Re: FreeBSD 6.3 deadlock (vm_map?) with DDB output

2008-06-18 Thread Stef
. I'll deploy it and keep the list posted. Stef ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 deadlock (vm_map?) with DDB output

2008-06-30 Thread Stef
John Baldwin wrote: > On Sunday 15 June 2008 07:23:19 am Stef Walter wrote: >> I've been trying to track down a deadlock on some newish production >> servers running FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p2. The deadlock occurs on a >> specific (although mundane) hardware configur

Re: kvm on amd64 - >6G?

2008-08-30 Thread Stef
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=114057 And there are one or two other patches on some deployed systems (eg: 'multi ip jail patches'). I used to be in the no-patches-on-my-production-servers camp, but I've found that it was unrealistic and result

devfs symlink over device doesn't work

2007-06-26 Thread Stef Walter
t I'm not seeing? Reasoning: I'm using devfs in jails, and I'd like anything written (by user space programs, syslogd, etc...) to /dev/console to go to a file in the jail. So at jail startup I'd like to put a symlink over /dev/console to a normal f

Re: devfs symlink over device doesn't work

2007-06-26 Thread Stef Walter
Stef Walter wrote: > After deleting a device in devfs, any symlink placed over it results in > ENOENT. > > I'd like to fix this behavior. Or is there a reason for it that I'm not > seeing? Filed a bug report with a patch that solves the issue: http://www.freebsd.org/c

Vital Patches for ataraid with Intel Matrix RAID (ICH7)

2008-03-20 Thread Stef Walter
rious specific problem reports and issues are outlined below. Cheers, Stef Walter Fix an early boot panic if you reboot with all drives present when your RAID is marked DEGRADED. This can happen if a drive has an unreadable block and the drive gets detached from the RAID. Rebooting at this point

Re: Vital Patches for ataraid with Intel Matrix RAID (ICH7)

2008-03-20 Thread Stef Walter
reattached Open PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/108924 FWIW, kern/108924 seems to be a duplicate of kern/102211 Cheers, Stef Walter Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:16:39PM +0000, Stef Walter wrote: >> Here's some vital patches for the ataraid dri

Re: Vital Patches for ataraid with Intel Matrix RAID (ICH7)

2008-03-21 Thread Stef Walter
ing the generation) whenever the status changes, regardless of whether that change takes place when the machine is off or not. Without testing, I can't be sure whether this solves the problem on other ataraid devices. Cheers, Stef Walter ___ free

RAID status issues with Intel MatrixRAID ataraid

2008-05-30 Thread Stef Walter
a RAID is degraded, the FreeBSD driver thinks it's business as usual. In my case this resulted in file system corruption. Relevant output below. FreeBSD version: 6.3-RELEASE-p2 Cheers, Stef Walter BIOS OUTPUT: Copyright(C) 2003-06 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reserved. RAID Volumes: ID Na

Re: RAID status issues with Intel MatrixRAID ataraid

2008-05-30 Thread Stef Walter
t;ATA (SATA, PATA, ATAPI)" section, specifically the Intel > MatrixRAID items: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues Yes, I reported several of those as well as provided patches for them. That was back when I had r

Re: RAID status issues with Intel MatrixRAID ataraid

2008-05-31 Thread Stef Walter
er ar1: 476937MB status: READY ar1: disk0 READY (master) using ad8 at ata4-master ar1: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad10 at ata5-master In any case, this is water under the bridge for me now. Cheers, Stef Walter ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 deadlock (interrupted pmap_remove_pages) with DDB output

2008-06-16 Thread Stef Walter
Stef Walter wrote: > I've been trying to track down a deadlock on some newish production > servers running FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p2. The deadlock occurs on a > specific (although mundane) hardware configuration, and each of several > servers running this hardware deadlock ab

Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere

2009-09-24 Thread Stef Walter
? If so, is it documented anywhere? Or is it just a convention? Cheers, Stef ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Running a program through gdb without "interfering"

2009-10-09 Thread Stef Walter
at. Cheers, Stef # Commands to build in progs ps ipcs netstat pkill top w killall progs systat iostat progs jkill progs kldstat # Link these programs to each other ln pkill pgrep ln w uptime # Libraries which we need libs -lutil -lkvm -ldevstat -lncurses -ldevstat -lm -lnetgraph -lme