On Monday, 22 of March 2010 22:55:17 Dan Naumov wrote: > > I've read that FreeBSD kernel supports 3D acceleration in ATI R7xx > > chipset and as I own motherboard with HD3300 built-in I thought that I > > would give it a try. I upgraded to see if there is any progress with > > ¿zfs? I don't really know if it's zfs related, but at certain load, my > > system crashes, and reboots. It happens only when using bonnie++ to > > benchmark I/O. And I'm a little bit to lazy to prepare my system for > > coredumps - I don't have swap slice for crashdumps, because I wanted > > to simplify adding drives to my raidz1 configuration. Could anyone > > tell me what's needed, besides having swap to produce good crashdump? > > As of right now, even if you don't care about capability to take crash > dumps, it is highly recommended to still use traditional swap > partitions even if your system is otherwise fully ZFS. There are know > stability problems involving using a ZVOL as a swap device. These > issues are being worked on, but this is still the situation as of now. > > > At first I didn't knew that I am upgrading to bleeding edge/developer > > branch of FreeBSD. I'll come straight out with it, 8.0-STABLE sounds > > more stable than 8.0-RELEASE-p2, which I was running before upgrade ;) > > I'm a little confused with FreeBSD release cycle at first I compared > > it with Debian release cycle, because I'm most familiar to it, and I > > used it a lot before using FreeBSD. Debian development is more > > one-dimensional - unstable/testing/stable/oldstable whereas FreeBSD > > has two stable branches - 8.0 and 7.2 which are actively developed. > > But still I am confused with FreeBSD naming and it's relation with > > tags which are used in standard-supfile. We have something like this: > > 9.0-CURRENT -> tag=. > > 8.0-STABLE -> tag=RELENG_8 > > 8.0-RELEASE-p2 -> tag=RELENG_8_0 ? (btw what does p2 mean?) > > If someone patient could explain it to me I'd be grateful. > > 9-CURRENT: the real crazyland > 8-STABLE: a dev branch, from which 8.0 was tagged and eventually 8.1 will > be RELENG_8_0: 8.0-RELEASE + latest critical security and reliability > updates (8.0 is up to patchset #2, hence -p2) > > Same line of thinking applies to 7-STABLE, 7.3-RELEASE and so on. > > > - Sincerely, > Dan Naumov >
Thanks for clarifying. I will try turning swap ASAP. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
