Re: Kernel Tracking Question.. regarding kernel and boot files

2011-04-09 Thread perryh
Chuck Swiger wrote: > > ... Is it better to use Combination of > > Ecllipse/Qemu and FreeBSD Source tree? > > Eclipse is an editor ... Eclipse is, or at least can be configured to be, much more than an editor. In my experience it is an integrated development environment incorporating various de

Re: Kernel Tracking Question.. regarding kernel and boot files

2011-04-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/9/11 2:51 PM, Chris Richardson wrote: On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi, Chris-- [ ...Reply-to: set to direct towards the most appropriate list... ] On Apr 9, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Chris Richardson wrote: I am totally new to FreeBSD. I was involved within project w

Re: *printf(9) and PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE

2011-04-09 Thread dieterbsd
While working on other problems with *printf(9), log(9), etc. I stumbled upon: options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128 # Prevent printf output being interspersed. Question 1: Am I correct in thinking that PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE is supposed to prevent this: ada2: 300.000MB/s transfuhub2: 3 ports with 3 r

Re: ifconfig output: ipv4 netmask format

2011-04-09 Thread J. Hellenthal
On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 12:41:05PM -0400, dieter...@engineer.com wrote: >Paul Schenkeveld writes: >>Although non-contiguous netmasks are not legal anymore in IPv4, our >>ifconfig still allows to do something like: >> >> # ifconfig em0 inet 10.0.5.2 netmask 255.0.255.0 >> # ifconfig em0 >> em0

Re: Kernel Tracking Question.. regarding kernel and boot files

2011-04-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Chris-- [ ...Reply-to: set to direct towards the most appropriate list... ] On Apr 9, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Chris Richardson wrote: > I am totally new to FreeBSD. I was involved within project which will > trace the kernel. I used ktrace but I could not get appropriate results > about the files

Re: Kernel Tracking Question.. regarding kernel and boot files

2011-04-09 Thread Chris Richardson
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi, Chris-- > > [ ...Reply-to: set to direct towards the most appropriate list... ] > > On Apr 9, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Chris Richardson wrote: > > I am totally new to FreeBSD. I was involved within project which will > > trace the kernel. I us

Re: *printf(9) and PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE

2011-04-09 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Apr 9 11, dieter...@engineer.com wrote: > While working on other problems with *printf(9), log(9), etc. > I stumbled upon: > > options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128# Prevent printf output being > interspersed. > > Question 1: Am I correct in thinking that PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE is supposed > to p

Re: Fwd: HEADSUP: Call for FreeBSD Status Reports - 1Q/2011

2011-04-09 Thread Gary Kline
For my short post [to everyone], I'll top post. I am/have-been trying to write a user-side audio, "key-click" driver for every Open OS--essentially the BSD distros and the Linux. I am looking for people interested and who know both python and C/C++.

*printf(9) and PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE

2011-04-09 Thread dieterbsd
While working on other problems with *printf(9), log(9), etc. I stumbled upon: options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128# Prevent printf output being interspersed. Question 1: Am I correct in thinking that PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE is supposed to prevent this: ada2: 300.000MB/s transfuhub2: 3 ports with 3

Re: imposing memory limits in FreeBSD 8

2011-04-09 Thread Joe Schaefer
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Artem Belevich wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: >>> While I am thrilled about the newfound zfs stability that upgrading to 8 >>> has brought, one of the things that seems to have b

Re: imposing memory limits in FreeBSD 8

2011-04-09 Thread Joe Schaefer
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Artem Belevich wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: >> While I am thrilled about the newfound zfs stability that upgrading to 8 >> has brought, one of the things that seems to have been dropped is >> support for process memory limits. I ha

Re: imposing memory limits in FreeBSD 8

2011-04-09 Thread Artem Belevich
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > While I am thrilled about the newfound zfs stability that upgrading to 8 > has brought, one of the things that seems to have been dropped is > support for process memory limits.  I have a few servers that occasionally > run out of swap due to

imposing memory limits in FreeBSD 8

2011-04-09 Thread Joe Schaefer
While I am thrilled about the newfound zfs stability that upgrading to 8 has brought, one of the things that seems to have been dropped is support for process memory limits. I have a few servers that occasionally run out of swap due to runaway httpd daemons, and the ulimit -m settings in the start

Re: ifconfig output: ipv4 netmask format

2011-04-09 Thread Mike Bristow
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 11:43:16AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > Non-contigous netmasks are legal in IPv4. What do you do if someone adds > > the CIDR flag but the netmask cannot be represented in CIDR notation? > > They have become illegal in the fullness of time. I'll rephrase my point, then:

Re: ifconfig output: ipv4 netmask format

2011-04-09 Thread dieterbsd
Paul Schenkeveld writes: Although non-contiguous netmasks are not legal anymore in IPv4, our ifconfig still allows to do something like: # ifconfig em0 inet 10.0.5.2 netmask 255.0.255.0 # ifconfig em0 em0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=219b ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

Kernel Tracking Question.. regarding kernel and boot files

2011-04-09 Thread Chris Richardson
Hi all, I am totally new to FreeBSD. I was involved within project which will trace the kernel. I used ktrace but I could not get appropriate results about the files being opened. I don't see any of the boot files boot0-1 or 2 in the ktrace.out file. Where did they go? Is ktrace the best "trace

Re: ifconfig output: ipv4 netmask format

2011-04-09 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 4/9/11 7:33 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > Although I see the value of your and Sergey's argument, the problem is > that it may cause unexpected breakage for other third parties that > depend on a particular behavior in FreeBSD as Bjoern and others have > suggested; I have a script at least th

Re: ifconfig output: ipv4 netmask format

2011-04-09 Thread perryh
Warner Losh wrote: > > Non-contigous netmasks are legal in IPv4 ... > > They have become illegal in the fullness of time. and/or the fullness of the address space, I suspect :) Even if they were legal, I have a hard time imagining a practical use case. __

Fwd: HEADSUP: Call for FreeBSD Status Reports - 1Q/2011

2011-04-09 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello, I would like to remind you that the submission due date (April 15th) is approaching quickly and to this date I have received _only_ 3 submissions. Please try to find a few minutes and submit your reports so that we can inform our community about the progress made in the first quarter o