Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: >> >> I've checked with the manufacturer and it seems that the Sil3124 in >> this NAS is indeed a PCI card. More info on the card in question is >> available at >> http://green-pcs.co.uk/2009/01/28/tra

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

Dan Naumov wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: >>> Dan Naumov wrote: This works out to 1GB in 36,2 seconds / 28,2mb/s in the first test and 4GB in 143.8 seconds / 28,4mb/s and somewhat consistent with th

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: I've checked with the manufacturer and it seems that the Sil3124 in this NAS is indeed a PCI card. More info on the card in question is available at http://green-pcs.co.uk/2009/01/28/tranquil-bbs2-those-pci-cards/ I have the card described later on the page

Re: ports/packages management in jail

On 1/24/10, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: > Hi, > > I am running a server with several jails. They were created using > ezjail. What is the best way, to allow jail internal admin to manage > ports/packages by himself? > By default ezjail shares ports tree between basejail and otherjails. Is > there a

Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R

I am having similar em interface problems with some of my production machines running older intel 2-port cards, since upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE to 8.0-RELEASE. The problem is basically, everything works fine, but periodically the interface "hangs" (tcpdump shows no frames). A reboot or an ifconfig

Re: PCIe audio cards: what is tob be preferred with FreeBSD 8.0/9-CURRENT?

"O. Hartmann" wrote: > At this very moment I utilise a M-Audio 5.1 PCI-audio board with > which I'm really satisfied. My next box doesn't have PCI slots > at all ... I look for the Soundblaster X-Fi range of PCIe cards, It's possible to get an adapter that plugs into a PCIe slot and provides a P

Re: su password prompt ti stdout instead of /dev/tty

On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:48, jhell@ wrote: On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:57, glen.j.barber@ wrote: Hi, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: Hi, su password prompt is displayed to *stdout* instead of */dev/tty*. # su user $ su root -c date > /tmp/date 2>&1 (nothing displayed) $ cat /tmp/date Password:su: Sorry $

Re: su password prompt ti stdout instead of /dev/tty

On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:57, glen.j.barber@ wrote: Hi, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: Hi, su password prompt is displayed to *stdout* instead of */dev/tty*. # su user $ su root -c date > /tmp/date 2>&1 (nothing displayed) $ cat /tmp/date Password:su: Sorry $ uname -a FreeBSD freebsd8.my.domain 8.0-RE

Re: su password prompt ti stdout instead of /dev/tty

Hi, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > Hi, > > su password prompt is displayed to *stdout* instead of */dev/tty*. > > # su user > $ su root -c date > /tmp/date 2>&1 > (nothing displayed) > $ cat /tmp/date > Password:su: Sorry > $ uname -a > FreeBSD freebsd8.my.domain 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 07:57 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > In message , Dan > N > aumov writes: > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:29 PM, John wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:02:53AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: > > >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Dan Naumov wrote= > > : > > >> > On Fri, Jan 22

su password prompt ti stdout instead of /dev/tty

Hi, su password prompt is displayed to *stdout* instead of */dev/tty*. # su user $ su root -c date > /tmp/date 2>&1 (nothing displayed) $ cat /tmp/date Password:su: Sorry $ uname -a FreeBSD freebsd8.my.domain 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 r...@almeida.cse.bu

make installworld failed

Hi, I am trying to installworld: /usr/share/man/man8/bootpgw.8.gz -> /usr/share/man/man8/bootpd.8.gz rm: /usr/share/man/man8/bootpgw.8: Not a directory rm: /usr/share/man/man8/bootpgw.8.gz: Not a directory *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/libexec/bootpd. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/libe

ports/packages management in jail

Hi, I am running a server with several jails. They were created using ezjail. What is the best way, to allow jail internal admin to manage ports/packages by himself? By default ezjail shares ports tree between basejail and otherjails. Is there a way for each jail to have a separate ports tree?

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: >> Dan Naumov wrote: >>> This works out to 1GB in 36,2 seconds / 28,2mb/s in the first test and >>> 4GB in 143.8 seconds / 28,4mb/s and somewhat consistent with the >>> bonnie results. It

Re: Extra keys in multimedia keyboard doesn't work

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:47:46PM -, Krzysztof Dajka wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:43:14 -, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > > >If so: yes, FreeBSD's USB driver appears to lack support for these. Or, > >well, it did on RELENG_7 (which is a completely different USB driver), > >so it sounds l

Re: atheros broadcast/multicast corruption with multiple hostap's

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Sam Leffler wrote: > Russell Yount wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Sam Leffler > > wrote: > > > > Russell Yount wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Sam Leffler > <

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: > Dan Naumov wrote: >> This works out to 1GB in 36,2 seconds / 28,2mb/s in the first test and >> 4GB in 143.8 seconds / 28,4mb/s and somewhat consistent with the >> bonnie results. It also sadly seems to confirm the very slow speed :( >> The

Re: top Segmentation faulting on 8.0p2 amd64 (nss_ldapd problem?)

On 01/24/10 15:10, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote: Doug Barton wrote: On 01/24/10 03:02, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Alexander V. Chernikov schrieb am 24.01.2010 10:24 (localtime): Please try to rebuild port with post-configure: @${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's/^\(CFLAGS .*\)-O2 \(.*\)$$/\1 -O0 \2/' ${WR

Re: top Segmentation faulting on 8.0p2 amd64 (nss_ldapd problem?)

Doug Barton wrote: On 01/24/10 03:02, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Alexander V. Chernikov schrieb am 24.01.2010 10:24 (localtime): Please try to rebuild port with post-configure: @${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's/^\(CFLAGS .*\)-O2 \(.*\)$$/\1 -O0 \2/' ${WRKSRC}/nss/Makefile That should be pre- or post-

Re: top Segmentation faulting on 8.0p2 amd64 (nss_ldapd problem?)

On 01/24/10 03:02, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Alexander V. Chernikov schrieb am 24.01.2010 10:24 (localtime): Please try to rebuild port with post-configure: @${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's/^\(CFLAGS .*\)-O2 \(.*\)$$/\1 -O0 \2/' ${WRKSRC}/nss/Makefile That should be pre- or post- patch, since it's ac

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

On 01/18/10 22:13, O. Hartmann wrote: Symptome: All boxes have ZFS and UFS2 filesystems. Since two weeks or so, sometimes the I/O performance drops massively when doing 'svn update', 'make world' or even 'make kernel'. It doesn't matter what memory and how many cpu the box has, it get stuck for s

Re: Extra keys in multimedia keyboard doesn't work

On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:43:14 -, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: If so: yes, FreeBSD's USB driver appears to lack support for these. Or, well, it did on RELENG_7 (which is a completely different USB driver), so it sounds like RELENG_8 needs some work in this regard. I did check my keyboard with

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

Dan Naumov wrote: > This works out to 1GB in 36,2 seconds / 28,2mb/s in the first test and > 4GB in 143.8 seconds / 28,4mb/s and somewhat consistent with the > bonnie results. It also sadly seems to confirm the very slow speed :( > The disks are attached to a 4-port Sil3124 controller and again, my

Re: PCIe audio cards: what is tob be preferred with FreeBSD 8.0/9-CURRENT?

O. Hartmann wrote: > Well, > At this very moment I utilise a M-Audio 5.1 PCI-audio board with which > I'm really satisfied. My next box doesn't have PCI slots at all (ASUS > P6T6-WS Revolution) and due to the fact I'm using Windows 7 sometimes > for recreational gaming, I'd like to have a moderate

ata driver downgrades transfer speed for Intel ICH5 SATA150 in RELENG_8 ?

Hey, I just updated my kernel from RELEASE_8_0 to RELENG_8 and by rutine I compare my dmesg -a output to make sure everything still works as expected. I notices that the ata-driver suddently downgraded the speed of my Intel ICH5 SATS150 from SATA150 til UDMA133 - and I am not allowed to change i

ata driver downgrades transfer speed for Intel ICH5 SATA150 in RELENG_8 ?

Hey, I just updated my kernel from RELEASE_8_0 to RELENG_8 and by rutine I compare my dmesg -a output to make sure everything still works as expected. I notices that the ata-driver suddently downgraded the speed of my Intel ICH5 SATS150 from SATA150 til UDMA133 - and I am not allowed to chang

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

In message , Dan N aumov writes: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:29 PM, John wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:02:53AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Dan Naumov wrote= > : > >> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. wro= > te: > >> >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 a

Re: Problematic network performance with Marvell 8072 on HP Probook 4710s

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 07:39:11PM +0100, Emanuele A. Bagnaschi wrote: > Hi, > I've been experiencing a troubling issue with a Marvell 8072 NIC on an HP > ProBook 4710s. > I first noticed that there is a problem while transferring some files > through scp to a FreeBSD8-STABLE server: CPUs usage sk

Re: 8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of /

: http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/20100124-03-sysinstall-root-1g.diff Another entirely untested patch would compress the symbol files: http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/20100124-04-kernel-compress-symbols.diff It would be interesting to see if (a) they work and (b) how much the latter would safe. /bz

Problematic network performance with Marvell 8072 on HP Probook 4710s

Hi, I've been experiencing a troubling issue with a Marvell 8072 NIC on an HP ProBook 4710s. I first noticed that there is a problem while transferring some files through scp to a FreeBSD8-STABLE server: CPUs usage sky-rocketed to 100% (system) and network performance was awful (about 1.8 MiB/s).

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Jason Edwards wrote: >> ZFS writes to a mirror pair >> requires two independent writes.  If these writes go down independent I/O >> paths, then there is hardly any overhead from the 2nd write.  If the >> writes >> go through a bandwidth-limited shared path then the

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: >> >> This works out to 1GB in 36,2 seconds / 28,2mb/s in the first test and >> 4GB in 143.8 seconds / 28,4mb/s and somewhat consistent with the >> bonnie results. It also sadly seems to confirm the ve

Re: Problem with alias length in base Sendmail

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 01:03:33PM -0500, jhell wrote: ... > That's either one hell of a pipe or the owner of that email address can be > proud that no-one will ever email him/her ;) st...@example.com: p...@example.com, v...@example.com, employ...@example.com, \ ... sa...@example.com: j...@exam

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Jason Edwards wrote: >> Hi Dan, >> >> I read on FreeBSD mailinglist you had some performance issues with ZFS. >> Perhaps i can help you with that. >> >> You seem to be running a single mirror, which means you wo

Re: sendmail replacement

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13.01.2010 11:52, S.N.Grigoriev wrote: > Hi list, > > I would like to know if there is a way to completely > replace the base sendmail with a ports one. The goal > is to have corresponding files on the traditional places > (not in /usr/local) and t

Re: Problem with alias length in base Sendmail

Hi jhell, aliases can be used as mailing-lists (remember to also have a -owner alias if you wish to use it that way) And there is a work-around, also documented in the aliases man-page. split it up in multiple parts that are lists again mailinglist: mailinglist-part1, mailinglist-part2,

Re: Problem with alias length in base Sendmail

On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:50, spil.oss@ wrote: Hi All, Today I ran into the BUG documented in the aliases man-page. If you have compiled sendmail with DBM support instead of NEWDB, you may have encountered problems in dbm(3) restricting a single alias to about 1000 bytes o

Re: Pack of CAM improvements

problem is that CAM had several limitations in > SCSI status handling, when working with ATAPI or USB devices. It made > request processing stop in some cases, where retries would be expected. > > New patch version should handle this and some other problems: > http

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Jason Edwards wrote: > Hi Dan, > > I read on FreeBSD mailinglist you had some performance issues with ZFS. > Perhaps i can help you with that. > > You seem to be running a single mirror, which means you won't have any speed > benefit regarding writes, and usually R

Re: Pack of CAM improvements

ected. New patch version should handle this and some other problems: http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/cam-ata.20100124.patch Try it please. Thanks. -- Alexander Motin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

PCIe audio cards: what is tob be preferred with FreeBSD 8.0/9-CURRENT?

Well, At this very moment I utilise a M-Audio 5.1 PCI-audio board with which I'm really satisfied. My next box doesn't have PCI slots at all (ASUS P6T6-WS Revolution) and due to the fact I'm using Windows 7 sometimes for recreational gaming, I'd like to have a moderate expensive audio board wi

8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

Note: Since my issue is slow performance right off the bat and not performance degradation over time, I decided to start a separate discussion. After installing a fresh pure ZFS 8.0 system and building all my ports, I decided to do some benchmarking. At this point, about a dozen of ports has been b

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:29 PM, John wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:02:53AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: >> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:02:53AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Dan Naumov wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Thomas K. wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 05:57:23AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >>> I recently found a nifty "FreeBSD ZFS ro

Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process

2010/1/22, Dan Naumov : > Putting the swap into it's own slice and then putting FreeBSD into > it's own slice worked fine. So why the hell can't they both coexist in > 1 slice if the swap comes first? Similar problem here: I have a full-zfs system in a bsd slice, but I have the zfs-freebsd partit

Re: ZFS performance degradation over time

Miroslav Lachman wrote: [...] Last night I tried ZFS with pool on iSCSI connected Dell MD3000i and I was suprised by too low speed of simple cp -a command (copying from UFS partition to ZFS) The write speed was about 2MB/s only. After looking in to ARC stuff, I realized some weird values: ARC

Re: ZFS performance degradation over time

Garrett Moore wrote: I've been watching my memory usage and I have no idea what is consuming memory as 'Active'. Last night I had around 6500MB 'Active' again, 1500MB Wired, no inact, ~30MB buf, no free, and ~100MB swap used. My performance copying ZFS->ZFS was again slow (<1MB/s). I tried killi

Re: top Segmentation faulting on 8.0p2 amd64 (nss_ldapd problem?)

Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Alexander V. Chernikov schrieb am 24.01.2010 10:24 (localtime): ... gdb /usr/bin/top top.core bt And sure a backtrace from the top built with -g would be much better. cd /usr/src/usr.bin/top CFLAGS=-g make Unfortunately nss_ldap seems to be the culprit. There is so

Re: top Segmentation faulting on 8.0p2 amd64 (nss_ldapd problem?)

Alexander V. Chernikov schrieb am 24.01.2010 10:24 (localtime): ... gdb /usr/bin/top top.core bt And sure a backtrace from the top built with -g would be much better. cd /usr/src/usr.bin/top CFLAGS=-g make Unfortunately nss_ldap seems to be the culprit. There is some strange problem with TLS

Re: make buildkernel failing on zfs - fixed but now everything is slow

Colin wrote: Thanks for the reply. I must admit that the ins and outs of paging and interrupts are something I don't have much expertise in. I've asked the colo company to look into it but I've put the output of those commands into pastebin incase anything stands out. http://www.pastebin.org/

Problem with alias length in base Sendmail

Hi All, Today I ran into the BUG documented in the aliases man-page. If you have compiled sendmail with DBM support instead of NEWDB, you may have encountered problems in dbm(3) restricting a single alias to about 1000 bytes of information. Looking at Sendmail, it

Re: top Segmentation faulting on 8.0p2 amd64 (nss_ldapd problem?)

Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Mikolaj Golub schrieb am 22.01.2010 23:26 (localtime): On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:06:23 +0100 Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Dear all, I have no idea why top crashes with segmentation fault on my amd64 machine running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2. If someone wants to have a loot