Re: 6.x Performance note in /usr/src/UPDATING ...

2005-07-17 Thread Frank Steinborn
Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Can someone add a pointer to this as to how to actually do this? For > instance, I know from 5.x about the 'ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf' for malloc > ... but what about the rest? Check your kernel config for INVARIANTS and WITNESS and disable these

6.x Performance note in /usr/src/UPDATING ...

2005-07-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 6.x IS SLOW: FreeBSD 6.x has many debugging features turned on, in both the kernel and userland. These features attempt to detect incorrect use of system primitives, and encourage loud failure through extra sanity checking and

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-17 Thread Carl Gustavsson
Scott Long wrote: Announcement The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 6.0 Release Cycle. FreeBSD 6.0 will be a much less dramatic step from the FreeBSD 5 branch than the FreeBSD 5

Re: 36 hours of freedom.

2005-07-17 Thread Mr. Jonathon Klem
Bravo! Finally spam that is enlightening =p > On 7/14/05, Jayton Garnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what the hell... > > > > Austin wrote: > > > > > Now you can improve your sexual life! > > > http://standards.mustajek.info/?balletxtvuytrigramszvpability > > > > > > > > > Mathematics is the l

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-17 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Yann Golanski wrote: Quoth Scott Long on Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:18:50 -0600 Part of the purpose of moving quickly on to RELENG_6 is so that the migration work for users from 5.x to 6.x is very small. 6.x is really just an evolutionary step from 5.x, not the life-altering

Re:RELENG_6 has problems with booting

2005-07-17 Thread Jonathan Weiss
> What happens if you drop ATAPICAM and do you have a good reason why you > are including GEOM_BDE? > > Thanks > S. I will try a kernel without ATAPICAM. I need GEOM_BDE for my encrypted disk but I can also try a kernel without it. Greets, Jonathan -- Jonathan Weiss http://blog.innerewut.de

Re: RELENG_6 has problems with booting

2005-07-17 Thread Subhro
On 7/17/2005 22:15, Jonathan Weiss wrote: Cheers, Yesterday I updated my 5-STABLE system to RELENG_6 through cvsup&make. My machine will only boot in safe mode. Verbose or normal boot will result in a hang that occuers normally during local package startup or filesystem scan. I get no panic o

RELENG_6 has problems with booting

2005-07-17 Thread Jonathan Weiss
Cheers, Yesterday I updated my 5-STABLE system to RELENG_6 through cvsup&make. My machine will only boot in safe mode. Verbose or normal boot will result in a hang that occuers normally during local package startup or filesystem scan. I get no panic or LOR, the machine just completely hangs. I

Atapicam problems

2005-07-17 Thread John Van Sickle
Hi, After a day or two I keep losing my /dev/cd0 and /dev/cd1 devices. When this happens I'm able to reboot and everything works again. By that I mean the drives show up in /dev again and 'camcontrol devlist' lists them. I haven't had any errors burning dvds/cds either. My log message gives me

6.0 BETA 1 post install issue

2005-07-17 Thread Derek Tattersall
If this is the wrong group to discuss 6.0 installation problems, please refer me to the correct one. I installed 6.0 BETA 1 yesterday via NFS from my local server. The installation went with no reportable problems. However, when I got to the post install configuration menu, I could not get the c

vnode leak in NFS (Was: Re: 4.11-STABLE leaks vnodes worse then 4.x from Feb 13th ... ?)

2005-07-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Wow, now this was unexpected ... figured I try a quick theory this morning ... debug.freevnodes was down to: debug.freevnodes: 103987 umount /nfs and ... # sysctl debug.freevnodes debug.freevnodes: 332106 The vnode leak isn't in the unionfs code ... its in the nfs code :( On Fri, 15 Jul

nextboot and gmirror

2005-07-17 Thread Michiel Boland
Hi. If nextboot_enable="YES", the loader scribbles in /boot/netxtboot.conf. But how exactly does this work on gmirror-ed disks? Does /boot/nextboot.conf get written on one disk only? How does the other disk know that /boot/nextboot.conf got changed? I am confused. Cheers Michiel _

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-17 Thread Scott Long
Wilko Bulte wrote: On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 06:33:24PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote.. At 1:06 PM +0200 7/16/05, Øystein Holmen wrote: I was looking for a place to download 6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso to test om my PowerMac G4. But I cannot find it on any of the ftp-sites og mirrors. Where

Re: FreeBSD -STABLE servers repeatedly crashing.

2005-07-17 Thread Blaz Zupan
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Matt Juszczak wrote: So far a 13 day up time after switching from IPF to PF. If thats not the problem, I hope I find it soon considering this is a production server ... but it seems to be more stable. For me, 5 days up time after switching from IPF to PF. Before the switc

RELENG_6: panic in mpt_attach (amd64)

2005-07-17 Thread Michiel Boland
RELENG_6 on amd64 (Sun V20Z), cvsupped today GENERIC kernel, except for additions of GEOM_MIRROR and BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER Crashes immeately on boot mpt0: port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xfe85-0xfe85,0xfe84-0xfe84 irq 27 at device 4.0 on pci2 mpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED] mpt0: MPI Version=1.2.12.

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

2005-07-17 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 06:33:24PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote.. > At 1:06 PM +0200 7/16/05, Øystein Holmen wrote: > >I was looking for a place to download 6.0-BETA1-powerpc-bootonly.iso > >to test om my PowerMac G4. But I cannot find it on any of > >the ftp-sites og mirrors. Where can I downloa