Mixing amd64 kernel with i386 world

2013-09-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
rnel - anything accessing /dev/mem or /dev/kmem (which implies anything that uses libkvm) probably needs to match the kernel. Has anyone investigated this approach? -- Peter Jeremy pgpxr8ZptU2HX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: seeding randomness in zee cloud

2013-05-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
s (which should be done automatically via IRQ harvesting) and junk into /dev/random. -- Peter Jeremy pgpeZ4geVWmT_.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: GSOC 2013 project " Kernel Size Reduction for Embedded System "

2013-04-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2013-Apr-09 11:05:56 -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: >You have to look at the in-memory sizes, not the on-disk sizes. Or, even better, look at the difference between installed physical RAM and how much RAM is available to userland processes. -- Peter Jeremy pgpOHqKqYTU0M.pgp Description:

Re: Help porting Linux app - getting Free Memory and Real Memory

2013-03-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
gt;printf("Total VM Memory: %i\n",vmsize.t_vm); >printf("Total Real Memory: %i\n",vmsize.t_rm); >printf("shared real memory: %i\n",vmsize.t_rmshr); >printf("active shared real memory: %i\n",vmsize.t_armshr); >printf("Total Fr

Re: ZFS regimen: scrub, scrub, scrub and scrub again.

2013-01-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
rives weighs in at 36 hours or so. > >which is funny as ZFS is marketed as doing this efficient (like checking >only used space). It _does_ only check used space but it does so in logical order rather than physical order. For a fragmented pool, this means random accesses. >Even better

Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

2013-01-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
ance. Apart from continuous whinging and whining on mailing lists, what have you done to add support for queuing? -- Peter Jeremy pgpPelv8iAQPo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD for serious performance?

2012-12-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
ivers causing the system to lockup. And I don't recall (offhand) seeing other reports of it. This again points to a problem with your particular configuration, rather than FreeBSD. >And other, non-disk drivers have the same problem of locking out >other drivers, even during normal operation. And this happens on >yet other drivers on other people's hardware, not just mine. Can you provide mailing list or PR references to these. -- Peter Jeremy pgpxxy322gDTO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD for serious performance?

2012-12-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
a way to boot from different partitions, much less >>> different disks with GPT. Yes, this is a limitation of FreeBSD's GPT loader. So far, no-one has written the code to support multiple boot partitions or disks. Note that most BIOS's allow you to select the boot disk - which is a workaround. -- Peter Jeremy pgpgEyjjmIWvx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: make -jN buildworld on < 512MB ram

2012-10-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
so they all SIGCONT their children. Repeat. (Note that any scheduler changes also need to cope with this). [*] Typical cc1/cc1plus behaviour is to steadily grow as the input is processed. At higher optimisation levels, parse trees are not freed at the end of a function to all

Re: make -jN buildworld on < 512MB ram

2012-10-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
ure as a whole then the scheduler just stops scheduling some of them until the pressure reduces (effectively swap them out). (Yes, that's vague and lots of hand-waving that might not be realisable). -- Peter Jeremy pgpOxQEkEC3S2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Building with WITH_DEBUG (-g) in make.conf

2012-09-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
erent, is that both -g and other debugging options will >generally cause compiling and linking to take longer, since these stages >will have to process the additional debug information. As well as being much larger - several times larger is not uncommon. This further slows things down due to t

Re: Unsigned Integer Encoding

2012-08-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
are not encoded in >reverse form). I suggest you look at xdr(3) and rpcgen(1) -- Peter Jeremy pgpSy5s1R6Dmk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: contigmalloc() breaking Xorg

2012-08-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
dmamem tag when it starts). It all seemed to work OK. I haven't tried it on the box where I originally saw the problem because that's running 8.x. I'll have a look at backporting your and alc@'s fixes when I get some spare time. -- Peter Jeremy pgpNNsdrw2Bk7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: kqueue timer timeout period

2012-07-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
age rate should be very close to that requested. -- Peter Jeremy pgpaFY3z3IfaV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound

2012-07-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
the following be installed as /usr/bin/nslookup: #!/bin/sh echo "nslookup is no longer supported. Please see drill(1) or host(1)" >&2 exit 1 -- Peter Jeremy pgpP08j1bRN4J.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
Firstly, I should note that I'm not against removing bind from base. I'm merely saying that users are going to need some guidance during the transition. On 2012-Jul-09 13:52:15 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >On 07/09/2012 13:47, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> On 2012-Jul-09 14:15:1

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
for handling the private hosts in a SOHO environment? -- Peter Jeremy pgpJAciudHfKN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: contigmalloc() breaking Xorg

2012-07-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Jul-03 21:17:53 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >I have a reasonably recent 8-stable/amd64 system (r237444) with a "ATI >Radeon HD 2400 Pro", xorg-server-1.10.6,1 and xf86-video-ati-6.14.3_1 >8GB RAM and ZFS. I'm seeing fairly consistent problems with Xorg ... >H

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
ND } wired into gcc to help people migrating from Algol and Pascal. -- Peter Jeremy pgp8dpJReQa4x.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: install-prompt for missing features (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
their .profile/.login/.[t]cshrc files. Note that I'm not currently interested in this functionality and am not volunteering to implement it. -- Peter Jeremy pgpLiwmiVDNPP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: contigmalloc() breaking Xorg

2012-07-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Jul-03 21:17:53 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >Does anyone have a tool that can display physical RAM allocation? >This would at least allow me to identify offending allocations. >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2011-February/thread.html >asks the same quest

contigmalloc() breaking Xorg

2012-07-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
sts.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2011-February/thread.html asks the same question but just peters out. -- Peter Jeremy pgpuclQzdFSg9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

2012-06-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
his). >there is IMHO already too much automata in default FreeBSD: >default /etc/crontab, /etc/newsyslog.conf and /etc/periodic directory. > >All gets deleted by me as soon as i install FreeBSD. You are free to disable or delete as much of FreeBSD as you like but I personally prefer my systems to reduce my workload by automating normal maintenance tasks. -- Peter Jeremy pgp749EyaVr0n.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

2012-06-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Jun-21 10:09:01 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >On 06/21/2012 05:28 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> 32.0s - rc scripts ("mounting root" through VTY login prompt) > >I think that there is some confusion about what I wrote originally, so >let me clarify. From the time tha

Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

2012-06-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
for input" timeouts. The kernel amounts for 10% of the total time and 50% of that is 4 devices. I intend to work through the rc process in more detail to see where I can reduce the elapsed time. -- Peter Jeremy pgpfk36pZhHvM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

2012-06-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
rc scripts. I know dougb@ regularly picks up issues with new & updated ports but it's not realistic to rely on him manually picking up every rc script error. -- Peter Jeremy pgpvt6oBaRAkM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?

2012-06-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
explained. You are the only person that is claiming that 8.x is EOL. I have not seen any official announcement to that effect. The absence of an announcement of 8.4-release does not make it EOL. -- Peter Jeremy pgpxLxs9FqeLP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD Boot Times

2012-06-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Jun-13 21:55:22 +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: >Try setting: > >sysctl hw.usb.no_boot_wait=1 Note that this is a tunable and will need to be specified in /boot/loader.conf to have any effect. -- Peter Jeremy pgpojiOBCDYfk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: detailed map of WIRED memory under FreeBSD 9

2012-06-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
er-process level. Unfortunately, the only documentation appears to be the source (sys/fs/procfs/procfs_map.c) -- Peter Jeremy pgpPIwypWnWVm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: proper newfs options for SSD disk

2012-05-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
- firefox generates quite a heavy write load during normal use. Moving the cache to /tmp will help but I don't think there's any complete solution. Also, you're probably better off running a traditional lightweight window manager than something like KDE or Gnome. -- Peter Jeremy pgpxd8fhB1HUY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: proper newfs options for SSD disk

2012-05-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-May-18 22:54:43 +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: >Be sure to use "-t enable" when creating the filesystem: Only if your SSD supports TRIM. Some consumer-grade SSDs don't and get very confused if sent TRIM commands. -- Peter Jeremy pgp2LuXn5iRWb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NFS - slow

2012-04-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
synchronous write to disk before it can return the acknowledgement back to the client. -- Peter Jeremy pgpDukb68dqQA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Graphical Terminal Environment

2012-03-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
OS provide a mode that suits your monitor, you will need custom driver code. -- Peter Jeremy pgpavw3qB3HKy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
current driver, or who is having a serious issue with the current driver will want the update. Someone who isn't having problems won't want to touch their driver in case it introduces problems with their system. -- Peter Jeremy pgpVm8HHD84Kg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: reducing compiler instances during buildkernel

2011-11-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
up enough to return to that state. If you really want to trim low-hanging fruit, try disposing of libtool and GNU configure instead - their overheads are _many_ orders of magnitude higher than make exec()ing gcc. -- Peter Jeremy pgpi5RM6Xcqpb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Porting FreeBSD to Raspberry Pi

2011-11-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
sure how practical it would be. http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/28 makes it fairly clear that the multimedia side will be all closed source and relevant datasheets will not be available. -- Peter Jeremy pgpjYASZmxhP3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Measuring memory footprint in C/C++ code on FreeBSD

2011-10-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
he best interface on FreeBSD would be kvm_getprocs(3). BTW, since you mention heap objects, I presume you are aware that malloc() uses mmap(), rather than sbrk() to obtain memory. -- Peter Jeremy pgphug33XKVIW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: excessive use of gettimeofday(2) and other syscalls

2011-09-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
hat may not be as accurate as the author intended. I think a better way of looking at the problem is that some code was designed on the assumption that certain operations were cheap and therefore uses those operations more freely than it would have had those operations been more expensive. -- Peter Jer

Re: excessive use of gettimeofday(2) and other syscalls

2011-09-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
ick but there is no standard for this. -- Peter Jeremy pgpvoAwjmooj4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS installs on HD with 4k physical blocks without any warning as on 512 block size device

2011-08-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
d out from CVS 467 485 509557656 /usr/src 8-stable checkout from CVS Note that the ports tree grew by 50% going from 1K to 2K frags and will grow by another 70% going to 4KB frags. Similar issues will be seen when you have lots of small file. -- Peter Jeremy pgp3V7msgMGk0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: invalid argument in select() when peer socket is in FD_SET

2011-08-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
of_fds[i], &readfds); > } -- Peter Jeremy pgpdiN44x0CiJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [PATCH] bogus use of __linux__ in aicasm

2011-07-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
end-pr to formally log them so they don't get lost. -- Peter Jeremy pgpfo8hhIEWmy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Active slice, only for a next boot

2011-05-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
#x27;s boot >code sees that slice 4 is active and boots slice 4. Multibooting worked correctly when I last used it (a few years ago). Have you raised this as a PR? >RS-232 console + hardware modem + POTS = remote console And even that doesn't fully work unless you have a serial-aware

Re: Prebind from OpenBSD

2011-03-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
x27;m not sure if you've take into account is process- initiated library loading (using dlopen(3) and friends). Note that even /bin/sh can do this through things like locale handling. -- Peter Jeremy pgpj6ptimMgB2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [GSoc] Timeconter Performance Improvements

2011-03-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
bably some others as well). r217151 for amd64 and r217400 for ppc. It doesn't appear to be supported on other platforms. My reading of the code is that there is a single shared page used by all processes/CPUs. In order to support non-synchronised TSCs, this would need to be changed to per-CPU. --

Re: [GSoc] Timeconter Performance Improvements

2011-03-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
rent CPU, resulting in an incorrect page being accessed. -- Peter Jeremy pgpHImAnkRcSI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Greetings

2010-12-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
its my skill set. I suggest you have a read through http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ to find something that sounds interesting to you and then contact the relevant person. If no contact is shown then ask about it here. -- Peter Jeremy pgpa6M4hDHi0x.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Unhappy with cross-worlding

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
ed the architecture from AMD and renamed it. By the time Intel had called it EM64T, the FreeBSD Project decided it was too late to rename its port. That said, this has caused a degree of confusion over the years. -- Peter Jeremy pgp8z2gUE46vO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dump cache performance

2010-10-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Oct-27 20:17:06 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >Peter Jeremy writes: >> I've mostly convered to ZFS but still have UFS root (which is basically >> a full base install without /var but including /usr/src - 94k inodes >> and 1.7GB). I've run both the

Re: dump cache performance

2010-10-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
MaxMedian AvgStddev x 4 9413 9673 95689555.5 107.12143 + 4 15359 15359 15359 15359 0 Difference at 95.0% confidence 5803.5 +/- 131.063 60.7347% +/- 1.3716% (

Re: Reading rtc on FreeBSD

2010-08-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
gt;how do I read the battery-backed clock on FreeBSD? There is no managed access to the RTC in FreeBSD. Your only option to read the RTC is to directly access its IO port registers via io(4) or i386_set_ioperm(2) -- Peter Jeremy pgpi50bk1nXdH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: disk I/O, VFS hirunningspace

2010-07-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
for quite a while. Are the comments still valid and, if so, should BKVASIZE be doubled to 32768 and a suitable note added to newfs(8) regarding the maximum block size? -- Peter Jeremy pgp33d0jx50sK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Using lex in a shared library

2010-07-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
oking, right? Of all the supposedly "portable" build environment tools I've used, GNU autotools is by far the slowest, most bloated and least portable. And when you run into problems, you are faced with trying to follow hundreds of KB of opaque shellscript and obfuscated makefiles.

Poor file(1) performance

2010-06-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
re not present in my environment, I can avoid the issue by just commenting out the offending lines. Someone with more expertise in magic(5) might be able to suggest a better fix. -- Peter Jeremy pgpkae67IVhm4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: GSoC: Making ports work with clang

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
fferent from >their predecessors in one way or another. As an example of an increasingly common CPU that gcc 4.2 doen't support, consider the Intel Atom. It supports the 'Core' (ie up to SSSE3) instructions but only does in-order execution (like the Pentium 1). -- Peter Jeremy

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-03-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Mar-27 01:38:36 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >Peter Jeremy writes: >> It's not especially important how regularly the RTC is updated, just >> that it _is_ updated. This suggests that an alternative approach >> would be for adjtime() / ntp_adjtime() to di

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
ll resettodr() whilst thread A is doing so, thread B can just skip the call because calling resettodr() twice in quick succession has no benefit. This means the serialisation can be a simple atomic_readandclear_int(). -- Peter Jeremy pgpKIlf9OHHpi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Another tool for updating /etc -- lua||other script language bikeshed

2010-03-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
uild) and was evolving at a rate incompatible with the base system. >As a possible alternative, or at least to learn about others' opinion on >the subject, I'd like to suggest Lua (http://www.lua.org/). As someone who has never used Lua, how well does it meet the requirements above? -- Peter Jeremy pgpLSK4hUsCTp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Future CPUs - 128 threads

2010-02-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
me years ago that they would be doubling the number of threads per CPU socket every 2 years or so. -- Peter Jeremy pgpetUC0u65iK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: book on parallel programming

2010-01-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
ayback Machine at http://web.archive.org -- Peter Jeremy pgpKfAoBjxUqj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: "Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"

2010-01-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
very visible when (eg) the ports tree is tagged. -- Peter Jeremy pgpRd7puaVAoK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: "Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"

2010-01-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
ng - branching a native CVS repo just adds the branch tags. Branching a SVN repo replicates the tree and the SVN->CVS exporter turns the branch into a commit that touches each affected file. -- Peter Jeremy pgpYOZtfKwxYa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Wine on amd64 in 32 bit jail

2009-11-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
sing the UNAME_x environment variables. >so trying to compile mesa-demos produces this It will compile and run with the above environment changes. -- Peter Jeremy pgp0c7Y3gLsg4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Dump Utility cache efficiency analysis

2009-06-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
o, I >would have to work harder. No. Dump is completely userland. -- Peter Jeremy pgpPzj39nQ3RN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Maybe confused about AMD64 / i386 compatibility

2009-06-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Jun-13 15:55:29 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: >Adding a SIL3112A gives us the SATA. These are known to cause data corruption (check the archives). I wouldn't trust anything that has passed through a SIL chip without independent validation. -- Peter Jeremy pgpMf1MOQkbWz.pgp Des

Re: C99: Suggestions for style(9)

2009-05-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
allocated on the stack. > If I have to delve into a >crashdump, having the variables on the big entry allocation has been >very helpful in the past. OTOH, not caching variables in registers has a significant adverse impact on performance. -- Peter Jeremy pgpK1xJipjZo7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: C99: Suggestions for style(9)

2009-04-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
e expensive in stack (and this is an issue for kernel code) when using non-primitive types or when optimisation is not enabled (though I'm not sure if this is supported). Assuming that gcc (and icc and clang) behaves as stated in all supported optimisation modes, this change would appear to be quite safe to make. -- Peter Jeremy pgp4M8f6oRjRW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Using bus_dma(9)

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
bus_dmamap_load() callback is queued. Is the callback cancelled or do one or both destroy operations fail? -- Peter Jeremy pgprRjJNH0S6R.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
). The most obvious approach would be to temporarily pin the thread whilst it's executing inside that page. -- Peter Jeremy pgp1rkYFkKvsZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
t), then using the TSC implies knowing which core you are executing on. From a userland perspective, the easiest way to do this is to have a page of data that varies depending on which core you are executing on. -- Peter Jeremy pgpEvuHXzCTQZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Improving the kernel/i386 timecounter performance (GSoC proposal)

2009-03-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
dic over the course of the process scheduled on >different cores? (i.e. depending on what core RDTSC happened to land >on) RDTSC will wind up on the same core that your thread of execution is running on and this is defined by the scheduler. IE, it's up to the scheduler to ensure tha

Re: does Copyright on source files expire ?

2009-03-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
essure from the big content owners. As a rule of thumb, you can expect (eg) 'Mickey Mouse' to never be released from Copyright. -- Peter Jeremy pgpXzcpGkGSaB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: x11 status

2009-02-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
g now take 4 times as long to configure as to build) and easier to configure. Whilst the ease of building a port doesn't really affect the end user, it does affect the port maintainer - a port that needs lots of tender care and feeding will lead to more rapid maintainer burnout. -- Peter Jeremy pgpd2mAZyFtJx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: impossible packet length ...

2009-02-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
sum off-loading? This should make the kernel drop the corrupt packets instead of trying to process them. If practical, you could also try (temporarily) plugging in a different NIC. -- Peter Jeremy pgpUhFmGYTwWV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: critical floating point incompatibility

2009-01-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
s missing the include handling), as well as some of the remaining problems. >Ideally x86_64 platforms run *all* i386 programs (that don't >depend on a 32 bit kernel). Agreed. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpEBGdlUAosU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 3x read to write ratio on dump/restore

2009-01-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
ehaviour of dump before the caching code existed (and one of the outcomes of that thread was the current caching code). -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. p

Re: kernel panic

2009-01-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
You can then enter the name of the program you wish to run - eg /boot/loader.old (or directly load /boot/kernel/kernel) See the following for a more complete description: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=boot&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE&format=html --

Re: 3x read to write ratio on dump/restore

2009-01-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
m the cache (which is completely opposite to a "normal" cache). -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpWTAFatC1bb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to access kernel memory from user space

2008-12-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
7;ve been looking thru device drivers that initialise d_mmap. I've got an example but it only has 1 page of status info so the allocation is a bit different. I'll see what I can find. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MT

Re: How to access kernel memory from user space

2008-12-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
ice node and directly support mmap. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpRmxXhQAlnw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups

2008-11-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
r sysctl and maybe people who are concerned about msgbuf leakage need to learn to use it. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgp13Q2HNhDcL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Asynchronous pipe I/O

2008-11-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
termediary tool be a great way to boost performance >for certain types of solutions? I've found that for dump|restore or dump|gzip, I can get quite significant speedups by adding a buffer that is several hundred MB in the middle. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my

Re: includes, configure, /usr/lib vs. /usr/local/lib, and linux coders

2008-10-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
y someone who is building the project. They are not for use by the project itself. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpku0JxKKHnI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: memtest86+ can not link: binutils issue?

2008-10-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
ifferent incantations to Linux. My understanding is that several of the i386 bootstraps are relocatable so you might like to peruse the code in /usr/src/sys/boot/i386 for ideas. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpmHMDH1fDJe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit binaries?

2008-10-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
is will make system trying to bind 32-bit libs to 64-bit program. it >can't work rtld shouldn't attempt to bind 32-bit libs to 64-bit programs. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant

Re: Rare problems in upgrade process (corrupted FS?)

2008-09-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
d repair several errors. Epecially, one error claims my >attention: SUPERBLOCK. It might have been useful if you had kept a record of the exact messages. If you repeat the fsck, does it now report any problems? If you are using an up-to-date CVSup mirror, my next suggestion would be hardware pro

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-09-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
erstanding of the current sun4v state. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpzdYg5W07ZM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
et and can you point me to the code, It seems that the latest OpenBSD runs on sun4v. I haven't investigated how well supported it is. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches thei

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
t only covers the US-I/II families and there's no mention of sun4v. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgp5YmG2dn3qK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
sn't been touched since November 2006 and suggests that the only critical issue is lack of serial port support. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpQTwZ8BTsYV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-08-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
rtual disk or virtual network, actually getting FreeBSD running there presents somewhat of a challenge. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpiVxJMkEg51.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: read with timeout ??

2008-08-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
l processing with VMIN = 0 and VTIME = 10 (see the section "Noncanonical Mode Input Processing"). -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpuhtxg3EmOZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: strange issue reading /dev/null

2008-08-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
specify `-O', you will not get these warnings. Instead, GCC will issue a warning about `-Wuninitialized' requiring `-O'. That explanation makes sense. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-com

Re: Idea for FreeBSD

2008-08-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
BSD, I can configure virtually all the system via a single text file - which is easily found and kepy under configuration control. With Sol10, there are random bits of configuration spread all over the system and there is no obvious way to control configuration. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-08-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
and being able to restore it later. You don't need to be able to isolate individual processes and there's no need to 'reopen' file handles because they will automatically re-instantiate when you restore the kernel state that included them being open. -- Peter Jeremy Please excus

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
The vendors don't seem interested in doing this - I suspect that they are pressured not to support anything other than Winbloze (you might notice that two very high profile Linux-only laptops have recently grown Winbloze variants). Successive generations of laptops have become less and less f

Re: profiling broken on RELENG_7/i386

2008-07-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
-1077941488 edi0x0 0 eip0x80481e60x80481e6 eflags 0x246582 cs 0x33 51 ss 0x3b 59 ds 0x3b 59 es 0x3b 59 fs 0x3b 59 gs 0x1b 27 -- Peter Jeremy Please e

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

2008-07-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Jul-03 23:04:10 -0700, Rob Lytle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >FreeBSD partition, and install OpenBSD which has impeccable documentation. Having tried to make sense of the OpenBSD carp documentation, I can only assume that is meant as a joke. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any

Re: how can i get file name knowing its descriptor?

2008-07-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
eeds to grovel around in the kernel datastructures much the same as your module would need to. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpvMoGfEnFHe.pgp Description: PGP signature

TCP not being proactive about recoving lost packets

2008-06-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
imeout before the FTP server responds. This ahs been going on for about 45 minutes now. The client is running 7-STABLE from mid-May. Shouldn't it continue to regularly send ACKs where it knows there is outstanding data? -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP

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