Re: RELENG_5_4 panic

2005-05-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 06:49:43AM +, Filip Lenaerts wrote: > hi all, > > i've been experiencing kernel panics for over a year, but the frequency of > them happening has increased dramatically. now i was finally able to > build a kernel with debug options, since even while trying to build t

Re: RELENG_5_4 panic

2005-05-25 Thread Thomas E. Zander
Hi, On Wed, 25. May 2005, at 6:49 +, Filip Lenaerts wrote according to [RELENG_5_4 panic]: > it seems like everytime there is a small high cpu usage peak, the system > panics. I've seen this very same symptom caused by a dying CPU some years ago. Riggs -- - "[...] I talked to the comput

Re: 4.10-RELEASE-p3 i386 problem with /dev/dsp

2005-05-25 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-05-24 21:27:19 +0200: > On Mon, 23.05.2005 at 16:10:03 +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > I have a machine with FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p3 i386 (450MHz P3/Celeron) > > that has been running just fine, but after ~ 120 days something > > happened to /dev/dsp, and I can no longe

Re: RELENG_5_4 panic

2005-05-25 Thread Stefan Huerter
Guckux Filip Filip Lenaerts wrote: > i've been experiencing kernel panics for over a year, but the frequency > of them happening has increased dramatically. now i was finally able to > > it seems like everytime there is a small high cpu usage peak, the system > panics. im totally unsure what is

panic: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block

2005-05-25 Thread Rong-En Fan
Hi, I have seen this knid of panic on 5.3/i386 (-p15) and 4.x. Machine is an i386 machine with an external hardware RAID, shared with nfs. There are total 20+ nfs client. When one exported space gets full and some user's program keeping write (probability with remove) data to this space, sometimes

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-25 Thread Krzysztof Kowalik
Krzysztof Kowalik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > I will try to put my hands on the mentioned AMD box once again, to run > some current 6.0 on it. OK, got the box. I ran a 5.4-RELEASE, identical (as I just restored dumps of my current workstation on it) as the one not giving problems on Intel-

Re: RELENG_5_4 panic

2005-05-25 Thread Filip Lenaerts
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: i've been experiencing kernel panics for over a year, but the frequency of it seems like everytime there is a small high cpu usage peak, the system panics. im totally unsure what is going on, and hopefully someone can problem in the code or probably

Syscons output freezes with 4.11-RELEASE

2005-05-25 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
Hello all, got a very strange problem. This happened both, if the system was booted from a P2-400 Slot1 system and is happening again, although I've relocated the system to a K6-2 Sockel7 board. So, we have different hardware, except for 2x NIC and the HDDs, which I've transferred. The symptoms

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-25 Thread Krzysztof Kowalik
Krzysztof Kowalik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > cvsup-ing current 6.0-CURRENT right now, to check the giantless VFS once > again. It will probably take an hour to get it up and running. Unfortunately, 6.0-CURRENT didn't help at all. FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #0: Wed May 25 13:24:30 CEST 2005 [...

Re: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related?

2005-05-25 Thread Jamie Heckford
Jamie Heckford wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:54:59PM -0700, Doug White wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2005, Jamie Heckford wrote: Hi Peter, On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:53:12AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Wed, 2005-May-18 16:03:16 +0100, Jamie Heckford wrote: Managed to get a dump on our sys

Re: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related?

2005-05-25 Thread Jamie Heckford
Jamie Heckford wrote: Another one... looks completly different :-( [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol "ps_pglobal_lookup"] GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU Ge

Re: RELENG_5_4 panic

2005-05-25 Thread John Pettitt
Filip Lenaerts wrote: > > hi all, > > tnx very much for reply, kris, stefan and thomas. i was also > thinking/fearing for a hardware error. the reason why i didn't > investigate sooner is that over the past two years i was running > 5.0-RC2 and after that followed current. i always assumed tha

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (nbench results)

2005-05-25 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:40:20PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Bohdan Horst wrote: > > > I have 4 identical PC with FreeBSD (2x4.11R and 2x5.4R) > > Results (/usr/ports/net/benchmarks/nbench): > > What you're benchmarking here is gcc3 vs. gcc2. You could compile nbench on FreeBSD 4.11 with U

BKVASIZE for large block-size filesystems

2005-05-25 Thread Sven Willenberger
FreeBSD5.4-Stable amd64 on a dual-opteron system with LSI-Megaraid 400G+ partion. The filesystem was created with: newfs -b 65536 -f 8192 -e 15835 /dev/amrd2s1d This is the data filesystem for a PostgreSQL database; as the default page size (files) is 8k, the above newfs scheme has 8k fragments wh

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-25 Thread Matthias Buelow
Kris Kennaway wrote: interrupt total rate irq1: atkbd0 586 0 irq13: npx01 0 irq14: ata0 94 0 irq17: wi054 0 irq20: fxp0 ata

stubborn RT2500 card with new NDIS

2005-05-25 Thread Rene Ladan
Hi, I've tried the new NDIS interface with a Sweex LC500050 card, which uses the RaLink RT2500 chipset on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #4: Mon May 23 05:35:51 CEST 2005. I've got it almost running, except that when I run "dhclient ndis0", the kernel seems to freeze (it won't even respond to closing/opening

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-25 Thread Matthias Buelow
somehow? Maybe I should try and see if the problem persists with the ULE scheduler? No difference with ULE, with the default parameters: kern.sched.name: ule kern.sched.slice_min: 10 kern.sched.slice_max: 142 kern.sched.preemption: 1 mkb. ___ freebs

problems with nfs+TCP - Resource temporarily unavailable

2005-05-25 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Hi, I'm getting the following error when dding a big file on an nfs mount which is mounted using TCP. [EMAIL PROTECTED] olivleh1> dd if=/usr/tmp.data of=/mnt/files/tmp.data bs=32k dd: /mnt/files/tmp.data: Resource temporarily unavailable 639+0 records in 638+0 records out 20905984 bytes transfe

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 06:44:37PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >>interrupt total rate > >>irq1: atkbd0 586 0 > >>irq13: npx01 0 > >>irq14: ata0

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-25 Thread Matthias Buelow
Kris Kennaway wrote: Others don't see this though, and in other cases it was *definitively proven* to be caused by the issue I mentioned. I'll have to think more about what to try next..thanks for running the tests. Perhaps it's something SATA-related? mkb. __

releng 5 panic (again)

2005-05-25 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Please help me! I know that I am getting few responses to my emails - I am guessing that my situation is difficult. If you could offer any ideas how to help with further diagnostics. I am regularly getting panics with instruction pointer equal to 0xc0611c69. I am not able to get any dumps

Re: releng 5 panic (again)

2005-05-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:03 PM 25/05/2005, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I will try any reasonable test you guys have for me. Right now I am switching off HTT to see if that is the issue. This is a dual Xeon system. The SCHED_4BSD doesnt do anything with HTT and in fact might hurt performance. If you are us

Re: releng 5 panic (again)

2005-05-25 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 04:03 PM 25/05/2005, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I will try any reasonable test you guys have for me. Right now I am switching off HTT to see if that is the issue. This is a dual Xeon system. The SCHED_4BSD doesnt do anything with HTT and in fact might hurt perf

make kernel error

2005-05-25 Thread steve Rieger
usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function `adv_action': /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c:260: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/tbwa-custom-smp. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src.

Re: make kernel error

2005-05-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 05:16:02PM -0400, steve Rieger wrote: > usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function `adv_action': > /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c:260: warning: cast from pointer to > integer of different size > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/tbwa-custom-smp.

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-25 Thread Bjarne Wichmann Petersen
On Monday 23 May 2005 23:36, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Also try defining PREEMPTION in your kernel on 5.x and above (if you > are running i386 or amd64). There have been very occasional reports > of panics with this option enabled (although I use it everywhere and > have not seen problems on my heav

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:42:01PM +0200, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > On Monday 23 May 2005 23:36, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Also try defining PREEMPTION in your kernel on 5.x and above (if you > > are running i386 or amd64). There have been very occasional reports > > of panics with this

5-Stable (5.4) any ipnat changes?

2005-05-25 Thread Billy Newsom
Is there some reason why ipnat wouldn't automatically startup? I just upgraded from a 5-stable in February to a 5-stable in May, so I could essentially get 5.4 on this firewall machine. I simultaneously was upgrading some ports, etc., but nothing too severe. When I rebooted the machine, ever

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-25 Thread Bjarne Wichmann Petersen
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 23:45, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:42:01PM +0200, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > > I've had PREEMTION enabled in 5-STABLE for at couple of month and had the > > opposite experience. Eg. when clicking on a file in a fileselector (I'm > > using KDE) i

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:14:35AM +0200, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > On Wednesday 25 May 2005 23:45, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:42:01PM +0200, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > > > I've had PREEMTION enabled in 5-STABLE for at couple of month and had the > > > opposi

Re: make kernel error

2005-05-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 05:41:49PM -0400, steve Rieger wrote: > > On May 25, 2005, at 5:22 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 05:16:02PM -0400, steve Rieger wrote: > >>usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function `adv_action': > >>/usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c:260: w

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-25 Thread Jon Dama
Could this be quantified by setting up a synthetic experiement: 1) one machine uses dummynet to generate a uniform packet/sec stream 2) another machine has a process receiving those packets and recording their arrival relative to the local TSC. afaik, the TSC is the only source of wall-time

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 03:33:39PM -0700, Jon Dama wrote: > Could this be quantified by setting up a synthetic experiement: > > 1) one machine uses dummynet to generate a uniform packet/sec stream > 2) another machine has a process receiving those packets and recording >their arrival relative

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-25 Thread Jon Dama
It's different, yes. But the trouble is that you need a controlled interrupt source--i.e., you have to have some concept of when an "event" might have been handled (were it not for such and such activity). I posit that without that counterfactual talking about PREEMPTION is meaningless. The tech

Re: problems with nfs+TCP - Resource temporarily unavailable

2005-05-25 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Hi Mohan, Mohan Srinivasan wrote: > Is this consistently reproducible ? it is - everytime > I tried reproducing this with this morning's > current, it also happens with STABLE > How big was your file that you tried to dd ? I need to reproduce this here > in order to track it down. dd if=/

Re: jdk1.4.2 endless loop and kernel panic in thr_suspend()

2005-05-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 04:00:22PM -0700, Robert Faulds wrote: > Tomcat5.0.30 > libthr.so.1 via /etc/libmap.conf libthr is experimental and unmaintained..it was removed in 6.0 (well, replaced by David Xu's threading library). Try using the standard library instead. Kris pgpEJL2E0p45X.pgp Desc

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 04:02:58PM -0700, Jon Dama wrote: > It's different, yes. But the trouble is that you need a controlled > interrupt source--i.e., you have to have some concept of when an "event" > might have been handled (were it not for such and such activity). > > I posit that without th

Panic in 5.3 RELEASE

2005-05-25 Thread Victor Balada Diaz
Hi, using the "user" keyword in pf rules the system panics. I found this in the errata page: (31 Oct 2004) When the user/group rule clauses in pf(4) and ipfw(4) are used, the loader tunable debug.mpsafenet must be set to 0 (this is 1 by default). I have mpsafenet disabled so i assume that this s

Re: problems with nfs+TCP - Resource temporarily unavailable

2005-05-25 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Oliver Lehmann wrote: > So.. using i386 as an tcp nfs-server - the only thing which happens is > that dd gets interruped, using alpha as an tcp nfs-server makes the alpha > panic. Ok, maybe the alpha has other problems... Disk worked for 7 years without problems but I just rebooted the system onc

Re: make kernel error

2005-05-25 Thread steve Rieger
On May 25, 2005, at 5:22 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 05:16:02PM -0400, steve Rieger wrote: usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c: In function `adv_action': /usr/src/sys/dev/advansys/advansys.c:260: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size *** Error code 1 S

Re: Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

2005-05-25 Thread Matthias Buelow
Others don't see this though, and in other cases it was *definitively proven* to be caused by the issue I mentioned. I'll have to think more about what to try next..thanks for running the tests. Perhaps it's something SATA-related? Before restoring my 5.4 dumps after testing -current, I ins

Re: problems with nfs+TCP - Resource temporarily unavailable

2005-05-25 Thread Eric Anderson
Oliver Lehmann wrote: Hi Mohan, Mohan Srinivasan wrote: Is this consistently reproducible ? it is - everytime I tried reproducing this with this morning's current, it also happens with STABLE How big was your file that you tried to dd ? I need to reproduce this here in order to

RE: SSHD timeout

2005-05-25 Thread Matt Smith
Here are the ping results: ping statistics for 192.168.1.100: Packets : sent = 4, recieved = 4, lost = 0 <0% loss>, Approimant round trip time in mili-seconds: Min = 1ms, max = 2ms average= 1ms It's pingable at least Matt ___

RE: 5-Stable (5.4) any ipnat changes?

2005-05-25 Thread sergei
I have the same problem: After I cvsuped my system from 5.3 to 5.4, ipfilter (compiled in the my custom kernel) & ipnat not start automatically. If I do "/etc/rc.d/ipfilter start && /etc/rc.d/ipnat start" manually - all works fine... Lines "ipfilner_enable=YES" and "ipnat_enable=YES" present in th