Re: locked vnode / nfs... requires kill -9 in ddb

2006-10-20 Thread John E Hein
Kostik Belousov wrote at 06:57 +0300 on Oct 21, 2006: > On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 08:25:00AM +0800, David Xu wrote: > > On Thursday 19 October 2006 18:04, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > > > > > > The nfs_reply is sleeping with the PCATCH set. The question is why > > > SIGTSTP > > > does not ca

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:18:16PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: J> > A bit more helpfull, but unfortunately not much is a datapoint saying no J> > problems April 3rd and watchdog timeouts after September 28 RELENG_6. I J> > know, probably too vague to be of any use, but there it is. J> J> Someone

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:18:13PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: J> The engineer in our test group has installed 6.2 BETA2 and attempted via a J> number of tests to reproduce this problem, the machine even shares the em J> interrupt with usb, and yet so far he has been unsuccessful. I've failed to repr

Re: locked vnode / nfs... requires kill -9 in ddb

2006-10-20 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 08:25:00AM +0800, David Xu wrote: > On Thursday 19 October 2006 18:04, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > > > The nfs_reply is sleeping with the PCATCH set. The question is why SIGTSTP > > does not cause msleep to return with EINTR. > > I have not been tracking the thread. but i

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/20/06, Bill Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Another thing that might be handy is improving the watchdog timeout > > message so that it dumps the state of the ICR and ICM registers (and > > maybe some other interesting driver and/or device state). The timeout > > implies no inter

Re: locked vnode / nfs... requires kill -9 in ddb

2006-10-20 Thread David Xu
On Saturday 21 October 2006 00:05, John E Hein wrote: > > The problem is in thread_suspend_check(), not the sleepq code. > > It happened again (triggered by ctrl-z). > INVARIANTS & WITNESS provided no help. > > Is the problem in thread_suspend_check() known? > MFC-able from HEAD? > I don't think

Re: locked vnode / nfs... requires kill -9 in ddb

2006-10-20 Thread David Xu
On Thursday 19 October 2006 18:04, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > The nfs_reply is sleeping with the PCATCH set. The question is why SIGTSTP > does not cause msleep to return with EINTR. I have not been tracking the thread. but if the thread is sleeping with PCATCH, the SIGTSTP should cause the proce

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Paul
[...] > > Another thing that might be handy is improving the watchdog timeout > > message so that it dumps the state of the ICR and ICM registers (and > > maybe some other interesting driver and/or device state). The timeout > > implies no interrupts were delivered for a Long Time (tm). If the >

Hard lock on 6.1-STABLE

2006-10-20 Thread Laurence Sanford
It's taken me a while to narrow down what this is, but today I finally narrowed it all the way down. High network load on the system causes it to hard lock, nothing but pulling the plug will get any response. The network interface is nve on an Asus A8N-SLI. The magic bullet appears to be: bit

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Paul
> > > > Just out of curiosity, what sort of torture tests does Intel do, in > > general, on the em driver on FreeBSD? One thing that I've found which > > works wonders at exposing race conditions is the Smartbits bi-directional > > IP forwarding test. Put two NICs in a system, configure for it for

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/20/06, Bill Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is exactly the test that Andre and I were running, though only in > one direction (I think due to lack of hardware for a full test). Yes, but did you do it with a Smartbits though, or just with a couple of other FreeBSD machines? Unfortun

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Scott Long
Bill Paul wrote: Yes, but did you do it with a Smartbits though, or just with a couple of other FreeBSD machines? Unfortunately, a typical FreeBSD system on its own won't generate frames anywhere near fast enough to really torture test a gigE interface. At best you might hit around 20 to 300

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Paul
> Bill Paul wrote: > > [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > > >>On 10/19/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:18:13PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: > >>> > The engineer in our test group has installed 6.2 BETA2 and attempted via a

Re: VIA C7 support

2006-10-20 Thread Matthieu Michaud
Mike Tancsa a écrit : At 11:37 AM 10/12/2006, Oliver Fromme wrote: Matthieu Michaud wrote: > I rent a small server based on a VIA C7 on which I installed a > 6.2-PRERELEASE as of today (see dmesg and kernconf attached). It runs > fairly well but I wonder if it couldn't be faster. > > Accord

Re: VIA C7 support

2006-10-20 Thread Matthieu Michaud
Oliver Fromme a écrit : Matthieu Michaud wrote: > I rent a small server based on a VIA C7 on which I installed a > 6.2-PRERELEASE as of today (see dmesg and kernconf attached). It runs > fairly well but I wonder if it couldn't be faster. > > According to padlock(4) man page, crypto hardware

Re: locked vnode / nfs... requires kill -9 in ddb

2006-10-20 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 20 October 2006 12:05, John E Hein wrote: > John Baldwin wrote at 10:44 -0400 on Oct 19, 2006: > > On Thursday 19 October 2006 06:04, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:01:45AM -0600, John E Hein wrote: > > > > 6.2-PRERELEASE from 20061016 RELENG_6 sources. > > >

Re: bug on BTX

2006-10-20 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday 19 October 2006 22:06, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > Hi all, > > FYI, this change adds 32 bytes to btx leaving 139 bytes free, according > to btxld(8). As you probably all know, and just as a reminder, size in > boot2 is at a premium -- it can't go over 8192 bytes as this is the > boot

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/20/06, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bill Paul wrote: > [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > >>On 10/19/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:18:13PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: >>> The engineer in our test group has inst

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Scott Long
Bill Paul wrote: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] On 10/19/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:18:13PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: The engineer in our test group has installed 6.2 BETA2 and attempted via a number of tests to reproduce

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Jack Vogel
On 10/20/06, Bill Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > On 10/19/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:18:13PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: > > > The engineer in our test group has installed 6.2 BETA2 and attemp

Re: em network issues

2006-10-20 Thread Bill Paul
[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > On 10/19/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:18:13PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: > > > The engineer in our test group has installed 6.2 BETA2 and attempted via a > > > number of tests to reproduce this pr

Re: locked vnode / nfs... requires kill -9 in ddb

2006-10-20 Thread John E Hein
John Baldwin wrote at 10:44 -0400 on Oct 19, 2006: > On Thursday 19 October 2006 06:04, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:01:45AM -0600, John E Hein wrote: > > > 6.2-PRERELEASE from 20061016 RELENG_6 sources. > > > Locked vnodes > > > > > > 0xc6b7bdd0: tag nfs, type VDIR

Re: NFS: freeze during copy [ RESOLVED]

2006-10-20 Thread rvenne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 16:37 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: and my luck has it such that i've not had a lockup since i added that extra debugging code into the kernel :-) or :-( depending on your view... Heisenbugs are great! :)

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/bge if_bge.c if_bgereg.h

2006-10-20 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 10.10.2006 um 13:12 schrieb Stefan Bethke: Doug Ambrisko schrieb: ambrisko2006-09-09 03:36:57 UTC FreeBSD src repository Modified files: sys/dev/bge if_bge.c if_bgereg.h Log: Add support to bge(4) to not break IPMI support when the driver attaches to it. Do

Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
Danny Braniss wrote: > sorry!, it was before morning coffee, > s/bsdlabel/boot0cfg/ Ah, OK. Yes, that would also work, but only if you have the boot manager installed. (Strictly speaking it doesn't change the active slice, which will always be the FreeBSD slice, but it changes the slice t

Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-20 Thread Danny Braniss
> Danny Braniss wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > To change the active slice to, say, the third one, use the > > > command "fdisk -a 3 /dev/yourdisk". That will request for > > > confirmation interactively. To do it non-interactively > > > (e.g. in a script), use "echo a 3 | fdisk -f - /

Re: mountd changed?

2006-10-20 Thread Rink Springer
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:33:38AM +0200, Rink Springer wrote: > I'll get this committed. Thanks for the report and patch! It has been committed to HEAD; Expect a MFC after a few days. Thanks! -- Rink P.W. Springer- http://rink.nu "Patience is for those who canno

Re: HEADS-UP: DEVFS fixes MFC for test [Was: Re: ps locks up on 6.2-PRERELEASE SMP]

2006-10-20 Thread Kazuaki ODA
Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:45:34AM +0900, Kazuaki ODA wrote: >> Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> Yep, devfs as I suspected. >>> >>> Keep an eye on the commit logs for when kib@ merges his fix. >>> >>> Kris >> Thanks. I'll test again after the fix is merged into RELENG_6, and post

Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
Danny Braniss wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > To change the active slice to, say, the third one, use the > > command "fdisk -a 3 /dev/yourdisk". That will request for > > confirmation interactively. To do it non-interactively > > (e.g. in a script), use "echo a 3 | fdisk -f - /dev/...". >

kernel ignores kenv comconsole_speed?

2006-10-20 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug? (This is on a stable from yesterday.) I have -DS115200 in /boot.config, and boot and loader are happily using this speed. However, the kernel appears to be hardwired to 9600. After boot, it's still at 9600: # stty I've recompiled my kernel wit

Re: bug on BTX

2006-10-20 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Bruce M. Simpson wrote: [...] Indeed I recently ran into this myself. Certain 1U machines which I acquired had problems booting from USB CDROM. I traced this back to the USB BIOS trying to LGDT and causing a general protection fault in vm86 mode. I worked around this by PXE booting them on a pr

Re: Installing 6.1-R on Dell Powervault 745N

2006-10-20 Thread Lin Jui-Nan Eric
Hi, On 10/20/06, Søren Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, I need the output from a verbose boot. That will tell if the disks are seen at all and just the attach phase is failing. I might have a few ideas depending on the outcome of that... There is no message about ad0 shown in the boot pr

Re: Installing 6.1-R on Dell Powervault 745N

2006-10-20 Thread Søren Schmidt
Lin Jui-Nan Eric wrote: Hi, On 10/19/06, Søren Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nothing else that that it should work. I dont own any HW that uses this chip so I cannot test it out. The current support was done for the ARM port IIRC so things might be different on other systems. At any rate y

Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-20 Thread Danny Braniss
> r00t_0101 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know how to create a true slice on a BSD/Linux node. > > I know that Solaris uses Solstice DiskSuite or some type of volume > > management where you are able to reboot to a particular partition > > through command-line instead of manual reb

Re: bug on BTX

2006-10-20 Thread Danny Braniss
> Hi all, > > FYI, this change adds 32 bytes to btx leaving 139 bytes free, according > to btxld(8). As you probably all know, and just as a reminder, size in > boot2 is at a premium -- it can't go over 8192 bytes as this is the > boot-sector limit in the BSD disk-label. > > Dominic Marks wro

HEADS-UP: DEVFS fixes MFC for test [Was: Re: ps locks up on 6.2-PRERELEASE SMP]

2006-10-20 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:45:34AM +0900, Kazuaki ODA wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Yep, devfs as I suspected. > > > > Keep an eye on the commit logs for when kib@ merges his fix. > > > > Kris > > Thanks. I'll test again after the fix is merged into RELENG_6, and post > the result. I plan t

Re: BSD/Linux slices like Solaris' Solstice DiskSuite

2006-10-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
r00t_0101 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to create a true slice on a BSD/Linux node. > I know that Solaris uses Solstice DiskSuite or some type of volume > management where you are able to reboot to a particular partition > through command-line instead of manual reboot. So wh

Re: 5 to 6

2006-10-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
Randy Bush wrote: > do folk actually successfully upgrade > > # uname -a > FreeBSD psg.com 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #15: Sun Oct 1 18:41:24 GMT > 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSG i386 > > to RELENG_6 *safely* on a many-user production system using the > instruc

Re: FreeBSD 4.x EoL

2006-10-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > The issue I run into is that I use software raid (vinum in 4.11, gmirror > > in 6.x), and I don't know of any way to go from one to the other that > > doesn't involve wiping both drives at the same time. > > You can wipe one of the disks, cr

Re: FreeBSD 4.x EoL

2006-10-20 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Paul Allen wrote: While possibly not advisable in the long term, I ran a 4.x postfix and cyrus server install on 6.x using compat4 for about six months without problems. The place where it gets tricky is updating the 4.x binaries, which requires a 4.x chroot, since I was