Re: Is there any modern alternative to pstack?

On 04/16/2012 06:59, John Baldwin wrote: I'm fine with putting it into the base. If so, we should import 1.2 first I think and then apply the 1.3 patch. So are there plans to import it into the base? Maybe for 9.1? /usr/ports/sysutils/pstack is still i386 only. Yuri __

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound

Doug Barton wrote: > On 07/07/2012 16:33, Garrett Wollman wrote: >> The utilities (specifically host(1) and dig(1)) are the only >> user-visible interfaces I care about. [...] > ldns (a dependency of unbound) comes with drill, which is a dig-alike > tool. I'd like to see us produce a host-alike ba

Re: How to Expose Chip-level Ethernet Statistics?

I think the Linux folk have tried to export some generic-y API for driver-driven statistics, via ethstats or something. This includes wifi statistics. Just FYI, Adrian ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: CVE-2012-0217 Intel's sysret Kernel Privilege Escalation and FreeBSD 6.2/6.3

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Bill Crisp wrote: > I gave it a try on a few servers, and saw a big increase in load on > the servers, most of the load comes from apache under normal > circumstances and it that load did go up a lot. I had to roll back > the patched kernel and the load went back

Re: How to Expose Chip-level Ethernet Statistics?

On Saturday, August 04, 2012 3:21:23 pm Tim Kientzle wrote: > I believe that some of the issues I'm having with this > Ethernet driver might be easier to diagnose if I could > expose the chip-level statistics counters (especially queue > overrun counts). > > Is there a standard way to do this? >

Re: contigmalloc() breaking Xorg

On Thursday, July 12, 2012 8:26:05 am John Baldwin wrote: > However, rather add a wiredmalloc(), I think you should just have > bus_dmamem_alloc() call kmem_alloc_attr() directly in this case. One of the > things I've been meaning to add to bus_dma is a way to allocate other memory > types (e.g

Re: CVE-2012-0217 Intel's sysret Kernel Privilege Escalation and FreeBSD 6.2/6.3

Thanks for the patch! I gave it a try on a few servers, and saw a big increase in load on the servers, most of the load comes from apache under normal circumstances and it that load did go up a lot. I had to roll back the patched kernel and the load went back to what it normally is. Did you expe

Re: system() using vfork() or posix_spawn()

On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 11:54:32PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 01:53:03PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:24:08PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > > > People sometimes use system() from large address spaces where it would > > > improve per

Re: dtraceall.ko with old nfsclient

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/31/2012 09:48, Fabian Keil wrote: > I think guessing that INET and INET6 are available is a lot more > reasonable than doing the same for the external NFS modules. FYI, there has been considerable work done to ensure that INET6 works without I

Re: How to diagnose system freezes?

On 07/31/2012 17:02, Yuri wrote: > One of my 9.1-BETA1 systems periodically freezes. If sound was playing, > it would usually cycle with a very short period. And system stops being > sensitive to keyboard/mouse. Also ping of this system doesn't get a > response. Just for fun, have you tried switch