Start of "Container Orchestration" wiki page

2020-07-24 Thread Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-stable
Hi, I have started a wiki page wich talks about container orchestration. https://wiki.freebsd.org/ContainerOrchestration It is not yet connected to the front-page (anyone with a good idea where it fits in the frontpage: feel free to add it there). My goal of this page (I'm open to extend or

Re: HOWTO donate CPU to the fight against the Corona-virus

2020-03-23 Thread Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-stable
Quoting Alex S (from Sun, 22 Mar 2020 17:53:47 +0300): Alexander Leidinger wrote: First step would be to get CUDA support in FreeBSD. Ahem, I have a little patch, consisting of several functions copy-pasted from the Linux driver, which is supposed to enable core CUDA functionality: https

Re: HOWTO donate CPU to the fight against the Corona-virus

2020-03-23 Thread Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-stable
Quoting Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-stable (from Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:05:24 +0100): Quoting tech-lists (from Mon, 23 Mar 2020 01:35:52 +): Is it possible to use this with a cuda-compatible nvidia card and if so how would one go about it? First step would be to convince NVidia

Re: HOWTO donate CPU to the fight against the Corona-virus

2020-03-23 Thread Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-stable
Quoting tech-lists (from Mon, 23 Mar 2020 01:35:52 +): Is it possible to use this with a cuda-compatible nvidia card and if so how would one go about it? First step would be to convince NVidia to provide a driver package for FreeBSD with CUDA support. Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.

Re: HOWTO donate CPU to the fight against the Corona-virus

2020-03-22 Thread Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-stable
Quoting Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-stable (from Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:57:45 +0100): Hi, if someone wants to donate some FreeBSD based CPU resources to the fight against the Corona-virus, here is a quick HOWTO in terms of installing the Folding@Home client on FreeBSD: https

Re: HOWTO donate CPU to the fight against the Corona-virus

2020-03-21 Thread Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-stable
Quoting Stefan Ehmann (from Sat, 21 Mar 2020 11:38:26 +0100): On Thursday, March 19, 2020 8:57:45 AM CET Alexander Leidinger via freebsd- stable wrote: Hi, if someone wants to donate some FreeBSD based CPU resources to the fight against the Corona-virus, here is a quick HOWTO in terms of

Re: HOWTO donate CPU to the fight against the Corona-virus

2020-03-20 Thread Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-stable
Quoting Jonathan Anderson (from Fri, 20 Mar 2020 10:21:11 -0230): Hi all, Running this on a 12.1-STABLE system, I see a whole lot of this in /var/log/messages: fahclient[53019]: ^[[91m12:15:25:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment^[[0m Is this because there temporarily isn'

Re: HOWTO donate CPU to the fight against the Corona-virus

2020-03-20 Thread Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-stable
Quoting "Kevin P. Neal" (from Thu, 19 Mar 2020 20:51:28 -0400): On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 12:13:37AM +0100, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote: The patch is now on Phabricator open to reviews & ready to be tested: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24127 No source is available? They must not be serious, th

HOWTO donate CPU to the fight against the Corona-virus

2020-03-19 Thread Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-stable
Hi, if someone wants to donate some FreeBSD based CPU resources to the fight against the Corona-virus, here is a quick HOWTO in terms of installing the Folding@Home client on FreeBSD: https://www.leidinger.net/blog/2020/03/19/fighting-the-coronavirus-with-freebsd-foldinghome/ I tested this

Re: New Xorg - different key-codes

2020-03-12 Thread Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-stable
Hi, This command sets the keyboard layout. You are supposed to set the keyboard layout which matches the physical layout of the hardware. This hadn't changed, it's a fundamental part of X11 since I know it (X11 6.5) and even before... For those which had an explicit setting in xorg.conf (lik

Re: Something in r291926 (and earlier) causes reboots during periodic daily (14 jails on system)

2016-01-26 Thread Alexander Leidinger
omatic" reboot will make the change active. Bye, Alexander. > And reboot. > > On 12/11/2015 01:56, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 07:29:03 -0600 > > Karl Denninger wrote: > > > >> On 12/10/2015 05:03, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > &g

Re: Something in r291926 (and earlier) causes reboots during periodic daily (14 jails on system)

2015-12-10 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 07:29:03 -0600 Karl Denninger wrote: > On 12/10/2015 05:03, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 15:15:10 -0600 > > Dustin Wenz wrote: > > > >> Are you by chance using the ARC patch from this PR? > >> > >> h

Re: Something in r291926 (and earlier) causes reboots during periodic daily (14 jails on system)

2015-12-10 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 15:15:10 -0600 Dustin Wenz wrote: > Are you by chance using the ARC patch from this PR? > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187594 No (despite the fact that I would like to have it hit the tree). > Do you have a vfs.zfs.dynamic_write_buffer tunable defined,

Re: Something in r291926 (and earlier) causes reboots during periodic daily (14 jails on system)

2015-12-09 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 09:38:07 +0100 Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> wrote: > Alexander Leidinger wrote on 12/09/2015 09:00: > > Does this ring a bell for someone or any ideas before I try to hunt > > this down? > > The same problem was reported yesterday o

Re: daily run output misses zpool errors

2012-10-03 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:56:49 +0200 "Ronald Klop" wrote: > Hi, > > Below my daily report. And here my zpool status -x. It would be nice > to see this error in my daily info. I am running with > daily_show_info="NO", but this looks more severe than info. Just to make sure: you verified that you h

Re: Debugging periodic scripts

2012-03-24 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 04:08:47 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Editing /etc/periodic/security/510.ipfdenied's hashbang line to use -x > doesn't change the behaviour either (maybe stderr gets sent to > /dev/null?), whether I run it by hand as a script or via "periodic > security". Use "set -x" inste

Re: powerd and increase in energy need

2012-03-22 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Luigi Rizzo (from Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:59:46 +0100): it isn't such a big deal in my opinion. The %efficiency at low levels is misleading if you don't factor out the 5-10W plateau for keeping the PSU alive (fan, ballast, etc.). See for instance My point is: if you (plural) don't see the

Re: powerd and increase in energy need

2012-03-22 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Luigi Rizzo (from Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:37:28 +0100): I guess that the credit for power saving goes mostly to the CPU architects. Powerd only gives second-order savings, and C1 vs. C3 is ineffective, at least for HZ=1000 CPU Power (watts) freqidle16 threads

Re: [CFT] modular kernel config

2012-03-02 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Pavel Timofeev (from Thu, 1 Mar 2012 10:35:17 +0400): I have just tried lastest configs and see following messages while kernel boot: Copyright (c) 1992-2012 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the Uni

Re: [CFT] modular kernel config

2012-03-02 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Slawa Olhovchenkov (from Fri, 2 Mar 2012 13:24:01 +0400): On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 10:09:24AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Slawa Olhovchenkov (from Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:58:34 +0400): > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 02:35:37PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >

Re: Another ZFS ARC memory question

2012-03-02 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Slawa Olhovchenkov (from Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:28:26 +0400): On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:14:37AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > * what is the community's advice for production machines running >ZFS on FreeBSD, is manually limiting the ARC cache (to ensure >that there'

Re: [CFT] modular kernel config

2012-03-02 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Slawa Olhovchenkov (from Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:58:34 +0400): On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 02:35:37PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: You can download from http://www.Leidinger.net/FreeBSD/current-patches/ The files are - i386_SMALL - i386_SMALL_loader.conf - amd64_SMALL

Re: [CFT] modular kernel config

2012-02-29 Thread Alexander Leidinger
/usr/src/sys/(amd64|i386)/conf/DEFAULTS it has already set as default options. 29 февраля 2012 г. 14:01 пользователь Alexander Leidinger написал: Quoting timp (from Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:40:25 -0800 (PST)): Excuse me, why don't you add geom_part_gpt_load="YES" and geo

Re: [CFT] modular kernel config

2012-02-29 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting timp (from Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:40:25 -0800 (PST)): Excuse me, why don't you add geom_part_gpt_load="YES" and geom_label_load="YES" to your sample (i386|amd64)_SMALL_loader.conf? I didn't had time to add them as I had to have a look at the collateral damage of a DDoS. I added now som

Re: [CFT] modular kernel config

2012-02-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting ~Lst (from Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:38:43 +0700): 2012/2/28 Steve Wills : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/12 10:53, Łukasz Wąsikowski wrote: W dniu 2012-02-22 23:31, Bjoern A. Zeeb pisze: You cannot ship that on by default for non-tecnical reasons in a kernel.  Pl

Re: zfs, 1 gig of RAM and periodic weekly

2012-02-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting "Eugene M. Zheganin" (from Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:10:30 +0600): Hi. On 28.02.2012 01:02, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: regardless of the pool size ? I was planning on making an atom board a file server for my home, and I have two options: soekris net6501 2GB RAM and intel board powered by th

Re: devd based AUTOMOUNTER

2012-02-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting vermaden (from Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:36:46 +0100): Unfortunately, I spent a few days that would have to understand how it is possible to detect the inserted CD-ROM with devd; but alas - the only thing that detects changes in the drive CD-ROM - a :sysctl kern.geom.conftxt before inserting

Re: [CFT] modular kernel config

2012-02-23 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting "Bjoern A. Zeeb" (from Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:31:36 +): On 21. Feb 2012, at 13:35 , Alexander Leidinger wrote: You can download from http://www.Leidinger.net/FreeBSD/current-patches/ The files are - i386_SMALL - i386_SMALL_loader.conf - amd64_SMALL - amd64_SMALL_l

Re: [CFT] modular kernel config

2012-02-23 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting ~Lst (from Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:53:56 +0700): It's typo too .. net.inet.ip.stealth: IP stealth mode, no TTL decrementation on forwarding In your file's (i386|amd64)__SMALL_loader.conf : # Disable stealth forwarding and flowtable. net.inet.ip.stealt=0 net.inet6.ip6.stealt=0 Fixed. T

Re: [CFT] modular kernel config

2012-02-22 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting timp (from Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:56:04 -0800 (PST)): Sorry, but for loader.conf you need use 'load' instead of 'enable' sed -e "s/enable/load/" loader.conf [blush]fixed[/blush] Thanks, Alexander. -- At least I thought I was dancing, 'til somebody stepped on my hand. --

[CFT] modular kernel config

2012-02-21 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, I created a kernel config for i386/amd64 (should work on -current and 9.x) and a suitable loader.conf which: - tries to provide as much features as GENERIC (I lost one or two disk controllers, they are not available as a module... or I didn't find them) - incorporates some more fea

Re: Custom kernel poll summary (was: Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel)

2012-02-17 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Freddie Cash (from Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:26:54 -0800): On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 2:37:55 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:  > 1 IPSTEALTH                      -> changes ipfw module only? I don't think this is specific to ipfw.

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-17 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Nenhum_de_Nos (from Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:49:56 -0200): On Tue, February 14, 2012 08:31, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Embedded devices are out of the scope of this, normally you do a lot of other modifictions to such systems anyway, so a custom kernel should be not a big problem. I

Re: Custom kernel poll summary (was: Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel)

2012-02-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Attilio Rao (from Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:38:17 +): 2012/2/14, Alexander Leidinger : 2 SW_WATCHDOG This can become a module with very little effort I guess. What's the TODO list for this? Bye, Alexander. -- No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. http://www.Leidinge

Custom kernel poll summary (was: Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel)

2012-02-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Alexander Leidinger (from Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:56:04 +0100): Such a kernel would cover situations where people compile their own kernel because they want to get rid of some unused kernel code (and maybe even need the memory this frees up). The question is, is this enough? Or

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Paul Schenkeveld (from Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:44:50 +0100): On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 02:56:04PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Hi, during some big discussions in the last monts on various lists, one of the problems was that some people would like to use freebsd-update but can'

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Volodymyr Kostyrko (from Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:44:33 +0200): Alexander Leidinger wrote: Feasible: depend upon your definition of "feasible". You would have to add all keymaps statically into the kernel. No idea which parts exactly we talk about, but: ---snip--- % du -h

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-13 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting per...@pluto.rain.com (from Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:17:46 -0800): Alexander Leidinger wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:05:02 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:40:41 +0100 Thierry Thomas > > wrote: > > > is th

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-12 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:05:02 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:40:41 +0100 Thierry Thomas > > wrote: > > > is there another place to put options to atkbd and sc, like > > > these ones: > &g

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:33:08 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > "Bjoern A. Zeeb" wrote: > > > various parts of the network stack being loadable, which is not > > as easy as it sounds, especially making them unloadable again > > currently ... > > Seems to me unloadability does not matter to th

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:40:41 +0100 Thierry Thomas wrote: > Le ven 10 fév 12 à 14:56:04 +0100, Alexander Leidinger > écrivait : > > Hi, > > Hello, > > > The question is, is this enough? Or asked differently, why are you > > compiling a custom kernel in a prod

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:13:53 -0800 Adrian Chadd wrote: > I've done this a few times. Me too, and others probably too, so let's end the waste of time and provide one officially. > The /boot/loader takes a _long_ time to suck in the 25 odd modules my > eeepc requires to load a completely modular

Re: Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:15:00 + "Bjoern A. Zeeb" wrote: > > On 10. Feb 2012, at 13:56 , Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > during some big discussions in the last monts on various lists, one > > of the problems was that some people wou

Reducing the need to compile a custom kernel

2012-02-10 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, during some big discussions in the last monts on various lists, one of the problems was that some people would like to use freebsd-update but can't as they are using a custom kernel. With all the kernel modules we provide, the need for a custom kernel should be small, but on the other

Re: zfs arc and amount of wired memory

2012-02-09 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, feel free to register with FirstnameLastname in the wiki and tell us about it. We provide write access to people which seriously want to help improve the wiki content. Bye, Alexander. -- Send via an Android device, please forgive brevity and typographic and spelling errors. Charles Spr

Re: zfs arc and amount of wired memory

2012-02-09 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, a possible soution would be to start a wiki pagee with what you know, e.g. a page which explains that solaris and zio* belong to ZFS. Over time people can extend with additional info. Bye, Alexander. -- Send via an Android device, please forgive brevity and typographic and spelling erro

Re: zfs arc and amount of wired memory

2012-02-09 Thread Alexander Leidinger
. Freddie Cash hat geschrieben:On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Eugene M. Zheganin > wrote: >> On 08.02.2012 18:15, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >>> I can't remember to have seen any mention of SWAP on ZFS being safe

Re: zfs arc and amount of wired memory

2012-02-09 Thread Alexander Leidinger
wrote: > On 08.02.2012 18:15, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> I can't remember to have seen any mention of SWAP on ZFS being safe >> now. So if nobody can provide a reference to a place which tells that >> the problems with SWAP on ZFS are fixed: >>  1. do not use SWAP o

Re: zfs arc and amount of wired memory

2012-02-08 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:31:44 +0600 "Eugene M. Zheganin" wrote: > swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer > > Since it's swapping on zvol, it looks to me like it could be the > mentioned in another thread here ("Swap on zvol - recommendable?") > resource starvation issue; may be it happens faster wh

Re: Performance problems with pagedaemon

2012-01-03 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, there's some effort to improve tuning(7). If somone could go over to http://wiki.freebsd.org/SystemTuning and add some sentences, it will make the life of other people maybe a little bit more easy Bye, Alexander. -- Send via an Android device, please forgive brevity and typographic an

Re: Benchmark (Phoronix): FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 vs. Oracle Linux 6.1 Server

2011-12-21 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, while the discussion continued here, some work started at some other place. Now... in case someone here is willing to help instead of talking, feel free to go to http://wiki.freebsd.org/BenchmarkAdvice and have a look what can be improved. The page is far from perfect and needs some additio

Re: linux-f10-flashplugin (unrelated "Locale not supported" message)

2011-10-03 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 15:43:41 +0900 Chung-Yeol Lee wrote: > On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Ted Faber wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 09:21:12PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > > On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:13:50 -0700 Ted Faber > > > wrote: > >

Re: linux-f10-flashplugin (unrelated "Locale not supported" message)

2011-09-30 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:32:10 -0700 Ted Faber wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 09:21:12PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:13:50 -0700 Ted Faber wrote: > > > > > (process:52979): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C > > > libra

Re: linux-f10-flashplugin (unrelated "Locale not supported" message)

2011-09-30 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:13:50 -0700 Ted Faber wrote: > (process:52979): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. > Using the fallback 'C' locale. I would expect something like this if you use a valid FreeBSD locale specification which is not valid on Linux. For example on FreeBSD

Re: linux-f10-flashplugin

2011-09-29 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:50:01 -0700 Ted Faber wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 02:41:39PM -0400, Michael Butler wrote: > > On 09/29/11 13:57, Norbert Augenstein wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:08:25PM +0400, S.N.Grigoriev wrote: > > >> 28.09.2011, 21:10, "Conrad J. Sabatier": > > >>> On We

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-21 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Kevin Oberman (from Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:33:27 -0700): On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: But the currently "known method" is to use gnop(8).  Here's an example: http://www.leidinge

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-19 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > But the currently "known method" is to use gnop(8). Here's an > example: > > http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2011/05/03/another-root-on-zfs-howto-optimized-for-4k-sector-drives/ > > Now, that's for ZFS, but I'm under the impression the

Re: v4l2 8-stable MFC: testers needed

2011-06-08 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Alexander Leidinger (from Wed, 08 Jun 2011 14:01:10 +0200): at http://www.Leidinger.net/test/v4l2-stable8.diff I have the v4l2 code I want to commit to 8-stable. Can someone please compile it, test it and give feedback? It looks like svn does not take added files into account

v4l2 8-stable MFC: testers needed

2011-06-08 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, at http://www.Leidinger.net/test/v4l2-stable8.diff I have the v4l2 code I want to commit to 8-stable. Can someone please compile it, test it and give feedback? Bye, Alexander. -- "How many people work here?" "Oh, about half." http://www.Leidinger.netAlexander @ Le

Re: How to understand, what userland program does in kernel?

2011-05-04 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Lev Serebryakov (from Wed, 4 May 2011 16:49:01 +0400): Hello, Freebsd-stable. I have userland program (transmission BT client), which spent 100% of one core of E4500 CPU when it has many peers. It is surprises me, as channel is only 35Mbit, and my "Linux" friends can upload much mo

Re: zfs, nfs and zil

2011-03-29 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Adam Vande More (from Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:20:45 -0500): On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Claus Guttesen wrote: I'm aware of that, but the only way the problem shows up is when a windows machine performs an installation or a windows update (and has alot of updates in the pipeline).

Re: zfs, nfs and zil

2011-03-29 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Claus Guttesen (from Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:57:40 +0200): I'm mounting the FreeBSD-server from a couple of vmware esxi 4.1 servers using nfs, but when there is alot of i/o the server becomes unresponsive, easily triggered by installing ie. ms-sql. The server itself is up but is not reach

Re: zfs, nfs and zil

2011-03-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:50:29 +0200 Claus Guttesen wrote: > > However, the better solution, and the one most recommended for those > > using NFS with ZFS, is to install a small, write-optimised, > > SLC-based SSD to the system as a separate log (SLOG/ZIL) device. > > > > NFS is a very sync-heavy p

Re: zfs, nfs and zil

2011-03-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Claus Guttesen (from Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:22:00 +0200): I've setup a server with FreeBSD 8.2 (prerelase) and patched zfs to ver. 28. The server has 11 disks each 2 TB in raidz2. The performance is very good and I've got approx. 117 MB/s on plain GB nics using iscsi. I'm mounting the F

Re: WITHOUT_JAIL and make delete-old{,-libs}

2011-03-21 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting David Demelier (from Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:04:18 +0100): On 20/03/2011 17:31, Alexander Leidinger wrote: On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:34:51 +0100 David Demelier wrote: Hello, I was surprised to see there is no ${MK_JAIL} conditional to remove old files on 8.2-RELEASE so I started to

Re: Is /etc/rc.conf scriptable?

2011-02-01 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Yue Wu (from Tue, 1 Feb 2011 20:35:06 +0800): 2. check if bitlbee has been installed, if so, then let bitlbee service start. So I tried with following settings in rc.conf, but all of them failed, i.e., the networking can't be connected and bitlbee service doesn't run. /etc/rc.conf

Re: ZFS - hot spares : automatic or not?

2011-01-13 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Boris Kochergin (from Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:50:41 -0500): On 01/12/11 19:32, Chris Forgeron wrote: Solaris runs a separate process called Fault Management Daemon (fmd) that looks to handle this logic - This means that it's really not inside the ZFS code to handle this, and FreeBSD

Re: DTrace (or other monitor) access to LBA of a block device

2010-12-07 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Andriy Gapon (from Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:08:26 +0200): on 06/12/2010 16:59 Alexander Leidinger said the following: I do not think it is trivial. The amount of discussion around this does not makes me want to do a MFC. Sorry, I must have missed the discussion. Could you please

Re: DTrace (or other monitor) access to LBA of a block device

2010-12-06 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Artem Belevich (from Sun, 5 Dec 2010 12:27:00 -0800): On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: By the way, in order for this to work one would need r207057 applied to -8. Any chance that could be MFC'ed? http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=207057

Re: ZFS backups: retrieving a few files?

2010-11-24 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Peter Jeremy (from Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:32:07 +1100): BTW, the entire export is performed at the current compression level - recompressing existing data. Are you sure the compression is done on the sending side, and not at the receiving side? I would expect the later (as I can spec

Re: Fwd: Re: Fail to use Dtrace on FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE

2010-11-23 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Jeremy Chadwick (from Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:13:53 -0800): On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 02:39:47PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 23/11/2010 10:20 Zhihao Yuan said the following: > Attach my kernel configuration here, just in case. > > On 00:12 Tue 23 Nov, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> Forwarding

Re: TTY task group scheduling

2010-11-19 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Alexander Best (from Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:17:10 +): 17:51 @ Genesys : Luigi Rizzo had a plugabble scheduler back in 4.* or \ thereabouts 17:51 @ Genesys : you could kldload new ones and switch to them on the fly 17:52 @ arundel : wow. that sounds cool. too bad it didn't make i

Re: "High" cpu usage when using ZFS cache device

2010-11-16 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Christer Solskogen (from Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:00:48 +0100): On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Alexander Leidinger wrote: How do you measure that nothing is read or written to it? I used zpool iostat -v "zpool iostat" (without -v) does not show cache filling writes to t

Re: "High" cpu usage when using ZFS cache device

2010-11-16 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Christer Solskogen (from Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:15:32 +0100): On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: You can easily test it - use the stick as a simple disk device with UFS and see how much CPU does it take simply to talk to the device. See, that is why I think it is a

Re: 'zfs send -i': destination has been modified

2010-10-21 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Derek Buttineau (from Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:56:11 -0400): Seeing similar here Dan, my destination filesystems are becoming modified sometime after the previous snapshot has been sent so the incremental fails to be received. However, the server I'm sending to is not in use so I can

Re: out of HDD space - zfs degraded

2010-10-04 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Dan Langille (from Sun, 03 Oct 2010 08:08:19 -0400): Overnight, the following appeared in /var/log/messages: Oct 2 21:56:46 kraken root: ZFS: checksum mismatch, zpool=storage path=/dev/gpt/disk06-live offset=123103157760 size=1024 Oct 2 21:56:47 kraken root: ZFS: checksum mismatc

Re: out of HDD space - zfs degraded

2010-10-03 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 22:25:18 -0400 Steve Polyack wrote: > I thin its worth it to think about TLER (or the absence of it) here - > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Limited_Error_Recovery . Your > consumer / SATA Hitachi drives likely do not put a limit on the time > the drive may block on a co

Re: daily_scrub_zfs_enable is missing in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf

2010-09-16 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Thomas (from Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:01:05 +0200): Hello Is there an actual reason why "daily_scrub_zfs_enable" is missing in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf? Besides the fact that the authoritative source of information is the man-page: the 800.scrub-zfs is handling the defaults interna

Re: daily run output 800.scrub-zfs fixups

2010-08-22 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:17:08 -0400 jhell wrote: > > Hi Alexander, > > Attached is a fix for one problem and one slight overlook for > 800.scrub-zfs. > > The first & second change was probably just an oversight but none the > less they both give a false impression of actions taken. > > Change1

Re: daily run output 800.scrub-zfs fixups

2010-08-22 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:29:43 -0400 jhell wrote: > Also I just noticed another confusing message 'at least for me' that > said "starting first scrubbing (after reboot) of pool 'exports'". I > read that like it is going to scrub the pool after the next reboot. I > actually had to open up the script

Re: daily run output 800.scrub-zfs fixups

2010-08-21 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:17:08 -0400 jhell wrote: > > Hi Alexander, > > Attached is a fix for one problem and one slight overlook for > 800.scrub-zfs. > > The first & second change was probably just an oversight but none the > less they both give a false impression of actions taken. > > Change1

Re: dtrace problem?

2010-05-23 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 21 May 2010 20:31:17 -0700 Marcus Reid wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 07:54:44PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 18:48:17 -0700 > > > From: Marcus Reid > > > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org > > > > > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 09:22:17AM +0300, Nikolay

Re: dtrace problem?

2010-05-21 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 21 May 2010 01:51:51 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 09:22:17AM +0300, Nikolay Denev wrote: > > On May 21, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Marcus Reid wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Running a recent RELENG_8 (FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #0: Tue May 18 > > > 23:37:37 PDT 2010), I'm

Re: Many processes stuck in zfs

2010-03-12 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Borja Marcos (from Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:26:09 +0100): Of course CPUs have bugs, I don't doubt it. I was just wondering how I coud reproduce the problem with a different hardware :) That's why I said it was unlikely. Besides, such a low level fault should produce many more problems

Re: Many processes stuck in zfs

2010-03-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Ivan Voras (from Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:59:01 +0100): On 03/11/10 09:54, Borja Marcos wrote: I don't know about the rest but this: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5420 @ 2.50GHz (2496.25-MHz K8-class CPU) does not agree with this: FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 8 core(s) T

Re: Many processes stuck in zfs

2010-03-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Borja Marcos (from Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:54:47 +0100): On Mar 11, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Pawel Jakub Dawidek (from Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:31:43 +0100): There is a 4th possibility, if you can rule out everything else: bugs in the CPU. I stumbled upon

Re: Many processes stuck in zfs

2010-03-10 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Pawel Jakub Dawidek (from Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:31:43 +0100): On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 04:12:36PM +0100, Borja Marcos wrote: On Mar 10, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > Once the deadlock occur, enter DDB and send me the output of: > >ps >show alllocks >show

Re: is dtrace usable?

2010-03-10 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting John Baldwin (from Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:12:29 -0500): On Wednesday 10 March 2010 5:34:22 am Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting "Robert N. M. Watson" (from Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:39:09 +): > > On Mar 9, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >>>

Re: is dtrace usable?

2010-03-10 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting "Robert N. M. Watson" (from Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:39:09 +): On Mar 9, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Alexander Leidinger wrote: From this you can see that sys.mk is included and parsed before 'Makefile', so the WITH_CTF=yes is not set until after sys.mk has been parsed.

Re: is dtrace usable?

2010-03-09 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting John Baldwin (from Tue, 9 Mar 2010 07:47:00 -0500): On Tuesday 09 March 2010 3:27:09 am Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting John Baldwin (from Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:00:12 -0500): > On Saturday 06 March 2010 11:00:12 am Robert Watson wrote: >> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Alexander

Re: is dtrace usable?

2010-03-09 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting John Baldwin (from Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:00:12 -0500): On Saturday 06 March 2010 11:00:12 am Robert Watson wrote: On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> Take a look at the DTrace configuration information here: >> >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_

Re: is dtrace usable?

2010-03-06 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 15:09:51 + (GMT) Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Daniel Braniss wrote: > > > link_elf_obj: symbol lapic_cyclic_clock_func undefined > > > > when trying > > kldload dtraceall this is with a fearly resent 8-stable > > > > I'm trying to help Rick Maclem

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-16 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting jhell (from Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:49:38 -0500): On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:20, 000.fbsd@ wrote: I think you are referring to this script: http://cuddletech.com/arc_summary/ and its FreeBSD version http://bitbucket.org/koie/arc_summary/changeset/dbe14d2cf52b/ Another useful script is arc

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Jeremy Chadwick (from Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:27:44 -0800): On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:50:00AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Jeremy Chadwick (from Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:07:56 -0800): >On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:49:47AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: >>> I had a fee

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Jeremy Chadwick (from Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:07:56 -0800): On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:49:47AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: > I had a feeling someone would bring up L2ARC/cache devices. This gives > me the opportunity to ask something that's been on my mind for quite > some time now: > >

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Dan Naumov (from Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:10:49 +0200): Get a dock for holding 2 x 2,5" disks in a single 5,25" slot and put it at the top, in the only 5,25" bay of the case. Now add an additional PCI-E SATA controller card, like the often mentioned PCIE SIL3124. Now you have 2 x 2,5" disk

Re: ZFS panic on RELENG_7/i386

2010-01-26 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Dmitry Morozovsky (from Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:16:28 +0300 (MSK)): On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: DM> PJD> > I had a crash durinc rsync to ZFS today: DM> PJD> DM> PJD> Do you have recent 7-STABLE? Not sure if it was the same before MFC, DM> DM> r...@woozle:/var/crash# u

Re: ZFS performance degradation over time

2010-01-22 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Jeremy Chadwick (from Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:01:01 -0800): On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:40:50AM -0500, 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,

Re: AHCI and ZFS: root mount error

2010-01-18 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Wes Morgan (from Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:04:16 -0600 (CST)): On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:29:23 +0100 Oliver Brandmueller wrote: > Check with "zpool status" if your zpool refers to diskslices like > "ad0s1". I use gpt have setup the ZFS mirror

Re: ZFS performance degradation over time

2010-01-09 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:05:06 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > All that said -- I know what the OP is referring to, as I've seen it > myself (on RELENG_7, and possibly early releases of 8.0). The only > way to relieve the pain, AFAIK, is to reboot. I assume the problem is that the memory handling i

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