Re: New em driver breaks jumbo frames

2006-11-02 Thread Craig Boston
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:27:14PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 02:09:29PM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: > > Yes, this is the second report I've had, other came to me personally. > > There is already a PR about it. Ah, thanks, guess I should have searched there first... Craig

Re: New em driver breaks jumbo frames

2006-11-02 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 02:09:29PM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: > Yes, this is the second report I've had, other came to me personally. There is already a PR about it. mcl ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

RE: Watchdog Timeout - bge device - 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-11-02 Thread John Marshall
> Is it causing stuck connections or other messy problems? Also, is it > any worse than 6.1? No. It's not causing lock-ups or anything else sinister. The network activity resumes happily a couple of seconds after the reset. Nov 3 00:33:07 rwsrv05 kernel: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting Nov

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge device - 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-11-02 Thread Scott Long
Is it causing stuck connections or other messy problems? Also, is it any worse than 6.1? Scott John Marshall wrote: rwsrv05> dmesg | grep bge bge0: mem 0xe820-0xe820 irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci4 miibus1: on bge0 bge0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:cd:e7:70:19 bge0: link state changed to

Watchdog Timeout - bge device - 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-11-02 Thread John Marshall
rwsrv05> dmesg | grep bge bge0: mem 0xe820-0xe820 irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci4 miibus1: on bge0 bge0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:cd:e7:70:19 bge0: link state changed to UP bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting bge0: link state changed to DOWN bge0: link state changed to UP bge0: watchdog timeo

Re: 6.1-STABLE , cant see SIS 180 SATA / SIS S655-FX SATA Drives

2006-11-02 Thread Kevin Kutzko
I have updated to 6.2-PRERELEASE, still experiencing the same problem. Dmesg output is as follows : Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Fr

Re: New em driver breaks jumbo frames

2006-11-02 Thread Jack Vogel
Yes, this is the second report I've had, other came to me personally. I'm looking into it. Jack On 11/2/06, Craig Boston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don't have much time right now, but wanted to report that the new em driver in -STABLE breaks jumbo frame support for me. With it in the kernel a

New em driver breaks jumbo frames

2006-11-02 Thread Craig Boston
Don't have much time right now, but wanted to report that the new em driver in -STABLE breaks jumbo frame support for me. With it in the kernel and this card: em1: port 0xe8c0-0xe8ff mem 0xfe18-0xfe19 irq 18 at device 12.0 on pci2 I'm unable to send an ethernet frame bigger than 2034 b

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-02 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi! > drwxr-xr-x ... lib32 > drwxr-xr-x ... lib64 > lrwxr-xr-x ... lib -> lib${ARCH_BITS} > > ARCH_BITS would be set to "64" globally, and it would be > set to "32" for i386 applications. Then every program > would find the correct libs automagically. > PS: For those who are not fa

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-02 Thread David Marshall
On 10/31/06, Robert Blayzor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a way to upgrade/move an already installed i386 installed 6.1 machine to amd64 without completely reinstalling? Is there a procedure to do so? I spent all of last weekend trying to do this, with no solution determined. I read a

Re: New em driver - still watchdog timeouts

2006-11-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:39:16AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: > So, is that somewhat clearer? Very much so! Thank you for the concise answer. This makes much more sense. (The description, I mean -- the actual problem is still a mystery.) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc

Re: New em driver - still watchdog timeouts

2006-11-02 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi, Jack! On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:39:16AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: > So why do I say what we see is bogus... because the watchdog is > firing even though we DON'T have tx hangs or descriptor shortages. > > I have a hack that rechecks the number of free descriptors in the > watchdog code and r

Re: New em driver - still watchdog timeouts

2006-11-02 Thread Jack Vogel
On 11/2/06, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:43:34AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: > Yes, I know this is still happening. I also have pretty good data now > that its a bogus problem, meaning due to scheduling issues the > watchdog does not get reset even though the

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
Peter Jeremy wrote: > Mark Linimon wrote: > > - certain ports have i386 binaries (can't be fixed) > > - certain ports have i386 asm code (can be fixed if there is fallback > > C code) > > A partial solution to this is to get the i386 emulation and cross- > building into better shape. If

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
Greg Black wrote: > Mark Linimon wrote: > > Greg Black wrote: > > > I found that a very large number of ports that mattered to me were marked > > > i386 only. > > > > In some cases these designations are obsolete. They will require people- > > power to work through them and see if they are

Re: New em driver - still watchdog timeouts

2006-11-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:43:34AM -0800, Jack Vogel wrote: > Yes, I know this is still happening. I also have pretty good data now > that its a bogus problem, meaning due to scheduling issues the > watchdog does not get reset even though the system is just fine > as far as transmit descriptors is

Re: New em driver - still watchdog timeouts

2006-11-02 Thread Jack Vogel
Yes, I know this is still happening. I also have pretty good data now that its a bogus problem, meaning due to scheduling issues the watchdog does not get reset even though the system is just fine as far as transmit descriptors is concerned. I have a patch that detects this and keeps the watchdog

Re: SAS Raid - mfi driver

2006-11-02 Thread Scott Long
Do your performance test on Linux using 32k or 64k i/o blocks, then do it on FreeBSD using the same. You'll seem similar performance between the two. Unless your application is bypassing the filesystem to do raw I/O that is larger than that, you won't see any benefit from the larger i/o sizes t

Re: SAS Raid - mfi driver

2006-11-02 Thread Fredrik Widlund
Yes I received it, and no I'm not saying it's a driver bug. However I did assume this would be the driver specific. Do I understand you correctly; you're saying that it's FreeBSD's controller I/O framework in general that cause this performance gap to Windows and Linux, and it's not driver specifi

Re: ggated not working on 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-11-02 Thread Kazuaki ODA
Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 06:48:18PM +0100, Christian Laursen wrote: >> Christian Laursen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Kazuaki ODA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I tried to find what broke ggated, and finally found that it works fine when I backout sys/ke

Re: SAS Raid - mfi driver

2006-11-02 Thread Scott Long
You seem convinced that this is a driver bug. Did you receive my series of emails 2 days ago that explained why it is not? Scott Fredrik Widlund wrote: Please don't direct this to me as I've already pointed out that I'm not asking about this. Fyi. the cards were shipped in a hurry mistakenly

Re: SAS Raid - mfi driver

2006-11-02 Thread Fredrik Widlund
Please don't direct this to me as I've already pointed out that I'm not asking about this. Fyi. the cards were shipped in a hurry mistakenly without bbus, we have to wait until next week for them to arrive, and until then we will use cache without batteries since the performance degradation using w

Re: Problem with the installer sysinstall.

2006-11-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Michael Butler wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Michel Talon wrote: > > > > > acpi_throttle0: on cpu0 > > > cpu1: on acpi0 > > > acpi_throttle1: on cpu1 > > > acpi_throttle1: failed to attach P_CNT > > > device_attach: acpi_throttle1 attach ret

Re: Problem with the installer sysinstall.

2006-11-02 Thread Michael Butler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ian Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Michel Talon wrote: > > [..] > > > I am joining the dmesg for reference. > > Just skimming through, tongue hanging out .. > > > cpu0: on acpi0 > > acpi_perf0: on cpu0 > > acpi_throttle0: on cpu0 > > cp

Re: Problem with the installer sysinstall.

2006-11-02 Thread Joel Dahl
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 09:02 -0500, Michael Butler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Joel Dahl wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 14:49 +0100, Michel Talon wrote: > >> By the way another minor problem is that the audio does not > >> work. According to the mobo manual, it is

GCC flags for Conroe based CPUs

2006-11-02 Thread Mike Jakubik
I am wondering what CPUTYPE and CFLAGS are appropriate when using Intel's Conroe based Xeons, since GCC 3 is not aware of this CPU, afaik. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscri

Re: Problem with the installer sysinstall.

2006-11-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Michel Talon wrote: [..] > I am joining the dmesg for reference. Just skimming through, tongue hanging out .. > cpu0: on acpi0 > acpi_perf0: on cpu0 > acpi_throttle0: on cpu0 > cpu1: on acpi0 > acpi_throttle1: on cpu1 > acpi_throttle1: failed to attach P_CNT > d

Re: SAS Raid - mfi driver

2006-11-02 Thread Scott Long
The battery unit should not be considered optional. It's not about performance on silly 'dd' tests, it's about data safety. Way back when, all enterprise RAID cards were sold with an integrated battery because it was the right thing to do. These days, when you're shopping for RAID cards, you sh

Re: bootmgr on pc engines wrap board

2006-11-02 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Nov 1, 2006, at 3:48 PM, spoggle wrote: You can prove it by running boot0cfg with the "-o nopacket" option on the CF card. Whee - that worked, thank you! - ask -- http://askask.com/ - http://develooper.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org m

Re: Problem with the installer sysinstall.

2006-11-02 Thread Michael Butler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joel Dahl wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 14:49 +0100, Michel Talon wrote: >> By the way another minor problem is that the audio does not >> work. According to the mobo manual, it is a Realtek ALC882 audio chip. None >> of the sound modules have recogni

Re: Problem with the installer sysinstall.

2006-11-02 Thread Joel Dahl
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 14:49 +0100, Michel Talon wrote: > > By the way another minor problem is that the audio does not > work. According to the mobo manual, it is a Realtek ALC882 audio chip. None > of the sound modules have recognized the chip. Sound works under Linux. HDA sound is only supported

Problem with the installer sysinstall.

2006-11-02 Thread Michel Talon
Hello, today i have installed FreeBSD-6.2 BETA2 amd-64 on a Core 2 Duo machine with an ASUS P5LD2-VM mobo. I have encountered the following bug from the installer: it wrote an fstab file with all the disk entries on ad4, while the disk is on ad8. Hence when i rebooted, after install, root fil

Re: FW: Zoneli State / Nttcp client.

2006-11-02 Thread LI Xin
To quote the original post: Hi, I have a script where we start a nttcp for some 500 nttcp client in back ground. After some time I could see the nttcp clients are listed in the TOP command as "Zoneli" state. Can any one please let me know what is meant by Zoneli state? Test Script: = cou

FW: Zoneli State / Nttcp client.

2006-11-02 Thread sivakumar.subramani
-Original Message- From: LI Xin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 6:26 PM To: SIVAKUMAR SUBRAMANI (WT01 - Computing Systems & Storage) Subject: Re: Zoneli State / Nttcp client. Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have a script where we start a nttcp for s

gbde breaks buildworld

2006-11-02 Thread Matthew Herzog
With a freshly checked-out tree from yesterday I still get the same error when running "make buildworld" on sparc64 6.1-RELEASE-p7. mkdep -f .depend -a-I/usr/src/sbin/gbde/../../sys -DRESCUE /usr/src/sbin/gbde/gbde.c template.c /usr/src/sbin/gbde/../../sys/crypto/rijndael/rijndael-alg-fst.c /

Re: SAS Raid - mfi driver

2006-11-02 Thread Fredrik Widlund
Because the card itself will deal with the buffered writes independently of the kernel activity the risk should be less than using softupdates. Words like "screwed" seems to me to be exaggerated in the generic case. I our case specific you would need to understand the nature of what we are doing to

New em driver - still watchdog timeouts

2006-11-02 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hello! Our central backup server is still experiencing the same random problems. The timouts occur every other night or so, when the server has got high CPU load (compressing the backups) and transfers large amounts of data at the same time. Nov 2 02:19:34 datatomb kernel: em1: watchdog timeout