panic in 7.2 (ffs_alloc.c?)

2009-11-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
Howdy, I'm not expert at getting info out of a dump, but I'll do my best to provide some information. This is a Dell PE2970 w/PERC6/i RAID running FreeBSD 7.2/amd64. Brand new box, has been doing very light work for about two weeks. Last night I started a very long mstone run on a jailed m

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-21 Thread Adam McDougall
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:36:43AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:07:40PM +0100, Johan Hendriks wrote: > Randy Bush wrote: > > imiho, zfs can not be called production ready if it crashes if you > > do not stand on your left leg, put your right hand in the air,

Re: 8.0-RC USB/FS problem

2009-11-21 Thread Guojun Jin
Tried on the USB hard drive: Deleted slice 3 and recreated slice 3 with two partitions s3d and s3e. Was happy because successfully did dump/restore on s3d, and thought it just partition format issue; but system crashed during dump/restore on s3e, and partition lost the file system type. wolf# m

8.0-RC USB problem -- how to recover a damaged USB stick

2009-11-21 Thread Guojun Jin
It seems this is more serious problem in 8.0, and I hope it could be resolved before a formal release. I can help to diagnose this if people need more information (this is destructive). I have picked a USB stick (DataTraveler 2GB), that has two partitions s0 for DOS and s1 for FreeBSD. Both USB

Pulse Meter with Cellular communication

2009-11-21 Thread Exemys
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MFC of r198284 to 7-STABLE

2009-11-21 Thread Oliver Pinter
commit 4a6ea694eaad85c9ff99668ba7427c00cea3e990 Author: kib Date: Tue Oct 20 13:34:41 2009 + MFC r197934: Map PIE binaries at non-zero base address. MFC r198202: Honour non-zero mapbase for PIE binaries. Inform interpreter-less PIE binary about its relocbase. Appro

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 04:29:26PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 01:59:11PM -0600, Scot Hetzel wrote: > > > RELENG_7 and RELENG_8 both, more or less, behave the same way with > > > regards to ZFS.  Both panic on kmem exhaustion.  No one has answered my > > > question as fa

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-21 Thread Marco van Tol
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 06:16:04PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: > >> imiho, zfs can not be called production ready if it crashes if you > >> do not stand on your left leg, put your right hand in the air, and > >> burn some eye of newt. > > ROFL! > > As with any open-source project, I suppose it will be

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-21 Thread Randy Bush
> Everyone's workloads are different, but the panic is the same every > time: kmem exhaustion. i386 with KVA_PAGES or amd64 -- happens on both. > It's highly dependent upon workload and what the filesystem consists of > (many files vs. fewer files but larger in size, etc.) these are measurable.

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 01:59:11PM -0600, Scot Hetzel wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:07:40PM +0100, Johan Hendriks wrote: > >> Randy Bush wrote: > >> > imiho, zfs can not be called production ready if it crashes if you > >> >

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-21 Thread Randy Bush
> My understanding is that the problem is more that the FreeBSD VM > system doesn't gracefully handle running low or out of memory. to me, that's just life in the big city. the problem i think can be solved before this is let loose on the unsuspecting public is that there are really no good tools

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-21 Thread pluknet
2009/11/21 Peter Jeremy : > On 2009-Nov-21 09:47:56 +0900, Randy Bush wrote: >>imiho, zfs can not be called production ready if it crashes if you do >>not stand on your left leg, put your right hand in the air, and burn >>some eye of newt. > > FWIW, it's still very brittle on Solaris 10 and the Su

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-21 Thread Randy Bush
>> imiho, zfs can not be called production ready if it crashes if you >> do not stand on your left leg, put your right hand in the air, and >> burn some eye of newt. > This is not a rant, but where do you read that on FreeBSD 7.2 ZFS has > been marked as production ready. > As far as i know, on Fre

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-21 Thread Randy Bush
>> imiho, zfs can not be called production ready if it crashes if you >> do not stand on your left leg, put your right hand in the air, and >> burn some eye of newt. > ROFL! > As with any open-source project, I suppose it will be ready > when it is ready. At least it hasn't been made the default.

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Nov-21 09:47:56 +0900, Randy Bush wrote: >imiho, zfs can not be called production ready if it crashes if you do >not stand on your left leg, put your right hand in the air, and burn >some eye of newt. FWIW, it's still very brittle on Solaris 10 and the Sun Support response to most issues

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote: > >> Maybe. Could you paste kern.geom.confdot, kern.geom.confxml and > >> mount output to pastie.org or the like. > > > > I've attached it.. > > Hmm, I do not see whats wrong here. ZFS already opened the devices > and I see no /dev/gpt/* entries. Maybe t

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-21 Thread Scot Hetzel
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:07:40PM +0100, Johan Hendriks wrote: >> Randy Bush wrote: >> > imiho, zfs can not be called production ready if it crashes if you >> > do not stand on your left leg, put your right hand in the air, and >> > bur

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:07:40PM +0100, Johan Hendriks wrote: > Randy Bush wrote: > > imiho, zfs can not be called production ready if it crashes if you > > do not stand on your left leg, put your right hand in the air, and > > burn some eye of newt. > > This is not a rant, but where do you re

RE: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-21 Thread Johan Hendriks
Randy Bush wrote: > imiho, zfs can not be called production ready if it crashes if you > do not stand on your left leg, put your right hand in the air, and > burn some eye of newt. This is not a rant, but where do you read that on FreeBSD 7.2 ZFS has been marked as production ready. As far as i k

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-21 Thread Marius Nünnerich
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 23:20, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 14:27, Daniel O'Connor > wrote: >> > On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote: >> >> > Actually that is an interesting point, the swap partitions don't >> >> > have a

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-21 Thread perryh
Randy Bush wrote: > imiho, zfs can not be called production ready if it crashes if you > do not stand on your left leg, put your right hand in the air, and > burn some eye of newt. ROFL! As with any open-source project, I suppose it will be ready when it is ready. At least it hasn't been made t