IPSEC sucking up memory

2001-10-06 Thread Terry Lambert
While investigating a problem, I noticed that the IPSEC code is initializing the sp -- even when no one is using IPSEC. Is there a good reason why this is not late-bound, and the IPSEC code is initializing and copying and checking the security policy pointer, even in the absense of actual use of

IPSEC code error

2001-10-06 Thread Terry Lambert
On a related topic, there appears to be a code error in the IPSEC code. Specifically, the priv flag is set to 1 if the user is root and the socket is non-null (this lets the code be called from the bridging code as well, so ignore the first half of the if test, and concentrate on the uid == 0

scheduling

2001-10-06 Thread Anjali Kulkarni
Hi, I am trying to use the sched_yield/ksched_yield function in the kernel, and it returns a success value, but actually does not yield to another process. I suppose this is because the kernel process is higher priority than any user level process??(Like I try and login from another

scheduling

2001-10-06 Thread Anjali Kulkarni
I forgot to mention, the kernel is 4.3 so it runs to completion, (no pre-emption). I just want to know if ksched_yield can be used like the general purpose 'yield', which did yield in the kernel. Anjali

FreeBSD license plate

2001-10-06 Thread Andrew J Caines
For your amusement, I now have http://halplant.com:88/images/license_plate.png Actually, they also have the big grey Powered by... FreeBSD sticker to the right of the letters, the mustard yellow square one on the bottom left (under the yellow square date sticker in the top left) and