atacontrol reinit

2012-03-30 Thread Petri Helenius
Hi, How do I accomplish atacontrol reinit in 9.0 with ATA_CAM enabled? Plugged drives don't show up without a reboot and camcontrol reset or rescan does not help. Pete ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

pci enumeration order

2005-01-28 Thread Petri Helenius
Is there a way (loader variable, hints, etc.?) to change the order which different PCI card ports are enumerated on kernel start? Pete ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-01-25 Thread Petri Helenius
Matthias Buelow wrote: Petri Helenius wrote: Are you sure you aren't comparing filesystems with different mount options? Async comes to mind first. a) ext3 and xfs are logging filesystems, so the problem with asynchronous metadata updates possibly corrupting the filesystem on a crash do

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 I/O Performance / Linux 2.6.10 | Continued Discussion

2005-01-24 Thread Petri Helenius
Are you sure you aren't comparing filesystems with different mount options? Async comes to mind first. Pete Nick Pavlica wrote: All, I would like to start addressing some of the feedback that I have been given. I started this discussion because I felt that it was important to share the informat

Re: Error message

2004-12-03 Thread Petri Helenius
Alexander Leidinger wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:17:40 -0600 Mike Horwath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:12:20PM +0530, Akhthar Parvez. K wrote: Hi All, I am getting the following error message in /var/log/messages tail -f /var/log/messages Nov 29 07:24:31 speedy /ke

syslog -Wformat and %m

2004-06-03 Thread Petri Helenius
Is the warning message generated by -Wformat about syslog %m an issue with FreeBSD header files or gcc itself? Pete ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL P

Re: Max NFSD processes

2004-05-20 Thread Petri Helenius
Christian Hiris wrote: About a year ago i observed strong nfs performance decrease when using RLT8139A nics. Nfs transfers leaded into high system load, because of an excessive high packet retransmission rate. Switching over to 3Com nics solved my problem. The specific model and it's clos

Re: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-03 Thread Petri Helenius
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I am not sure I would advocate 64k blocks yet. Good to know, I have stuck with 16k so far due to the fact that our database has pagesize of 16k and I found little benefit tuning that. (but it´s completely different application) I tend to stick with 32k block, 4k fragmen

Re: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-03 Thread Petri Helenius
Geoff Buckingham wrote: - This is a big problem (no pun intended), my smallest requirement is still 5TB... what would you recommend? The smallest file on the storage will be 500MB. If you files are all going this large I imagine you should look carefully at what you do with inodes, block and

Re: FW: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-02 Thread Petri Helenius
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: 2) What is the maximum size of a filesystem that I can present to the host OS using vinum/ccd? Am I limited anywhere that I am not aware of? Good question, I'm not sure we currently know the exact barrier. Just make sure you run UFS2, which is the default on -CURRENT

syscall counter

2003-02-14 Thread Petri Helenius
Is there a counter which would show system calls per process? Like vm.stats.sys.v_syscall but instead of being systemwide, count separately for each process. Pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

raidframe

2003-02-03 Thread Petri Helenius
What would be the correct forum to post RAIDframe questions/problem reports to? Couldn't really locate maintainer address on the source tree... Pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: panic: kmem_map too small

2002-11-21 Thread Petri Helenius
David Schultz wrote: Most kernel memory is not pageable, so swap probably won't help you. Your `kmem_map too small' error message should report to you the size of the attempted allocation and the size of kmem_map. If the map really isn't full, I'm not sure why you would get this panic, unless yo

Re: panic: kmem_map too small

2002-11-20 Thread Petri Helenius
> > With about 150M in use and KVA_PAGES undefined in config (default), > > both 4.7-STABLE and 5.0-CURRENT panic (1G installed memory). > > Yes, the default is 256, IIRC. That corresponds to 1 GB of KVA, > and you have only 1 GB of physical memory to back it. I take it > this is a very busy mach

Re: panic: kmem_map too small

2002-11-20 Thread Petri Helenius
> > Read LINT (or NOTES) carefully. You can't set KVA_PAGES to 1024, > because then your kernel would take up the entire 4 GB virtual > address space. Since the kernel must fit into 4 GB alongside > every user process, that leaves you no room for programs. Try a > more reasonable value like 512

Re: panic: kmem_map too small

2002-11-20 Thread Petri Helenius
David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Petri Helenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I seem to get kmem_map too small panics when using large buffers with bpf. Is there a tunable I should be increasing? Yes, increase KVA_PAGES in your kernel config. I put in KVA_PAGES=1024 with following resu

panic: kmem_map too small

2002-11-19 Thread Petri Helenius
I seem to get kmem_map too small panics when using large buffers with bpf. Is there a tunable I should be increasing? Pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message