Re: general ethernet driver changes

2001-09-03 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> Did you have opportunity to play with the soft interrupt > coalescing we discussed? Did this message just leak to a mailing list, or would you be able to expand this (or pass a pointer to mailing lists where this was discussed) ? thanks luigi > I was able to remove a third of

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-03 Thread Terry Lambert
David O'Brien wrote: > > > Well, since it didn't, I might as well explain the problem here too. > > > There are at least two major problems with VIA chips: > > > > [data curruption on VIA KT133/133A systems by pushing PCI and memory bus] > > > > Are you sure about that? > > I am. I was having da

Re: MFC request (was Re: symlink(2) [Was: Re: tcsh.cat])

2001-09-03 Thread Maxim Konovalov
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Eugene L. Vorokov wrote: > > I comitted a fix to -current two months ago. It's still in my -stable > > tree... if Jordan gives the O.K., I will MFC it to -stable. > > > > -Matt > > Erm, sorry, but what does MFC mean here ? I

Re: general ethernet driver changes

2001-09-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Did you have opportunity to play with the soft interrupt coalescing we discussed? I was able to remove a third of the interrupt overhead from the Tigon III driver, using the approach we discussed at the user group meeting two months back. It looks to be a serious win... and it appears to be appl

Re: MFC request (was Re: symlink(2) [Was: Re: tcsh.cat])

2001-09-03 Thread Eugene L. Vorokov
> I comitted a fix to -current two months ago. It's still in my -stable > tree... if Jordan gives the O.K., I will MFC it to -stable. > > -Matt Erm, sorry, but what does MFC mean here ? I see this term used a lot and I can even guess what it

Re: signal handling descrpancy (FreeBSD oaf fix/Evolution)

2001-09-03 Thread Terry Lambert
David O'Brien wrote: > > Hi Hackers, et.al. > > The PIM Evolution, http://www.ximian.com/products/ximian_evolution/, > does not run on FreeBSD. The authors have made a change so that it will. > However, we would like to know if FreeBSD is the odd-man-out, or if the > authors were lucky Evolutio

Re: Promise ATA attaches UDMA66, but not UDMA33

2001-09-03 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems David Gilbert wrote: > I've got a promise ATA-66 controller. According to it's bios screen, > the hard drives attached to it are UDMA-4 and the two CD-type devices > are UDMA-2. All four devices are attached with ATA-66 cabling. I > also have "hw.ata.atapi_dma=1" in loader.conf. > > I

Re: .so and threads, and stereo /dev/dsp, freebsd 4.3-stable.

2001-09-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Faried Nawaz wrote: > Next: the OSS plugin builds but doesn't seem to work properly. At > some point, it tries to set /dev/dsp to stereo, and fails: > > tmp = 0; > if (shm->channels == 2) > tmp = 1; > rc = ioctl (audio_fd, SNDCTL_DSP_STEREO, &tmp); >

Re: SO_REUSEPORT on unicast UDP sockets

2001-09-03 Thread Terry Lambert
"Vladimir A. Jakovenko" wrote: > > Hello! > > According to UNPv1 SO_REUSEPORT on UDP sockets can be used to bind more than > one socket to the same port (even with same source ip address). But quick > look on /sys/netinet/udp_usrreq.c function udp_input() shows that this will > work as expec

Re: sysent in fork()

2001-09-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Evan Sarmiento wrote: > > Hey, > > I have a question about sysent. If a modification > to a processes p->p_sysent and associated substructures > are made, are the changes propagated through fork > to children? Yes, for fork(). You probably wanted to ask about exec(), though... the answer for e

Re: What is VT_TFS?

2001-09-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Terry Lambert writes: > >Zhihui Zhang wrote: > >> > >> What is the file system that uses VT_TFS in vnode.h? Is it still available > >> on FreeBSD? Thanks. > > > >Julian added it for TRW Financial Services; > > And "TFS" means "Truly e

Re: What is VT_TFS?

2001-09-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Terry Lambert wrote: > > Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > What is the file system that uses VT_TFS in vnode.h? Is it still available > > on FreeBSD? Thanks. > > Julian added it for TRW Financial Services; the first public > reference machine for 386BSD (which later became FreeBSD and > NetBSD) was r

System build script

2001-09-03 Thread Chad David
I've written a script that handles the complete updating of an existing system from a cvsup through to reboot, and I thought I would check and see if anybody else was interested enough for me to make it public (maybe as a port). I also updated mergemaster to read from a config file so that it can

Re: What is VT_TFS?

2001-09-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Terry Lambert writes: >Zhihui Zhang wrote: >> >> What is the file system that uses VT_TFS in vnode.h? Is it still available >> on FreeBSD? Thanks. > >Julian added it for TRW Financial Services; And "TFS" means "Truly evil File System" :-) It should be nuked now

Re: What is VT_TFS?

2001-09-03 Thread Terry Lambert
Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > What is the file system that uses VT_TFS in vnode.h? Is it still available > on FreeBSD? Thanks. Julian added it for TRW Financial Services; the first public reference machine for 386BSD (which later became FreeBSD and NetBSD) was ref.tfs.com. TRW supported a lot of the

lite2 syscallargs

2001-09-03 Thread Kyle Martin
Hello, I'll go ahead and apologize if this question has already been answered, but I didn't find anything in the list archive, but I was spelunking through the source tree and i noticed the following comment in sys/sys/sysent.h: /* placeholder till we integrate rest of lite2 syscallar

Re[2]: virtual consoles

2001-09-03 Thread Igor Podlesny
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 12:04:45PM +0200, Gunnar Olsson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> To increase number of xterms I thought. >> only the option MAXCONS could be changed. >> But even though I change it from 16 to 32, >> I still only get 16. >> >> Someone there who can give me I quick answer? > I thi

[hackers] Re: virtual consoles

2001-09-03 Thread David Gilbert
> "Peter" == Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 12:04:45PM +0200, Gunnar Olsson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> To increase number of xterms I thought. only the option MAXCONS >> could be changed. But even though I change it from 16 to 32, I >> still only get 16.

Promise ATA attaches UDMA66, but not UDMA33

2001-09-03 Thread David Gilbert
I've got a promise ATA-66 controller. According to it's bios screen, the hard drives attached to it are UDMA-4 and the two CD-type devices are UDMA-2. All four devices are attached with ATA-66 cabling. I also have "hw.ata.atapi_dma=1" in loader.conf. I get the following probe: ad6: 39266MB [

Re: Routing Performance?

2001-09-03 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:01:04PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > you do know that API just layed off (almost) all their alpha people, > right? > > alpha is dead. Thank compaq any time. > > ron (who owns 112 Compaq Alpha boxes, and 16 API CS20s) No I didn't. That's really sad. -- Leo Bickn

Re: Routing Performance?

2001-09-03 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > While not Intel, I understand the Alpha port is coming along nicely: > > > > http://www.api-networks.com/products/up1000-board.shtml > > http://www.api-networks.com/products/up1100-board.shtml > > http://www.api-networks.com/products/up2000-board

Re: gzipped crashdumps

2001-09-03 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:04:08PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:22:14AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > --- /dev/null Sat Sep 1 01:13:34 2001 > > > +++ zopen.c Sat Sep 1 01:10:14 2001 > > > @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ > > > +/* > > > + * Public domain stdio wrappe

Re: Patch to allow disabling logging of arp movements through sysctl

2001-09-03 Thread Josef Karthauser
You should really send this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cc'd). Filing a -PR is a good thing too, as you can always refer to the -PR number in any mail to the list. Joe On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 03:43:41PM -0600, Stephen Hurd wrote: > I've had a problem with my DSL connection for some time now, the brid

Re: Patch to allow disabling logging of arp movements through sysctl

2001-09-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Cool, I'll try to get this in later tonight, thanks for taking the time to do this. As far as methodology, filing a PR then bringing up on the lists if it goes unresolved for a couple of days is the prefered method. * Stephen Hurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010903 16:39] wrote: > I've had a problem wi

Patch to allow disabling logging of arp movements through sysctl

2001-09-03 Thread Stephen Hurd
I've had a problem with my DSL connection for some time now, the bridging they use appears to forward arp responses AND respond to arp requests. This ends up filling my log with: Sep 3 15:17:57 tw2 /kernel: arp: 216.13.207.2 moved from 00:06:29:d5:04:c7 to 00:10:b5:4f:d1:1a on rl0 Sep 3 15:17:

Re: gzipped crashdumps

2001-09-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:22:14AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > --- /dev/null Sat Sep 1 01:13:34 2001 > > +++ zopen.c Sat Sep 1 01:10:14 2001 > > @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ > > +/* > > + * Public domain stdio wrapper for libz, written by Johan Danielsson. > > + */ > > Can we add this to libz or

Re: Clock speedup on 4.X FreeBSD SMP and serverworks chipset

2001-09-03 Thread sthaug
> I tested your patch and it solved our problem 100%. There's no > timedrift anymore. > > Do you think the patch will make it in 4.4R. ? We need it urgently. I can confirm the solution to the time drift problem. Our Netfinity 5600 SMP servers with Serverworks LE chipset now stay nicely in sync.

Re: Firewire driver available

2001-09-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Katsushi Kobayashi wrote: > > I have uploaded the updated driver at: > > ftp://ftp.uec.ac.jp/pub/firewire/beta/firewire-bsd-5.0-20010903 > > Note that this driver is an as-is basis code, so there is no document for > users. Although the kernel patch includes a file

Re: Firewire driver available

2001-09-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Julian Elischer wrote: > > Katsushi Kobayashi wrote: > > > > I have uploaded the updated driver at: > > > > ftp://ftp.uec.ac.jp/pub/firewire/beta/firewire-bsd-5.0-20010903 > > This url fails for me.. found it at: ftp://ftp.uec.ac.jp/pub/firewir

Re: Firewire driver available

2001-09-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Katsushi Kobayashi wrote: > > I have uploaded the updated driver at: > > ftp://ftp.uec.ac.jp/pub/firewire/beta/firewire-bsd-5.0-20010903 This url fails for me.. > > -- ++ __ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer |

Re: Routing Performance?

2001-09-03 Thread Bsdguru
In a message dated 09/03/2001 10:49:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > While not Intel, I understand the Alpha port is coming along nicely: > > http://www.api-networks.com/products/up1000-board.shtml > http://www.api-networks.com/products/up1100-board.shtml > http://ww

Re: Via Chipset Fix

2001-09-03 Thread Jeremiah Gowdy
> Hmm, what you should try is change pci reg 0x76 of the K?133 chip, that is > most likely on pci0:0:0. Then using pciconf set bit 5 to 0 and bit 4 to 1, > the other bits should be left untouched. Does that help ? if not you > are probably having another problem > > -Søren Could I beg of you

Re: Via Chipset Fix

2001-09-03 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > I noticed the following thread about the Via chipset problem. I run a > production server off a Tyan Tiger 133A, which also has this problem. Tyan > does not have a BIOS fix, nor does it look like they ever will. When you > contact them, they point to the Window

Outdated comment in namei.h

2001-09-03 Thread Dima Dorfman
The following is from namei.h, around line 116 in -current (r1.30): /* * Namei parameter descriptors. * * SAVENAME may be set by either the callers of namei or by VOP_LOOKUP. * If the caller of namei sets the flag (for example execve wants to *

Via Chipset Fix

2001-09-03 Thread Jeremiah Gowdy
I noticed the following thread about the Via chipset problem. I run a production server off a Tyan Tiger 133A, which also has this problem. Tyan does not have a BIOS fix, nor does it look like they ever will. When you contact them, they point to the Windows driver fix. They don't seem to under

Re: Firewire driver available

2001-09-03 Thread Katsushi Kobayashi
I have uploaded the updated driver at: ftp://ftp.uec.ac.jp/pub/firewire/beta/firewire-bsd-5.0-20010903 Note that this driver is an as-is basis code, so there is no document for users. Although the kernel patch includes a file name as "sbp.c", this code does not support any fir

Re: Routing Performance?

2001-09-03 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:42:57AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which MBs have you found/tested with 64bit PCI busses? While not Intel, I understand the Alpha port is coming along nicely: http://www.api-networks.com/products/up1000-board.shtml http://www.api-networks.com/products/up1100-bo

Re: Routing Performance?

2001-09-03 Thread Bsdguru
In a message dated 9/1/01 8:41:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The new P4s are shipping with 800mhz RAMBUS memory modules. Wouldn't 2GB of > 800mhz RAM go a long way to evening out the performance between a PC/FreeBSD > box and all but the most specialized, packet-pus

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-03 Thread Moran, Chris
This might be a dumb question, but if a fix exists in the linux world, should there not be code available? If so, could this code be integrated (by someone far more skillful than yours truly) into a future release? Cheers, - Original Message - From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: virtual consoles

2001-09-03 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 12:04:45PM +0200, Gunnar Olsson wrote: > Hi, > > To increase number of xterms I thought. > only the option MAXCONS could be changed. > But even though I change it from 16 to 32, > I still only get 16. > > Someone there who can give me I quick answer? I think this is the

virtual consoles

2001-09-03 Thread Gunnar Olsson
Hi, To increase number of xterms I thought. only the option MAXCONS could be changed. But even though I change it from 16 to 32, I still only get 16. Someone there who can give me I quick answer? Best Regards, Gunnar To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-h