Looking for a sysctl logger

2001-12-21 Thread Robert Sexton
don't want to write it in perl : -) I'm trying to make it low impact, hence c. I don't mind doing it myself, but I'd rather use an existing wheel. -- Robert Sexton - [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cincinnati OH, USA To walk or take transit is a public act which makes the street a safer co

a DDB Question.

2001-07-10 Thread Robert Sexton
xamine a static variable in a kernel routine? I built a little bit of code to help me out, like this: static int my_test_routine() { static int counter; return(counter++); } So exactly what would be the syntax to examine 'counter'? Thanks. -- Robert

Re: Log analysis program running under apache reboots server!

2000-11-13 Thread Robert Sexton
er crashdumps, I got a good lead on the problem. in my case, I set aside a raw partition, and setup this in rc.conf: dumpdev="/dev/rda2s1h" # Device name to crashdump to (if enabled). Then I symlinked /var/crash to someplace else, because my /var wasn't too big. Good Luck. --

Re: Anyway to ipfw filter based on MAC address?

2000-08-28 Thread Robert Sexton
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 06:03:58PM -0700, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > > I would love to be able to filter ipfw traffic based on more than just > IP. > > Anybody done anything like this? How about turning off arp on the network interface, (ifconfig), and using static arp?

Re: Cheap 1000Gbyte machine

2000-08-18 Thread Robert Sexton
per chain, with very reasonable cabling limitations. Can IDE drives release the bus during seeks? Historically thats been the big advantage of SCSI: Two IDE drives are no faster than one IDE drive, while SCSI scales in performance. -- Robert Sexton - [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cincinnati OH, USA

Re: Detecting ECC errors

2000-03-14 Thread Robert Sexton
u which simm is causing the error. All of the hooks are there for true memory error reporting and scrubbing, at least for the two intel chipsets I've seen. -- Robert Sexton - [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cincinnati OH, USA "They believe in `peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, fami

Re: Detecting ECC errors

2000-03-13 Thread Robert Sexton
? > > > > You're correct; there isn't. It's a relatively simple task that's been > > waiting for a junior hacker to come along and take it up. It's also > > devillishly difficult to _test_ such code... I bet a call for bad simms would dredge u

Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ?

1999-10-27 Thread Robert Sexton
ports file from a tarball: 6:30 Creating a ports dir tarfile: 4:30 The filesystems in question were about 800 megs, created with default settings. I'd say thats pretty acceptable performance. -- Robert Sexton - [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cincinnati OH, USA Getting to Know your friends,

Re: Superblock.

1999-09-10 Thread Robert Sexton
he author. We seem to have folks popping up often looking for little projects. I wonder how many folks have toasted drives in a recoverable way and not bothered to ask for help.... -- Robert Sexton - rob...@kudra.com, Cincinnati OH, USA There's safety in numbers... Large prime numbers. - Joh

Re: Superblock.

1999-09-10 Thread Robert Sexton
he author. We seem to have folks popping up often looking for little projects. I wonder how many folks have toasted drives in a recoverable way and not bothered to ask for help.... -- Robert Sexton - [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cincinnati OH, USA There's safety in numbers... Large prime numbers.

Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric

1999-09-02 Thread Robert Sexton
ngs aren't in and of themselves evil, > so long as > they don't break anything in the process. I'd have to agree with the "Lets be more professional" crowd. How about as a LINT option? "If you need something so banal, you can turn it on yourself" -- Ro

Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric

1999-09-02 Thread Robert Sexton
ngs aren't in and of themselves evil, > so long as > they don't break anything in the process. I'd have to agree with the "Lets be more professional" crowd. How about as a LINT option? "If you need something so banal, you can turn it on yourself" -- Rob