Re: [HACKERS] semaphore usage port based?

2006-04-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
a RELENG_4 patch in kern/48471 but it's not clear how much work would be necessary to being it up to scratch. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

2006-04-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
. Significant features in this release: Thank you for this. I was beginning to think the 2.2 branch had been abandoned - the mailing lists seem full of references to 5.5 and 6.1 these days. Can you please advise what CVSup tag I should use to upgrade to 2.2.9. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: PCI Radeon 7000/VE (RV100) on AMD64

2006-03-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
and mouse - everything looks normal. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reading via mmap stinks (Re: weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS)

2006-03-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, 2006-Mar-25 21:39:27 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: What happens if you simulate read-ahead yourself? Have your main program fork and the child access pages slightly ahead of the parent but do nothing else. I suspect something like this may be the best approach for your application. My

Re: PCI Radeon 7000/VE (RV100) on AMD64

2006-03-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
with the bitdepth set to 15 and using the radeon driver. It's the only way I can get X to start with the driver. Note 15bits isn't supported no DRI is disabled. What happens if you explicitly disable DRI? (Comment out 'Load dri' in the Modules section of xorg.conf). -- Peter Jeremy

Re: PCI Radeon 7000/VE (RV100) on AMD64

2006-03-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
and I've also added the appropriate lines to xorg.conf How did you build xorg.conf? dmesg and pciconf are attached They have been text filled, making them unintelligible. Can you please post dmesg and /var/log/Xorg.0.log without text-filling them. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: PCI Radeon 7000/VE (RV100) on AMD64

2006-03-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 2006-Mar-28 06:00:23 +1000, Alastair G. Hogge wrote: On Tuesday 28 March 2006 04:08, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Mon, 2006-Mar-27 17:58:32 +1000, Alastair G. Hogge wrote: Having some problem with Xorg-6.9.0 and the radeon or ati driver on mad64 system. X seems to look up at a black screen

Re: Reading via mmap stinks (Re: weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS)

2006-03-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
disk can do), so the pageout thread ought to be able to keep up. This is a laptop so the disk can only manage a bit over 25 MB/sec. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: Reading via mmap stinks (Re: weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS)

2006-03-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
to processing files that are somewhat less than 2GB. The downside is that touching an uncached page triggers a trap which may not be as efficient as reading a block of data through the filesystem interface, and I/O errors are delivered via signals (which may not be as easy to handle). Peter Jeremy

Re: Reading via mmap stinks (Re: weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS)

2006-03-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
previously accessed. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reading via mmap stinks (Re: weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS)

2006-03-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
with my previous tests: grep using read or mmap, as well as mmap'ing the entire file give similar times with the disk mostly saturated. I suggest you try converting mzip.c to use read/write and see if the problem is still present. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd

Re: Reading via mmap stinks (Re: weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS)

2006-03-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
a bit, do some cpu-intensive processing and repeat at 25MB/sec so you're winding up with a degree of serialisation where the I/O and compressing aren't overlapped. I'm not sure how tunable the read-ahead is. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable

Re: Reading via mmap stinks (Re: weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS)

2006-03-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
6.37 user 9.39 sys -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: flushing anonymous buffers over NFS is rejected by server (more weird bugs with mmap-ing via NFS)

2006-03-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
to it (even though it couldn't have opened the file for writing). -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD box dropping packets

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
much RAM is there now? Why did you add the additional RAM (since you suggest the machine isn't heavily loaded)? What happens if you remove the RAM? It's possible that the additional RAM means that you are running out of KVA under high network load. -- Peter Jeremy smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! -- Almost there!

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
is the option for installing it? I've never seen any reason to move away from MBR. If you want to use LILO or Grub, you will need to install and configure it yourself - google should find a tutorial. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: -stable make world: ERROR: Required audit group is missing, see /usr/src/UPDATING

2006-03-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
a change could have far more subtle effects than installworld failing. -- Peter Jeremy pgpoyOKBJKOE4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RELENG_4 on flash disk and swap

2006-03-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
' in the archives. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 'Features=' line in dmesg

2006-03-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
' flag will be set in 'AMD Features='. Looking at the code in identcpu.c, I suspect it may be the same for emt64. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send

Re: Fresh install on gmirror'ed disks?

2006-03-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
an appropriately-sized spare disk at the same time as the rest of the set. Solaris requires that all disks in a RAID set have the same firmware version (though this isn't documented very well). Tru64 requires that both system disks have the same SCSI disk type. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: RELENG_4 on flash disk and swap

2006-03-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
be syslog'd). I'm surprised that you got this on the rm as the buildworld should create bigger processes. If the rm was killed, you will need to re-issue it to actually delete the files. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: RELENG_4 on flash disk and swap

2006-03-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, 2006-Mar-04 00:25:01 +0200, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: swap space for a process and failed. The kernel tries to recover by killing the largest process (which should also be syslog'd). I'm In my case, not a single process has been killed. And I

Re: Failed disk sectors

2006-03-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
understanding to this point. Am I on the right path? Yes you are. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Remote tunefs -n enable

2006-02-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
into /etc/rc.d that executes early (before root is made R/W) to run tunefs -n enable ... and then delete the script after rebooting. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: kernel panic on 6.1-PRERELEASE with Lexar Jumpdrive2

2006-02-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
the system is reset (though other ports are OK). -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel panic on 6.1-PRERELEASE with Lexar Jumpdrive2

2006-02-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
to an ATA or SCSI disk? If the latter, it's possible that the panic has upset the CAM subsystem (though this isn't supposed to happen). -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: FreeBSD6 freeze at boot

2006-02-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
(and get correct answers)? -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ichsmb compile problem

2006-02-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
as part of the kernel build process. Can you please explain how you are attempting to compile the kernel. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2006-02-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
or that the operations have slowed down way more than they should have. Whilst you have access to the box, it might be useful to capture some of the VM subsystem information for both 4.x and 6.x (eg a couple of 'sysctl vm' at known intervals) under stress. This might help identify where the problem is. -- Peter

Re: [panic] Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

2006-02-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
on it for a few hours and see if that picks anything up. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bge0 odd startup behaviour

2006-02-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Build 4.11 kernel on 6-Release

2006-02-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
tools and use them to build the kernel. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhclient wedged

2006-02-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
do the next time it happens to make it dump core? kill -QUIT ... is the generic answer. sigaction(2) provides the definitive list of which signals default to dumping core. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Restartable system call behaviour

2006-02-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 2006-Feb-01 11:44:08 +, Pete French wrote: I have a piece of coode which does some networking, in which I see read and write calls failing with 'Interrupted system call' from time to time. You will get EINTR if the interrupt occurs before any data is read or written. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: ipfilter + bge strangeness

2006-01-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
into the same (mis-)feature. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: weird buildworld consequences in 6.0

2006-01-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
(0x280f5000) That last line is definitely wrong. Check /etc/libmap.conf (maybe rename it temporarily). -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Hi all.. Novice user having woes getting Atheros card up in FreeBSD 6.0

2006-01-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
hardware is that vendors regularly update the electronics without changing the model designations. This doesn't affect Windoze users because they provide updated drivers to match. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: manual escape to debugger on serial console not working?

2006-01-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, 2006-Jan-26 11:17:21 +0200, Niki Denev wrote: Ah, this was the missing link :) I completely forgot the part that i must type ~~# to actually send a BREAK. I rarely use the ssh break so I set it to something other than '~' in my .ssh/config so it doesn't clash with (eg) tip. -- Peter

Panic on S3 suspend

2006-01-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
, lo_name = 0x803f6841 if_addr_mtx, lo_type = 0x803f6841 if_addr_mtx, lo_flags = 196608, lo_list = {tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev = 0x0}, lo_witness = 0x0}, mtx_lock = 4, mtx_recurse = 0}} (kgdb) -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd

Re: xorg-server 6.9.0 won't build on 4.11-stable

2006-01-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
that should happen, though I doubt that combination is officially supported. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xorg server dies

2006-01-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
cleanly. Presumably the xorg.conf.new is the result of Xorg -configure. How about supplying the command line you used to start X, the output written to the console and anything else you did between starting X and getting the console prompt back. -- Peter Jeremy

CFLAGS vs COPTFLAGS for building kernel modules

2006-01-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
the problem. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006)

2006-01-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
as the rest of the Project. It makes it much simpler if we all agree on the meanings of the words we use. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: SUMMARY: Fast releases demand binary updates..

2006-01-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
promised. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SHA1_Update() produces wrong results for large buffers

2006-01-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
(1.5G) - which explains the rapid exit and incorrect result. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD Update is the binary update solution [Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006]

2006-01-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
to modules (eg IPv6 support). In any case, the way to minimise the kernel footprint is to statically load all the required functionality and not have any modules. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: FreeBSD Update is the binary update solution [Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006]

2006-01-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
/cobalt/bcfg2/ )? -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
would help you. Taking Solaris as an example of an OS which is broken up into lots of packages, patches don't replace whole packages, they replace individual files. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: NFS UDP mounts on RELENG_6?

2005-12-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
/fragmented UDP packets? NFS typically sends 8K packets which are split into 6 UDP packets. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SOLVED] Re: NFS UDP mounts on RELENG_6?

2005-12-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Mon, 2005-Dec-19 01:37:44 -0800, Jon Dama wrote: I haven't see any evidence that suggests using NFS with UDP is actually useful. IMO, its a false economy. On modern hardware anyway. Keep in mind that NFS was written to run on a 25MHz (or so) 68020. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
and can't explain exactly what they did - without putting them off FreeBSD. I think FreeBSD Update shows the way forward but IMHO there needs to be an official binary update tool accessible from www.freebsd.org. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable

Re: FreeBSD Update is the binary update solution [Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006]

2005-12-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, 2005-Dec-17 18:19:25 -0700, Scott Long wrote: Peter Jeremy wrote: I think FreeBSD Update shows the way forward but IMHO there needs to be an official binary update tool accessible from www.freebsd.org. FreeBSD Update was written by, and is continuously maintained by the actual FreeBSD

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
to ATAPI devices so the decision was made to default to PIO4 in 5.x. You can set hw.ata.atapi_dma to 1 in 5.x if you want to (see acd(4)). -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: indefinite wait buffer: Does this indicate hardware issue?

2005-12-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
user after boot). If you suspect retries are a problem, monitor the I/O rate with iostat or systat and see if it suddenly drops. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: Odd performance problems after upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0-Stable

2005-12-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
code then generic_*() for Athlon or P4 CPUs, we should implement it. If there isn't, we can get a (slight) performance improvement by removing the indirection through *_vector - I suspect that CPUs can't predict/pipeline an indirect branch as well as a direct branch. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: shmget errors

2005-12-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
that by looking at the output of ``ipcs -p'': If the process IDs listed under the CPID and LPID columns don't exist, chances are that the memory segment isn't in use anymore. Looking at NATTACH in ipcs -a is a better approach. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd

Re: kernel cpu entries

2005-12-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
mention actual times, is the difference statistically significant? (see src/tools/tools/ministat) -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
] # gdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.1 (kgdb) kldsyms (kgdb) where Hopefully this will decode #7 and you can provide a few more frames. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
tee live traffic into both systems and just junk the responses from your test bed, or record live traffic and replay it into your test bed. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
file doesn't match your kernel. Are you running kgdb with the same kernel as was running when the system crashed? (If you don't have that kernel handy, you might as well delete vmcore.0). -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
problem will help make 6.x more stable. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
/developers-handbook/kerneldebg-gdb.html -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrading 5.3 6.0 buildworld failure now in libmagic

2005-12-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
of end user documentation. Are you volunteering? -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
to VMware clients. And as someone stated VMware plays fast and loose with clocks. I'm sure I'm not the only end-user who would appreciate it if the core team This is nothing to do with the core team. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
in VMWare are a minority of a minority, I run FreeBSD in VMware at work. After installing vmware-tools and telling VMware to use the host clock I haven't seen any clock problems (definitely in 5.x and I don't recall seeing any in 4.x or 6.x). -- Peter Jeremy

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
LAPIC at hz*3 but this was later changed to hz*2 to reduce overheads. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cpu-timer rate

2005-12-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
at a high rate and uses two different divisors for the soft clocks (/2 for tick, /3 for profhz and /15 for stathz). Larger divisors are better for utilisation statistics but increase clock interrupt overheads. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 cron is running on GMT

2005-11-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
? -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 cron is running on GMT

2005-11-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
machdep.wall_cmos_clock. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recurring problem: processes block accessing UFS file system

2005-11-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
in 4.x). In my case, the trigger is OpenOffice.org - one of the offending processes is almost always OOo/program/pagein. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get to the bottom of this (and my son isn't happy that OOo keeps deadlocking on him). -- Peter Jeremy

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
} depend in ${MAKE} buildkernel -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
/kerneldebug-gdb.html If in doubt, post the output from the above commands here and someone will hopefully provide further input. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: Swapfile problem in 6? (was: 6.0: during kernel compilation, 'kernel linking' freezes PC)

2005-11-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
on /var. However, exactly the same deadlock occurs: Have you pre-allocated the swapfile or is it being allocated as necessary? If the latter, try dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1m count=128 -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: USB Card Reader Permissions

2005-11-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
googling turned up a site with a tutorial (unfortunately, I didn't keep a record). -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 5.4 - 6.0 buildworld failure

2005-11-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
is this error occurring during the buildworld? (What are the latest lines beginning '' and '===') What non-standard bits do you have in your command line, /etc/make.conf or MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX? -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 Released

2005-11-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
to use 7-bit ASCII which doesn't include accents. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nogobble, nogobble

2005-11-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
with the CISCO approach is that the configuration is defined as a set of differences from a default configuration but (AFAIK) the default configuration isn't formally documented (ie in IOS config format). FreeBSD does document the defaults. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: compile error - bus error

2005-11-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
you have problems compiling anything else (buildworld in particular). -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compile error - bus error

2005-11-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
it rebooted. That sounds very much like hardware. I'd check the hardware before anything else - faulty fans, loose cards/cables, give memtest86 a run. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: math/grace port: libXcursor.so.1.0 not found ??

2005-10-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
to dlopen libm to complain about an X library. You might like to try asking the port maintainer (see the Makefile). -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
of an exaggeration. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
browser. On the downside, I notice it now uses cookies. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HEADSUP: bridge(4) removed from HEAD

2005-09-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
notice. There's no reason why the handbook can't mention both (or, preferably, all three) bridging devices - it just needs to mention that if_bridge doesn't exist in 5.x -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: 5.3 - 5.4 breaks ATA (Intel ICH2)

2005-09-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
). You shouldn't have two masters on ata0. I hope that's a typo. How far through the boot process do you get? I gather the loader runs successfully and loads the kernel but the kernel can't find ad0. Does it find the controller (ata0 or whatever)? -- Peter Jeremy

Re: 6-Release Beta 5: extremely slow installation in VMWare 4.52

2005-09-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
printf messages won't be helping performance. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ctm.html -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: High interrupts w/ Cisco 350 card

2005-09-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, 2005-Sep-22 07:13:29 -0400, Peter D. Quilty wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 18:01 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: Have you tried anything other that FreeBSD 5.4 on your Tecra? No, I haven't. It is my primary laptop and I would prefer not to have to load another OS merely for testing. It would

Re: ep0 Interrupt Storm, 3Com EtherLink III (PnP)

2005-09-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
the interrupt request. I've also seen it when a device configured for polling (and hence without an installed interrupt handler) decides to raise an interrupt and gets upset at the interrupt not being handled. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: High interrupts w/ Cisco 350 card

2005-09-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
Series Wireless LAN Adapter at port 0xc000-0xc03f irq 11 function 0 config 5 on pccard0 an0: got RSSI - dBM map an0: supported rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps an0: Ethernet address: 00:07:0e:b9:2e:d5 -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: NFS directory copies cause crash

2005-09-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
line within ffs_dirpref() to locate which divide is failing. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't reboot into single mode

2005-09-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
(from memory) into the boot menu? When you boot single user, what are console messages between Mounting root... and the can't exec getty message? -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: HZ option [Was: Re: custom kernel + if_xl + error]

2005-09-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
/statistics clock then the statistics become unreliable (and a process can cheat the scheduler by appearing to use no CPU time). -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: 6.0-BETA2 as reliable webserver?

2005-08-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
to 6.x will be far easier than moving from 4.x to 6.x. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Memory requirements between releases

2005-08-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
one or two gettys. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 4-5 libmilter.a install failure

2005-08-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
the directory from the first installworld, you can always copy mtree (any any other over-written utilities) back where they started. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
bears any resemblance to the BIOS and ACPI in the supposedly identical motherboard that I buy this week. As far as the vendor is concerned, as long as it (sort of) works on Windoze when you use the vendor-supplied driver then the vendor has fulfilled their fit-for-use responsibility. -- Peter

Re: Problems with 5.x

2005-07-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
) of the errors you are getting. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: init: can't exec getty 'none' for port /dev/console: No such file or directory

2005-07-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
unknown off secure The only change you can validly make to this line is to change 'secure' to 'insecure' but I suspect you've changed 'off' to 'on'. Try turning the console back off and sending a SIGHUP to init. -- Peter Jeremy ___ freebsd-stable

Re: init: can't exec getty 'none' for port /dev/console: No such file or directory

2005-07-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
Please don't top-post. On Fri, 2005-Jul-01 20:17:47 +0300, Bashar wrote: Peter Jeremy wrote: You should have the following line in /etc/ttys: console noneunknown off secure True its set to on, but i believe this change was requested from the DC to enable the remote

Re: Data corruption in cd9660 on FreeBSD 4.11?

2005-06-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
filesystem? Anything unusual in your kernel config file? Have you tried building a kernel with WITNESS and/or DIAGNOSTIC? Any chance of you repeating the tests with a 5.x system? Maybe on a spare small partition or using a 5.4-RELEASE disk1 as a live filesystem. -- Peter Jeremy

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