MFC 7.0 calcru changes

2007-08-23 Thread David O'Brien
This is a patch to MFC what I think are all the calcru-related changes that occurred since 6-STABLE was branched and 7.0 continued forward. If anyone spots some changes I missed, please yell out. -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Index: amd64/amd64/mp_machdep.c ==

Re: Panic and reboot with USB hard disk

2007-08-23 Thread Bartosz Fabianowski
With the help of some folks in #freebsd on freenode, I have since been able to fix this problem. Here is the solution for future reference: There is a bug in GELI that makes it corrupt data and panic kernels when certain non-standard settings are used. I had set the GELI sector size to 8192 an

Re: powerd freeze with amd 5000 X2 but not with lower cpus

2007-08-23 Thread JoaoBR
On Thursday 23 August 2007 14:37:57 Ian Smith wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, JoaoBR wrote: > > On Thursday 23 August 2007 00:17:56 Ian Smith wrote: > > > Call me curious, but (assuming that you're tuning for performance, not > > > economy, and so will always run these boxes on AC power, not batte

Re: powerd freeze with amd 5000 X2 but not with lower cpus

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, JoaoBR wrote: > On Thursday 23 August 2007 00:17:56 Ian Smith wrote: > > > > > Call me curious, but (assuming that you're tuning for performance, not > > economy, and so will always run these boxes on AC power, not battery): > > > > a) why you think that line in /etc/

Re: update from RELEASE to STABLE changed /dev/ad or geom behavior?

2007-08-23 Thread Michael Proto
Michael Proto wrote: > Hello all, > > To fix a bug in PF I recently updated my home firewall platform (a > shrunk-down install of FreeBSD 6 on a CompactFlash card mounted > read-only as /dev/ad0a) from the RELENG_6_2 to the RELENG_6 branch. All > went very well there and the PF problem is resolved

Panic and reboot with USB hard disk

2007-08-23 Thread Bartosz Fabianowski
Hi list A 2.5" USB hard disk I recently got has been giving me a lot of trouble. When using the disk, I routinely get panics or random data corruption. This happens with two separate machines, both running 6-STABLE. I found that one file residing on the disk, when read, always makes the kernel

Re: powerd freeze with amd 5000 X2 but not with lower cpus

2007-08-23 Thread JoaoBR
On Thursday 23 August 2007 00:17:56 Ian Smith wrote: > > Call me curious, but (assuming that you're tuning for performance, not > economy, and so will always run these boxes on AC power, not battery): > > a) why you think that line in /etc/rc.d/power_profile is 'funny'? > well, in first place b