using -ftracer stops buildworld at shutdown.c

2005-07-26 Thread jason henson
Adding -ftracer to my make.conf causes problems with /src/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.c This is my make.conf settings CPUTYPE=athlon-xp CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -ffast-math -funroll-loops -ftracer COPTFLAGES=-O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -ffast-math -ftracer Doing a little research I found these items:

Re: Low HDD tranfer rate with FreeBSD 5.3-Release

2005-05-09 Thread jason henson
Amandeep wrote: Hi all, I am using Tyan S2098 MB with 160GB Maxtor ATA Drive and the transfer rate is very low. FreeBSD 5.3-Release. Any ideas what is going on here. The transfer rate is about 15MB/s when I run #dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/junk bs=8192 then do #iostat 1

Re: Fwd: 5-STABLE kernel build with icc broken

2005-03-29 Thread jason henson
Peter Jeremy wrote: On Mon, 2005-Mar-28 23:23:19 -0800, David Leimbach wrote: meant to send this to the list too... sorry Are you implying DragonFly uses FPU/SIMD? For that matter does any kernel? I believe it does use SIMD for some of it's fast memcopy stuff for it's messaging

Re: 5-STABLE kernel build with icc broken

2005-03-28 Thread jason henson
Alexander Leidinger wrote: On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 05:40:44 -0800 Avleen Vig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 01:30:59PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: It seems to me that building kernel with icc is currently broken, at least in 5-STABLE. Could somebody investigate this?

Re: NIC detected, but won't DHCP or configure

2005-03-21 Thread jason henson
Andrew Robinson wrote: Dear FreeBSD hackers, I posted the following question on freebsd-questions. Two kind souls kicked it around for a little and suggested that I pass it on to you. I have a laptop with a netowrk card that seems to be successfully detected under FreeBSD, Knoppix, and WinXP,

Re: Freebsd 5.3 problem

2005-03-14 Thread Jason Henson
On 03/14/05 15:34:59, Amandeep Pannu wrote: Hi Kris, I had this problem before and I changed the MB and the memory and today it did the same thing it did before. memtest doesnt give any errors. Thanks A Memtest86 right? There is another that you run in an os like any other program. Did you

Re: malloc vs ptmalloc2

2005-02-13 Thread Jason Henson
On 02/13/05 03:21:29, David Schultz wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2005, Jason Henson wrote: I saw on a few of the lists here how linux uses ptmalloc2 and it outperforms bsd's malloc. I tried to do some research into it and found PHK's pdf on it and it seems bsd's malloc was ment to be ok in most

malloc vs ptmalloc2

2005-02-12 Thread Jason Henson
I saw on a few of the lists here how linux uses ptmalloc2 and it outperforms bsd's malloc. I tried to do some research into it and found PHK's pdf on it and it seems bsd's malloc was ment to be ok in most every situation. Because of this it shines when primary storage is seriously over

Re: GENERIC build broken

2005-01-24 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/24/05 20:32:04, Ryan Sommers wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I have stared with fascination on this email for a full 30 minutes. What could possibly be going on in the mind which came up with the idea to take a five year old email, change Matt Dillons name and

Re: resize freebsd partition

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/20/05 01:42:19, Kamal R. Prasad wrote: Hello, Can someone tell me how to resize the freebsd partition without losing any data? I have a 8GB freebsd partition and 1/2 GB swap and want to install another *bsd onto the harddisk. thanks -kamal I don't think you can shrink, but you can grow a

Re: nForce3 NIC on 5.3 (i386)

2005-01-19 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/19/05 02:29:45, Sven Ahtama wrote: Hello folks, Anyone here who have managed to get the nForce3 MCP NIC to work with FreeBSD 5.3 on i386 platform? After several hours of retries and kernel configuration i managed to get the if_nv.ko successfully loaded. No complaints, no errors, but

Re: nForce3 NIC on 5.3 (i386)

2005-01-19 Thread Jason Henson
On 01/19/05 16:59:07, chance wrote: Jason Henson wrote: When you first load the driver you have to reboot or run some scripts by hand. After the install did you reboot with no other changes and it not work? IIRC, you need linux loaded as well as miibus. I made a pr about the nvnet port