Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Jim Bryant
Mark Felder wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:24:30 -0500, wrote: I just started reading this tread, but I am wondering if I missed something here. What does this have to do with "Windows 7"? I emailed him off-list but I'm guessing he thought this was on VMWare Workstation or another product t

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Jim Bryant
This sounds just like a race condition that happens under Windows 7 on this laptop. The race condition, as far as I can tell involves heavy disk access and heavy network access, and usually leaves the drive light on, while all activity monitors (alldisk, allcpu, allnetwork) are still active, a

Re: OS support for fault tolerance

2012-02-14 Thread Jim Bryant
Mirrored SMP? Even NonStops require a supervisory CPU subsystem to manage what is working or not. SMP itself would have to be totally rethought. My suggestion is to study the examples of NonStop and Guardian-90. Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/14/12 6:23 AM, Maninya M wrote: For multicore deskt

Re: OS support for fault tolerance

2012-02-14 Thread Jim Bryant
Brandon Falk wrote: On 2/14/2012 12:05 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 08:57:10AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/14/12 6:23 AM, Maninya M wrote: For multicore desktop computers, suppose one of the cores fails, the FreeBSD OS crashes. My question is abou

kvm_open errors on /proc/*/mem in top

2011-06-09 Thread Jim Bryant
i'm not sure which list this belongs to, so i'm posting to -hackers and -stable. i've noticed for a while now that during heavy activity (for instance buildworld), that top will get these kvm_read errors when reading proc mem entries. i have included a screenshot of what happens during such even

Re: How to disallow logout

2010-09-29 Thread Jim Bryant
Atom Smasher wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Ivan Voras wrote: 1) power outage of the server 2) power outage on the client 3) network problems (ssh or TCP connection drop) 4) administrative command (e.g. root executes "killall $shell") ? I don't think there is a way to protect from all of those,

Re: disassembler

2010-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
at of the MBR but I need to also read the code to see if something is wakey (I have written MBR's {with inline assemble in GCC) for an OS I am working on but never disambled one) On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Jim Bryant wrote: umm, dude you writing a boot sector virus or somethi

Re: disassembler

2010-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
umm, dude you writing a boot sector virus or something? funny though http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/boot-boot0.html given your skill and goals are questionable, you can find it in the source tree yourself. Aryeh Friedman wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 a

Problem: fpa(4) on sparc64 6.1-RELEASE

2006-06-20 Thread Jim Bryant
I am getting a panic with a GENERIC with all non-available hardware drivers stripped out with "device fddi" and "device fpa" in the config. The only things I added to GENERIC after stripping out the unneeded things was the fddi, the sound, and the openfirmware. The system boots fine with the

Re: tar and nodump flag

2001-11-29 Thread Jim Bryant
fergus wrote: >>>- It doesn't support incremental backups. That isn't a problem in >> itself, but it's a feature our GNU tar currently has and people >> probably don't want to lose. I dunno... The entire incremental thing in tar is dependant on NOT using compression, which IMHO makes it pre

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Jim Bryant
Lamont Granquist wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > >>>"Nicpon, John" wrote: >>> >>>Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null >>> >>Answer 1. Data is not like energy. There is no "conservation of data" >>law. So the data simply "disap

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Jim Bryant
It's similar to the space/time wormhole that appears in your clothes dryer, and randomly sucks out only one sock out of every pair into a parallel universe. Somewhere, there is a universe made up of nothing but odd socks, where they each lead a very happy odd-sockish singular life. I assume t

Re: Unix Philosophers Please!

2001-10-31 Thread Jim Bryant
Nicpon, John wrote: > Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null > Without actually looking at the code, the generic definition of /dev/null goes something to the effect of: open /dev/null while(1) { select on /dev/null read byte from /dev/nul

Re: FYI

2001-10-14 Thread Jim Bryant
No offense to you or your sales partners, but the way I see it, this means that tons of these will be available for a song on eBay soon, and will be in the hands of a lot of FreeBSD and Linux people [not all of which can afford top-of-the-line all of the time]. Doug Hass wrote: > Ted, > > We

Re: power supplies

2001-09-27 Thread Jim Bryant
Kent Stewart wrote: > There are problems with PSes when you use NICs with wake up > capability. The NIC may exceed the capability of one of your low > amperage voltages. > > Kent How much current can wake-on-LAN take? I wouldn't think it would be enough to overload a power supply unless it o

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Jim Bryant
Jason Andresen wrote: > "Bruce A. Mah" wrote: > >>Note that the set of people affected is going to be "people who can't do >>anonymous FTP, don't have bootable CDROMs, and *only* have the ISO >>images to work with". I don't know for sure, but I'd expect this set to >>be pretty small...if they d

Re:

2001-09-20 Thread Jim Bryant
You may want to install FreeBSD-4.4, it was released yesterday, so this means that you are attempting to install something two versions behind. There are security issues with 4.2... damie odessa wrote: > Hello, > > I am installing freebsd 4.2 and at the point of configuring the DHCP, it > c

Re: OpenSSH + Kerberos 5 + PAM

2001-08-29 Thread Jim Bryant
David Terrell wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 04:56:06PM -0700, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > >>I like Kerberos 5 and it's ability to use tickets so I don't have to type >>passwords whenever I login/su/need to authenticate myself. So it *really* >>annoys me that there is a pam_krb5 module that allows

Re: TCSH bug...

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
uch 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >>>>virtual-voodoo# ls >>>>0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 >>>> >>9 >> >>>>virtual-voodoo# set rmstar >>>>virtual-voodoo# rm * >>>>Do you really want to delete

Re: TCSH bug...

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
6 7 8 >>> > 9 > >>>virtual-voodoo# set rmstar >>>virtual-voodoo# rm * >>>Do you really want to delete all files? [n/y] y >>>virtual-voodoo# ls >>>virtual-voodoo# >>> >>>version tcsh 6.10.00 (Astron) 2000-11-1

Re: TCSH bug...

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
2000-11-19 (i386-intel-FreeBSD) options > 8b,nls,dl,al,kan,sm,rh,color,dspm > > I'm not seeing this problem... This is from -CURRENT from about 2 hours ago. > > -Steve > > - Original Message - > From: "Jim Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <

TCSH bug...

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
Sorry if this doesn't go here... I don't know where else to put it... Please forward it to the correct people. With: set rmstar in your .cshrc, perform the following operations: -- 4:49:49pm wahoo(49): tcsh 4:49:51pm wahoo(1)

Re: wacky warnings linking multithreaded code

2001-08-23 Thread Jim Bryant
if you have the linux-pthreads port installed, remove it. things will compile properly afterwards. linux-pthreads really needs a different library name and include file names... i lay odds that this known conflict is your problem. David Petrou wrote: >>cc -pthread test.c >> > > i tried that

Re: Mounting FAT16 on USB connected Rio 600

2001-08-23 Thread Jim Bryant
Matthew Emmerton wrote: >>Hackers, >> >>The overwhelming lack of response on -questions suggests I might do better >>here. I though this would be an easy one. >> >>In short, I simply want to know what device to mount and what to do get >>that device configured. >> >># usbdevs -v >>Controller /dev

Any ATAPI gurus out there?

2001-08-21 Thread Jim Bryant
Okay, here's the deal. My friend, whom I am trying to teach unix [4.3-stable] was having some problems on his secondary ATAPI bus. A Creative CD-ROM was the master, a HP burner was the slave. I'm a SCSI guy meself, and I think the following may be the problem, but as such, I don't know for s

Re: Finding filesizes in C++ for files greater than 4gb

2001-08-01 Thread Jim Bryant
Kent Stewart wrote: > > Jim Bryant wrote: > > > > Joseph Gleason wrote: > > > > > > - Original Message - > > > From: "Alex Zepeda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "Joseph Gleason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: Finding filesizes in C++ for files greater than 4gb

2001-08-01 Thread Jim Bryant
Joseph Gleason wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Alex Zepeda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Joseph Gleason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 21:45 > Subject: Re: Finding filesizes in C++ for files greater than 4gb > > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001

Re: Collecting System Statistics Programatically

2001-07-27 Thread Jim Bryant
Tabor Kelly wrote: > > I have found how to collect limited system statistics with > sysctlbyname(), but I need to know how to do more. In specific I need > to know how much memory is being used, and what percentage of > processor cycles are being used. > > Any help is greatly appreciated, Thank

Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda

2001-07-27 Thread Jim Bryant
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sergey Babkin writes: > : > Use dump. Otherwise, you will lose. > : > : Don't use dump. Or you'll never be able to restore these backups > : on a non-FreeBSD machine. > > Unless it runs NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Linux or SunOS. ufsrestore >

Re: Downloads appear broked...but work...keep hitting "reload"...

2001-07-27 Thread Jim Bryant
Terry Lambert wrote: > > Jim Bryant wrote: > > Everybody and their dog must be downloading this. If you keep > > getting the java.lang.OutOfMemoryError, just keep hitting > > "reload"... I was just about to give up when it finally worked for me. > >

Downloads appear broked...but work...keep hitting "reload"...

2001-07-25 Thread Jim Bryant
Jim Bryant wrote: > > Ron Chen wrote: > > > > Sun Grid Engine goes opensource. See SGE home page: > > > > http://www.sun.com/gridware > > > > -Ron > > http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2001-07/sunflash.20010723.1.html > > SUN MICROS

Re: Fwd: Sun Grid Engine 5.2.3 Available. Now Open Source

2001-07-25 Thread Jim Bryant
Ron Chen wrote: > > Sun Grid Engine goes opensource. See SGE home page: > > http://www.sun.com/gridware > > -Ron http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2001-07/sunflash.20010723.1.html SUN MICROSYSTEMS MAKES SUN[tm] GRID ENGINE SOFTWARE AVAILABLE TO OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY Sun Works with Collab

Re: Fwd: Sun Grid Engine 5.2.3 Available. Now Open Source

2001-07-25 Thread Jim Bryant
Jim Bryant wrote: > > Christoph Sold wrote: > > > > [Extensive cross-posting adress list dropped.] > > > > Jim Bryant wrote: > > > > > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > > > Ron Chen wrote: > > > > >

Re: Fwd: Sun Grid Engine 5.2.3 Available. Now Open Source

2001-07-25 Thread Jim Bryant
Christoph Sold wrote: > > [Extensive cross-posting adress list dropped.] > > Jim Bryant wrote: > > > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > Ron Chen wrote: > > > > > > > > Sun Grid Engine goes opensource. See SGE home page: >

Re: Fwd: Sun Grid Engine 5.2.3 Available. Now Open Source

2001-07-25 Thread Jim Bryant
Terry Lambert wrote: > > Ron Chen wrote: > > > > Sun Grid Engine goes opensource. See SGE home page: > > > > http://www.sun.com/gridware > > I see no source code there, only Solaris and Linux binaries. I coulda sworn I saw that they had source code available for grid engine as well, as this we

Re: SmartDisk USB CompactFlash reader

2001-07-24 Thread Jim Bryant
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * Leif Neland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010724 19:18] wrote: > > I've got such a device; it was nessecary, because my camera run out of > > batteries before I could retrieve 48MB of pictures over the normal serial > > port > > > > > > When I plug it in it displays: > > ugen

Re: more on latency

2001-07-09 Thread Jim Bryant
Terry Lambert wrote: > > Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > > I think I found the reason that my FreeBSD box is performing > > so poorly as a NATing router. When I do an ipnat -l to see > > what "active connections" are there on the router, a list > > about 3 pages long (using ipnat -l | more) app

Rijndael status in FreeBSD??

2000-10-25 Thread Jim Bryant
What are the plans for incorporating Rijndael, the finalist algorithm for the Advanced Encryption Standard, into FreeBSD? jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you| "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive

Re: How a normal user can crash any linux system (fwd)

2000-03-22 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > This is cross-posted to both linux-kernel and freebsd-hackers, please > set your replies properly. > > > I found the following by accident playing with PVM. If you start the > > 'gexample' from the examples directory with dimension=1 and no of > > tasks=32 on one machine, it becom

problems with compaq honoring warranty.

2000-03-09 Thread Jim Bryant
i thought i'd pass this along to the -lists. after having my compaq oem seagate cheetah commit hari-kari on monday, i have ran into some serious roadblacks getting warranty coverage on this drive i bought brand new in july. compaq, at the director level, refuses to honor warranties on any disk d

Re: Clock Drift Problem

2000-03-09 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > Has any else seen this? > > FreeBSD 3.4 Release. > > Intel motherboard. > > kernel.GENERIC > > The clock on one machine is drifting by 5 mins a day and on the other by 30 mins a > day. > > I'm not running ntp. > > Any ideas? > > tomb ;~> uh. run ntp? or at least timed. jim

Re: Copy-on-write filesystem

2000-03-03 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > > Can someone tell me why copy-on-write filesystems would be bad? > > It's a good idea. Peter Braam and I have written a device (called memdev) > for linux (sorry!) that implements a virtual-memory-backed copy-on-write > block device (

Re: Copy-on-write filesystem

2000-03-03 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > Imagine: cp file file2, file and file2 reference the same exact blocks, > but modified chunks of file2 would be given their own private blocks. This is not a microsoft innovation, actually, I believe it was a VMS innovation. It's called a generational filesystem. the original is sto

Re: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake em up!

2000-02-28 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > > > hm > > > > i mean, do the hardware people want their stuff supported or not? that's > > the main question > > some seem to choose the NOT. > > right, and that is their perogative ... you can't create a "blacklist" and > publicize

Re: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake em up!

2000-02-28 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > > > > I love the idea myself, but I have no power over FreeBSD :( > > You may not like the shape of the world, but I don't think getting > publicly nasty about it is going to have any positive effect. It WILL > have a negative effec

Re: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake em up!

2000-02-27 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > ok guys, here's just a little idea on how to get the hardware > manufacturer guys a little bit more responsive (in fact, i got somehow > "inspired" by the alsa sound project guys because they got something > similar)... > > let's put up a list of hardware manufacturers that do not ans

Re: Wall Street Journal on Open source OS (9/10/99)

1999-09-20 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > At 10:42 AM -0700 9/10/99, Sanjay Waghray wrote: > >Attached is an article from the Wall Street Journal Online Edition. > > > >--- > > > >September 10, 1999 > > > > Beyond Linux, Free Systems > >

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

1999-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > > > In article > > > > you write: > > Look, people, the Merced WILL NOT excuse PA-RISC code directly. It will be > > done via emulation/translation, and only a certain particular OS will be > > supported (HP-UX 11, I believe they stated

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

1999-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > > > In article ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >you write: > > Look, people, the Merced WILL NOT excuse PA-RISC code directly. It will be > > done via emulation/translation, and only a certain particular OS will be > > supported (HP-UX 11, I belie

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

1999-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > In article > > you write: > >Actually, I was reading in a newsgroup, the VMS newsgroup I think it was, > >that the PA-RISC chip is on the Merced chip. Basically, Intel will sell > >Merced's with the chip disabled (kind of like the math co-processor on the > >486 SX's) and HP will se

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT

1999-08-27 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > In article ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >you write: > >Actually, I was reading in a newsgroup, the VMS newsgroup I think it was, > >that the PA-RISC chip is on the Merced chip. Basically, Intel will sell > >Merced's with the chip disabled (kind of like the math co-processor on the > >486 SX

usb keyboard setup -or- HELP!

1999-07-22 Thread Jim Bryant
hi, i'm running 4.0-current on a dual p2-333 box. i run X, and am looking for help in setting up a usb keyboard for use with FreeBSD/Xfree86. if anyone has this running, i could use the help in setting it up. also, this keyboard has a ps2 mouse connector. does the mouse get recognized as a usb

usb keyboard setup -or- HELP!

1999-07-22 Thread Jim Bryant
hi, i'm running 4.0-current on a dual p2-333 box. i run X, and am looking for help in setting up a usb keyboard for use with FreeBSD/Xfree86. if anyone has this running, i could use the help in setting it up. also, this keyboard has a ps2 mouse connector. does the mouse get recognized as a usb

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-21 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Kip Macy wrote: > > > My employer has gone through numerous motherboards, we have found the ASUS > > P2B (now the P2B-F) to be rock solid for Pentium II usage. > > This is probably more appropriate for -hardware or even just -chat.. > but anyway, I'll second that

Re: What good PII/PIII Motherboards for FreeBSD and Celeron CPU's

1999-07-21 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Kip Macy wrote: > > > My employer has gone through numerous motherboards, we have found the ASUS > > P2B (now the P2B-F) to be rock solid for Pentium II usage. > > This is probably more appropriate for -hardware or even just -chat.. > but anyway, I'll second that

Re: Someone want to add support for computer radio scaners?

1999-07-07 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > Hello All, > > I was just looking at http://www.winradio.com/ and was thinking > that it would be a nice addition to FreeBSD. I don't own one of the > cards, otherwise I would have started to see what I could do. But if > anyone out there has one/has access to one, it would be inter

Re: Someone want to add support for computer radio scaners?

1999-07-07 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > Hello All, > > I was just looking at http://www.winradio.com/ and was thinking > that it would be a nice addition to FreeBSD. I don't own one of the > cards, otherwise I would have started to see what I could do. But if > anyone out there has one/has access to one, it would be inte

Re: KNE40BT in freebsd only getting 45KB/sec ftp transfer to win98 machine

1999-06-19 Thread Jim Bryant
. Unless your card is > connected directly to a switch, it should be > half duplex (I'm not sure on this, but that > is my understanding). > > > Jim Bryant wrote: > > > > In reply: > > > I am running FreeBSD-current and for some reason I am only > > > g

Re: SMP and Celerons...

1999-06-18 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > Heya, sorry I tried this one on -stable and -questions and noone seems to > know, and they actually go so far as to ask me how I got two celerons in a > motherboard... > > so I ask here. > > I have two PPGA(Socket 370) Celeron 333A's that are on MSI6905 Dual Socket > 1 adaptors... >

Re: coarse vs fine-grained locking in SMP systems

1999-06-14 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > very fine-grain-locked systems often display convoying and > are prone to priority inversion problems. coarse-grained > systems exhibit all the granularity problems already described. > (the first purdue dual-vax system plowed most of that ground) Was this a VAX 11/782 or a later mach

Re: Wonder what ftp.cdrom.com's utilisation's like now?

1999-05-11 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > > You know, if ftp.cdrom.com shifted over to using more HTTP you could > > sell > > add space and recoup some or all of the bandwidth costs. > > Matt: What an evil suggestion. Somehow, somewhere, we will get you > for this. > > Hackers: I vote w