Re: panic: bremfree: removing a buffer not on a queue

2003-03-28 Thread Nick Hilliard
> My bitty box just crashed out while doing some light desktop work and > a small amount of NFS server stuff. FWIW, this problem is repeatable - a few minutes after as I start doing any NFS service, the box crashes out and dies. Any clues on where to start looking? Nick ___

panic: bremfree: removing a buffer not on a queue

2003-03-27 Thread Nick Hilliard
My bitty box just crashed out while doing some light desktop work and a small amount of NFS server stuff. The source was cvsup'd a few minutes before the kernel was compiled last Sunday. The contents of dmesg.boot are include below. If it's of any use, the machine crashed badly the day before ye

Re: Who broke sort(1) ?

2002-09-26 Thread Nick Hilliard
> >It's not like people didn't have nine years' advance warning to fix > >their scripts. > > When's the first time the FreeBSD sort(1) man page mentioned that this > syntax was deprecated? Can we at least start from there? The man page in 4.x notes that "-k" is an alternative rather than the re

typo in /usr/src/sys/sys/sx.h

2001-03-06 Thread Nick Hilliard
There's a small typo in /usr/src/sys/sys/sx.h which causes kernel builds to break unless INVARIANTS is defined. Patch below against version 1.2 of the file. Nick --- /usr/src/sys/sys/sx.h.orig Tue Mar 6 10:57:31 2001 +++ /usr/src/sys/sys/sx.h Tue Mar 6 10:57:38 2001 @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Nick Hilliard
phk wrote: > This is *CURRENT* remember ? We want this transistion done and > tested before current becomes 4.0-RELEASE. The time is NOW! Not quite: this is -current, 4 days before a functionality freeze and potentially less than one month before 4.0-RELEASE. Replacing critical parts of the s

Re: Threads and my new job.

1999-11-24 Thread Nick Hilliard
> Why do we need to smite the Linux database servers? With threads in their > current state they already outperform Linux's native threads by ~50x for > things like sending mail. I would assume that the differences in database > performance is similar. The threads (& the old nfs issues which h

Re: 3C597 fast ethernet support

1999-08-26 Thread Nick Hilliard
> I've got a 100Mbit 3COM EISA ethernet interface. Here are the particulars: > > vx0: <3Com 3C597-TX Network Adapter> at 0x5000-0x501f, 0x5c80-0x5c89 > vx0: irq 12 (edge) on eisa0 slot 5 > > I've been running it for a while now at 10Mbit. From what I can gather, the > vx driver doesn't support