- There are two cases where the server can potentially block for a long
time while servicing a request: when handling a yp_all() request, which
could take a while to complete if the map being transfered is large
(e.g. 'ypcat passwd' where passwd.byname has 10,000 entries in it),
and while doing DNS lookups when in SunOS compat mode (with the -dns
flag), since some DNS lookups can take a long time to complete. While
ypserv is blocked, other clients making requests to the server will
also block. To fix this, we fork() ypall and DNS lookups into subprocesses
and let the parent ypserv process go on servicing other incoming
requests.
We place a cap on the number of simultaneous processes that ypserv can
fork (set at 20 for now) and go back to 'linear mode' if it hits the
limit (which just means it won't fork() anymore until the number of
simultaneous processes drops under 20 again). The cap does not apply
to fork()s done as a result of ypxfr calls, since we want to do our
best to insure that map transfers from master servers succeed.
To make this work, we need our own special copy of svc_run() so that
we can properly terminate child processes once the RPC dispatch
functions have run.
(I have no idea what SunOS does in this situation. The only other
possibility I can think of is async socket I/O, but that seems
like a headache and a half to implement.)
- Do the politically correct thing and use sigaction() instead of
signal() to install the SIGCHLD handler and to ignore SIGPIPEs.
- Doing a yp_all() is sometimes slow due to the way read_database() is
implemented. This is turn is due to a certain deficiency in the DB
hash method: the R_CURSOR flag doesn't work, which means that when
handed a key and asked to return the key/data pair for the _next_
key in the map, we have to reset the DB pointer to the start of the
database, step through until we find the requested key, step one
space ahead to the _next_ key, and then use that. (The original ypserv
code used GDBM has a function called gdbm_nextkey() that does
this for you.) This can get really slow for large maps. However,
when doing a ypall, it seems that all database access are sequential,
so we can forgo the first step (the 'search the database until we find
the key') since the database should remain open and the cursor
should be positioned at the right place until the yp_all() call
finishes. We can't make this assumption for arbitrary yp_first()s
and yp_next()s however (since we may have requests from several clients
for different maps all arriving at different times) so those we have
to handle the old way.
(This would be much easier if R_CURSOR really worked. Maybe I should
be using something other than the hash method.)
(on an i486, 10 cycles (+ cache misses) instead of 15). The
change should be a no-op if the compiler is any good. The best
possible i*86 code for the same algorithm is only 1 more cycle
faster on i486's so I don't want to bother implementing an
assembler version.
scanc() is a bottleneck for OPOST processing. It is naturally
about 4 times as slow as bcopy() on 32-bit systems.
were two races:
- q_to_b() might unexpectedly return 0 (e.g, after a keyboard signal
flushes the output queue and isn't echoed). ansi_put() interprets
0 bytes as 4GB...
- more output (e.g. for echoes) might arrive afer q_to_b() returns 0.
Then scstart() returns presumably and the new output might not be
handled for a long time.
Remove unused function scxint().
Fix prototypes (foo() isn't a prototype).
syscons' output is now only about 4-5 times slower than I want.
It loses a factor of 2 for scrolling output by unnecessarily copying
the screen buffer, a factor of 4/3 for dumb OPOST processing, and
a factor of 3/2 for clist processing.
fclosed twice and this didn't seem to cause any problems, but when
/var/crash was on an an unwritable nfs-mounted partition, fclose(NULL)
caused a core dump.
Adds support for non-Sound Blaster host adapters, including those
distributed by Reveal, Lasermate, IBM, Media Vision, Crystal and others.
The driver automatically senses the correct adapter type and you can
have both in the system at the same time.
(This change should eliminate a few complaints.)
Corrected bit-masking problem that prevented use on SB Vibra-16 boards.
Declared some internal data and functions static that should have been
that way all along.
Documentation changes reflect the new hardware support and change the
appearance version to 2.0.5 (was 2.1). Nice and tidy. :-)
Beta testers have verified functionality on SB16, Vibra-16, Media Vision
and Reveal adapters. -Wall still shows no warnings.
Frank Durda IV
uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com
Submitted by: Frank Durda IV <uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com>
to do something else than "install". For example,
make IS_DEPENDED_TARGET=fetch fetch
will fetch the required distfiles including those of the dependencies
without actually building and installing dependencies.
Also document ECHO_MSG.
Requested by: paul
Reviewed by: paul, jhs and others
or ssthresh that we were able to use
tcp_var.h - declare tcpstat entries for above; declare tcp_{send,recv}space
in_rmx.c - fill in the MTU and pipe sizes with the defaults TCP would have
used anyway in the absence of values here
>Synopsis: Booting w/scsi tape in drive causes first use to fail
Booting with a tape in a SCSI tape drive will cause the first
use of the tape to fail with the following message:
st0: bad request, must be between 0 and 0.
Submitted by: mpp@legarto.minn.net (Mike Pritchard)
that call vnode_pager_alloc() so that a failure return can be dealt with.
This fixes a panic seen on NFS clients when a file being opened is deleted
on the server before the open completes.
syscall to allow applications linked against their libc's uname() to
work. Netscape 1.1N being a prime example, which prints:
"uname() failed. cant tell what system we're running on".
This change is a little ugly, but that's mainly because of the "interesting"
semantics of the BSDI extension.
Since ogetkerninfo() is only enabled by COMPAT_43, Netscape will only
be affected on kernels with that option (eg: "GENERIC")
Reviewed by: davidg
Fix the use of /usr/X386 to ${X11BASE}. Fix the pathname /usr/bin/chess
to /usr/games/chess.
XCircle.c:
Fix the comment after an ifdef to make it a real comment to silent gcc.
std.h:
Comment out a private definition of sys_errlist.
2. Optimize ModemQlen.
3. Sending ProtoReject for Unknow protocol (i.e. IPX)
4. Avoid select looping by reading tun under the high system load.
5. Adding Local version String for maintenance.
6. Just more speak rather silent ignore if you type invalid key words.
> The command:
>
> touch -t 199504011200 testfile
>
> gives the error message:
>
> touch: out of range or illegal time specification: [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]
Submitted by: mpp@legarto.minn.net (Mike Pritchard)
texinfo-3.6 distribution to enable the use of the cursor keys.
Since there is an open problem report (gnu/289) for this it might be
of interest for (some of) you.
I (Joerg) have also added a minor hack that makes info recognizing a
window size change while it has been suspended.
Submitted by: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Gellekum)
Kernel PPP doesn't pay attention to IPTOS_LOWDELAY, but uses
a table of port numbers, which isn't a generic method. The following
patch fixes this (the table is still used, but in addition
PPP queues the packet in fastq if IPTOS_LOWDELAY is set.
Obtained from: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
Submitted by: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>
