Thus spake SJ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hi!
1. ioconf.c contains struct config_resource and
config_device definitions for declarations in
config file. But I noticed that for some devices
e.g. device atadisk
device atapicd
...
the
Dear All,
I just ran into a problem with the linuxulator, triggered by the Linux JDK
that I use for my development.
Markus kindly pointed me to this PR:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24315
The summary is that getcwd(3) under Linux emulation will fail really
hard after a rmdir.
Shannon Hendrix wrote:
And just to get things worse... :-) the test must be made on the *same*
slice. If you configure two different slices, the one on the outer
tracks will be faster.
I cannot verify that with my drive, but my largest is 18GB so maybe
the difference is not as
* Koster, K.J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010523 05:48] wrote:
Dear All,
I just ran into a problem with the linuxulator, triggered by the Linux JDK
that I use for my development.
Markus kindly pointed me to this PR:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24315
The summary is that
The proposed filesystem is most likely Reiserfs. This is a true
journalling filesystem with a radically non-traditional layout.
It is no problem to put millions of files in a single directory.
(actually, the all-in-one approach performs better than a tree)
XFS and JFS are similarly
Dear Alfred,
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24315
The summary is that getcwd(3) under Linux emulation will fail really
hard after a rmdir.
I've looked at your email and the PR, the problem that I have is that
I have no clue as to what it should return. Can you give
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:02:01PM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote:
The problem seems to be that FreeBSD's getcwd library call will
impliment the getcwd userland if the syscall fails or is unimplimented.
There are times when the syscall fails in normal operation and you
don't see this with the BSD
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:17:12AM -0400, Andresen,Jason R. wrote:
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:27:27PM +0300, Nadav Eiron wrote:
I ran tests that I think are similar to what Jason ran on identically
configured FreeBSD and Linux/ReiserFS
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
Jason Andresen wrote:
If only FreeBSD could boot from those funky M-Systems flash disks.
It can.
How? Nothing I found in the documentation indicated this, or gave any
sort hint as to how I might go about doing it. The Linux driver has a
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
Jason Andresen wrote:
Results:
ufs+softupdates is a little slower than ext2fs+wc for low numbers of
files, but scales better. I wish I had a Reiserfs partition to
test with.
Ext2fs is a non-contender.
Note, though, that there is some
Dear All,
An interview with Reiser just appeared on http://www.slashdot.org/
Just to add a little oil to the fire. :-)
Kees Jan
You are only young once,
but you can stay immature all your life.
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:31:34AM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote:
We only have three Linux boxes here (and one is a PC104 with a flash
disk) and already I've had to reinstall the entire OS once when we had a
power glitch. ext2fsck managed to
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:49:21PM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote:
6 files took ~15 minutes to create as is. I'm going to have to wait
until tonight to run larger sets. 2.2.16 is what we have here.
I'm still waiting to see how much faster
I just finished the FreeBSD test with
vfs.vmiodirenable=1 (it was 0 before)
6 simlultanious files, 1 transactions, FreeBSD
4.0-Release+Softupdates with write cacheing disabled. Results are pretty
much unchanged. Do you have to enable vmiodirenable at boot time for it
to take affect?
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote:
I don't understand the inability to perform the trivial
design engineering necessary to keep from needing to put
60,000 files in one directory.
However, we can take it as a given that people who need
to do this are incapable of doing computer
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:03:33PM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote:
The data:
Hardware:
Both machines have the same hardware on paper (although it is TWO
machines,
YMMV).
PII-300
Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller
IBM-DHEA-38451 8063MB
Hmm,
I wonder if you can catch it again and do a ``set log local
physical'' and run ``tcpdump -i XXX -e not ip'' on the interface at
the same time ?
A ``ping -c 1'' should then show if ppp's sending the data out, and
if it is, if ng_ether is forwarding it.
I'm a little concerned about the
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:53:37AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
I cannot verify that with my drive, but my largest is 18GB so maybe
the difference is not as pronounced as on some newer drives like those
(currently) monster 70GB drives.
It should be measurable.
Actually, I edited too
Hi all,
I tried your tests on a quite different configuration, a PIII 800 with
1GB ram, with an AcceleRAID 170 controller and a single RAID5 pack of
4*8GB IBM SCSI drives. The system is a 4.3-rc2, NO softupdates, default
configuration.
Here are the results :
pmset transactions 1
pmset
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:03:37AM -0400, Andresen,Jason R. wrote:
The scary thing is that it was the attached harddrive that lost all of the
files. The situitation is this:
[snip]
Sorry to hear that, but like I said, it isn't typical. ext2 in it's
early days, an ext before that were really
Alexander Langer wrote:
Thus spake SJ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
The developer's handbook might be worth reading for you, also there
are some tutorials on the website which explain a little.
Also check out -current's /usr/share/examples/drivers/make_device_driver.sh
Alex
--
cat:
Zitiere Daniel C. Sobral [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Note, though, that there is some very recent perfomance improvement on
very large directories known as dirpref (what changed, actually, was
dirpref's algorithm). This is NOT present on 4.3-RELEASE, though it
_might_ have since been committed to
I'd like to finalize the newbus work by changing inb()/outb() calls to
bus_space_write calls. Is there a device where this has been partially done
already? I'd like to see the old and new styles, then i would fix the
vpo/imm zip driver first, since i know that code well. After that, i could
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
Where I live, the power gets worse every year. I lost quite a few ext
filesystems, but only a couple of ufs and ext2 filesystems. Then I
bought a 1920VA UPS and it's no longer an issue. I just found it easier
to not lose power than to worry about
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:17:12AM -0400, Andresen,Jason R. wrote:
Did you enable write caching? You didn't mention, and it's off by
default in 4.3, but I think enabled by default on Linux.
I tried to leave the FreeBSD and Linux boxes as unchanged as possible for
my tests (they are lab
Thus spake j mckitrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I'd like to finalize the newbus work by changing inb()/outb() calls to
bus_space_write calls. Is there a device where this has been partially done
already? I'd like to see the old and new styles, then i would fix the
It has been done to
According to Brian Somers:
Brett Glass (cc'd) has complained about a similar problem where it
seems that the ng_pppoe node is locked up. I can't reproduce the
problem here though :(
Does the following help you :
-=-=-
tun0: Timer: Begin of Timer Service List---
tun0: Timer: physical
According to Brian Somers:
Brett Glass (cc'd) has complained about a similar problem where it
seems that the ng_pppoe node is locked up. I can't reproduce the
problem here though :(
Does the following help you :
[.]
Not really - I think we need ``physical'' logs so that we can
--- Alexander Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thus spake SJ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hi!
1. ioconf.c contains struct config_resource and
config_device definitions for declarations in
config file. But I noticed that for some
devices
e.g. device atadisk
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:17:12AM -0400, Andresen,Jason R. wrote:
Did you enable write caching? You didn't mention, and it's off by
default in 4.3, but I think enabled by default on Linux.
I tried to leave the FreeBSD and Linux boxes as
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:04:15PM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote:
| Thus spake j mckitrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
|
| I'd like to finalize the newbus work by changing inb()/outb() calls to
| bus_space_write calls. Is there a device where this has been partially done
| already? I'd like to see
A few months back I taught telnet about named sockets. We've found this
very useful for testing things like IPC channels in our software
(e.g. telnet /var/run/lmtp). I've put the (-STABLE) patches up at:
ftp://orthanc.ab.ca/lyndon/freebsd/telnet.AF_UNIX.patch
If someone with commit priv's
* Lyndon Nerenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010523 18:22] wrote:
A few months back I taught telnet about named sockets. We've found this
very useful for testing things like IPC channels in our software
(e.g. telnet /var/run/lmtp). I've put the (-STABLE) patches up at:
:A few months back I taught telnet about named sockets. We've found this
:very useful for testing things like IPC channels in our software
:(e.g. telnet /var/run/lmtp). I've put the (-STABLE) patches up at:
:
: ftp://orthanc.ab.ca/lyndon/freebsd/telnet.AF_UNIX.patch
:
:If someone with commit
: ftp://orthanc.ab.ca/lyndon/freebsd/telnet.AF_UNIX.patch
:
: If someone with commit priv's thinks this is worth including, be
: my guest.
:
:This is really cool, can you submit it as a PR?
:
:--
:-Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't bother, I'll commit it right now as soon as I
I've committed the patch, changing -/ to -u (note: you don't need the
option at all if you specify a path beginning with '/', as per Lyndon's
original code), to current (both non-crypto and crypto versions). I
will MFC it to stable in three days.
Nice one! I'm going to be
I'm seeking recommendation for a backup system (software) that can be
used with a decent sized tape library, probably LTO based, and FreeBSD
4.3-STABLE.
I'm sure we could roll our based on freely available tools (eg. Amanda)
- but by now I'm used to Tivoli ADSM/TSM, and *like* the convenience
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:20:51AM -0400, Andresen,Jason R. wrote:
Why is knowing the file names cheating? It is almost certain
that the application will know the names of it's own files
(and won't be grepping the entire directory every time it
needs to find a file).
With 60,000 files,
Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't understand the inability to perform the trivial
design engineering necessary to keep from needing to put
60,000 files in one directory.
Hear hear! ;) (Been waiting for that one)
However, we can take it as a given that people who need
to do
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote:
Nice one! I'm going to be using this all over the place myself.
I am missing something here. Is there a practical use for this? :)
Jamie
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
:
:Looking at the patch, is it safe to assume that if there's a '/' in a
:hostname, it MUST be a AF_UNIX socket? If so, wouldn't a strchr(hostp,
:'/') be better than 'hostp[0] == '/''? This way one can use relative paths
:as well, not just absolute ones.
:
:--
:[ Joseph Mallett[EMAIL
:
:On Wed, 23 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote:
:
: Nice one! I'm going to be using this all over the place myself.
:
:I am missing something here. Is there a practical use for this? :)
:
:Jamie
Many programs these days use unix-domain sockets as a rendezvous
for IPC between processes.
Hi Steinar,
I'm sure we could roll our based on freely available tools (eg. Amanda)
- but by now I'm used to Tivoli ADSM/TSM, and *like* the convenience
ADSM/TSM offers. We need the ability to make backups (via Fast Ethernet)
primarily of FreeBSD servers, but also Solaris, Linux and HP-UX. Easy
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Andresen,Jason R. wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:
That's all well and good, but I thought the aim here was to compare
Linux and FreeBSD performance on as level playing field as possible?
You're not measuring FS performance, you're measuring FS
Any devices using the ppbus will end up sharing the hardware port. If i want
to access this resource info, should i store it in my local driver's softc
structure, or extract it from the parent device (ppbus)?
jcm
--
I drank WHAT ?! - Socrates
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SJ wrote:
2. Whats the use of device_ops structure and what does
ops stand for?
ops definitely stands for operations. I can't say off the top
of my head what this structure is but most probably a collection
of pointers to the functions of a particular driver which implement
the device
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:10:20PM -0400, James Howard wrote:
I am missing something here. Is there a practical use for this? :)
You are not the only one. I can appreciate the `neat' factor, but I
cringed at the commit. It seems like functionality that would be
better put in a
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:54:40PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
1. I don't think I've ever seen a Linux distro which has write
caching enabled by default. Hell, DMA33 isn't even enabled
by default ;)
You are talking about controlling the IDE drive cache.
The issue here is write cache in
howdy.
maybe this has been discussed in 'hackers' or elsewhere,
before - i can't find a reference via the search interface.
i'm a long time freebsd user, and i've been struck by how much my
systems (3 of them) have slowed down in its disk performance with
4.3-RELEASE,
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Ed Hudson wrote:
howdy.
maybe this has been discussed in 'hackers' or elsewhere,
before - i can't find a reference via the search interface.
i'm a long time freebsd user, and i've been struck by how much my
systems (3 of them) have slowed down in
Mike Silbersack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Write caching is now off by default. man ata to see how to turn it back
on.
Mr. Silbersack, thank you very much. you've restored my
systems to their pre-4.3 stunningly fast behavior.
to the hackers group, i apologize for
51 matches
Mail list logo
