Re: 4-port T1 PCI card with integrated csu/dsu

2001-10-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
without ever actually submitting one single diff to us is not a (re)commendable supplier. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: dump/restore and DIRPREF

2001-10-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. Is my assumption correct? no. Dump reads the raw device and finds everything by hand. Restore (like tar!) just open/write/close/chown regular files. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since

Re: sio modification

2001-10-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. Submissions should contain a -current version or they are likely to never make it into the tree... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: sio modification

2001-10-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
would be if only we all listened more to you... To tell the truth Terry, I think more work would get done here if we didn't have to listen so much to five-star-arm-chair generals like you. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956

Re: VM: dynamic swap remapping (patch)

2001-09-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
QUOTA control, but it had many useful side effects as well. I can't seem to find it right now, but it is trivial to do: just replace the sbrk(2) with mmap(). Only downside is the needed filedescriptor which some shells don't like. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL

Re: sio modification

2001-09-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
for you. Find RFC27xx for more info about PPS-API. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe

Re: sio modification

2001-09-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
for when modifying sio.c? It's in sio.c already. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: sio modification

2001-09-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. --Bart -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: timestamp offload [was Re: TCPIP cksum offload on FreeBSD 4.2]

2001-09-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. The HotWorks from www.vcc.com can do the same, a lot cheaper and it has a FreeBSD driver: sys/pci/xrpu.c -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: TCPIP cksum offload on FreeBSD 4.2

2001-09-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
their collector (if I can get my hands on it) just to see what the error rate is... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: VM Corruption - stumped, anyone have any ideas?

2001-09-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
with it's own stack. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 4.4 jail and udp

2001-09-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dmitry S. Rzhavin writes: Hi! Looks like jailed processes can't use udp or icmp, but can use tcp: RTFM. UDP works fine. ICMP and other raw socket magic doesn't. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC

Re: Conclusions on... was Re: More on the cache_purgeleafdirs() routine

2001-09-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
the VFS-cache very much in the first place... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Conclusions on... was Re: More on the cache_purgeleafdirs() routine

2001-09-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
become much more important. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Conclusions on... was Re: More on the cache_purgeleafdirs() routine

2001-09-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
|involuntary context switches -+-+--- -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately

Re: Conclusions on... was Re: More on the cache_purgeleafdirs() routine

2001-09-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
significant: one out of every five I/O have :been saved. Notice that both the user and system times increased.. Not significantly. As I already said: they are inside the standard deviation and therefore concluding anything from them is bogus. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus

Re: More on the cache_purgeleafdirs() routine

2001-09-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. What ratio of files are reused as a function of them being open or not. What ratio of files are being reused as a function of the number of pages they have in-core. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC

Cheap SCSI-Analyzers

2001-09-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
These guys have 2 SCSI analyzers at $200 each: http://www.metricsales.com/bargains.asp -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode-v_tag

2001-09-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
in the kernel where VT_* macros are [ab]used - it is Linuxlator, attached please find patches to fix it - please review. Sounds like a plan, and a quick eyeball of the patch shows no trouble. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP

Re: Major number request

2001-09-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
may also want to look at the musycc and if_mn drivers which support similar cards. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: Major number request

2001-09-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to the Netgraph node. Perhaps this is a better alternative. I would welcome any suggestions you might have for handling this situation. Thanks again for your help... Andy Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Schweig writes: Hello, Software Technologies Group (http

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode-v_tag

2001-09-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that, but rather a descriptive string, i.e. No actually not, I want something short and predictable like VT_CODA. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: What is VT_TFS?

2001-09-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Terry Lambert writes: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Nate, You're replying to Terry for christs sake! What did you expect if not revisionist $anything ? Which reminds me, Adrian still oves us his story about ref :-) Poul, you're going off again, without regard

Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode-v_tag

2001-09-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. The v_tag has been abused a few places, easily recognizable by the fact that the kernel should never inspect the value of v_tag. These places should be easily changeable to use the new representation. Please mark them with a big fat /*XXX: ABUSE OF v_tag */ comment. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode-v_tag

2001-09-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brent Verner writes: On 04 Sep 2001 at 10:36 (+0200), Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: | | Assignment: | | The v_tag element in struct vnode is a debugging aid, but unfortunately | it is implemented in a way which means that adding a filesystem means | modifying

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode-v_tag

2001-09-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
; } bzero((caddr_t)ldep, sizeof *ldep); + nvp-v_flag |= VLOCKABLE; lockinit(nvp-v_lock, PINOD, denode, 0, 0); nvp-v_vnlock = nvp-v_lock; nvp-v_data = ldep; --%--multipart-mixed-boundary-1.97537.999617732--%-- -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode-v_tag

2001-09-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Maxim Sobolev writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brent Verner writes: On 04 Sep 2001 at 10:36 (+0200), Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: | | Assignment: | | The v_tag element in struct vnode is a debugging aid, but unfortunately | it is implemented in a way

Re: What is VT_TFS?

2001-09-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
reminds me, Adrian still oves us his story about ref :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: What is VT_TFS?

2001-09-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. v_tag is only a debugging aid and it should be replaced by a const char * instead so that we don't need to modify sys/vnode.h just to add a filesystem. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3

Re: clock synchronization quality via NTP ?

2001-08-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
the 14.318 MHz xtal on the motherboard with a something more stable. PC hardware really sucks for timing. Tell me about it... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute

Re: header polution

2001-08-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
for SIGILL, SIGFPE */ but does that mean we must expose the entire contents of trap.h to userland? The problem is T_ is very common in lex source. We most certainly shouldn't. Everything but the needed bits should be #ifdef KERNEL. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL

Re: Ghostscript 6.51 + HP printer = WOW!

2001-08-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel O'Connor writes: On 10-Aug-2001 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: The new ghostscript 6.51 has integrated the HPIJS backends for HP printers. HPIJS is written by HP and contains most of their weird colormunging technologies. I managed to compile a 6.51

Ghostscript 6.51 + HP printer = WOW!

2001-08-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
/PCL/whatever backends in ghostscript. Highly recommended! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: dmesg behaviour

2001-08-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
in this area. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Close a PR! - we're still not done...

2001-07-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
do it by submitting a followup with the text This PR can be closed on a line of its own. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately

Re: Format checking for sbuf_printf...

2001-07-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: Really simple patch...

2001-07-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
freebsd-hackers in the body of the message -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. Right, and what are you going to do about some random company in Elbonia who labels and unapproved cd as Official ? One should never makes rules one can't enforce... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to get hold of a media copy of FreeBSD, when absolutely nothing prevents me or anybody else from rolling a net distribution ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
*Wollongong*cough*hack*wheeze* (THUD!) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: mount_mfs-like program for md

2001-06-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

close a PR !!

2001-06-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
which contains an explanation and the grep(1)'able line: This PR can be closed Remember: Each open PR is a pissed off contributor... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never

Re: Patented algorithm in FreeBSD

2001-06-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
is stop HIRING them. :) You know, there is almost a fortune in that... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: Patented algorithm in FreeBSD

2001-06-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
as the hills, proving prior art would probably be relatively straightforward. Well, the application date is what counts, and that's mar1992, but I'm pretty sure that Bill Jolitz had them beat to that date already... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP

Re: import NetBSD rc system

2001-06-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: cloning network interfaces

2001-06-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. As I already said: a device with no other precense in /dev has only quickdirty reasons for using DEVFS cloning. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what

Re: MFC'ing new md(4) functionality?

2001-06-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ruslan Ermilov writes: On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 07:43:38PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David O'Brien writes: On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:33:17PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Others see it differently, it would seriously break

Re: MFC'ing new md(4) functionality?

2001-06-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dima Dorfman write s: Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David O'Brien writes: On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 07:46:18PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: Is there any reason not to MFC the new md(4) functionality Zero reason

Re: MFC'ing new md(4) functionality?

2001-06-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
applications. If we have abandoned the no changes to API or ABI in -stable paradigm, it would be a good idea, but it serious rains on that rule... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3

Re: MFC'ing new md(4) functionality?

2001-06-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David O'Brien writes: On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:33:17PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Others see it differently, it would seriously break a lot of people who are using -stable in embedded applications. Can you expand on this? I assume you know we

Re: The design of the MD5 crypt() in FreeBSD

2001-06-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
introduced the $1$ marker, which allows the algorithm to be replaced in a backwards compatible way (as already done by OpenBSD). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute

http://phk.freebsd.dk/Gnats/

2001-05-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: telnet to AF_UNIX sockets [PATCH]

2001-05-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
and purposes is a separate protocol (at least it has it's own namespace, that's close enough for me) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: Who's cleaning up after disk_clone?

2001-05-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
track of cloned dev_t's so we can nuke them at various strategic points, havn't gotten to that yet. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can

Re: sysctl(8) and opaque MIB entries

2001-05-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
vfs.devfs.topinode: 118 :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [jkh@osd.bsdi.com: ANNOUNCE: Status update on ftp.freebsd.org A KA ftp.freesoftware.com]

2001-05-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
forwarded message - To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog

Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

2001-05-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
will be the future of semiconductors. Hitachi has a GaAs SPARC chip; it is used in Satellites. The CRAY-3 was GaAs based, if I'm not mistaken. And Convex made a GaAs based supercomputer, the 3800 I belive. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since

Re: BSDI and Marketing 101

2001-04-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis writes: At 01:06 AM 04/27/2001, Mark Sergeant wrote: I guess you missed the POINT, [...] And I have to hand that to you Dennis: when it comes to missing points you are the master... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Idea for additional feature for jail - jailed security level

2001-04-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
demed nice proof of concept but not the right way ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe

Re: [OT] parallel port for IO?

2001-04-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
resolution. The pps driver implements the RFC2783 PPS-API for timestamping external events. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately

Re: [OT] parallel port for IO?

2001-04-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Warner Losh writes: In message 60546.987709317@critter Poul-Henning Kamp writes: : Use the pps driver and you get microsecond jitter with nanosecond : resolution. While I usually see microsecond jitter, I have seen it as high as a few milliseconds when the interrupt

Re: vm balance

2001-04-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kirk McKusick writes: Every vnode in the system has an associated object. No: device vnodes dont... I think the correct solution to that is to move devices away from vnodes and into the fdesc layer, just like fifo's and sockets. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX

Re: vm balance

2001-04-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rober t Watson writes: On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kirk McKusick writes: Every vnode in the system has an associated object. No: device vnodes dont... I think the correct solution to that is to move devices

Re: vm balance

2001-04-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
argument of them all for doing this... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: vm balance

2001-04-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julian Elischer writes: If we merged vnodes and vm objects, then if devices were not vnodes, how would you represent a vm area that maps a device? You would use a VM object of course, but it would be a special kind of VM object, just like today... -- Poul-Henning

Re: vm balance

2001-04-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ll devices are handled by a magic filesystem (specfs) in the same "orphan" mode by all filesystems which support devices is another good reason. I think I'll kick back tonight and try to see what it actually takes to do it... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROT

Re: vm balance

2001-04-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
*should* run through the VM object first: We guarantee that today my mapping the actual hardware and my having all read/writes be synchronouse. I remember at least one other UNIX which didn't make that guarantee. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: vm balance

2001-04-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
vnode * + v_id). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: vm balance

2001-04-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
"soft references" using "struct vnode * + v_id). : :-- :Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 I don't think NFS relies on vnodes never being freed. It does, in some case nfs stashes a vnode pointer and the v_id value away, and some time later tries to use that pair t

Re: vm balance

2001-04-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
: if (vpid == vp-v_id :nfs_vnops.c:vpid = newvp-v_id; :nfs_vnops.c:if (vpid == newvp-v_id) { : :-- :Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 hahahahahahahaha.. Look at the code more closely. v_id is not managed by NFS

Re: vm balance

2001-04-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
way of dealing with it for remote operations, but the trouble is that it prevents us from ever lowering their number again. If Matt can device a smart way to loose the soft reference in nfs, vnodes can be a truly dynamic thing. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL

Re: vm balance

2001-04-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
worries in trying to change that. The namecache can do without the use of soft references. The only reason vnodes are stable storage any more is that NFS uses soft references to vnodes. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956

Re: Patch to make snp(4) devfs-friendly

2001-04-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
n it is OK for you to commit it yourself. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: vm balance

2001-04-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
reference. Well, if that's the case, yank all uses of v_id from the nfs code, I'll do the namecache and vnodes can be deleted to the joy of our users... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: vm balance

2001-04-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
in the cache_purgeleafdirs(), considering how often it is called, Do you have measured the performance impact of this to be an insignificant overhead ? Once we have that figured out I will commit the patch for you... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP

Re: vm balance

2001-04-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
uot;vmstat -vm" ? That is entirely different from the vfs-namecache, I think it is a per process one-slot directory cache. I have never studied it's performance, but I belive a good case was made for it in the 4.[34] BSD books. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL

Re: vm balance

2001-04-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
er tonight. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: vm balance

2001-04-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
) very expensive. : :-- :Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 :[EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 The only thing that is truely expensive is having to physically scan a large directory in order to instantiate a new namei record. Everything else is inexpensive

Re: vm balance

2001-04-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ntries can be negative entries. You can monitor the number of negative entries with the sysctl debug.numneg: 305 the value of "16" was rather arbitrarily chosen and better defaults may exist. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP s

Re: vm balance

2001-04-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, involving creation of vnode and very likely a vm object again. We can safely say that you cannot profitably _increase_ the size of the namecache, except for the negative entries where raw statistics will have to be the judge of the profitability of the idea. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since

Re: vm balance

2001-04-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
the underlying vnode. Right, but doing so means that to refind that vnode from the name is (comparatively) very expensive. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what

Re: # of bpf devices

2001-03-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis writes: It seems that only 256 bpf devices are supported. How painful would it be to increase that number...I assume its an 8bit varable somewhere? Are there other caveats? It's pretty trivial. Send a patch when you are done. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: # of bpf devices

2001-03-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis writes: At 01:32 PM 03/28/2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis writes: It seems that only 256 bpf devices are supported. How painful would it be to increase that number...I assume its an 8bit varable somewhere

LonWorks anyone ?

2001-03-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Are there anybody out there playing with LonWorks and FreeBSD ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence

Re: kern/23620: Fore PCA200E driver

2001-03-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
th sending a Fore and a efficient card to our new maintainer if we get one... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by in

Re: Displaying options for current NFS mounts

2001-03-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
t resulted in. Sometimes ascii is the right API. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robe rt Watson writes: On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:36:30AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Shouldn't the FreeBSD project issue a press release welcoming Apple's MacOS X ? Good idea, write one :-) To be a really

Re: so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
agree. Chart me up in the "kernel architecture" category and lets find somebody else do the PR writing... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malic

so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Shouldn't the FreeBSD project issue a press release welcoming Apple's MacOS X ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: Patch to fix panic when detaching a mounted md device

2001-03-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
as closely as possible, including the fact that it may disappear without notice or caution. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
, unlike normal diffs. Unified diffs are generally smaller than "plain" context diffs, and some people find them more readable and some don't. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: context or unified diffs in PRs?

2001-03-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
with added emphasis: Unified diffs are *also* context diffs. Context diffs are named such because they contain undisturbed context around the changed lines, unlike *normal* diffs. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD

Re: howto access an oddly shaped partition on a floppy ?

2001-03-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
that cyl 0-9 has 18 sectors while cyl10-81 has 21. A small matter of hacking... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained

Re: if_fxp status?

2001-03-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
people who can fix it, but they cannot do anything if you refuse to supply all the precise details in an easy to access form. If you are unwilling to do that, then stop bothering us! Indeed, I think Dennis could solve two problems by just dropping FreeBSD right away. -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: Hardware question - WAN port for FreeBSD router!

2001-03-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
available? And (most important) one which is supported by the necessary BSD drivers? www.lanmedia.com, they have a T1/E1 card... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute

Re: FreeBSD on S/390?

2001-02-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to help. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: Listing configured md(4) devices

2001-02-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequat

Re: Listing configured md(4) devices

2001-02-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
incorporate that in your patch ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
errors, nfs servers going away, forced unmounts). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe:

Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions.

2001-02-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Seebach writes : In message 9402.983047348@critter, Poul-Henning Kamp writes: Well, no, but the sole available definition of "portable" says that it is "portable" to assume that all the memory malloc can return is really available. No, thi

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