Re: [PATCH] Relevance of 8254 calibration.

2001-11-27 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Warner Losh wrote: The higher levels of NetBSD does this if you are running ntpd. Ditto Linux. Thanks for the pointer, i'm going to check out the NTP stuff in both OS' just now. I measure phase differences in oscelators to sub-pico second level in my day job :-). ahh

Re: [PATCH] Relevance of 8254 calibration.

2001-11-27 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Warner Losh wrote: Yes. Almost *ALL* PCs in the field aren't exactly 11931282Hz. There's a lot of variance in this. PC have such crappy oscillators that calibration is required. The slight variation can be as large as +-300Hz, which is huge. :-(. But I'm a little

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Re: BPF - Packet Reception

2001-11-27 Thread Rajesh P Jain
Thanks for all the replies. In linux, the packet reception can be done efficiently through the usage of ethernet sockets. In FreeBSD, one of the option is by using the BPF. But, as already commented, BPF is not a high performance device. So, Can anyone give an alternative

Re: BPF - Packet Reception

2001-11-27 Thread Harti Brandt
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Rajesh P Jain wrote: RPJThanks for all the replies. RPJ RPJIn linux, the packet reception can be done efficiently through the usage of ethernet sockets. RPJ RPJ In FreeBSD, one of the option is by using the BPF. But, as already commented, BPF is not a high

Re: compare and contrast vmware and jail ?

2001-11-27 Thread Trent Nelson
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 02:11:42PM -0700, Joesh Juphland wrote: I am going to be setting up four freeBSD servers as a test environment - they need to be totally isolated machines. However, I would like to see if I can do all of this on one server. The choice that comes to mind

RE: compare and contrast vmware and jail ?

2001-11-27 Thread Koster, K.J.
Dear Trent, (Yeah, ok, I'll keep going. My Linux VM actually builds our work system up to ten minutes quicker than running Linux na- tively on the same machine. Make of that what you will!) Umm. Have you tried to build it under linux-compat in FreeBSD? Sounds like it's worth the

Re: compare and contrast vmware and jail ?

2001-11-27 Thread Trent Nelson
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 12:52:16PM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: Dear Trent, (Yeah, ok, I'll keep going. My Linux VM actually builds our work system up to ten minutes quicker than running Linux na- tively on the same machine. Make of that what you will!) Umm. Have you tried

Re: BPF - Packet Reception

2001-11-27 Thread sthaug
In linux, the packet reception can be done efficiently through the usage of ethernet sockets. In FreeBSD, one of the option is by using the BPF. But, as already commented, BPF is not a high performance device. It sounds like you're saying that BPF is less efficient than Linux

Re: tar and nodump flag

2001-11-27 Thread Walter C. Pelissero
David O'Brien writes: On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:18:42PM +, Walter C. Pelissero wrote: How about adding the nodump flag processing in tar? This would be a *bad* idea. It would diverge our tar even more than it already is -- which is so bad it isn't trival to update to the

Re: tar and nodump flag

2001-11-27 Thread Harti Brandt
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Walter C. Pelissero wrote: WCPDavid O'Brien writes: WCP On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:18:42PM +, Walter C. Pelissero wrote: WCP How about adding the nodump flag processing in tar? WCP WCP This would be a *bad* idea. It would diverge our tar even more WCP than it

Re: tar and nodump flag

2001-11-27 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:30:25PM +, Walter C. Pelissero wrote: Does it mean we can't modify the BSD tar because it's already too different from the GNU tar, but at the same time we don't upgrade to the new GNU tar because it might require too much work adapting the old mods to the new

Re: tar and nodump flag

2001-11-27 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:45:38PM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: Perhaps it makes sense to switch to star instead? The last version is Posix conform, supports extended headers and ACLs. According to the star developer (Joerg Schilling) GNU tar is severly broken. Star is GLP'ed software. Thus

malloc deadlock with M_NOWAIT

2001-11-27 Thread Zhihui Zhang
I am trying to allocate a dynamic number of large memory (128K) by malloc(128K, M_xxx, M_NOWAIT). Although this is not done in an interrupt routine, I figure I'd better use M_NOWAIT so that I can deal with the situation when the memory is low. However, I experience the following deadlock: #1

Re: Fiskars UPS - solution!

2001-11-27 Thread Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
doc. dr. Marjan Mihelin, dipl. ing. wrote: Hi We are using from 1993 Fiskars UPS 0.8 A UPS unit (Type UPS 1008A- 10EU, PartNo: 10 02 891 Rev A1, SerNo: 119355 9345, Made in Finland) and few days ago the Battery failure control light started blinking. We replaced accus (5 pcs 12V

help

2001-11-27 Thread Andrey Pugachev
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Re: help

2001-11-27 Thread Geoff Mohler
Uhh..with what? On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Andrey Pugachev wrote: help To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message --- Geoff Mohler To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of

Re: BPF - Packet Reception

2001-11-27 Thread Julian Elischer
netgraph? On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Rajesh P Jain wrote: Thanks for all the replies. In linux, the packet reception can be done efficiently through the usage of ethernet sockets. In FreeBSD, one of the option is by using the BPF. But, as already commented, BPF is not a high

Re: help

2001-11-27 Thread PSI, Mike Smith
Take it easy on the poor guy! There have been many an occasion when all I could say was help...actually help m plse. Of course never when dealing with FreeBSD! (not the) Mike Smith Geoff Mohler wrote: Uhh..with what? On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Andrey Pugachev wrote:

FreeBSD4.4, fxp, no net after ifconfig for ~50 seconds (fwd)

2001-11-27 Thread David Kirchner
Hi, This problem is still ongoing; unfortunately I haven't seen a reply about it from questions. Maybe someone here knows what's up? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:08:38 -0800 (PST) From: David Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Does FreeBSD support copy-on-write pages?

2001-11-27 Thread Andrey Pugachev
I am just curious, can FreeBSD kernel perform function called copy-on-write pages in Windows NT world? This is tricky feature of NT memory manager. When several processes (or threads) allocate identical write-enabled memory pages, system does not allocate physical memory for each process data at

RE: FreeBSD4.4, fxp, no net after ifconfig for ~50 seconds (fwd)

2001-11-27 Thread Daniel Manesajian
Seeing the tcpdump would be informative. D-man -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Kirchner Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 10:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD4.4, fxp, no net after ifconfig for ~50 seconds (fwd)

Re: Does FreeBSD support copy-on-write pages?

2001-11-27 Thread setantae
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:54:17PM -, Andrey Pugachev wrote: I am just curious, can FreeBSD kernel perform function called copy-on-write? As far as I am aware, the BSD family of operating systems have always used copy-on-write (at least since 4.3BSD). Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To

Re: Does FreeBSD support copy-on-write pages?

2001-11-27 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, setantae wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:54:17PM -, Andrey Pugachev wrote: I am just curious, can FreeBSD kernel perform function called copy-on-write? As far as I am aware, the BSD family of operating systems have always used copy-on-write (at least since

Re: Does FreeBSD support copy-on-write pages?

2001-11-27 Thread setantae
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:31:31PM +0100, Gérard Roudier wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, setantae wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:54:17PM -, Andrey Pugachev wrote: I am just curious, can FreeBSD kernel perform function called copy-on-write? As far as I am aware, the BSD family

Possible vmopar bug? (was malloc deadlock with M_NOWAIT)

2001-11-27 Thread Zhihui Zhang
VM gurus: This seems to be bug! This morning I sent an email (attached below) regarding a hang at the vmopar state. While waiting for responses, I use Google Advanced Groups Search looking for vmopar in all FreeBSD archived mailing lists and I did find the following message posted by Xavier

Re: FreeBSD4.4, fxp, no net after ifconfig for ~50 seconds (fwd)

2001-11-27 Thread Marko Zec
As Cisco switches have STP enabled by default on all ports, maybe a reboot of an 4.4 system is seen as a change in link state, so Catalyst holds the port STP-blocked for a couple of seconds before putting it to forwarding state. Did you try disabling STP on Catalyst eth ports? Marko David

RE: Does FreeBSD support copy-on-write pages?

2001-11-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 27-Nov-2001 Andrey Pugachev wrote: I am just curious, can FreeBSD kernel perform function called copy-on-write pages in Windows NT world? This is tricky feature of NT memory manager. When several processes (or threads) allocate identical write-enabled memory pages, system does not

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Re: Does FreeBSD support copy-on-write pages?

2001-11-27 Thread Andrey Pugachev
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FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Lehey
I've just been talking with a friend of mine from the Samba team. He's about to change jobs, and a lot of his work in future will involve FreeBSD. He's just been doing some performance testing, and while the numbers are pretty even (since he discovered soft updates :-), he's noticing some

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-27 Thread KERBERUS
Sign me up Greg, I would love to assist, I also have performance tuned many systems even in a very secured state, just to get the last ounce out of them. Id be hapy to read/review on the results anyone has. Greg Lehey wrote: I've just been talking with a friend of mine from the Samba team.

RE: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-27 Thread EB
I'd be interested in the results, as well as potential for tuning that may not be general knowledge (i.e. not mentioned in tuning(7)). Regards. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of KERBERUS Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 4:11 PM To: Greg

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-27 Thread Nate Williams
I've just been talking with a friend of mine from the Samba team. He's about to change jobs, and a lot of his work in future will involve FreeBSD. He's just been doing some performance testing, and while the numbers are pretty even (since he discovered soft updates :-), he's noticing some

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nate Williams write s: Note, some of the performance issues were made better by disabling the TCP newreno implementation, but it's still poor and very inconsistent for hosts not on the local network, while the Linux box next to it gets much more consistent results.

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-27 Thread Wes Peters
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:41:18 -0700 Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I'm seeing this as well. However, this appears to be a new occurance, as we were using a FreeBSD 3.X system for our reference test platform. I recently updated it to FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE, and I'm getting

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-27 Thread Nate Williams
Note, some of the performance issues were made better by disabling the TCP newreno implementation, but it's still poor and very inconsistent for hosts not on the local network, while the Linux box next to it gets much more consistent results. For what it's worth I have disabled newreno at

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 28 November 2001 at 1:56:14 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:41:18 -0700 Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I'm seeing this as well. However, this appears to be a new occurance, as we were using a FreeBSD 3.X system for our reference test platform.

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-27 Thread Nate Williams
FWIW, I'm seeing this as well. However, this appears to be a new occurance, as we were using a FreeBSD 3.X system for our reference test platform. I recently updated it to FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE, and I'm getting nothing but complaints about broken connections, poor performance, and very