Re: Is there any modern alternative to pstack?

2012-04-02 Thread John Baldwin
On Saturday, March 31, 2012 3:41:41 pm Yuri wrote: > I look at seemingly abandoned sysutils/pstack, last modified upstream > 2002-11-27. > It doesn't really work on 9.0 i386, prints some errors. > > It's functions, though, is quite desirable if one wants to understand > why some multithreaded pr

Re: Approaching the limit on PV entries

2012-04-02 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:48:29 pm Mark Saad wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:03 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 4:20:17 pm Mark Saad wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Sergey Kandaurov > >> wrote: > >> > On 21 March 2012 19:19, John Baldwin wrote: > >>

Re: Is there any modern alternative to pstack?

2012-04-02 Thread Yuri
On 04/02/2012 05:31, John Baldwin wrote: Hmm, I don't know if the port has it, but I did some work on pstack a while ago to make it work with libthread_db so it at least handles i386 ok. It needs to be modified to use something like libunwind though or some other unwinder. And possibly it shoul

Upgrading FreeBSD

2012-04-02 Thread rank1seeker
Basically it consists of (re)compilation and installation of world + kernel However, 2 parts are always ommited: Stage 1 - mbr|boot0 Stage 2 - boot I won't also mention GPT part ... Stage 3 - loader (is "covered" by world install) Should it be expanded to world + kernel + bootcodes The old way, o

Re: Is there any modern alternative to pstack?

2012-04-02 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday, April 02, 2012 12:39:26 pm Yuri wrote: > On 04/02/2012 05:31, John Baldwin wrote: > > Hmm, I don't know if the port has it, but I did some work on pstack a while > > ago to make it work with libthread_db so it at least handles i386 ok. It > > needs to be modified to use something like l

CAM disk I/O starvation

2012-04-02 Thread Jerry Toung
Hello list, I am convinced that there is a bug in the CAM code that leads to I/O starvation. I have already discussed this privately with some. I am now bringing this up to the general audience to get more feedback. My setup is that I have 1 RAID controller with 2 arrays connected to it, da0 and d

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

2012-04-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/30/2012 07:41, Joe Greco wrote: >> On 3/29/2012 7:01 AM, Joe Greco wrote: On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically it's not likely that you'll get a he

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

2012-04-02 Thread Joe Greco
> On 03/30/2012 07:41, Joe Greco wrote: > >> On 3/29/2012 7:01 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > > FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested > > As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically > it's not likely that y

Re: __NR_mmap2 in FreeBSD

2012-04-02 Thread John Baldwin
On Saturday, March 31, 2012 5:40:50 pm Maninya M wrote: > Thanks. > > I've tried this. Still getting some allocation problems. > > if (temp_regs.r_eax != addr) > warn("Wanted space at address 0x%.8x, mmap2 system call returned > 0x%.8x. This could be a problem.",addr,temp_regs.r_eax); > > Wh

GSoC: EFI on intel

2012-04-02 Thread Eric McCorkle
I'm assessing possible summer of code projects, and the EFI work caught my attention. I've been running FreeBSD on a macbook for a little under a year now, and booting on EFI is definitely an interest to me. Does anyone know if this is still a viable project proposal? I certainly have the skills

Re: Approaching the limit on PV entries

2012-04-02 Thread Mark Saad
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:23 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:48:29 pm Mark Saad wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:03 AM, John Baldwin wrote: >> > On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 4:20:17 pm Mark Saad wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Sergey Kandaurov >> >> wro

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

2012-04-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 4/2/2012 11:43 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > As a user, you can't win. If you don't report > a problem, you get criticized. If you report a problem but can't figure > out how to reproduce it, you get criticized. If you can reproduce it > but you don't submit a workaround, you get criticized. If you

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

2012-04-02 Thread Joe Greco
> On 4/2/2012 11:43 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > > As a user, you can't win. If you don't report > > a problem, you get criticized. If you report a problem but can't figure > > out how to reproduce it, you get criticized. If you can reproduce it > > but you don't submit a workaround, you get criticize

Fwd: [gsoc2012] Port NetBSD's UDF implementation

2012-04-02 Thread Yongcong Du
cc hackers@ -- Forwarded message -- From: Yongcong Du Date: Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:23 AM Subject: [gsoc2012] Port NetBSD's UDF implementation To: a...@freebsd.org, netch...@freebsd.org Hi Andriy and Alexander, Firstly, let me introduce myself;) I'm a graduate student from Shangh