Major SMP problems with lstat/namei

2008-09-23 Thread Jeff Wheelhouse
We have encountered some serious SMP performance/scalability problems that we've tracked back to lstat/namei calls. I've written a quick benchmark with a pair of tests to simplify/measure the problem. Both tests use a tree of directories: the top level directory contains five subdirecto

Re: Patch for working AMD Geode CS5530 audio driver on HEAD

2008-09-23 Thread Alec Kloss
On 2008-08-09 21:32, Rink Springer wrote: > Hi Ivan, > > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 07:36:07PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > > This patch looks like it needs something. Can you post or link to the > > entire driver please? > > Sure - this was already outlined in the original thread, but have a look >

panic: lockmgr on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p4 amd64

2008-09-23 Thread Jeff Wheelhouse
Got the following panic overnight: panic: lockmgr: thread 0xff0053cda680, not exclusive lock holder 0xff002d7da680 unlocking cpuid = 0 KDB: stack backtrace: db_trace_self_wrapper() at db_trace_self_wrapper+0x2a panic() at panic+0x17a _lockmgr() at _lockmgr+0x872 VOP_UNLOCK_APV() at VO

ports/126853: ports-mgmt/portaudit: speed up audit of installed packages

2008-09-23 Thread Eygene Ryabinkin
Good day. A while ago I had created the new utility that serves as VuXML filter for the installed packages: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/126853 My primary intention was to speed up the process of auditing the vulnerable ports: I needed to run portaudit checks with Nagios and

Re: Announcement: PmcTools callchain capture for RELENG_7

2008-09-23 Thread Fabien Thomas
Hello, A new patch is available that was done just after dtrace backport. You can find it like the previous one on the pmc wiki. It also include some new bugfix from head. Fabien Le 13 juil. 08 à 07:05, Joseph Koshy a écrit : Hello List(s), I am very pleased to announce a patch, by Fabien Th