Re: flock incorrectly detects deadlock on 7-stable and current

2008-05-08 Thread Paul Koch
On Thu, 8 May 2008 06:37:00 pm Doug Rabson wrote: > On 8 May 2008, at 09:12, Paul Koch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We have been trying to track down a problem with one of our apps > > which does a lot of flock(2) calls. flock returns errno 11 > > (Resource deadlock avoided) under certain scenarios. Ou

Release Schedule 7.1

2008-05-08 Thread Jason C. Wells
What are the hoped for release dates for 7.1? (plus or minus a month) I'm debating on running 7.0 vs 7.1 and timing is a consideration. Regards, Jason ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Toshiba PMCIA floppy fdc0: does not respond on pcmcia(4) with 7.0-STABLE

2008-05-08 Thread Marcin Cieslak
Hello, I have tried to plug a Toshiba PCMCIA floppy drive (PA2612U) on to the 7.0-STABLE and I got "fdc0: does not respond": ACPI set debug layer 'ACPI_HARDWARE' level 'ACPI_LV_ALL_EXCEPTIONS' Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991,

Re: amd64/123495: 7.0 AMD64 doesn't install on a Dell SC1435

2008-05-08 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Randy, Randy Schultz wrote: | On Wed, 7 May 2008, Fabian Wenk spaketh thusly: | | -}Hello Randy | -} | -}On 07.05.08 18:21, Randy Schultz wrote: | -}> FBSD 6.x AMD64 works great on this system, as does centos linux. | -}> When I try to install 7.

panic dd-ing from a USB "disk"

2008-05-08 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Hello! I had some troubles mounting the filesystem from: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 3886MB (7959552 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 495C) and decided to just dd the entire da0 to a

Re: Dreadful gmirror performance - suggested changes to 'prefer'

2008-05-08 Thread Andrew Snow
I havent looked at the code in detail, but I can't see that it would be too difficult. What do people think ? If the first drive is always priority=0, then it is going to be stuck at the highest priority, or under your plan, the lower priority. My original idea OTOH (starting the counting at

Re: Dreadful gmirror performance - suggested changes to 'prefer'

2008-05-08 Thread Pete French
O.K., heres an initial version of the patch - relative to 7.0 release. Please test and let me know if there are any problems. Patch should apply cleanly if you are in '/usr'. cheers, -pete. begin 644 gmirror.patch.gz M'XL("",/(T@"`V=M:7)R;W(N<&[EMAIL PROTECTED](TC_+?\6$JRQV;($D/P!S MX5L6G,1U8/:,

Re: Dreadful gmirror performance - suggested changes to 'prefer'

2008-05-08 Thread Pete French
> Hmm, it would seem you need "N-and-upper" and "N-and-lower", but this is > inconvenient. Your original idea is probably better. Certainly simpler to implement. Ideally, of course, you could change the priority on the fly (which would solve all of this) but the fact that it is stored in priority

Re: Dreadful gmirror performance - suggested changes to 'prefer'

2008-05-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Pete French wrote: >> Couple of ideas: >> >> - Don't use "128" as the default since it will lead people to think >> there's an 8-bit quantity behind the setting (and subsequently develop >> weird theories about how the setting works), when it isn't so. Use 100 >> or 1000. > > Are you sure it isn't

Re: Dreadful gmirror performance - suggested changes to 'prefer'

2008-05-08 Thread Pete French
> Couple of ideas: > > - Don't use "128" as the default since it will lead people to think > there's an 8-bit quantity behind the setting (and subsequently develop > weird theories about how the setting works), when it isn't so. Use 100 > or 1000. Are you sure it isn't an 8 bit value underneath ?

Re: Dreadful gmirror performance - suggested changes to 'prefer'

2008-05-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Pete French wrote: > I am just looking at this again, and am in a bit of a mood > for writing some patches, so I wanted to run the following idea past people > as regards the priority system in the 'prefer' balancing method. > > Just to recap, creating a gmirror creates the first device with prior

Re: Dreadful gmirror performance - suggested changes to 'prefer'

2008-05-08 Thread Pete French
I am just looking at this again, and am in a bit of a mood for writing some patches, so I wanted to run the following idea past people as regards the priority system in the 'prefer' balancing method. Just to recap, creating a gmirror creates the first device with priority zero. Adding extra device

New Arrivals: New brand - Analog Clothing

2008-05-08 Thread Streetsoul
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Re: Best-performing disk I/O options for a DBMS server on 7-STABLE

2008-05-08 Thread Pete French
> I assume SCSI is the best path forward (either SA/SCSI or traditional) but > have been out of the loop on the card(s) that work properly for a good long > while. HP P400 cards are PCI express and SAS - they work very well under FreeBSD. I've also used the cheaper E200 and that appears to be fine

Re: flock incorrectly detects deadlock on 7-stable and current

2008-05-08 Thread Doug Rabson
On 8 May 2008, at 09:12, Paul Koch wrote: Hi, We have been trying to track down a problem with one of our apps which does a lot of flock(2) calls. flock returns errno 11 (Resource deadlock avoided) under certain scenarios. Our app works fine on 7-Release, but fails on 7-stable and -current.

flock incorrectly detects deadlock on 7-stable and current

2008-05-08 Thread Paul Koch
test environment is: - 8 core Intel machine running i386 stable - 4 core Intel machine running amd64 current (20080508) - 4 core Intel machine running amd64 stable (20080508) - 2 core AMD machine running i386 stable (20080418) - 2 core AMD machine running i386 stable (20080418) - single core

Re: cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org

2008-05-08 Thread Ollivier Robert
Stefan Lambrev disait : > cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org is outdated. > I know this is not the proper list, but which one is? freebsd-hubs is, redirected. I've noticed that recently but I should have send a mail about it, sorry. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dar

cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org

2008-05-08 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Greetings, cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org is outdated. I know this is not the proper list, but which one is? -- Best Wishes, Stefan Lambrev ICQ# 24134177 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To un

Re: PCI serial card works on 6.2 but not on 6.3

2008-05-08 Thread Ingeborg Hellemo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > The problem seems to be revision 1.51.2.3 of src/sys/dev/puc/pucdata.c > Could you try the following patch? Thank you, it worked! --Ingeborg -- Ingeborg Østrem Hellemo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Univ. of Tromsø, Norway) ___