mlockall() failure and direction for possible solution

2009-04-05 Thread Hans Ottevanger
Hi folks, As has been noted before, there is an issue with the mlockall() system call always failing on (at least) the amd64 architecture. This is quite evident by the automounter (as configured out-of-the-box) printing error messages on startup like: Couldn't lock process pages in memory using

Re: mlockall() failure and direction for possible solution

2009-04-05 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 01:51:44PM +0200, Hans Ottevanger wrote: > Hi folks, > > As has been noted before, there is an issue with the mlockall() system > call always failing on (at least) the amd64 architecture. This is quite > evident by the automounter (as configured out-of-the-box) printing err

Re: Patch for MS Hyper V (virtualization)

2009-04-05 Thread Sergey Babkin
Apr 4, 2009 02:10:23 PM, ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: >Can someo= ne please review and commit (if appropriate) the tweak for >Hyper-V shu= tdown issue at http://shell.peach.ne.jp/aoyama/archives/40 >? > = >>The problem is: the VM appears to hang on shutdown without it (hanging

Re: mlockall() failure and direction for possible solution

2009-04-05 Thread Hans Ottevanger
Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 01:51:44PM +0200, Hans Ottevanger wrote: Hi folks, As has been noted before, there is an issue with the mlockall() system call always failing on (at least) the amd64 architecture. This is quite evident by the automounter (as configured out-of-the-b

Re: watchdog: hw+sw?

2009-04-05 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 07:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Doug Ambrisko wrote: > We start watchdogd manually with our own rc.d script mainly since > I noticed Dell pe2650's do false triggers :-( Also I wanted to check > that our app. is functioning so we'd need to start after that. It > would be good to add fl

FreeBSD Status Reports due April 20th, 2009

2009-04-05 Thread Brad Davis
Hi Everyone, We would like to remind everybody who has exciting news to share to write a report about their project. This is a good way to improve exposure of your work, receive feedback and help. We are looking forward to your reports. As always you can either use the template or the CGI gener

Re: compiling root filesystem into kernel (preferably tmpfs root filesystem)

2009-04-05 Thread David Naylor
On Saturday 04 April 2009 21:52:14 Travis Daygale wrote: > In both the loader and kernel compiling doc, I see snippets of information > like this: #Make space in the kernel for a root filesystem on a md > device.options MD_ROOT_SIZE=10 boot_dfltrootInstructs the kernel to mount > the statically com