Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N

1999-02-20 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Dennis Glatting wrote... > > > > Just to throw my voice in, I get crappy SCSI performance on my > > > three SCSI card Dell. I don't understand why. > > > > Umm, you're going to have to be a little more specific than that. > > > > You do have one of those slow Western Digital drives, which > > coul

one SysV bug/fix, how many more

1999-02-20 Thread Brian Feldman
Two things: 1. I've been looking at sysv_shm.c, and shouldn't there be a ton of splvm()ing going on which isn't? It seems that there are quite a few race conditions that never showed up before because there was no support for sharing certain parts of proc (p_vmspace etc.) For that matter, does any

Re: const char *

1999-02-20 Thread John Polstra
In article , Nick Hibma wrote: > > With the new efforts in getting rid of all the warnings in the kernel > compiles I have a problem with the following warning: > > ../../dev/usb/ukbd.c: In function `ukbd_detach': > ../../dev/usb/ukbd.c:373: warning: cast discards `const' from pointer > target

Re: CardBus Support (was: support for 3Com 3C575 network controller?)

1999-02-20 Thread Gary Palmer
Terry Lambert wrote in message ID <199902202318.qaa20...@usr08.primenet.com>: > FYI: I got this list by clicking on the third entry returned > by altavista for the search string "pci12", and then clicking > through TI's site from there. World Wide Web Wait? Whats the 4th W for? Curious minds

Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N

1999-02-20 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Matthew Jacob wrote... > > On Saturday, 20 February 1999 at 17:21:19 -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > Matthew Jacob wrote... > > >> > > >> If you're feeling kind, could you try and see if you could get a > > >> performance curve related to the number of outstanding tags allowed? > > > > > > I w

Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N

1999-02-20 Thread Matthew Jacob
> On Saturday, 20 February 1999 at 17:21:19 -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > Matthew Jacob wrote... > >> > >> If you're feeling kind, could you try and see if you could get a > >> performance curve related to the number of outstanding tags allowed? > > > > I will send him some diffs for camcontro

Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N

1999-02-20 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Greg Lehey wrote... > On Saturday, 20 February 1999 at 17:21:19 -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > Matthew Jacob wrote... > >> > >> If you're feeling kind, could you try and see if you could get a > >> performance curve related to the number of outstanding tags allowed? > > > > I will send him some

Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N

1999-02-20 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 20 February 1999 at 17:21:19 -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > Matthew Jacob wrote... >> >> If you're feeling kind, could you try and see if you could get a >> performance curve related to the number of outstanding tags allowed? > > I will send him some diffs for camcontrol in a separat

Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N

1999-02-20 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Dennis Glatting wrote... > > Just to throw my voice in, I get crappy SCSI performance on my > three SCSI card Dell. I don't understand why. Umm, you're going to have to be a little more specific than that. You do have one of those slow Western Digital drives, which could cause some problems. >

Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N

1999-02-20 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Matthew Jacob wrote... > > If you're feeling kind, could you try and see if you could get a > performance curve related to the number of outstanding tags allowed? I will send him some diffs for camcontrol in a separate piece of mail that will enable him to change the number of tags on the fly.

Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N

1999-02-20 Thread Matthew Jacob
If you're feeling kind, could you try and see if you could get a performance curve related to the number of outstanding tags allowed? On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Paul van der Zwan wrote: > > > > > > This did not improve anything , but I think I have found the couse. > > > In that modepage there is a

Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N

1999-02-20 Thread Paul van der Zwan
> > > > This did not improve anything , but I think I have found the couse. > > In that modepage there is a DISC value which was 0 on the IBM and 1 on the > > Seagate. I remembered a ' Enable disconnect' option in the Adaptec 2940 > > bios, > > setting this to 'off' for both harddisks led to a

Re: CardBus Support (was: support for 3Com 3C575 network controller?)

1999-02-20 Thread Terry Lambert
> I've been trying to get some progamming doc out of TI for > the PCI1200 PCI/Cardbus bridge (used in the Dell Inspiron > 7000), however they cannot seem to understand that I'm not > asking for a pre-written device driver :-( > > Does anyone out there have doc for the PCI1200 (and > preferably

const char *

1999-02-20 Thread Nick Hibma
With the new efforts in getting rid of all the warnings in the kernel compiles I have a problem with the following warning: ../../dev/usb/ukbd.c: In function `ukbd_detach': ../../dev/usb/ukbd.c:373: warning: cast discards `const' from pointer target type produced by the following two lines in th

Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N

1999-02-20 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Matthew Jacob wrote... > > > Well, yes, it can if the number of tagged commands you throw at a device > overloads the sequencer so it can never really get started on the first > command. If you don't disconnect, you don't throw multiple commands at > the disk. I don't remember from the original m

CardBus Support (was: support for 3Com 3C575 network controller?)

1999-02-20 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > the PCI1200 PCI/Cardbus bridge (used in the Dell Inspiron > 7000), however they cannot seem to understand that I'm not > asking for a pre-written device driver :-( You have to talk to the right part of TI, and you have to know what to ask for. I have the book for the PCI1131, which

Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N

1999-02-20 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Paul van der Zwan wrote... > > Paul van der Zwan wrote... > > > > > > I am having some performance problems on my -current ( update last > > > weekend) > > > I hooked up a new Seagate ST36530N yesterday ( connected to an Adaptec > > > 2940U) > > Andreas Klemm has had similar trouble, as he point

Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N

1999-02-20 Thread Matthew Jacob
Well, yes, it can if the number of tagged commands you throw at a device overloads the sequencer so it can never really get started on the first command. If you don't disconnect, you don't throw multiple commands at the disk. I don't remember from the original mail whether or not this was a raw d

Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N

1999-02-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
:This did not improve anything , but I think I have found the couse. :In that modepage there is a DISC value which was 0 on the IBM and 1 on the :Seagate. I remembered a ' Enable disconnect' option in the Adaptec 2940 bios, :setting this to 'off' for both harddisks led to a huge performance incre

Re: CardBus Support (was: support for 3Com 3C575 network controller?)

1999-02-20 Thread Larry Lile
terry_mur...@3com.com is the holder of technical docs great and small at 3com. There is some doc request that you can fax in, but it is very old and out of date, she is listed as the contact. She has gotten me a couple of docs that I couldn't find. Larry Lile l...@stdio.com On Sat, 20 Feb 199

Re: sh(1) -- exec vs. fork

1999-02-20 Thread Brian Feldman
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Rahul Dhesi wrote: > Many years ago I posted a shell script to Usenet in which I prepended a > line with 'exec', in an attempt to avoid having a shell process hanging > around doing a wait(). David Korn himself (of Korn shell fame) > responded saying this was not necessary, a

Re: CardBus Support (was: support for 3Com 3C575 network controller?)

1999-02-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > I've been trying to get some progamming doc out of TI for > the PCI1200 PCI/Cardbus bridge (used in the Dell Inspiron > 7000), however they cannot seem to understand that I'm not > asking for a pre-written device driver :-( > > Does anyone out the

CardBus Support (was: support for 3Com 3C575 network controller?)

1999-02-20 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
I've been trying to get some progamming doc out of TI for the PCI1200 PCI/Cardbus bridge (used in the Dell Inspiron 7000), however they cannot seem to understand that I'm not asking for a pre-written device driver :-( Does anyone out there have doc for the PCI1200 (and preferably the entire PC

Problems with nfsstat and dynamic OID

1999-02-20 Thread Roman V. Palagin
Hello! Five minutes ago I type 'nfsstat' and got: nfsstat: sysctl: No such file or directory I take a look at the source and that's what I found: Nfsstat gets statistic via sysctl(3). name[0]=CTL_VFS, name[2]=NFS_NFSSTATS, but name[1] has a value of vfc.vfc_typenum, returned by getvfsbyname(3).

More kernel threading ;)

1999-02-20 Thread Brian Feldman
This time I've got a problem with LinuxThreads (again), but really any kernel threads. Anyway, for those who say to put your patches where your mouth is, this is a pretty annoying problem which I have solved, and I've provided a fix. So here goes: With RFMEM, a shared address space is created

Informative Question

1999-02-20 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
Hi, just a fast informative question before I go ask on another list: Anyone here able to successfully use rpc.yppasswdd on CURRENT? I have been experiencing `hangs' with it at boot-up and am in doubt what to blame for it. Thanks in advance and please if the replies are mayhaps deemed inappropr

Re: Slow seq. write on Seagate ST36530N

1999-02-20 Thread Paul van der Zwan
> Paul van der Zwan wrote... > > > > I am having some performance problems on my -current ( update last weekend) > > I hooked up a new Seagate ST36530N yesterday ( connected to an Adaptec > > 2940U) > Andreas Klemm has had similar trouble, as he pointed out. > Can you check and see whether or not

Re: support for 3Com 3C575 network controller?

1999-02-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > # CardBus cards aren't supported. Period. > > > > > > Eek, I didn't realize this was a CardBus card. :{ I quess > > > this begs the question though, is anyone working on CardBus > > > support for FreeBSD since this is the 32-bit version of > > > P