DEVICE_POLLING IF_EM CPU usage

2008-02-07 Thread Daniel Dias Gonçalves
Hi, I activated polling in 8 interfaces em0... em7 (ifconfig em* polling) to carry through performance tests, when activating, it had a significant reduction of CPU usage, load average measured of "0,50, 0,69, 0,52" for "0,43, 0,39, 0,21" and the CPU usage (SNMP Graphic) measured of 35% for 5

Re: Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development

2008-02-07 Thread Julian Elischer
David Christensen wrote: I want to do some wider testing on non-Intel based systems with current and new Broadcom drivers. Feel free to email me directly if you have a suggestion. look at getting a PG powerPC off ebay.. (I can help you set it up if you wish.. I just did a dozen of them for wor

RE: Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development

2008-02-07 Thread David Christensen
> > I want to do some wider testing on non-Intel based systems with > > current and new Broadcom drivers. Feel free to email me directly > > if you have a suggestion. > > look at getting a PG powerPC off ebay.. > > (I can help you set it up if you wish.. > I just did a dozen of them for work). >

Re: Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development

2008-02-07 Thread Julian Elischer
Claudio Jeker wrote: On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:05:51PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: I'm looking for a recommendation for a big endian CPU system that works well with FreeBSD. It would be best if it didn't use a 4KB page size but that's a secondary issue. The system should support PCI Expre

Re: Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development

2008-02-07 Thread Julian Elischer
David Christensen wrote: I'm looking for a recommendation for a big endian CPU system that works well with FreeBSD. It would be best if it didn't use a 4KB page size but that's a secondary issue. The system should support PCI Express with at least two x8 slots and PCI-X would be a plus. A half-

Re: Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development

2008-02-07 Thread Kip Macy
For sun4u FreeBSD only supports up through USII which I doubt comes in any PCI-e systems. sun4v of course only comes with PCI-e but isn't really in a production-worthy state right now. -Kip On Feb 7, 2008 1:17 PM, Claudio Jeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:05:51PM -0

Re: Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development

2008-02-07 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:05:51PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > I'm looking for a recommendation for a big endian CPU system that > works well with FreeBSD. It would be best if it didn't use a 4KB > page size but that's a secondary issue. The system should support > PCI Express with at least

Recommendation for a Big Endian System for NIC Driver Development

2008-02-07 Thread David Christensen
I'm looking for a recommendation for a big endian CPU system that works well with FreeBSD. It would be best if it didn't use a 4KB page size but that's a secondary issue. The system should support PCI Express with at least two x8 slots and PCI-X would be a plus. A half-height or full-height rack

Re: modifying permissions in /dev

2008-02-07 Thread lysergius2001
Apologies for the top post? Looks like I need a lesson in etiquette as well as devfs. The problem is this. I have two boxes running 6.3-stable. One is i386 and the other is amd64. Identical setups as near as I can make it. the 386 box allows mounting floppy from kde, but does not find cd0 in

Re: modifying permissions in /dev

2008-02-07 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Kevin, just a side note. Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 10:46:04AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Set vfs.usermount=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf and restart sysctl via > > '/etc/rc.d/sysctl restart'. But be aware of security implications: > > anyone will be able to mount devices that are opened to him/her via >

Re: modifying permissions in /dev

2008-02-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:40:00 +0300 > From: Eygene Ryabinkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Good day. > > Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 06:33:30PM +, lysergius2001 wrote: > > Ah! That helps. Still cannot mount floppy except as root? > > Set vfs.usermount=1 in /etc/sysctl.con

Re: modifying permissions in /dev

2008-02-07 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Good day. Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 06:33:30PM +, lysergius2001 wrote: > Ah! That helps. Still cannot mount floppy except as root? Set vfs.usermount=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf and restart sysctl via '/etc/rc.d/sysctl restart'. But be aware of security implications: anyone will be able to mount devic

Re: modifying permissions in /dev

2008-02-07 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:33:30 + > From: lysergius2001 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Ah! That helps. Still cannot mount floppy except as root? > Please, don't top-post! Is vfs.usermount=1? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernes

Re: modifying permissions in /dev

2008-02-07 Thread lysergius2001
Ah! That helps. Still cannot mount floppy except as root? On Feb 7, 2008 12:10 AM, John-Mark Gurney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lysergius2001 wrote this message on Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 20:48 +: > > Thanks for this. > > > > /etc/rc.d/devfs start results in > > eval: 1: syntax error: untermi

RE: BCM5704 chip "initialization failed"

2008-02-07 Thread David Christensen
> The motherboard of my HP proliant DL360 G4p was changed and now I > cannot see my network cards (BCM5704 netXtreme dual gigabit). I'm > running FreeBSD 6.2 p5... > > Here is what I have in dmsg > > bge0: mem > 0xfdef-0xfdef > irq 25 at device 2.0 on pci2 > bge0: Reserved 0x1 bytes

no ND on network_ipv6 restart in5.4

2008-02-07 Thread Christy Norman
I'm not seeing the Neighbor Solicitation messages I think I should see on a restart or even a reboot. Is this broken in 5.4? I see that it works in 6.1... Thanks, "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered

Re: ospf cost and route selection (openospfd)

2008-02-07 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Me again. Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:58:32PM +0300, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:14:22PM +0100, Claudio Jeker wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:49:44AM +0100, Josef Pojsl wrote: > > > Thanks a lot for your remarks. I absolutely agree with you > > > that all columns are correc

BCM5704 chip "initialization failed"

2008-02-07 Thread Carole Macheret
Hello, The motherboard of my HP proliant DL360 G4p was changed and now I cannot see my network cards (BCM5704 netXtreme dual gigabit). I'm running FreeBSD 6.2 p5... Here is what I have in dmsg bge0: mem 0xfdef-0xfdef irq 25 at device 2.0 on pci2 bge0: Reserved 0x1 bytes for rid 0x10

if_start() and send queue question

2008-02-07 Thread Tofig Suleymanov
Hello list, I will be grateful if someone could point me to the right direction regarding the question below. My device driver is getting incoming packets fine, but for some reason I am not able to send a single packet. Here is the source code: http://www.freebsd.az/if_ib.c I've added sev

Re: ospf cost and route selection (openospfd)

2008-02-07 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Josef, Claudio, good day. Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:14:22PM +0100, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:49:44AM +0100, Josef Pojsl wrote: > > Thanks a lot for your remarks. I absolutely agree with you > > that all columns are correct except the Nexthop. > > > > The nexthop selection f

Kernel compile options

2008-02-07 Thread Michael Tuexen
Dear all, I was able to build an IPv4 only kernel by having options INET #options INET6 in the kernel config file. Is it supposed to work that one can build a IPv6-only kernel by using #options INET options INET6 And should I be able to compile a kernel without IPv4 and IPv6 support by using #o

Re: ospf cost and route selection (openospfd)

2008-02-07 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:49:44AM +0100, Josef Pojsl wrote: > Hi Eygene, > > Thanks a lot for your remarks. I absolutely agree with you > that all columns are correct except the Nexthop. > The nexthop selection for point to point links had a bug in versions previous to 4.2. This should be fixed

Re: named.root

2008-02-07 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 20:48 +0900, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > 0n Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:45:13PM +0200, Petri Helenius wrote: > > >Any chance the recent root zone changes would make it to 7.0? > > Erm, curious, what where these changes in the first place ? > > -aW > > From cvs-all: dougb

Re: named.root

2008-02-07 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
0n Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:45:13PM +0200, Petri Helenius wrote: >Any chance the recent root zone changes would make it to 7.0? Erm, curious, what where these changes in the first place ? -aW IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subj

Re: ospf cost and route selection (openospfd)

2008-02-07 Thread Josef Pojsl
Hi Eygene, Thanks a lot for your remarks. I absolutely agree with you that all columns are correct except the Nexthop. On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:21:42PM +0300, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > Josef, good day. > > Currently I can not answer your question, sorry. I just have the > remark. > > Wed, Fe

Re: Confusing `netstat -rn` output on 7.0-RC1

2008-02-07 Thread Yuri Pankov
(sorry for cross-posting) On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 04:30:21PM +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote: > Hi, > > `netstat -rn` on 7.0-RC1/sparc64 shows 0.0.0.0 instead of actual network > numbers, while those networks are accessible. > > > ifconfig > dc0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 > options=8 >