rfc, optimizing select/poll.

2003-02-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
please include me on cc' as I'm not subscribed to this list. I'm thinking about doing some more work on select/poll for freebsd. The gist of my changes would be two modifications. 1) when select has to allocate space via malloc, cache it in the proc struct to avoid dipping into malloc on fu

ACPI throttle doesn't cool CPU

2003-02-15 Thread Sean Hamilton
Greetings, After setting hw.acpi.cpu.performance_speed to 1, a dmesg of acpi_cpu0: set speed to 6.2% and a dog slow system, I am still finding my CPU pumping out heat. It's an AMD 1333 with an A7V board. Is this typical behaviour? If so, I'll just underclock the CPU in the bios. I was hoping to

Binary security updates

2003-02-15 Thread Colin Percival
On december 25th, I released a "first draft" of a binary security update tool aimed at allowing people to track the security branches without keeping a source tree or recompiling; the response was generally positive, but as I pointed out in my announcement, there were several problems which n

Re: ACPI: working ACPI vs broken ACPI

2003-02-15 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Martin Blapp wrote: > Feb 13 17:41:05 ibm-01 kernel: ACPI-0625: *** Info: GPE Block0 defined as GPE0 > to GPE31 > Feb 13 17:41:05 ibm-01 kernel: ACPI-0625: *** Info: GPE Block1 defined as GPE32 > to GPE63 I see similar errors on my Presario 2100US... > Wild guess: Seem to r

Re: where's my pr gone? - supplemental

2003-02-15 Thread Friedemann Becker
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/47512 this happens only with the above link, i.e. from the pr summary. searching for the bugid 47512 works (=> not empty) someone want to look at this? On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Friedemann Becker wrote: > what's up with > kern/47512: bash in gdb tr

where's my pr gone?

2003-02-15 Thread Friedemann Becker
what's up with kern/47512: bash in gdb triggers kernel panic it appears empty to me by the way: anyone able to reproduce? quick test, anyone with current, just try gdb bash, do an 'ls', and tell me about the consequences Friedemann To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsub

Re: FreeSBIE-0.9.0 (beta) released

2003-02-15 Thread Steve Kudlak
Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 10:13:41PM +0100, Dario Freni wrote: > > Fire up your download managers guys, I'm proud to announce that freesbie > > 0.9.0 livecd is out and ready for download at > > It might generate more enthusiasm for testing if you could briefly > mention what

Re: FreeSBIE-0.9.0 (beta) released

2003-02-15 Thread Dario Freni
Il Sat, 2003-02-15 alle 23:04, Kris Kennaway ha scritto: > It might generate more enthusiasm for testing if you could briefly > mention what FreeSBIE does. You're right :) Sorry for that. From www.freesbie.org site: ---8< What is FreeSBIE? Simply: a live system on CD, or an operating s

Re: FreeSBIE-0.9.0 (beta) released

2003-02-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 10:13:41PM +0100, Dario Freni wrote: > Fire up your download managers guys, I'm proud to announce that freesbie > 0.9.0 livecd is out and ready for download at It might generate more enthusiasm for testing if you could briefly mention what FreeSBIE does. Kris msg39959/

FreeSBIE-0.9.0 (beta) released

2003-02-15 Thread Dario Freni
Fire up your download managers guys, I'm proud to announce that freesbie 0.9.0 livecd is out and ready for download at http://www.freesbie.org/?section=ISO-en This brand new ISO has a beta support for the new init engine of 5.x FreeBSD branch, and many improvements in floppy backup and restore,

Re: linux binary and pwrite() problem...

2003-02-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 15), Thomas Spreng said: > Hi, > > I have two fbsd systems, both running 4.7 and linux_base-7.1_2. > I am trying to run a gameserver linux binary (sof2 v1.02) on one > of these machines but it just hangs if i start it. The strange > thing is that exactly the same binary wo

linux binary and pwrite() problem...

2003-02-15 Thread Thomas Spreng
Hi, I have two fbsd systems, both running 4.7 and linux_base-7.1_2. I am trying to run a gameserver linux binary (sof2 v1.02) on one of these machines but it just hangs if i start it. The strange thing is that exactly the same binary works on the other fbsd box with the same linux_base port. The

ACPI: working ACPI vs broken ACPI

2003-02-15 Thread Martin Blapp
Hi all, I see these differences here in acpidump: Working board: PM2_GPE0_BLK=0xe428-0xe42f Broken board: PM2_GPE0_BLK=0x428-0x42f PM2_GPE1_BLK=0x528-0x52f, GPE1_BASE=32 And the broken board shows errors like this: The errors like: Feb 13 17:41:05 ibm-01 kernel: ACP