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2001-11-29 Thread Eugene L. Vorokov
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RE: (no subject)

2001-11-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 8:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (no subject) The concept that netgraph hooks are a leg up on say, ETs

Re: (no subject)

2001-11-29 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:27:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The concept that netgraph hooks are a leg up on say, ETs drivers that have integrated bandwidth management and prioritization, WAN bridging support, load balancing and a probably 25% performance advantage is a bit

Re: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-29 Thread Makoto Matsushita
iedowse ... but only if you spend most of your time running CPU benchmarks :-) That's right :-) iedowse On slower CPUs (I was using a 400MHz PII), the interrupts can iedowse soak up virtually all of the available processing capacity iedowse without the patch. I suspect this effect is

Re: add some constraints in cpufunc.h

2001-11-29 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:38:35AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: On 21-Nov-01 David Xu wrote: 4.4-stable, file sys/i386/include/cpufunc.h, --- cpufunc.h.orig Wed Nov 21 13:35:36 2001 +++ cpufunc.h Wed Nov 21 15:00:12 2001 @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ { u_int result; -

Re: Intel gigabit driver

2001-11-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:34:37PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: CDROM installs are most likely going to use cdldr soon so we will have the entire module suite available from loader. For boot floppies we should probably use the one that is smaller on disk.. but we also have the the embryonic

Re: tar and nodump flag

2001-11-29 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Harti Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Unfortunately, star has it's own share of problems: - A

Re: Intel gigabit driver

2001-11-29 Thread John Baldwin
On 29-Nov-01 Leo Bicknell wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:34:37PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: CDROM installs are most likely going to use cdldr soon so we will have the entire module suite available from loader. For boot floppies we should probably use the one that is smaller on disk.. but

Re: add some constraints in cpufunc.h

2001-11-29 Thread John Baldwin
On 29-Nov-01 Peter Pentchev wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:38:35AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: On 21-Nov-01 David Xu wrote: 4.4-stable, file sys/i386/include/cpufunc.h, --- cpufunc.h.orig Wed Nov 21 13:35:36 2001 +++ cpufunc.h Wed Nov 21 15:00:12 2001 @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@

Re: FreeBSD on vmware

2001-11-29 Thread Makoto Matsushita
glenngombert I could not even get 'Current' to boot at all under glenngombert VMware 3.0 without applying the patch that was mentioned glenngombert a couple weeks ago under Win2K... What goes wrong to you? Unable to boot with boot floppies? -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send

Re: tar and nodump flag

2001-11-29 Thread fergus
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. Unfortunately, star has it's own share of problems: - A highly idiosyncratic command

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-29 Thread Nate Williams
I started noticing some TCP weirdness when I moved my bandwidth stats site from my office to my colo facility last week. The colo is five miles away by road and 1200 miles away by network. Netscape would stop for seconds at a time while loading the graph images but there was no

Re: (no subject)

2001-11-29 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I mentioned above, we CAN license the driver code and the DDK for development. This means that you could produce FreeBSD drivers which we could then distribute in a binary form under a free end-user license. Frankly this is the only way

Re: Intel gigabit driver

2001-11-29 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:04:45AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: Yes, it's called the mini-iso and is basically the first CD w/o any ports or packages. The last one I built for current that didn't include Xfree86 was about 200 Meg. That also didn't include the ports collection or any of the

Re: Intel gigabit driver

2001-11-29 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andre Oppermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happend at Intel? Their driver is even released under the BSD license! (and the Linux one under the GPL) That last bit is incorrect. The Intel driver for Linux is released under a 3-clause BSD license. John --

Re: (no subject)

2001-11-29 Thread Eric Melville
The concept that netgraph hooks are a leg up on say, ETs drivers that have integrated bandwidth management and prioritization, WAN bridging support, load balancing and a probably 25% performance advantage is a bit entertaining. Unless you need to do some convoluted encapsulation netgraph

Re: tar and nodump flag (fwd)

2001-11-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
From: fergus [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Unfortunately, star has it's own share of problems: - A

Re: tar and nodump flag (fwd)

2001-11-29 Thread Nate Williams
Of course, if you only know GNUtar Star's standard option handling _may_ look strange. But then why did FreBSD switch to GNUtar instead of keeping a real tar? Because there didn't exist a real tar at the time that FreeBSD was created. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Netgraph performance

2001-11-29 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Netgraph is a prototyping tool, which has enough performance to be useful in non-performance-critical applications. (such as all sync interfaces). It is not designed for gigabit interfaces etc. You are selling Netgraph

contiguous memory of a buffer

2001-11-29 Thread Zhihui Zhang
I am wondering whether we need contiguous memory for a PHYSICAL buffer to perform the DMA I/O. It seems not, because regular buffers can be consisted of non-contiguous pages. The disk driver should treat both kinds of buffers in the same way. So can I say that any buffers used by kernel (via

Re: tar and nodump flag (fwd)

2001-11-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 29 21:11:16 2001 Of course, if you only know GNUtar Star's standard option handling _may_ look strange. But then why did FreBSD switch to GNUtar instead of keeping a real tar? Because there didn't exist a real tar at the time that FreeBSD was created. Well

re: intel gigabit driver

2001-11-29 Thread Hiten Pandya
hi all... i was asking... it might sound daft... is the driver already existing in the -CURRENT repository... my main point is... when are we going to put the entry for it in devices.c for src/usr.sbin/sysinstall thanks... regards... Hiten Pandya [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tar and nodump flag (fwd)

2001-11-29 Thread Nate Williams
Of course, if you only know GNUtar Star's standard option handling _may_ look strange. But then why did FreBSD switch to GNUtar instead of keeping a real tar? Because there didn't exist a real tar at the time that FreeBSD was created. Well this is from BSD-4.3: [ SNIP ] ... And it

Re: Netgraph performance

2001-11-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Polstra writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Netgraph is a prototyping tool, which has enough performance to be useful in non-performance-critical applications. (such as all sync interfaces). It is not designed for

Re: Netgraph performance

2001-11-29 Thread Julian Elischer
Thanks! :-) The fact that it works in high speed applications is a pleasant side effect of the fact that we tried REALLY HARD to make if low-ish overhead, but we really originally wrote it for T1 speed devices (and lower). The main design goal was to try make it easy for people to reconfigure it

RE: (no subject)

2001-11-29 Thread Hiten Pandya
hi, i am butting in the argument half way but... although i am new to FreeBSD... what i am saying is... even if intel's driver is better... i dont care about that because... after all, thats their device... so.. of course they will make the device driver better ecause they were the ones who

Re: tar and nodump flag

2001-11-29 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Christian Weisgerber wrote: - It doesn't support incremental backups. That isn't a problem in itself, but it's a feature our GNU tar currently has and people probably don't want to lose. It's a feature that is essential that FreeBSD doesn't lose IMO. Those of us who

Re: (no subject)

2001-11-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Eric Melville [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011129 13:59] wrote: The concept that netgraph hooks are a leg up on say, ETs drivers that have integrated bandwidth management and prioritization, WAN bridging support, load balancing and a probably 25% performance advantage is a bit entertaining.

Re: (no subject)

2001-11-29 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:27:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lets face it. If you were going to sit down and design an interface for frame relay, multi-protocol support, etc, you'd have to be smoking something pretty strong to come up with netgraph. But its free and there is source,

Re: tar and nodump flag (fwd)

2001-11-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 29 21:25:58 2001 Of course, if you only know GNUtar Star's standard option handling _may_ look strange. But then why did FreBSD switch to GNUtar instead of keeping a real tar? Because there didn't exist a real tar at the time that FreeBSD was created.

Re: contiguous memory of a buffer

2001-11-29 Thread mark tinguely
I am wondering whether we need contiguous memory for a PHYSICAL buffer to perform the DMA I/O. yes. The DMA request should either not cross a physical page or if the request does cross a physical page, those pages must be contiguous. the exception to this is if your DMA card has a memory

Re: (no subject)

2001-11-29 Thread Eric Melville
Just for historical reasons I have a question... Is Dennis and Elder Troll or was he cast of the fire and brimstone of the BSDi dissolution? Dennis does something along the lines of building wan cards and selling them for a number of systems, including FreeBSD. The ironic part, of course,

Re: tar and nodump flag

2001-11-29 Thread Jim Bryant
fergus wrote: - It doesn't support incremental backups. That isn't a problem in itself, but it's a feature our GNU tar currently has and people probably don't want to lose. I dunno... The entire incremental thing in tar is dependant on NOT using compression, which IMHO makes it pretty

Timedout SCB already complete

2001-11-29 Thread Zhihui Zhang
While running my KLD that does a lot of I/O, I see the following message: ahc0: Timedout SCB already complete. interrupts may not be functioning. This happens after my KLD runs a while. What could be the problem? Where could the bugs likely exist? Thanks for any clue. -Zhihui To

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-29 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:09:58AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: I started noticing some TCP weirdness when I moved my bandwidth stats site from my office to my colo facility last week. The colo is five miles away by road and 1200 miles away by network. Netscape would stop for seconds at

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-29 Thread Pierre Beyssac
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:42:34AM -0500, John Capo wrote: sent. find / -print | dd obs=1 will screw up within a few seconds and stay that way. Netstat in another ssh session shows data ready to go: Hmm, some ssh versions tend to hang randomly on lossy links (in the protocol perhaps, but I

RE: Intel gigabit Driver

2001-11-29 Thread A180009977889
In a message dated 11/29/2001 7:16:17 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, let me give you something else to put in your pipe and smoke. :-) I've spent about $800 on a few WANic 4xx cards (used, I'll grant) precisely because source for the driver is available. I

RE: Netgraph

2001-11-29 Thread A180009977889
In a message dated 11/29/2001 7:30:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lets face it. If you were going to sit down and design an interface for frame relay, multi-protocol support, etc, you'd have to be smoking something pretty strong to come up with netgraph.

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-29 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 01:03:54AM +0100, Pierre Beyssac wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:42:34AM -0500, John Capo wrote: sent. find / -print | dd obs=1 will screw up within a few seconds and stay that way. Netstat in another ssh session shows data ready to go: Hmm, some ssh versions

Whos the list coward???

2001-11-29 Thread A180009977889
Whos the pimply-faced moron who keeps blocking my addresses...are you hiding behind your computer and feeling important? You are aware that there are an infinite number of email addresses, right? db To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-29 Thread John Capo
The behavior is different in a telnet session as is executing ssh server 'find / -print | dd obs=1'. Telnet pauses but not as long, the ssh command saturates my fractional T. What I am seeing may not be related to the issues Greg brought up at all. But it does seem odd to me that a window of

Re: Whos the list coward???

2001-11-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011129 18:58] wrote: Whos the pimply-faced moron who keeps blocking my addresses...are you hiding behind your computer and feeling important? Dennis, be assured if I had the access I would have done it a long time ago. You are aware that there are an

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-29 Thread Pierre Beyssac
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:44:14PM +, Josh Paetzel wrote: Could you try the same in a telnet or rsh connection? I bet it will work. This gives me the same 1.5megs/sec I am getting with ftp. Doesn't matter whether I use ssh or telnet. Hmm, sorry, looks like I misunderstood John's

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-29 Thread Pierre Beyssac
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:25:47AM +0100, Pierre Beyssac wrote: This is consistent with the value in the backlog shown by netstat, What is the value of net.inet.tcp.sendspace on the server? It's 16K Uh, it wouldn't harm, but it won't do much good either on your example. Actually I should

Re: Whos the list coward???

2001-11-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 07:58:25PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whos the pimply-faced moron who keeps blocking my addresses...are you hiding behind your computer and feeling important? You are aware that there are an infinite number of email addresses, right? db Dennis, The FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:25:47AM +0100, Pierre Beyssac wrote: What is the value of net.inet.tcp.sendspace on the server? It's 16K on -stable, it should be very interesting to try and increase it to 32K or 64K, it makes a lot difference on high bw*delay links. *grumble* I'll try to avoid my

re: netgraph

2001-11-29 Thread Julian Elischer
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The concept that netgraph hooks are a leg up on say, ETs drivers that have integrated bandwidth management and prioritization, WAN bridging support, load balancing and a probably 25% performance advantage is a bit entertaining. Unless you

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-29 Thread Pierre Beyssac
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:42:25PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote: *grumble* I'll try to avoid my tirade. 16K _will cause problems for virtually all users_. You can do the math and see it won't keep a T1 full across country. I can't reproduce this result, 16K fills a T1 for 11 ms, which is

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:23:45AM +0100, Pierre Beyssac wrote: I can't reproduce this result, 16K fills a T1 for 11 ms, which is 22000 km (at 2/3 of light speed), enough to get halfway round the earth... Your math is a little funny. 4000 km New York to LA c = 300,000 km/sec Speed of light

RE: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-29 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
If you give me your IP address, I can ping *from* Columbia.edu to your machine and see what I get, that should pretty much solve any issues that may arise. -- Jonathan - Jonathan Slivko - Voyager Internet - www.voyageri.net Web Hosting - Web

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-29 Thread Geoff Mohler
Dont forget the latencies introduced by routing hardware..Id not expect the average DSL modem to be to snappy about its internal packet forwarding performance. http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html Thats a good read On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote: On Fri, Nov 30,

Re[2]: misc/31575: wrong src ip address for some ICMPs

2001-11-29 Thread Igor M Podlesny
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 08:10:25PM -0800, Igor M Podlesny wrote: hm.. it seems somebody has multiplied my timezone by -1 ;-) You might observe this bug doing traceroute while standing behind a GW's interface with several IP-addresses (aliases). In this case you always got ICMP.TIMXCEED

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-29 Thread Sergey Babkin
John Capo wrote: Now this thread comes along and I realize there is something wrong so I did a little testing. find / -print on one of my servers in a ssh session will fill the pipe to my office, 256K frame, and run nicely then get into the starting and stopping mode after a good amount

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-29 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, John Capo wrote: [TCP weirdness] I see exactly the same behavior on 3 -stable machines running kernels from late October and early November. Another -stable machine with a kernel from late September does pause but not as consistently as the later kernel machines

A comparison of Samba performance on FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE and Linux 2.4.13ac4

2001-11-29 Thread Richard Sharpe
Hi, attached is a preliminary report on a comparison of Samba performance on FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE and Linux 2.4.13ac4. I have posted it because I promised to do so, however, I think you should take the numbers with a grain of salt. It demonstrates that overall, for the client tests I did

kernel realloc() ?

2001-11-29 Thread Archie Cobbs
For a project I'm working on, we need a kernel version of realloc(). Two questions: #1 Does the patch below look correct? #2 If so, is this something worth committing? Thanks for any comments. -Archie __ Archie

Re: A comparison of Samba performance on FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE and Linux 2.4.13ac4

2001-11-29 Thread Peter Wemm
Richard Sharpe wrote: attached is a preliminary report on a comparison of Samba performance on FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE and Linux 2.4.13ac4. Are you aware that 4.3-RELEASE has IDE drive write caching turned off by default? What was the Linux system configured with? 4.4-RELEASE has it back on

more on jail - suitable for multi user system ?

2001-11-29 Thread Joesh Juphland
One thing I would like to do as a hobby is start a classic multi-user unix system and giving out shell accounts to whoever wants one. Not a money maker, of course, but it would be fun. My question: does anyone have any comments on using `jail` in a public environment like this - that is,

Re: more on jail - suitable for multi user system ?

2001-11-29 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Joesh Juphland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011130 01:17] wrote: One thing I would like to do as a hobby is start a classic multi-user unix system and giving out shell accounts to whoever wants one. Not a money maker, of course, but it would be fun. Jail will do pretty much what you want either

detecting linux emulation in rtld.c?

2001-11-29 Thread Lamont Granquist
can anyone suggest a method of determining inside libexec/rtld-elf/rtld.c if a binary being run is native or linux emulation? i'd like to be able to write code which basically does: if (IsNativeCode()) PreloadSomeLibraries() any suggestions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]