Re: Anybody actually using gigabit ethernet?

1999-05-11 Thread Snob Art Genre
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Dennis Glatting wrote: In reading your message I felt compelled to ask you a question. Are you using gb end-to-end? That probably isn't a good idea because in TCP the sequence numbers can wrap within timeout periods and the data stream become undetectably (from a TCP

Re: Anybody actually using gigabit ethernet?

1999-05-11 Thread Snob Art Genre
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: Isn't that adequately covered by the PAWS extension from RFC 1323? Well, maybe it would, but [1:09am]~src/etc-111# grep tcp_ext defaults/rc.conf tcp_extensions=NO # Disallow RFC1323 extensions (or YES). It's off by default. :-(

Re: Any action on PR 10570 ? getting closer to 65K :-(

1999-04-30 Thread Snob Art Genre
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message xfmail.990430112019@polstra.com, John Polstra writes: Rodney W. Grimes wrote: You're being totally unrealistic. You can't create 2^32 of _anything_ on an i386 without running out of memory. Well, John, you can, the newer ones

Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files)

1999-04-30 Thread Snob Art Genre
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Mike Smith wrote: To sum it all up is there any difference between the branches? Yes. We hope that people like you will help us by participating in the testing of potential releases _before_ they go out as releases, not _afterwards_. Sitting around doing nothing

Re: swap-related problems

1999-04-16 Thread Snob Art Genre
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Don Lewis wrote: SunOS 4 doesn't do memory overcommit. I get the impression from Vahalia's _UNIX Internals_ that this is true of SunOS 5 as well. This could be shaved down a bit if SunOS didn't require (swap total VM) instead of (swap + RAM total VM). Again, from my

kernel size over the last week

1999-04-12 Thread Snob Art Genre
I just built a kernel, from sources cvsupped last night. It's over 2 megs in size, compared to 1.3 megs for a kernel built from the same config file four days ago. Is this due to the change in the debugging symbol policy? file(1) reports both kernels as 'ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386,

make world breakage

1999-04-08 Thread Snob Art Genre
Trying to make world today and last night, with fairly up-to-the-minute source, I keep bombing out with: `/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools/../../../../contrib/egcs/gcc/config/i386/i386. md' is up to date. `genattr.c' is up to date. `gencodes.c' is up to date. `genconfig.c' is up to date.

Re: make world breakage

1999-04-08 Thread Snob Art Genre
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Please don't disregard to read rpevious messages from this list! Sorry, I just started running current again the other day, I didn't re-subscribe until last night. As it was pointed earlier make world now fails if -jN option used. Try to build without