Re: Panic Kernel Dump to umass device?

2006-02-11 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Long writes: >You're correct that dumping is meant to be done with interrupts and task >switching disabled. The first thing that the umass driver is missing is >a working CAM poll handler. Without this, there is no way for command >completions to be seen when

RAID5 on athlon64 machines

2006-02-11 Thread Bakul Shah
I built an Asus A8N SLI Deluxe based system and installed FreeBSD-6.1-BETA1 on it. This works well enough. Now I am looking for a decent RAID5 solution. This motherboard has two SATA RAID controllers. But one does only RAID1. The other supports RAID5 but seems to require s/w assistance from wi

Re: RAID5 on athlon64 machines

2006-02-11 Thread soralx
> Theoretically the sequential write rate should be same or > higher than the sequential read rate. Given an N+1 disk Seq write rate for the whole RAID5 array will always be lower than the write rate for it's single disk. See 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#RAID_5' " Traditional RAID5 A1

Re: RAID5 on athlon64 machines

2006-02-11 Thread Bakul Shah
> > > Theoretically the sequential write rate should be same or > > higher than the sequential read rate. Given an N+1 disk > > Seq write rate for the whole RAID5 array will always be lower > than the write rate for it's single disk. You compute max data rates by considering the most optimistic

kern/60163

2006-02-11 Thread Norikatsu Shigemura
I heard from Chiharu Shibata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> about kern/60163. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/60163 (He knew that this pr was closed, recently) I cannot believe sos's close reason. ***

Re: Panic Kernel Dump to umass device?

2006-02-11 Thread Nate Nielsen
Ian Dowse wrote: > > The USB stack supports polled operations, so it's actually not to > hard to make this work. Below is a patch I had in one of my local > trees that adds a CAM poll handler to the umass driver. I've just > tested this and it does seem to make kernel dumping work, but I > guess i

Re: Pre-loaded mfsroot size and FreeBSD 4.9 with 4G RAM

2006-02-11 Thread Sergey Babkin
Jacques Fourie wrote: > > I have installed 6.0-RELEASE and the behaviour is still the same. If I try > to pre-load an md_image of 64M with 4G of RAM installed, the kernel panics > early in the boot cycle. Here is the panic on 6.0-RELEASE: > > 131072K of memory above 4GB ignored This is a kind of