Re: mbuf clusters exhaustion & keglimit

2011-04-04 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On 04.04.2011 14:15, Vlad Galu wrote: > "vmstat -z -M vmcore" says that system was out of mbuf clusters: > > ITEM SIZE LIMIT USED FREE REQUESTS > FAILURES > mbuf_cluster:2048, 10, 10,0, 18897242, > 317691 > > I'

Re: mbuf clusters exhaustion & keglimit

2011-04-04 Thread Vlad Galu
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > Hi! > > I'm running several loaded PPPoE access servers based on FreeBSD > 8.2-STABLE/amd64 > with em and igb network interfaces and 4GB RAM. No memory-intensive tasks > other than routing about 2Gbit/s (1G "in" and a bit less "out"). > > k

Hello

2011-04-04 Thread Fabien Thomas
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Re: Hello

2011-04-04 Thread Fabien Thomas
Sorry for the noise, i've missed the dest... > Hi Kip, > > Feels good to see you again! > > Fabien > ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-uns

Re: Network stack unstable after arp flapping

2011-04-04 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Kip, Which sysctl are we talking about exactly? Just to be sure.. net.inet.flowtable.enable ? -- Frederique On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 08:11:33PM +0200, K. Macy wrote: > I don't think it was properly tested when it was enabled for IPv6. > Given that I have been absentee it really should not be

Re: Network stack unstable after arp flapping

2011-04-04 Thread K. Macy
Correct. Set it to zero and the flowtable will be bypassed. flowtable.c: static uint32_t ipv6_flow_lookup_hash_internal( struct sockaddr_in6 *ssin6, struct sockaddr_in6 *dsin6, uint32_t *key, uint16_t flags) { uint16_t sport, dport; uint8_t proto; int of

Re: Network stack unstable after arp flapping

2011-04-04 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Hi Kip, Thanks. Any idea btw why this would also effect hosts that run 6.x and 7.x RELEASE versions? These do not have the flowtable sysctl. -- Frederique On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 12:09:05PM +0200, K. Macy wrote: > Correct. Set it to zero and the flowtable will be bypassed. > > flowtable.c:

Re: Network stack unstable after arp flapping

2011-04-04 Thread K. Macy
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: > Hi Kip, > > Thanks. Any idea btw why this would also effect hosts that run 6.x and 7.x > RELEASE versions? These do not have the flowtable sysctl. Uhm ... no. That would definitely be unrelated. I'm just taking their word for it. And

Current problem reports assigned to freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org

2011-04-04 Thread FreeBSD bugmaster
Note: to view an individual PR, use: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=(number). The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and obsolete releases. S Tracker

Re: Network stack unstable after arp flapping

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Polyack
On 4/3/2011 9:50 AM, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: Steve, On 01-04-11 16:50, Steve Polyack wrote: On 04/01/11 10:16, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: [ .. ] Mar 31 18:36:12 srv01 kernel: arp: x.x.x.1 moved from 00:00:0c:9f:f0:3d to 00:00:0c:07:ac:3d on bge0 [ .. ] The result of that, is that loads o

Re: The tale of a TCP bug

2011-04-04 Thread John Baldwin
On Saturday, April 02, 2011 7:58:23 am Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote: > Hi I'm back :) > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 01:40 +0200, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote: > > I'll of course monitor this value and report back if I ever see it > > increase :-) > > It did: > > | ice:~>uptime > | 1:45PM up 2 days, 17:01,

Re: em(4) hang [Was: Re: igb(4) won't start with "igb0: Could not setup receive structures"]

2011-04-04 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi Jack, On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Jack Vogel wrote: > Arnaud, > > Please try the code change I just checked into HEAD, it should finally > resolve any hang that is due to mbufs not being refreshed. That's not > to say there may not be other reasons out there but I'm keeping my > fingers cr

Revisit of older discussion on Intel em0 timeouts etc.

2011-04-04 Thread Adriel Torres
Hi, I am new to this list and have been reading on the "tcp bug" and "bge discussions" and wanted to share what I was experiencing with a 8.2 FreeBSD DNS Server I had recently deployed. Basically, with an em0 interface, link states would show changes from up to down constantly under very little o

Re: em(4) hang [Was: Re: igb(4) won't start with "igb0: Could not setup receive structures"]

2011-04-04 Thread Jack Vogel
Thanks for the good news, this change will need to go into the other drivers also. Jack On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi Jack, > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Jack Vogel wrote: > > Arnaud, > > > > Please try the code change I just checked into HEAD, it should fin

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
'k, based on someone else's recommendation, I add 'nolockd' to the mount entry,a nd postfix now appears to work ... since I can safely guarantee that only the one host will have access to these files, that doesn't pose a porblem for me, but still find it a weird issue all things considered :(

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: 'k, based on someone else's recommendation, I add 'nolockd' to the mount entry,a nd postfix now appears to work ... since I can safely guarantee that only the one host will have access to these files,

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> Be careful; multiple access from different processes even on a single host >> can still run into locking issues against NFS filesystems, or data >> corruption if locking isn't available. You're most at risk with local >> delivery to an mbo

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Be careful; multiple access from different processes even on a single host can still run into locking issues against NFS filesystems, or data corruption if locking isn't available. You're most at ris

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> OK-- Cyrus IMAP uses a variant of maildir, so you're relatively safe even if >> locking is not available. > > So, just to get this clear ... > > If I were to boot a diskless station using an NFS backend, then that instance > would be prone

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > 'k, based on someone else's recommendation, I add 'nolockd' to the mount > entry,a nd postfix now appears to work ... since I can safely guarantee that > only the one host will have access to these files, that doesn't pose a > porblem for me

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: OK-- Cyrus IMAP uses a variant of maildir, so you're relatively safe even if locking is not available. So, just to get this clear ... If I were to boot a diskless station using an NFS backend, then

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Okay, next question ... if lockd is running, should fcntl locks work? My > read of the NFS_README.html above indicates to me that they should ... but if > that is the case, then it comes back to why doesn't it? If rpc.lockd was bug-free and

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Thank you, this answers things perfectly ... On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Okay, next question ... if lockd is running, should fcntl locks work? My read of the NFS_README.html above indicates to me that they should ... but if t

Setting up a running FreeBSD/PCBSD system to enter kgdb on panic

2011-04-04 Thread David Somayajulu
Hi All, Is there some way I can setup a running FreeBSD - (I use PCBSD7.2) - to break into kgdb when the system panics. I am trying to get a stack trace when "Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode" happens. thanks david S. This message and any attached d

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-04 Thread Rick Macklem
> On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > 'k, based on someone else's recommendation, I add 'nolockd' to the > > mount entry,a nd postfix now appears to work ... since I can safely > > guarantee that only the one host will have access to these files, > > that doesn't pose a porblem

Re: Setting up a running FreeBSD/PCBSD system to enter kgdb on panic

2011-04-04 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/4/11 4:35 PM, David Somayajulu wrote: Hi All, Is there some way I can setup a running FreeBSD - (I use PCBSD7.2) - to break into kgdb when the system panics. I am trying to get a stack trace when "Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode" happens. thanks david S. sure but firstly h

Re: Setting up a running FreeBSD/PCBSD system to enter kgdb on panic

2011-04-04 Thread Eitan Adler
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:35 PM, David Somayajulu wrote: > Hi All, > Is there some way I can setup a running FreeBSD - (I use PCBSD7.2) - to break > into kgdb when the system panics. I am trying to get a stack trace when > "Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode" happens. debug.debugger_

Re: Setting up a running FreeBSD/PCBSD system to enter kgdb on panic

2011-04-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 4/4/11 4:35 PM, David Somayajulu wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> Is there some way I can setup a running FreeBSD - (I use PCBSD7.2) - to >> break into kgdb when the system panics. I am trying to get a stack trace >> when "Fatal trap 12: page faul

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Rick-- On Apr 4, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Rick Macklem wrote: >> On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> Be careful; multiple access from different processes even on a single >> host can still run into locking issues against NFS filesystems, or >> data corruption if locking isn't avai

Re: Revisit of older discussion on Intel em0 timeouts etc.

2011-04-04 Thread YongHyeon PYUN
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 11:21:50AM -0500, Adriel Torres wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to this list and have been reading on the "tcp bug" and "bge > discussions" and wanted to share what I was experiencing with a 8.2 FreeBSD > DNS Server I had recently deployed. Basically, with an em0 interface, link

Re: 7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

2011-04-04 Thread Gary Palmer
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 06:44:21PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > If you can, anyway-- but maildir is becoming more commonly used with the > growing popularity of Cyrus and Dovecot compared with UWash IMAP (which did > mbox and mbx). Avoid UWash IMAP like the plague is my suggestion. It has locki