Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-19 Thread Ashutosh S. Rajekar
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > This is fairly easy to do. You can use SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF > socket opts to adjust the tcp buffer space. You can make the default > small and receive-centric and when you think you've got a good > connection you can pump it up. > >

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-19 Thread Matt Dillon
: :On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: : :> to handle more then 250 requests/sec. With the connection load you :> want to handle, the chance of the data being cacheable in ram is :> fairly low. So a disk-based caching proxy will drop connection :> performance by two orders

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-19 Thread Ashutosh S. Rajekar
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > to handle more then 250 requests/sec. With the connection load you > want to handle, the chance of the data being cacheable in ram is > fairly low. So a disk-based caching proxy will drop connection > performance by two orders of magnit

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-19 Thread Mark Valentine
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam) > Date: Tue 19 Jun, 2001 > Subject: Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code? > An article over on www.Kuro5hin.org by a someone who claims > to be a former MS employee describes the stack used in NT back > in the early 90's as code which was

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft UsingFree Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-19 Thread Jordan Hubbard
I don't think this kind of invective is appropriate for the freebsd-hackers list. Perhaps you should confine your sentiments to less public venues. - Jordan From: "Jeffrey M. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-19 Thread Jeffrey M. Reed
stop being bastards. heh. i don't give a rat's ass about any of this. it just makes me mad/laugh that people are dumb enough to buy into that .net/hotmail/subscription based bullshit and other stuff. if you use it, i really don't care. in fact, M$ has been swell about helping the economy and

RE: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft UsingFree Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-19 Thread Jordan Hubbard
From: "Jeremiah Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:03:46 +1000 > That's the BSD license for ya. > > There needs to be a license that says something to the

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jeffrey M. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010619 19:01] wrote: > On Monday 18 June 2001 18:45, Hal Snyder wrote: > > FYA. > > > > Migrating Microsoft® Hotmail® from FreeBSD to Microsoft > > Windows® 2000 Technical Case Study > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/migration/hotmail/hotapp > >.asp >

RE: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-19 Thread Jeremiah Johnson
That's the BSD license for ya. There needs to be a license that says something to the effect of "Anyone can use/buy/sell/modify/distribute this software with or without source code except Microsoft." jeremiah(); -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Beh

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-19 Thread Jeffrey M. Reed
On Monday 18 June 2001 18:45, Hal Snyder wrote: > FYA. > > Migrating Microsoft® Hotmail® from FreeBSD to Microsoft > Windows® 2000 Technical Case Study > > http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/migration/hotmail/hotapp >.asp > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-19 Thread Hal Snyder
FYA. Migrating Microsoft® Hotmail® from FreeBSD to Microsoft Windows® 2000 Technical Case Study http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/migration/hotmail/hotapp.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-19 Thread Adam
An article over on www.Kuro5hin.org by a someone who claims to be a former MS employee describes the stack used in NT back in the early 90's as code which was liscensed from a company called 'Spider'. In the comp.unix.admin archives I found a post which references Spider QNIX as a *nix variant so

Re: Article: Network performance by OS

2001-06-19 Thread Bosko Milekic
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:05:14PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Use of zalloci() permits allocations to occur at interrupt, > such as allocations for replacement mbuf's in receive rings. > > It would be very difficult to maintain FreeBSD's GigaBit > ethernet performance without this type of thi

Re: Article: Network performance by OS

2001-06-19 Thread Terry Lambert
Bosko Milekic wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 02:14:14PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > >[ .. ] but all this benchmark proves (in regards to the TCP > > results) is that FreeBSD puts its foot down earlier then > > other OS's in regards to how much it is willing to dedicate > > to the network. In

Re: Article: Network performance by OS

2001-06-19 Thread Terry Lambert
Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > > > This is old. The guys running the tests blew it in so many ways > > that you might as well have just rolled some dice. There's a slashdot > > article on it too, and quite a few of the reader comments on these > >

pthread_attr_setscope(3) problem.

2001-06-19 Thread Ian Trudel
Hello, while porting a software to FreeBSD, I came across a problem with pthread_attr_setscope(3). The software sets PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM attribute. From the pthread_attr_setscope(3) implementation file, a comment says that this attribute is unsupported (though the code doesn't show that). Me

question about signals, longjmp and pthread

2001-06-19 Thread Louis-Philippe Gagnon
I've encountered a problem in the interaction betwen signals, longjmp and pthreads; I'm hoping someone can help me make sense of it. I've been trying to implement a IsBadReadPtr-style function in FreeBSD by using signal handlers and longjmp/setjmp. It seemed to work as expected, until I started u

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-19 Thread Terry Lambert
Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Jun 15), Jordan Hubbard said: > > Thanks, that represents the first "hard hit" I've seen yet: > > > > root@winston-> strings FTP.EXE |grep "University of California" > > @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California. > > But this p

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-19 Thread Terry Lambert
Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > I've had several marketing types approach me recently for details as > to whether or not Microsoft was using the BSD TCP/IP stack and/or user > utilities, and though it's always been "common knowledge" in the > community that they were, when I set about to "prove" it I f

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-19 Thread Matt Dillon
:Well, we are building a web accelerator box called WebEnhance, that would :support around a million TCP/IP connections (brag .. brag..). It would :selectively function as a Layer 2/4/7 switch. And its going to run a :kernel proxy, and probably nothing significant in user mode. It might be :diskl

Re: Changes to the /etc/rc* boot system

2001-06-19 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Doug Barton writes: : [Prelude, Warner and I discussed this off line... ] Yea. I'm getting too grumpy for reasons that are outside the list. Doug is aware of my concerns, and I'm sure he'll take them into account as he moves forward. : > Of course, I'd have to : >

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-19 Thread void
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:55:06PM -0400, Sergey Babkin wrote: > Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:16:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > is BSDI's stack so superior to any of the other BSDs that MS would pay BSDI > > > for it, particularly at a time when BSDI was

FreeBSD 4.3 pthread implementation and FPU code

2001-06-19 Thread Guenter Bartsch
Hi, while trying to get xine 0.5 (xine.sf.net) to work on freebsd I ran into this problem: Thread has returned from sigreturn or longjmp after some debugging I found that disabling this part of the MMX-detection code: asm ("pushfl\n\t" "popl %0\n\t" "movl %0,%1\n\t"

RE: Mergemaster killed symlink (was RE: Mergemaster bug + new feature [patch])

2001-06-19 Thread Koster, K.J.
Dear James, > > > I had a mergemaster problem a while back, but I haven't debugged it > > properly. I had my /etc/ppp symlinked into /home/root/ppp. > Then, after a > > mergemaster run I ended up with a file named /etc/ppp, which had the > > contents of the new version of /etc/ppp/ppp.conf. > >

Re: single user

2001-06-19 Thread Jamie Heckford
If you have a freebsd boot cdrom or floppy lying around, your best bet is to boot into "fixit" mode, and mount the drive read-write containing your /etc directory. Use vi or similar to edit /etc/ttys and reboot into single user mode. Hope that helps. Jamie > Hi... > I prevent booting FreeBSD

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-19 Thread Ashutosh S. Rajekar
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > Don't worry about the MMU. Tests have shown that while 4MB pages are > nice, the performance boost is relatively minor. The kernel maps itself > using 4MB pages but normal 4K pte's are used for kernel allocations. > > What you are doin