Re: The choice of MAXPHYS

1999-06-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message <19990603231216.a36...@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com> Jos Backus writes: : On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 07:30:20PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: : > 20 bits. But older cards can do no more than 64 kB. : : Indeed, 20 bits (=1 Mbyte) for the address, 16 bits for the transfer counter : (offset). Isn't th

Re: m3socks and cvsup

1999-06-07 Thread Udo Schweigert
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 12:24:36AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <19990601190941.46f9f29...@localhost.localdomain> Christian Murray > writes: > : I have some problems with m3socks and cvsup. > > I've never been able to make this work. You might try -P m and adding > a netcat redirector

Re: The choice of MAXPHYS

1999-06-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message Zhihui Zhang writes: : The value of MAXPHYS is chosen to be 64K for the maximum raw I/O transfer : size. I am wondering why it is not set larger. I don't think that it is possible to guarantee that you can do a larger write than 64k on a aha-1542 card given the worst case scatter gath

Re: m3socks and cvsup

1999-06-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message <19990601190941.46f9f29...@localhost.localdomain> Christian Murray writes: : I have some problems with m3socks and cvsup. I've never been able to make this work. You might try -P m and adding a netcat redirector or 10 on your gateway machine. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to maj

Re: Kernel config script

1999-06-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message <14162.35022.502546.522...@r84aap011262.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com> Robert Huff writes: : How often _do_ people rebuild their kernels? (On non-testing : machines.) On my stable machines never, or very rarely. I have machines in my basement that tend to have 200-500 day uptimes be

Re: Kernel config script

1999-06-07 Thread Warner Losh
In message <199905302213.raa05...@home.dragondata.com> Kevin Day writes: : 1) The kernel config options are only documented in LINT, which really isn't : meant for that sorta thing, and I'll admit, they're not documented well. : (contrast linux's config where you can hit ? and get a few paragraphs

Re: Multilingual Installer for 3.2-RELEASE (Re: pccard boot.flp...)

1999-06-07 Thread HOSOKAWA Tatsumi
In article <86r9nn8nzl@hamhae.wdb.co.kr> c...@wdb.co.kr writes: >> It means that I should update my messages.ko_KR translation after last >> translation? And, what is the meaning, "almost okay"? Sorry, I added many message ID's yesterday. The new message.lt_EN can be found in the translation

Re: Session leader releasing the ctty

1999-06-07 Thread Brian Somers
> Hello, > > I'm having a trouble programming a special login shell, and would like > to hear any opinions on this. > > I want this shell (which automatically becomes a session leader) to > release its ctty but remain unterminated (the ctty must be taken by its > child). However, there seems to

Re: sgmlformat & making release

1999-06-07 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I too see this type of failure until I can download the appropriate distfiles into /usr/ports/distfiles... The file /etc/resolv.conf is copied from /etc to the chroot area and is probably ok. I typically find that my upstream domain name server is not responding correctly when this hap

Re: Multilingual Installer for 3.2-RELEASE (Re: pccard boot.flp...)

1999-06-07 Thread CHOI, Junho
> "HT" == HOSOKAWA Tatsumi writes: HT> Now, the Current Translation Status is: HT> --- HT> JapaneseKorean HT> ---

kernel panic maybe due to VM instability in 3.1R

1999-06-07 Thread Jeong Sung Won
I am using FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE I met panic. Panic occured at FIONREAD ioctl(). I found it was called at rdchk() at rbsb.c in lrzsz 0.12.16 packages. Before panic, there was kernel warning message --- "b_to_q to a clist with no reserved cblocks". Is it related ? Following is gdb output for core du

Re: Session leader releasing the ctty

1999-06-07 Thread Julian Elischer
you might look to see if 'screen' (in ports) has something that does this when it disconnects from a session. (just an idea) julian On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Eugene M. Kim wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having a trouble programming a special login shell, and would like > to hear any opinions on this. > >

Session leader releasing the ctty

1999-06-07 Thread Eugene M. Kim
Hello, I'm having a trouble programming a special login shell, and would like to hear any opinions on this. I want this shell (which automatically becomes a session leader) to release its ctty but remain unterminated (the ctty must be taken by its child). However, there seems to be no easy way t

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-07 Thread Howard Goldstein
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 18:38:51 -0400 (EDT), Brian Feldman wrote: : On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: : > ... what version of the operating system? : 4.0-CURRENT 3.2R too... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the mess

Re: Strange kernel messages

1999-06-07 Thread Brian Feldman
I don't know why it's there, but that seems to be the sysctl tree. Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___)___/_

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-07 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > ... what version of the operating system? > > -Matt 4.0-CURRENT > > : In the long-standing tradition of deadlocks, I present to you all a new > one. > :This one locks in getblk, and causes other pro

Re: help with I/O optimization with object

1999-06-07 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > While studying the file ufs_readwrite.c, I see routines like uiomoveco() > that calls vm_uiomove() in vm_map.c. I am almost sure that these are new > in FreeBSD 3.x. The comment in ffs_read() says "not a VM based I/O > requests" == "not headed for t

Re: netiso tree (fwd)

1999-06-07 Thread Andy Doran
The 'netiso' and 'netccitt' trees are still included in NetBSD. - ad On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 15:23:57 -0400 > From: Spud Taylor > To: freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > Subject: netiso tree > > We have been usi

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
... what version of the operating system? -Matt : In the long-standing tradition of deadlocks, I present to you all a new one. :This one locks in getblk, and causes other processes to lock in inode. It's :easy to induce, but I have no idea how

Re: netiso tree (fwd)

1999-06-07 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Alfred Perlstein scribbled this message on Jun 7: > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 15:23:57 -0400 > From: Spud Taylor > To: freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org > Subject: netiso tree > > We have been using Free BSD and BSDI since 1992. There was a descision > to elimi

netiso tree (fwd)

1999-06-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
-Alfred -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 15:23:57 -0400 From: Spud Taylor To: freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Subject: netiso tree We have been using Free BSD and BSDI since 1992. There was a descision to eliminate the netiso and netccitt trees in the OS a few yea

Re: wfd.c and ATAPI Zip

1999-06-07 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: > > I have an off-brand (NEC) Zip Drive with: > > which does have buggy firmware; I also have another one with: > > that has no problem when I remove the 64 block limitation. > > In this case, I would use strncmp instead of strcmp to test the first 2

Re: wfd.c and ATAPI Zip

1999-06-07 Thread Mike Smith
> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > 12.A, 21.*, and 23.* are known to be buggy...13.A doesn't appear to be. > > > Since the current method of sorting out the revisions doesn't seem to > > > be perfect, would it be acceptible to consider them all buggy unless known > > > not to be (i.e

Re: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-07 Thread Arun Sharma
Christoph Kukulies writes: Comments from someone who's studied Linux for a while and has started studying FreeBSD only recently. > Could one say that Linux vs. FreeBSD kernels are conceptually > different what task scheduling, queueing, interrupt handling, > driver architecture, buffer caching,

Re: wfd.c and ATAPI Zip

1999-06-07 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > 12.A, 21.*, and 23.* are known to be buggy...13.A doesn't appear to be. > > Since the current method of sorting out the revisions doesn't seem to > > be perfect, would it be acceptible to consider them all buggy unless known > > not to be (i.e. compare ap

Re: wfd.c and ATAPI Zip

1999-06-07 Thread Mike Smith
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Junichi Satoh wrote: > > > Hmm... > > > > I have an ATAPI ZIP drive: > > > > wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): , removable, intr, > > iordis > > wfd1: medium type unknown (no disk) > > wfd1: buggy Zip drive, 64-bl

help with I/O optimization with object

1999-06-07 Thread Zhihui Zhang
While studying the file ufs_readwrite.c, I see routines like uiomoveco() that calls vm_uiomove() in vm_map.c. I am almost sure that these are new in FreeBSD 3.x. The comment in ffs_read() says "not a VM based I/O requests" == "not headed for the buffer cache". This does not make sense to me alt

Re: Q: xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped!

1999-06-07 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Anthony Bourov had to walk into mine and say: > Hi, > > I am running a FreeBSD server, and I am running into this problem very > often. The machine stops responding and instead outputs 1000s of > xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropp

question about Pacific Sierra HPF

1999-06-07 Thread Ilia Chipitsine
Hi, anybody here knows what is it about ? /usr/home/ilia/test-hpf > hpf hello.f90 Pacific-Sierra Research VAST-HPF V5.1C 23:17:54 6/ 7/99 HPF programhello /home/ilia/fortran-cd/vast/vhpf_linux/lib//libvhpf_pvm.a(envnproc.o): In function `envnproc

Re: Multilingual Installer for 3.2-RELEASE (Re: pccard boot.flp...)

1999-06-07 Thread HOSOKAWA Tatsumi
In article <199906071600.baa09...@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp> hosok...@itc.keio.ac.jp writes: >> Currently, following binary package is compiled with English, Japanese >> and Korean support. As a result of increased size of boot.flp, >> Japanese and Korean support is now merged again into the same b

Q: xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped!

1999-06-07 Thread Anthony Bourov
Hi, I am running a FreeBSD server, and I am running into this problem very often. The machine stops responding and instead outputs 1000s of xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped! xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped! xl0: no memory for rx list -- packet dropped! xl0: no memory fo

RE: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-07 Thread Alton, Matthew
Yes, quite. > -Original Message- > From: Christoph Kukulies [SMTP:k...@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de] > Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 10:59 AM > To: hack...@freebsd.org > Subject: linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different? > > Could one say that Linux vs. FreeBSD kernels are

Re: wfd.c and ATAPI Zip

1999-06-07 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
Here is a patch that checks for the revision numbers instead of simply the inquiry string (and adds my buggy revision): --- wfd.c.orig Thu Feb 18 17:06:08 1999 +++ wfd.c Mon Jun 7 12:02:25 1999 @@ -243,17 +243,21 @@ return -1; /* -* The IOMEGA ZIP 100, at f

Multilingual Installer for 3.2-RELEASE (Re: pccard boot.flp...)

1999-06-07 Thread HOSOKAWA Tatsumi
In <199906060553.oaa24...@afs.ntc.mita.keio.ac.jp> I wrote, >> Thank you. Now I'm working on updated sysinstall messages. >> I'll send the URL of message.lt_EN, *.TXT, *.hlp files to translate >> when I finished this work. >> I want translators to other languages. I finished updating indices

linux and freebsd kernels conceptually different?

1999-06-07 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Could one say that Linux vs. FreeBSD kernels are conceptually different what task scheduling, queueing, interrupt handling, driver architecture, buffer caching, vm etc. is concerned? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies k...@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.

Re: Extra text modes via vidcontrol...

1999-06-07 Thread bush doctor
Quoting Dag-Erling Smorgrav (d...@flood.ping.uio.no): > Kazutaka YOKOTA writes: > > >su-2.02# config BANTU > > >BANTU:135: unknown option "VM86" > > >Unknown option used - it is VERY important that you do > > > make clean && make depend > > >before recompiling > > >

Re: egcs - kernel?

1999-06-07 Thread Chris Costello
On Mon, Jun 7, 1999, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > What is the status of the EGCS compiler WRT kernel build? > (And world build in general?) It's been working great for ages in -CURRENT. I don't know how it may handle in -STABLE, though. -- Chris Costello It sai

egcs - kernel?

1999-06-07 Thread Christoph Kukulies
What is the status of the EGCS compiler WRT kernel build? (And world build in general?) -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies k...@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: wfd.c and ATAPI Zip

1999-06-07 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Junichi Satoh wrote: > Hmm... > > I have an ATAPI ZIP drive: > > wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): , removable, intr, > iordis > wfd1: medium type unknown (no disk) > wfd1: buggy Zip drive, 64-block transfer limit s

Re: Extra text modes via vidcontrol...

1999-06-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Kazutaka YOKOTA writes: > >su-2.02# config BANTU > >BANTU:135: unknown option "VM86" > >Unknown option used - it is VERY important that you do > > make clean && make depend > > before recompiling > > Kernel build directory is ../../compile/BANTU > > Umm, this mea

Re: wfd.c and ATAPI Zip

1999-06-07 Thread Junichi Satoh
>> My thoughts now are: >> 1) My two drive are somewhat 'rogue' in that they don't conform to the >> driver's expectations. >> 2) When the driver was written, the '!strcmp' should be 'strcmp' since >> strcmp returns 0 when equal (-1 or 1 when < or >), in which case my patch >> makes sense: >> >>

Re: Extra text modes via vidcontrol...

1999-06-07 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>> Are you sure you enabled "options VM86" in the kernel configuration >> file and loaded the vesa module by the boot loader? >Hmmm ... >When I added "options VM86" to my kernel config file I get: > >su-2.02# config BANTU >BANTU:135: unknown option "VM86" >Unknown option used - it is VERY importan

Re: Extra text modes via vidcontrol...

1999-06-07 Thread bush doctor
Quoting Kazutaka YOKOTA (yok...@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp): [snip, snip] > Are you sure you enabled "options VM86" in the kernel configuration > file and loaded the vesa module by the boot loader? Hmmm ... When I added "options VM86" to my kernel config file I get: su-2.02# config BANTU BANT

panic at FIONREAD ioctl() may be due to syscall()

1999-06-07 Thread swjeong
I am using FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE I met panic. Panic occured at FIONREAD ioctl(). I found it was called at rdchk() at rbsb.c in lrzsz 0.12.16 packages. Before panic, there was kernel warning message --- "b_to_q to a clist with no reserved cblocks". Is it related ? Following is gdb output for core du

Strange kernel messages

1999-06-07 Thread Alexander Maret
Hello, I got the following kernel messages. Does anybody know what caused this messages? Is this the first sign of upcoming problems? Jun 5 21:05:01 mail /kernel: 128 v_inactive_target R *Handler Int Jun 5 21:05:01 mail /kernel: 129 v_inactive_count R *Handler Int Jun 5 21:05:01 mail /kernel

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-07 Thread John S. Dyson
Brian Feldman said: > In the long-standing tradition of deadlocks, I present to you all a new one. > This one locks in getblk, and causes other processes to lock in inode. It's > easy to induce, but I have no idea how I'd go about fixing it myself > (being very new to that part of the kernel.) >

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-07 Thread John S. Dyson
> > One of the problems that would make it sensible to do a complete rewrite > of vfs_bio.c is this? > Specifically for that reason, probably not. However, if the effort was taken as an entire and encompassing effort, with the understanding of what is really happening in the code regarding policy

Re: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-07 Thread Morten A. Middelthon
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Jake Burkholder wrote: > I spent most of the day recompiling X and what not. > All the patches applied cleanly, there are some rejects with MESA, > but I think that has to do with tags and comments at the beginning of > files. > > Everything compiled fine, and the module load

Re: problem for the VM gurus

1999-06-07 Thread Brian Feldman
One of the problems that would make it sensible to do a complete rewrite of vfs_bio.c is this? Brian Feldman_ __ ___ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org_ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.freebs