Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alexey Popov wrote: This is very unlikely, because I have 5 another video storage servers of the same hardware and software configurations and they feel good. Clearly something is different about them, though. If you can characterize exactly what that is then it will help. I can't see any diff

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-17 Thread Alexey Popov
Hi. Kris Kennaway wrote: After some time of running under high load disk performance become expremely poor. At that periods 'systat -vm 1' shows something like this: This web service is similiar to YouTube. This server is video store. I have around 200G of *.flv (flash video) files on the serv

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kris Kennaway wrote: What else can i try? Still waiting on the vmstat -z output. Also can you please obtain vmstat -i, netstat -m and 10 seconds of representative vmstat -w output when the problem is and is not occurring? Kris ___ freebsd-stabl

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-17 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Bengt Ahlgren wrote: > "[LoN]Kamikaze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> From my perspective scheduling on RELENG_6 was way better. Even on a full >> workload like a portupgrade the focused application (both in X and on the >> console) always received enough cycles to run smoothly and applications

Re: Reproducable, possibly NFS related, fatal double fault in 6.2-R-p7

2007-10-17 Thread Bengt Ahlgren
Esa Karkkainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 02:37:23PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> Esa Karkkainen wrote: >> >I get "Fatal double fault" error when writing to a filesystem >> >mounted from NFS server. > > I got an offlist reply in which he suggested that the problem

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-17 Thread Bengt Ahlgren
"[LoN]Kamikaze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>From my perspective scheduling on RELENG_6 was way better. Even on a full > workload like a portupgrade the focused application (both in X and on the > console) always received enough cycles to run smoothly and applications that > ran in background li

Re: 2G+ sysv shm segments

2007-10-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Oct-16 23:53:43 +0400, Igor Sysoev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> printf(" %12lu", (unsigned long)kshmptr->u.shm_segsz); or similar. > >Here should be %zu. You're correct. I wasn't aware of 'z' :-( >However, this patch can not be commited even to 7/8, because it does not >preserve binary

WITHOUT_LIB32 in RELENG_6

2007-10-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
It seems that WITHOUT_LIB32 is not documented neither in make.conf(5) nor in make.conf under examples in 6.X releases and RELENG_6. It is documented in src.conf(5) of RELENG_7. -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: WITHOUT_LIB32 in RELENG_6

2007-10-17 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Andriy Gapon wrote: It seems that WITHOUT_LIB32 is not documented neither in make.conf(5) nor in make.conf under examples in 6.X releases and RELENG_6. It is documented in src.conf(5) of RELENG_7. It is NO_LIB32 in RELENG_6. -- Bjoern A. Zeeb

Re: WITHOUT_LIB32 in RELENG_6

2007-10-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 17/10/2007 18:05 Bjoern A. Zeeb said the following: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> It seems that WITHOUT_LIB32 is not documented neither in make.conf(5) >> nor in make.conf under examples in 6.X releases and RELENG_6. >> It is documented in src.conf(5) of RELENG_7. > > It is N

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-17 Thread Nathan Lay
P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the scheduler development to my benefit. The switch from RELENG_6 to RE

ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-10-17 Thread Josh Carroll
All, I mentioned this on another thread, but I think it deserves a separate thread. Not only so it will get its own attention, but also so I don't hijack the other thread. I have noticed some performance discrepancies with ULE and 4BSD in RELENG_7, specifically with ffmpeg. I have all the kernel

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-17 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Kris Kennaway wrote: > Jeff Roberson wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >>> [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the scheduler deve

RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound

2007-10-17 Thread Anish Mistry
I just updated to RELENG_7 from 6.2 and I'm running into some really annoying issues with jerky mouse movement and skipping sound. This seems to be similar to: Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow This happens both with 4BSD and ULE. I seems to happen when I'm compiling ports and a new

Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound

2007-10-17 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Anish Mistry wrote: > I just updated to RELENG_7 from 6.2 and I'm running into some really > annoying issues with jerky mouse movement and skipping sound. This > seems to be similar to: > Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow > This happens both with 4BSD and ULE. > > I seems to happen w

Re: Reproducable, possibly NFS related, fatal double fault in 6.2-R-p7

2007-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Bengt Ahlgren wrote: Esa Karkkainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 02:37:23PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Esa Karkkainen wrote: I get "Fatal double fault" error when writing to a filesystem mounted from NFS server. I got an offlist reply in which he suggested tha

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-17 Thread Alexey Popov
Hi Kris Kennaway wrote: And few hours ago I received feed back from Andrzej Tobola, he has the same problem on FreeBSD 7 with Promise ATA software mirror: Well, he didnt provide any evidence yet that it is the same problem, so let's not become confused by feelings :) I think he is telling about

'nv' in RELENG_7 does not detect 7900GS

2007-10-17 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, so I just upgraded my desktop to RELENG_7 and suddenly the nv driver is completely unable to detect the presence of my 7900GS. It acts exactly as if the card was not in the machine. driver loads without errors, but does not detect any devices. I tried upgrading to the latest point release

Re: 'nv' in RELENG_7 does not detect 7900GS

2007-10-17 Thread Max Laier
On Wednesday 17 October 2007, Peter Schuller wrote: > Hello, > > so I just upgraded my desktop to RELENG_7 and suddenly the nv driver > is completely unable to detect the presence of my 7900GS. It acts > exactly as if the card was not in the machine. driver loads without > errors, but does not dete

Re: 'nv' in RELENG_7 does not detect 7900GS

2007-10-17 Thread Peter Schuller
> did you do a xorg-server rebuild after (from UPDATING): No, stupid me. I did read the UPDATING entry on the pciio.h changes, but apparantly sifted through a bit two quickly and didn't register that this would affect xorg. Oh well, hopefully the post was not for nothing and the ML archive will h

Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound

2007-10-17 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
[LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > Anish Mistry wrote: >> I just updated to RELENG_7 from 6.2 and I'm running into some really >> annoying issues with jerky mouse movement and skipping sound. This >> seems to be similar to: >> Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow >> This happens both with 4BSD and

interface speed support

2007-10-17 Thread David Yeske
Is there a way to determine the supported interface speed of a particular driver? If I have a gigabit ethernet device connected to a 100baseTX switch, how can I determine the interface supports gigabit ethernet? I have tried parsing the following. Is there a cleaner way to do this? sysctl -A |

Re: interface speed support

2007-10-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, David-- On Oct 17, 2007, at 4:03 PM, David Yeske wrote: Is there a way to determine the supported interface speed of a particular driver? If I have a gigabit ethernet device connected to a 100baseTX switch, how can I determine the interface supports gigabit ethernet? I have tried parsing t

Re: interface speed support

2007-10-17 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:03:22PM -0400, David Yeske wrote: > Is there a way to determine the supported interface speed of a > particular driver? If I have a gigabit ethernet device connected to a > 100baseTX switch, how can I determine the interface supports gigabit > ethernet? I have tried par

Re: can I do 6.1-RELEASE to 6.2 via cvsup

2007-10-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
> > Yep: > > 1. make buildworld > 2. make buildkernel (add KERNCONF=mykernel to /etc/make.conf) > 3. mergemaster -p > 4. make installkernel > 5. shutdown -r now and boot into single user > 6. mount -a (if /usr/src and /usr/obj resides on their own partitions) > 7. mergemaster > 8. make installwor

Re: Call for Testers: dialog 1.1-20070930 update

2007-10-17 Thread Doug Barton
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Jose Alonso Cardenas Marquez wrote: Hi everyone :) Currently, we have an older version of libdialog/dialog (0.4) into freebsd base system. I made a patch that update libdialog/dialog to 1.1-20070930 (nowadays maintained by Thomas E. Dickey) This is a great project, thanks

Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound

2007-10-17 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
I have rebuilt all xorg stuff over night and it didn't help. The only way to avoid the jerkiness is having those lines in /etc/rc.conf: moused_nondefault_enable="NO" moused_enable="NO" I have configured my /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf to contain the following lines in the Mouse section: Option "

Re: RELENG_7 jerky mouse and skipping sound

2007-10-17 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:28:30PM -0400, Anish Mistry wrote: > I just updated to RELENG_7 from 6.2 and I'm running into some really > annoying issues with jerky mouse movement and skipping sound. This > seems to be similar to: > Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow > This happens both w