Re: FreeBSD 4.2 NIS-Client with Linux NIS-Server Problem

2003-10-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 26), Jrgen Spiegel said: > I can't get it to work. > > I`ve read many of the Howtos and newgroups discussions on that theme, > but there are no usefull hints for this special proclem. > > The other NIS-Clients on my network (Solaris, AIX, Linux) can do > connect with any

Re: Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD

2003-10-26 Thread vivek
We've been trying to get good SpecWeb99 numbers on FreeBSD using a user-space server. Our initial results weren't that impressive, and we traced them to a number of issues, including VM system performance. We decided to avoid all mmap/mincore operations, and opted to instead add a flag to sendfile

Re: PCAP Open BPF R/W?

2003-10-26 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Jason Slagle wrote this message on Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 11:58 -0400: > Could someone consider applying the following to the in tree pcap? It > makes it possible to write to the pcap fd to send packets out the > interface. Some simulators expect this ability to properly do > networking.. You shou

Re: Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD

2003-10-26 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Details about what we have so far are at > http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~yruan/debox/ > > Yaoping Ruan had mentioned this on the list before (and sent a > pointer to the sendfile patches), but didn't seem to get much > response. > > -Vivek As always,

Re: Passthrough block device

2003-10-26 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Sean Hamilton wrote this message on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 15:40 -0700: > Does FreeBSD support a device that will allow for the passing of all reads > and writes on it to a userland application? I wish to handle swapping > myself, preferably without any kernel hacking. Take a look at geom_gate fro

Re: Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD

2003-10-26 Thread John-Mark Gurney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote this message on Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 10:48 -0500: > We decided to avoid all mmap/mincore operations, and opted to instead > add a flag to sendfile such that we can try sendfile and have it return > an error (instead of blocking) when a page isn't in memory. I was thinking a

Re: Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD

2003-10-26 Thread Aniruddha Bohra
As always, you're seeing the lack of available committer time, not a real lack of interest. One way to accelerate the process might be for someone (not necessarily you, any reader of this mailing list could do it) to show that this change visibly benefits some easy to run benchmark. Some simple s

Re: [Fwd: Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD]

2003-10-26 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:34:01PM +1000, Q wrote: > It has been suggested that I should direct this question to the VM > system guru's. Your comments on this would be appreciated. > An address space is represented by a data structure that we call a vm_map. A vm_map is, in the abstact, an ordere

Intel PILA 8460B LAN adapter

2003-10-26 Thread Sergey V. Belov
Hello all, I had an experience of install this LAN adapter on latest FreeBSD RELENG_4_8 (4.8p13): PILA 8460B \ EtherExpress PRO/100+ Server Adapter (PCI; TPE; 100 / 10 Mbps). After install, this card has not been responsed; but with following patch card is worked perfectly over three weeks. Commen

Re: Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD

2003-10-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: > > Q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yes, it would appear this is a legacy thing that existed in the original > > > 1994 import of the BSD 4.4 Lite source. Both FreeBSD and NetBSD still > > > use this te

Re: two soundcards and realplayer

2003-10-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sunday 26 October 2003 05:41, Martin Váňa wrote: > I use two soundcards on my Freebsd5.1 box - Sb Live and SB AWE64, FreeBSD > somehow figured out that Live is better than Awe and made it "primary" > soundcard. The reason I have AWE still in computer, is it's amplyfing > skills /2x4W/ so I don't

Re: Some mmap observations compared to Linux 2.6/OpenBSD

2003-10-26 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not particularly ``familiar'' with postgres, but I did some > performance tests on it a little while ago. Grepping through one > of the traces just now, I found that database system made 139 > calls to mmap(), and the maximum number of regions mapped

FreeBSD 4.2 NIS-Client with Linux NIS-Server Problem

2003-10-26 Thread Jürgen Spiegel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I can't get it to work. I`ve read many of the Howtos and newgroups discussions on that theme, but there are no usefull hints for this special proclem. The other NIS-Clients on my network (Solaris, AIX, Linux) can do connect with any username set in the /

DigiTales newsletter: Last call...

2003-10-26 Thread Roger Barnette
DigiTales newsletter: Last call... The newsletters will start flowing again next week. I am now gainfully employed full-time and it has indeed been the answer to 2 years of fervent prayer. The website is being reworked to just be fun and to capture these newsletter tips for future reference.

Re2: Synchronization philosophy (was: Re: FreeBSD mail list etiquette)

2003-10-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Again, I think it comes down to the fact that memory allocation APIs :typically offer choices to the consumer: block if the resources aren't :available, or fail. My mood swings a bit back and forth as to what the :ideal strategy would/should be at the lowest level, but I think as you :move up the

Re: Synchronization philosophy (was: Re: FreeBSD mail list etiquette)

2003-10-26 Thread Matthew Dillon
:... :Moving towards message passing helps to structure the code to avoid :sharing of this sort, although it's not the only way to motivate that sort :of change. I'm a big fan of the change in -CURRENT to use td->td_cred as :a read-only thread-local credential reference and avoid synchronization