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Setup & Installation / Re: Panorama v Snap Video
« on: May 11, 2018, 01:40:37 pm »
Given a recent motherboard with Intel HDA graphics, laptop or desktop, DIVE graphics will be quite a bit faster than an ATI video card old enough to have SNAP support.

...which is why we should let the numbers tell the story instead:

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Sysbench 0.9.5d result file...

 Graphics
   BitBlt S->S copy      :    12452.139    Million pixels/second
   BitBlt M->S copy      :      297.329    Million pixels/second
   Filled Rectangle      :    45967.299    Million pixels/second
   Pattern Fill          :     3505.676    Million pixels/second
   Vertical Lines        :      173.686    Million pixels/second
   Horizontal Lines      :     1455.066    Million pixels/second
   Diagonal Lines        :       69.389    Million pixels/second
   Text Render           :      873.777    Million pixels/second
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
   Total                 :     1318.652    PM-Graphics-marks

 CPU integer
   Dhrystone             :     6725.200    VAX 11/780 MIPS equivalent
   Hanoi                 :    23158.000    moves/25 microseconds
   Heapsort              :    22031.000    Million Instructions Per Second
   Sieve                 :    22031.000    Million Instructions Per Second
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
   Total                 :    15891.876    CPU integer-marks

 CPU float
   Linpack               :     2877.960    MFLOPS
   Flops                 :     3599.600    MFLOPS
   Fast Fourier Transfrm :     2162.790    VAX FFT's
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
   Total                 :     1421.639    CPU floating point-marks

 Direct Interface to video extensions - DIVE
   Video bus bandwidth   :     1145.600    Megabytes/second
   DIVE fun              :     3909.899    fps normalised to 640x480x256
   M->S, DD,   1.00:1    :     3910.315    fps normalised to 640x480x256
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
   Total                 :     1461.519    DIVE-marks

I left the CPU benchmarks in case the performance is CPU bound.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Panorama v Snap Video
« on: May 11, 2018, 02:50:26 am »
Neil,

...SNAP seems slower, but it can turn off monitor power, so I like to use it to save power....

ATI X850 XT PE video card here, SNAP is about 30% faster than Panorama...the old (IBM) SNAP is actually faster then the AN one as well.

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Programming / Re: Which GCC to run with?
« on: May 10, 2018, 03:24:00 pm »
Hi Paul,

GCC 7.3.0: http://smedley.id.au/tmp/gcc-7.3.0-os2-20180126.zip
GCC 8.1.0: http://smedley.id.au/tmp/gcc-8.1.0-os2-20180505.zip
...

Is there a general reference for our OS/2 platform on how to setup multiple GCC environments?

I would love to try the 8.1.0 build, but right now I have the RPM/YUM driven 4.9.2 setup in place and quite frankly, I am dreading tossing something else on "top" of it given how problematic it was to just get the 4.9.2 stuff working (for many reasons, some driven by the fact that I have multiple C/C++ compiler toolsets installed on my box here).

Can I follow the widely available on-line walk-throughs of getting this set up? Most of these are really Unix/Linux based...

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Internet / Re: Couldn't resolve host
« on: May 05, 2018, 08:08:04 pm »
Does it resolve through tracerte?

From my machine, executing 'tracerte mail.broadpark.no' at CLI gives:

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[G:\]tracerte mail.broadpark.no
traceroute to mail.broadpark.no (80.235.81.36), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  router                    (192.168.1.1)  0 ms  0 ms  0 ms
 2  10.88.64.1                (10.88.64.1)  10 ms  10 ms  10 ms
 3  225-4-226-24.rev.cgocable.net  (24.226.4.225)  10 ms  30 ms  10 ms
 4  10.0.18.73                (10.0.18.73)  20 ms  10 ms  30 ms
 5  toro-b1-link.telia.net    (213.248.92.105)  20 ms toro-b1-link.telia.net
(213.248.92.221)  20 ms toro-b1-link.telia.net    (80.239.194.193)  20 ms
 6  motl-b1-link.telia.net    (62.115.134.49)  20 ms  30 ms  20 ms
 7  nyk-bb3-link.telia.net    (62.115.137.142)  150 ms  150 ms  150 ms
 8  nyk-b6-link.telia.net     (62.115.125.63)  30 ms kbn-bb3-link.telia.net    (
213.155.134.51)  150 ms  150 ms
 9  s-bb3-link.telia.net      (62.115.139.168)  140 ms  140 ms nyk-bb4-link.teli
a.net    (80.91.254.37)  130 ms
10  kbn-bb4-link.telia.net    (80.91.254.90)  130 ms tln-b3-link.telia.net     (
62.115.134.219)  140 ms tln-b3-link.telia.net     (213.155.133.15)  130 ms
11  s-bb4-link.telia.net      (62.115.139.172)  130 ms  140 ms  130 ms
12  90.190.134.25             (90.190.134.25)  140 ms 90.190.134.163
(90.190.134.163)  140 ms 90.190.134.25             (90.190.134.25)  130 ms
13  * elion-ic-302547-tln-b3.c.telia.net  (62.115.34.134)  140 ms *
14  90.190.134.163            (90.190.134.163)  140 ms * *
15  * * *
16  * * *
17  *

...so I killed it at #17 as it was not resolving...but the IP address does come back, while 'ping mail.broadpark.no' does not.

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Internet / Re: Firefox and Traps
« on: May 01, 2018, 07:40:58 pm »
Hey Ben!

Hello again.

For those who have been following this thread I am writing this message from my server machine utilizing the latest version of Firefox; problem found!

It turns out some missing MMOS2 lines in my CONFIG.SYS was the culprit....


Alright...c'mon now, don't hold back on us like that... ;D

What was missing?

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Networking / NetDrive traps - since latest LIBCX drop...
« on: April 29, 2018, 05:57:24 pm »
Since the latest libcx/libc release (0.6.2-1.oc00 / 0.6.6-36.oc00) I started to see a consistent NetDrive crashes:

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------------------------------------------------------------
04-28-2018  18:44:32  SYS3175  PID 0021  TID 0003  Slot 0061
G:\UTIL\NDFS\NDCTL.EXE
c0000005
1e754d45
P1=00000001  P2=2105002c  P3=XXXXXXXX  P4=XXXXXXXX 
EAX=0289f92c  EBX=006f5380  ECX=00000001  EDX=00000004
ESI=2105002c  EDI=0289f92c 
DS=0053  DSACC=f0f3  DSLIM=ffffffff 
ES=0053  ESACC=f0f3  ESLIM=ffffffff 
FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=005b:1e754d45  CSACC=f0df  CSLIM=ffffffff
SS:ESP=0053:0289f8ac  SSACC=f0f3  SSLIM=ffffffff
EBP=0289f8d0  FLG=00010212

LIBC066.DLL 0001:00054d45
------------------------------------------------------------

Has anyone else noticed anything similar to this?

I wonder whether the newly introduced 'SET LIBCX_HIGHMEM' option is causing some problems?

Currently the whole OS install runs with the default, which I believe is to do memhigh allocation whenever possible. I have not tried defaulting to 'SET LIBCX_HIGHMEM=2' instead, although that is my next test to see if NetDrive is impacted in any way.

Thanks!

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Hardware / Re: nForce 650i SLI Motherboard
« on: April 24, 2018, 03:39:32 pm »
Where would the service tag be?

Like Martin said, take a look at the back or bottom (in case of a laptop). All my laptops have the service tag under the battery and the mini-tower has it at the back where the connectors faceplate is.

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Hardware / Re: nForce 650i SLI Motherboard
« on: April 24, 2018, 03:11:18 am »
Dave & Martin,

If the DELL machine has a ServiceTag you can head on over to the DELL support site, punch that thing in and get a full dump of the machine build in a CSV format...super easy to convert to anything else you may want to use. I maintain all our DELL machine info in that way.

924
Internet / Re: Firefox - 45.9.0 for OS/2 GA1.1...anyone...anyone???
« on: April 23, 2018, 08:53:31 pm »
...The problem is where to upload them. I don't really like abusing my free account at bitbucket...

Oh noooo...not a problem at all...good sir, head on over to: darcio.no-ip.org, lot in as 'guest' your pass is 'guest4me'. Access to a  single ftp-inbound directroy...feel free to drop off as much as you need!!!

I will keep this open until you tell me you're done.

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Internet / Re: Firefox - 45.9.0 for OS/2 GA1.1...anyone...anyone???
« on: April 23, 2018, 04:12:34 pm »
Dave!!!

Try this build, https://bitbucket.org/dryeo/dry-comm-esr31/downloads/firefox-45.9.0.en-US.os2.zip.
Still has the minimized cpu usage but does play youtube videos and closes on exit.
Same code excepting some optimizations and compiler.

Amazing...seriously, first time - in I can't remember how long - that FF actually plays native VP9 YouTube videos...so that's pretty awesome. When the h264ify add-on is turned ON the stuttering video continues, just as it did with the GA1.1, so there must be something else to it beyond the compiler stuff.

OK, so here are two requests, not sure if you can/are-willing to do this but, can you:

1) release that last test build with  '-Os -march=pentium4' instead of '-Os -march=i686'? This would give me the closest to apples-to-apples comparison, so maybe the move to GCC 5.1.0 is all the difference that we need?

2) release that last test build with  '-march=amdfam10 -Ofast -msse2' instead of '-Os -march=i686'? This would give me the AMD Phenom II CPU optimizations I wanted to try out (yeah, I know it violates some of the strict standards compliance, and maybe is incompatible with the other options I see in 'about:buildconfig', but if possile, please give it a try)

Thanks for putting out this alt builds!!!

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Internet / Re: Firefox - 45.9.0 for OS/2 GA1.1...anyone...anyone???
« on: April 22, 2018, 10:04:37 pm »
Here is what I shared on the FF testing email list regarding my experience with GA1.1, note that this was in the context of people reporting HIGH CPU cycles even when FF was being minimized:

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...For what it's worth, this behaviour seems to have gotten worse with the  latest GA1.1 release.

Not sure if there is any co-relation between the two, but my overall CPU  usage is now noticably higher. Basically, on a 5 core machine I am seeing a  consistent 15-20% average (over the past 1 min - as reported by the 'CPU  Monitor' utility) usage. When I view this in the 'MPCPU Mon' OS/2 utility,  with the refresh of 150 ms I see an on-going CPU spike taking place across all cores.

Having said that, the GA1.1 drop overall, while feeling a tad slower, does  seem to be more stable. I noticed memory consumption seems to have slowed down, and while the overall steady CPU utilization is higher it no longer  seems to increase as total runtime of the process increases.

In the past the CPU utilization used to slowly climb over the hours FF was  up and running, until after about 10-15 hrs (depending of course on the  amount of usage) the CPU spikes became so consistently large that I needed  to kill the process and re-start. Now, as far as the past 3 days of usage  indicate, that is no longer so pronounced...

Besides this, what has definitely gotten WORSE here is the YouTube playback. Prior to this upgrade I was able to finally get a smooth video & sound playback. The sound issue (used to loop after some time of playback) was solved by an upgrade to the latest UniAudio drivers. The video is only playable when using the h264ify add-on, otherwise the VP9 video codec completely fails, the video playback window simply stops updating, no sound, no further video.

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Internet / Re: Firefox - 45.9.0 for OS/2 GA1.1...anyone...anyone???
« on: April 20, 2018, 08:59:50 pm »
Doug,

I am trying to install the RPM_REQUIREMENTS and received this error message
...
I have received this "Rpmdb checksum is invalid:... " message a number of times when trying to install other packages - for example when installing the required packages for VLC 3.0.1

I assume  "checksum invalid" is not a good thing.

Actually, as it happens I'm seeing this at command line as well, and it is known NOT to be a problem, meaning, the RPM packge should have installed successfully.

On the other hand, if you install through the ANPM app it will handle this error/warning message and you will not see it.

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Internet / Re: Firefox - 45.9.0 for OS/2 GA1.1...anyone...anyone???
« on: April 20, 2018, 05:28:07 pm »
Hey Matt,

...The 7 zip format is a pain as simple minded me can't figure out how to unzip 7Z files.  What a pain...

What zip/unzip util are you using?

My ZipCntrl app can't handle 7z either, but luckily ArchiveViewer can and you can get it here => http://www.altsan.org/programming/os2/arcview_22.wpi

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Setup & Installation / Re: RAM disk and temp folders...what else?
« on: April 20, 2018, 05:08:59 pm »
Hi Valery,

...2Dariusz Piatkowski:

> Yup, similar configuration to what I currently have. My operating partitions are all HPFS386, the nightly backup partitions are HPFS386 as well but no CACHE on them. Neither is the RAMDISK, else it defeats the purpse.

You still use HPFS386 as your main file system? Why not JFS? HPFS386 has limitation of 64 GB max partition size, like ordinary HPFS driver. So, how do you use it with modern hard disks?

I moved to JFS 17 years ago, since my partitions are all bigger than 64 GB....

Yeah, still using HPFS386 here mostly because of how long I have had a single install of my OS/2...literally since the Warp3 days, followed by Warp4 upgrade, then CP releases, move to SMP hardware and finally the ACPI stuff.

I did attempt to deploy JFS once, that caused massive data corruption, I suspect the HPFS386 and JFS simply had conflicts. It was a painfull recovery and since my hardware has remained the same (no HD changes, etc) I have not had a reason to re-do all of this.

Now, this may change very soon. I have a Samsung SSD (850 Evo) standing by and as soon as I off-load a bunch of the stuff from my DATA partitions onto the LAN NAS I will be deploying it. At that time it would make sense to take a stab at the JFS thing again.

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Setup & Installation / Re: RAM disk and temp folders...what else?
« on: April 20, 2018, 05:03:52 pm »
Hi Ben!

Hi Ben

My config.sys entry is a simple one; "IFS=Y:\IMB386FS\HPFS386.IFS /A:R" where "Y:" is the boot drive and "R" is the RAMDisk.


Is the "Y:\IMB386FS\" above a copy'n'paste typo?

Typo unfortunately.

I tried it on two different installations on two different machines with the same error.

I vaguely recall from the distant past, that HPFS386.IFS wouldn't load without some sort of memory restrictions... virtualmemorylimit adjustment or something like that. But I have that setting tweaked for other programs and I have no intention of changing it..

I take it that file system drivers, (*.IFS), can be loaded from anywhere not  just from config.sys path statements in the libpath, path dpath?

I guess that I have no choice but to use the basic HPFS.


So the HPFS386 module is not solely made up of the IFS and the INI files, there of course are a number of DLLs which make up the full solution.

Here is what I currently have in my \IBM386FS directory:

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Directory of G:\ibm386fs

10-29-17   7:07p     <DIR>           0  .
 4-19-18   1:25p     <DIR>           0  ..
 9-30-03   6:11p     25701         403  BOOTSH.EXE
 9-30-03   6:11p      1547         221  bsh.msg
 9-30-03   6:11p      3958         222  bshh.msg
 9-30-03   6:11p      3255         221  cac.msg
 9-30-03   6:11p      3497         222  cach.msg
 9-30-03   6:11p     27237         405  CACHE386.EXE
 9-30-03   6:11p     10804         224  DISKFT.SYS
 3-11-12   8:08p      2164           0  files_latest
 9-30-03   6:11p     10346         221  hfs.msg
 9-30-03   6:11p     33464         222  hfsh.msg
 9-30-03   6:11p      6845         404  HPFS386.DLL
 3-23-04  10:17a    259689           0  hpfs386.ifs
11-30-00   6:31p    259177           0  hpfs386.ifs.53_43
 9-30-03   6:11p    259691         225  hpfs386.ifs.53_44_15
 3-23-04  10:17a    259689           0  hpfs386.ifs.53_47
 4-17-18  10:49a     12232         268  hpfs386.ini
 8-30-14  10:42a      7154           0  hpfs386.log
 9-30-03   6:11p       462         225  hpfs386.txt
10-26-08  11:38a      1313          86  hpfsperf IP_8508.TXT
10-26-08  11:36a      8758          75  hpfsperf.cmd
 9-30-03   6:11p     39725         355  hva.exe
10-10-01   3:11p      7022           0  MAILSLOT.DLL
 9-30-03   6:11p      7020         405  MAILSLOT.DLL.53_43
 3-23-04   8:40p    363811          49  netapi.dll
 9-30-03   6:11p    348965         403  NETAPI.DLL.53_43
 3-23-04   8:40p    363811          49  NETAPI.DLL.53_47
 9-30-03   6:11p     23040         224  netapi.lib
 3-23-04   8:37p     63636          61  NETAPI32.DLL
 9-30-03   6:11p     63766         417  NETAPI32.DLL.53_43
 3-23-04   8:37p     63636          61  NETAPI32.DLL.53_47
10-10-01   6:44p      6588           0  NETSPOOL.DLL
 9-30-03   6:11p      6586         405  NETSPOOL.DLL.53_43
 1-01-13  10:51a     <DIR>        1037  newest
 1-01-13  10:51a     <DIR>        1144  original
 9-30-03   6:11p     26629         359  PREPACL.EXE
 9-30-03   6:11p      2081         255  readme.now
       38 file(s)    2583299 bytes used
                   3937073 K bytes free

Yeah, there are several versions listed there as a result of my previous work to narrow this configuration down to the most 'current' release.

Anyways, the IFS statement you show should be sufficient to load HPFS386. The HPFS386.INI file then brings specific controls into place, I've attached my version to the post for your review.

You certainly need the \IBM386FS to be present in your LIBPATH statement. I have it also included in the PATH and DPATH, not sure if this was necessary or not, but it seems to work fine here.

Further on, in your CONFIG.SYS you also need the following: 'CALL=G:\OS2\CMD.EXE /Q /C G:\IBM386FS\CACHE386.EXE >NUL', which will kick off the CACHE386 exec to, I believe, read in the HPFS386.INI definitions.

There are some issues you may run into, certainly the size of the HPFS386 cache has a lot to do with this. In the past, I used to run that cache as big as 500 Meg (only b/c the Win NTFS can run much bigger and I wanted to compare some things), but as more and more software piled onto my machine I had to bring this down. Currently I have this configured for 64Meg only, seems to work fine with VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT=2560 in the CONFIG.SYS working fine. I have booted up the machine with VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT=3072 as well w/o any problems.

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