Debuggers for FreeBSD

2001-05-29 Thread Nickolay A. Kritsky
Hi all. I am using assembly language to write some useful programs for my FreeBSD 3.3_release and i need some debugger. I am not happy with gdb. Can you tell me if there is some Soft-ICE type debuggers under this OS ? BTW - is it true that FreeBSD kernel started supporting DRx registers o

Router advertisement

2001-05-29 Thread vishwanath pargaonkar
Hi, i have freebsd 4.2 stable. my doubt is how is router advertisement called? ie i know that router advertisement is user land program.so when ever router solicitation is received we receive it and update the cache by calling nd6_cache_lladdr.but how exactly RA invoked it being user land progra

Problem with the time zone in version 4.3

2001-05-29 Thread Gil Rudge
I encountered a small problem while changing the time zone. I have a process (process A) that starts when the machine is booted and waits for requests. In another process I changed the time zone. When running date (from any other terminal) I get the time with the newly changed time zone, but in

Re: Problem with the time zone in version 4.3

2001-05-29 Thread Andrey Simonenko
I think that http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=23323 will be interesting for you. - Original Message - From: Gil Rudge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: lucky.freebsd.hackers Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 6:09 PM Subject: Problem with the time zone in version 4.3 > I encountered a

How to disable software TCP checksumming?

2001-05-29 Thread Bob Willcox
Hi, I am working on a device driver for a GSN adapter that has hardware CRC checking and need to know if there is a way to disable the software CRC checking for TCP? This is on a FreeBSD 4.2-stable system. Thanks, Bob -- Bob Willcox Egotist, n.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A person of low ta

interesting os comparison charts

2001-05-29 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
there is a nice comparison of *bsd/linux/solaris systems under load in terms of http/nfs netio and fs performance on the net: http://innominate.org/%7Etgr/slides/performance/tuning.htm the author also addresses the typical GENERIC kernel problems on production machines (NBMCLUSTERS too low,...),

Re: Debuggers for FreeBSD

2001-05-29 Thread G. Adam Stanislav
At 13:21 29-05-2001 +0400, Nickolay A. Kritsky wrote: >Hi all. >I am using assembly language to write some useful programs for my FreeBSD 3.3_release and i need some debugger. I am not happy with >gdb. Can you tell me if there is some Soft-ICE type debuggers under this OS ? Try ald (assembly

Re: How to disable software TCP checksumming?

2001-05-29 Thread Jesper Skriver
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 02:41:14PM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on a device driver for a GSN adapter that has hardware CRC > checking and need to know if there is a way to disable the software CRC > checking for TCP? This is on a FreeBSD 4.2-stable system. Not without modify

"find" and "quota" find different amounts of files

2001-05-29 Thread Mark Stosberg
Hello! I'm running FreeBSD 4.3 and have encountered a mystery of some missing files. Using "find" and "quota" to find the same files, I get different results. For example: root@nollie vector1> find /usr -user evan -print | wc -l 2435 root@nollie vector1> quota evan Disk quot

Re: "find" and "quota" find different amounts of files

2001-05-29 Thread Mike Smith
> > Hello! I'm running FreeBSD 4.3 and have encountered a mystery of some > missing files. Using "find" and "quota" to find the same files, I get > different results. For example: ... > So "find" is reporting 2435 files, but "quota" is reporting 2537. Where > could the difference be hiding? /tm

Re: "find" and "quota" find different amounts of files

2001-05-29 Thread Mark Stosberg
Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > Hello! I'm running FreeBSD 4.3 and have encountered a mystery of some > > missing files. Using "find" and "quota" to find the same files, I get > > different results. For example: > ... > > So "find" is reporting 2435 files, but "quota" is reporting 2537. Where > > cou

Re: How to disable software TCP checksumming?

2001-05-29 Thread Bob Willcox
Thanks for the info, but I don't think this will do what I want. I have been looking at the Tigon driver which seems to support hardware assisted CRC checking. I'm could be way off base here, but this snippit of code from if_ti.c: if (ifp->if_hwassist) { m->m_pkthdr.csum_f

RE: nsswitch progress

2001-05-29 Thread Chris Knight
Howdy, > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jacques A. > Vidrine > Sent: Tuesday, 29 May 2001 9:37 > To: Eric Masson > Cc: Mailing List FreeBSD Hackers > Subject: Re: nsswitch progress > > [snip] > > I've only been slowly working on nssw

Re: How to disable software TCP checksumming?

2001-05-29 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Jesper Skriver writes: > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 02:41:14PM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am working on a device driver for a GSN adapter that has hardware CRC > > checking and need to know if there is a way to disable the software CRC > > checking for TCP? This is on a Fre

RE: Stuck in kernel - mask problem?

2001-05-29 Thread John Baldwin
On 28-May-01 Richard Hodges wrote: > I have been having a problem on one of my machines, and it seems > to be associated with medium/heavy IO loads. > > After some period of time, usually an hour or two, the system will > appear to stop cold dead. A trace with DDB shows that the last > function

Re: How to disable software TCP checksumming?

2001-05-29 Thread Bob Willcox
Thanks Drew! This helps alot! Bob On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:00:43PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > Jesper Skriver writes: > > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 02:41:14PM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am working on a device driver for a GSN adapter that has hardware CRC

Re: nsswitch progress

2001-05-29 Thread Jacques A. Vidrine
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:54:10AM +1000, Chris Knight wrote: > If someone with commit privs is interested, I have a set of patches based on > the 4.1-STABLE patches that apply cleanly to 4.3. This should be slightly > quicker to merge with -STABLE. Are these patches equivalent to the functiona

RE: nsswitch progress

2001-05-29 Thread Chris Knight
Howdy, > -Original Message- > From: Jacques A. Vidrine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 30 May 2001 7:32 > To: Chris Knight > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: nsswitch progress > > > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:54:10AM +1000, Chris Knight wrote: > > If someone with commit

Re: "find" and "quota" find different amounts of files

2001-05-29 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Mark Stosberg wrote: : :Hello! I'm running FreeBSD 4.3 and have encountered a mystery of some :missing files. Using "find" and "quota" to find the same files, I get :different results. For example: : : :root@nollie vector1> find /usr -user evan -print | wc -l :

Re: How to disable software TCP checksumming?

2001-05-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:52:12PM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: | | and may prevent the upper layers from checking the CRC on input. There are good reasons why checksumming in upper layers should not be disabled even if some lower layer does checksumming of its own. I recall reading some good poin

Laptop network install with a 3c575-tx

2001-05-29 Thread David Petrou
[This was sent to questions last week, but I got no reply there. Maybe you hackers know the answer?] Hi. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.3R on an IBM 560x laptop. I'm using a 32-bit 3Com Fast EtherLink XL 3C575-TX card. On boot, I've experimented with a bunch of PCMCIA IRQ options and got the

Re: How to disable software TCP checksumming?

2001-05-29 Thread Bob Willcox
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:52:00AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:52:12PM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > | > | and may prevent the upper layers from checking the CRC on input. > > There are good reasons why checksumming in upper layers should not be disabled > even if

Re: cvsup.freebsd.org I/O error

2001-05-29 Thread Peter Wemm
Mike Silbersack wrote: > > On Mon, 28 May 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > > > Yah, I figured that out... I hadn't even considered it could happen wit h > > a brand new IBM drive! Ah well... back to the > > tried-and-true-but-run-slightly-hot seacrates. > > > >