RE: sched_ule performance on single CPU

2008-04-11 Thread Johan Hendriks
>Hi all >I have noted early April that RELENG_7 is upgraded to >sched_ule by default and gave it a try with sched_ule >until today. My desktop is a 3GHz single Intel Pentium >4 processor with 512MB RAM. I have noted by desktop >response wise sched_4bsd is better, ie. the desktop is >more responsi

Re: reboot after panic: privileged instruction fault

2008-04-11 Thread Spil Oss
Hi Bjoern, Was looking at that page, but my kernel doesn't have debug enabled. Someone suggested getting a backtrace using the vanilla kernel, that kernel should still be in /boot/kernel but I can't get it to fly! /boot/kernel.old]# kgdb /boot/kernel.old/kernel /var/crash/vmcore.0 [GDB will not b

Re: reboot after panic: privileged instruction fault

2008-04-11 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Spil Oss wrote: Yesterday my to-be server running FreeBSD 7.0 #0 has rebooted after a kernel panic. FreeBSD newserver.example.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Fri Apr 4 07:22:22 CEST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BEASTIE70 i386 Please find messages a

Re: RELENG_6_3 ping and DUP packets

2008-04-11 Thread Damian Weber
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:52:56 -0700 > From: Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Damian Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: RELENG_6_3 ping and DUP packets > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 08:48:10AM +0200, Dami

Hardware - Sun workstation Ultra 20 and others

2008-04-11 Thread Ivan Voras
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Re: Disk I/O Question 7.0-STABLE

2008-04-11 Thread Thomas Hurst
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Re: Disk I/O Question 7.0-STABLE

2008-04-11 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have disks on the internal ICH7 adapters (on the motherboard), SATA, > and also a TWE controller with two disks. > > When hitting the TWE controller hard I can hose the I/O performance on > the primary (onboard) adapter quite severely to the point t

reboot after panic: privileged instruction fault

2008-04-11 Thread Spil Oss
Yesterday my to-be server running FreeBSD 7.0 #0 has rebooted after a kernel panic. FreeBSD newserver.example.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Fri Apr 4 07:22:22 CEST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BEASTIE70 i386 Please find messages and kernel-configuration attached. This

Re: sched_ule performance on single CPU

2008-04-11 Thread Pete French
> I have noted early April that RELENG_7 is upgraded to > sched_ule by default and gave it a try with sched_ule > until today. My desktop is a 3GHz single Intel Pentium > 4 processor with 512MB RAM. I have noted by desktop > response wise sched_4bsd is better, ie. the desktop is > more responsive.

Re: HEADS UP: procstat(1) MFC to RELENG_7 in progress

2008-04-11 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Robert Watson wrote: FYI: I've begun the MFC of procstat(1) from HEAD to RELENG_7. This requires merging a number of kernel changes, and then the command line tool, so it will occur over the next day or so. I'll send out a further e-mail when the merge is done. I beli

Re: USB keyboard locking up on 7-RELEASE/amd64

2008-04-11 Thread Raphael Becker
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 05:07:24PM -0500, H. Wade Minter wrote: > The install went fine, but post-install I'm running into a problem > where the USB keyboard will just lock up. I can still ping and SSH > into the system, but after about 2 minutes of activity, the keyboard > becomes nonrespon

Re: RELENG_6_3 ping and DUP packets

2008-04-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:51:15AM +0200, Damian Weber wrote: > On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:52:56 -0700 > > From: Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Damian Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: RELENG_6_3

Re: reboot after panic: privileged instruction fault

2008-04-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:22:12AM +0200, Spil Oss wrote: > Hi Bjoern, > > Was looking at that page, but my kernel doesn't have debug enabled. Rebuild the kernel with debugging symbols, or do you not have the disk space for it? > Someone suggested getting a backtrace using the vanilla kernel, th

Re: sched_ule performance on single CPU

2008-04-11 Thread Unga
--- Pete French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have noted early April that RELENG_7 is upgraded > to > > sched_ule by default and gave it a try with > sched_ule > > until today. My desktop is a 3GHz single Intel > Pentium > > 4 processor with 512MB RAM. I have noted by > desktop > > response wi

Re: sched_ule performance on single CPU

2008-04-11 Thread Pete French
> What I refer is, when quickly open multiple tabs (7 or > 8) in firefox and click on the fist tab to type user > id while other tabs still downloading, its seems there > is a minor yet noticeable delay that I did not > experience with sched_4bsd. Ah, O.K. - havent noticed that, and it wouldnt bot

Re: sched_ule performance on single CPU

2008-04-11 Thread Unga
--- Pete French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I refer is, when quickly open multiple tabs > (7 or > > 8) in firefox and click on the fist tab to type > user > > id while other tabs still downloading, its seems > there > > is a minor yet noticeable delay that I did not > > experience with sc

Re: Hardware - Sun workstation Ultra 20 and others

2008-04-11 Thread Royce Williams
Ivan Voras wrote, on 4/11/2008 2:57 AM: > Does anyone have experience with running Sun's Opteron-based > workstation, Ultra 20, 25, 40? Both with FreeBSD and other systems > (Linux)? Are they stable, all the drivers are present, etc? I haven't, but this fellow appears to have tried 6.1-R: http://

Re: RELENG_6_3 ping and DUP packets

2008-04-11 Thread Mike Andrews
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 08:48:10AM +0200, Damian Weber wrote: From: Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Damian Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_6_3 ping and DUP packets On Apr 10, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Damian

buildkernel problem with RELENG_7

2008-04-11 Thread Juraj Lutter
Dear folks, there seems to be some problem in SCSI/CAM code in RELENG_7: -- >>> stage 3.2: building everything -- cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/real; MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj MACH

RELENG_7 buildworld issu

2008-04-11 Thread Juraj Lutter
Hi, there are some errors in: -- >>> stage 3.2: building everything -- cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/real; MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj MACHINE_ARCH=i386 MACHINE=i386 CPUTYPE=pentiu

Re: RELENG_6_3 ping and DUP packets

2008-04-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:40:48PM -0400, Mike Andrews wrote: > While rebooting to try disabling MSI, I noticed that the machine was still > pingable during the reboot (and returning just one response each), while > the thing was still doing its POST routines -- which of course made me do a > fe

Re: Disk I/O Question 7.0-STABLE

2008-04-11 Thread Karl Denninger
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:33:16AM +0100, Thomas Hurst wrote: > * Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I have disks on the internal ICH7 adapters (on the motherboard), SATA, > > and also a TWE controller with two disks. > > > > When hitting the TWE controller hard I can hose the I/O pe

Re: buildkernel problem with RELENG_7

2008-04-11 Thread pluknet
On 12/04/2008, Juraj Lutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear folks, > > there seems to be some problem in SCSI/CAM code in RELENG_7: > > -- > >>> stage 3.2: building everything > -

Re: Hardware - Sun workstation Ultra 20 and others

2008-04-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:57:53PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: >Does anyone have experience with running Sun's Opteron-based >workstation, Ultra 20, 25, 40? Both with FreeBSD and other systems >(Linux)? Are they stable, all the drivers are present, etc? I've not used any of these but: 1) The Ultra 25

Re: buildkernel problem with RELENG_7

2008-04-11 Thread Juraj Lutter
pluknet wrote: Are you using modified CFLAGS in make.conf ? I see -Os in your build and I could reproduce it with -Os. It's FAQ that -Os flag is not recommended. Try with default optimization flags, please. Just for the record, with default CFLAGS I am getting kind of: -997 bytes availabl

Re: buildkernel problem with RELENG_7

2008-04-11 Thread Juraj Lutter
pluknet wrote: Are you using modified CFLAGS in make.conf ? I see -Os in your build and I could reproduce it with -Os. It's FAQ that -Os flag is not recommended. Try with default optimization flags, please. With empty src.conf it works, but anyway, it used to work even with -Os before.

Re: buildkernel problem with RELENG_7

2008-04-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:27:48PM +0200, Juraj Lutter wrote: > On the other hand, aren't those uninitialized variables potentionally a > "bug"? Potentially, yes, but not guaranteed. The existing -STABLE tree emits a very large number of warnings. I'm a strong advocate of using -Werror (treat w

Re: Hardware - Sun workstation Ultra 20 and others

2008-04-11 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/4/11 Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:57:53PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > >Does anyone have experience with running Sun's Opteron-based > >workstation, Ultra 20, 25, 40? Both with FreeBSD and other systems > >(Linux)? Are they stable, all the drivers are present