Re: swapoff?

2002-07-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
:BTW, NetBSD's new UVM code has the ability to do this. Perhaps :it's worth looking in to how difficult it would really be in FreeBSD... : :To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message Someone got it mostly working a year or

Re: swapoff?

2002-07-13 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Implementing swapoff is a bunch of grunt-work but not too hard in concept. Basically the work involved is this: Sounds like a plan, and not too tricky. Perhaps I'll see if I can figure it out when I have some free time. * Make a

Re: swapoff?

2002-07-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Can't you have a race condition here where you decide that you :have enough space, and by the time you've deallocated half of the :swapfile that's no longer the case? It seems like the correct :thing to do in that case is abort the system call (which could be :painful). Perhaps the best thing

Re: swapoff?

2002-07-13 Thread Peter Wemm
David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Implementing swapoff is a bunch of grunt-work but not too hard in concept. Basically the work involved is this: Sounds like a plan, and not too tricky. Perhaps I'll see if I can figure it out when I have some

Re: swapoff?

2002-07-13 Thread Andrey Alekseyev
Also this would probably be useful in the situation when you need to change swap device on a running system. We had to do this once or twice on a very busy commerical mail server running Solaris. We needed to dismount current swap device and use it for other purpose while having switched

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Re: swapoff?

2002-07-13 Thread Terry Lambert
Matthew Dillon wrote: * Flag the swap device being removed and then scan all OBJT_SWAP VM Objects looking for swap blocks associated with the device, and force a page-in of those blocks. The getpages code for the swap backing store would detect the flag

Re: swapoff?

2002-07-13 Thread Jon Mini
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 03:17:33AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: Matthew Dillon wrote: * Flag the swap device being removed and then scan all OBJT_SWAP VM Objects looking for swap blocks associated with the device, and force a page-in of those blocks. The

Re: swapoff?

2002-07-13 Thread Terry Lambert
Jon Mini wrote: Personally, I think it would be more intuitive to add a check to the allocation algorithm that forces it to not consider devices flaged for removal, and mark each page as free after it comes in. When the bitmap is clean you're done. However, you're still going to want to count

Re: swapoff?

2002-07-13 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: One system I used to use years and years ago seperated this process into stages. The swap(1M) command could be used to enable, disable and 'weight' allocation to swap areas. The add was easy. 'delete' would cause the device to be attempted to be

Re: swapoff?

2002-07-13 Thread Terry Lambert
David Schultz wrote: The weight idea is very interesting. NetBSD does this using priorities; all the swap devices of a given priority are filled round robin before devices of lower priority, the idea being that the slower ones are a last resort (e.g. NFS). On the other hand, this design

Re: Large variables on stack

2002-07-13 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi, On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:59:51AM -0400, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: Besides, stack allocations are more efficient than heap allocations on every architecture I know of other than the IBM mainframe. Of course, it's is a lot better to dynamically allocate strings of unknown length

Re: Large variables on stack

2002-07-13 Thread Brian T . Schellenberger
On Saturday 13 July 2002 11:47 am, Ingo Oeser wrote: | Hi, | | On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:59:51AM -0400, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: | Besides, stack allocations are more efficient than heap allocations on | every architecture I know of other than the IBM mainframe. | | Of course, it's is a

/usr/src/sys/dev/my/if_my.c status?

2002-07-13 Thread Peter B
Hi! What is the status of the driver/file: /usr/src/sys/dev/my/if_my.c ..? It will attach and work fine with tcpdump, netstat -i. But it won't allow me to set an IP on the interface (ifconfig my0 inet 1.2.3.4 ..). It's not present in LINT, but is present in /usr/src/sys/conf/files.

how to find offset of a string in a binary file ?

2002-07-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
So, does anyone know how to use the basic unix tools to find the offset of a string in a binary file ? Specifically, I would like to locate the offset of the string MFS Filesystem goes here into a kernel compiled with with MD_ROOT option. grep does not help because it gives the offset

Re: how to find offset of a string in a binary file ?

2002-07-13 Thread David Malone
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 12:53:21PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: So, does anyone know how to use the basic unix tools to find the offset of a string in a binary file ? Specifically, I would like to locate the offset of the string MFS Filesystem goes here Would grep -b do what you want?

Re: how to find offset of a string in a binary file ?

2002-07-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 09:16:28PM +0100, David Malone wrote: On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 12:53:21PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: So, does anyone know how to use the basic unix tools to find the offset of a string in a binary file ? Specifically, I would like to locate the offset of the string

Re: how to find offset of a string in a binary file ?

2002-07-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Luigi Rizzo writes: On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 09:16:28PM +0100, David Malone wrote: On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 12:53:21PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: So, does anyone know how to use the basic unix tools to find the offset of a string in a binary file ? Specifically,

Re: swapoff?

2002-07-13 Thread Matthew Dillon
We are not going to be doing any sort of weighting. It's an idea whos time has come... and gone again. It might have been useful 8 years ago but it is not useful today. Also, please note that it is not possible to reverse-lookup a swap bitmap block and get the VM object /

Re: swapoff?

2002-07-13 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We are not going to be doing any sort of weighting. It's an idea whos time has come... and gone again. It might have been useful 8 years ago but it is not useful today. Also, please note that it is not possible to reverse-lookup

Re: ppbus questions

2002-07-13 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:15:01PM +0200, Martin Faxer wrote: hi! i'm trying to write a driver for an old cd-rom drive that you connect to the parallel port. it is a shuttletech para drive 525. i don't have any driver docs or technical specifications but i believe that it uses some kind

Re: how to find offset of a string in a binary file ?

2002-07-13 Thread Duane H. Hesser
On 13-Jul-02 Lui gi Rizzo wrote: On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 09:16:28PM +0100, David Malone wrote: On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 12:53:21PM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: So, does anyone know how to use the basic unix tools to find the offset of a string in a binary file ? Specifically, I would like to

Re: swapoff?

2002-07-13 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Dillon wrote: We are not going to be doing any sort of weighting. It's an idea whos time has come... and gone again. It might have been useful 8 years ago but it is not useful today. Thank goodness! :-) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

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Re: /usr/src/sys/dev/my/if_my.c status?

2002-07-13 Thread Julian Elischer
The man page was waiting for the submitter, and I've been too busy to pester him for it.. It was supposed to include information on what cards were supported. I'm surprise about the inability to set the address.. I heard from testers that it was working.. I guess I should dig up the card I have

Re: /usr/src/sys/dev/my/if_my.c status?

2002-07-13 Thread Peter B
Julian Elischer wrote: The man page was waiting for the submitter, and I've been too busy to pester him for it.. It was supposed to include information on what cards were supported. I'm surprise about the inability to set the Seems my Surecom 10/100 is detected and attached at least :)