SCHED_RR(root only!?) vs SCHED_FIFO(any user!?)

2000-07-20 Thread Bjorn Tornqvist
Hi all! Can anyone please explain why I have to be root (or make the executable run as root) to be able to use SCHED_RR in my LinuxThreads (btw, same thing happens in pthreads) application? pthread_create() returns an "Operation not permitted" error if not run as root. My application *must not*

Multiple ro mounts of vinum volume

2000-07-20 Thread Geoff Buckingham
Does anybody with a knowledge of the vinum code have an opinion on the amount of work involved in getting vinum to the point that several JBODs in a FC switched fabric could be managed, as a vinum volume, by one machine, and mounted ro by that machine and several others on the switch fabric.

Re: Multiple ro mounts of vinum volume

2000-07-20 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 20 July 2000 at 9:55:13 +0100, Geoff Buckingham wrote: Does anybody with a knowledge of the vinum code have an opinion on the amount of work involved in getting vinum to the point that several JBODs in a FC switched fabric could be managed, as a vinum volume, by one machine,

Re: Multiple ro mounts of vinum volume

2000-07-20 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 20 July 2000 at 18:33:42 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 20 July 2000 at 9:55:13 +0100, Geoff Buckingham wrote: Does anybody with a knowledge of the vinum code have an opinion on the amount of work involved in getting vinum to the point that several JBODs in a FC switched

Re: Multiple ro mounts of vinum volume

2000-07-20 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 06:38:13PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 20 July 2000 at 18:33:42 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 20 July 2000 at 9:55:13 +0100, Geoff Buckingham wrote: Does anybody with a knowledge of the vinum code have an opinion on the amount of work involved

memory type and its size

2000-07-20 Thread Zhihui Zhang
Does kernel memory of the same type (e.g., M_TEMP) must be allocated (using malloc()) with the same (range of) size? BTW, how to display mbuf cluster usages info. Thanks. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

T-Beach Multisound Monterey device driver upgraded to FBSD-4.0

2000-07-20 Thread Bob Kot
I have upgraded my device driver for the subject soundcard. For features, capabilities, limitations and downloading see: http://www.treefort.org/~bobkat/msm20/9main.shtml This version has many bug fixes since the FBSD-3.x version. It is still dual mode. KLD module can be

Re: problem on 4.1-RC (4.0-stable)

2000-07-20 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 01:02:59PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: Ulf Zimmermann wrote: On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 09:09:47PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: Ulf Zimmermann wrote: Hello, I updated via cvsup (cvsup from tuesday afternoon PDT), I went into single user

Re: problem on 4.1-RC (4.0-stable)

2000-07-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: and still: fourtytwo ulf home/ulf ps ps: bad namelist You're not bypassing the loader when you boot are you? Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe:

Re: problem on 4.1-RC (4.0-stable)

2000-07-20 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 03:48:23PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: and still: fourtytwo ulf home/ulf ps ps: bad namelist You're not bypassing the loader when you boot are you? No, the machine is a pure FreeBSD machine, but uses the 3 stage

Re: problem on 4.1-RC (4.0-stable)

2000-07-20 Thread Jan Koum
hey ulf, i bet your /dev/null is no longer nulling: # cd /dev # rm null # echo "fuck" null # ps ax ps: bad namelist -- yan On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 03:39:53PM -0700, Ulf Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 01:02:59PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: Ulf Zimmermann

Re: problem on 4.1-RC (4.0-stable)

2000-07-20 Thread Ulf Zimmermann
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 04:51:46PM -0700, Jan Koum wrote: hey ulf, i bet your /dev/null is no longer nulling: # cd /dev # rm null # echo "fuck" null # ps ax ps: bad namelist Yep, you were right. /dev/null was a plain file. Strange -- yan On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 03:39:53PM

Re: problem on 4.1-RC (4.0-stable)

2000-07-20 Thread Chris Costello
On Thursday, July 20, 2000, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: Yep, you were right. /dev/null was a plain file. Strange Just guessing here--ps probably uses /dev/null for all the files passed to kvm_open(3). I imagine it uses kvm_getprocs for its process listing, which is implemented using sysctl. --

Re: T-Beach Multisound Monterey device driver upgraded to FBSD-4.0

2000-07-20 Thread Vladimir N.Silyaev
In muc.lists.freebsd.hackers, you wrote: Are there any device driver authors out there who are implementing their driver as a KLD module and delivering/installing it as a port? You may look inside emulation/rtc or emulation/vmware port, it's not a drivers for hardware, but a KLD modules. --