Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, 2006-Nov-02 11:12:43 -0800, David Marshall wrote: >has 6.1/i386. The i386 has a better ubench score. This is not necessarily relevant to real-world performance. Both architectures have their strengths and weaknesses and you really need to make a decision based on how your own application

Re: Boot FreeBSD from grub

2006-11-03 Thread Sergey Matveychuk
Joseph Koshy wrote: > sz> How can add FreeBSD into grub menu? I can see FreeBSD file > sz> system via fdisk -l comand. > > Something like the following should work in > "/boot/grub/menu.lst": > > title FreeBSD > root (hd0,a) > kernel /boot/loader > > assuming that the 'a' partition is where t

[PATCH] Intel PRO/100 VE extra PCI ID

2006-11-03 Thread Rink Springer
Hi people, Recently, I installed FreeBSD on a Tyan GS14 barebone, which houses an bge(4) and a fxp(4). However, FreeBSD does not recognize the on-board fxp(4) NIC by default. All that was needed was just an extra PCI ID addition; the patch can be found at http://rink.nu/tmp/if_fxp.ve.diff. With t

Re: RELENG_6: I/O deadlock under load

2006-11-03 Thread Ulrich Spoerlein
On 10/28/06, Christian S.J. Peron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It almost looks as if a user frequently runs gmirror(8) to query the status of their array. Under a high load situation, the worker is busy, so at one un-lucky momment, gmirror(8) is run: (1) gmirror(8) waits for sc->sc_lock owned

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge device - 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-11-03 Thread Pete French
> Is it causing stuck connections or other messy problems? Also, is it > any worse than 6.1? I am also seeing the same thing - hard to tell if it is better or worse under 6.2 than 6.1 as I dont have 6.2 out on any production webservers so the only machine running it is a lot more lightly loaded (

Re: [PATCH] Intel PRO/100 VE extra PCI ID

2006-11-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:03 AM 11/3/2006, Rink Springer wrote: Hi people, Recently, I installed FreeBSD on a Tyan GS14 barebone, which houses an bge(4) and a fxp(4). However, FreeBSD does not recognize the on-board fxp(4) NIC by default. All that was needed was just an extra PCI ID addition; the patch can be foun

Re: Frequent VFS crashes with RELENG_6

2006-11-03 Thread Vlad Galu
On 10/31/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It now crashes in a different place. Unfortunately I don't have physical access to the machine. A bt full is available at http://night.rdslink.ro/dudu/freebsd/03_11_2006.txt. The stack was corrupted though :( -- If it's there, and you can s

Re: [PATCH] Intel PRO/100 VE extra PCI ID

2006-11-03 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rink Springer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Hi people, : : Recently, I installed FreeBSD on a Tyan GS14 barebone, which houses an : bge(4) and a fxp(4). However, FreeBSD does not recognize the on-board : fxp(4) NIC by default. : : All that was needed wa

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge device - 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-11-03 Thread Arno J. Klaassen
"John Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > rwsrv05> dmesg | grep bge > bge0: mem 0xe820-0xe820 > irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci4 > miibus1: on bge0 > bge0: Ethernet address: 00:0b:cd:e7:70:19 > bge0: link state changed to UP > bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting I have a Tyan S2850 wit

panic on 6.2-PRERELEASE (With backtrace)

2006-11-03 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
Hi, guys. I have a panic running squid as web accelerator on 6.2-PRERELEASE. Here is a backtrace: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ACCEL# kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0 kgdb: kvm_nlist(_stopped_cpus): kgdb: kvm_nlist(_stoppcbs): [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/

Re: panic on 6.2-PRERELEASE (With backtrace)

2006-11-03 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
On Friday, 3 November 2006 at 17:33:42 +0200, Nikolay Pavlov wrote: > Hi, guys. I have a panic running squid as web accelerator on > 6.2-PRERELEASE. Here is a backtrace: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ACCEL# kgdb kernel.debug > /var/crash/vmcore.0 > kgdb: kvm_nlist(_stopped_cpus): >

firefox hangs on 6.2-PRERELEASE amd64

2006-11-03 Thread Roland Smith
Yesterday I updated my amd64 STABLE box to 6.2-PRERELEASE. After the upgrade, firefox started to hang. I can reliably trigger this my clicking on the [Manage...] button in the "Content" tab of the preferences dialog. The same happens when trying to access some websites. Both firefox 1.5.0.7 and 2

Re: [PATCH] Intel PRO/100 VE extra PCI ID

2006-11-03 Thread Jack Vogel
On 11/3/06, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rink Springer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Hi people, : : Recently, I installed FreeBSD on a Tyan GS14 barebone, which houses an : bge(4) and a fxp(4). However, FreeBSD does not recognize the on-boa

Re: Watchdog Timeout - bge device - 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-11-03 Thread Greg Eden
On 2 Nov 2006, at 23:50, John Marshall wrote: bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting bge0: link state changed to DOWN bge0: link state changed to UP I'm seeing similar behaviour on a HP DL360g4 running 6.1-RELEASE and a GENERIC kernel. It had similar problems with 5.4. I have 2 other similar

FreeBSD 6.2-PRE: Jumping box. Worse performance

2006-11-03 Thread O. Hartmann
Compiling FreeBSD's world with make -j2 was never a problem while playing sound or doing other work on screen - but this seems to be a big problem now, even when SCHED_4BSD is used! While compiling world mouse stops and jumps, sound gets distorted. I recognise thsi behaviour also when box is d

Re: panic on 6.2-PRERELEASE (With backtrace)

2006-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 05:33:42PM +0200, Nikolay Pavlov wrote: > Hi, guys. I have a panic running squid as web accelerator on > 6.2-PRERELEASE. Here is a backtrace: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ACCEL# kgdb kernel.debug > /var/crash/vmcore.0 > kgdb: kvm_nlist(_stopped_cpus): > kgdb:

Re: FreeBSD 6.2-PRE: Jumping box. Worse performance

2006-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:57:21PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > > Compiling FreeBSD's world with make -j2 was never a problem while playing > sound or doing other work on screen - but this seems to be a big problem now, > even when SCHED_4BSD is used! > > While compiling world mouse stops and ju

Latest Info on Large Disk Access?

2006-11-03 Thread David Ordal
Anybody know what the latest info getting STABLE up-to-speed with large disks is? Most recent info I could find was here, from 2004-05: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/index.html Are most of the userland tools able to handle > 2TB capacities now? D ___

RE: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-03 Thread Matt Smith
Hello all, I have a machine that just had a new HD added to it as ad1 and I want to ADD this new disk onto the already existing /usr partition. What's the best and safest way to do it? Matt ___ freebsd-stable@

netstat -ni - A lot of collisions...

2006-11-03 Thread Anton - Valqk
Hi there group. I'm having trouble with a fxp0 card. When I ping it there are little lost packets, also the netstat -ni shows a lot collisions. The polling is enabled: kern.polling.idlepoll_sleeping: 1 kern.polling.stalled: 422 kern.polling.suspect: 937141 kern.polling.phase: 0 kern.polling.ena

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-03 Thread Dylan Leigh
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 07:33:31PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Thu, 2006-Nov-02 11:12:43 -0800, David Marshall wrote: > > More importantly for us, it's impossible to build a 32-bit > > perl on the amd64, and we don't need a 64-bit perl. Our > > apache/mod_perl servers are 3X bigger on the amd6

Re: panic: kmem_map too small

2006-11-03 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 26.10.2006 um 15:47 schrieb Stefan Bethke: Am 26.10.2006 um 15:37 schrieb Robert Watson: On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Stefan Bethke wrote: acpica 3024 159K 20026966 ... db> show uma Zone AllocsFrees UsedCache 64

Re: adding an extra hard disk and adding space to /usr

2006-11-03 Thread Baldur Gislason
Your only option here as far as I know is to partition the drive to be the new /usr partition. To acheive this you would preferrably put the system into single user mode, create a partition on the new drive and mount it under /mnt for example. Then copy all the data between. I prefer to use dump

Re: FreeBSD 6.2-PRE: Jumping box. Worse performance

2006-11-03 Thread O. Hartmann
Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:57:21PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> Compiling FreeBSD's world with make -j2 was never a problem while playing >> sound or doing other work on screen - but this seems to be a big problem >> now, even when SCHED_4BSD is used! >> >> While compi

Re: panic: kmem_map too small

2006-11-03 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 26.10.2006 um 15:47 schrieb Stefan Bethke: So far, the machines always just hang instead of dumping core; I'll see if I can get them to write a dump. Can umastat be run against a live kernel? Then I could try running it as a cron job to record data up to just before the panic. Still

Re: FreeBSD 6.2-PRE: Jumping box. Worse performance

2006-11-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 02:08:00AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:57:21PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > >> Compiling FreeBSD's world with make -j2 was never a problem while playing > >> sound or doing other work on screen - but this seems to be

New em patch for 6.2 BETA 3

2006-11-03 Thread Jack Vogel
I have been hard at work trying to understand and fix the remaining issues with the em driver. What I have here is a patch that has gotten rid of any issues that I can reproduce. It solves the intermittent watchdogs that have been happening. It also fixes the problem noted with jumbo frame tx I,

Re: New em patch for 6.2 BETA 3

2006-11-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:16 PM 11/3/2006, Jack Vogel wrote: I, and re, would very much appreciate any test feedback you can Thanks very much for working on this! I was not able to easily reproduce the timeouts in the first place, but so far on the one box I have been testing, it seems to be fine (netrate wit

Re: New em patch for 6.2 BETA 3

2006-11-03 Thread Kip Macy
If you create a patch against -CURRENT I can test on sun4v. The timeouts with em on sun4v are so severe that I have to use the driver from June for any kind of workload. -Kip On 11/3/06, Jack Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been hard at work trying to understand and fix the remaining i

Re: New em patch for 6.2 BETA 3

2006-11-03 Thread Jack Vogel
On 11/3/06, Kip Macy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you create a patch against -CURRENT I can test on sun4v. The timeouts with em on sun4v are so severe that I have to use the driver from June for any kind of workload. -Kip I believe Gleb was going to merge code to current so you should have