Re: Fuse on FreeBSD 9.2

2013-10-08 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 7:08, Łukasz P wrote: > Thank you - I'll give it a try today. > Can you confirm that doing rsync with this fuse version is stable? > > Can you please tell us which fuse-based file system have you used? > My main use case these days is ntfs-3g, and I no longer get panics w

Re: Fuse on FreeBSD 9.2

2013-10-08 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 6:34, Mark Felder wrote: > > I think the "fix" is the new from-scratch fuse module in FreeBSD 10, > which in my experience works flawlessly. Perhaps you should instead see > if someone is willing to backport that fuse module to 9.x? > Well actual

Re: Fuse on FreeBSD 9.2

2013-10-08 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 5:21, Łukasz P wrote: > Hello, > > Please let me know if anyone is up to fix fuse on FreeBSD 9.x ? > > Particularly this bug: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=182739 > > > > I'm willing to pay for the f

Re: Discussing ideas or wish list

2013-08-08 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013, at 10:34, Mark Felder wrote: > After the EoL of FreeBSD 8 (estimated June 30, 2015) the old package > tools are scheduled to be removed from FreeBSD. This change will be > MFC'd back to 9-STABLE and the release at that time (perhaps > 9.4-RELEASE?) will not

Re: Discussing ideas or wish list

2013-08-08 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013, at 9:54, Patrick Dung wrote: > > 1) Perl version change within Major release > If I remembered correctly, FreeBSD 9.0 shipped with perl 5.12 packages in > the DVD. > But in FreeBSD 9.1, Perl 5.14 is shipped. > > I think Perl version should be consistent in the FreeBSD 9 series

Re: After the FreeBSD VM crash, file system in VM got rolled back to some old previous state causing data loss

2013-08-07 Thread Mark Felder
Virtualbox is very aggressive about caching writes. This is how it achieves its perceived speed. I wouldn't expect to see this happen on real hardware. I might have to try this out though and see if I can reproduce it reliably. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd

Re: panic: kmem_map too small at heavy packet traffic

2013-07-26 Thread Mark Felder
I've been under the impression that synproxy was broken for quite some time, but I know there has been a lot of work on pf in HEAD so I can't be sure where it might stand there. Can anyone confirm/deny this? And not to discourage you, but the pf documentation does say "Routine use of this option i

Re: writing a rc.d script

2013-07-09 Thread Mark Felder
On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 06:45:46 -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I have a program I am making a port for that also requires a /usr/local/etc/rc.d script is there anywhere I can find documentation on how write one and/or a template file to follow? Start with another similar port if possible. Make

Re: ZFS regimen: scrub, scrub, scrub and scrub again.

2013-01-23 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:26:43 -0600, Chris Rees wrote: So we have to take your word for it? Provide a link if you're going to make assertions, or they're no more than your own opinion. I've heard this same thing -- every vdev == 1 drive in performance. I've never seen any proof/papers on

ipv6 equivalent to ipv4_addr_IF in network.subr?

2013-01-21 Thread Mark Felder
Hi all, At work we have several standalone webservers with lots of IPs... let's say x.x.x.100 - 200. That's a LOT of "ifconfig_IF_alias0, alias1, alias2..." to maintain, and it's also painful when we need to move an IP to a different server which happens occasionally. The right solution for

Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

2013-01-18 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:12:17 -0600, Karim Fodil-Lemelin wrote: "SAS controllers may connect to SATA devices, either directly connected using native SATA protocol or through SAS expanders using SATA Tunneled Protocol (STP)." The systems is currently put in place using SATA instead of SAS

Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances

2013-01-15 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:12:14 -0600, Karim Fodil-Lemelin wrote: Hi, I'm struggling getting FreeBSD 9.1 properly work on an IBM blade server (HS22). Here is a dd output from Linux CentOS vs FreeBSD 9.1. GNU dd is heavily buffered unless you tell it not to be. There really is no reason why

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-10-01 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:00:40 -0500, wrote: Sep 21 02:14:55 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 0 5 ee 60 16 0 1 0 0 Sep 21 02:14:55 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error Sep 21 02:14:55 backups kernel: (da1:mpt0:0:1:0): SCSI status: Busy Sep 21 0

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-09-15 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:37:40 -0500, Mark Saad wrote: How do you have suj on 8.3 ? Are you using a patch ? I don't have suj on 8.3 Also can you retest 9 with the following sysctlkern.timecounter.hardware=Acpi-fast Yes, I'll attempt that as soon as possible. We're under a tight deadline

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Felder
Hi Mark, Here's the output of our VMs running on ESXi 4.1u1 FreeBSD 7.4: # sysctl kern.timecounter.choice kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(800) ACPI-safe(850) i8254(0) dummy(-100) # sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-safe FreeBSD 8.3: # sysctl kern.timecounter.choi

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Felder
Changing timer source has not been tested. It doesn't crash in 7.x, so did something timer related change in 8.x? ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fr

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:28:15 -0500, Kurt Lidl wrote: Isn't this what you want? http://stackframe.blogspot.com/2007/04/debugging-linux-kernels-with.html -Kurt Interesting -- it looks like that's an option on ESX as well. The only question is: what do I do with that? It's going to give me t

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:11:28 -0500, Andriy Gapon wrote: Just curious - does VMWare provide a remote debugger support (gdb stub)? I'm not aware of one. What I have been able to successfully do is break into the debugger during the hang but the info I've posted so far has not been relevant

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:20:26 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: Are you still seeing this, and if so can you get a crashdump? Also, I'm curious if you only see this with SUJ or if plain UFS+SU works fine? The crash on demand right now is producable on 8.x and 9.x, so SUJ isn't a requirement. Also,

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 13:51:25 -0500, Matthew Seaman wrote: AFAIK, no operating system has a stub resolver the capability to validate DNSSEC. Yeah, I was sort of hinting at that :-) ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:05:42 -0500, Damien Fleuriot wrote: Using a third-party's name servers is not an option And how can you trust that your port 53 TCP/UDP traffic isn't being redirected and you're talking to the real root servers? I think you're being a bit too paranoid... __

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-03 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:39:34 -0500, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: I'm willing to import and maintain unbound (BSD-licensed validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver) if you remove BIND. My only issue is that unbound is still a relatively young project (released 2007) and rapidly evolving

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-03 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:39:34 -0500, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: I don't think there will be as much whinging as you expect. Times have changed. Agreed; if we need DNS in base (really, why?) then unbound+nsd are prime candidates, but they're healthily maintained in ports...soo... no real

Re: [CFC/CFT] large changes in the loader(8) code

2012-06-27 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:37:11 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: I'm hesitant to encourage the use of this as I do think putting GPT inside of a gmirror violates the GPT spec. I personally think this use case is a bit ... odd, anyway. I have only request to those that manage GPT/GEOM/etc -- as I'm

Re: MAGIC with HP KVM - someone will help?

2012-06-25 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:38:01 -0500, Atte Peltomäki wrote: If it's any consolation, I've used other brand KVM switches as well and the only one I've found quite reliable were Raritan and those cost an arm and a leg. raritan userstation $65.00 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Raritan-Paragon-II-P2-UST

Re: reason for "magic" crashes.

2012-06-24 Thread Mark Felder
Have you proven beyond reasonable doubt that there is no filesystem corruption or silent filesystem corruption due to bad hardware? ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, s

Re: MAGIC with HP KVM - someone will help?

2012-06-22 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:14:09 -0500, Wojciech Puchar wrote: As this KVM have PS/2 connectors to keyboard and mouse i added USB to dual-PS/2 converter. http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=PS2-to-USB+adapters You probably have a ps/2 converter that's known to be super buggy _

Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

2012-06-20 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 04:27:09 -0500, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Also, in embedded systems, boot time is an important factor. If you're designing a very specific embedded product based on FreeBSD why aren't you writing your own startup system? Why would anyone expect a general purpose "ou

Re: Solving the great resource problem

2012-06-14 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:23:11 -0500, Dieter BSD wrote: Replacing perfectly good components simply because they are GPL. The purpose of BSD is supposed to be creating a great OS, not providing software hoarders with a supply of free code to abuse. You realize that companies like Juniper have

Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?

2012-06-14 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:49:18 -0500, Damien Fleuriot wrote: I for one, as a fbsd admin on corporate servers ( read not commiter), would dearly like less releases but a more aggressive MFC approach. Less releases such as less frequent MAJOR releases (7.0, 8.0, 9.0...) or less MINOR release

Re: FreeBSD Boot Times

2012-06-11 Thread Mark Felder
They have a lot of manpower and can spend a lot of time replacing the boot subsystems and all startup scripts every 2 releases. For FreeBSD it's not a big issue as most people don't reboot often. If it's an itch you want to scratch you're more than welcome to look into it; that seems to be th

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-06-06 Thread Mark Felder
Hi guys I'm excitedly posting this from my phone. Good news for you guys, bad news for us -- we were building HA storage on vmware for a client and can now replicate the crash on demand. I'll be posting details when I get home to my PC tonight, but this hopefully is enough to replicate the crash

Re: reverse USB driver - is it possible?

2012-06-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:51:50 -0500, Daniel O'Connor wrote: ISTR someone on the lists was talking about a device by http://i-odd.com which does what you want. I found http://renosite.com/ which is a home brew version of the same basic idea. Zalman ZM-VE200 and ZM-VE300 are also what you w

Re: SuperPages utilization survey

2012-06-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 06:49:18 -0500, Florian Smeets wrote: As far as i understand it does at least enable usage of pages up to 4MB, perhaps someone should teach mysql about the FreeBSD's limits? If you look at the output i sent, it certainly changes from using no superpage mappings at all to usi

Re: SuperPages utilization survey

2012-06-01 Thread Mark Felder
[/usr/home/feld]# python spsurvey.py last pid: 54743; load averages: 0.28, 0.26, 0.24 up 18+07:41:02 16:22:45 145 processes: 1 running, 144 sleeping Mem: 828M Active, 845M Inact, 8517M Wired, 174M Cache, 725M Buf, 265M Free Swap: 4096M Total, 88M Used, 4008M Free, 2% Inuse Total accoun

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread Mark Felder
So when this hang happens, there never is a real panic. It just sits in a state which I describe as like being in a deadlock. How would I go about getting a crashdump if it never panics? Is it possible to do the dump over a network or something because I don't believe it can write through the

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 30 May 2012 12:17:07 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: Humm, can you test it with 2 CPUs? We primarily only run with 1 CPU. We have seen it crash on multiple CPU VMs. Also, Dane Foster appeared to have been using multiple CPUs in his video transcoding VMs. Unfortunately I can't give

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 30 May 2012 10:06:13 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: Do you only have one CPU in this VM? If not, do you know which threads the other CPUs were running (e.g. do you have ps7.png, etc.)? correct, only one CPU in the VM ___ freebsd-hackers@freebs

Re: nvidia-driver-295.49 is highly unstable

2012-05-28 Thread Mark Felder
On Sun, 27 May 2012 11:46:23 -0500, wrote: After the recent system upgrade that brought nvidia-driver-295.49 my system began to malfunction. Xorg randomly freezes and gets to 100% CPU (in kde4), switching back from the black terminal takes 30 seconds, some windows don't repaint while windo

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-24 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd wrote: Hi, can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above information in it so we don't lose it? I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it permanently fixed. I certainly don't want this data to get lost and

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 21 May 2012 12:01:19 -0500, Andrew Boyer wrote: You could try switching mpt to MSI. MSI interrupts are never shared. Add this to /boot/device.hints: hint.mpt.0.msi_enable="1" Currently implementing this on the known crashy servers. I've been looking around and all of our VM

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-21 Thread Mark Felder
OK guys I've been talking with another user who can recreate this crash and the last bit of information we've learned seems to be leaning towards interrupts/IRQ issues like someone (bz@ perhaps?) suggested. I'm still trying to test this myself, but the other user was able to recreate my cra

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Felder
Quick update: I have received word last night that this crash has been consistently happening to someone on FreeBSD 9 and they're looking for more ideas. I changed the following 41 days ago: - Video memory to "auto" if it wasn't already - SCSI controller changed from LSI Logic Parallel to L

Re: time stops in vmware

2012-04-10 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:04:10 -0500, Daniel Braniss wrote: no, I can't recreate it, could you? We haven't seen this problem since FreeBSD 6.x. I can't recall how reproducible it was. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: time stops in vmware

2012-04-09 Thread Mark Felder
On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 02:11:25 -0500, Daniel Braniss wrote: Hi All There was some mention before that time stops under vmware, and now it's happened to me :-) the clock stopped now, the system is responsive, but eg sleep 1 never finishes. Is there a solution? btw, I'm running 8.2-stabl

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-03 Thread Mark Felder
Guys, The crash on my machine with debugging has evaded me for a few days. I'm still looking for further suggestions of things I should grab from the DDB when it happens again. Thanks for the help everyone! ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-31 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:49:54 -0500, Adrian Chadd wrote: There's no guarantee that upgarding a VM or rebooting it won't change the config of said VM. Don't forget to diff the vm config file.. I'm not sure how this would be accomplished Am I supposed to be running backup software (rsync

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:53:10 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: On the same vmdk files? "Deleting the VM" makes it sound like not. Fresh new VMDK files every time, and always thick provisioned. None of the other VM's, even the VM's that had been abused in this horribly insensitive manner of being pla

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-30 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:44:47 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: Have you migrated these hosts, or were they installed in-place and never moved? fwiw the apparent integrity of things on the VM is consistent with our experience too. VMMotion and StorageVMMotion does not seem to affect the stability. Even

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:27:31 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: It also doesn't explain the experience here, where one VM basically crapped out but only after a migration - and then stayed crapped out. It would be interesting to hear about your datastore, how busy it is, what technology, whether you're us

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:53:52 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: Doesn't VMWare offer different types of emulated disk controllers? If so, that might be the easiest way to narrow the field. Another thing maybe to try would be to backport the mpt Yes, they offer Paravirtual (not applicable

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:53:49 -0500, Dieter BSD wrote: FreeBSD ?? - 7.4 never crash FreeBSD 8.0 - 8.2 crashes Obvious short term workaround is to run production on 7.4 (assuming you can) until you figure out what is wrong with 8.x. We're moving our most critical servers to 7.4 this week

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:53:02 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: Not so long ago, VMware implemented a clever scheme for reducing the overhead of virtualized interrupts that must be delivered by at least some (if not all) of their emulated storage controllers: http://static.usenix.org/events/atc11/tech

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:24:30 -0500, wrote: I just started reading this tread, but I am wondering if I missed something here. What does this have to do with "Windows 7"? I emailed him off-list but I'm guessing he thought this was on VMWare Workstation or another product that would virtualiz

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:05:30 -0500, Mark Atkinson wrote: If this is an interrupt problem with disk i/o, then you might want to look into (DDB(4)) show intr show intrcount maybe show allrman Thank you! I really don't know what things we should be running in DDB to diagnose this and we wi

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:49:30 -0500, Joe Greco wrote: I explained it at the time to one of my VMware friends: This is 100% identical to what we see, Joe! And we're so unlucky that we have this happen on probably a dozen servers, but a handful are the really bad ones. We've rebuilt them fr

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:55:36 -0500, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: It almost sounds like the lost interrupt issue I've seen with USB EHCI devices, though disk I/O should have a retry timeout? What does "wmstat -i" output? --HPS Here's a server that has a week uptime and is due for a crash any

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:31:24 -0500, Eduardo Morras wrote: Don't know about ESXi but on others VM Managers i can change the chipset emulation from ICH10 to ICH4. Can you change it to an older chipset too? Unfortunately there's no setting in the GUI for that but I'll keep looking to see

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:58:16 -0500, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: Do both 32- and 64-bit versions of FreeBSD crash? Correct, we see both i386 and amd64 flavors crash in the same way. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
Alright, new data. It happened to crash about 10 minutes after I came in this morning and I ran some stuff in the DDB. I have no idea what information is useful, but perhaps someone will see something out of the ordinary? http://feld.me/freebsd/esx_crash/ Thanks... __

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:36:49 -0500, Doug Barton wrote: As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without testing a newer version. 8.2 came out over a year ago, many many things have changed since then. The sad part

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:31:38 -0500, Adrian Chadd wrote: * have you filed a PR? No * is the crash easily reproducable? Unfortunately not. It's totally random. Some servers will "get the bug" and crash daily, some will crash weekly, some might seem to be fine but 3 months later hit th

Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-28 Thread Mark Felder
Alright guys, I'm at the end of my rope here. For those that haven't seen my previous emails here's the (not so) quick breakdown: Overview: FreeBSD ?? - 7.4 never crash FreeBSD 8.0 - 8.2 crashes FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested (Sorry, not possible in our production at this time,

Re: iso2flash img

2012-03-21 Thread Mark Felder
As an alternative I recently purchased a Zalman ZM-VE200 device (there's also a USB3.0 flavor) that lets you copy ISOs to it and it will emulate a CDROM/DVDROM/BDROM for you so you never have to deal with this mess again. It works amazingly well. I was tired of fighting this problem and this

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-18 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:46:45 -0600, John Kozubik wrote: And as long as we're repeating ... :) Since 9.0 is already out of the bag, I think a decent approach would be to fizzle out 8.x on the current timeline/trajectory (maybe 8.4 in 6-8 months, and maybe 8.5 in a year or so), then: - EO

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:07:56 -0600, Atom Smasher wrote: and how many corps are running openBSD? Works amazingly well as an edge router. You get pf, openbgpd, openspfd much higher performance that 50K cisco gear. The bugs we've hit have been fixed promptly as well. Pretty decent littl

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:25:12 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 02:50:08PM -0600 I heard the voice of Mark Felder, and lo! it spake thus: I've seen several other things hit -STABLE right after the freeze ended early January which surprise me that they we

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:59:44 -0600, Julian Elischer wrote: On 1/17/12 9:36 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: having run -stable on production systems, the way to do it is: * follow -stable.. * pick a time that IN RETROSPECT (from 1 month later) looks as though it was good. * take a snapshot fro

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:30:20 -0600, Atom Smasher wrote: linux is, in fact, an operating system. debian, red hat, ubuntu, gentoo, etc are distributions of that OS. It's not really worth getting into this argument, but I'll reiterate that no, it's not an OS -- it's a kernel. Without the user

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-17 Thread Mark Felder
Why is everyone so afraid of running -STABLE? Plenty of stuff gets MFC'd. Yeah, I agree -- running -RELEASE is difficult. Hell, it's frustrating to us that VMWare only supports -RELEASE and it took until ESX 5 to officially support 8.2! More releases / snapshots of -STABLE helps people on p

Re: accepting rtadv broken on 9-STABLE, re driver?

2012-01-09 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:56:47 -0600, Hiroki Sato wrote: This is an expected behavior. ACCEPT_RTADV is disabled by default on 9.X. Thanks for clarifying. I'll make sure I update our documentation at work regarding how exactly to get ACCEPT_RTADV working so this is clarified. Regards,

Re: accepting rtadv broken on 9-STABLE, re driver?

2012-01-09 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:02:24 -0600, Hiroki Sato wrote: re0 seems to have ACCEPT_RTADV. What is the problem? That's because I haven't rebooted Let's start fresh. The normal ipv6 configuration anyone would use: -ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" in rc.conf -NO mention of net.inet6.ip6

Re: accepting rtadv broken on 9-STABLE, re driver?

2012-01-09 Thread Mark Felder
On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:23:46 -0600, Hiroki Sato wrote: It is an unexpected behavior and the flag should be set on all interfaces. Can you send me your /etc/rc.conf, /etc/sysctl.conf, and the result of "ifconfig -a"? Back at work so I have access to the machine again: rc.conf: hostname="

Re: accepting rtadv broken on 9-STABLE, re driver?

2012-01-07 Thread Mark Felder
Hiroki Sato wrote: > > Is it correct that ACCEPT_RTADV option was enabled on the vboxnet0 > and not on re0, even after setting net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv to 1 at > boot time and ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES"? > >-- Hiroki Yes, that is the behavior I witnessed. _

Re: accepting rtadv broken on 9-STABLE, re driver?

2012-01-06 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:49:45 -0600, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: You mean ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" ? Yes... Unfortunately that's what I get for typing it manually and being distracted at the time. :-) What is in your rc.conf? Do you have "inet6 accept_rtadv" keyword in it? IIRC it

accepting rtadv broken on 9-STABLE, re driver?

2012-01-06 Thread Mark Felder
Hi guys, I upgraded my desktop at work just around christmas to 9-PRERELEASE builds and ipv6 has been broken since then. I've been too busy at work to fix it but today I finally had the chance to figure it out. Currently I'm running: 12:11:15 tech304:~ > uname -a FreeBSD tech304.office.sup

Re: Using underlying adX devices as well as ar0?

2011-09-01 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:28:37 -0500, Karl Pielorz wrote: Is it OK to run smartmontools / smartd / smartctl against the underlying adX devices, whilst ar0 is in use? Yes. :-) ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: usertime and systime

2011-03-16 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:42:22 -0500, Devin Teske wrote: +1 useful. I'd like to see this committed. Agreed. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freeb

Re: rtld optimizations

2011-01-26 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:49:11 -0600, Alexander Kabaev wrote: The only extra quirk that said commit does is an optimization of a dlsym() call, which is hardly ever in critical performance path. It's really not my place to say, but it seems strange that if an optimization is available peopl

Re: Summary: Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off

2010-11-17 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:37:00 -0600, Alexander Best wrote: 1) switching to a differnt tty worked, but i couldn't log in (input was simply ignored) I don't mean to derail this thread if this is completely unrelated, but we've been having issues with FreeBSD 8.0 and 8.1 dying on our ESX