Re: Recommendations for 10gbps NIC

2013-07-29 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:14:17 -0700 (PDT) Barney Cordoba wrote about Re: Recommendations for 10gbps NIC: BC> I don't really understand why nearly all 10GBE cards are dual-port. BC> Surely there is a market for NICs between 1 gigabit and 20 gigabit. Myricom has single port 10G cards. However, I on

Re: NFS over LAGG / lacp poor performance

2014-04-25 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:48:36 +0200 Marek Salwerowicz wrote about NFS over LAGG / lacp poor performance: Hello Marek, MS> FreeBSD storage1 9.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p10 #0: Sun Jan 12 MS> 20:11:23 UTC 2014 MS> r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 S

Re: NFS over LAGG / lacp poor performance

2014-04-25 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:34:06 +0200 Marek Salwerowicz wrote about Re: NFS over LAGG / lacp poor performance: GK> irq256: igb0:que 0 99396134 64 GK> irq257: igb0:que 1 61496018 39 GK> irq258: igb0:que 2 101687742 66 GK> irq259: igb0:qu

Re: NFS over LAGG / lacp poor performance

2014-04-25 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:02:15 +0100 "Steven Hartland" wrote about Re: NFS over LAGG / lacp poor performance: SH> We find that large numbers of queues causes high interrupt issues Like the thing I am seeing with igb1 on my system? --- root@storage:/root #vmstat -i interrupt

Re: NFS over LAGG / lacp poor performance

2014-04-25 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:25:04 +0100 "Steven Hartland" wrote about Re: NFS over LAGG / lacp poor performance: SH> We saw the issue with 10-RELEASE last weekend on a machine with 6 x SH> igb's where by the system was burning CPU in the interrupt handlers, SH> setting num_queues to 2 fixed the issue

Re: NFS over LAGG / lacp poor performance

2014-04-25 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:55:29 +0100 "Steven Hartland" wrote about Re: NFS over LAGG / lacp poor performance: SH> Run top then enable system processes (shift+S) and threads (shift+H) SH> then disable idle process display (z) if your seeing significant CPU SH> usage to the igb interrupt handlers try

firewalling broadcast and multicast packets

2010-06-23 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hi all, I just tried to block multicast and broadcast packets on a transparent bridge with pf by filtering on one of the physical interfaces like this: table persist {10.117.255.255/32} netbios = "netbios-ns, netbios-dgm, netbios-ssn, mdns, ipp" block quick on $ext_if proto ipv6 block quick on $

igb Could not setup receive structures (again)

2014-11-21 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hi all, I get the error message above when trying to go for jumbo frames (mtu 9000) on a system here. I found a lot of comments on this, but they all state that this is due to a too low setting for mbufs in FreeBSD8/9 settings. However, I have 10-stable here, and the settings look rather high to m

Re: igb Could not setup receive structures (again)

2014-11-21 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:22:31 -0800 Jack Vogel wrote about Re: igb Could not setup receive structures (again): JV> After you get the error do a `netstat -m` and see what the state of the JV> 9K jumbo pool is, for that is the size you would be using. Hm... --- root@mclane:~ # netstat -m 20472/337

Re: igb Could not setup receive structures (again)

2014-11-23 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:01:23 -0800 Jack Vogel wrote about Re: igb Could not setup receive structures (again): JV> Yes, its strange, the mbuf resources look fine. JV> Can you show the dmesg record from a boot that JV> includes the failure please? Well, the machine is in production, I cannot boot

compiling on nfs directories

2014-12-15 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hi all, I ran into some weird issue here last week: I have an NFS-Server for storage and diskless booting (pxe / nfs root) running under FreeBSD. The clients are running Gentoo Linux. Some time ago, I replaced the server, going from a HDD-based storage array (ZFS) under FreeBSD 8.3 to an SSD-based

Re: compiling on nfs directories

2014-12-16 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:59:29 -0500 (EST) Rick Macklem wrote about Re: compiling on nfs directories: RM> Also, note that he didn't see the problem with FreeBSD8.3, which would RM> have been following the same rules on the server as 10.1. RM> RM> What I suspect might cause this is one of two thin

Re: compiling on nfs directories

2014-12-18 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:05:24 -0500 (EST) Rick Macklem wrote about Re: compiling on nfs directories: RM> avg@ just MFC'd a one line ZFS patch (the one I vaguely remembered RM> before). It is r275401 in head: RM> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/z

Re: compiling on nfs directories

2014-12-19 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:02:54 -0500 (EST) Rick Macklem wrote about Re: compiling on nfs directories: RM> avg@ MFC'd this patch to stable/9 and stable/10, so you can set up a RM> test machine with stable/10 on it instead of adding the one line RM> patch to whatever version you are running, if you'd

NFS on 10G interface terribly slow

2015-06-25 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hi all, We have a recent FreeBSD 10.1 installation here that is supposed to act as nfs (v3) client to an Oracle x4-2l server running Soalris 11.2. We have Intel 10-Gigabit X540-AT2 NICs on both ends, iperf is showing plenty of bandwidth (9.xGB/s) in both directions. However, nfs appears to be terr

Re: NFS on 10G interface terribly slow

2015-06-26 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:56:36 -0700 Scott Larson wrote about Re: NFS on 10G interface terribly slow: SL> We've got 10.0 and 10.1 servers accessing Isilon and Nexenta via SL> NFS with Intel 10G gear and bursting to near wire speed with the stock SL> MTU/rsize/wsize works as expected. That sou

Re: NFS on 10G interface terribly slow

2015-06-26 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:49:11 -0400 (EDT) Rick Macklem wrote about Re: NFS on 10G interface terribly slow: RM> Recent commits to stable/10 (not in 10.1) done by Alexander Motin RM> (mav@) might help w.r.t. write performance (it avoids large writes RM> doing synchronous writes when the wcommitsize

Re: NFS on 10G interface terribly slow

2015-06-29 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 20:42:08 -0400 (EDT) Rick Macklem wrote about Re: NFS on 10G interface terribly slow: RM> Btw, can you tell us what Intel chip(s) you're using? I have ix0@pci0:5:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x00028086 chip=0x15288086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device

Re: NFS on 10G interface terribly slow

2015-06-29 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 19:58:42 -0400 (EDT) Rick Macklem wrote about Re: NFS on 10G interface terribly slow: RM> The default (auto tuned) value is reported by "nfsstat -m". RM> It can be set with a mount option (should be something in "man RM> mount_nfs"). If you are doing a test with 1 megabyte wr

strange nfs/rsync stalls

2015-11-04 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hi all, I see some weird (I think) NFS issue here: I have a NFS server running 10.2-RELEASE exporting a directory to a NFS client running 10.2-STABLE (as of yesterday, tried that update from 10.1 to see if it would fix this issue, but it stayed with me). I use rsync on the client to copy data from

Re: strange nfs/rsync stalls

2015-11-05 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 14:43:54 +0100 Gerrit Kühn wrote about strange nfs/rsync stalls: > I have a couple of other machines that use the same server in the same > way, none of them ever showed this behaviour. Are there any > suggestions how to debug/fix this? Some more pointers from my si

interface aliases and tap devices

2008-02-27 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hello, I have two stories to tell meanwhile, the first comes here in form of a forward from a question I posted on the discussion list for dnsmasq (ports/dns/dnsmasq): --- Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:28:28 + From: Simon Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Gerri

Fw: 100.chksetuid handging on nfs mounts

2017-12-15 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hello all, As I got no response at all on freebsd-fs, I try again here... Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 09:04:51 +0100 From: Gerrit Kühn To: freebsd...@freebsd.org Subject: 100.chksetuid handging on nfs mounts Hello all, I just found that the daily security job on a

Re: Fw: 100.chksetuid handging on nfs mounts

2017-12-15 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 07:08:48 -0700 Alan Somers wrote about Re: Fw: 100.chksetuid handging on nfs mounts: Dear Alan, > This is a known bug. It happens when an NFS filesystem is mounted on the > same mountpoint as a local filesystem. It's fixed by [1] and MFCed by > [2] and [3]. What version ar

Re: Fw: 100.chksetuid handging on nfs mounts

2018-08-30 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 15:46:59 +0100 Gerrit Kühn wrote about Re: Fw: 100.chksetuid handging on nfs mounts: Hello all, Sorry for picking this up after such a long time... > > This is a known bug. It happens when an NFS filesystem is mounted on > > the same mountpoint as a local files

Re: Fw: 100.chksetuid handging on nfs mounts

2018-08-30 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 07:25:54 -0600 Alan Somers wrote about Re: Fw: 100.chksetuid handging on nfs mounts: > > Any ideas why this happens (and how to prevent it)? > I just checked, and on my system find does not descend into NFS > directories mounted under /net. Could you share the output of "mou

Re: Fw: 100.chksetuid handging on nfs mounts

2018-08-30 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:07:52 -0600 Alan Somers wrote about Re: Fw: 100.chksetuid handging on nfs mounts: > Well that's not very illuminating. I was wondering if it had weird mount > options or something. Are you sure that's why find is hanging? What > happens if you unmount and repeat the comm

Re: Fw: 100.chksetuid handging on nfs mounts

2018-08-30 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:07:52 -0600 Alan Somers wrote about Re: Fw: 100.chksetuid handging on nfs mounts: > Well that's not very illuminating. I was wondering if it had weird mount > options or something. Are you sure that's why find is hanging? What > happens if you unmount and repeat the comm

Re: Fw: 100.chksetuid handging on nfs mounts

2018-08-31 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 11:19:02 + Rick Macklem wrote about Re: Fw: 100.chksetuid handging on nfs mounts: > >find command with nfs mounted and nfs-nic down: hangs > Without a functioning network, NFS just keeps trying to do the RPC. > This is normal behaviour for NFS and has been since 1985. My

unbound error messages

2019-03-26 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hello, I set up a pretty basic unbound service on FreeBSD 11.2 (based on the default "local" service) that works fine for me as far as I can see (all names are resolved etc.). However, in the unbound logfile I see these messages repeated every minute: --- Mar 26 11:08:37 unbound[66291:0] error: r

Re: unbound error messages

2019-03-26 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 11:28:50 +0100 Gerrit Kühn wrote about unbound error messages: > Any idea what the error messages might mean? Or are they somewhat bogus > (with all the 0s in there)? Duh, it's all my fault: I forgot that I had the monitoring system not only check the port availa

upnp/dlna

2016-01-15 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hi, I have two FreeBSD boxes running mediatomb and minidlna. I also have a couple of clients, mostly internet radios by different manufacturers (Sangean, Philips, Renkforce...). I have the (weird) issue that neither mediatomb nor minidlna appears to see the multicasts discovery messages (not even

Re: upnp/dlna

2016-01-15 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 15:44:42 +0100 Guido Falsi wrote about Re: upnp/dlna: GF> Could you try the patch here: GF> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205430 I'll try and report back, thanks for the pointer. GF> I think you're seeing that same issue. I did not look into the report t

Re: upnp/dlna

2016-01-15 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:54:04 +0100 Guido Falsi wrote: GF> I forget one thing, Are the mindlna and mediatomb installed in a GF> jail? No jails involved here, they are both running on a plain machine. I just tried the patch you referred to. It applied and compiled cleanly, but does not change any

Re: upnp/dlna

2016-01-15 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 23:00:05 +0300 Rozhuk Ivan wrote: RI> PF by default drop all ip packets with options. RI> IGMP use ip options -> pf drop all igmp. Yes, sure, but pf is off here. cu Gerrit ___ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.f

Re: upnp/dlna

2016-01-16 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 21:36:15 +0100 Guido Falsi wrote: GF> From your description it looks like a different issue. Looks like GF> some network issue, maybe some network device (switch or router) is GF> eating up certain multicasts? There is only one (rather simple, non-smart) switch invloved here,

Re: upnp/dlna

2016-01-16 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 11:10:02 +0100 Ben Woods wrote: BW> I would test the WLAN access point, and make sure it is passing BW> multicast traffic between the wired and wireless interfaces. I had already tested that by using cables instead of WLAN (most of my radios have an extra ethernet port). But

ix hangs (almost)

2016-01-19 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hi all, Half a year ago we had reported here about issues with ix-interfaces when transporting data over nfs. We only got about 50MByte/s back then, and were not able to fix this issue. Instead, we went for rsyncd transport that gave us about 200MByte/s (still not the full bandwidth, but definitel

NFS on 10G interfaces still painfully slow

2016-08-02 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hi all, I already reported this issue here a year ago and unfortunately was not able to fix it back then. Now I had another run at it, using two recent 10.3-machines with a direct 10G link. I still see nfs is painfully slow (around 20-80MB/s). I tried both nfsv3 and nfsv4, with almost the same res

Re: NFS on 10G interfaces still painfully slow

2016-08-02 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 08:45:07 -0600 Alan Somers wrote about Re: NFS on 10G interfaces still painfully slow: > > Is there anyone around here who can confirm that nfs can go faster > > over 10G links? > > Any hints for further tuning/debugging are greatly appreciated. AS> I can get 1GB/s over NFS on

Re: NFS on 10G interfaces still painfully slow

2016-08-02 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 07:59:54 +0200 Gerrit Kühn wrote about Re: NFS on 10G interfaces still painfully slow: GK> 1048576000 bytes transferred in 1.403620 secs (747051194 bytes/sec) GK> 1048576000 bytes transferred in 1.380546 secs (759537249 bytes/sec) Argh! ;-) Obviously, I cannot re

igb/pf-related crashes

2016-09-21 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hi all, Over the last weekend, I saw a couple of crashes on a 10.3-system acting as filtering bridge with pf that all looked like this: --- Unread portion of the kernel message buffer: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 0; apic id = 00 fault virtual address = 0xe fault cod

Re: igb/pf-related crashes

2016-09-21 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:22:14 +0200 Gerrit Kühn wrote about igb/pf-related crashes: [...] > #17 0x8091c99b at intr_event_execute_handlers+0xab Few more details: --- #0 doadump (textdump=) at pcpu.h:219 219 pcpu.h: No such file or directory. in pcpu.h (kgdb) #0 doad

nfs lockd not responding

2021-07-19 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Hello, I have a set of NFS(v3) client/server machines which have been working fine for me for the last years. However, lately the client side sometimes complains about: --- Jul 15 01:41:55 client kernel: nfs server server:/data: lockd not responding Jul 15 01:41:55 client kernel: nfs server serve