Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getgrent.c)

2000-12-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
: to return either a NULL pointer or a real pointer, and to remain consistent, the following sequence should always be legal: ptr = malloc(foo); ptr = realloc(foo, bar); free(ptr); -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
chives, hearing you come out and praise closed source drivers for open source OS's rings very very hollow. -- 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 ca

Re: Trouble with lseek

2000-12-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "G. Adam Stanislav" writes: >I am trying to determine the size of a file passed as a command line >argument. I am using SYS_lseek. Here is the code up to that point: You should use SYS_stat or SYS_fstat -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX

Re: New netgraph features?

2000-12-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
_ >Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX sinc

Re: fd1720

2000-12-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
u. > >-- >Alexander Prohorenko, Extra Solutions >http://extra.com.ua >"Good day to be alive, sir" > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- Poul-Henning Kamp | U

Re: Silent FreeBSD

2000-12-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ice (www.m-sys.com driver in src/sys/contrib/dev/fla) Today I would use compact flash or Smartmedia I think. I changed the flash disk for PXE diskless boot later on. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD com

Re: Silent FreeBSD

2000-12-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
mple in Danish here: http://sql.danbit.dk/kat2001/0410.phtml (The claim that the internal fans generate an overpressure seems rather far-fetched to me) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: Silent FreeBSD

2000-12-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <463.977951088@critter>, Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > >>I've also run in a production machine where the edict was there shall >>be no fans with big honkin heat sinks (like 9inch long 2inch high fins >>running the length of the unit). But that was a

A couple of Junior Hacker tasks...

2000-12-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I have added a couple of tasks over at http://phantom.cris.net/freebsd/projects/projects.php which are good candidates for people looking for a good and simple task to do for FreeBSD. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC

Re: A couple of Junior Hacker tasks...

2000-12-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dan Langille" writes: >On 28 Dec 2000, at 9:36, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> which are good candidates for people looking for a good and simple >> task to do for FreeBSD. > >How do we know which are the "good and sim

Re: Boot process robustness

2000-12-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
re an inconsistency would start up fsck > in an "automatic" repair mode, with all actions logged and "undo" > data being saved (in case manual review is needed). Alternatively it might be worth considering adding a "remote-single-user" capability: If an fsc

Re: how to write custom init

2001-01-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
memcmp( "quit", cmd, 4) == 0 ) reboot( RB_AUTOBOOT ); > } /* while */ > >/* should not reach here */ >return 0 ; >} > > >Am I missing something ? > >Thanx & Regards >soumen > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

One thing linux does better than FreeBSD...

2001-01-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
s for posters, T-shirts and such ??? -- 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 [

Re: One thing linux does better than FreeBSD...

2001-01-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
the almost total lack thereof has shown, but I think it is a minor but important detail which would seriously help our advocacy. Isn't there *anybody* here who has a SO/family member/neighbor in the graphic/design business ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: geom_mirror implementation

2003-11-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
n see a GEOM_RAIDFRAME (I gather Pawel is trying to help Scott on this). Maybe we will also see a GEOM_VINUM class and who knows what else. And maybe some day down the road, somebody will pick up on the consolidation idea, or maybe he will instead show it to be hopelessly idealistic and burri

Re: BTX loader reboot on Soekris comBIOS1.22 fails (patches for btx.s and loader/main.c enclosed)

2003-11-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
0,$0xfff0# reboot the machine > > > > which indeed works! (OpenBSD, for example, uses ljmp $0xf000,$0xfff0). committed to FreeBSD -current. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | B

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
1. Look for BIO_DELETE in the kernel. 2. Use GBDE or other encryption. 3. Stop bikeshed now, please. -- 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: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
system as one >of the attack scenarios to protect against ? >(Not meaning, that secure erase would really solve >that problem ...) See my paper for a suggestion about using weak-link/strong-link methods for that. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
en proven again and again that you cannot reliably overwrite data on a magnetic media. In particular the difference in read/write geometry and lack of fine control over head placement makes this impossible. The only reliable way to loose data is to encrypt them and throw the key away. Live with i

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
itself off, after which a breach of the strong link is no longer a risk to the data. Now *that* is a DIY project for the dedicated hobbyist :-) The terminology and principle, is from atomic weapons which have a similar security profile: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/Pal.html enjoy -

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wilko Bulte writes: >On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:43:30PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> I have already described one solution to this in my GBDE paper at >> BSDcon. > >... > >> Now *that* is a DIY project for the dedicated hob

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
e, >but if I got it right, do you (Greg) agree to remove it from -current? My proposal is to do just that with both vinum and raidframe until one or possibly both are up to full strength again. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP sin

Re: Future of RAIDFrame

2004-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
eat anyway. I'd say lets kick them both into perforce and let whoever wants their hands have a go at them. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
le? Do you want to say something? Something like "If phk >and grog agree, it must be right"? :-) A lot of people out there will start looking out for black helicopters if they see the two of us agree, so I would like to state for the record that while you words _seem_ to say the same

Re: Future of RAIDFrame

2004-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
training camp in p4. -- 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: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
eling format because bsdlabel has a number of problems going forward. GPT is our current candidate. -- 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 adeq

Re: Future of RAIDFrame

2004-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
x27;s a significant risk that 5.3 and all future releases will ship with partially broken RAID support. I'm pretty certain we don't want that either. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD si

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
give an idea about the relative urgency, we are probably talking february or march this year. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never att

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
debugging/coding, learn to code if need be, donate money so somebody else can code if you can't do anything else. -- 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 mali

Re: GEOM programming resources?

2004-01-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
side of vinum to publish "providers" and service I/O requests on those instead of the current cdevsw. Don't be mislead by these four easy steps, there is a lot of stuff to do in vinum to get these done, a lot of then undoing things as Greg has already remarked, but if you do it in

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
with the SMPng work, even if that means breaking vinum further until Gregs team catches up. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ng is to get the people interested on this collected on a mail-alias, and for them to discuss how the can work together to make something happen. After that, try to define "something" closer. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP s

Re: Status GBDE attach at boot [PATCH]

2004-01-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Hi Allan, Can you please redo the diff -with '-u' ? Poul-Henning -- 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 ex

Re: code compatibility between normal and geom methods for accessingdisk devices

2004-01-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
you want. -- 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. ___ [EMAIL

Neat little, not so simple project...

2004-02-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
green - never executed with giant. Brownie points: Get slashdotted when they discover you did 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 to malice what can adequa

Re: Intel i8xx watchdog driver

2004-03-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Wm. Da ryl Hawkins" writes: > >I've written a driver for the Intel i8xx TCO watchdog timer for >both FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE. Is this written against the API in -current ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zi

Fundraising for FreeBSD development.

2004-04-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/funding.html Poul-Henning -- 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: Fundraising for FreeBSD development.

2004-04-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan Langille writes: >On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/funding.html > >typo :(An before any of you get an > >Should be "And", not An. Fixed, thanks! -- Poul-Henning

Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD development.

2004-04-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
such precense. I realize that marketing budgets might become available if I could offer better PR for donations, but it is really outside my power to do so. Does that answer your questions ? Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP

Re: [patch] Raw sockets in jails

2004-04-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
w hard it would be to enforce source-IP compliance with the jail restriction ? -- 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 inco

Re: [patch] Raw sockets in jails

2004-04-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
e. I.E. > > traceroute -s > >Otherwise it might fail. How does traceroute and ping normally determine which source address to use ? Can't we use that mechanism to default them to the right thing ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[TEST] rewritten floppy driver

2004-08-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
GEOM friendly: [...] -- 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 incompet

Re: sysctl hacks

2004-08-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
(data here) > void *moredata; > size_t morelen; >}; > >What is the proper way of sysctl'ing IN the data from moredata? > >I need to make a copy of the sysctl req, but... I'm not sure what >to initialize the 'lock' member to. Just use the SYSCTL_IN(

Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

2001-07-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
27;re as official as anybody else. 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 P

Re: Really simple patch...

2001-07-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
h/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >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

Re: Format checking for sbuf_printf...

2001-07-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
>harti brandt, >http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > --

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

2001-07-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
If you are not a committer you 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

Re: dmesg behaviour

2001-08-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
om the initial allocation of the space, so don't expect differences 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 exp

Ghostscript 6.51 + HP printer = WOW!

2001-08-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
the other HP/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 incompe

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 colo

Re: header polution

2001-08-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
uot;, or wrap it in _KERNEL? The comment in machine/signal.h(x86) >says: > >#include/* codes 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. E

Re: clock synchronization quality via NTP ?

2001-08-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
replace 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 Nev

Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

2001-08-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Solar Designer held a talk on this topic at HAL 2001, >where they stated that backspaces could be detected, as a >backspace actually translated to >thus sending 3 characters at a time instead of only 1. That's pretty BS because passwords are not echoed... -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: What is VT_TFS?

2001-09-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
;Truly evil File System" :-) It should be nuked now of course. 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 just to add a filesystem. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

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 Kam

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 files

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag

2001-09-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
vp->v_type = VBAD; > } >+ vp->v_flag |= VLOCKABLE; > vp->v_data = de; > de->de_vnode = vp; > vn_lock(vp, LK_EXCLUSIVE | LK_RETRY, p); >Index: fs/msdosfs/msdosfs_denode.c >===

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 elem

Re: What is VT_TFS?

2001-09-04 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
r christs sake! What did you expect if not revisionist $anything ? Which 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 att

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 s

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag

2001-09-07 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
>> - >> +#define VT_CODA "VT_CODA" >... > > I don't think that the point of this is to use a string like >that, but rather a descriptive string, i.e. No actually not, I want something short and predictable like "VT_CODA". -- Poul-Henning Kamp

Re: Major number request

2001-09-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
for details on NetGraph if you cannot find any docs on it. You 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

Re: Major number request

2001-09-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
aph node names and physical devices which >could be changed by issuing a control message 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 > >Pou

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: More on the cache_purgeleafdirs() routine

2001-09-22 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
number of children they have in the cache. 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 3.2

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

2001-09-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
to directory pages, we wouldn't need 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 explai

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

2001-09-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ook out for: 1. !ufs filesystems 2. inode->vnode hash/search algorithms may 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 c

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

2001-09-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
s 843181 |898530 |778408 |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-taho

Re: Junior Kernel Hacker task: improve vnode->v_tag

2001-09-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
do you think about >it? In the meantime, I found another place 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-Hennin

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

2001-09-23 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
le it results in a 21.5% decrease. >> : >> :That's pretty darn 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

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

2001-09-25 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
no guard page and >no panic. >If you would have a page fault there is no space where the CPU can >write the state information to for entering the handler. And it would take a double-fault for which we have a handler with it's own stack. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog

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 [E

Re: VM: dynamic swap remapping (patch)

2001-09-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
omedir. It was written to put the VM usage under 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-

Re: sio modification

2001-09-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
mestamp edges on DCD, if the frequency is more reasonable, that would work 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

Re: sio modification

2001-09-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
be PERFECT) already >implemented, or is this a spec for me to write 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

Re: sio modification

2001-09-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
sible given the >100Hz resolution of nanosleep() and friends. > > --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 adequ

Re: sio modification

2001-09-30 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
rated in our tree I can truly see how the workload would overwhelm you. 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 |

Re: sio modification

2001-10-01 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ne tiresome email af the next about how good the world 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

Re: dump/restore and DIRPREF

2001-10-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
wer-layer tools than >tar, so they may possibly have layout information embedded in them. > >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 Zi

Re: Fiskars UPS

2001-10-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] e" writes: >"doc. dr. Marjan Mihelin, dipl. ing." wrote: >> Hello, >> We are using from 1993 Fiskars UPS 0.8 A UPS unit Fiskars is part of Invensys/Powercom these days. -- Poul-Hennin

Re: Fiskars UPS

2001-10-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrzej Bialecki writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> e" writes: >> >"doc. dr. Marjan Mihelin, dipl. ing." wrote: >&g

Idea for project: Make cpp do unifdef service...

2001-11-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
es in the tree to test on... -- 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 PROT

Re: Measuring interrupt latency

2001-11-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
m, you should have used nanotime(), not getnanotime(). getnanotime() returns a timestamp in nanoseconds of the last stored timestamp which may be up to 1/hz seconds old. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

Re: Hijack lpt_intr() from lpt driver

2001-11-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sansonetti Laurent writes: >Hi hackers, > >I have to hijack lpt_intr() from lpt device driver >(/sys/dev/ppbus/lpt.c) to measure latency. Uhm, why don't you simply use the pps driver ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeu

Re: Hijack lpt_intr() from lpt driver

2001-11-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sansonetti Laurent writes: >On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 16:28, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >> Uhm, why don't you simply use the pps driver ? >> > >Yes, why not.. but I have the same problem : how to hijack current >interrupt ha

Re: timestamp offload [was Re: TCP&IP cksum offload on FreeBSD 4.2]

2001-09-28 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
gt; > > louie > >Yes. Me too, but with a pamette, not a nic. 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 F

Re: TCP&IP cksum offload on FreeBSD 4.2

2001-09-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
ion at one of my customers and I was actually considering running 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

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
gt;much more consistent results. For what it's worth I have disabled newreno at my customer sites as well and felt and heard less "bogosity" since. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD

Re: Netgraph performance

2001-11-29 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
>whole bunch of network traffic) it has yielded a good 4-5 times better >performance than any other alternative I've found. I have to agree here. Netgraph has some shortcomings, but performance is not one of them. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECT

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

2001-10-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
new card which could trivially be modified to run under FreeBSDs driver, but so far they have not sent me a card... etinc is not recommendable. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Neve

Re: anybody working on a driver for this multi-T1 card?

2001-10-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
adapt the driver but no such luck 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 adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

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

2001-10-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
so much grief in our mailing lists 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

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

2001-10-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
. You're of course just as free to decide what you do. >I dont see how driving away commercial vendors with such a ridiculous >attitude benefits the FreeBSD community. Very unprofessional. Belive me, I have worked hard to drive Dennis away :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since

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

2001-10-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Len Conrad writes: >Back on the original topic, anybody know the retail for this card: > >http://www.sbei.net/wanadapt1t1e1.htm Why don't you call them ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: WanIC 405 _IS_ End of Life -- what are the (netgraph) based alternatives??

2001-10-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
rontend. We also have drivers for the MUSYCC from Conexant. -- 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. T

Re: WanIC 405 _IS_ End of Life -- what are the (netgraph) based alternatives??

2001-10-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
te a new one from scratch. We want something with an integral T1/E1 DSU/CSU, otherwise cost is still prohibitive. -- 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 mali

Re: WanIC 405 _IS_ End of Life -- what are the (netgraph) based alternatives??

2001-10-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
lable for the job. I don't know how similar they are, either way, all the work on the if_mn and musycc drivers were in the framers and clocking. The HDLC is just a piece of cake... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeB

Re: WanIC 405 _IS_ End of Life -- what are the (netgraph) based alternatives??

2001-10-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
hmm - Poul, do you how what the reference boards were that these >drivers were tested/developed with? Yes I know (since I wrote them :-) The MUNICHX driver were written on the "EASY321" eval kit from Siemens (Now Infinieon) and the MUSYCC was written on LMC's 1504 card which is now

Re: FYI

2001-10-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
will be able to produce new versions of the driver if the company goes titsup.com or gets bought by M$ or whatever... Over and out... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe

Re: FYI

2001-10-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
fully agree with Jordan btw, that is a very clear explanation of the situation. And as I said, we do have precedence and procedures for shipping binary drivers with FreeBSD. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer

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