Re: pxeboot and /boot filesystem, share /boot/kernel

Bernd Walter wrote on Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 09:36:41PM +0200: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 02:13:34PM -0400, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > I want to tighten up my spaces for diskless machines and I came across > > this puzzle with pxeboot: > > > > I can share /usr and mos

pxeboot and /boot filesystem, share /boot/kernel

he time it is started. 3) only share /boot/kernel/kernel and share a NFS mount for the modules, but that's very messy. Martin -- %%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where

Re: Which CPUTYPE for a dualcore Xeon on AMD64

Mike Meyer wrote on Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:22:25AM -0400: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Martin Turgeon wrote on Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 07:32:22PM -0400: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I recently installed AMD

Re: Which CPUTYPE for a dualcore Xeon on AMD64

t of the water by gcc-4, too. Martin -- %%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/ ___ freebsd-hackers@freebs

Re: numbers don't lie ...

enchmarks, BTW. Intel's new core2 architecture rectifies this nonsense. And not only that - they now give you a good speedup for some applications that were lousy even on AMD64. Martin -- %%% Martin Cracauerhttp://www.cons.org/c

Re: increasing dd disk to disk transfer rate

l be more successful by seeking to move the head around before retrying. Martin -- %%% Martin Cracauerhttp://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/ ___ freebsd-hackers@freeb

Re: Deadlock FreeBSD 6 / 7

6 hours in the torture test mode. Martin -- %%%%%%% Martin Cracauerhttp://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/ ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.

Re: Deadlock FreeBSD 6 / 7

mal stability (36 hours or so), and memtest86 (seperately). Martin -- %%%%%%% Martin Cracauerhttp://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/ ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: My wish list for 6.1

Robert Watson wrote on Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 07:12:23AM +: > > On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Avleen Vig wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:40:22AM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: > >>> 2. SMP kernels for install. Right now we only install a UP kernel, for > >>

Re: My wish list for 6.1

Kris Kennaway wrote on Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 12:35:47PM +1030: > Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > > > I tried to model different worklods. The parallel part of my > > benchmark suite has CPU-heavy processes, short plain http, php, long > > plain http and mixtures t

Re: My wish list for 6.1

Kris Kennaway wrote on Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 03:01:09AM -0500: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:34:09PM -0800, Avleen Vig wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:40:22AM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > > 2. SMP kernels for install. Right now we only install a UP kernel, fo

Re: My wish list for 6.1

mpkernel.wall.html General benchmark homepage (lots of AMD64 and memory benchmarking there): http://cracauer-forum.cons.org/forum/crabench.html Martin -- %%%%%%% Martin Cracauerhttp://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you

Serious braindamage in the send-pr web interface

e, that is pointless. Martin -- %%%%%%% Martin Cracauerhttp://www.cons.org/cracauer/ No warranty.This email is probably produced by one of my cats stepping on the keys. No, I don't have an infinite number of cats.

Re: /bin/sh question

heck right now. Martin -- %%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ No warranty.This email is probably produced by one of my cats stepping on the keys. No, I don't have an infinite number of cats. __

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

e equipped with mobile P-4s? Martin -- %%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ No warranty.This email is probably produced by one of my cats stepping on the keys. No, I don't have an infinite number of cats.

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

ty mailer :-) I found that the requirment to run Mozilla Firebird outpaces this CPU. It's really too bad, if it wasn't for that thing I could happily run my old hardware forever. Martin -- %%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EM

Power consumption in desktop computers

s about 5 watts when turned off. Power supply change may be a good idea. -- %%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ No warranty.This email is probably produced by one of my cats stepping on the keys. No, I don't have an infinite number of cats. _

Boston area BSD meeting (or user group?)

Hi, folks, seems we have no user group in Boston. What about a few of us get together for some BSD chatting? If so,let me know what kind of meeting you'd like (beer, hacking etc.). Martin -- %%% Martin Cracauer &l

Need a former MaxAttach/creativedesign.com FreeBSD hacker

A company I am working fo has a problem with a FreeBSD-based 19" NFS server called MaxAttach 4000. We need to fiddle with their apparently home-grown striping/mirroring system and I would like to talk to somebody who knows something about this. Thanks Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail t

Re: Linking Linux object files under FreeBSD

he linux_devel port. I has to be quite up-to-date, otherwise you have to make sure you don't jump out of /compat/linux when the linker searches for libraries. Martin -- %%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www

Re: Generic config file parser?

intend to use the GPL... Martin -- %%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Generic config file parser?

nt XML parsing library for C so far, but the mess is incredible (the applications will be 10 years out this summer). I can only advice you to use synaxtes that could (not necessarily from start) be parsed by existing technology that leave roon for syntax expansion. Martin -- %%%

Re: hashing a symbol before looking into a hashed table

ming b(d)oom doesn't lead very far when only slight performance losses are acceptable. Either you recompute or you have to store and follow lots of pointers, which in turn need to be remembered for resource bookkeeping. Martin -- %%%%%

Re: Motif goes open source

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Bishop wrote: > > > "The Open Group, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium dedicated to > > > enterprise integration, announced t

Re: Motif goes open source

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Cracauer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Bishop wrote: > > "The Open Group, a vendor and technology-neutral consortium dedicated to > > enterprise integration, announced today that it is releasing the source > > code of

Re: Motif goes open source

orm and as such is not as stupid as Sun's "Community" license. Martin -- %%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubsc

Re: floating point exceptions

y 7 months for the last 5 years now. Martin -- %%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 MMX

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2000, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > Its squid's DNS routines, not the shared libraries. > > > heck the squid-dev archies on http://www.squid-

Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 MMX

st don't have the time to search the website from top. Martin -- %%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 MMX

mineral oil for cooling available, hence you don't even get a cooler (hehe) looking computer. Martin -- %%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bs

Re: problems with "-O -pipe" in guile port

ll -Wpointer-arith >-Wmissing-prototypes -c qtmds.s -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/qtmds.lo > > *** dies here *** No error messages? -- %%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germa

Re: What are the best gcc optimization options for Pentium 200 MMX

s) when you compile the code in question, especially when compiling shared libraries it may use? It sounds like you found the lines where the corruption happens, I would welcome the exact locations. I'd like to hunt this one down. Thanks! Martin --

Re: BSD VS BDS

ke 3.4-STABLE and don't think it is wise to update on older 3.x release to it due to stability. See the discussion on -stable and let us not get into the same flamewar here. Martin -- %%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BSD VS BDS

r 3.x releases - in my opinion - suffer a little from not enough testing when teh developers were already approching 4.0. Martin -- %%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ Tel.: (private) +4940 5

Re: BSD VS BDS

note, if you choose FreeBSD, take 4.0, not 3.4. Martin -- %%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PR

Re: empty lists in for (/bin/sh)

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Max Khon wrote: > hi, there! > > On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > I just checked POSIX 1003.2. > > > > for name [ in word ] > > do > > compound-list > > done > > > > "First, th

Re: empty lists in for

g" is not an error and both shells do it right. To the original poster, it would have been useful to submit this as a bug report or at least choose a subject line that indicates that you're talking about the shell. I recognized the thread only when my name was written and missed the begi

Re: FreeBSD as high speed router

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 11:42:14AM +0100, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > The thing is bootet from floppy and is a pure filtering router, no > > NAT, no applications/server, no proxies (which is suicide on a > > fire

Re: FreeBSD as high speed router

ure filtering router, no NAT, no applications/server, no proxies (which is suicide on a firewall anyway). Martin -- %%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http:/

Re: The stack size for a process?

ed" (in the efence port, not the default malloc(), of course) I think I could implement this, but I'd like a reality check first. What did I forget? Martin -- % Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.

Re: Should -mieee-fp equal fpsetmask(0) to avoid SIGFPE on FreeBSD?

FPU exception mask. If only to document that it knows what it is doing. Martin -- % Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: [OFFTOPIC] alt. C compiler

t you intro trouble in first place. Martin -- %%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: Should -mieee-fp equal fpsetmask(0) to avoid SIGFPE on FreeBSD?

reiterate what I said before... > > Yes, the existing Mozilla code should be fixed to perform the range > check in the manner that Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has > shown above. However the can-of-worms opened up by this whole > thread/discussion has revealed *two*

Re: [OFFTOPIC] alt. C compiler

d code, but they are much less common than implied. And such issues were in 2.7.x was well, that's the reason the base system is compiled with -O. Martin -- %%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ B

Re: [OFFTOPIC] alt. C compiler

that take long long arguments doesn't work, these should be masked out when compiling struct ansi code. It may get painful quickly, as such basic things like seek() are amoung them. Martin -- %%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Should -mieee-fp equal fpsetmask(0) to avoid SIGFPE on FreeBSD?

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hence it is good to trap this and it is a bug in Mozilla, period. > >... > >I think we might discuss lowin

Re: Should -mieee-fp equal fpsetmask(0) to avoid SIGFPE on FreeBSD?

*i = (int)d; return 1; } else return 0; } I can only urge the Mozilla team to use clean constructions and leave their hands off speed hacks that trigger undefined behaviour. The project needs reliability first, and then speed. In this case, you don't even get speed. Martin -- %

Re: Should -mieee-fp equal fpsetmask(0) to avoid SIGFPE on FreeBSD?

. That is very different from the float->int conversion results, which do not behave in the usual integer overflow manner (although my first example looked like they would). Martin -- % Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Should -mieee-fp equal fpsetmask(0) to avoid SIGFPE on FreeBSD?

abled. But most cases where people cry about FreeBSD's behaviour are serious errors like the one in mozilla, so we won't gain much. If you want to change the behaviour system-wide, change __INITIAL_NPXCW__ in src/sys/i386/include/npx.h. Martin -- %

Re: Limited amount of variables in a multithreaded programm?

ng(8) is not a program that should be used for teaching C coding, threaded or not :-) Happy new year! Martin > On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > In <001301bf5540$66b72610$0201a8c0@blade>, Steffen Merkel wrote: > > > int ping(struct in_addr *ip

Re: Limited amount of variables in a multithreaded programm?

n is more than the default stack size for a threaded program, and the stack cannot grow automatically. Did you check out the classic model before tangling with pthreads? :-) Martin -- % Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.

Re: SIGFPE on arithmetic overflow

bp) fistpl -12(%ebp) ; causes the exception fldcw -38(%ebp) ; thowns the delayed exception Intel documentation implies that fistpl throws "invalid operation", although the manuals are not clear enough and omit this kind of error from some tables of exceptions that looke

Re: Question about GLIDE...

to publish my patches under a BSD-style license? Didn't read the license. Martin -- % Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: New tests for test(1)

it's the far better solution to have your own test(1)-like utility in your personal search path. Martin -- %%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscrib

Re: New tests for test(1)

it's the far better solution to have your own test(1)-like utility in your personal search path. Martin -- %%%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.

BSDI Pthread + gdb (Re: Free BSDI CD!)

e GPL gdb. Anyone knows what kind of Pthread library/kernel support they have? Martin -- %%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.bik-gmbh.de/~cracauer/ "Where do you want to do today?" Hard to tell running your calendar

BSDI Pthread + gdb (Re: Free BSDI CD!)

ed to provide source for the GPL gdb. Anyone knows what kind of Pthread library/kernel support they have? Martin -- %%%% Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.bik-gmbh.de/~cracauer/ "Where do you want to d

Re: G200 GLX and SIGFPU

e using the FPE trapcode patch I sent to -current a while ago. A version for last weeks 4.0-current is available by mail. Should run on 3.x as well. Martin -- %%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.bik-gmbh.de/~cracauer/ "Where do you