Re: RELENG_8 ignoring TCP window size? [Was: Re: Help for TCP understanding wanted, ACK-MSS-Window [Was: Re: best practice to watch TCP parms of established sockets]]

2010-02-18 Thread Stephen Hurd
x27;s lost a segment for some reason and is trying to trigger fast recovery early. Stephen Hurd schrieb am 18.02.2010 17:18 (localtime): ... one retransmit per five packets). Is this what you're seeing? If you have a capture you could share covering a few seconds, I could take a look and

Re: RELENG_8 ignoring TCP window size? [Was: Re: Help for TCP understanding wanted, ACK-MSS-Window [Was: Re: best practice to watch TCP parms of established sockets]]

2010-02-18 Thread Stephen Hurd
Stephen Hurd wrote: Some experimental results: When rsyncing with windows, and FreeBSD is receiver, I see the same ACK ever two segemnts, but speed is at 72MB/s. When FreeBSD is sender and Windows is receiver, it looks more I expected. There are about 20 data segments before a ACK is returned

Re: RELENG_8 ignoring TCP window size? [Was: Re: Help for TCP understanding wanted, ACK-MSS-Window [Was: Re: best practice to watch TCP parms of established sockets]]

2010-02-18 Thread Stephen Hurd
Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Some experimental results: When rsyncing with windows, and FreeBSD is receiver, I see the same ACK ever two segemnts, but speed is at 72MB/s. When FreeBSD is sender and Windows is receiver, it looks more I expected. There are about 20 data segments before a ACK is ret

Re: RELENG_8 ignoring TCP window size? [Was: Re: Help for TCP understanding wanted, ACK-MSS-Window [Was: Re: best practice to watch TCP parms of established sockets]]

2010-02-18 Thread Stephen Hurd
Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Some experimental results: When rsyncing with windows, and FreeBSD is receiver, I see the same ACK ever two segemnts, but speed is at 72MB/s. When FreeBSD is sender and Windows is receiver, it looks more I expected. There are about 20 data segments before a ACK is ret

Re: 8.0-B4 gstripe / GEOM_PART_* upgrade woes

2009-09-11 Thread Stephen Hurd
Ivan Voras wrote: An interesting problem. I presume that in either case (gpart or GEOM_BSD/MBR) the output of "gstripe status" is the same? Only the interpretation of the partition tables is problematic? Yes, but the output of gstripe list is different in the mode lines... for GEOM_PART, the

8.0-B4 gstripe / GEOM_PART_* upgrade woes

2009-09-11 Thread Stephen Hurd
I've upgraded from 7.2-RELEASE_p2 to 8.0-BETA4 and using GEOM_PART_* with my sliced gstripe array causes the /dev/stripe/raid0a to disappear and the reset of the /dev/stripe/raid0[a-z] file systems to be unmountable. My gvinum array is still working fine and, after chasing the ad* slices, they

Re: portupgrade, recommended by 7 release notes, breaks perl

2008-03-01 Thread Stephen Hurd
Kris Kennaway wrote: I think something is not quite right in your analysis, because perl does not depend on any external perl modules (it cannot, by definition). I ran into something like this when I was switching from a threaded perl to an unthreaded perl. It wasn't possible to just use a po

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

2008-03-01 Thread Stephen Hurd
Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:39:11 -0800 Stephen Hurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As a workaround, adding the line: hw.ata.ata_dma="0" To /boot/loader.conf will disable DMA and prevent the hangs that are caused by the DMA timeouts. Yeah, but having

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

2008-02-29 Thread Stephen Hurd
> > As a workaround, adding the line: > > hw.ata.ata_dma="0" > > > > To /boot/loader.conf will disable DMA and prevent the hangs that are caused > > by the DMA timeouts. > > Does that workaround work when the disks are sata? Don't know. I personally would assume so, but I wouldn't be surprised

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

2008-02-29 Thread Stephen Hurd
> last night. It's a MiniITX board, model EN1200. My system can't remain > up for more than 10minutes before something locks it up and frequently > the screen will output error messages relating to DMA. As a workaround, adding the line: hw.ata.ata_dma="0" To /boot/loader.conf will disable DMA and

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

2008-02-27 Thread Stephen Hurd
Scott Long wrote: I'd like to attack these driver problems. What I need is to spend a couple of days with an affected system that can reliably reproduce the problem, instrumenting and testing the driver. I have a number of theories about what might be going wrong, but nothing that I'm definitel

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

2008-02-27 Thread Stephen Hurd
Scott Long wrote: I'm betting that it's a driver problem and not a hardware problem, though you should probably think about migrating your data off to a new drive sometime soon. Yeah, ordered a replacement drive today. I'd like to attack these driver problems. What I need is to spend a coupl

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

2008-02-27 Thread Stephen Hurd
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: And after the reboot, the READ_DMA timeouts were back. You're not the only one seeing this behaviour. There are too many posts in the past reporting similar. Here's the breakdown: * Some have switched to alternate operating systems (usually Linux) for a short wh

ad0 READ_DMA TIMEOUT errors on install of 7.0-RELEASE

2008-02-27 Thread Stephen Hurd
My system has been working reliably with 6.3 for quite some time... when I rebooted into single user mode to do the installworld with the 7.0-RELEASE kernel, the install died about halfway through with READ_DMA TIMEOUT errors. Since I had a mixed system at that point, I set hw.ata.ata_dma="0"

Re: [Fwd: Custom termcap entries and installworld]

2006-05-29 Thread Stephen Hurd
1) How do people cope with custom termcap entries? One workaround is to not modify /etc/termcap at all. Instead just store them in a file somewhere and (depending on your shell) do export TERMCAP=/my/custom/termcap Or even export TERMCAP=custom:my custom entry See the ENVIRONMENT s

[Fwd: Custom termcap entries and installworld]

2006-05-28 Thread Stephen Hurd
--- Begin Message --- I've now shot myself in the foot at least three times in as many years with custom termcap entries... here's the deal: 1) I modify /etc/termcap and customize a termcap entry for some valid reason (I need 132x42 or whatever for my Link MC/5) 2) I update /etc/gettytab and

Re: burncd audio produces white noise

2006-05-15 Thread Stephen Hurd
Max Laier wrote: Yeah, I've noticed that too now that you mention it. When it happened to me, I switched to using atapicam and cdrecord with the -swab parameter. Also, you may want to look at audio/mp3burn (still need to pass -swab though) I would recommend that you file a PR on this one.

Re: burncd audio produces white noise

2006-05-15 Thread Stephen Hurd
Michael A. Koerber wrote: All, Once upon a time, I think with 5.x or perhaps earlier, the command (ATAPI drive) burncd -ef /dev/acd0 audio *.cdr fixate would produce an audio CD for me. However, under 6.0 and recently 6.1 this same command produces an CD filled with white noise only. T

Re: Trouble with NFSd under 6.1-Stable, any ideas?

2006-05-14 Thread Stephen Hurd
Howard Leadmon wrote: Would this just be lockd, or should I disable both lockd and statd? I notice in the rc.conf it claims they are both supposed to be enabled, so not sure what issues I run into if I disable them, if any. No need to disable rpc.statd though I don't know if any other program

Re: Trouble with NFSd under 6.1-Stable, any ideas?

2006-05-14 Thread Stephen Hurd
Howard Leadmon wrote: Hello All, I have been running FBSD a long while, and actually running since the 5.x releases on the server I am having troubles with. I basically have a small network and just use NIS/NFS to link my various FBSD and Solaris machines together. This has all been run

Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006

2005-12-17 Thread Stephen Hurd
Security updates will be maintained for quite a while. However, it takes manpower to test each proposed security change, so it's very hard to justify doing them 'indefinitely'. The stated policy from the security team is 2 years. So they will probably support 5.5 into 2008, but I wanted to be

Re: /create/symlink failed: no inodes free

2005-11-22 Thread Stephen Hurd
MS-KILA wrote: still present trying to install 6.0 on a 600Mhz celery, 384 ram, 8g hdd; ftp install. will attempt the explicit ip idea. does every first attempt at ftp choke like this? wayne ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: PERFMON with Athlon breaks ata.

2005-11-18 Thread Stephen Hurd
Joseph Koshy wrote: A custom kernel compiled with options PERFMON and cputype=athlon when ran on an athlon causes ATA to not probe devices on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. dmesg seems normal except the ata probe is never done, so the only boot devices available is the floppy. AFAIR, "PERFMON" onl

PERFMON with Athlon breaks ata.

2005-11-17 Thread Stephen Hurd
A custom kernel compiled with options PERFMON and cputype=athlon when ran on an athlon causes ATA to not probe devices on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. dmesg seems normal except the ata probe is never done, so the only boot devices available is the floppy. Just something I noticed in passing, not open

Re: mplayer + bktr

2005-11-15 Thread Stephen Hurd
Daniel O'Connor wrote: FreeBSD doesn't have rtc.ko.. Mine doesn't anyway :) I'm not sure how mplayer in FreeBSD stamps frames either. It's not stock, but /dev/rtc (via rtc.ko) can be had via emulators/rtc if rtc.ko exists, it's a dependency, to force it to be built you can frob the WITH_RT

Re: 5.x, 6.x and CPUTYPE

2005-11-07 Thread Stephen Hurd
I always build my production servers with CPUTYPE=i686 so they can be transplanted to any machine with a PPro or better processor (or even qemu if necessary). Thanks, Craig. I'm glad to hear that I'm not alone in pursuing this method. Do you know of any particular disadvantages of continuin

Re: New user confused by need to do huge upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Stephen Hurd
I installed from two CDs, and got a working KDE system. Now, I want to do Firefox from ports with my own make.conf for P4 optimisation. Good! So, I sync with the sources using cvsup (just like emerge --sync) change to the Firefox ports directory, type "make" and enter dependency hell like has

Re: /create/symlink failed: no inodes free

2005-11-06 Thread Stephen Hurd
Matt Smith wrote: In this case I think the hard disk filled up during the install as I got later: "couldn't create /usr/compat - no space left on device." Right... that's essentially the same error. What apears to happen when the install is aborted/restarted is that instead of installing to

Re: /create/symlink failed: no inodes free

2005-11-06 Thread Stephen Hurd
Matt Smith wrote: Trying to put FBSD 6.0-Stable on a box and the error in the subject line (/create/symlink failed: no inodes free) comes up right after the filesystems are made and the transfer over FTP starts. What causes this error? I've found this tends to happen if the install is abort