Re: calendar (1) - patch to correct error description

2020-10-29 Thread Diane Bruce
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 01:29:39AM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi Stefan > > Am 28.10.20 um 13:02 schrieb Julian H. Stacey: > > > man calendar states: > > >"The calendar internal cpp does not correctly do #ifndef and will > > > discard > > >the rest of the file if a #ifndef is trigger

Re: zfs problems after rebuilding system [SOLVED]

2018-03-03 Thread Bruce Evans
e mountroot prompt. That seems to hold a Giant lock which inhibits further progress being made. Sometimes progress can be made by trying to mount unmountable partitions on other drives, but this usually goes too fast, especially if the USB driv

Re: 11.0-RELEASE Status Update

2016-10-07 Thread Bruce A. Mah
l fix, etc. They need to use their judgement about a number of factors such as severity, number of users impacted, availability of developers, and so on. The schedule is also a factor, but it's never just for the sake of adhering to the schedule. Bruce (Ex-RE team member) > On Fri, Oct 7,

Re: binary updates for 10.3 failing

2016-05-07 Thread Bruce A. Mah
on the security@ list. After a freebsd-update fetch/install/reboot cycle... wwwin:bmah% freebsd-version -u -k 10.3-RELEASE-p2 10.3-RELEASE-p2 Bruce. PS. Hi Andreas! Hi Kevin! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: fat32 question

2015-09-19 Thread Bruce Burden
0.0 STABLE. Bruce On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 06:55:19AM +0200, Zoran Kolic wrote: > I have a device to which I'd like to connect otg cable > and insert 16gb usb stick. Tried "newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/da0". > Mounted, copied files. The device does not see the file > system at all.

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

2013-04-20 Thread Bruce Cran
On 04/04/2013 09:00, Matthias Andree wrote: Any good "concurrent write" exercise tools for Unix that I could run on the Linux ext4 partition that you would propose? benchmarks/fio is good for that. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@f

Re: Missing partition slices after upgrade 7.4 to 8.3

2013-03-23 Thread Diane Bruce
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:02:20PM +0200, Mailing lists wrote: > On 03/23/2013 09:05 PM, Mailing lists wrote: > > Hi all, > > after upgrade from 7.4 to 8.3 I have encounter the following problem on > > two machines. ... > > - when it's 8.3 or 9.1 I see /dev/da0s1 & /dev/da1s1 > I did bsdlabel /dev

Re: Solved?: Re: Upgrade of RELENG_8 ZFS boot pool leads to unbootable system

2013-01-04 Thread Bruce A. Mah
it caused a server I was upgrading to lock up just as you described. I had to learn about mounting ZFS filesystems from the Fixit environment in a hurry. My workaround was to get rid of /boot.config, which obviously doesn't restore the original functionality. The system in question

Re: smartctl question

2012-11-09 Thread Bruce A. Mah
the drive temperature and airflow temperature. But AFAIK you're right about the counter values. Bruce. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and 9-STABLE snapshots

2012-10-10 Thread Bruce Cran
icial - why not just make pub.allbsd.org the official source? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and 9-STABLE snapshots

2012-10-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On 05/10/2012 15:29, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Unofficial snapshots can be downloaded from https://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/ for a long time (bootonly.iso too) I'm baffled as to why those aren't just made official. -- Bruce Cran _

Re: BuildingFreeBSDWithClang

2012-05-22 Thread Bruce Cran
't cc, so you have to also set CC=clang, CXX=clang++ and CPP=clang-cpp in src.conf . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-

Re: fxp entering promiscuous mode causing link to bounce

2012-03-16 Thread Bruce A. Mah
nged to DOWN fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled fxp0: link state changed to UP fxp0: link state changed to DOWN fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled fxp0: link state changed to UP Bruce. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: flowtable usable or not

2012-03-03 Thread Bruce Cran
with great integration between applications and the ability to change settings without reading man pages? You run FreeBSD with KDE or GNOME. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

RE: mpslsi0 : Trying sleep, but thread marked as sleeping prohibited

2012-02-24 Thread Bruce Evans
not 1000 times, and not 100 times with certain hardware. Bruce ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-13 Thread Bruce Cran
On 13/02/2012 17:41, Andreas Nilsson wrote: On 13 feb 2012, at 17:08, Bruce Cran wrote: pc-sysinstall doesn't work (well?) on non-x86 platforms so bsdinstall was created as an interim solution. I'll take your word for it, but as far as I know the backend is shell-based as w

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-13 Thread Bruce Cran
pc-sysinstall doesn't work (well?) on non-x86 platforms so bsdinstall was created as an interim solution. -- Bruce Cran Sent from my iPhone On 13 Feb 2012, at 15:44, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:58 PM, George Kontostanos > wrote: > >> I don'

Re: New BSD Installer

2012-02-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On 2/10/2012 7:47 PM, Alex Samorukov wrote: I am highly against reverting. Old installer is not GPT aware and in fact is unmaintained for a very long time. That's not really correct: quite a lot of work was done on it last year. -- Bruce ___ fr

Re: UFS corruption panic

2012-01-15 Thread Bruce Cran
argue instead that for non-root filesystems the correct action is to stop all operations on that filesystem but let the rest of the system continue. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-s

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-17 Thread Bruce Cran
ems with ULE on a dual-socket quad-core Xeon machine with 16 logical CPUs. If I run "tar xf somefile.tar" and "make -j16 buildworld" then logging into another console can take several seconds. Sometimes even the "Password:" prompt can take a couple of seconds to app

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-15 Thread Bruce Cran
On 15/12/2011 14:20, Steven Hartland wrote: So for this use ULE vs 4BSD is neither here-nor-there but 9.0 buildworld is very slow (x2 slower) compared with 8.2 so whats a bigger question in my mind. clang is new in 9.0 and takes a long time to build. -- Bruce Cran

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-13 Thread Bruce Evans
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Ivan Klymenko wrote: ?? Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:04:42 +0100 Jilles Tjoelker ??: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:40:48AM +0200, Ivan Klymenko wrote: If the algorithm ULE does not contain problems - it means the problem has Core2Duo, or in a piece of code that uses the ULE

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-12 Thread Bruce Cran
correct value of this, seemingly, important tunable. Note that I said "for example" :) I was suggesting that there may be sysctl's that can be tweaked to improve performance. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org ma

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-12 Thread Bruce Cran
I've heard repeated, and people claiming that setting it improves performance. This explains how the value 224 was obtained: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-September/058686.html -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.o

Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default

2011-12-12 Thread Bruce Cran
'm wondering if the installer should ask people what the typical use will be, and tune the scheduler appropriately. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscri

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 Available...

2011-10-12 Thread Bruce Cran
to be less than a CD, at 610MB. Are they expected to contain more data over time, or could 'dvd' be removed? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, sen

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-20 Thread Diane Bruce
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 01:34:41PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 09:39:17PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: ... > >> Information such as this? > >> http://beta.freebsddiary.org/smart-fixing-bad-sector.php ... > > 3) A v

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-19 Thread Diane Bruce
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:50:01PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > System in question: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #3: Thu Mar 3 04:52:04 GMT 2011 > > After a recent power failure, I'm seeing this in my logs: > > Aug 19 20:36:34 bast smartd[1575]: Device: /dev/ad2, 2 Currently unreadable > (pending) sector

Re: setting usb disc to da1

2011-05-15 Thread Bruce Meier
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 13/05/2011, at 7:08, Thomas Krause wrote: I've plugged a USB disc to a FreeBSD System and it's dedected as da1: da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device But when rebooting the machine, it becomes da0 and I cannot boot the system. What's the trick to set the USB dis

Re: setting usb disc to da1

2011-05-15 Thread Bruce Meier
newfs /dev/label/usr mount /dev/label/usr /usr [...] umount /usr glabel stop usr glabel unload I got that unload is unavailable but it everything worked for me. Check the man page. Hope this helps. Bruce __

Re: setting usb disc to da1

2011-05-14 Thread bruce
label/usr /usr [...] umount /usr glabel stop usr glabel unload I got that unload is unavailable but it everything worked for me. Check the man page. Hope this helps. Bruce ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mai

Re: Is machdep.cpu_idle_hlt deprecated?

2011-05-02 Thread Bruce Cran
ilable idle functions machdep.idle: acpi machdep.idle_available: spin, hlt, acpi, -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stab

Re: Large number of SATA commits (MFCs) to RELENG_8

2011-04-21 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:56:04 +0300 Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 21/04/2011 05:43 Lystopad Olexandr said the following: > > May be we need another one file, like src/ChangeLog ? ;-) > > svn log ... Or even http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/

Re: ZFS root on MB Intel S3420GP

2011-04-18 Thread Bruce Cran
ing still care about CHS? In ATA-8 the fields have been marked as being obsolete. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: drives >2TB on mpt device

2011-04-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 15:07:01 +0200 Gerrit Kühn wrote: > Are there any hints how to access the full drive? Am I seeing a > limitation of the controller/firmware or rather of the driver (mpt)? It looks like a known issue: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/147572 -- Bruc

Re: Constant rebooting after power loss

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Cran
performance lost by disabling the write cache. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Constant rebooting after power loss

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Cran
onsidering disabling background fsck by default since it can cause issues like this? -- Bruce Cran

Re: Constant rebooting after power loss

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Cran
erformance lost through disabling the write cache can be regained through the queueing system. -- Bruce Cran

Re: 8.1 amd64 lockup (maybe zfs or disk related)

2011-02-22 Thread Bruce Cran
ss than 4GB of RAM is present; to enable, add "vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=0" to /boot/loader.conf." -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send

Re: mountd has resolving problems

2011-02-17 Thread Bruce Evans
fected bge more than fxp. Maybe the latter is correct and the problem is smaller with fxp just because it is ready sooner. Bruce ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send

Re: tmpfs is zero bytes (no free space), maybe a zfs bug?

2011-02-10 Thread Bruce Cran
> I hope somebody can find the time to look into this, it's pretty > annoying... It's also listed as a bug on OpenSolaris: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;?bug_id=6804661 -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2011-01-02 Thread Bruce Cran
essentially the commands with some changes needed to support different disks. I'd imagine that administrators wouldn't use sysinstall in interactive mode when deploying to many machines. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: 8.2-BETA1 sysinstall: No USB devices found

2010-12-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:38:59 -0500 Kim Culhan wrote: > No USB devices found! Can you try re-scanning for devices (via the Options screen) - sysinstall can fail to detect USB disks the first time around. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.

Re: umass: AutoSense failed

2010-12-10 Thread Bruce Cran
e failed" and the device stops responding. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-08 Thread Bruce Cran
is included in the "live filesystem" but not in the Emergency Holographic Shell that is present on CD1. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-08 Thread Bruce Cran
it wasn't included. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:00:34 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Go into Fixit# and examine /dev and/or the dmesg. The problem is there's no "ls" in FixIt mode so you need to use "echo *" to see what files are present. -- Bruce Cran ___

Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD

2010-12-07 Thread Bruce Cran
there's only one CD device in the system. If there's more than one CD device you'll get a prompt asking which to use. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: 8.1-RELEASE: snd_hda works as module only, suspend/resume leaves display off

2010-11-19 Thread Bruce Cran
ds in the fs and vm subsystems, and attempting to suspend for a second time results in the system rebooting instead. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: TTY task group scheduling

2010-11-19 Thread Bruce Cran
't > make it into src \ tree. by now it's probably outdated and needs to > be reworked quite a bit. > > does anybody know something about this? Google suggests that the work was a GSoC project in 2005 on a pluggable disk scheduler. -- Bruce Cran _

Re: How to get suspend/resume work on IBM T60?

2010-11-18 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 14:12:23 Bruce Cran wrote: > According to whitelist.c in the linux suspend package, the T60 needs "s3 > bios" and "s3 mode" for the video to work on resume, which I don't think > has been implemented. Actually it looks like "s3

Re: How to get suspend/resume work on IBM T60?

2010-11-18 Thread Bruce Cran
ptop everything works except the backlight doesn't get turned back on. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: How to get suspend/resume work on IBM T60?

2010-11-17 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 14:31:39 Yue Wu wrote: > No, even the indicating light indicates the status is still in > suspend, I have to press and hold the power key to power off. You'll probably need to talk to the guys over on freebsd-a...@freebsd.org for help then. --

Re: 8.1-RELEASE: snd_hda works as module only, suspend/resume leaves display off

2010-11-16 Thread Bruce Cran
ore going to sleep and changes back to X after waking up. The acpi code already does this: if you run acpiconf from within X you'll see ttyv0 appear, the system turns off and when resuming ttyv0 appears before X11. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@free

Re: Intel PRO/Wireless 6050 in 8.1-RELEASE Problems

2010-10-29 Thread Bruce Cran
cause of the problem, but shouldn't you be running wpa_supplicant on the wlan0 interface, not the underlying iwn0? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: device names changes for adX.

2010-10-02 Thread Bruce Cran
t; do things -- you'll update the zpool.cache that way, which means that > ZFS will come up without any remedial action after reboot. Since glabel writes metadata to disk, won't doing this on a disk with a filesystem corrupt something? -- Bruce Cran ___

60s boot hang on Xen running 8-STABLE when using ATA_CAM

2010-10-02 Thread Bruce Cran
erial Number QM1 ada0: 16.700MB/s transfers (WDMA2, PIO 8192bytes) ada0: 10752MB (22020096 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) A full verbose dmesg is available at http://www.cran.org.uk/~brucec/freebsd/dmesg.ATA_CAM.hang.txt -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable

Re: boot0cfg problems

2010-10-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 04:34:34 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Anyway, if the MBR did get updated without kern.geom.debugflags having > bit 4 set, then wouldn't this indicate there's a bug in GEOM's "sector > 0" protection? Or that it knows that updating the active

Re: BIND9 built w/--disable-ipv6 on 8.1-STABLE

2010-09-21 Thread Diane Bruce
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:15:17PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:06:43 -0700 > > From: Doug Barton > > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > On 9/21/2010 4:43 AM, Mark Kamichoff wrote: > > | On Mon

Re: Tuning the scheduler? Desktop with a CPU-intensive task becomes rapidly unusable.

2010-09-03 Thread Bruce Cran
e, use gpart to create partitions etc. So far I've got code that can parse the existing partition layout but not much more. Take a look at user/ae/usr.sbin/sade in svn to see how to interact with geom - ae@ has been working on adding support for

Re: Build option survey for stable/8 r210741 (for nanobsd)

2010-08-22 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:23:48 + Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > http://phk/misc/build_options_stable_8_210741/ Did you mean http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/build_options_stable_8_210741/ ? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: Soekris Sysinstall FTP & NFS Failure

2010-08-17 Thread Bruce Cran
leases. Using a static IP address seems to get further in that you don't get an immediate error, but instead you get returned to the list of FTP servers after a minute. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: FreeBSD eats 169.254.x.x addressed packets

2010-06-12 Thread Bruce Simpson
Guy Helmer wrote: > My previous understanding was that RFC 3927 did not allow transmitting > datagrams involving the 169.254.0.0/16 link-local prefix; now that I've > looked over the RFC more closely, I'm not sure that is the case. > > I have cc'ed Bruce Simpson on

Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920

2010-04-12 Thread Bruce Simpson
Hi all, There's a port archivers/pbzip2, and I am inclined to believe this is a good benchmark for multi-core performance in real-world usage (with an appropriate input data set). BZIP2 is a compression algorithm which is readily applicable to multicore, because of the nature in which its wo

Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920

2010-04-12 Thread Bruce Simpson
On 04/12/10 05:12, Maho NAKATA wrote: *Abstract* I compared the peak performance of FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 and Ubuntu 9.10 amd64 using dgemm (a linear algebra routine, matrix-matrix multiplication). I obtained only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64 and almost 95% on Ubuntu 9.10 /

Re: install touching mbr

2010-04-03 Thread Bruce Cran
to previous releases). I have a patch at http://reviews.freebsdish.org/r/15/ waiting to be committed. I believe the "None" option won't change the bootcode itself but will still mark the FreeBSD partition as active. -- Bruce Cran __

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-10 Thread Bruce Simpson
On 02/10/10 19:40, Steve Polyack wrote: I haven't had such bad experience as the above, but it is certainly a concern. Using ZFS we simply 'offline' the device, pull, replace with a new one, glabel, and zfs replace. It seems to work fine as long as nothing is accessing the device you are re

Re: ionice in FreeBSD?

2010-02-04 Thread Bruce Simpson
On 02/03/10 11:52, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: So I guess my question is, 'why do you need I/O scheduling, and what aspect of system performance are you trying to solve with it' ? Some shell-scripts based on dd or rsync, for example. Even a daily antivirus (ClamAV) scanner means an extensiv

Re: ionice in FreeBSD?

2010-02-03 Thread Bruce Simpson
On 02/02/2010 17:19, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: In FreeBSD we've nice(1), renice(8) and even rtprio, idprio(1) but if I'm understanding correctly, they're related to CPU priorty only, not to I/O. That's not entirely true. A thread's CPU priority is still going to affect its ability to be

Re: freebsd 8.0 stable amd64/x86 needs ~9min to bootup

2010-01-27 Thread Bruce Simpson
Try GRUB4DOS. I use this so on boxes where I have Windows installed, I can keep GRUB in the NTFS partition. I haven't seen this issue and am tracking -STABLE on an ASUS V-series machine. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-26 Thread Bruce Cran
r problem with laptop HDDs and APM settings that cause a high load_cycle_count too. According to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695 and many blog entries, parking the heads frequently can shorten the HDD lifetime.

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-26 Thread Bruce Cran
tune the APM settings on the drive using sysutils/ataidle to change the amount of time the drive waits until parking the heads. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: mounting ext3 for rw

2010-01-04 Thread Bruce Simpson
You could try this, but it needs patching for FreeBSD: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fuse/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-uns

Re: Create socket files

2009-12-22 Thread Bruce Burden
m, since it doesn't consume an i-node until it is bound to a name, or more specifically, the system doesn't know what permissions apply until it is bound. Bruce -- ---

Re: HP LJ 1020: "ulpt0: offline"

2009-12-15 Thread Bruce Simpson
Graham Menhennitt wrote: Foo2zjs doesn't seem to have changed recently. CUPS has changed but I doubt that's the problem. Maybe something to do with USB drivers? In 8.x, CUPS 1.4.x wants libusb support and the ugen driver, rather than ulpt. Once I changed over to that, all was fine. It's a

Re: Freebsd 8.0 system freeze

2009-12-02 Thread Bruce Cran
09-September/000224.html for a discussion of the pros and cons of having crash dumps enabled by default. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Bruce Cran
e benchmark it's using: it runs tiobench from http://sourceforge.net/projects/tiobench/ with the parameters -f 16, 64, 128, 256 -t 4, 8, 16, 32 It's another project that for some reason doesn't produce releases - the last version was back in 2002. If someone's

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Bruce Cran
m/ > [2]: http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=downloads The benchmarks are scheduled by PHP, but the benchmark tests aren't: if you look in pts\test-resources it seems it tests how long it takes to build programs like mplayer and apache, and interprets the timing results f

Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed...

2009-11-29 Thread Bruce Cran
It's time to learn another level of complexity, evidently} Dovecot is an IMAP/POP3 server - sendmail lets you send mail, dovecot lets you fetch it from a remote server. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: SMART

2009-11-12 Thread Bruce Cran
SMART appears to be that it's not an accurate predictor of drive failure, according to a study done at Google - see http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: amd64/139859: commit references a PR

2009-10-29 Thread Bruce Cran
> +20081009: > > + atapci kernel module now includes only generic PCI ATA > > + driver. AHCI driver moved to ataahci kernel module. > > That probably wants to say 20091029? The work was done in October last year (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/s

Re: bootless!

2009-10-21 Thread Bruce Simpson
Randy Bush wrote: is there a recipe for making a 7.2 usb? Tried the UsbDevice command in NanoBSD? This won't give you a full FreeBSD installer, but you can build a 7.2 system with it just fine. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux

2009-09-30 Thread Bruce Cran
implementations. I ran the tiobench test on -CURRENT a few days ago and the ahci driver showed an improvement in latency over the ata driver; I didn't test transfer rates though. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: How to enable CPU turbo mode on FreeBSD?

2009-09-11 Thread Bruce Cran
o mode. I haven't had any success yet but I know in Windows the System control panel reported the 2.66GHz CPU running at 2.83GHz without me doing anything, so I guess FreeBSD should be doing the same. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.or

Re: 8.0-BETA3/i386: make WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN=yes buildworld broken

2009-08-31 Thread Bruce Simpson
Simon L. Nielsen wrote: I'm pretty sure WITHOUT_TOOLCHAIN=yes hasn't worked with buildworld since 7.x, so this is nothing new. You need to specify it with installworld, not buildworld. At least I ran into that with NanoBSD some time ago. Any chance we could get the C++ runtime coaxed away

Re: status of flash9/flash10 support in RELENG_7 ?

2009-07-27 Thread Bruce Simpson
Luigi Rizzo wrote: Is there a recipe for a working flas9 or flash10 operation ? Allegedly PC-BSD ship a working Flash install, I have not tried it. I have had similar problems and tried similar recipes. The Flash player(s) thus embedded are not very stable, and can crash or hang with mult

Re: ataraid's revenge! (Was: Re: A nasty ataraid experience.)

2009-07-27 Thread Bruce Simpson
Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 19:57 +0100, Bruce Simpson wrote: 6 months on, ataraid(4) did it again. Which ataraid(4) controller is this? Seeing a verbose dmesg would help. There are several patches in the PR database for ataraid problems, it would be worth having a

Re: SCSI device not created upon a CF card plug in

2009-07-23 Thread Bruce Simpson
Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:14:18AM +0800, Sagara Wijetunga wrote If you conversant in this area, could you help us to identify what is/are the exact function/s in which program/s to look into identify the media insertion activity, so that we can generate relevant devd eve

ataraid's revenge! (Was: Re: A nasty ataraid experience.)

2009-07-23 Thread Bruce Simpson
6 months on, ataraid(4) did it again. This time, I was lucky -- I caught in in time, but the damage to the filesystem meant having to use fsdb to NULL out the affected inodes; mounting read-only, tarring, and untarring across the network, after a newfs, let me save the affected partition.

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 USB stack info needed

2009-07-16 Thread Bruce Simpson
Sagara Wijetunga wrote: 1. Could I know which exact program print above line on /dev/devctl ? The kernel... 2. I want to print another line with "daN" as the device-name, where N is 0 to 9, with minimum vendor and product ids once the allocated device-name is known for USB Mass Storage devi

Merging a GCC bug fix to RELENG_7 - how?

2009-07-06 Thread Bruce Simpson
Hi all, This GCC bug bites us in the Boost regression tests in a number of places. Uh oh, I've stepped on the one-line fix bomb: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31899 http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?view=rev&revision=129199 What's funny is that COPYING in the root of that branch is

Re: ATA driver update for 7.2RELEASE available

2009-06-27 Thread Bruce Cran
pr.cgi?pr=kern/133162 but it sounds like some more drivers will need to be added for 7.2. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "free

Re: USB critically broken under RELENG_7 on amd64

2009-06-25 Thread Bruce Simpson
Bruce Simpson wrote: Hi, Since jhb@ committed the fixes for ULi SATA, I updated my kernel+world on my amd64 desktop machine. So far so good. I updated again Tuesday. If I revert to the kernel I built from RELENG_7 on June 10th, all is fine. I saw no changes in SVN to the stable/7/sys/dev

USB critically broken under RELENG_7 on amd64

2009-06-25 Thread Bruce Simpson
Hi, Since jhb@ committed the fixes for ULi SATA, I updated my kernel+world on my amd64 desktop machine. So far so good. I updated again Tuesday. Unfortunately I am now seeing USB warnings during boot: uhub1: device problem (TIMEOUT), disabling port 1 I get messages like this for any and

Re: Unnamed POSIX shared semaphores

2009-06-16 Thread Bruce Simpson
Vlad Galu wrote: ... Thanks, Ivan. I'll take a better look at this after our first release, which is due in a couple of weeks. Right now the team efforts aren't focused on portability, so it's a low priority issue, but something we'd definitely like to have in the future. I've just run head

Re: reecommendations for an 'appliance" platform ?

2009-06-14 Thread Bruce Simpson
Pete French wrote: Any suggestions, or words of wisdom from anyone who has done someething similar themselevs in the past ? The ASUS EeePC 701 is cheap as chips and can easily be mass-flashed with NanoBSD images from a USB dongle. I wrote a reflash script but didn't release it -- it just t

Re: Unnamed POSIX shared semaphores

2009-06-09 Thread Bruce Simpson
Vlad Galu wrote: ... Thanks, Ivan. I'll take a better look at this after our first release, which is due in a couple of weeks. Right now the team efforts aren't focused on portability, so it's a low priority issue, but something we'd definitely like to have in the future. I stand corrected.

Re: make installworld and securelevel

2009-06-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:41:13 -0400 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Bruce Cran writes: > > > On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:45:50 +0200 > > FLEURIOT Damien wrote: > > > >> > >> Hello list, > >> > >> > >> I apologize if th

Re: make installworld and securelevel

2009-06-05 Thread Bruce Cran
mode to avoid issues like this. From /usr/src/UPDATING: make buildworld make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [1] [3] mergemaster -p [5] ma

Re: poll()-ing a pipe descriptor, watching for POLLHUP

2009-06-03 Thread Bruce Evans
ility than the strange behaviour given by this flag! I forward-ported Bruce' patch to the CURRENT. It passes the tests from tools/regression/fifo and a test from kern/94772. Thanks. I won't be committing it any time soon, so you should. I rewrote the test programs extensively (enclosed at

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