Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-04-12 Thread Bob Willcox
I am still using a number of these boards in our test environment every day. The fxp driver always complains but it hasn't stopped the nic from working yet. I simply ignore the messages... Bob On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 10:23:21AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > What board is this? > > If this is t

cdr and cdrw with 4.3 release

2001-04-12 Thread Tom
Does anyone know if it is possible to use a cdr/cdrw with 4.3 release? I want to use it with my sony vaio f580 (notebook). I have the option of usb or pcmcia. Can you tell me which models are known to work? Thanks for your help. Please mail all responses to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks again.. Tom _

Re: apc and apache

2001-04-12 Thread Dan Phoenix
hmmm i made all website files owned by apache owner and all was normal! i told apc not to write to my webfiles yet it does anyways. Anyone see anything fishy going on here? On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Dan Phoenix wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 14:25:46 -0700 (PDT) > From: Dan Phoenix <[EMAIL PRO

Re: vm balance

2001-04-12 Thread Matt Dillon
:>:>scaleability. :>: :>:Uhm, that is actually not true. :>: :>:We keep namecache entries around as long as we can use them, and that :>:generally means that recreating them is a rather expensive operation, :>:involving creation of vnode and very likely a vm object again. :> :>The vnode ca

Re: apc and apache

2001-04-12 Thread Dan Phoenix
To update on this one box... PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPUCPU COMMAND 2399 bravenet2 0 17364K 15540K accept 0:00 1.07% 0.83% httpd 2401 bravenet2 0 20304K 18980K accept 0:00 1.01% 0.78% httpd 2446 bravenet2 0 16468K 14828K accept 0:

apc and apache

2001-04-12 Thread Dan Phoenix
; ; APC ; ; apc.cachedir="/usr/cache" apc.relative_includes= 1 apc.check_mtime = 1 threw that in the php.ini file. Started apache and booom webservers went to hell...each httpd taking 20 megs or more on a couple webservers. Anyone experience this? Com

Re: nfsd hangs in ``inode'' state

2001-04-12 Thread Matt Dillon
:Hello All, : :I am running a FreeBSD-4.2 NFS server with dozens of FreeBSD-4.2 NFS :clients on 100BaseTX LAN. Recently I found that when the NFS server :receives a lot of requests in a short period (e.g., 2 clients start X :with gnome desktop simultaneously), all nfsd server processes hang in :i

Re: vm balance

2001-04-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Dillon writes: > >: >:In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Dillon writes: >: >:>Again, keep in mind that the namei cache is strictly throw-away, but >:>entries can often be reconstituted later by the filesystem without I/O >:>due to the VM Page cach

Re: vm balance

2001-04-12 Thread Matt Dillon
: :In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Dillon writes: : :>Again, keep in mind that the namei cache is strictly throw-away, but :>entries can often be reconstituted later by the filesystem without I/O :>due to the VM Page cache (and/or buffer cache depending on :>vfs.vmiodirenable

Re: vm balance

2001-04-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Dillon writes: >Again, keep in mind that the namei cache is strictly throw-away, but >entries can often be reconstituted later by the filesystem without I/O >due to the VM Page cache (and/or buffer cache depending on >vfs.vmiodirenable). So as

Re: Kernel malloc problems with M_NOWAIT.

2001-04-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Logan Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010412 11:50] wrote: > There is a hard to duplicate race condition in freebsd's > kernel malloc. Bassically it is possiables for the kernel > to tsleep way down in vm_page_sleep_busy even when M_NOWAIT > is spefcied. Under some conditions this can block t

Kernel malloc problems with M_NOWAIT.

2001-04-12 Thread Logan Gabriel
There is a hard to duplicate race condition in freebsd's kernel malloc. Bassically it is possiables for the kernel to tsleep way down in vm_page_sleep_busy even when M_NOWAIT is spefcied. Under some conditions this can block the kernel completly. Attatched is a kernel module that demonstrat

Re: vm balance

2001-04-12 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > Again, keep in mind that the namei cache is strictly throw-away, This seems to be the main difference between Linux and FreeBSD. In Linux, open files directly refer to an entry in the dentry (and inode) cache, so we really need to have dynamically g

Re: vm balance

2001-04-12 Thread Matt Dillon
:You should also know that negative entries, since they have no :objects to "hang from" and consequently would clog up the name-cache, :are limited by the sysctl: : debug.ncnegfactor: 16 :which means that max 1/16 of the name cache entries can be negative :entries. You can monitor the numbe

Re: vm balance

2001-04-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Dillon writes: > >: >:On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: >: >:>It's randomness that will kill performance. You know the old saying >:>about caches: They only work if you get cache hits, otherwise >:>they only slow things down. >: >:I wonder .

Re: vm balance

2001-04-12 Thread Matt Dillon
: :On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: : :>It's randomness that will kill performance. You know the old saying :>about caches: They only work if you get cache hits, otherwise :>they only slow things down. : :I wonder ... how does FreeBSD handle negative directory entries? : :Tha

ypserv

2001-04-12 Thread David E. Cross
Well, I am able to reproduce the crash pretty reliably, I don't know what is causing it yet, I just kill all the other ypservs on a subnet except for this one and it crashes about once every 5 minutes. I have some questions/theories that I'd like to bounce off of people: 1) In the yp_all functi

Re: vm balance

2001-04-12 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: >It's randomness that will kill performance. You know the old saying >about caches: They only work if you get cache hits, otherwise >they only slow things down. I wonder ... how does FreeBSD handle negative directory entries? That is, /bin/s

Re: OUTPORT / outb instructions - where defined?

2001-04-12 Thread Markus Holmberg
See /usr/ports/audio/mpmf20. It's for MPMan F-20, might be helpful. Regards, Markus. On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:01:24PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > I'm seeking the header file in FreeBSD which corresponds to asm/io.h > in Linux. It should contain macros like OUTPORT, INPORT etc. > to do d

Re: netinet/accf_http.c usage ?

2001-04-12 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:52:39AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I can't seem decipher the functionality of the accf_http.c file in the > netinet directory ... I also couldn't find any documents that describe its > purpose is it an HTTP filter or something like that ? Have yo

netinet/accf_http.c usage ?

2001-04-12 Thread asr
Hi, I can't seem decipher the functionality of the accf_http.c file in the netinet directory ... I also couldn't find any documents that describe its purpose is it an HTTP filter or something like that ? Ashutosh S. Rajekar http://www.rajekar.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTEC