Re: OpenZFS port updated

2020-04-17 Thread Scott Long
Is the intention to eventually replace the zfs code in src/ ? What will be the long-term relationship between src/ and ports/ for this? Scott > On Apr 17, 2020, at 12:35 PM, Ryan Moeller wrote: > > FreeBSD support has been merged into the master branch of the openzfs/zfs > repository, and t

Re: MSI allocation regression, still to be corrected in HEAD and please MFC before release/12.0 gets branched

2018-11-13 Thread Scott Long
> On Nov 13, 2018, at 11:11 AM, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: > > Am 13.11.2018 um 19:02 schrieb Scott Long: >>> On Nov 12, 2018, at 10:03 AM, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: >>> >>> Am 11.06.2018 um 20:28 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer: >>>> Am 05.06.2018 u

Re: MSI allocation regression, still to be corrected in HEAD and please MFC before release/12.0 gets branched

2018-11-13 Thread Scott Long
> On Nov 12, 2018, at 10:03 AM, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: > > Am 11.06.2018 um 20:28 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer: >> Am 05.06.2018 um 19:54 schrieb Scott Long: >> … >>>>>> Late in the 11.2 phase, I identified this commit as a regression for MSI >>&

Re: 12.0-BETA3 isp(4): exclusive sleep mutex CAM device lock (CAM device lock)

2018-11-02 Thread Scott Long
It’s harmless unless you run your machine under severe and sustained memory exhaustion. Scott > On Nov 2, 2018, at 8:15 AM, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: > > Hello, > > unnfortunately I can't determine if this is begnin, so I'd like to ask the > experts: > > uma_zalloc_arg: zone "64" with the

Re: devd(8) complains loudly when DVD player is empty, possibly due to r298134

2016-05-02 Thread Scott Long
> On May 1, 2016, at 9:07 AM, Trond Endrestøl > wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:46-0400, Scott Long wrote: > >> Thanks for the report. I might be mistaken, but the default system >> is not configured to direct devd messages to user.info, so I didn’t >&g

Re: devd(8) complains loudly when DVD player is empty, possibly due to r298134

2016-04-27 Thread Scott Long
Hi Trond, Thanks for the report. I might be mistaken, but the default system is not configured to direct devd messages to user.info, so I didn’t see this during my development. However, what you’re reporting is definitely annoying, so Warner Losh and I are working on a solution. Scott > On

Re: kernel: mps0: Out of chain frames, consider increasing hw.mps.max_chains.

2016-03-08 Thread Scott Long
> On Mar 8, 2016, at 11:02 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 10:56:39AM -0800, Scott Long wrote: > >> >>> On Mar 8, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 10:34:23AM -0800, Scott Long

Re: kernel: mps0: Out of chain frames, consider increasing hw.mps.max_chains.

2016-03-08 Thread Scott Long
> On Mar 8, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 10:34:23AM -0800, Scott Long wrote: > >> >>> On Mar 8, 2016, at 10:07 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 02:10:12PM +0300, Slawa Olh

Re: kernel: mps0: Out of chain frames, consider increasing hw.mps.max_chains.

2016-03-08 Thread Scott Long
> On Mar 8, 2016, at 10:07 AM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 02:10:12PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > >> This allocated one for all controllers, or allocated for every >> controller? > > It’s per-controller. > > I’ve thought about making t

Re: kernel: mps0: Out of chain frames, consider increasing hw.mps.max_chains.

2016-03-06 Thread Scott Long
> On Mar 6, 2016, at 10:04 PM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 06:20:06PM -0800, Scott Long wrote: > >> >>> On Mar 6, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 01:10:42PM -0800, Scott Long w

Re: kernel: mps0: Out of chain frames, consider increasing hw.mps.max_chains.

2016-03-06 Thread Scott Long
> On Mar 6, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 01:10:42PM -0800, Scott Long wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The message is harmless, it's a reminder that you should tune the kernel for >> your workload. When the messag

Re: kernel: mps0: Out of chain frames, consider increasing hw.mps.max_chains.

2016-03-06 Thread Scott Long
Hi, The message is harmless, it's a reminder that you should tune the kernel for your workload. When the message is triggered, it means that a potential command was deferred, likely for only a few microseconds, and then everything moved on as normal. A command uses anywhere from 0 to a few

Re: ISCI bus_alloc_resource failed

2015-09-07 Thread Scott Long
This is really weird. According to what you’ve posted, it’s advertising itself as an SMBus controller with no BARs. Maybe you’re passing through the wrong device, or someone added the wrong PCI device id data to the driver? Scott > On Sep 7, 2015, at 11:34 AM, Bradley W. Dutton > wrote: >

Re: ada(4) and ahci(4) quirk printing

2013-04-24 Thread Scott Long
On Apr 23, 2013, at 4:33 AM, Steven Hartland wrote: >>> >>> If we can't reach an agreement, I'm happy to wrap the relevant bits with >>> an "if (bootverbose)", but I really feel users should have some way to >>> see this information outside of bootverbose. >> Both da and ada drivers already hav

Re: ada(4) and ahci(4) quirk printing

2013-04-24 Thread Scott Long
Your meta-commentary here is irritating. They're called "quirks" because that is the named given to them in CAM> Scott On Apr 23, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > .. are we really debating this? > > Stop calling them quirks. That sounds like something that won't mess > up your actual r

Re: Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

2013-03-31 Thread Scott Long
On Mar 31, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Victor Balada Diaz wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:22:14PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: >> Hi. >> >> Since FreeBSD 9.0 we are successfully running on the new CAM-based ATA >> stack, using only some controller drivers of old ata(4) by having >> `options ATA_CA

Re: Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

2013-03-28 Thread Scott Long
On Mar 28, 2013, at 8:00 AM, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 09:17 +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: >> On 28.03.2013 02:43, Adrian Chadd wrote: >>> My main concern with the new stuff is that it requires CAM and that's >>> reasonably big compared to the standalone ATA code. >>> >>> It'd b

Re: Any objections/comments on axing out old ATA stack?

2013-03-28 Thread Scott Long
On Mar 27, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > My main concern with the new stuff is that it requires CAM and that's > reasonably big compared to the standalone ATA code. > >From a code execution standpoint? No, it's not. > It'd be nice if we could slim down the CAM stack a bit first; it

Re: geom mirror now rebuilding on every reboot?

2012-08-06 Thread Scott Long
On Aug 6, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > Michael, > > On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 12:49:49PM -0400, Michael Butler wrote: > M> Something in -current and recently MFC'd to -stable is causing all of my > M> gmirror drives to rebuild on reboot :-( > M> > M> Being remote and these being pr

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-07 Thread Scott Long
On Jun 5, 2012, at 6:16 PM, Scott Long wrote: > > Yes, we are indeed using FreeBSD at Netflix! For those who are interested, I > recently moved from Yahoo to Netflix to help support FreeBSD for them, and > I'm definitely impressed with what is going on there. Other than a fe

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-07 Thread Scott Long
On Jun 7, 2012, at 3:09 AM, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > > > On 06.06.12 03:16, Scott Long wrote: > > [...] >> Each disk has its own UFS+J filesystem, except for >> the SSDs that are mirrored together with gmirror. The SSDs hold the OS image >> and cache some o

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-05 Thread Scott Long
On Jun 5, 2012, at 6:42 PM, David Magda wrote: > On Jun 5, 2012, at 20:16, Scott Long wrote: > >> If you have any questions, let me know or follow the information links on the >> OpenConnect web site. > > Out of curiosity, given that Linux seems popular in so many

Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD

2012-06-05 Thread Scott Long
On Jun 5, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Benjamin Francom wrote: > I just saw this, and thought I'd share: > > Open Connect Appliance Software > > Netflix delivers streaming content using a combination of intelligent > clients, a central control system, and a network of Open Connect appliances. > > When de

Re: disk devices speed is ugly

2012-02-20 Thread Scott Long
On Feb 20, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Alex Samorukov wrote: > On 02/15/2012 05:50 AM, Scott Long wrote: >> >> What would be nice is a generic caching subsystem that any FS can use >> - similar to the old block devices but with hooks to allow the FS to >> request read-ahead

Re: disk devices speed is ugly

2012-02-14 Thread Scott Long
On Feb 14, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2012-Feb-13 08:28:21 -0500, Gary Palmer wrote: >> The filesystem is the *BEST* place to do caching. It knows what metadata >> is most effective to cache and what other data (e.g. file contents) doesn't >> need to be cached. > > Agreed. > >

Re: problems with AHCI on FreeBSD 8.2

2012-02-14 Thread Scott Long
On Feb 14, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Victor Balada Diaz wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 03:09:58PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:15:27PM +0100, Victor Balada Diaz wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 06:17:19PM +0100, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: schrieb Jeremy Chadwick am

Re: disable 64-bit dma for one PCI slot only?

2011-07-20 Thread Scott Long
On Jul 20, 2011, at 3:54 AM, Stefan Esser wrote: > > This is a very good idea, IMHO. > > When I committed pciconf back in 1996 (it had been contributed by > gwollman) for PCI 1.0 (at a time when their was no standard for PCI to > PCI brigdes, yet ;-) ), the current format seemed sensible, but the

Re: disable 64-bit dma for one PCI slot only?

2011-07-19 Thread Scott Long
On Jul 19, 2011, at 7:31 AM, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> If we're going to change it, might as well break it down into 4 fields. >> Maybe >> we retain the old format under a legacy switch and/or env variable for users >> that have tools that parse the output (cough yahoo cough). > > The only reas

Re: disable 64-bit dma for one PCI slot only?

2011-07-18 Thread Scott Long
On Jul 18, 2011, at 3:14 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday, July 18, 2011 5:06:40 pm Scott Long wrote: >> On Jul 18, 2011, at 12:02 PM, John Baldwin wrote: >>> On Friday, July 15, 2011 6:07:31 pm Mark McConnell wrote: >>>> Dear folks, >>>> >>

Re: disable 64-bit dma for one PCI slot only?

2011-07-18 Thread Scott Long
On Jul 18, 2011, at 12:02 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday, July 15, 2011 6:07:31 pm Mark McConnell wrote: >> Dear folks, >> >> I have two LSI raid cards, one of which (SCSI 320-I) supports >> 64-bit DMA when 4GB+ of DDR is present and another which >> does not (SATA 150-D) . Consquently I'v

Re: UFS SU+J

2011-06-30 Thread Scott Long
On Jun 30, 2011, at 4:28 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 29/06/2011 23:03, Mark Saad wrote: > >> The svn sources are here http://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/suj/8/ . >> >> Why would suj not make it into 8-STABLE ? > > It is a too large patch, and it changes a lot of important, known and > working

Re: [Stable 7] CPIO breakage/

2010-06-15 Thread Scott Long
On Jun 15, 2010, at 6:22 PM, Xin LI wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 2010/06/15 17:05, Sean Bruno wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 17:10 -0500, Sean Bruno wrote: >>> http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?limit_changes=0&view=revision&revision=208361 >>> >>> I'm not su

Re: MFC of "Large set of CAM improvements" breaks I/O to Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller

2010-04-29 Thread Scott Long
On Apr 29, 2010, at 10:56 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: > Scott Long wrote: >> On Apr 29, 2010, at 7:47 AM, Robert Noland wrote: >>> >>> Scott Long wrote: >>>> On Apr 29, 2010, at 2:50 AM, Pete French wrote: >>>>>> Thanks. First step succes

Re: MFC of "Large set of CAM improvements" breaks I/O to Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller

2010-04-29 Thread Scott Long
On Apr 29, 2010, at 7:47 AM, Robert Noland wrote: > > > Scott Long wrote: >> On Apr 29, 2010, at 2:50 AM, Pete French wrote: >>>> Thanks. First step successful - I can steadily reproduce problem on >>>> CURRENT. raidtest with 200 I/O streams over gm

Re: MFC of "Large set of CAM improvements" breaks I/O to Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller

2010-04-29 Thread Scott Long
On Apr 29, 2010, at 2:50 AM, Pete French wrote: >> Thanks. First step successful - I can steadily reproduce problem on >> CURRENT. raidtest with 200 I/O streams over gmirror of two disks on same >> channel triggers issue in seconds. Any I/O on channel dying after both >> disks report "Queue full"

Re: Pack of CAM improvements

2010-01-19 Thread Scott Long
On Jan 19, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Alexander Motin wrote: Hi. I've made a patch, that should solve set of problems of CAM ATA and CAM generally. I would like to ask for testing and feedback. What patch does: - It unifies bus reset/probe sequence. Whenever bus attached at boot or later, CAM wi

Re: mfi(4) endless loop kernel output on attach

2009-11-23 Thread Scott Long
Did you ever get a resolution for this? The 6.x bugs definitely need to be fixed. The reported timeouts on 7.x might be due to the adapter taking a log time to do the command. Scott On Oct 22, 2009, at 8:30 AM, pluknet wrote: 2009/10/15 John Baldwin : On Thursday 15 October 2009 5:51:19

Re: What does "mfi0: Copy out failed" mean?

2009-08-13 Thread Scott Long
xactly what the error message means, but out of curiosity what kind of hardware are you running? A PERC6 controller perhaps? Yes, mfi0: . You may want to contact Scott Long, sco...@freebsd.org, to see if he can help. I believe he's the author/maintainer of the mfi(4) driver. He may

Re: (probe23:arcmsr0:0:16:0): inquiry data fails comparison at DV1 step

2009-06-11 Thread Scott Long
Andre Oppermann wrote: Scott Long wrote: Andre Oppermann wrote: Today I upgraded an AMD64 server from FreeBSD 6.4 to 7-STABLE and got a big nasty surprise with the Areca RAID controller: arcmsr0: mem 0xfdbff000-0xfdb40 irq16 at device 14.0 on pci18 ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: Driver Version

Re: (probe23:arcmsr0:0:16:0): inquiry data fails comparison at DV1 step

2009-06-10 Thread Scott Long
Andre Oppermann wrote: Today I upgraded an AMD64 server from FreeBSD 6.4 to 7-STABLE and got a big nasty surprise with the Areca RAID controller: arcmsr0: mem 0xfdbff000-0xfdb40 irq16 at device 14.0 on pci18 ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: Driver Version 1.20.00.15 2007-10-07 ARECA RAID ADAPTER0: FIRM

Re: poweredge 1850 won't boot 7.1? maybe LSI-related : amr0: adapter is busy

2009-04-17 Thread Scott Long
The just-released 7.2-RC2 should fix this problem. Please let me know ASAP if it works for you. Scott Jeroen Hofstee wrote: Hello All, I encountered the same problem as reported to this list earlier, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-February/048305.html, but then with

Re: amr driver broken since March 12

2009-03-29 Thread Scott Long
Danny Braniss wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: it seems March 12 was a bit off :-) it took some time, but I managed to close the gap: 189100 ok 189150 fails I will continue tomorrow, but this should be helpful. 189150 is in the middle of a big string of rela

Re: amr driver broken since March 12

2009-03-28 Thread Scott Long
Danny Braniss wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: it seems March 12 was a bit off :-) it took some time, but I managed to close the gap: 189100 ok 189150 fails I will continue tomorrow, but this should be helpful. 189150 is in the middle of a big string of related commits. Try upda

Re: amr driver broken since March 12

2009-03-28 Thread Scott Long
Danny Braniss wrote: it seems March 12 was a bit off :-) it took some time, but I managed to close the gap: 189100 ok 189150 fails I will continue tomorrow, but this should be helpful. 189150 is in the middle of a big string of related commits. Try updating to the following

Re: amr driver broken since March 12

2009-03-27 Thread Scott Long
Danny Braniss wrote: Danny Braniss wrote: at least for me :-) [and sorry for the cross posting] old (March 12 , i know need the svn rev number but...) None of the commit activity on March 12 is jumping out at me as being suspicious. However, you are now the second person who has told me abou

Re: amr driver broken since March 12

2009-03-27 Thread Scott Long
Danny Braniss wrote: at least for me :-) [and sorry for the cross posting] old (March 12 , i know need the svn rev number but...) None of the commit activity on March 12 is jumping out at me as being suspicious. However, you are now the second person who has told me about AMR problems in 7.

Re: LSI Logic raid status

2009-03-24 Thread Scott Long
en the drive is reconnected and the rebuild completes. This is apparently some problem in the CAM layer, not the mpt driver, but it's something to be aware of. Scott Long has noted that this is being worked on in 8.x. Yes, I tried to remove a drive today. Of course I need to see if it w

Re: HEADS UP: More CAM fixes.

2009-02-17 Thread Scott Long
Bruce Evans wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Gary Jennejohn wrote: I tested this with an Adaptec 29160. I saw no real improvement in performance, but also no regressions. I suspect that the old disk I had attached just didn't have enough performance reserves to show an improvement. My test scenar

Re: HEADS UP: More CAM fixes.

2009-02-17 Thread Scott Long
subclass = RAID root:# camcontrol tags da0 (pass0:asr0:0:0:0): device openings: 255 On Monday 16 February 2009, Scott Long wrote: FWI. I need lots of testing on this. Only real SCSI controllers, please, not RAID controllers (except for MPT-SCSI with

HEADS UP: More CAM fixes.

2009-02-16 Thread Scott Long
. FreeBSD 6 is only affected by this problem when CAM_NEW_TRAN_CODE is enabled. Scott Original Message Subject: svn commit: r188671 - head/sys/cam Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:57:15 + (UTC) From: Scott Long To: src-committ...@freebsd.org, svn-src-...@freebsd.org, svn-src-h

Re: HEADS UP: Major CAM performance regression

2009-02-14 Thread Scott Long
Ivan Voras wrote: 2009/2/13 Scott Long : Ivan Voras wrote: Scott Long wrote: I have committed a fix for this problem for FreeBSD 8-CURRENT as of SVN revision 188570. FreeBSD 7-STABLE will be updated with the fix in a few days once I've gotten confirmation that the fix works and doesn&#x

Re: HEADS UP: Major CAM performance regression

2009-02-13 Thread Scott Long
Ivan Voras wrote: Scott Long wrote: I have committed a fix for this problem for FreeBSD 8-CURRENT as of SVN revision 188570. FreeBSD 7-STABLE will be updated with the fix in a few days once I've gotten confirmation that the fix works and doesn't cause any adverse side-effects. Anyo

Re: HEADS UP: Major CAM performance regression

2009-02-13 Thread Scott Long
Tom Evans wrote: On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 03:55 -0700, Scott Long wrote: All, A major performance regression was introduced to the CAM subsystem in FreeBSD 7.1. The following configurations are known to be affected: VMWare ESX VMWare Fusion (using bt or lsilogic controller options) HP CISS

HEADS UP: Major CAM performance regression

2009-02-13 Thread Scott Long
All, A major performance regression was introduced to the CAM subsystem in FreeBSD 7.1. The following configurations are known to be affected: VMWare ESX VMWare Fusion (using bt or lsilogic controller options) HP CISS RAID Some MPT-SAS combinations with SATA drives attached (Includes De

Re: amr driver issues in 7.1-RELEASE

2009-01-22 Thread Scott Long
Steve Polyack wrote: Scott Long wrote: The fix for this that I was thinking of is already in 7.1. There might still be a driver bug, but I'm leaning more towards the controller simply being busy. Do you have a reproducible test case that I could try? Scott We saw this one while ba

Re: amr driver issues in 7.1-RELEASE

2009-01-22 Thread Scott Long
Steve Polyack wrote: We have multiple systems using LSILogic PERC4 cards (PERC4e/Si, PERC4/DC, amr driver). After recently upgrading two of them from 6.3 to 7.1, we have begun to see the following errors in our logs during heavy use in both systems: amr0: Too many retries on command 0x

Re: amr driver issues in 7.1-RELEASE

2009-01-22 Thread Scott Long
I might have a fix for this, let me check and get back to you. Scott Sent from my iPhone On Jan 22, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Steve Polyack wrote: We have multiple systems using LSILogic PERC4 cards (PERC4e/Si, PERC4/DC, amr driver). After recently upgrading two of them from 6.3 to 7.1, we have

Re: Block device

2008-11-04 Thread Scott Long
Patrick M. Hausen wrote: h, all, On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:32:01PM +0100, d_elbracht wrote: Hi list, can someone please explain, why stat -x /dev/da1 show the SCSI-Drive as a character-device ? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics-block.html Wow that's a co

Re: 3Ware 9000 series hangs under load

2008-10-30 Thread Scott Long
Oliver Lehmann wrote: Hi, I've problems with my 3ware controller. Havingg heavy I/O load (e.g. running 40 port builds the day over with tinderbox which involves un-taring a whole FreeBSD tree 40 times), my system hangs with the well known swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 2,

Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition

2008-10-13 Thread Scott Long
JoaoBR wrote: On Sunday 12 October 2008 14:10:36 Scott Long wrote: I am using some LSI (mpt driver) ultra4 (U320 scsi) and LSI SAS controllers in FreeBSD 7.x amd64 with 20G of ram, and Adaptec (aac driver) with a 5th generation RAID card with 8G of ram, both have no such corruption problems

Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition

2008-10-12 Thread Scott Long
Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:52:50 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [big snip] Is your LSI SAS controller driven by mpt(4) or mfi(4)? Let's break down what we know for sure at this point: aac(4) - not affected aha(4) - unknown ahb(4) - unknown ahc(4) - affected

Re: am2 MBs - 4g + SCSI wipes out root partition

2008-10-12 Thread Scott Long
SCSI then you'll have to limit memory to 3.5 GB. What you're saying is that Adaptec and LSI Logic SCSI controllers behave badly (and can cause data loss) on amd64 systems which contain more than 3.5GB of RAM. This is a very big claim. Have you talked to Scott Long about this? Please

Re: Fwd: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-07 Thread Scott Long
Ken Smith wrote: I'm with Scott in that I like the "other distros" being around. I don't think that necessarily means we shouldn't try harder. But IMHO trying harder needs to be reflected in a new installer. Lets face it, sysinstall s*cks... For the type of folks who want the installer to do

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-03 Thread Scott Long
Dan Allen wrote: On 3 Sep 2008, at 1:53 PM, Guido Falsi wrote: If you just want na instant workstation, why you just don't try Freesbie or something like that? Because I want something from the source -- from the main team -- and not something downstream. What's wrong with "downstream"?

Re: vfs.ffs.rawreadahead

2008-09-03 Thread Scott Long
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Igor Sysoev wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:39:55PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:53:52PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote: Hi, could anyone tell what does vfs.ffs.rawreadahead enable ? As I understand it's used in DIRECTIO code that allows read data d

Re: vfs.ffs.rawreadahead

2008-09-03 Thread Scott Long
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Igor Sysoev wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:44:46AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Igor Sysoev wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:39:55PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:53:52PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote: Hi, could anyone tell

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-05 Thread Scott Long
Jo Rhett wrote: On Jun 4, 2008, at 5:44 PM, Scott Long wrote: Really, if it's such a big issue that you have time to bitch an moan on the mailing lists, I don't understand why you don't have time to also help a goddamned developer identify the problem. Are you actually experi

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-04 Thread Scott Long
Jo Rhett wrote: On Jun 4, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Scott Long wrote: Jo Rhett wrote: On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Scott Long wrote: Can you describe the bugs that are affecting you? gmirror failures, 3ware raid driver timeouts, bge0 problems. All three in production use on dozens of systems

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-04 Thread Scott Long
Jo Rhett wrote: On Jun 4, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Scott Long wrote: Can you describe the bugs that are affecting you? gmirror failures, 3ware raid driver timeouts, bge0 problems. All three in production use on dozens of systems. Give me specific details on the 3ware and bge problems. Scott

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-04 Thread Scott Long
Jo Rhett wrote: Okay, I totally understand that FreeBSD wants people to upgrade from 6.2 to 6.3. But given that 6.3 is still experiencing bugs with things that are working fine and stable in 6.2, this is a pretty hard case to make. Can you describe the bugs that are affecting you? This is

Re: udf

2008-05-19 Thread Scott Long
Andriy Gapon wrote: on 16/05/2008 19:48 Scott Long said the following: There is no write support in UDF in FreeBSD. When I wrote the fs code, packet writing was the only way to do discrete writes, and it's very hard to make that work with a traditional VM system. Now with DVD+R, it'

Re: udf

2008-05-16 Thread Scott Long
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:08:11PM +0300, Stefan Lambrev wrote: From man mount_udf (FreeBSD7) HISTORY The mount_udf utility first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0. FreeBSD 7.0 March 23, 2002 FreeBSD 7.0 I have no idea for newfs_udf ,

Re: ATA APM and NCQ support in FreeBSD atacontrol

2008-05-12 Thread Scott Long
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I am too, but PRs that are 2 years old which include patches for severe bugs that affect reliability of RAID is (in my opinion) not acceptable. I've been spanked over saying this before ("you don't understand how open source works"), but necessity eas

Re: MFC of em/igb drivers

2008-05-03 Thread Scott Long
Jack Vogel wrote: On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Kostik Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:14:32AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: I got the new drivers in Friday afternoon for those that don't see CVS > messages. > > The igb driver is for 82575 and 82576 adapters, i

Re: ad0 READ_DMA TIMEOUT errors on install of 7.0-RELEASE

2008-02-27 Thread Scott Long
Stephen Hurd wrote: This shows you've had 4 reallocated sectors, meaning your disk does in fact have bad blocks. In 90% of the cases out there, bad blocks continue to "grow" over time, due to whatever reason (I remember reading an article explaining it, but I can't for the life of me find the U

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Scott Long
Adrian Penisoara wrote: Hi, I would agree with Mark and Jim, this is a serious issue for enterprise servers. Yet another example where I would have wanted to see a more supportive response from the FreeBSD project members, like Robert Watson just did. This would benefit keeping a good relation

Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

2008-02-18 Thread Scott Long
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Purely in the interest of showing off, here is my version. It is 81 bytes shorter than yours, it is valid C99 with POSIX extensions (yours is not), and it produces 11,450 files in about 0.2% of the time yours takes to pr

HEADS UP!!! rr232x driver has been removed!!! [Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/rr232x...]

2008-02-02 Thread Scott Long
driver instead. Please direct any questions or concerns about this to me. The driver will also be removed from the upcoming 7.0 release. Scott Long wrote: scottl 2008-02-03 07:28:39 UTC FreeBSD src repository Modified files:(Branch: RELENG_7) sys/i386/confGENERIC NOTES

Re: Well-supported SAS RAID card for 6.3?

2008-01-26 Thread Scott Long
Josh Endries wrote: Hello, I'm buying a new server and will put 6.3 on it and would like to use SAS; normally I use 3ware SATA. I've been reading a lot including man pages but can't seem to find definitive information on SAS cards that are well-supported and work well. I've found reports that

Re: 7.0 RC1/SPARC64 panic in boot

2008-01-22 Thread Scott Long
Eirik Øverby wrote: On Jan 22, 2008, at 7:23 PM, Marius Strobl wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 07:16:16AM +0100, Eirik verby wrote: Hi list, by disabling the isp driver (set hint.isp.o.disabled=1), the system comes up. This of course denies us access to the external disk array hosted by th

Re: Dell Perc 6 disk geometry problem with RAID5 (both 6.3 final and 7.0 RC1)

2008-01-20 Thread Scott Long
David Wood wrote: [ambrisko@ and scottl@ added to CCs] Hi there, What really needs to happen as a result of this thread is the following, and I would appreciate volunteers taking up these tasks in some form: 1) FAQ entries written/updated/clarified/advertised as to how FreeBSD, disklabels, F

Re: What current Dell Systems are supported/work

2008-01-17 Thread Scott Long
Vivek Khera wrote: On Jan 15, 2008, at 1:40 PM, John Baldwin wrote: Where can one go to read up on what MSI is and how it helps us? Is enabling it just setting a sysctl? Does that have to be done in loader.conf or can it happen later? loader.conf (though it is now default on in RELENG_6).

Re: What current Dell Systems are supported/work

2008-01-17 Thread Scott Long
Vivek Khera wrote: On Jan 15, 2008, at 1:40 PM, John Baldwin wrote: Where can one go to read up on what MSI is and how it helps us? Is enabling it just setting a sysctl? Does that have to be done in loader.conf or can it happen later? loader.conf (though it is now default on in RELENG_6).

Re: RELENG7 using lpt causes panic

2008-01-08 Thread Scott Long
John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008 10:08:57 pm Adrian Wontroba wrote: I've recently switched some of my home systems to RELENG7. All seemed fairly well until I tried printing a CUPS test page on my backup and print server to an elderly Laserjet IIIp, where I seem to have a reproducib

Re: aac tool regressions on 7.0-RC1

2008-01-02 Thread Scott Long
Ed Maste wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:19:15AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Mike Andrews wrote: Command Error: the current AFAAPI.DLL.> In my experience, this was caused by the firmware rev of the adaptec card. Basically, the combination of FreeBSD, amd64, and

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-26 Thread Scott Long
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 12:12 PM 12/24/2007, Scott Long wrote: For others who might want help with this, tweaking vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem is what is needed. A bit of a balancing act is needed if you're on i386 since you'll risk exhausting KVA unless you also tweak KVA_PAGES.

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-26 Thread Scott Long
Adrian Chadd wrote: On 25/12/2007, Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It sounds like you're pretty convinced you know what the problem is. Again, I'd have to instrument either the FreeBSD kernel or Squid to be 100% sure. But it APPEARS that it's a problem with large numbers of threads tryin

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-24 Thread Scott Long
Brett Glass wrote: At 09:10 AM 12/24/2007, Scott Long wrote: Did you also nuke malloc debugging? I believe I did. I tried to take out all debugging to make it a fair test. They were. The drives are SATA. Connected to what controller? Whatever comes standard on the Intel S5000

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-24 Thread Scott Long
Brett Glass wrote: At 07:14 AM 12/24/2007, Scott Long wrote: Brett, There could be several problems here: 1. WITNESS, INVARIANTS, malloc debugging. Are any of these turned on for you? I don't recall if malloc debugging got turned off yet for the 7.0 snapshots. I nuked debugging w

Re: SMP on FreeBSD 6.x and 7.0: Worth doing?

2007-12-24 Thread Scott Long
Brett Glass wrote: I will need to build several Web caches over the next few months, and just took advantage of the Christmas lull (and a snowy day, when I couldn't work outside) to test FreeBSD 7.0 BETA 4 to see how it will perform at this task. I built up a 4 core FreeBSD box, and asked a fr

Re: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds

2007-12-17 Thread Scott Long
Bruce Evans wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, David G Lawrence wrote: One more comment on my last email... The patch that I included is not meant as a real fix - it is just a bandaid. The real problem appears to be that a very large number of vnodes (all of them?) are getting synced (i.e. calling f

Re: New Device IDs

2007-11-15 Thread Scott Long
Jack Vogel wrote: I was curious, is there any organized method to funnel new IDs into the code or is it just willy nilly as a driver owner notices it? I will be having some patches to add IDs from this bringup I've been working on and wondered if there was a 'canonical' way to make this stuff ha

Re: Filesystem corruption and bad perfomance with SRCS16 and PAE ( raid 5 2TB)

2007-11-15 Thread Scott Long
John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2007 04:58:17 am Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2007 19:23, Artem Kuchin wrote: FreeBSD/amd64 is a very young platform on FreeBSD. While the core FreeBSD kernel and base system components are generally fairly robust, there are likely

Re: Proposed #ifdef change to em

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Long
Jack Vogel wrote: I have found that the FAST interrupt handling is implicated in the watchdog resets that I have seen. What I plan to do is revert to the way 6.2 had things, meaning that FAST interrupts will be available but defined off by default. I wanted to know if anyone has an issue with

Re: RFC: Evolution of the em driver

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Long
Jack Vogel wrote: On 10/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:45:17 -0700, Jack Vogel wrote: I have an important decision to make and I thought rather than just make it and spring it on you I'd present the issues and see what opinions were. Our newer hardwa

Re: acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00

2007-10-20 Thread Scott Long
CmdLnKid wrote: _ ._ _ , _ ._ (_ ' ( ` )_ .__) ( ( () `) ) _) (__ (_ (_ . _) _) ,__) `~~`\ ' . /`~~` ,:::

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-18 Thread Scott Long
Boris Samorodov wrote: Hi! Since nobody answered so far, here is my two cents. I'm not an expert here so it's only my imho. On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:52:49 +0400 Alexey Popov wrote: interrupt total rate irq6: fdc0 8 0 irq14: ata

Re: g_vfs_done():da3s1a[READ(offset=81064794762854400, length=8192)]error = 5

2007-10-14 Thread Scott Long
Jan Mikkelsen wrote: Scott Long wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Either that or file system errors. Does fsck run ok or does it say anything unusual? No, filesystem corruption has nothing to do with g_vfs_done messages. Well, perhaps not directly but I think filesystem corruption can indirectly

Re: g_vfs_done():da3s1a[READ(offset=81064794762854400, length=8192)]error = 5

2007-10-14 Thread Scott Long
Ivan Voras wrote: d_elbracht wrote: we are trying to diagnose errors seen on 6.2, SMP, amd64, cvsup'ed of 2007-10-09 Mainboard is a Tyan Thunder h2000M (S3992-E) with 16 GB RAM and 2 x Opteron 2216, da3 is on a 3ware 9550-12 we are seeing this error: g_vfs_done():da3s1a[READ(offset=81064794762

Re: g_vfs_done():da3s1a[READ(offset=81064794762854400, length=8192)]error = 5

2007-10-14 Thread Scott Long
Lars Eighner wrote: On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, d_elbracht wrote: we are trying to diagnose errors seen on 6.2, SMP, amd64, cvsup'ed of 2007-10-09 Mainboard is a Tyan Thunder h2000M (S3992-E) with 16 GB RAM and 2 x Opteron 2216, da3 is on a 3ware 9550-12 we are seeing this error: g_vfs_done():da3s

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