Re: pseudo terminals in 7.0 - pts implementation

2007-11-22 Thread Dan Epure
Hi Robert, Thank you for your answer. In this case the first problem (gnu screen) does not deserve any attention because it is related to the ptmx clonig. My goal is to find a way to increase the number os pseudo terminal. the traditional 256 pty is not sufficient for my needs. Is there any way

Re: 2 x quad-core system is slower that 2 x dual core on FreeBSD

2007-11-22 Thread Max Laier
On Tuesday 20 November 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: In the meantime there is unfortunately not a lot that can be done, AFAICT. There is one hack that I will send you later but it is not likely to help much. I will also think about how to track

Re: pseudo terminals in 7.0 - pts implementation

2007-11-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Robert Watson wrote: On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Dan Epure wrote: 7.0-BETA3 still has issues regarding the pts implementation . problems found: 1. - GNU screen: starting a screen, opening a few windows and quiting screen leaves the allocated pseudo terminal in use. 100 screen

Re: pseudo terminals in 7.0 - pts implementation

2007-11-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Dan Epure wrote: Thank you for your answer. In this case the first problem (gnu screen) does not deserve any attention because it is related to the ptmx clonig. My goal is to find a way to increase the number os pseudo terminal. the traditional 256 pty is not sufficient

Re: 2 x quad-core system is slower that 2 x dual core on FreeBSD

2007-11-22 Thread Alexey Popov
Hi. Kris Kennaway wrote: In the meantime there is unfortunately not a lot that can be done, AFAICT. There is one hack that I will send you later but it is not likely to help much. I will also think about how to track down the cause of the contention further (the profiling trace only shows

Re: Debugging symbols for servers installed from CD

2007-11-22 Thread Clifton Royston
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 07:16:15AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: All three SMP servers I recently installed with 6.2p8 from a custom build CD rebooted within the space of 24 hours about a day ago. (One of them is still not up; it sounds like it's requiring me to get to the console to fix

Re: Software for distribution of configuration files and changes

2007-11-22 Thread Joseph Koshy
i have searched alot for a software to: - distribut configuration files from one master to different systems - maintain configuration files on one machine for all systemes and then send it out - push the files, not download them like cvsup - maintaining files for all systems and files only

Re: 2 x quad-core system is slower that 2 x dual core on FreeBSD

2007-11-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Kris Kennaway wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: On 21/11/2007, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Yes, but I had to verify it anyway :) You haven't verified anything until you look at how much work the system is doing, before and after. I have, and it's roughly the same (50

if you see undefined symbol '__mb_sb_limit' on 6.x

2007-11-22 Thread Rong-en Fan
The ctype fix for UTF-8 locale unfortunately introduced some new symbols to libc. Therefore, binaries built on system with that fix can not be used on older system. For that sake, the fix is back-out for 6-STABLE. If you see undefined symbols '__mb_sb_limit', please rebuild the affected binary.

Re: pseudo terminals in 7.0 - pts implementation

2007-11-22 Thread Dan Epure
Hi, For the moment this feature is only available in HEAD. I think the limit is only 512 master/slave pairs. Should be enough for this year. Is it going to be merged in 6.3 ? Thanks again. On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 08:53:36AM +, Robert Watson wrote: On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Dan Epure wrote:

Re: 2 x quad-core system is slower that 2 x dual core on FreeBSD

2007-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: Hi. Kris Kennaway wrote: In the meantime there is unfortunately not a lot that can be done, AFAICT. There is one hack that I will send you later but it is not likely to help much. I will also think about how to track down the cause of the contention further (the

Re: 2 x quad-core system is slower that 2 x dual core on FreeBSD

2007-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Ivan Voras wrote: On 22/11/2007, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: OK, let's take a step back here. Did you obtain the lock profiling trace and verify that you're seeing the same problem as Alexey? Can I see the trace? Here it is:

Re: Software for distribution of configuration files and changes

2007-11-22 Thread Quan Qiu
On Nov 22, 2007 1:01 AM, Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 2007, at 12:45 AM, Quan Qiu wrote: ChallengeResponseAuthentication no is also required to avoid sshd accepting keyboard-interactive/pam. I don't think this setting matters for PermitRootLogin without-

Re: 2 x quad-core system is slower that 2 x dual core on FreeBSD

2007-11-22 Thread Ivan Voras
On 22/11/2007, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like lockmgr, and the patch should definitely have helped. Maybe you forgot to enable vfs.lookup_shared? No, I haven't. But the machine I tested it on is only 4-core; maybe it would help on 8-core machines.

Re: 2 x quad-core system is slower that 2 x dual core on FreeBSD

2007-11-22 Thread Ivan Voras
On 22/11/2007, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: OK, let's take a step back here. Did you obtain the lock profiling trace and verify that you're seeing the same problem as Alexey? Can I see the trace? Here it is:

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 Available

2007-11-22 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 08:35:16AM -0800, Colin Percival wrote: Ken Smith wrote: The 7.0-BETA3 builds are now available. If you would like to download an ISO image to install from they are available here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/arch/ISO-IMAGES/7.0/ (adjust

Re: Software for distribution of configuration files and changes

2007-11-22 Thread Quan Qiu
On Nov 23, 2007 1:21 PM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ChallengeResponseAuthentication no is also required to avoid sshd accepting keyboard-interactive/pam. This affects all users, and not just root. This is probably not what you want. Yes. But without PAM, sshd just

Re: if you see undefined symbol '__mb_sb_limit' on 6.x

2007-11-22 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:38:29PM +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote: The ctype fix for UTF-8 locale unfortunately introduced some new symbols to libc. Therefore, binaries built on system with that fix can not be used on older system. For that sake, the fix is back-out for 6-STABLE. If you see

Re: 2 x quad-core system is slower that 2 x dual core on FreeBSD

2007-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Ivan Voras wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: On 21/11/2007, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Yes, but I had to verify it anyway :) You haven't verified anything until you look at how much work the system is doing, before and after. I have, and it's

Re: Software for distribution of configuration files and changes

2007-11-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:21:24AM +0800, Quan Qiu wrote: On Nov 22, 2007 1:01 AM, Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 2007, at 12:45 AM, Quan Qiu wrote: ChallengeResponseAuthentication no is also required to avoid sshd accepting keyboard-interactive/pam. This affects

Re: Software for distribution of configuration files and changes

2007-11-22 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Nov 21, 2007, at 21:51 , Joseph Koshy wrote: i have searched alot for a software to: - distribut configuration files from one master to different systems - maintain configuration files on one machine for all systemes and then send it out - push the files, not download them like cvsup -

Re: pseudo terminals in 7.0 - pts implementation

2007-11-22 Thread LI Xin
Dan Epure wrote: Hi, For the moment this feature is only available in HEAD. I think the limit is only 512 master/slave pairs. Should be enough for this year. Is it going to be merged in 6.3 ? Thanks again. I don't think so. Currently the FreeBSD pts implementation has some serious