Re: Very large directory

2005-01-19 Thread Michael Butler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Nelson wrote: | Try raising your datasize rlimit value; .. I found this (lots of files in a directory) to be generally a Bad Idea. Search performance tends to be poor even with the improvements in 5.x While I'm not sure that it's possible to in this

Re: Very large directory

2005-01-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 19), Phillip Salzman said: > I have a pair of servers that act as SMTP/AV gateways. It seems that > even though we've told the AV software not to store messages, it is > anyway. > > They've been running for a little while now - and recently we've > noticed a lot of disk s

Re: User's cron job creates zombie process on 5.3

2005-01-19 Thread spam maps
--- Darryl Okahata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raymond Wiker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hmm... Maybe this will work? > > > > /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/ssh -n -f ${tunnel} > &" > > > > --- the effect of this should (hopefully) be that > init becomes the > > parent of the zombie

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-19 Thread Karl Denninger
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:37:34PM -0800, David G. Lawrence wrote: >Yeah, the 6Y series Maxtor is particularly bad. More than half of all > of them that I've had (a few dozen in total) have gone bad. The 7Y series > is a slightly better, but still well short of an acceptable failure rate. >

RE: twa breakage on AMD64with9.1.5.23wareversionand2005-01-1103:00:49 UTC RELENG_5 commit

2005-01-19 Thread Vinod Kashyap
Strange... CAM doesn't seem to be sending down inquiries to the twa driver, although it was requested to do so (twa_request_bus_scan). I have seen this kind of behavior on 5.x, when doing kldload of the driver, and when logical units are created/deleted on the fly. Although the SIM (twa) requests

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-19 Thread David G. Lawrence
> I have had spectacularly bad luck with Maxtor SATA drives. I've already > RMA'd 4 of 8 drives and have 2 more waiting to go back. 1 was DOA, the > rest failed completely while in operation (typically locking up the > machine). These were all Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y160M0 160GB Serial >

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-19 Thread Karl Denninger
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:18:08PM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote: > I have had spectacularly bad luck with Maxtor SATA drives. I've already > RMA'd 4 of 8 drives and have 2 more waiting to go back. 1 was DOA, the > rest failed completely while in operation (typically locking up the > machine). The

Very large directory

2005-01-19 Thread Phillip Salzman
Hello, I have a pair of servers that act as SMTP/AV gateways. It seems that even though we've told the AV software not to store messages, it is anyway. They've been running for a little while now - and recently we've noticed a lot of disk space disappearing. Shortly after that, a simple du into

Re: Failure on today's CVS (stable, AMD)

2005-01-19 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Michael R. Wayne wrote: > CVS today. Dual Opteron running >5.3-STABLE #3: Tue Nov 30 01:44:05 EST 2004 > > Following the instructions in UPDATING, I get the following, > indicating a bad kernel. 2 questions: > > 1) Is this a known, corrected issue as of today? I ran ano

Re: Persisting troubles with periodic stalls every few minutes

2005-01-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:36:30AM +0100, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: > When everything is working normally, the CPU is at: > 15% system30% user65% idle > > At the first screen update after a stall, the CPU is at: > 15% system85% user 0% idle > > Also, the VM statistics such as "z

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-19 Thread Sam Leffler
I have had spectacularly bad luck with Maxtor SATA drives. I've already RMA'd 4 of 8 drives and have 2 more waiting to go back. 1 was DOA, the rest failed completely while in operation (typically locking up the machine). These were all Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y160M0 160GB Serial ATA drives

Re: gnu/76381: FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 GCC preprocessor failure

2005-01-19 Thread matthias.andree
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (puts on brown paperbag to not be recognized) Please close this problem report, the problem is non-existent. Turns out that GCC is fine, e2fsprogs was grabbing an obsolete header file from below /usr/local, and gcc34 actually wasn't working when compili

Persisting troubles with periodic stalls every few minutes

2005-01-19 Thread Bartosz Fabianowski
Hi list, I have been having a lot of trouble with performance on my laptop, which I first set up with 5.3-RELEASE and constantly keep up to date with 5.3-STABLE. The box runs stable, but periodically, somewhere between every few minutes down to every few seconds, it stalls for 5 seconds. By tha

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-19 Thread Karl Denninger
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 03:06:04PM -0800, Jon Simola wrote: > On a different box (Supermicro SuperServer 5013C-T, P4SCE BIOS v1.2c): .. > A pair of Maxtor 80GBs, the BIOS is set for "Enhanced", up to 6 drives > (4 IDE + 2 SATA). > Crazy as though it seems, I wasn't kidding about changi

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem?

2005-01-19 Thread Jon Simola
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:33:12 -0800, Jon Simola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a few 1U Supermicro boxes running dual SATA drives: > I've run into all sorts of problems with every one, and changing the > IDE channel settings in the BIOS always fixes it. Which really annoys > me, because I se

Re: 5.3-RELEASE/amd64 kernel panic with GENERIC

2005-01-19 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-01-19 14:21:20 -0800: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:10:53PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > Hello, this is what I got after running buildkernel on 5.3-RELEASE with > > GENERIC on an MSI FIS2R (VIA K8T800-based board), AMD64 2800+, 1.5GB RAM > > (transcribed as I didn't h

Re: 5.3-RELEASE/amd64 kernel panic with GENERIC

2005-01-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:10:53PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > Hello, this is what I got after running buildkernel on 5.3-RELEASE with > GENERIC on an MSI FIS2R (VIA K8T800-based board), AMD64 2800+, 1.5GB RAM > (transcribed as I didn't have the opportunity to set up crashdumps; does > it work

5.3-RELEASE/amd64 kernel panic with GENERIC

2005-01-19 Thread Roman Neuhauser
Hello, this is what I got after running buildkernel on 5.3-RELEASE with GENERIC on an MSI FIS2R (VIA K8T800-based board), AMD64 2800+, 1.5GB RAM (transcribed as I didn't have the opportunity to set up crashdumps; does it work in 5.3-REL?): page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x

Failure on today's CVS (stable, AMD)

2005-01-19 Thread Michael R. Wayne
CVS today. Dual Opteron running 5.3-STABLE #3: Tue Nov 30 01:44:05 EST 2004 Following the instructions in UPDATING, I get the following, indicating a bad kernel. 2 questions: 1) Is this a known, corrected issue as of today? I ran another CVSUP and did not see any changed to src. 2) Mor

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem?

2005-01-19 Thread Karl Denninger
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:33:12PM -0800, Jon Simola wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:13:01 -0600, Karl Denninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've got a 2 x SATA system here I'm playing with in preparation to move > > over production to 5.x. > > > > These drives have been working under 4.x fo

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem?

2005-01-19 Thread Jon Simola
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:13:01 -0600, Karl Denninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a 2 x SATA system here I'm playing with in preparation to move > over production to 5.x. > > These drives have been working under 4.x for quite some time - they're 250GB > Maxtor disks > > ad4: 239372MB

Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem?

2005-01-19 Thread Karl Denninger
Hi folks; New one... I've got a 2 x SATA system here I'm playing with in preparation to move over production to 5.x. These drives have been working under 4.x for quite some time - they're 250GB Maxtor disks ad4: 239372MB [486344/16/63] at ata2-master SATA150 ad6: 239372MB [486344/16/63]

Re: User's cron job creates zombie process on 5.3

2005-01-19 Thread Darryl Okahata
Raymond Wiker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm... Maybe this will work? > > /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/ssh -n -f ${tunnel} &" > > --- the effect of this should (hopefully) be that init becomes the > parent of the zombie process. An easier-to-read way, assuming that a Bourne-compa

Re: ruby and portupgrade

2005-01-19 Thread Renato Botelho
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:01:46 -0800, whitevamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. what would be causeing this?? > 2. how do i fix this? Just completing my previous email, before run pkgdb -fu and portsdb -u, I recompile and reinstall ruby-bdb1 I forgot to say it... =) -- Renato Botelho ICQ: 54596223

Re: ruby and portupgrade

2005-01-19 Thread Renato Botelho
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:01:46 -0800, whitevamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. what would be causeing this?? > 2. how do i fix this? I had a problem like this today on one box, and I fixed it doing it: Insert these two lines on /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf ENV['PKG_DBDRIVER'] ||= 'dbm_hash' E

Re: poor sound quality in 5.3 stable

2005-01-19 Thread Pertti Kosunen
Charles Ulrich wrote: I too had problems with a SoundBlaster Live card on a workstation running 5.2.1. Sometimes the sound was nice and clean, but most of the time it was just horrible. Nothing I did had any noticable effect and the mailing lists unusually quiet on the issue, so I gave up. The emu1

panic: Duplicate free of item 0xc37aa200 from zone 0xc103f9a0(Mbuf)

2005-01-19 Thread Dan Nelson
I've gotten this one twice in 5 days (still have the cores if anyone needs more info): FreeBSD dan.emsphone.com 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #387: Thu Jan 13 14:43:03 CST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/DANSMP i386 panic: Duplicate free of item 0xc37aa200 from zone 0xc103

Re: User's cron job creates zombie process on 5.3

2005-01-19 Thread Rob
Raymond Wiker wrote: Rob writes: > Raymond Wiker wrote: > > Peter Jeremy writes: > > > On Wed, 2005-Jan-19 09:16:59 +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > > > > tunnel="-L 55110:localhost:110 pop3.univ.net" > > > > tunnel_up=`pgrep -f -- "${tunnel}"` > > > > [ "${tunnel_up}" = "" ] && /usr/bin/ssh

Re: poor sound quality in 5.3 stable

2005-01-19 Thread Charles Ulrich
Olivier Certner said: > Hi, > > Do you mean that the sound seems unclear all the time? > > I've also had some problems with sound on my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE, but a > different kind of. Sometimes I hear crakings while playing mp3 files with > XMMS, although my computer's load is very low. I use "s

Re: User's cron job creates zombie process on 5.3

2005-01-19 Thread Raymond Wiker
Rob writes: > Raymond Wiker wrote: > > Peter Jeremy writes: > > > On Wed, 2005-Jan-19 09:16:59 +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > > > > tunnel="-L 55110:localhost:110 pop3.univ.net" > > > > tunnel_up=`pgrep -f -- "${tunnel}"` > > > > [ "${tunnel_up}" = "" ] && /usr/bin/ssh -N -f ${tunnel} > >

Re: User's cron job creates zombie process on 5.3

2005-01-19 Thread Rob
Raymond Wiker wrote: Peter Jeremy writes: > On Wed, 2005-Jan-19 09:16:59 +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > > tunnel="-L 55110:localhost:110 pop3.univ.net" > > tunnel_up=`pgrep -f -- "${tunnel}"` > > [ "${tunnel_up}" = "" ] && /usr/bin/ssh -N -f ${tunnel} > > >It works beautifully, but why does t

Re: 4.11-RC3: SCSI+UFS+softupdates corruption (write cache DISABLED!)

2005-01-19 Thread Matthias Andree
Matthias Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > so apparently, three (checkouts.cvs:., . and ..) or four files (perhaps > the # file) have disappeared. I'm not sure if fsck will revive them, I > want to avoid destroying data useful for debugging. OK, I dd'd the whole partition to an SLR tape and ra

OK, it appears to be running, but what's this?! (gmirror)

2005-01-19 Thread Karl Denninger
Ok, so I found the "how to get gmirror to play nice" page, and set it up. But, what's this??! Gen2# bsdlabel /dev/mirror/m0s1 # /dev/mirror/m0s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 10485760 634.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 b: 10485760 10485823

4.11-RC3: SCSI+UFS+softupdates corruption (write cache DISABLED!)

2005-01-19 Thread Matthias Andree
Hi, I had a FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 machine reboot without advance notice, the last logging the network syslogd captured was attempted aic0 (Adaptec 2940 UW Pro) recovery. Syslog excerpt as captured by the remote machine, with date and "hostname /kernel:" and card state dumps removed (can be provided if

Re: twa module - make kernel (modules) failure RELENG_5 i386

2005-01-19 Thread boris karlov
thanks a lot. strange cvsup Jan 14, but file was: # ident /usr/src/sys/dev/twa/twa_reg.h /usr/src/sys/dev/twa/twa_reg.h: $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/twa/twa_reg.h,v 1.1.4.1 2004/08/25 17:15:26 vkashyap Exp $ cvsupped again via another mirror, now it's OK. On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:32:38 -0800, Vinod Kash

Re: strange ucom (uplcom) error

2005-01-19 Thread Michal Mertl
Sorry to reply to myself but I would better really attach the patch. I wrote: > Emanuel Strobl wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 18. Januar 2005 16:17 schrieb Andrew L. Neporada: > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:06:43PM +0100, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > > > > Dear experts, > > > > > > > > I have two USB-RS232

[Fwd: Re: strange ucom (uplcom) error]

2005-01-19 Thread Michal Mertl
Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Am Dienstag, 18. Januar 2005 16:17 schrieb Andrew L. Neporada: > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:06:43PM +0100, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > > > Dear experts, > > > > > > I have two USB-RS232 Adaptors, both with PL2303 chipset. One is working > > > the other one not (I hate to say i

Re: poor sound quality in 5.3 stable

2005-01-19 Thread Patrick Petermair
Tejas Kokje wrote: in the kernel configuration file. However the quality of sound produced is of poor quality (not very clear) as compared to that produced under Linux 2.6 series kernel. Maybe check your mixer settings ("mixer" at the console)... Patrick

Re: strange ucom (uplcom) error

2005-01-19 Thread Michal Mertl
Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Am Dienstag, 18. Januar 2005 16:17 schrieb Andrew L. Neporada: > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:06:43PM +0100, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > > > Dear experts, > > > > > > I have two USB-RS232 Adaptors, both with PL2303 chipset. One is working > > > the other one not (I hate to say i