When moving the CDROM to master though can cause problems. I had a
Chaintech 5TDM board which refused to acknowledge a CDROM as secondary
master. I thought it was a bug in FBSD since RH Linux could detect my
CDROM as a secondary slave (only device on the controller). I never got
a straight
John-Mark Gurney wrote:
Dag-Erling Smorgrav scribbled this message on Aug 4:
"Kelly Yancey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
Which reminds me - has anyone thought of using DMA for zeroing pages,
to avoid cache invalidation? The idea is to keep a chunk of zeroes on
disk and DMA it
"Chuck Youse" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a really strong urge to submit a PR to make fetch default to passive
mode, instead of requiring a command-line switch ...
fetch(1) honors FTP_PASSIVE_MODE.
des@des /usr/freebsd/current% lcvs log -r1.31 src/etc/login.conf
RCS file:
Bill Fumerola writes:
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Ted Faber wrote:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990802072727.htm
The Duke release credits one Andrew Gallatin for a couple quotes.
Not only FreeBSD in the news, but one of our own committers. Cool.
Bill Fumerola writes:
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Ted Faber wrote:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990802072727.htm
The Duke release credits one Andrew Gallatin for a couple quotes.
Not only FreeBSD in the news, but one of our own committers. Cool.
Robert Nordier wrote:
I assume that if I set the gemoetry in fdisk to be the BIOS figures,
that I will lose the other half of the disk?
Use 2096/255/63 in sysinstall.
That worked! Here is what I did in the end:
* set the BIOS disk type to Auto detect in LBA mode
* booted 2.2.8 install
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
It was very annoying that the person who wrote the local News
Observer article seemed disappointed that we were not running linux
probably because of that, didn't mention the OS at all in her article.
It's sad it has to be that way. I can't think
What type of memory do routing table entries use, and how can they be
tuned? I've got a machine with 64M, and it will only allocate 10M to the
routing table no matter what I set maxusers to.
The full table is only 17M, so it should fit easily. Even if I have to
change something in param.c...Im
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
I am working on some resource limit stuff and would like to be
able to use login.conf to restrict the number of cgi processes that
certain users can run. Unfortunately, the proprietary cgi product we use
is owned by root and suid's to the user
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, John Polstra wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am working on some resource limit stuff and would like to be
able to use login.conf to restrict the number of cgi processes that
certain users can run. Unfortunately, the
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote:
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
It was very annoying that the person who wrote the local News
Observer article seemed disappointed that we were not running linux
probably because of that, didn't mention the OS at all in her article.
I have a dedicated syslog machine runnign 3.2 and vanilla syslogd
(started with -vv flags). After running for a few day the file would grow
(this time file was ~40MB) and syslogd would stop writing to a file and
go into a weird state. Here is the ktrace of "hang" syslogd before I did
I am currently conducting a thorough study of the VFS subsystem
in preparation for an all-out effort to port SGI's XFS filesystem to
FreeBSD 4.x at such time as SGI gives up the code. Matt Dillon
has written in hackers- that the VFS subsystem is presently not
well understood by any of the active
%Unmodified FreeBSD TCP at 1Gb/s.
%
%http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990802072727.htm
That is so very cool.
There is a separate war going on optimizing bandwidth,
latency, and QoS for IIOP, i.e. CORBA's usual protocol.
Against all of the heavyweights, RTOS's etc. etc., linux is
Thanks to our Peter Holm's stress testing suite, I found a pretty bad
bug in all current emulation (*) code. They all share a common base, and
the problem is in the pathname translation code.
What it amounts to is the inherent assumption that all passed in paths
are valid addresses. This is
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Joe Jih-Shien Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I started studying 3.2-stable kernel source for days. There are
some questions I cannot figure out in an ordinary C programmer's
point of view:
* In cninit(), it references a global variable `cons_set' of
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
Correction:
--- src/sys/i386/linux/linux_util.h.orig Thu Aug 5 18:32:02 1999
+++ src/sys/i386/linux/linux_util.h Thu Aug 5 19:03:27 1999
@@ -83,10 +83,17 @@
int linux_emul_find __P((struct proc *, caddr_t *, const char *, char *,
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 06:42:39PM -0700, Donald Burr wrote:
What is FreeMWare? It sounds like a free / Open source implementation of
the VMware virtual machine. Do you have an URL that I could look up?
This sounds interesting!
It's at www.freemware.org. I should say, though, that it's very
Thanks. I wasn't expecting any available software at the moment, I just
wanted a URL so that I could watch over this project and keep track of it.
Definitely something I"m interested in.
Donald Burr [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://www.Powered-By.AC/
PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
website (http://www.freebsd.org/~green/FreeBSD-68k.txt). In about two
weeks I'll have a spare Macintosh IIsi and would like to have a run at
FreeBSD on it. So, to the point, where can I get it? :)
I'd say that's a question for Grant
Can someone tell me how to make a cvs archive work for users that aren't
the owner of the archive, the way that it works on Freefall? I *am*
doing this for a cvsup maintained FreeBSD archive, but not freefall, and
I need to get one user, who is not the archive owner, to be able to be
able to do
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, John Polstra wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Brian F. Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mind pointing me to the technical reason why (I'm sure you've explained
it before) we can't use the dl* calls in any way without linking
against ld-elf.so.1? I mean, have
Taking a quick look at /usr/src/sys/i386:
find . -name *.s | xargs wc -l
44 ./svr4/svr4_locore.s
216 ./apm/apm_setup.s
24 ./linux/linux_locore.s
461 ./isa/apic_ipl.s
1057 ./isa/apic_vector.s
168 ./isa/icu_ipl.s
224 ./isa/icu_vector.s
387 ./isa/ipl.s
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 10:53:54AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 23:20:45 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:59:46PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 8:12:17 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
For UFS/FFS there is nothing worth
On 06-Aug-99 John-Mark Gurney wrote:
metriclient-1,ttype,/tmp,501#tail squid.access
933914913.491 3750 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/200 3816 GET
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/config.txt - DIRECT/ftp.cdrom.com text/plain
sure looks like it uses the http proxy, and this is on 3.0-R...
Hmm.. sneaky :)
I
Mm-hmm. ld -Bshareable as opposed to ar rc.
This demonstrates a superficial understanding of the process, nothing
more.
I just think we're not seeing eye to eye.
I'd be more inclined to say that John simply understands this where
you don't. Go study up, then come back and engage the poor
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, James Howard wrote:
Prior to posting to -hackers, I had emailed him, I tried again after
receiving this message and again, no response. (I used [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Is there a better way to contact this individual? Does anyone have a copy
of the port?
I really don't
Biju Susmer wrote:
Regardless, you have to have 1 master and 0 or 1 slaves one every IDE
controller. You can't run a controller with just a slave.
I dont think it should be a problem.. Since other OSs can work with this
configuration without any problem, why FBSD should refuse this
On 06-Aug-99 Wes Peters wrote:
Because it's wrong. If you don't believe me, buy a copy of the spec. Why
should we waste valuable developer time trying to support mis-configured
hardware?
Since when has PC hardware followed the specs?
---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
Mm-hmm. ld -Bshareable as opposed to ar rc.
This demonstrates a superficial understanding of the process, nothing
more.
I know exactly how an ar archive is made of all the non-PIC .o files and
a ranlib works. I know what happens when ld puts
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Arun Sharma wrote:
I wonder if so much assembly code is really necessary for FreeBSD. One
argument for minimal usage of assembly code is that it is easier to code
non trivial algorithms in C.
No, so much isn't really necessary.
One such example is the scheduler. Since
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On 06-Aug-99 Wes Peters wrote:
Because it's wrong. If you don't believe me, buy a copy of the spec. Why
should we waste valuable developer time trying to support mis-configured
hardware?
Since when has PC hardware followed the specs?
Because it's wrong. If you don't believe me, buy a copy of
the spec. Why
should we waste valuable developer time trying to support
mis-configured
hardware?
The box was shipped to me this way.. i'm no a hardware expert to know the IDE
specs. As far as i know, it work for Windows
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
website (http://www.freebsd.org/~green/FreeBSD-68k.txt). In about two
weeks I'll have a spare Macintosh IIsi and would like to have a run at
FreeBSD on it. So, to the point, where can I get it? :)
I'd say that's a question for Grant
OK, i went to net and got this page
(http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/linux/docs/faq/AT
API-FAQ) there
also they say it should be MASTER. Problem is not with me.
The vendor didn't
follow the specs. PC never followd specs i think ;)
Some one please put this in an FAQ (if it is
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:59:00PM -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
getkerninfo() is depreciated, we use sysctl() instead. In fact, most of
the information provided by getkerninfo() is implemented in terms of
sysctl().
snip
The route(4) manpage says:
User processes can obtain
When moving the CDROM to master though can cause problems. I had a
Chaintech 5TDM board which refused to acknowledge a CDROM as secondary
master. I thought it was a bug in FBSD since RH Linux could detect my
CDROM as a secondary slave (only device on the controller). I never got
a straight
Peter Jeremy jere...@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au writes:
Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@flood.ping.uio.no wrote:
The idea is to keep a chunk of zeroes on disk and DMA it into memory
Have you looked at disk latencies recently? A modern CPU could zero-
fill a decent fraction of its RAM in the time taken
John-Mark Gurney wrote:
Dag-Erling Smorgrav scribbled this message on Aug 4:
Kelly Yancey kby...@alcnet.com writes:
[...]
Which reminds me - has anyone thought of using DMA for zeroing pages,
to avoid cache invalidation? The idea is to keep a chunk of zeroes on
disk and DMA it into
Chris re...@tig.com.au writes:
Anyways thats all I can think of. The only way I can see that using DMA
to refresh pages as a faster method is if the DMA controller can do it
quicker than the CPU which I doubt is likely, also it will only be
useful if it can do 32-bit addresses.
Grr.. *read
Chuck Youse cyo...@cybersites.com writes:
I have a really strong urge to submit a PR to make fetch default to passive
mode, instead of requiring a command-line switch ...
fetch(1) honors FTP_PASSIVE_MODE.
d...@des /usr/freebsd/current% lcvs log -r1.31 src/etc/login.conf
RCS file:
Bill Fumerola writes:
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Ted Faber wrote:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990802072727.htm
The Duke release credits one Andrew Gallatin for a couple quotes.
Not only FreeBSD in the news, but one of our own committers. Cool.
Bill Fumerola writes:
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Ted Faber wrote:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990802072727.htm
The Duke release credits one Andrew Gallatin for a couple quotes.
Not only FreeBSD in the news, but one of our own committers. Cool.
Robert Nordier wrote:
I assume that if I set the gemoetry in fdisk to be the BIOS figures,
that I will lose the other half of the disk?
Use 2096/255/63 in sysinstall.
That worked! Here is what I did in the end:
* set the BIOS disk type to Auto detect in LBA mode
* booted 2.2.8 install
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
It was very annoying that the person who wrote the local News
Observer article seemed disappointed that we were not running linux
probably because of that, didn't mention the OS at all in her article.
It's sad it has to be that way. I can't think
No answer on -questions, and this is pretty urgent for me atm. Any
help appreciated.
Doug
Greetings, :)
I am working on some resource limit stuff and would like to be
able to use login.conf to restrict the number of cgi processes that
certain users can run. Unfortunately, the
I am working on some resource limit stuff and would like to be
able to use login.conf to restrict the number of cgi processes that
certain users can run. Unfortunately, the proprietary cgi product we use
is owned by root and suid's to the user who owns the script that it is
called to
In article 199908051755.kaa13...@dingo.cdrom.com,
Mike Smith m...@smith.net.au wrote:
I am working on some resource limit stuff and would like to be
able to use login.conf to restrict the number of cgi processes that
certain users can run. Unfortunately, the proprietary cgi product we
What type of memory do routing table entries use, and how can they be
tuned? I've got a machine with 64M, and it will only allocate 10M to the
routing table no matter what I set maxusers to.
The full table is only 17M, so it should fit easily. Even if I have to
change something in param.c...Im
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
I am working on some resource limit stuff and would like to be
able to use login.conf to restrict the number of cgi processes that
certain users can run. Unfortunately, the proprietary cgi product we use
is owned by root and suid's to the user who
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, John Polstra wrote:
In article 199908051755.kaa13...@dingo.cdrom.com,
Mike Smith m...@smith.net.au wrote:
I am working on some resource limit stuff and would like to be
able to use login.conf to restrict the number of cgi processes that
certain users can run.
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote:
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
It was very annoying that the person who wrote the local News
Observer article seemed disappointed that we were not running linux
probably because of that, didn't mention the OS at all in her article.
From owner-freebsd-sm...@freebsd.org Fri Jul 30 10:45:10 1999
From: Nielsen, Roy S roy.s.niel...@intel.com
To: 'freebsd-sm...@freebsd.org' freebsd-sm...@freebsd.org,
'freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org' freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: bootloader
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:44:57
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 05:21:49PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
I'm seeing on a -stable system that netstat will always print values
obtained from sysctl rather than from the core file specified. Can
anybody confirm this? It doesn't seem like feature to me...
Interesting - I got similar
I have a dedicated syslog machine runnign 3.2 and vanilla syslogd
(started with -vv flags). After running for a few day the file would grow
(this time file was ~40MB) and syslogd would stop writing to a file and
go into a weird state. Here is the ktrace of hang syslogd before I did
I am currently conducting a thorough study of the VFS subsystem
in preparation for an all-out effort to port SGI's XFS filesystem to
FreeBSD 4.x at such time as SGI gives up the code. Matt Dillon
has written in hackers- that the VFS subsystem is presently not
well understood by any of the active
%Unmodified FreeBSD TCP at 1Gb/s.
%
%http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990802072727.htm
That is so very cool.
There is a separate war going on optimizing bandwidth,
latency, and QoS for IIOP, i.e. CORBA's usual protocol.
Against all of the heavyweights, RTOS's etc. etc., linux is
Original Message
Subject: FreeMWare for FreeBSD??
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 12:54:25 -0600
From: Darren WIebe dkwi...@hagenhomes.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Hello All:
I have been communicating with the person behind the
Freemware
project and he stressed that
Thanks to our Peter Holm's stress testing suite, I found a pretty bad
bug in all current emulation (*) code. They all share a common base, and
the problem is in the pathname translation code.
What it amounts to is the inherent assumption that all passed in paths
are valid addresses. This is
In article 87n1wag14v@joelu.m8.ntu.edu.tw,
Joe Jih-Shien Lu b84...@ee.ntu.edu.tw wrote:
I started studying 3.2-stable kernel source for days. There are
some questions I cannot figure out in an ordinary C programmer's
point of view:
* In cninit(), it references a global variable
Peter Jeremy wrote:
I apologize if I gave anyone the impression that you couldn't build
statically linked executables with libpam.
Sorry I was so prickly about it.
I recall having a similar static-vs-dynamic discussion with you a couple
of years ago.
Yow, your memory is better than mine.
Chris wrote:
When moving the CDROM to master though can cause problems. I had a
Chaintech 5TDM board which refused to acknowledge a CDROM as secondary
master. I thought it was a bug in FBSD since RH Linux could detect my
CDROM as a secondary slave (only device on the controller). I never
On 05-Aug-99 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
Chuck Youse cyo...@cybersites.com writes:
I have a really strong urge to submit a PR to make fetch default to passive
mode, instead of requiring a command-line switch ...
fetch(1) honors FTP_PASSIVE_MODE.
Speaking of fetch features.. Are there
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
Correction:
--- src/sys/i386/linux/linux_util.h.orig Thu Aug 5 18:32:02 1999
+++ src/sys/i386/linux/linux_util.h Thu Aug 5 19:03:27 1999
@@ -83,10 +83,17 @@
int linux_emul_find __P((struct proc *, caddr_t *, const char *, char *,
On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 23:20:45 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:59:46PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 8:12:17 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
For UFS/FFS there is nothing worth seting the stripesize to low.
It is generally slower to acces 32k
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, John Polstra wrote:
My position was (and still is) that for most purposes dynamic
linking is a definite advantage, but we should continue to permit
static linking for applications that want it (which Sun doesn't).
I generally agree, except I feel that when there are
What is FreeMWare? It sounds like a free / Open source implementation of
the VMware virtual machine. Do you have an URL that I could look up?
This sounds interesting!
Donald Burr db...@powered-by.ac WEB: http://www.Powered-By.AC/
PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 Tel:(805)957-9666
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 06:42:39PM -0700, Donald Burr wrote:
What is FreeMWare? It sounds like a free / Open source implementation of
the VMware virtual machine. Do you have an URL that I could look up?
This sounds interesting!
It's at www.freemware.org. I should say, though, that it's very
Thanks. I wasn't expecting any available software at the moment, I just
wanted a URL so that I could watch over this project and keep track of it.
Definitely something Im interested in.
Donald Burr db...@powered-by.ac WEB: http://www.Powered-By.AC/
PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212
Regardless, you have to have 1 master and 0 or 1 slaves one every IDE
controller. You can't run a controller with just a slave.
I dont think it should be a problem.. Since other OSs can work with this
configuration without any problem, why FBSD should refuse this configuration?
When i was
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
website (http://www.freebsd.org/~green/FreeBSD-68k.txt). In about two
weeks I'll have a spare Macintosh IIsi and would like to have a run at
FreeBSD on it. So, to the point, where can I get it? :)
I'd say that's a question for Grant
Can someone tell me how to make a cvs archive work for users that aren't
the owner of the archive, the way that it works on Freefall? I *am*
doing this for a cvsup maintained FreeBSD archive, but not freefall, and
I need to get one user, who is not the archive owner, to be able to be
able to do
In article pine.bsf.4.10.9908052127030.86114-100...@janus.syracuse.net,
Brian F. Feldman gr...@freebsd.org wrote:
Mind pointing me to the technical reason why (I'm sure you've explained
it before) we can't use the dl* calls in any way without linking
against ld-elf.so.1? I mean, have them in
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, John Polstra wrote:
In article pine.bsf.4.10.9908052127030.86114-100...@janus.syracuse.net,
Brian F. Feldman gr...@freebsd.org wrote:
Mind pointing me to the technical reason why (I'm sure you've explained
it before) we can't use the dl* calls in any way without
Taking a quick look at /usr/src/sys/i386:
find . -name *.s | xargs wc -l
44 ./svr4/svr4_locore.s
216 ./apm/apm_setup.s
24 ./linux/linux_locore.s
461 ./isa/apic_ipl.s
1057 ./isa/apic_vector.s
168 ./isa/icu_ipl.s
224 ./isa/icu_vector.s
387 ./isa/ipl.s
On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 10:53:54AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 23:20:45 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:59:46PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 8:12:17 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
For UFS/FFS there is nothing worth
Daniel O'Connor scribbled this message on Aug 6:
On 05-Aug-99 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
Chuck Youse cyo...@cybersites.com writes:
I have a really strong urge to submit a PR to make fetch default to
passive
mode, instead of requiring a command-line switch ...
fetch(1) honors
On 06-Aug-99 John-Mark Gurney wrote:
metriclient-1,ttype,/tmp,501#tail squid.access
933914913.491 3750 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/200 3816 GET
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/config.txt - DIRECT/ftp.cdrom.com text/plain
sure looks like it uses the http proxy, and this is on 3.0-R...
Hmm.. sneaky :)
I
Mm-hmm. ld -Bshareable as opposed to ar rc.
This demonstrates a superficial understanding of the process, nothing
more.
I just think we're not seeing eye to eye.
I'd be more inclined to say that John simply understands this where
you don't. Go study up, then come back and engage the poor guy
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, James Howard wrote:
Prior to posting to -hackers, I had emailed him, I tried again after
receiving this message and again, no response. (I used gus...@alaska.net)
Is there a better way to contact this individual? Does anyone have a copy
of the port?
I really don't
Biju Susmer wrote:
Regardless, you have to have 1 master and 0 or 1 slaves one every IDE
controller. You can't run a controller with just a slave.
I dont think it should be a problem.. Since other OSs can work with this
configuration without any problem, why FBSD should refuse this
On 06-Aug-99 Wes Peters wrote:
Because it's wrong. If you don't believe me, buy a copy of the spec. Why
should we waste valuable developer time trying to support mis-configured
hardware?
Since when has PC hardware followed the specs?
---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
Mm-hmm. ld -Bshareable as opposed to ar rc.
This demonstrates a superficial understanding of the process, nothing
more.
I know exactly how an ar archive is made of all the non-PIC .o files and
a ranlib works. I know what happens when ld puts
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Arun Sharma wrote:
I wonder if so much assembly code is really necessary for FreeBSD. One
argument for minimal usage of assembly code is that it is easier to code
non trivial algorithms in C.
No, so much isn't really necessary.
One such example is the scheduler. Since
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