Re: threaded, forked, rethreaded processes will deadlock

2009-01-26 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
not a matter of locks needing to be again initialized -- the mutexes are fine -- they just need to be relinquished, which never occurs for the child now, but used to work fine in 7.0. What is truly broken about the current behavior module the bug I'm trying to fix? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman

Re: threaded, forked, rethreaded processes will deadlock

2009-01-21 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:41:35PM -0500, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:36:06PM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: Could you, and anyone else who would care to, check this out? It's a regression fix but it also makes the code

Re: threaded, forked, rethreaded processes will deadlock

2009-01-19 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:36:06PM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: Could you, and anyone else who would care to, check this out? It's a regression fix but it also makes the code a little bit clearer. Thanks! Index: lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c Why does malloc

Re: threaded, forked, rethreaded processes will deadlock

2009-01-16 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:39:08AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:09:16PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:44:20PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Brian

Re: threaded, forked, rethreaded processes will deadlock

2009-01-09 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:09:16PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:44:20PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: It appears that the post-fork hooks for malloc(3) are somewhat broken

Re: threaded, forked, rethreaded processes will deadlock

2009-01-09 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 07:42:32PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 11:34:26AM -0500, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:09:16PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:44:20PM -0500, Daniel

threaded, forked, rethreaded processes will deadlock

2009-01-08 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
this already locally? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ gr...@freebsd.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own

Re: threaded, forked, rethreaded processes will deadlock

2009-01-08 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:44:20PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: It appears that the post-fork hooks for malloc(3) are somewhat broken such that when a threaded program forks, and then its child attempts to go threaded, it deadlocks

Re: NMI handlers ??

2005-06-03 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
. Please provide me some inputs. Look for NMI references in src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own

Re: RFC: if_bridge

2005-05-31 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
used in the kernel versus the if_bridge(4) code having been structured for IPL. I very much like this far more featureful and cleaner bridging implementation; it would benefit from implementing a locking strategy almost entirely not unlike Netgraph. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman

Re: RFC: if_bridge

2005-05-31 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 11:58:49AM +1200, Andrew Thompson wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 07:48:16PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:25:54AM +1200, Andrew Thompson wrote: Hi, I am looking for testers and code review for if_bridge, the bridge

Re: problems with new the contigmalloc routine

2005-05-20 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
be documented to require no locks to be held when being called, except for M_NOWAIT specifically in the one-page-or-less allocation case. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions

Re: problems with new the contigmalloc routine

2005-05-20 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:39:12AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 01:40:35PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: Hi, I just hit some problems with the new contigmalloc() routine in FreeBSD-6-current, which is used by bus_dmamem_alloc

Re: req: New feature to rm? Remove file by the inode number

2005-05-05 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
all, i dont think it's that hard to make. Way overkill. find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -inum inode -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own

Re: how to set dumpdev

2005-04-30 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
a tunable would be just before the vfs_mountroot() in start_init(), but then after moving the g_waitidle() from vfs_mountroot() to just before this check in start_init(). -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-22 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:29:10PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:52:33 -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think the first is more useful behavior than the last. Supporting it should be exactly the same as supporting what happens

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-22 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:28:15AM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:08:35 -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Can you find any evidence that it's acceptable to interleave multiple writers that are doing O_APPEND? At best, to do what you're

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-20 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 04:04:09PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 04:47:23PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: This compiles. It does and it seems to work. The NFS performance drops considerably though, from 8/9 MByte/s to 3/4 on sequential reads for instance

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-20 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 04:38:42PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:24:48AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: It does and it seems to work. The NFS performance drops considerably though, from 8/9 MByte/s to 3/4 on sequential reads for instance. kern/79208

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-20 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:35:28PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:20:38AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: Reads should be totally unaffected... The server was misbehaving. Fixed. :-) Btw.: I'm not sure write(),writev() and pwrite() are allowed to do short

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-20 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 07:12:20PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:52:33AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:35:28PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:20:38AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: Btw.: I'm

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-20 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:29:10PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:52:33 -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think the first is more useful behavior than the last. Supporting it should be exactly the same as supporting what happens

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-19 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:32:27PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 10:33:21PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 04:22:13PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: http://green.homeunix.org/~green/nfs_client.deadlock.patch Hmm, could you change

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-19 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:09:00PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:02:58PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:18:00AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: Does this work for you? ... cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-19 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:16:16PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:09:00PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:02:58PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:18:00AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: Does this work

Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-15 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:21:08PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 01:08:21AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: I'll spare a lengthy write-up because I think the patch documents it well enough. It certainly appears to fix things here when doing very large block

Re: immenent disk failure ?

2005-04-15 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
you should be able to just use SMART to perform a thorough health test on your hard drives and view their statistics and error logs. I don't know why it doesn't currently do much on SCSI, but ports/sysutils/smartmontools works great for ATA. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman

NFS client/buffer cache deadlock

2005-04-14 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
*/ int nm_acdirmax;/* Directory attr cache max lifetime */ int nm_acregmin;/* Reg file attr cache min lifetime */ -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power

Re: How the experts do it? (kernel dev)

2005-04-05 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
to keep out bugs that would cause instability during the development process... that can definitely cut down development time. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed

Re: contributing to fbsd

2005-03-26 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
be something you could work on. Not any more. The first_free hint was replaced by an O(log n) algorithm built into the splay tree back in August 2004. See rev. 1.357 of vm_map.c. Cool, I don't think I noticed that happen. That would be for 5.x and 6.x both, then, too. -- Brian Fundakowski

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-04 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
written to assume, and the fsync(2) semantics are designed to work with. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own

Re: generic network protocols parser ?

2005-03-04 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
is there any practical reason why ? Ethereal uses TLV... -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own

Re: Advanced USB snooping

2005-02-22 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
The advantage would be then to possible use scripts to debug protocol in order to port drivers to freebsd. Ref: ftp://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/e7500/datashts/29073303.pdf Wouldn't being able to do that violate the design criteria of USB? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman

Re: memory leak in resolver

2005-02-16 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
with the number of times that the mtime of the configuration file changes during the process's lifetime. (Of course, starting at one leak the first time it's used.) -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: malloc vs ptmalloc2

2005-02-15 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
it can do that? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own

Re: SIGBUS help, please

2005-02-13 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
with all needed setup information - a 5-10 minutes job if someone has the time for it. Have you tried valgrind in any of its modes yet? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions

Re: SIGBUS help, please

2005-02-13 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 05:51:11PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 10:03:30AM -0500, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:55:58PM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: Hi, One of my ports - mail/dspam-devel stays at 3.4 because newer versions

Re: SIGBUS help, please

2005-02-13 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 06:47:52PM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:26:16 +0200 Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:03:30 -0500 Brian Fundakowski Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:55:58PM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu

Re: kqueue pthread

2005-02-09 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
is that the kqueue along with every other fd being polled/selected are all polled by a single poll(2) system call. Yes, your kqueue is being used, but it has an indirection of another poll(2) system call determining when your kevent(2) thread should be woken up. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman

Re: kqueue pthread

2005-02-09 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 06:39:52PM +0300, Dmitry Agaphonov wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:49:24 -0500 Brian Fundakowski Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BFF Since you're using user threads, not kernel threads, the kernel can only BFF have one object (poll or select list, or kqueue file

Re: kernel vm question

2005-01-27 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
at e.g. mprotect(), you should be able to do much the same thing with kernel_map instead. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own

Re: Snapshot corruption.

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
read). Long strings of NUL bytes? Missing data? Spam (from the same file, or from other files)? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own

Re: Tracing Disk Access

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
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Re: tcsh fix

2004-11-12 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ How dare you interject reason into this flamewar! -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own

Re: attaching ugen(4) on multi interface USB devices

2004-10-06 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
that it doesn't discover endpoints on alt-interfaces. I've posted patches to this mailing list to work around the problem. It doesn't work when you call USB_SET_ALTINTERFACE then USB_SET_CONFIG? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: pthread_mutex_trylock and glib-2

2004-09-08 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
. Well, I guess it was really the same problem. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own

Re: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

2004-08-22 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
) till I have a proper kernel in place. I am almost 100% sure this is due to the nvidia drivers -- I upgraded on the 19th and never had a problem before this... that and gl programs seem to be the cause of both crashes so far. Andreas, are you using the nvidia driver too? -- Brian Fundakowski

crash via vm_page_sleep_if_busy() and contigmalloc

2004-07-16 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,\ Script started on Fri Jul 16 19:22:54 2004 You have mail

Re: crash via vm_page_sleep_if_busy() and contigmalloc

2004-07-16 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 08:32:05PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: Anyone VM-y enough to be up to the task: please take a look at this current vm_contig.c code and the crash that I have. This crash is not common -- this is the first time I've seen it -- but the problem certainly

Re: indent bugfix / added features

2004-07-16 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
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Re: where to get info to write basic usb driver for own device?

2004-07-09 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
be done with ugen(4)/libusb, you'll safe yourself a lot of time and pain. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own

Re: bge on 64-bit pci: corrupt packets

2004-07-09 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
it to be an alignment problem, it's easy to test. Look for the bus_dma_tag_create() calls -- all of them use PAGE_SIZE (4096+) or ETHER_ALIGN (2). Did you try changing the ETHER_ALIGNS to 8? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Locking: kern/50827

2004-07-09 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
-standard stuff that just Makes Sense(tm). If you're trying to create a new standard, I think -standards or -arch is the more appropriate FreeBSD list. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power

Re: Locking: kern/50827

2004-07-04 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
no value in having more useful locking primitives, but they probably don't benefit much from being implemented in the kernel unless they conform to a portable API. I certainly always have my own various kernel modifications that I find useful, but aren't very standard :) -- Brian Fundakowski

Re: Panic on 5.2.1-p8 Current

2004-06-28 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
message, or alternately, p *bp from the bundirty or brelse frame in gdb leading up to the panic. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own

Re: PF_PACKET

2004-06-28 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,\ ___ [EMAIL

Re: Locking: kern/50827

2004-06-28 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
already are very good building blocks here for system-scoped locks. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own

Re: contigmalloc(9) rewrite

2004-06-18 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 03:57:09PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: The patch, which applies to 5-CURRENT, can be found here: http://green.homeunix.org/~green/contigmalloc2.patch The default is to use the old contigmalloc(). You can set the sysctl or loader tunable

Re: Regarding procfs in freeBSd

2004-06-17 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
it has everything you are looking for. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own

contigmalloc(9) rewrite

2004-06-15 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
that normally runs into failed allocations hot-plugging hardware, please try this and see if it helps out. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own

Re: hostap TX fix in 5.x

2004-04-29 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,\ ___ [EMAIL

mostly-reentrant resolver/getaddrinfo(3)

2004-02-07 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
); -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,\ ___ [EMAIL

Is socket buffer locking as questionable as it seems?

2003-10-03 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
I keep getting these panics on my SMP box (no backtrace or DDB or crash dump of course, because panic() == hang to FreeBSD these days): panic: receive: m == 0 so-so_rcv.sb_cc == 52 From what I can tell, all sorts of socket-related calls are MP-safe and yet never even come close to locking the

Re: IPC, shared memory, syncronization

2000-08-12 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
ligned to CACHE_LINE_SIZE. Why is that important? I'm thinking it's to keep things in one line of the data cache so as to not impact performance more than necessary. I didn't really pay attention to this part of the implementation, but it makes sense to me :) -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman

Re: ANSI C Standard and wchar*

2000-07-31 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
ngroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/ Thanks, but manpages only go so far... -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / [EMAIL PROTECTED]`--' To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hacke

Re: /tmp on a ramdisk?

2000-07-30 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
here is that it's wired memory and can't get swapped out like mount_mfs can. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / [EMAIL PROTECTED]`--' To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: /tmp on a ramdisk?

2000-07-30 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
S problems, yes. Please see vnconfig(8) =) -MB -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / [EMAIL PROTECTED]`--' To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: ls -G seems to depend on TERM=xterm-color

2000-07-02 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
xterm (see the tc= directive). I have a lot of X resources defined, and here is one that could help you guys: XTerm*termName: xterm-color Happy to help :) -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / [EMAIL

Re: uidinfo has many race conditions.

2000-06-10 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
uihashtbl. It should be grabbed if the hash for the uid is not found, tested again (to see if we lost the race), and allocated. I can't see a way to poke holes in that, and it would be quite efficient. -Alfred -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / [EMAIL

Re: uidinfo has many race conditions.

2000-06-10 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Brian Fundakowski Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000610 09:13] wrote: On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000609 16:45] wrote: hi, Is it just me or does the fact that uidinfo structures

Re: uidinfo has many race conditions.

2000-06-10 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
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Re: kernel panics at boot, how to specify dump device?

2000-05-12 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
d return 0 for success. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / [EMAIL PROTECTED]`--' To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: mmap cdev function in device drivers

2000-05-08 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
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Re: lock-ups due to the scheduler

2000-04-28 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
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Re: lock-ups due to the scheduler

2000-04-27 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
fix the bugs we have. I missed, when I did it, changing ESTCPULIM, so that probably explains why things didn't (I believe) lock up, but (I believe) seemed veerrry bad... Also, decreasing NICE_WEIGHT would be a good idea, so I'll try all of this out, and report later. -lq -- Brian Fundakowski

lock-ups due to the scheduler

2000-04-26 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
r anything of the sort, so I'm really going out on a limb hoping someone will be able to try to help me fix this. Note that I've taken my HZ=1000 line out of my kernel config, so I'm running at a standard hz = 100 and a kern.quantum of 20000. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Powe

commit MAKE_SHELL?

2000-04-23 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
'll specifically add those to the logic if people have good results there. Thanks for any feedback! -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / [EMAIL PROTECTED]`-

Re: commit MAKE_SHELL?

2000-04-23 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
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Re: commit MAKE_SHELL?

2000-04-23 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
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Re: Double buffered cp(1)

2000-04-22 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
have) meant was that you should mmap the source file and madvise it MADV_SEQUENTIAL, then write() to the new file directly from that. How bad do you foresee performance being then? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PC Keyboard Scancodes

2000-04-18 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
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Re: somewhat random mostly-lockups in 5.0

2000-04-10 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
al console working. thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!

Re: somewhat random mostly-lockups in 5.0

2000-04-10 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
in common, such as use of softupdates, invariants, ATA, and other kernel options. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / [EMAIL PROTECTED]`--' To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

somewhat random mostly-lockups in 5.0

2000-04-09 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
or acknowledged. According to jlemon, whose diagnosis makes sense, the problem is that for whatever reason the kernel is not returning to user mode. That explains why sshd doesn't work, telnetd doesn't work, XFree86 and apps don't respond. The question is, why? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman

RE: make release + X

2000-04-08 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / [EMAIL

Re: 4.0 using dd and cdroms

2000-03-20 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
) = 7881ea5ef1428ced7533b1cb2a3afbb1 Thanks for any reply HTH RP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / [EMAIL PROTECTED]`--' To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-ha

Re: Big ATA problems

2000-02-24 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
/cichlids i386 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 143360 10 Feb 22:58 /boot/loader* Alex -- I need a new ~/.sig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD:

Re: device name of floppy disk

1999-12-26 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
compatable names. SCO (and SYSV/386) uses those instead of "fdN.1440" etc. 48 = 48 tracks per inch = 5.25" disk, 96 = 96 tracks per inch = 5.25" disk, 135 = 135 tracks per inch = 3.5" disk Eh? I thought .1200 referred to 5.25" disk drives... -- Brian Fundakowsk

Re: using vgl

1999-12-25 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
peeked at the source and there are various syscons related ioctl() calls. Any reason that /dev/io and /dev/mem wasn't used instead? That's simple. We're not trying to move to making things MORE platform- specific. Thanks! Tim -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power

Re: device name of floppy disk

1999-12-25 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
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Re: ATA w/ today's -CURRENT

1999-12-18 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
I am :/ That 71626 seems strange. -Steve -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / [EMAIL PROTECTED]`--' To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" i

Re: PCI DMA lockups in 3.2 (3.3 maybe?)

1999-12-05 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
lopment branch, HEAD, 4.0. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / [EMAIL PROTECTED]`--' To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Patch for 'ipfw tee'

1999-12-04 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
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very strange undefined symbols

1999-11-21 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
s you can see, the second time it worked. CVSup also seems to do this on the same symmbol every time it happens, so when that occurs I'll make sure to report it. Thanks John, and anyone else who may have an idea what's going on. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power

Re: Procfs' pointers to files.

1999-11-07 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
the real path on exec() and store the pointer in proc. How is this full of "overhead" and "impractical"? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / [EMAIL PROTECTED]`--' To Unsubscribe:

Re: Procfs' pointers to files.

1999-11-07 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
nd not the semantics of a hard link. Is it just me, or does it seem as if the pathname of the executable being stored as a virtual symlink in procfs as "file" would solve these security problems? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power

Re: NASM programs for freebsd

1999-10-31 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
f argument for nasm instead. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / [EMAIL PROTECTED]`--' To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: module names

1999-10-26 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
hould be a "bus" where pccard, usb, and SCSI cards would go (instead of "storage"). Currently, we don't have way too many modules, so I'm happy with what's here now. I definitely think there's room for improvement in how /modules is organized, but remember that the format came straigh

Re: X11/C++ question

1999-10-26 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
I've seen, you can't directly call a class method without an object. Sure you can. It won't have any access to "this" or any part thereof, however. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |A closed mouth gathers no feet. `------ -- Brian

Re: pthread_cancel

1999-06-18 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
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