Re: NFS based /usr prevents normal startup due to slow net init

2007-03-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How about an extra flag in your fstab? The default behavior for > > > mount_nfs is to keep retrying until the mount succeeds. > > No, it will fail immediately (

Re: NFS based /usr prevents normal startup due to slow net init

2007-03-07 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Steven Hartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Another observation from my recent dealings with using > > > NFS based /usr is that the remote critical mounts via > > > nfs dont alw

Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning

2007-03-07 Thread Steven Hartland
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Pardon me showing up on hackers@ (I ain't one), but I have to ask So, when you do this, you are using /stand/sysinstall, or **/usr**/sbin/sysinstall? /usr/sbin/sysinstall as /stand doesnt exist on recent versions of FreeBSD. Although I see where you are going and that'

Re: sysinstall creates corrupt filesystems after repartitioning

2007-03-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Steven Hartland wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: ... Is there something I'm missing? I can't see anything missing there from the reproduction steps. Was ad0s1g also ok? The slight differences I did here where the following but I cant seem them being significant: 1. dump -a0uL -C 32 -f /nfs/usr.d

Re: Hung kernel from sysv semaphore semu_list corruption

2007-03-07 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 06:07:31PM -0500, Ed Maste wrote: > Nightly tests on our 6.1-based installation using pgsql have resulted in > a number of kernel hangs, due to a corrupt semu_list (the list ended up > with a loop). Sounds like an issue we have for a long time. Unfortunately it only happens

Hung kernel from sysv semaphore semu_list corruption

2007-03-07 Thread Ed Maste
Nightly tests on our 6.1-based installation using pgsql have resulted in a number of kernel hangs, due to a corrupt semu_list (the list ended up with a loop). It seems there are a few holes in the locking in the semaphore code. The issue we've encountered comes from semexit_myhook. It obtains a

SMP Kernel profiling

2007-03-07 Thread Peter Holmes
Just wanted to know if kernel profiling with gprof is known to work reliably with SMP kernels. Thanks, Peter - Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. Check it out. ___ freeb

Re: NFS based /usr prevents normal startup due to slow net init

2007-03-07 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steven Hartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Another observation from my recent dealings with using > > NFS based /usr is that the remote critical mounts via > > nfs dont always give the network enough time to > > initialise before running. The first erro

Re: How PMAP_SHPGPERPROC relate to vm.v_free_min, vm.v_free_reserved and vm.v_free_target?

2007-03-07 Thread Eduardo Meyer
> Heavy Apache usage is demanding a higher PMAP_SHPGPERPROC kernel > option in my system. However I keep getting the NOTES-documented panic > at boot time, meaning I need to adequately do vm.v_free_min, > vm.v_free_reserved and vm.v_free_target sysctl tuning. > > However, this sysctl vars dont hav

Re: How PMAP_SHPGPERPROC relate to vm.v_free_min, vm.v_free_reserved and vm.v_free_target?

2007-03-07 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Eduardo Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Heavy Apache usage is demanding a higher PMAP_SHPGPERPROC kernel > option in my system. However I keep getting the NOTES-documented panic > at boot time, meaning I need to adequately do vm.v_free_min, > vm.v_free_reserved and vm.v_free_target s

How PMAP_SHPGPERPROC relate to vm.v_free_min, vm.v_free_reserved and vm.v_free_target?

2007-03-07 Thread Eduardo Meyer
Heavy Apache usage is demanding a higher PMAP_SHPGPERPROC kernel option in my system. However I keep getting the NOTES-documented panic at boot time, meaning I need to adequately do vm.v_free_min, vm.v_free_reserved and vm.v_free_target sysctl tuning. However, this sysctl vars dont have a descrip

Re: FreeBSD available disk space

2007-03-07 Thread Oliver Fromme
Adam Jacob Muller wrote: > When using php's disk_free_space() function to determine the amount > of free space on a partition that has a negative amount of free > space, PHP returns an unreasonably large number, for example: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] php -r 'var_dump(disk_free_space("/som

Installation issues on Vmware

2007-03-07 Thread ajay gopalakrishnan
hi, GUI,colors,Screen size not coming correctly on FreeBSD Release-6.2 installed on Vmware. I think my xorgconfig is incorrect. I dont know the HSync and VSync values of my notebook monitor. My notebook config: HP Pavillion dv6000 series Nvidia GForce Go7400 - 256MB Max Resolution: 1280x800 Ho