Re: installworld error (ex: not found)

2002-01-07 Thread Ian
remote:/usr/obj over the local /usr/obj before doing the make installworld. (This was my first foray into updating binaries on machine A from a build done on machine B. The instructions in the makefile left room for imagination.) I know this isn't a complete answer to your question, just a cl

Re: cc1 crashes with SIGBUS while building XFree86-Server-4.2.0_2

2002-04-30 Thread Ian
t overclocking, then bad ram would make a good second suspect, I had a failing DIMM a couple years ago first manifest as signal 10 and 11 errors in cc1. -- Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Special fx with disklabel(8)?

2002-05-13 Thread Ian
peruse the list archives in the future to ignore Terry Lambert. -- Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: df

2002-05-17 Thread Ian
e command line) so this time it has the info from NFS filesystems, but it doesn't recalculate the field widths. The following patch should fix it without breaking other behaviors, I belive. -- Ian --- df.c.origFri May 17 11:30:55 2002 +++ df.cFri May 17 11:31:39 2002 @@ -203,

Re: df

2002-05-17 Thread Ian
On 05/17/02 14:09, Terry Lambert wrote: > Ian wrote: >> On 05/17/02 10:27, Riccardo Torrini wrote: >>> I manually mount nfs fs after a reboot (current -> stable) and >>> if I do a "df" I got two different output. First time it get >>> garbled, al

Re: df

2002-05-19 Thread Ian
On 05/18/02 17:41, Ian Dowse wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Terry Lambert writes: >> I think the reason for the "if" is to keep the df from hanging >> indefinitely, particularly when you give it an explicit list. > > No, I believe the "if (

Re: Unusable PS/2 mouse

1999-07-19 Thread Ian Whalley
een. Only way to use X at all is to disable sync and not to >use keyboard and mouse at the same time. Do you have a monitor switch? If so, I bet it is a cybex one. Look in the manual for the 'reset mice' control sequence -- that seems to do the trick for me. Best; Ian. --

Re: Unusable PS/2 mouse

1999-07-19 Thread Ian Whalley
x pretends to be an Intellimouse even when you don't have one [or this is what seems to happen in my case], and so FreeBSD detects that you have an Intellimouse. However, then it all goes wrong, and I don't really know why! Best; I. -- Ian Whalley, .sig under construction. Email:

Re: Ouch! Something broke (possibly ATA)

2000-01-04 Thread Ian West
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 09:06:14AM +, Alex wrote: > Today's -current: > > Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights > reserved. > FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #21: Tue Jan 4 08:00:34 GMT

Re: ESS 1868 and DSP_BUFFSIZE

2000-01-09 Thread Ian West
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 06:16:30AM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: > It looks like the ESS 1868 is working OK now with the DSP_BUFFSIZE set > to 8192. Before, it wouldn't work unless I set this value to (65536 - > 256), which was the original value, I believe. So, why does the ESS > work OK now with a

Re: My ATAPI CD not come ready

2000-01-25 Thread Ian West
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 09:40:11AM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > I have the same problem: > > [anders@enterprise:anders] $ dmesg | grep ata > ata-pci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 7.1 > on pci0 > ata0 at 0x01f0 irq 14 on ata-pci0 > ata-isa0: already registered as ata0 > ata0-slave: ata_comma

ffs_blkfree: freeing free block (was Re: Panic (pmap))

2000-02-23 Thread Ian Dowse
ng always corresponds within a few minutes to the filesystem becoming full (/var/log/messages will have a flurry of 'file system full' messages just before the reboot). An example trace is below. Let me know if any further information would be useful. Ian #0 boot (howto=256) at ../../k

Re: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block (was Re: Panic (pmap))

2000-02-23 Thread Ian Dowse
it should back out the changes on failure. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block (was Re: Panic (pmap))

2000-02-23 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Dowse writes: > >The fix should be relatively straightforward - either the code should >avoid linking new indirection blocks until all allocations succeed, >or it should back out the changes on failure. Here's one patch that seems to

Remote upgrade from 3.4-STABLE to 4.0

2000-03-07 Thread Ian Whalley
HPUX} through a major revision without access to the console...), but in an effort to save several hour drive, I figured I'd ask if anyone had had any success doing an upgrade remotely... So... anyone done it? Best; inw -- Ian Whalley @ . org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Remote upgrade from 3.4-STABLE to 4.0

2000-03-07 Thread Ian Whalley
ords, UPDATING can't comment on vaporware. Heh. That's fair enough -- I will wait until 4.0 is -STABLE. Cheers; inw -- Ian Whalley @ . org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

unpack(NaN) big baddaboom

2000-03-06 Thread Ian Grigg
This is a bug report for perl from [EMAIL PROTECTED], generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503. - [Please enter your report here] Running following program causes "Floating point exception" on FreeBSD 3.2

Re: [ID 20000306.004] unpack(NaN) big baddaboom

2000-03-06 Thread Ian Grigg
More on that! Lads here took this to heart and put the debugger over the code. Apparently, Linux uses glibc which sets the flags in FPU to ignore the cmp-NaN fault. Then, I guess, Perl picks it up and turns it into NaN. OTOH, FreeBSD libraries don't do that, and the FPU causes the cmp-NaN faul

Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread Ian Dowse
XINT_THRESH. Assuming an even balance of transmitted and received packets, this should reduce the total number of interrupts by nearly 50%. I don't know if drivers for other cards do (or even can) use this approach. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Problems with the latest changes to ifconfig (I guess) -> Bad guess...

1999-08-31 Thread Ian Whalley
y, mid-evening EDT. This is the first -current build I've done since if_xl was converted to miibus. My card is identified as <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL>. Best; inw -- Ian Whalley @ . org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Anyone using mars_nwe with -CURRENT ?

1999-09-04 Thread Ian Whalley
previously used mars_nwe on Linux to accomplish precisely the same thing, and it worked great. Now my home server is FreeBSD, and I want to do the same thing again. Any advice? Best; inw -- Ian Whalley @ . org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-cur

Re: Anyone using mars_nwe with -CURRENT ?

1999-09-04 Thread Ian Whalley
out that it's only nearest server discovery that doesn't want to work (in spite of mars_nwe being configured to respond to nearest server broadcasts). If I specify the preferred server for the DOS clients, it all works. Normal service is resumed. Best; inw -- Ian Whalley @ . or

Re: XFree86-3.3.5/kde-1.1.2/Current today.

1999-09-25 Thread Ian Dowse
d never used SiS cards before so I assumed they weren't properly supported by the XFree people. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Can't make installworld :(

2000-06-09 Thread Ian Dowse
command line. This will typically happen if you have a dangling symbolic link somewhere in /usr/include. The error message indicating exactly which files h2ph couldn't open will be somewhere among all the 'XX.h -> XX.ph' messages. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: panic on mount

2001-09-25 Thread Ian Dowse
RT/LOCK_LOG/WITNESS bits. A simple workaround that seems to stop the panics is below. Ian Index: mutex.h === RCS file: /dump/FreeBSD-CVS/src/sys/sys/mutex.h,v retrieving revision 1.41 diff -u -r1.41 mutex.h --- mutex.h

Re: mdmfs mount_mfs compatibility bug?

2001-09-29 Thread Ian Dowse
es mdmfs accept "mount_mfs" or "mfs" to trigger compatibility mode instead of mount_*. Ian Index: mdmfs.8 === RCS file: /dump/FreeBSD-CVS/src/sbin/mdmfs/mdmfs.8,v retrieving revision 1.8 diff -u -r1.8 mdmfs.8 --- mdm

Re: mdmfs mount_mfs compatibility bug?

2001-09-29 Thread Ian Dowse
ults anyway, so they should probably be used in all cases except those that are necessary for compatibility with mount_mfs. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

modules/ed/../../dev/if_ed.c:40: opt_ed.h: No such file or directory

2001-09-29 Thread Ian Dowse
Apologies for this - I missed out a file in a commit earlier. Fixed now. Any other (non-module) complaints about opt_ed.h can be cured by rerunning config. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Multiple NFS server problems with Solaris 8 clients

2001-10-25 Thread Ian Dowse
o 0, so it needs to be done explicitly. Server op functions must return 0 in order for a reply to be sent to the client. Ian Index: nfs_serv.c === RCS file: /home/iedowse/CVS/src/sys/nfsserver/nfs_serv.c,v retrieving revision 1.107 diff

Re: vmware fails on -current

2001-11-19 Thread Ian Dowse
onfigure ethernet0." I added some printf's to >linux_ioctl.c, and it seems the linux_ioctl_socket() gets a device >name which is "", i.e. the empty string. There was a discussion about this and workaround patches for RELENG_4 on -emulation. I'll try to organise with

Re: vmware fails on -current

2001-11-21 Thread Ian Dowse
n" (/usr/ports/devel/linux_kdump) and look for any ioctls that it does immediately before giving that error message. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: vmware fails on -current

2001-11-21 Thread Ian Dowse
;t. Try updating your sources again; revision 1.76 is des's patch with a few problems fixed. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Missing stack frames in kgdb/ddb traces

2001-10-07 Thread Ian Dowse
issing frame. The name Xresumefast is chosen because it involves no ddb or gdb changes (they just check for a name beginning with "Xresume"). Any comments? Ian Index: sys/i386/isa/icu_vector.s === RCS file: /dump/FreeBS

Re: Multiple NFS server problems with Solaris 8 clients

2001-10-14 Thread Ian Dowse
aster nfsd receives a SIGCHLD. This behaviour is probably reasonable enough, but the way it happens is a bit odd. Thomas, I'll probably commit this within the next few days if you have no objections, and if you don't get there before me. The exiting behaviour can be res

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c

2001-12-10 Thread Ian Dowse
Obviously, it should also somehow not install a partition table unless boot1 is being used as the MBR, and the fdisk -I method should be preferred. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: change to ZALLOC(9) man page

2001-12-14 Thread Ian Dowse
I never got around to fixing it. There's one spelling type s/mentionned/mentioned/ and maybe "type stable" should be hyphenated. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

mountd(8) leaving filesystems exported

2001-12-14 Thread Ian Dowse
s the need to assume that all xxx_args have the export_args in the same place by storing the offsets in a table. I am aware that there is work ongoing in the area of mount(2), so maybe the patch is overkill at this time. Any comments? Ian Index

Re: mountd(8) leaving filesystems exported

2001-12-18 Thread Ian Dowse
manner, even if exports are still managed per-filesystem in the kernel. However for this bug (ext2fs and hpfs filesystems cannot be un-exported once they have been exported) I am just looking for a quick solution for now, but I have already put some thought into improving the mountd-kernel in

Re: Netatalk broken in current? Lock order reversal?

2002-01-15 Thread Ian Dowse
at was added to the kernel build flags recently. This compiles for me, but I haven't checked that it actually works. Ian Index: ddp_input.c === RCS file: /dump/FreeBSD-CVS/src/sys/netatalk/ddp_input.c,v retrieving revision

Re: boot floppy problems...

2002-01-17 Thread Ian Dowse
e guarantee that single transfers don't cross a 64k boundary, which is important for floppies :-( I'll fix this shortly. Thanks for pointing out the problem! Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: boot floppy problems...

2002-01-17 Thread Ian Dowse
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~iedowse/FreeBSD/kern.flp Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Fw: Stop annoying message of lnc

2001-03-18 Thread Ian Dowse
l commit the change in a few hours after I have tested that it works. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: growfs

2001-03-18 Thread Ian Dowse
from the parameters actually set on the disk. If the kernel was to panic half-way through a growfs operation, or if growfs died, say because the kernel failed to fault in some pages from the growfs executable, you could end up with a very confused filesystem! Ian To Unsubscribe: send ma

reboot(8) delay between SIGTERM and SIGKILL

2001-03-19 Thread Ian Dowse
er of big apps running, it can take around 20 seconds for all the paging to die down after the SIGTERMs are sent. I know the choice of sysctl to monitor is slightly arbitrary, but it seems to have the right overall effect. Does anyone have any objections to my committing this? Ian Index: reb

fsdb broken in -current

2001-04-23 Thread Ian Dowse
The last set of changes to fsck_ffs moved the initialisation of dev_bsize to sblock_init(), but this is not called by fsdb(8) so fsdb dies almost immediately with a floating exception. I'm just going to commit the obvious fix, which is to have fsdb call sblock_init() also. Ian To Unsubs

Re: kernel core

2001-04-23 Thread Ian Dowse
cking if the new superblock fields are zero, so if an old fsck zeros them out between a read-oly mount and a read-write remount, then we get a division by zero or something later. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: kernel core

2001-04-23 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Baldwin writes: > > >Fair enough, I guess ffs_reload() should just sanity check the values. Any >takers? You could try this (untested). I have to run now, but I can test it later as it's easy enough to reproduce. I

Re: kernel core

2001-04-23 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Dowse writes: >You could try this (untested). I have to run now, but I can test it >later as it's easy enough to reproduce. Almost, but I missed the fs_contigdirs field, which was the real culprit. An updated patch is below; this seems to st

Re: Strangeness with newsyslog/wtmp

2001-05-01 Thread Ian Dowse
lt preserves the last-modified time of a file when gzipping, so these times are actually the times at which the wtmp file was previously modified before being rotated. Try "ls -lc", which will show up the rotation time. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

Re: wierdness with mountd

2001-05-28 Thread Ian Dowse
er over the next few days; for now maybe try cleaning out mountdtab manually? Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: wierdness with mountd

2001-05-29 Thread Ian Dowse
structure from the fs-specific mountstructure to struct mount. ... Doing a MNT_DELEXPORT mount used to be a no-op if there were no exports, but now it returns EINVAL. Maybe that should be changed to ENOENT or something, so that mountd can detect it as a 'normal' error?

Re: wierdness with mountd

2001-05-29 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Dowse writes: >error? (untested patch below). I braino'd that patch (error vs. errno), but I have just committed a working version that should stop the mountd warnings. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/fsck_ffs setup.c

2001-05-29 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Dowse writes: >iedowse 2001/05/29 13:45:09 PDT > > Modified files: >sbin/fsck_ffssetup.c > Log: > Ignore the new superblock fields fs_pendingblocks and fs_pendinginodes > when comparing with the alternate superb

Re: dirpref and RELENG_4 fsck

2001-06-03 Thread Ian Dowse
s that using an alternate superblock will undo any changes made by tunefs, unless the '-A' flag had been used with tunefs originally. Typically this will result in soft-updates getting disabled. RELENG_4's fsck could probably be updated to deal with this a bit better, but I don't think

Re: MSDOS filesystem mounting...

2001-07-09 Thread Ian Dowse
system from before the rename that took place last month. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Load average synchronisation and phantom loads

2001-07-15 Thread Ian Dowse
oad average behaviour when loadav() is called at different times, this case needs to be removed. - The load average calculation now has really nothing to do with the VM system, so it could be moved elsewhere. I've just left it in vm_meter.c because that's where it's always bee

Re: disklabel broken again?

2001-07-13 Thread Ian Dowse
count=10 >... >disklabel -Brw da5 auto >disklabel: No space left on device I think this can happen when there is an existing label on the disk, but I forget the exact conditions. Try dd'ing a few k of zeros on to the disk and run the disklabel again? Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: disklabel broken again?

2001-07-13 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Dowse writes: >In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107122138260.61694-10@beppo>, Matthew Jacob wri >t >es: >>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da5 bs=1024k count=10 >>... >>disklabel -Brw da5 auto >>disklabel: No space left on de

Re: Load average synchronisation and phantom loads

2001-07-17 Thread Ian Dowse
nto kern_synch.c, so it would certainly make sense to initialise it from sched_setup() then. This seems like a good idea to me; does that sound OK? Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Load average synchronisation and phantom loads

2001-07-18 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Ev ans writes: >On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Ian Dowse wrote: >> effect in the load calculation, but even for the shorter 5-minute >> timescale, this will average out to typically no more than a few >> percent (i.e the "5 minutes"

Re: NFS client unable to recover from server crash

2001-07-23 Thread Ian Dowse
;t think it could solve the hangs, but it should improve the chance of interruptible mounts accepting ^C while waiting, and (just added the other day) umount -f should work while the server is down even if processes are hung. Ian Index: nfs.h ===

Re: NFS client unable to recover from server crash

2001-07-23 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Dillon writes: > Ian, please don't do this. The whole point of having an uninterruptable > mount is so the client can survive a server reboot or network failure. > Doing this destroys uninterruptable semantics. Firstly, I

Re: filesystem errors

2001-07-26 Thread Ian Dowse
/ -fstype ufs -type d -print0 | xargs ./dircheck.pl That should show up any directories that would fail that dirhash sanity check - there will probably just be one or two that resulted from some old filesystem corruption. Ian #!/usr/local/bin/perl while (defined($dir = shift)) { unless (open

Re: filesystem errors

2001-07-26 Thread Ian Dowse
is will check if there is still a problem. However, I'd like to know if this is something that fsck should detect and correct automatically. It is an odd case, because the ffs filesystem code never creates directory entries like this, but I think it will not object to them if it finds them. This

SIGCHLD changes causing fault on nofault entry panics

2001-07-27 Thread Ian Dowse
changes from RELENG_4 shortly until the issue is resolved. The change was non-essential and quite contained, so it's probably better than waiting for a fix. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: filesystem errors

2001-07-28 Thread Ian Dowse
ck yesterday, so if you have revision 1.3 of ufs_dirhash.c you won't see that panic again. I didn't realise that fsck actually causes these directory entries, but just the fact that it leaves them intact meant that the sanity check was bad. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PRO

Re: rpc.umtall dumps core on each startup/shutdown

2001-08-03 Thread Ian Dowse
ng down such bugs :-). The rpcbind client code in libc keeps a cache of DNS lookups, but it is missing a strdup() when it copies a string from the cache. Investigating this has shown up a few bugs I introduced to rpc.umtall in my last set of changes, so I'll fix those too. Ian To Unsubscr

Re: Panic on 8/10 -current: sleeping process owns a mutex

2001-08-21 Thread Ian Dowse
code for 4 years. This was the only remaining mention of it apart from its definition. Reviewed by: jhb Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Panic with latest current/UFS_DIRHASH

2001-08-21 Thread Ian Dowse
m into a state that cannot be produced by any combination of kernel filesystem operations. That introduces quite some potential for obscure bugs that only occur after an fsck run... Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

fsck setting d_ino == 0 (was Re: filesystem errors)

2001-08-21 Thread Ian Dowse
patch below should fix both these issues, and it makes it clearer that DIRSIZ() is not used when d_ino == 0. Any comments welcome. The patch is a bit larger than it needs to be, but that directory compression code is so hard to understand that I think

Re: Panic with latest current/UFS_DIRHASH

2001-08-21 Thread Ian Dowse
s for the bug report - see my other mail to -current for further details, but the quick answer is that dirhash has a bug that is triggered by the odd directory entries that fsck sometimes leaves behind. This short patch should fix it: Ian Index: ufs_lookup.c ===

Re: Kernel Panic from Yesterday's CVSup

2001-02-07 Thread Ian Dowse
*. Something >else is rather messed up here I'm afraid. Note that the return address into kthread_suspend is kthread_suspend+0x0. Since the call to exit1() in kthread_exit is the very last operation in kthread_exit, you'd expect the return address on the stack to be at the start of the next

Virtualbox

2010-02-23 Thread Ian FREISLICH
00 Heap Does anyone have any ideas? Ian -- Ian Freislich ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Virtualbox

2010-02-24 Thread Ian FREISLICH
; If that does not help please create a backtrace from the vbox coredump and > send the vbox.log. There is no coredump. Answers to other questions: The system is an intel atom N270. Even though the processor does not support VT-x/AMD-V, nor was VB compiled with that support, the virtual machine cl

dev.bce.X.com_no_buffers increasing and packet loss

2010-03-05 Thread Ian FREISLICH
they increase massively by several thousand, but only on 2 interfaces. The 1 minute average rate on those interfaces is 266/s and 123/s. Does anyone think this is related to the packet loss or are these counters just a red herring? Is there anything that can be done to reduce this count? Ian -

Re: dev.bce.X.com_no_buffers increasing and packet loss

2010-03-05 Thread Ian FREISLICH
Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 01:20:57PM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a system that is experiencing mild to severe packet loss. > > The interfaces are configured as follows: > > > > lagg0: bce0, bce1, bce2, bce3 lagpr

Re: dev.bce.X.com_no_buffers increasing and packet loss

2010-03-05 Thread Ian FREISLICH
rst read, 8 split transactions cap 01[48] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0 cap 03[50] = VPD cap 05[58] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit enabled with 1 message -- Ian Freislich ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: dev.bce.X.com_no_buffers increasing and packet loss

2010-03-05 Thread Ian FREISLICH
ce is worse on that chip than the bce(4) interface. It's also riddled with vlan and other hardware offload bugs. I had good success in the past with em(4), but it looks like igb is the PCI-e version. Ian -- Ian Freislich ___ freebsd-current@freebsd

Re: dev.bce.X.com_no_buffers increasing and packet loss

2010-03-08 Thread Ian FREISLICH
Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:16:41PM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > > Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > > Thanks for the info. Frankly, I have no idea how to explain the > > > issue given that you have no heavy load. > > > > How many cores wo

Re: dev.bce.X.com_no_buffers increasing and packet loss

2010-03-09 Thread Ian FREISLICH
642 dev.bce.1.com_no_buffers: 497 dev.bce.2.com_no_buffers: 6260612 dev.bce.3.com_no_buffers: 4871338 Interupt rate is down now, at about 3500 per second per interface. Interestingly setting net.inet.ip.fastforwarding=0 reduces CPU consumption from 25% to 9% a

Re: dev.bce.X.com_no_buffers increasing and packet loss

2010-03-09 Thread Ian FREISLICH
Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 04:45:20PM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > > Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:16:41PM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > > > > Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the inf

Re: dev.bce.X.com_no_buffers increasing and packet loss

2010-03-09 Thread Ian FREISLICH
Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 03:31:55PM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > > Can you explain the tunables please - I'm guessing it's these: I think I asked the wrong question. What is a "Quick BD Chain"? What relation should this number have to traffic

Re: dev.bce.X.com_no_buffers increasing and packet loss

2010-03-09 Thread Ian FREISLICH
Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 11:55:30PM +0200, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > > I set the RX as high as 512 in 64 quanta but it made little difference > > to the interrupt rate. At times where we experience the packet > > loss and com_no_buffers increases, the inte

Re: dev.bce.X.com_no_buffers increasing and packet loss

2010-03-10 Thread Ian FREISLICH
estion on the switches we use when UDP packets smaller than 400 bytes arrive within 40us of eachother. But that still doesn't explain the counter increases and high interrupt CPU usage, unless the switch was producing garbage output in response. Ian -- Ian Freislich

Re: dev.bce.X.com_no_buffers increasing and packet loss

2010-03-10 Thread Ian FREISLICH
ailable and interested. Ian -- Ian Freislich ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: dev.bce.X.com_no_buffers increasing and packet loss

2010-03-10 Thread Ian FREISLICH
The hardware can support a > > maximum of 64K BD's but that would be an unnecessarily large > > amount of mbufs for an infrequent problem. I think that depends on how you define infrequent. Our use case is a largish core router. It's highly likely that we'll see this again an

Re: dev.bce.X.com_no_buffers increasing and packet loss

2010-03-13 Thread Ian FREISLICH
27;t the cure for this particular situation, but may improve performance in general. It does sound like reworking the buffer will solve the problem. Perhaps having a 2 recieve rings so that once one ring is available for processing, the other ready filled and clear ring can be used for recie

Re: HEADS UP: COMPAT_IA32 renamed COMPAT_FREEBSD32

2010-03-15 Thread Ian FREISLICH
EBSD7 #Compatible with FreeBSD7 options COMPAT_FREEBSD32 Thanks for the advance notice that FreeBSD will be EoL before RELENG_32. Ian -- Ian Freislich ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cu

Re: Results of BIND RFC

2010-04-02 Thread Ian Smith
ar the DNSSEC stuff is coming along, however ponderously. KUTGW, Ian ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Call for Test and Review: bwn(4) - another Broadcom Wireless driver

2010-04-14 Thread Ian FREISLICH
siba_bwn.ko 101 0xcb118000 2c000bwn_v4_lp_ucode.ko 112 0xcb144000 3000 firmware.ko 131 0xcb2e 32000if_bwn.ko This NIC works great. You made my day. It even obeys the wireless on-off switch on the front of my netbook. I

Re: Call for Test and Review: bwn(4) - another Broadcom Wireless driver

2010-04-14 Thread Ian FREISLICH
't work first time on reboot. I need to either '/etc/rc.d/netif restart' and if that panics the machine, destroy wlan0 and then restart netif. Then wlan0/bwn0 associates correctly with this device. Ian -- Ian Freislich ___ freebsd-curr

Re: Virtualbox

2010-04-15 Thread Ian FREISLICH
Ian FREISLICH wrote: > > >Has anyone managed to make Virtualbox work on 9-Current? Since > > >installing 3.1.2-OSE VMs, all brand new, abort on startup. > > > > > >The last part of the log seems pertinent: > > > > > >00:00:15.481 !!Assertion

ANY-ONE-ELSE? ntpd+oncore+i386 doesn't work

2010-04-21 Thread Ian FREISLICH
tp", "/etc", 0 }; int i, sign, lat_flg, long_flg, ht_flg, mode, mask; double f1, f2, f3; Ian -- Ian Freislich ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsu

Re: ANY-ONE-ELSE? ntpd+oncore+i386 doesn't work

2010-04-21 Thread Ian FREISLICH
Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Ian FREISLICH: > > The oncore ntp driver worked fine in my Athlon64 machine running > > FreeBSD-amd64. I've tried it on a VIA-C7 and a Pentium-M based > > board with an onboard serial port. > > Can you open a bug on bugs.ntp

Re: Call for Test and Review: bwn(4) - another Broadcom Wireless driver

2010-04-26 Thread Ian FREISLICH
status: associated ssid quasar channel 1 (2412 MHz 11g) bssid 00:30:4f:58:bf:94 country US authmode WPA privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF TKIP 2:128-bit txpower 30 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme

Re: panic: lockmgr: draining against myself

2002-12-29 Thread Ian Dowse
d be more general than the VI_DOINGINACT flag. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

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2003-01-14 Thread Ian Watkinson
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Kernel Config files

2003-01-14 Thread Ian Watkinson
# ATAPI floppy drives device atapist # ATAPI tape drives options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering Generic Kernel seems to buildkernel fine. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Ian Watkinson Systems Administrator EHS Brann To Unsubscr

Kernel Config files

2003-01-14 Thread Ian Watkinson
# ATAPI floppy drives device atapist # ATAPI tape drives options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering Generic Kernel seems to buildkernel fine. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Ian Watkinson Systems Administrator EHS Brann To Unsubscr

Re: Kernel Config files

2003-01-14 Thread Ian Watkinson
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 17:26, Ian Watkinson wrote: > Have the config of the kernel files changed? > > > If so is there a pointer as to what where, and how to convert old to > new? > > Getting an error with a previously working one. Bad form to follow my own posts, b

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