Re: OS suddenly VERY busy

2005-07-19 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Mikhail T. wrote this message on Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 00:19 -0400: > After a couple of huge tarball extracts (`make extract' in jdk14 and jdk15) > I noticed, things are a little slower. During the extracts, the mouse was > moving with visible jerks. Indeed, the system seems VERY busy: > >11 us

OS suddenly VERY busy

2005-07-19 Thread Mikhail T.
Hello! After a couple of huge tarball extracts (`make extract' in jdk14 and jdk15) I noticed, things are a little slower. During the extracts, the mouse was moving with visible jerks. Indeed, the system seems VERY busy: 11 usersLoad 1.18 1.52 1.40 Jul 20 00:14 Mem:KB

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-19 Thread Don Lewis
On 14 Jul, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:38:15 +0200 >> From: Anatoliy Dmytriyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Hello, everybody! >> >> I have found unusual and dangerous situation with shutdown process: >> I did a copy of 200 GB data on the 870 GB part

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-19 Thread Don Lewis
On 14 Jul, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Kevin Oberman wrote: > >>> How can I fix it on my system? >> >>SCSI or ATA? If it's ATA, turn off write cache with (atacontrol(8) or >>the sysctl. > > You do NOT want to do that. Not only will performance drop brutally > (example: drop to 1/5th of normal write

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-19 Thread Don Lewis
On 16 Jul, David Taylor wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Matthias Buelow wrote: >> David Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> A corrupted journal can be detected. If it's corrupted, discard >> >> the whole thing, or only the relevant entry. The filesystem will >> >> remain consistent. >> >> If

Re: dangerous situation with shutdown process

2005-07-19 Thread Don Lewis
On 18 Jul, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Paul Mather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Why would that necessarily be more successful? If the outstanding >>buffers count is not reducing between time intervals, it is most likely >>because there is some underlying hardware problem (e.g., a bad block). >>If

Re: Atapicam problems

2005-07-19 Thread David Adam
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, John Van Sickle wrote: > Anyone? Or is there another mailing list I should try? John, I'm afraid I can't help you myself, but you might want to try [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope you have more luck there! David Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: Q: RT32 (Request Tracker) + jail

2005-07-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 19), J. Nyhuis said: > I would like to have RT running in a jailed environment. The > challenge, it seems, will be to get sendmail running in the same > jailed environment as RT and the other components. > For those not so familiar with the components of RT, th

Q: RT32 (Request Tracker) + jail

2005-07-19 Thread J. Nyhuis
Greetings, I would like to have RT running in a jailed environment. The challenge, it seems, will be to get sendmail running in the same jailed environment as RT and the other components. For those not so familiar with the components of RT, the jail would include apache1.3+modperl,

6-BETA1 PAE kernel doesn't build

2005-07-19 Thread Ronald Klop
Hello, The PAE kernel of 6-BETA1 only builds after disabling devices ural and ral. Ronald. PS: 6-BETA1 iso booted on a system with new hardware where my college didn't get linux booted. ;-) -- Ronald Klop Amsterdam, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-s

Re: Atapicam problems

2005-07-19 Thread John Van Sickle
On 7/17/05, John Van Sickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > ha

Re: Perl 5.8.7 dumps core on quotewords

2005-07-19 Thread Greg Barniskis
Pavel A Crasotin wrote: Yes, i have installed perl5.8.7 from ports And yes, i have run the perl-after-upgrade script with -f option Sorry then that it's not a simple thing. I just started looking at cricket myself, and don't have a fully working installation yet (I still need to tweak the Ap

Re: ATA Woes.

2005-07-19 Thread Jon Simola
On 7/19/05, Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:22:01AM -0700, Jon Simola wrote.. > > I've now failed 4 of 10 SATA drives (Maxtor and WD) > > in 1U rackmounts, and am moving on to trying the WD Raptor SATA drives > > (which claim to be low-end server). > > Properly

Re: IBM xSeries 335 and FreeBSD 5 STABLE. SMP problem

2005-07-19 Thread Rong-En Fan
On 7/19/05, Alexander Markov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >If you unload kernel and load it again at boot manually, can 335 boot? > >I have one 336 with 5.4 that must use this trick to boot, otherwise > >it hangs after ipfw2 initialized. On the other hand, I have 3 335 installed > >with 5.4 running

Re: ATA Woes.

2005-07-19 Thread Joe Koberg
Jon Simola wrote: On 7/19/05, Tony Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm totally confused. I don't know enough about SMART to know whether I'm looking at real failing drives or some bug exposed by the interaction between drive firmware, hd controller and FreeBSD. What I've recently learned the

Re: ATA Woes.

2005-07-19 Thread J. T. Farmer
Tony Byrne wrote: Hello Wilko, Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 7:35:40 PM, you wrote: WB> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:22:01AM -0700, Jon Simola wrote.. What I've recently learned the hard way is that desktop drives have no place in a server. I've now failed 4 of 10 SATA drives (Maxtor and WD) in 1

Re[2]: ATA Woes.

2005-07-19 Thread Tony Byrne
Hello Wilko, Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 7:35:40 PM, you wrote: WB> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:22:01AM -0700, Jon Simola wrote.. >> What I've recently learned the hard way is that desktop drives have no >> place in a server. I've now failed 4 of 10 SATA drives (Maxtor and WD) >> in 1U rackmounts, an

Re[2]: Perl 5.8.7 dumps core on quotewords

2005-07-19 Thread Pavel A Crasotin
Yes, i have installed perl5.8.7 from ports And yes, i have run the perl-after-upgrade script with -f option GB> Pavel A Crasotin wrote: >> Hello - >> >> I've just installed perl5.8.7 and now my cricket 1.0.5 does not work >> correctly. >> Perl abnormally exits with 'Bus error' message and throws

Re: ATA Woes.

2005-07-19 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:22:01AM -0700, Jon Simola wrote.. > On 7/19/05, Tony Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jul 19 13:01:48 roo kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA > > status=51 error=40 LBA=288810495 > > Jul 19 13:01:59 roo kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA > > status=51 error=1 LBA=288810

Re: ATA Woes.

2005-07-19 Thread Jon Simola
On 7/19/05, Tony Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jul 19 13:01:48 roo kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA > status=51 error=40 LBA=288810495 > Jul 19 13:01:59 roo kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA > status=51 error=1 LBA=288810495 > Jul 19 13:02:05 roo kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA > status=51 er

Re: Perl 5.8.7 dumps core on quotewords

2005-07-19 Thread Greg Barniskis
Pavel A Crasotin wrote: Hello - I've just installed perl5.8.7 and now my cricket 1.0.5 does not work correctly. Perl abnormally exits with 'Bus error' message and throws core. After little investigation I have found out the problem is in Text::ParseWords::quotewords procedure. [details snippe

Re: TinyBSD Call For Testers

2005-07-19 Thread Igor Pokrovsky
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 03:17:52PM -0300, Jean Milanez Melo wrote: > Hello gentlemen, > > In the last saturday a new port has been added under sysutils/ category, > ports/sysutils/tinybsd. TinyBSD is a tool which was meant to allow an > easy way to build embedded systems based on FreeBSD. It is

Perl 5.8.7 dumps core on quotewords

2005-07-19 Thread Pavel A Crasotin
Hello - I've just installed perl5.8.7 and now my cricket 1.0.5 does not work correctly. Perl abnormally exits with 'Bus error' message and throws core. After little investigation I have found out the problem is in Text::ParseWords::quotewords procedure. Test perl script which produces error is a

Re: gmirror, sparc and SCSI problems

2005-07-19 Thread Stephen Hock
On Jul 9, 2005, at 9:36 AM, Chris Hodgins wrote: Danny, Thanks for the link. This was actually the first link we tried to get working and after it failed to work we followed the link on the page to http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/. Everything worked fine until we arrived at this step

Re: RELENG_6 has problems with booting

2005-07-19 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Lundi 18 Juillet 2005 10:50, Jonathan Weiss a écrit : Hi, > When I do a boot in safe mode, everything is ok. > > Attachted is the dmesg from the verbose boot. Did you try without acpi ? I've got a similar problem with a nforce2 based mother board. Regards. ___

Re: cua*x naming? [Was: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available]

2005-07-19 Thread David Wolfskill
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 03:24:47PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 18:18 +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, 17. Juli 2005 21:12 CEST schrieb Robert Watson: > > > > (2) /dev/cuaa* has been renamed to /dev/cuad

Re: FreeBSD -STABLE servers repeatedly crashing.

2005-07-19 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jul 18, 2005, at 5:39 PM, Gary Mulder wrote: Another person on the freebsd-amd64 list reported similar network- related crashes until he switched to em (Intel Gigabit Ethernet) NICs. that was probably me... but I don't have any firewall on these boxes as they are not hooked up to the i

Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?

2005-07-19 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:46:18AM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > > Since I can't seem to keep any recent RELENG_5 kernel up and running > > atm. I'd change my viewpoint to run 5.4 and apply all necessary > > stability patches yourself. I'll prepare a patchset... > > ARGH, nevermind, 5.4-release-p4

Re: cua*x naming? [Was: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available]

2005-07-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 18:18 +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 17. Juli 2005 21:12 CEST schrieb Robert Watson: > > > (2) /dev/cuaa* has been renamed to /dev/cuad* > > > > I saw that cuaa got cuad and ucom0 got cuaU0. Now what is

Re: TinyBSD Call For Testers

2005-07-19 Thread Patrick Tracanelli
Norbert Koch wrote: Hello, thank you for your posting. Can you explain, how it compares to minibsd [https://neon1.net/misc/minibsd.html]? Norbert It is similar to minibsd in the "copy" proccess, but different in the configuration and image creation stages. TinyBSD does not heavily depend on

Re: ATA Woes.

2005-07-19 Thread Tony Byrne
Hello Tony, Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 10:37:40 AM, you wrote: TB> Folks, TB> I'm seeing something very unusual on one of our FreeBSD 5.4 Stable TB> boxes which I'm having a hard time getting to the bottom of. Further information from my server logs: Jul 19 13:01:48 roo kernel: ad0: FAILURE - REA

Re: Today's RELENG_5_4 and 'lock cmpxchgl'

2005-07-19 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:53:14PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:05:23AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Ok, even non-SMP 7-CURRENT crashes on it, so I do not believe that I'm > > > the only one seeing this... > > > > You're not..as noted, it's been widely reported. >

Re: Today's RELENG_5_4 and 'lock cmpxchgl'

2005-07-19 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:05:23AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Ok, even non-SMP 7-CURRENT crashes on it, so I do not believe that I'm > > the only one seeing this... > > You're not..as noted, it's been widely reported. Could you give me any pointers to where this has been discussed before ?

Re: FYI - RELENG_6 branch has been created.

2005-07-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:04:36PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Ken Smith wrote: > > >Just a quick note to say that as part of the FreeBSD-6.0 Release Cycle > >the RELENG_6 branch tag has just been created in the CVS repository. > >In preparation for the release some pla

Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?

2005-07-19 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:28:03AM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:04:28PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > > > >I remember 5.2.1 panicking left and right, on several machines, it was > > > >completely unusable. Maybe we just live in different universes. > > > > > > Me too, bu

ATA Woes.

2005-07-19 Thread Tony Byrne
Folks, I'm seeing something very unusual on one of our FreeBSD 5.4 Stable boxes which I'm having a hard time getting to the bottom of. You may recall that a few weeks ago I posted regarding a server that was having trouble with WRITE_DMA and READ_DMA timeouts on it's SATA disk. We finally decided

Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?

2005-07-19 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:04:28PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote: > > >I remember 5.2.1 panicking left and right, on several machines, it was > > >completely unusable. Maybe we just live in different universes. > > > > Me too, but a lot has changed since 5.2.1 which at the time was I think was > > c

Re: 5.4-RELEASE-p4: shutdown hangs after rebuiding gmirror

2005-07-19 Thread Michiel Boland
[recap: machine hangs on shutdown - see original message for more details] Syncing disks, vnodes remaining...1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 done No buffers busy after final sync Uptime: 55m39s GEOM_MIRROR: Device raid1: provider mirror/raid1 destroyed. GEOM_MIRROR: Device raid1 destroyed. FWIW the hangs occur