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2001-12-01 Thread postmaster
Lexan Software Inc. Dear Sir or Madam: We have allowed ourselves to write to you because you have posted your e-mail address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to the following Web page: http://www.freebsd.org/./platforms/index.html If

Re: UDMA33 and SiS5591 on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE

2001-12-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 2 December 2001 at 17:53:37 +1030, Richard Sharpe wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Saturday, 1 December 2001 at 13:05:53 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: >> >>> It seems Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: >>> Hi, I've got a box which boots up with UDMA33 but during the boot sequence

Re: UDMA33 and SiS5591 on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE

2001-12-01 Thread Richard Sharpe
Greg Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 1 December 2001 at 13:05:53 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > >>It seems Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> I've got a box which boots up with UDMA33 but during the boot >>>sequence gets write problems and ends up disabling it and i presume >>>falling back to

Re: Make RELEASE broken?

2001-12-01 Thread Makoto Matsushita
You may want to mention that which branch (5-current, 4-stable, etc) you wanna try. Also you may want to clear that when you sup your code. kerberus> ===> share/doc/usd/13.viref kerberus> make: don't know how to make ref.so. Stop kerberus> *** Error code 2 src/contrib/nvi/docs/USD.doc/vi.ref/r

Notwork solutions (was: who is "postmaster"?)

2001-12-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 1 December 2001 at 1:21:04 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > >> Julian Elischer wrote: >>> >>> I've tried getting information about our (FreeBSD) mail >>> system by mailing to "postmaster" but no-one answers.. >>> >>> so, who IS the postmaster

Re: UDMA33 and SiS5591 on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE

2001-12-01 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
Had to go home to get the messages. Whilst i was there i examined the verbose boot and pinpointed the DMA problem to the PIO cdrom i have (i thought it was a UDMA one). Removing that from the same cable fixed the DMA problem. Thanks for your time. But hopefully this might still help you with my dr

UDMA33 and SiS5591 on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE

2001-12-01 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
Hi, I've got a box which boots up with UDMA33 but during the boot sequence gets write problems and ends up disabling it and i presume falling back to PIO4. I've tested the same box on Linux 2.4.2+ and have had no problems running it at UDMA33. Host: SiS 5591 (revision?) Disk: Seagate 3.2G

SiS 5591/3.2G FreeBSD 4.4-REL geometry problems.

2001-12-01 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
Hi, I've been trying to install FreeBSD 4.x on a box on of mine to no avail. Essentially its a drive geometry problem (Seagate 3.2G), FreeBSD "guesses" 6296/16/63 (which the BIOS (AMI) POST states it as as well, LBA enabled) but i end up being unable to mkfs filesystems (access beyond devi

Re: UDMA33 and SiS5591 on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE

2001-12-01 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Søren Schmidt wrote: > Ohhh, I need alot more info before I can tell whats going on.. > I need at least the dmesg from a verbosely booted system and > also a pciconf -l to tell what chips you have. Ok i can get the pciconf but how do i set the bootverbose flag? Thanks. Zwan

Re: contiguous memory of a buffer

2001-12-01 Thread Mike Smith
> > 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. Er, no. > the exception to this is if your DM

Re: Make RELEASE broken?

2001-12-01 Thread kerberus
It just fails ... touch _stamp.extraobjs (cd /usr/src/share/doc/usd/11.vitut/../../../../contrib/nvi/docs/USD.doc/edit; g roff -mtty-char -Tascii -t -ms -o1- /usr/src/share/doc/usd/11.vitut/../../../../ contrib/nvi/docs/USD.doc/edit/edittut.ms) | gzip -cn > paper.ascii.gz ===> share/doc/usd/12.v

Re: Patch #2 (was Re: Found the problem, w/patch (was Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?))

2001-12-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
Oh, I forgot to mention... there's still a bug. You have to turn off delayed acks to get the below numbers. Otherwise the window 0 recovery ack ... gets delayed. Joy. It's easy to fix, but I'm off to see Potter so it will be tonight.

Re: SSH stalls (was: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?)

2001-12-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :rxvt. :=20 : :Joe Ok, please try w/ patch #2 that I just posted (the fix is is on the client side... whoever is receiving the data). I only give it a 10% chance of solving the workstation 'ls' stall issue because ssh does not appear to use recv() w/ MSG_WAITALL. I can't rep

Patch #2 (was Re: Found the problem, w/patch (was Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?))

2001-12-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
Richard (and others), please try this patch. With this patch I get the following between two machines connected via a 100BaseTX switch (full duplex): test1:/home/dillon/dbench> ./tbench 1 test2 .1 clients started ..+* Throughput 6

Re: Found the problem, w/patch (was Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?)

2001-12-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
!@#%@#^%^$#^@#$%#@!$%!@%@#@# Whos the blasted bozo that broke TCP! :-) :-( I believe I have found another problem. It may not be related to this one but I sure hope it is. When the receiver's window contracts to zero causing the sender to stop transmitting, TCP stalls

Re: SSH stalls (was: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?)

2001-12-01 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
> I am not using compression and netstat -s confirms that it is really > resending data. I examined it a bit more now and it seems OpenSSH 2.5 is > sending a burst of small packets, each with 100 or 116 bytes > > 14:30:46.232151 server.22 > client.1525: P 30977:31077(100) ack 1144 win 24820 > 14

Re: [OT] alarm() question

2001-12-01 Thread Eric Melville
> Uh, I'm not sure what to make of that mangling of my name. However, I > think the pointer to Steven's book you provided may be the thing he > needs. I certainly don't know what he needs based on his followup. I'm really sorry for messing up your name like that. I suppose your domain name was st

Re: PCI device file. /dev/xxxx

2001-12-01 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 10:12:27AM -0500, Dragon Fire wrote: > > I have created a PCI device driver but I have a problem. The core code was > developed using the current make_device_driver.sh then modified to fill in > the details of the device. > > The problem is the make_dev call in attach is

Re: SSH stalls (was: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?)

2001-12-01 Thread Tomas Svensson
I am not using compression and netstat -s confirms that it is really resending data. I examined it a bit more now and it seems OpenSSH 2.5 is sending a burst of small packets, each with 100 or 116 bytes 14:30:46.232151 server.22 > client.1525: P 30977:31077(100) ack 1144 win 24820 14:30:46.23335

Re: [OT] alarm() question

2001-12-01 Thread Mike Meyer
Eric Melville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types: > > The system call is being interrupted, it just gets restarted right away by > > default. See Steven's "UNIX Network Programming" for a means of avoiding > > this behavior. > Of course, I'm completely wrong because we're not even talking about a > system

Re: Make RELEASE broken?

2001-12-01 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 05:05:21AM -0800, Seth Kingsley wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 01:22:35AM -0500, kerberus wrote: > > Okay ill ask again just in case nobody saw this! > > is make release broken in 4.4-STABLE ?? Or is there a definitive > > guide/FAQ on how to properly use make release to

PCI device file. /dev/xxxx

2001-12-01 Thread Dragon Fire
Hi Folks, A simple question. I have created a PCI device driver but I have a problem. The core code was developed using the current make_device_driver.sh then modified to fill in the details of the device. The problem is the make_dev call in attach is succeeding but not making the device node i

Re: problems installing on scsi disks ?

2001-12-01 Thread Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:02:24AM -0700, Joesh Juphland wrote: > > Vanilla x86 system with two identical scsi disks attached to a single 2940. > Installation is flawless - in custom install, I choose da0 and then da1, one > after the other, to partition. Again, I say, installation goes flawl

Re: Make RELEASE broken?

2001-12-01 Thread Seth Kingsley
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 01:22:35AM -0500, kerberus wrote: > Okay ill ask again just in case nobody saw this! > is make release broken in 4.4-STABLE ?? Or is there a definitive > guide/FAQ on how to properly use make release to cut a modified > distribution ? cause either im doing something wrong,

Re: UDMA33 and SiS5591 on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE

2001-12-01 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Søren Schmidt wrote: > > > Ohhh, I need alot more info before I can tell whats going on.. > > I need at least the dmesg from a verbosely booted system and > > also a pciconf -l to tell what chips you have. > > Ok i can get the pciconf but how

Re: UDMA33 and SiS5591 on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE

2001-12-01 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > Hi, > I've got a box which boots up with UDMA33 but during the boot > sequence gets write problems and ends up disabling it and i presume > falling back to PIO4. I've tested the same box on Linux 2.4.2+ and have > had no problems running it at UDMA33. > > H

Re: Found the problem, w/patch (was Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?)

2001-12-01 Thread Richard Sharpe
Matthew Dillon wrote: > Index: tcp_output.c > === > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/netinet/tcp_output.c,v > retrieving revision 1.39.2.10 > diff -u -r1.39.2.10 tcp_output.c > --- tcp_output.c 2001/07/07 04:30:38 1.39.2.10 > ++

Re: SSH stalls (was: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?)

2001-12-01 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 12:46:04AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I haven't been able to reproduce this. Two things, though... (1) are > you using a compressed ssh connection or an uncompressed connection? > It makes a big difference in regards to how ssh generates packet data. >

Re: SSH stalls (was: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?)

2001-12-01 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:26:22AM +0100, Tomas Svensson wrote: > JK> Is this the same problem that I experience on ssh connections between > JK> my 5.0-current laptop and my releng_4 server? When I run an 'ls' > JK> from the shell on large directories I get the response back block > JK> delay bl

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-12-01 Thread Miklos Niedermayer
Hi, On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:07:41PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > so my drive is now running at UDMA 100. > > Can you send me dmesg output? In particular, I had a printf output > there to show what the BIOS had set. > > Background for other people: Richard has an IDE chip which claims to >

problems installing on scsi disks ?

2001-12-01 Thread Joesh Juphland
Vanilla x86 system with two identical scsi disks attached to a single 2940. Installation is flawless - in custom install, I choose da0 and then da1, one after the other, to partition. Again, I say, installation goes flawlessly. When the system boots though, it cannot get past the boot manage

Re: who is "postmaster"?

2001-12-01 Thread Julian Elischer
thanks.. That's quite amazing.. On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > I've tried getting information about our (FreeBSD) mail > > system by mailing to "postmaster" but no-one answers.. > > > > so, who IS the postmaster at the moment? > > > > I have the .elisc

Re: need cdrw info

2001-12-01 Thread David Malone
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 07:56:51AM -, Matthew wrote: > any one know if there's supported IDE cdrw for freebsd4.1? Any software on > FBSD4.1 to do the cdrw work? Most IDE cdrw drives should work. Have a look at "man burncd" - It claims to having been there since 4.0. David. To Unsubs

Re: SSH stalls (was: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?)

2001-12-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
I haven't been able to reproduce this. Two things, though... (1) are you using a compressed ssh connection or an uncompressed connection? It makes a big difference in regards to how ssh generates packet data. 'ls' contains a lot of repetitive data and compresses well. (2) Als

another global LD_PRELOAD patch for rtld-elf

2001-12-01 Thread Lamont Granquist
this adds a -p option to ldconfig so you can do something like: ldconfig -p /usr/local/lib/libsafe.so to set a preload, and: ldconfig -pm /usr/local/lib/libsafe.so to merge one. the major problem i know of with this patch is that setting a preload ELF library will hose your ability to run li