4.2-STABLE takes 35 seconds to probe ata1-master.

2000-11-24 Thread Mikael Hybsch
Hi. I cvsuped RELENG_4 last night on my home machine an now I have a 35 second delay while probing my DVD on ata1-master. Before the upgrade I was running RELENG_4 from around June and it didn't show this behaviour. This is a SMP machine, but the dmesg output below is from a GENERIC kernel I

Re: page coloring

2000-11-24 Thread Mikulas Patocka
It skips queue pq[index PQ_L2_MASK]. That's correct. The inline function vm_page_list_find() in vm_page.h has already failed to allocate a page of the desired color, index, and so _vm_page_list_find() is called to allocate a page of ANY other color it can find. Oh, yes. I didn't

Another NFS deadlock.

2000-11-24 Thread Vadim Belman
It seems I have an ideal proving ground for testing NFS on deadlocks. As I was reporting before, we have a bunch of web servers for serving customers home pages. And there is a customer which has a webcam page where he has an image updated via ftp. Same time the image is handled by HTTP servers

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stranges in threads implementation... possible bug?

2000-11-24 Thread Sergey Osokin
Hello! My friend find some stranges in FreeBSD threads implementation... Here is a "special" code: = #include stdio.h #include assert.h #include string #include pthread.h #include unistd.h #include errno.h #define Debug(x)printf x extern "C" {

any ways to look at powerpoint slides?

2000-11-24 Thread Julian Elischer
I have looked in the ports xlhtml seems to extract out the text but it's not exactly easy to see what is in the ppt slides. I've seen ppt presentations moved to some free S/W at usenix and BSDcon.. how was that done? -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (

oh, and any way to see visio files?

2000-11-24 Thread Julian Elischer
I forgot, I need to see visio files as well.. no mention of reading them anywhere I have found. -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( OZ) World tour 2000 --- X_.---._/ presently in: Budapest v To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: any ways to look at powerpoint slides?

2000-11-24 Thread Greg Skafte
Julian Elischer wrote: I have looked in the ports xlhtml seems to extract out the text but it's not exactly easy to see what is in the ppt slides. I've seen ppt presentations moved to some free S/W at usenix and BSDcon.. how was that done? -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer /

Re: any ways to look at powerpoint slides?

2000-11-24 Thread Julian Elischer
Greg Skafte wrote: Both Star Office Applix can read ppt depending on the version of Power Point . OK I'm an idiot for not thining of staroffice I forgot it did that.. I already even have it loaded.. people can stop bombarding me now... -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer /

Broken-by-design USB device?

2000-11-24 Thread Jon Simola
I've got a little USB device that allows Playstation controllers to be used on a PC. If it's plugged in while booting FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE (the shipped GENERIC kernel), I get: uhci0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 3 at device 4.2 on pci0 usb0: Intel 82371AB/EB

Re: Broken-by-design USB device?

2000-11-24 Thread Brian Swetland
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:23:25PM -0800, Jon Simola wrote: After poking around in the uhid and usb code, I'm beginning to think that this adapter is just broken by design. Can someone a bit more familiar with the USB stuff comment on that? Thanks. For identifying what this is, there's not

Re: DMA to user process address space!!!

2000-11-24 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 22:22:29 -0800, Mohan Krishna P wrote: AFAMUG, all user processes are allocated from the virtual memory. so DMA to that doesn't make sense. but is there some way, i can let the kernel know i am DMAing to an address location and hence keep it in main memory until

Re: any ways to look at powerpoint slides?

2000-11-24 Thread Wes Peters
Julian Elischer wrote: I have looked in the ports xlhtml seems to extract out the text but it's not exactly easy to see what is in the ppt slides. I've seen ppt presentations moved to some free S/W at usenix and BSDcon.. how was that done? StarOffice seems to read most PowerPoint

Re: any ways to look at powerpoint slides?

2000-11-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 10:27:25PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: I have looked in the ports xlhtml seems to extract out the text but it's not exactly easy to see what is in the ppt slides. I've seen ppt presentations moved to some free S/W at usenix and BSDcon..