Quick update.
Following extensive testing, I've recommended to Alexander, in a
longer email, that the default for VIA's VT8251 AHCI Controller
be set at AHCI_Q_NOPMP|AHCI_Q_NONCQ
Use of ahci in the kernel without this option will result in timeouts,
ultimately preventing the machine from perfor
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
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>
> I agree with Jeremy. I think that the problem that you've
> discovered is the fact that it's using stdio-based buffered output
> instead of buffering more of the contents in a string and punting it
> out in larger chunks.
> HTH,
> -G
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 01:55:51PM -0500, Scott Lambert wrote:
> I have one dual PIII machine doing the same to me. I've been assuming
> my issue is with the ATA controller. ...
>
> Dec 11 02:01:48 netmon kernel: ad2: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry
> left) LBA=232068607
> Dec 11 02:02:00
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 03:25:09PM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> For two years I've had a happy gmirror RAID1 system. And a week or
> three ago I was found a degraded system due to a broken disk.
>
> I tried to replace the disk, first with one three sectors too small
> which didn't want to be en
Hi,
I hope this is not the wrong list to ask. Didn't get any answers on
-questions.
When you try to do the following inside a nullfs mounted directory,
where the nullfs origin is itself mounted via nfs you get an error:
# foo
# tail -f foo&
# rm -f foo
tail: foo: Stale NFS file handle
# fg
Th
