Re: tuning a CPU bound server

2002-05-18 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Brandon D. Valentine([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2002.05.17 14:48:07 +: > On Fri, 17 May 2002, Doug White wrote: > > >You are welcome to rewrite qmail to use kqueue if you wish :) > > Although if I read the license correctly you hand djb a contract for > your soul and first born child if you do. ;-)

Re: reboot your own jail ?

2002-05-18 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Peter Pentchev([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2002.05.16 18:04:14 +: > Okay, forget I said anything about supervise; it does not seem to be > applicable for jails at all :( quite a while ago, i played with jails which started svscan as their primary process. no problems. svscan will scan its service dire

Re: reboot your own jail ?

2002-05-16 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Attila Nagy([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2002.05.16 13:50:02 +: > Hello, > > > In theory, you could use ports/sysutils/daemontools/, specifically the > > 'supervise' utility. I have been thinking about setting up a jail using > > a supervised service for some time now, never had the time to actually >

Re: problems with wine

2002-03-27 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Julian Elischer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2002.03.27 11:43:50 +: [...my dumbass workaround deleted...] > He said he was running native.. > > the cpu type is in > `sysctl hw` > The code shuold be altered on FreeBSD to look there. oops, you're prefectly right. i skipped the "(native)" when reading t

Re: problems with wine

2002-03-27 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Thomas Würfl([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2002.03.27 16:48:40 +: > Hi, > > I have a problem running a application with wine (native). > Error message: 486 cpu or higher required. I have a amd k7. > The linux version catches the cpu-type from /proc/cpuinfo. > But Freebsd's /proc is diffrent from linux.

Re: how to make 'for' understand two words as a single argument

2001-10-02 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Daniel C. Sobral([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.10.02 09:18:43 +: > Stijn Hoop wrote: > > > > > Any way using `` won't work. for i in a "b c" d works, for instance, but > > > there is not way that I know of that you can control the output this way > > > using ``. > > > > Yes there is: set IFS to on

Re: VM: dynamic swap remapping (patch)

2001-10-01 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
i got a (way old) ppc 604e, in the corner of my office. it's a 74p, latest 4.3.3 patchlevel from one month ago or so installed. i could arrange ssh access to the box if somebody cares, although i am not available 24x7 for remote hands ;-) there's nothing critical on it, the box got 128mb ram, so

Re: precise timing

2001-09-30 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Devin Butterfield([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.09.30 12:33:26 +: > [...] > > > was suggested you may want to consider a dedicated cpu based > > > controller. Thre are a number of solutions for hobbyists > > > (such as the handyboard, see www.handyboard.com). > > > > Unfortunately, money is a b

Re: VM: dynamic swap remapping (patch)

2001-09-29 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Vladimir Dozen([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.09.29 15:59:41 +: > ehlo. > > (Sorry for long pre-history, I believe it is necessary.) > > My current employer develops large CORBA-based data mining servers. > They are usually run under HP-UX, but, following the current fashion > to build proc

Re: power supplies

2001-09-28 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Dan([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.09.27 20:04:40 +: > > ya but even putting the old nic back in the machine does not still boot > up. I don't think this has to do with the nic but you never know. > fxp1: questions of the pragmatic field-engineer: "did it produce any smoke?" "did it stink?" "does

Re: Problems with many ATA drives

2001-09-28 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Dave Hayes([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.09.23 09:43:25 +: > We've been attempting to set up a vinum raid box with a bunch of IDE > drives. Each drive is partitioned with a vinum partition on A, such > that the entire drive is on partition a. Initial partitioning is done > with /stand/sysinstall so

Re: where to set hw.ata.wc

2001-09-18 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
John Merryweather Cooper([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.09.18 09:43:27 +: > /boot/loader.conf > > An OS upgrade SHOULD only touch /boot/defaults/loader.conf. why is there /boot/loader.conf.local, then? /k -- > Anxiety, n.: The first time you can't do it a second time. > Panic, n.: The second tim

Re: CAN bus

2001-09-18 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Warner Losh([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.09.18 09:33:45 +: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Julian >Elischer writes: > : Ok so I have to ask... what is CAN bus? (besides a piece of string > : between 2 cans.). > > A data acquisition bus that was popular in manufacturing a few years > ago. Don't

Re: Cron pickle

2001-09-17 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Tim Allshorn([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.09.17 10:40:15 +: > Hello. > I need to be able to run a particular program at the last minute of each > month and yes I know it would be much easier to run it at the first minute > of each month, but my hands are tied and my brain is too puny to work

Re: Kernel Panic after upgrade

2001-09-16 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Chojin([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.09.16 10:42:27 +: > Hello, > > yesterday I cvsup my system with RELENG_4 branch. > I recompiled my system, kernel, no error. > > I reboot with new kernel and just after it booted it says: > panic: pmap_bootstrap: no local apic! > mp_lock = 0009; cpuid = 0;

Re: SLOW ftp transfers one way

2001-09-05 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
you should check the settings of your switch ports and look into the output of 'ifconfig -a'. try nailing the switch to 100baseTX.full duplex and set up the network card with 'ifconfig fxp0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex' this solves carrier transition problems with stupid switch hardware wh

Re: Should URL's be pervasive.

2001-08-30 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Leo Bicknell([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.08.30 11:10:18 +: > > I ran into a pair of all too common annoyances this morning that > got me thinking. Via the magic of cut and paste I ended up with > the following two sorts of command lines: > > mutt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > traceroute http://www

Re: memory + apache

2001-08-30 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Dan([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.08.30 09:06:44 +: > > Yeah that is what I am thinking to. My guess is some large array allocated > in the php code maybe or a sql query taking to long to finish eating up > all the ram. That is kind of interesting to know. I would think the configure php with --en

Re: Softupdate gripe...

2001-07-31 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Alfred Perlstein([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.30 16:07:17 +: > * Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010730 16:01] wrote: > [re: speeding up freeing of space when using softupdates] > > > > If you want to accellerate the release of blocks issue a couple > > of sync(1) commands: > > > > sync;

Re: perhaps one of phk's "intern" projects?

2001-07-27 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Matthew Emmerton([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.26 16:50:52 +: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > It'd be nice if one could pass a time specification to at in the form of "next > > reboot". > > > > -matt > > > > Why not just write a script for the command and stick it in > /usr/

Re: FreeBSD for ARM processor

2001-07-25 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
David O'Brien([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.24 19:59:41 +: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:49:16AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > > Strongarm-based pcs designed by Chalice Technologies http://www.chaltech.com > > are available from Simtek http://www.simtec.co.uk/ > > This brings up the issue of refe

Re: FreeBSD for ARM processor

2001-07-24 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
David O'Brien([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.24 07:51:28 +: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:39:18PM -0400, Stephane E. Potvin wrote: > > > > FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #271: Sun Jul 22 08:36:22 EDT 2001 > > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/users/spotvin/work/FreeBSD/src/sys/arm/ > > > > compile/NETWIN

Re: pkg_add puzzlement

2001-07-24 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Romain Kang([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.23 18:21:00 +: > I've been using this in a PLIST: > > 1 @exec test -d %D/var/run/procstates || mkdir -p %D/var/run/procstates > 2 @exec chown root.wheel %D/var/run/procstates && chmod 1775 %D/var/run/procstates > > The rationale for each line: > - 1 Ins

Re: Swapping in diskless ? (was :Re: [hackers] Re: getting rid of sysinstall)

2001-07-17 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Matt Dillon([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.13 15:27:08 +: > Also, do performance testing with dynamic-linked verses static-linked > binaries. Static-linked binaries may look larger, but they have a > much lower dirty-page overhead then the dynamically linked equivalent. > It depe

Re: getting rid of sysinstall - Was: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-12 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Paul Robinson([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.12 15:44:32 +: > On Jul 11, "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > some rough and spontaneuos ideas: > > - stripped down python interpreter runs as init > > Wow. If you think about it, that&#x

Re: sysinstall - Was: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-11 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Giorgos Keramidas([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.10 05:13:44 +: > Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The base system is not registered into the packages > > system, because of sysinstall. > > It's not installed from /usr/ports but from /usr/src. > I don't know if it's a good idea to

Re: getting rid of sysinstall - Was: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-11 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Terry Lambert([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.09 13:29:23 +: [...] > There are too many steps. > > X11 is a distribution set, instead of a package. > > Etc. (I could go on forever). > ...then let's wrap up a concept of a interpreter language driven installer. redhat does it in python since year

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-08 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Wes Peters([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.07 21:57:35 +: > Richard Hodges wrote: > > > > Sure, no argument there. Taking Wes' suggestion, maybe there is an > > opportunity in the "official" distribution distinction. How about a > > "certificate of authenticity" which costs the vendors $1 or $2

Re: TX buffer in 4.3

2001-07-04 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Randy -Harborside Internet([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.03 13:53:43 +: > > We are having a problem with our mail server. It recently got > upgraded to 4.3 from 4.2, and now it is having problems with the TX > buffer somehow on the network card. Every once in awhile it will shut > off all netwo

Re: ftpd....

2001-07-03 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Mike Smith([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.02 23:01:42 +: > > Be aware that ftpd is likely to be replaced in the near future, as > there's a strong desire to converge on the LukeM FTP tools. no matter how nice lukemftpd looks (i got it running on several boxes since it was the only choice for pl

Re: [Q] msgs

2001-07-03 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
omit the space? /k Ian Trudel([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.02 11:43:11 +: > Hello, > > msgs reminded me the old UNIX news command and then, I started to > fiddle around it. As I want to post stuff, it works good with msgs -s. > However, in the man pages, they suggest: > > The line

Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD

2001-06-24 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Dag-Erling Smorgrav([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.24 18:38:31 +: > "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > yup, exactly. to me it seems to be a major problem to get some unified > > api out of openssl adressing fucnctions on the hardware -- i simply d

Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD

2001-06-24 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Dag-Erling Smorgrav([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.24 18:20:53 +: > "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > i think ipsec crypto abstraction into hardware is one side of the medal, > > but the other side -- to be polished first -- ist getting opens

Re: Status of encryption hardware support in FreeBSD

2001-06-24 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Dag-Erling Smorgrav([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.24 17:48:47 +: > Soren Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As I now has prototypes avaliable of low cost PCI and MiniPCI boards, > > moving to production in a couple of weeks, I would like to check up on > > the work, as I would really like

Re: [RFC] whois(1) - recursive IP searches

2001-06-22 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Mike Barcroft([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.22 12:25:33 +: > On 6/22/01 4:59 AM, Volker Stolz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > In local.freebsd-hackers, you wrote: > >> I would appreciate comments on the following patch: > >> http://testbed.q9media.net/freebsd/whois.20010622.patch > >> > >>

Re: [RFC] whois(1) - recursive IP searches

2001-06-22 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Volker Stolz([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.22 10:59:57 +: > This and some of the other stuff discussed recently looks like what > other people have been building into whois-*servers* like whois.thur.de > by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (just try 'whois -h whois.thur.de > 210.139.255.223'). > Why not keep w

Re: Injecting a packet with explicit route.

2001-06-18 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
David Preece([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.18 12:03:09 +: > Hi, > > Due to the wonder of IPFW and divert sockets I have been merrily catching > packets, modifying them and reinjecting back in from userland to great > effect for some time now. What I would like (need) to do is much the same, >

Re: Article Network performance by OS

2001-06-18 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Dag-Erling Smorgrav([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.17 07:48:27 +: > Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Not quite. Linux distributions tend to be extremely > > conservative in the IDE options (DMA, interrupt unmasking, > > write caching, etc. all disabled) while FreeBSD seems to > > have

Re: rc, was: Re: Plan to import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-14 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Peter Pentchev([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.14 20:19:27 +: > OK, and what do I do if I want to manually start/stop the service later, > and it needs variables defined in /etc/rc.conf{,local} ? if [ x${_RC_CONF} != x1 ]; then . /etc/rc.conf; fi in the beginning of the local startup script? if i

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-12 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Warner Losh([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.11 20:32:21 +: > Let me clarify. > > If I were to add a few extra "modules" to the system. A, B, and C. > If B needed A and C to start before it, then if I were to remove > module A, B wouldn't start because its prereqs aren't there. These > modules wo

Re: changing the date format

2001-05-31 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Heimes, Rene([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.31 13:58:26 +: > hiho there! > > on our freeBSD 4.1 systems we need to customize the date format. anyone > got a hint how to do that? by the way, is it possible to customize the date(1) has information about applying a format string from the shell. strf

Re: interesting os comparison charts

2001-05-30 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Karsten W. Rohrbach([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.29 21:44:03 +: > the author also addresses the typical GENERIC kernel problems on > production machines (NBMCLUSTERS too low,...), anyway it's very s/NBMCLUSTERS/NMBCLUSTERS/ uptime strikes back again ;-) /k -- > question = ( to

Re: TIP command

2001-05-30 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
vishwanath pargaonkar([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.30 17:13:27 +: > Hi, > tell me how can i connect to remote system by using > tip command. > i have connected two machines by serial line. > i gave tip cuaa0c and it said connected.but how can i > make it to ask for user name. > what shd i enter

Re: brainstorm: "intermediate" disk caching

2001-05-30 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Matthew Jacob([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.28 09:54:28 +: > > Ah. You want to reinvent the drum? matt, when i recall it right, someone told me about a paper presented at usenix about logging to a single disk which is exactly the thing that would do the job here. it was, i think, discussed in a

interesting os comparison charts

2001-05-29 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
there is a nice comparison of *bsd/linux/solaris systems under load in terms of http/nfs netio and fs performance on the net: http://innominate.org/%7Etgr/slides/performance/tuning.htm the author also addresses the typical GENERIC kernel problems on production machines (NBMCLUSTERS too low,...),

Re: technical comparison

2001-05-22 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Jordan Hubbard([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.21 15:37:05 +: > > c) A filesystem that will be fast in light of tens of thousands of > >files in a single directory (maybe even hundreds of thousands) > > I think we can more than hold our own with UFS + soft updates. This > is another area wher

what is a good toolkit for multitarget documentation?

2001-05-22 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
hey folks, i am currently evaluating different styles of implementing documentation for some multiplatform software stuff. first i though about html only docs, but this is not sufficient. then i thought about tex docs but this wont work out either. the idea is to have a single 'master repo' sty

Re: SSH Must Die

2001-05-14 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
David Taylor([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.13 21:16:33 +: > On Sun, 13 May 2001, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > > --- > > VERSION_NUMBER=`grep "[$]FreeBSD:" $0 | cut -d ' ' -f 4` > > echo "mergemaster version ${VERSION_NUMBER}" > > ---

Re: SSH Must Die

2001-05-13 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Kris Kennaway([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.05.12 19:33:54 +: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 04:24:48PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > ssh works just fine for me in 4.3. You must be doing something > > > wrong. > > > > I used that "sysinstall" thing Jordan wrote to u

Re: automated checking of Security Advisories

2001-04-25 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Mike Silbersack([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.04.25 12:24:47 +: > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > > > oldver: bind-8.2.2 > > newver: bind-8.2.3 > > If we're going to flag insecure versions, I think a better way would be to > list "mi

Re: automated checking of Security Advisories

2001-04-25 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Kris Kennaway([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.04.24 12:27:58 +: > This is another reason why having a third-party modifying the advisory > to mark it up into XML is a bad idea; you lose the integrity > protection from the PGP signature. that taken as a solid basis for authenticity and integrity of the

Re: DNS rules etc

2001-03-27 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
cd /usr/ports/net/djbdns && make install clean then read the docs for dnscache and dnscache-conf at http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html i use tinydns and axfrdns here for my name services to replace bind, dnscache to screen out requests and to mux several other dns servers and bind boxes into one request

Re: tuning a VERY heavily (30.0) loaded server

2001-03-27 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Greg Lehey([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:07:09PM +0930: > One of the reasons this question came up is because dumps weren't > enabled. If they had been, we would have seen the problem. That's > why I'd recommend at least as much swap as memory, even if it doesn't > get touched. when

Re: Extremely large (70TB) File system/server planning

2001-02-09 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Mike Smith([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 12:52:24PM -0800: > > You can't do this with a NetApp either; they max out at about 6TB now > (going up to around 12 or so soon). You might want to talk to EMC and/or > IBM, both of whom have *extremely* large filers. from my experiences with

Re: StrongARM support?

2000-12-19 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
just call it "installmoon" ;> *chuckle* /k Warner Losh([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 05:40:11PM -0700: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Michael C . Wu" writes: > : Would 20mb be a comfortable target for > : "make buildsmallworld installsmallworld" ? The build would have to > : be in

Re: NFSD stopped in inode state

2000-10-07 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
you might want to check your scsi bus layout and cabling and of course termination. maybe one drive has a broken interface? do you get timeouts? /k Sam([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 06:11:49PM +: > Hi, > > We have 3 Free BSD 4.0 Servers with Ultra160 Adapatec Cards, and ccd'ed U2W

Re: Vinum RAID-5 performance problem

2000-09-30 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Greg Lehey([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 11:33:19AM +0930: [...] > depends on what you're trying to do. But yes, having only two > controllers will halve your RAID-5 write performance. Note also that > with a 256 kB stripe, you'll run into drive contention problems > because all your s

Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror

2000-04-10 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Mark Murray([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 01:19:57PM +0200: > > I could do this. What arre the setup concerns? > nearly none, it runs chrooted... cd /usr/ports/net/rsync && make install clean man rsync man rsyncd.conf easy going... /k > M > -- > Mark Murray > Join the anti-SPAM mov

Re: desire for ftp.internat.freebsd.org mirror

2000-04-07 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Kris Kennaway([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 01:38:05AM -0700: > > Mark Murray would know :-) > > I think there's a lot of stale cruft on ftp.internat.freebsd.org which > doesn't need to be mirrored - Mark could probably tell us all which bits > are suitable for mirroring (this should b

Re: Mirror requirements

2000-04-07 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
rohrbach@filepile:/ftp/.vol/vol1$ du -sk FreeBSD 22975903FreeBSD rohrbach@filepile:/ftp/.vol/vol1$ date Sat Apr 8 01:17:30 CEST 2000 ...eek! /k Jesper Skriver([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 05:11:43PM +0200: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 09:42:42AM -0500, Patrick Gardella wrote: >

Re: MAXUSERS question, what is max MAXUSERS setting?

2000-03-06 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
. Rohrbach - Senior Research Engineer - Nacamar Data Communications one world. one net. nacamar - http://www.nacamar.net This was written on the road... Answers to your reply could be delayed. - Original Message - From: "Egervary Gergely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Karsten

MAXUSERS question, what is max MAXUSERS setting?

2000-03-01 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
hiya folks i just wondered what the maximum MAXUSERS setting for a 3.4 kernel would be on a smp system with 512mb ram... the impact on the system structures seems to be very... errrhh... rather complex. any ideas? it gives me a warning if i got past 512, but what will happen then? /k -- > Mot

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

2000-02-27 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
dware supported - tough luck... (and i dont have any audio on my laptop) /k The Hermit Hacker([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 01:22:17AM -0400: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > > > hm > > > > i mean, do the hardware people want their stuff supporte

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

2000-02-27 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
hm i mean, do the hardware people want their stuff supported or not? that's the main question some seem to choose the NOT. /k Chuck Robey([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 11:44:42PM -0500: > On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > > > > I love the idea myself, but I have no po

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

2000-02-27 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
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 answer our mails, that do

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
so support audio functions (or did i get something wrong in the neomagic256av threads of the last months?)... /k -- The path of excess leads to the tower of wisdom. -W. Blake Karsten W. Rohrbach - Senior Research Engineer - Nacamar Data Communications one world. one net. nacamar - http://www.nacama

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
t; >On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > > > >> i just messaged the guys from yamaha japan for specs on their pci audio > >> chipsets to get some decent documentation to start torturing those ymf744 > >> soundcards. no response. i mailed again. same res

yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-19 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
hi * this might be a little offtopic... i just messaged the guys from yamaha japan for specs on their pci audio chipsets to get some decent documentation to start torturing those ymf744 soundcards. no response. i mailed again. same result. do they actually read their mail or is this an uncommon

Re: bonnie still trustable?

2000-02-14 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
i personally like shimon's st.d... it exercises a disk very thoroughly, so if you want to benchmark - and, of course, have plenty of time for the box to run the benchmark - st.d is the choice since you got your free-of-charge(tm) burn in of the disk subsystem with it. what it basically does is sim

strange NFS stuff going on... (inpcb=0x0,...)

1999-11-08 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
hi, i recently migrated our news box (which runs approx. 1MB/s nntp traffic inbound and >2MB/s outbound) to several systems and got the spool onto a vinum volume that spans 6 scsi busses (adaptec 3940UW) each 4 disks (IBM DNES 18GB). theres a private switched interconnect between the reader box an