Re: 9.1-stable: ATI IXP600 AHCI: CAM timeout

2013-05-29 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ian Lepore wrote: > On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 16:21 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Steven Hartland wrote: > > > Have you checked your sata cables and psu outputs? > > > > > > Both of these could be the underlying cause of poor signalling. > > >

Re: 9.1-stable: ATI IXP600 AHCI: CAM timeout

2013-05-29 Thread Oliver Fromme
disappears completely when I reduce the SATA rev from II to I, even at tags=32. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, H

Re: 9.1-stable: ATI IXP600 AHCI: CAM timeout

2013-05-29 Thread Oliver Fromme
more likely to impact performance on a mixed server with shell users, apache, sendmail, DNS and a few other things? Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secn

9.1-stable: ATI IXP600 AHCI: CAM timeout

2013-05-29 Thread Oliver Fromme
is cs ss 0003e000 rs 0003e000 tfd 40 serr cmd 0004f117 (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): Retrying command (ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): WRITE_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 61 08 30 e0 e4 40 04 00 00 00 00 00 (ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): CAM status: Command timeout (ada0:ahcich0:0:0:0): Retrying command ..

Re: re(4) problems with GA-H77N-WIFI

2013-02-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
YongHyeon PYUN wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 08:27:55PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > re0: CMD 0x0c > > re0: link state changed to UP > > re0: link state changed to DOWN > > re1: link state changed to UP > > re1: link state changed to DOWN > > re1

Re: re(4) problems with GA-H77N-WIFI

2013-02-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
t 07:15:51PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Recently I got a new mainboard for a router, it's a > > Gigabyte GA-H77N-WIFI with two onboard re(4) NICs. > > > > The problem is that re0 works fine and re1 doesn't: > > It doesn't receive any packets. Tcpd

Re: re(4) problems with GA-H77N-WIFI

2013-02-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote this message on Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 23:04 +0100: > > John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > > Oliver Fromme wrote this message on Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 19:15 +0100: > > > > I'm running a recent stable/9 (about 14 days ol

Re: re(4) problems with GA-H77N-WIFI

2013-02-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote this message on Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 23:04 +0100: > > John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > > Oliver Fromme wrote this message on Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 19:15 +0100: > > > > I'm running a recent stable/9 (about 14 days ol

Re: re(4) problems with GA-H77N-WIFI

2013-02-04 Thread Oliver Fromme
John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote this message on Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 19:15 +0100: > > I'm running a recent stable/9 (about 14 days old). > > What's the best way to debug this problem? At the > > moment I'm not even sure if it's the hard

re(4) problems with GA-H77N-WIFI

2013-02-04 Thread Oliver Fromme
8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8209b ether 90:2b:34:5f:bd:11 inet ... nd6 options=21 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Handelsregister: Amtsgericht

Re: stable/9: Force ada1 to UDMA-33

2013-02-04 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ian Lepore wrote: > On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 19:52 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > What is the proper way with ATA_CAM and ada(4) to force a > > P-ATA disk to a lower UDMA mode? > > You probably want one of these... > > hint.ata.X.devX.mode > limits

stable/9: Force ada1 to UDMA-33

2013-02-01 Thread Oliver Fromme
ada1:ata1:0:0:0): READ_DMA. ACB: c8 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 10 00 (ada1:ata1:0:0:0): CAM status: ATA Status Error (ada1:ata1:0:0:0): ATA status: 51 (DRDY SERV ERR), error: 84 (ICRC ABRT ) (ada1:ata1:0:0:0): RES: 51 84 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 (ada1:ata1:0:0:0): Retrying command .. -- Oli

Re: devd problem with 9-stable

2012-06-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > You can try to prepend a backslash, i.e. echo \$devnum. This > > isn't documented, but then again, using backslashes to continue > > strings that span multiple lines isn't documented either.

Re: devd problem with 9-stable

2012-06-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
Freddie Cash wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Oliver Fromme > wrote: > > Chuck Swiger wrote: > >  > On Jun 15, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote: > >  > > You can try to prepend a backslash, i.e. echo \$devnum.  This > >  >

Re: devd problem with 9-stable

2012-06-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jun 15, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > You can try to prepend a backslash, i.e. echo \$devnum. This > > isn't documented, but then again, using backslashes to continue > > strings that span multiple lines isn't documented ei

Re: devd problem with 9-stable

2012-06-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
ings that span multiple lines isn't documented either. In case the sed command still doesn't work, alternatively you can use shell substring processing instead (this is also more efficient because the shell doesn't have to create a pipe and fork a sed process): action "devnum=$c

Re: devd problem with 9-stable

2012-06-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
a "notify" block instead of an "attach" block? The documentation is not very clear about the difference between an "attach" block an a "notify" block with $type=ATTACH, but it probably wouldn't hurt to try both. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme,

Re: devd problem with 9-stable

2012-06-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
match if the regular expression is anchored (the manual page isn't clear about that, unfortunately, but the examples suggest that it is indeed anchored). Besides, the /dev/ugen* names are only symlinks to the real entries in /dev/usb/X.Y.Z. It might be worth a try to just comment out th

Re: Boot hangs on v9 system at CD device probe

2012-06-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
000-0xfeafbfff irq 21 at device 6.0 on pci3 Shall I open a PR with this? Of course, I can try any patches that somebody throws at me. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muench

Re: su problem

2012-06-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
Unless you've disabled the "securetty" check in /etc/pam.d/login, but it is there for a reason. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehr

Re: ULE Scheduler

2012-06-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
e it's cache will be invalidated anyway. Also, different CPUs have different cache affinity. ULE is supposed to be aware of this, while the 4BSD scheduler is not. In any case, on an older single/dual core CPU there is rarely any difference between both schedulers. Differences might appear in m

Re: ULE Scheduler

2012-06-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
nt of "free" memory displayed by top that is often misinterpreted. I suggest you just keep the standard scheduler (i.e. ULE). If you don't have a performance problem (i.e. a problem that you can measure by other means than top), then don't try to fix it. Chances are you m

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-10 Thread Oliver Fromme
e, but it won't tell you if the default version of a port changed. For example, when the default version of Python was changed from 2.6 to 2.7. It also won't tell you if the origin of a port doesn't exist anymore at all. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH &

Re: su problem

2012-06-10 Thread Oliver Fromme
mehow. So I removed the console cable; it's running with an old VGA CRT as the console for now. Fortunately I require console access very seldom, so I don't have to drive to that machine often. It's still annoying, but I didn't find a better solution; downgrading to 7.x is

Re: Experience with Intel SATA and fbsd 8.3-amd64 ?

2012-06-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
by bad RAM, or even by the power supply (though the latter is unlikely in this case, I think). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltung

Re: 9-stabe: cd device gone, ATA_CAM panics

2012-06-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Oliver Fromme wrote: > [...] > I need a working DVD drive, so I'm now considering to > downgrade to 8-stable. But then again, TMPFS didn't work > a well for me as it does in 9-stable (which was the main > reason for me to upgrade), so I'm kind of stu

Re: su problem

2012-06-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
ser sody. > it seems that su is broken somehow Something is definitely broken. Maybe the suid-root bit was accidentally removed from the su binary? What is the output from "ls -l /usr/bin/su"? Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktpl

Re: su problem

2012-06-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
will have to drive to the machine and fix it from the console, I'm afraid. There's no other way, unless you discover a yet-unknown local root exploit. ;-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registerge

Re: 9-stabe: cd device gone, ATA_CAM panics

2012-06-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
e as it does in 9-stable (which was the main reason for me to upgrade), so I'm kind of stuck in a difficult situation. I'm willing to test more patches, of course. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handels

Re: Documenting 'make config' options

2012-06-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
which was removed from the base system in FreeBSD 8.x. Usage for installing ports is simple: # cd /usr/ports/category/foo # portup -wy . Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606,

9-stabe: cd device gone, ATA_CAM panics

2012-06-06 Thread Oliver Fromme
t" claims there are no devices present. This is a Promise (P)ATA controller (UDMA-133) with a DVD-ROM/R/RW drive connected as master device to the first channel (ata2), nothing else. It worked fine with 8-stable. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktpla

Re: ata_controlcmd undefined

2012-06-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
ave you tried removing atapicam_load from /boot/loader.conf (I guess that's where you're trying to load the module)? > Kernel configuration is GENERIC (except scheduler is SCHED_4BSD). Just out of curiosity, why do you prefer SCHED_4BSD? Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, sec

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

2012-06-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
archive specification "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk", line 177: Error in archive specification: "WITH_" make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Regi

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
; filesystem grows more and more important in the area of HPC, where > storage systems get spread over a department. Yes, a clustered file system would be very useful to have, even outside the HPC area. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567

Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

2012-06-01 Thread Oliver Fromme
g FreeBSD for that, because it's not something that FreeBSD can fix, it's rather a vendor problem (in the aforementioned case: Logitech's problem). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht

Re: Why Are You Using FreeBSD?

2012-05-31 Thread Oliver Fromme
ent mentioned FreeBSD to me, so I gave it a try (I think it was 2.0.5). Within minutes I was sold. Long live BSD! Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix

Re: i386 binaries on amd64: ldconfig problems

2012-05-31 Thread Oliver Fromme
ust one line in rtld.c. But I haven't actually tried this. LD_32_LIBRARY_PATH works for me. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgese

Re: i386 binaries on amd64: ldconfig problems

2012-05-31 Thread Oliver Fromme
hat the hints would take precedence. > Look at the olvwm binary with readelf and see whether DT_RPATH specifies > /usr/local/lib. Yes, it does: 0x000f (RPATH) Library rpath: [/usr/local/lib] Well, then I will just keep my LD_32_LIBRARY_PATH workaround. Best regards Oliver --

i386 binaries on amd64: ldconfig problems

2012-05-30 Thread Oliver Fromme
n't have to use LD_32_LIBRARY_PATH. I mean, it's ldconfig's job to configure the directories for locating the libraries. What is wrong here? Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen,

Re: panic: umass1: Unknown state 1

2011-10-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Thursday 13 October 2011 20:06:34 Oliver Fromme wrote: > > I just got this panic on a recent stable/8 amd/64 system: > > panic: umass1: Unknown state 1 > > > > Here's a screen shot from the KVM console: > > >

panic: umass1: Unknown state 1

2011-10-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
mes before without a panic, so this isn't 100% reproducable. Also, I'm reluctant to try again because this is a quite important production server. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registerger

Re: 7-stable: Root mount problem (mpt, probing / timing related)

2011-09-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
Gary Palmer wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:41:58PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've updated a server with mpt controller to the latest > > 7-stable (ok, it's 7-stable from last week). During the > > boot sequence, th

7-stable: Root mount problem (mpt, probing / timing related)

2011-09-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
ich is installed on another Slice of the same disk. This could be just coincidence, maybe the timing of probing is slightly different between 7-stable and 8-stable.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Regist

Re: get ram usage using getrusage()

2010-12-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
r/source/sys/pcpu.h?v=FREEBSD70) but not on > 8-stable. Your code snipped was from sys/kern/kern_clock.c which is kernel source. Curthread is a kernel variable (it's part of the per-CPU struct pcpu); it's not directly accessible from userland. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme,

Re: get ram usage using getrusage()

2010-12-20 Thread Oliver Fromme
_vmspace; > rss = pgtok(vmspace_resident_count(vm)); > > Curthread is not defined, I searched google but can't find any references. That's a piece of kernel source code. It won't work in user space. > But is this the proper way to get an apps memory usage?

Re: vm.swap_reserved toooooo large?

2010-12-18 Thread Oliver Fromme
f you're concerned, configure resource limits. Period. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Re

Re: RFC: Upgrade BIND version in RELENG_7 to BIND 9.6.x

2010-12-18 Thread Oliver Fromme
t we had with FreeBSD 6 should be avoided. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- che

Re: vm.swap_reserved toooooo large?

2010-12-16 Thread Oliver Fromme
Also, some processes are excluded, such as system processes and protected processes (cron and sshd, for example). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfue

Re: WITHOUT_MODULES: does it work?

2010-09-17 Thread Oliver Fromme
x27;\n' | grep 3dfx 3dfx 3dfx_linux $ make WITHOUT_MODULES=3dfx -V SUBDIR | tr ' ' '\n' | grep 3dfx 3dfx_linux $ Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 746

Re: How to predict drive number change for 7.3->8.1 upgrade?

2010-09-17 Thread Oliver Fromme
Freddie Cash wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Oliver Fromme > wrote: > > Remove "options ATA_STATIC_ID" from your kernel config > > before building the new kernel and rebooting.  Then your > > first disk will be ad0, no matter what controller a

Re: How to predict drive number change for 7.3->8.1 upgrade?

2010-09-17 Thread Oliver Fromme
the initial root device *before* rebooting? Remove "options ATA_STATIC_ID" from your kernel config before building the new kernel and rebooting. Then your first disk will be ad0, no matter what controller and channel it is connected to. Be sure to update your /etc/fstab file. Best rega

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
> > The machine is now running FreeBSD 8.1, but after rebuilding all > packages via ports, the problem with the radeonhd driver is back, > showing exactly the same behaviour as before. Did you try the normal radeon driver (not radeonhd)? It supports the RV515 chip used by the X1550, t

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
dem cable. I'm still curious why this cable worked with 7.x with the same configuration. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesel

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday, September 13, 2010 11:55:27 am Oliver Fromme wrote: > > I think the boot.config stuff might be a red herring. > > The console breaks (i.e. freezes) as soon as I try to run > > a getty process on it -- That seems to indicate that getty &g

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday, September 13, 2010 8:49:48 am Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Now I get your point ... Yes, -P does probe the keyboard > > first. That's probably why I see the boot0/boot2 on the > > VGA console, not on the serial port. As far as I know,

Re: Why is NFSv4 so slow?

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
in 5.361544 secs (34253192 bytes/sec) 183649990 bytes transferred in 5.401471 secs (3396 bytes/sec) 183649990 bytes transferred in 5.052138 secs (36350946 bytes/sec) 183649990 bytes transferred in 5.311821 secs (34573829 bytes/sec) 183649990 bytes transferred in 5.537337 secs (33165760 byte

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:21:21AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > Is there a PS/2 keyboard hooked up to this machine when you're > > > attempting to get serial console output? > > > > Ki

Re: Policy for removing working code

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
n wasn't difficult in this particular case. Don't get me wrong -- I understand very well why the I4B code had to be removed from FreeBSD. It was an unfortunate, but necessary decision. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 8556

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
ything. Anyway, I will try next time I'm near the machine (it's a three hours ride) which will probably be on Friday. If it won't work then I'll downgrade it to 7.1 the same day. BTW, the interesting thing is that all processes that try to access the console hang in "t

Re: Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
Greg Byshenk wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 05:26:12PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > On Friday I have updated a machine from 7.1 to stable/8. > > It is connected to a serial console. With 7.1 everything > > worked fine, but with stabl

Serial console problems with stable/8

2010-09-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
, using a 9-pin nullmodem cable. That setup hasn't changed in ages; that other PC is running an older version of FreeBSD. I need this issue to be resolved, because the serial console is required for remote management (the machine is a 3-hours ride away from home). If it can't be res

Re: 8.1R: ppp default route uses wrong Netif (with pppoe)

2010-08-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
k: default gateway: gateway.myisp.net interface: tun0 flags: recvpipe sendpipe ssthresh rtt,msecmtuweightexpire 0 0 0 0 1492 1 0 Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co.

Re: [CFT] [sys/conf/newvers.sh] Cleanup and additions.

2010-08-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
uot; on this machine. http://people.freebsd.org/~olli/scripts/makekernel Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. m

Re: Watchdog resets on 82575

2010-08-10 Thread Oliver Fromme
g is the "chip" ID: 0x10c98086 The lower half is the vendor ID: 8086 is intel. The upper half is the device ID: 10c9 is the 82576 gigabit NIC. You can look up these numbers on http://pciids.sf.net for example. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, M

Re: Dumpdev issue in 6.4-STABLE

2010-08-06 Thread Oliver Fromme
> The box dies before init is started so dumpdev in rc.conf is pointless. I'm afraid you can't set dumpdev from the loader. In ancient times it was possible to hardcode the dumpdev via the kernel configuration, but that option is long gone, AFAIK. Best regards Oliver -- Oli

Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location

2010-08-06 Thread Oliver Fromme
;t work for /boot/kernel.old. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758,

Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location

2010-08-06 Thread Oliver Fromme
Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On 06/08/2010, at 16:59, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > Yeah, I don't think it's hard to move them, however I'm worried what > > > it will break :) > > > > > > The only thing I can see that would have to ch

Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location

2010-08-06 Thread Oliver Fromme
Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On 06/08/2010, at 2:38, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > I think this is the main reason / has had to grow - the actual kernel > > > is relatively small so even a 256Mb / could hold several, but with > > > the symbol files it is not possibl

Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location

2010-08-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
stall- kernel target, I guess. I don't have patches, though. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Re

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-29 Thread Oliver Fromme
ings. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik

Re: 8.1-PRERELEASE: CPU packages not detected correctly

2010-07-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Oliver Fromme wrote: > Jung-uk Kim wrote: > > On Thursday 15 July 2010 01:56 pm, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > on 15/07/2010 19:57 Oliver Fromme said the following: > > > > I patched topo_probe() so it calls topo_probe_0x4() after > > > > topo_probe_0x

Re: 8.1-PRERELEASE: CPU packages not detected correctly

2010-07-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
any other shared cache. (Or maybe I misinterpret the XML output; I think that the "level" and "cache-level" numbers are confusing.) BTW, I noticed that the indentation problem (newline before "") is already fixed in -current, 5 weeks ago. Any plan to MFC this

Re: 8.1-PRERELEASE: CPU packages not detected correctly

2010-07-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On Thursday 15 July 2010 01:56 pm, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > on 15/07/2010 19:57 Oliver Fromme said the following: > > > I patched topo_probe() so it calls topo_probe_0x4() after > > > topo_probe_0xb() if cpu_cores is still 0. I think this

Re: 8.1-PRERELEASE: CPU packages not detected correctly

2010-07-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 15/07/2010 15:27 Oliver Fromme said the following: > > Unfortunately, it didn't change. Kernel output during boot > > is still the same; it displays 1 package x 8 cores. > > If you are sure that everything is done correctly (patch

Re: 8.1-PRERELEASE: CPU packages not detected correctly

2010-07-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 15/07/2010 14:58 Oliver Fromme said the following: > > Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > Could you please try to do the following? > > > 1. Fetch topo-12212009.tar from the top of this page: > > > http://software.intel.com/en-us/arti

Re: 8.1-PRERELEASE: CPU packages not detected correctly

2010-07-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 15/07/2010 14:58 Oliver Fromme said the following: > > Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > Could you please try to do the following? > > > 1. Fetch topo-12212009.tar from the top of this page: > > > http://software.intel.com/en-us/arti

Re: 8.1-PRERELEASE: CPU packages not detected correctly

2010-07-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
5| 6| 7| Core | c0| c1| c2| c3| AffMsk| 10| 20| 40| 80| +++++ Cache | L1I| L1I| L1I| L1I| Size | 32K| 32K| 32K| 32K| +++++ Cache | L2 | L2 | Size | 6M | 6M | CmbMsk| 30 | c0 | +-+-+ Combined sock

Re: 8.1-PRERELEASE: CPU packages not detected correctly

2010-07-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Can you also provide the output of "acpidump -dt"? This will probably > be quite long (possibly 300KB or more), so you may want to put it up on > the web somewhere. http://www.secnetix.de/olli/tmp/acpidump-dt.txt Best regards Oliver -- Oliv

Re: 8.1-PRERELEASE: CPU packages not detected correctly

2010-07-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
pluknet wrote: > On 14 July 2010 18:14, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > In a machine installed yesterday, 8.1-PRERELEASE doesn't > > seem to detect the number of CPU packages vs. cores per > > package correctly: > > > >  | FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE-201

8.1-PRERELEASE: CPU packages not detected correctly

2010-07-14 Thread Oliver Fromme
is just a "cosmetic" issue, or if this is a critical thing ... I could imagine that performance might be sub-optimal if the CPU topology isn't detected correctly, but I'm not sure if FreeBSD can take advantage of the topology. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secneti

Re: NFS write corruption on 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
r that incident. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsf

Re: NFS write corruption on 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > * Oliver Fromme (o...@lurza.secnetix.de) wrote: > > This is an excerpt from Solaris' mount_nfs(1M) manpage: > > > > File systems that are mounted read-write or that con- > > tain executable files should always be mount

Re: NFS write corruption on 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-10 Thread Oliver Fromme
t; option means that processes on different clients won't see each other's locks. That means that you will get corruption if they rely on locking. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registe

Re: amdtemp(4) oddities, Athlon 64 X2 (8-stable)

2010-02-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
Vasyl Samoilov wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > dev.cpu.0.temperature: 14.0C > > dev.cpu.1.temperature: 14.0C > > dev.amdtemp.0.sensor0.core0: 14.0C > > dev.amdtemp.0.sensor0.core1: 22.0C > > dev.amdtemp.0.sensor1.core0: -49.0C > &

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

2010-02-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
nel by default. I can't think of a good reason why they need to be there by default, and they're what causes the space problems for the root FS in the first place. Please change the default. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 G

amdtemp(4) oddities, Athlon 64 X2 (8-stable)

2010-02-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
ow. I don't think they can realistically be below room temperature. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregiste

Re: messages output starts getting interleaved

2010-02-04 Thread Oliver Fromme
configuration? (It's in GENERIC by default.) options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128 It mitigates the problem, but doesn't solve it completely. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registe

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

2010-01-29 Thread Oliver Fromme
ible to easily redirect the prompt on the command line, it's fine with me. Right now I can do this in a script: echo -n "$myprompt: " ; su $somerole >/dev/null ... If that doesn't work anymore, I'll complain. ;-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix G

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

2010-01-25 Thread Oliver Fromme
y disk for /tmp. I never experienced any serious problems with that. The machine I'm typing this on right now has this line in /etc/fstab: md /tmp mfs rw,nosuid,-s200m,async 0 0 Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Gr

Re: About nice(1), renice(8) and ULE scheduler

2010-01-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
test, arguments parsing and C syntax overhead. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- che

Re: ntpd not removed; WITHOUT_NTP enabled in src.conf

2010-01-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
Roland Smith wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > When you disable something in src.conf(5), its files *will* > > be removed when you do "make delete-old". > > > > See the file src/tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc > > for all the detai

Re: ntpd not removed; WITHOUT_NTP enabled in src.conf

2010-01-09 Thread Oliver Fromme
/etc/src.conf was parsed by share/mk/bsd.own.mk). If that doesn't work for WITHOUT_NTP, then that's a bug. Probably some entries missing in OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister:

Re: Most files in subversion stable/8/sys touched by bms

2010-01-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
, so SVNews focuses on FreeBSD (which is my main interest anyway). On the other hand, SVNews also displays commits outside of the main src tree, such as commits to the vendors, users and projects branches. freshbsd doesn't display those at all. Best regards Oliver -- Oliv

Re: Most files in subversion stable/8/sys touched by bms

2010-01-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
Marius Nünnerich wrote: > Michal Varga wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Oliver Fromme > > wrote: > > > By the way, here is another little tool that can be used to > > > watch changes in 8-stable conveniently: > > > > > > htt

Re: Most files in subversion stable/8/sys touched by bms

2010-01-05 Thread Oliver Fromme
Michal Varga wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Oliver Fromme > wrote: > > By the way, here is another little tool that can be used to > > watch changes in 8-stable conveniently: > > > > http://www.secnetix.de/olli/FreeBSD/svnews/?p=stable/8/sys

Re: Hacked - FreeBSD 7.1-Release

2009-12-29 Thread Oliver Fromme
hings. A better way is to use FreeBSD's mac_portacl(4) which is quite easy to use. It enables you to install rules that specify exactly to which ports user processes are allowed to bind. So you can specifically protect the single port number 8022, for example. Best regards Oliver --

Re: Most files in subversion stable/8/sys touched by bms

2009-12-29 Thread Oliver Fromme
e/olli/FreeBSD/svnews/?p=stable/8/sys It lists commits (optionally with diffs) to the path specified in reverse chronological order, i.e. newest at the top. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Mue

Re: 5.5-STABLE to 88.0-RELEASE

2009-12-29 Thread Oliver Fromme
stable). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Mai

Re: problems with gmirror on ggate over slow link

2009-11-03 Thread Oliver Fromme
e[cd]: ggate[dc]_buf_size="1310720" ggatec_timeout="5" ggatec_queue_size="2048" Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix V

Re: openssh concerns

2009-10-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
, the same can be done easily with IPFW and "fwd" rules, of course. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, H

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