sent it to me. It

sound broken on ViBRA16X?

2000-03-28 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
with a recently compiled kernel (cvsupped about 5 minutes ago..) sounds play for less than half a second... then just completely stop... Maybe this is related to Matt Dillon's recent work? I'm not sure... = | Kenneth Culver

Re: Strange new ppp warnings

2000-03-28 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Brian Somers wrote: Hi, After upgrading my box to the 4.0-STABLE, I've discovered that ppp started produce regular warnings I've never seen before: Warning: nat_LayerPull: Dropped a packet What does it mean and what implications may it have? This is pretty strange. I've

Vibra16x

2000-03-28 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
OK, I'm not sure what was wrong before, but after a recompile of the kernel, all seems well again with sound at least. = | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around.| | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #:

Re: sound broken on ViBRA16X?

2000-03-28 Thread Thimble Smith
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 02:05:17AM -0500, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: with a recently compiled kernel (cvsupped about 5 minutes ago..) sounds play for less than half a second... then just completely stop... Maybe this is related to Matt Dillon's recent work? I'm not sure... I doubt it; I've been

Re: UP kernel performance and Matt Dillon's patches

2000-03-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Yeah, I was wrong before.. I just had to really hit the system hard before :I noticed this behavior... it get's pretty bad... the mouse get's jumpy, :and the keyboard input is really slow... : := :| Kenneth Culver |

Re: cvs repository nits and gnats

2000-03-28 Thread Doug Barton
John Polstra wrote: [My silly speculation about cvs lockfiles and cvsup deleted] I think you may be misinterpreting the symptoms, That's entirely possible. because I don't know of any way for lock files to propagate off of freefall with CVSup. All lock files are specifically