Re: MFC of em/igb drivers

2008-06-06 Thread Ganbold
Jack Vogel wrote: I got the new drivers in Friday afternoon for those that don't see CVS messages. The igb driver is for 82575 and 82576 adapters, it has multiqueue support and MSIX, there will be more server type enhancements in that driver as I get the time. The em driver now will be client o

Re: MFC of em/igb drivers

2008-06-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 03:49:40PM +0800, Ganbold wrote: > Jack Vogel wrote: >> I got the new drivers in Friday afternoon for those that don't see CVS >> messages. >> >> The igb driver is for 82575 and 82576 adapters, it has multiqueue support and >> MSIX, there will be more server type enhancement

Re: MFC of em/igb drivers

2008-06-06 Thread Ganbold
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 03:49:40PM +0800, Ganbold wrote: Jack Vogel wrote: I got the new drivers in Friday afternoon for those that don't see CVS messages. The igb driver is for 82575 and 82576 adapters, it has multiqueue support and MSIX, there will be more serv

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-06 Thread Manfred Usselmann
Hi, On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:31:44 -0500 Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --On Thursday, June 05, 2008 17:53:01 +0100 Tom Evans > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think that, especially with open source products, there is a large > > emphasis on testing in your own environments, and c

Re: Instant reboot with FreeBSD 6.3 and > 2GB RAM

2008-06-06 Thread Volker Theile
Hello, i can confirm that the bug fix submitted with PR 108215 solves the reboot problem when using mfsroot images in FreeBSD 6.3. I will test it also on FreeBSD 7.0, but i assume that it will fix it there too. Many users using FreeNAS reporting this reboot problem on their machines with RAM >

Re: MFC of em/igb drivers

2008-06-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 05:29:46PM +0800, Ganbold wrote: >> Have you tried disabling speed and duplex negotiation and explicitly >> stating speed and duplex like so? >> >> ifconfig_em0="... media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" >> > > I tried it and it doesn't work. > >> Cisco switches have a n

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-06 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] I reacted in anger because I felt the OP was being savagely > attacked rather than being responded to with professionalism. Later > in the thread some folks got around to asking which PRs he was > referring to, but that was after attacking him for h

Re: gmirror patches

2008-06-06 Thread Pete French
> Patch is gzipped and can be easily gunziped after download. (and > uuencoded in webpage view) Ah, yes, sorry about that - thought it would be obvious. I always submit changes that way as I find that whitespace has a habit of breaking otherwise. > It is true that patch is better in plaintext di

Re: gmirror patches

2008-06-06 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Pete French wrote: [...] It is true that patch is better in plaintext diff. How would I set about doing that without the whitespace being messed up by email transit ? I have always found in the past that tabs end up as spaces and then patch gets upset hwne you try to apply it. I sent PR th

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-06 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Clifton Royston wrote: Speaking just for myself, I'd love to get a general response from people who have run servers on both as to whether 6.3 is on average more stable than 6.2. I really haven't gotten any clear impression as I'll throw in my "+1" for running 6.

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-06 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: If you're asking why I don't turn a production environment over to being a freebsd-unstable-testbed, I can't really answer that question in a way you'd understand (if you were asking that question) If you don't have an identical setup to test new

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-06 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jun 4, 2008, at 9:03 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: If this is so important to you - contribute to the project and/or hire a FreeBSD developer. I've got a strange problem with jails and I've been trying to hire a freebsd developer, but I can't seem to get anyone to a) call me back. I got one

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-06 Thread Clifton Royston
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:08:54PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Clifton Royston wrote: > > > Speaking just for myself, I'd love to get a general response from > >people who have run servers on both as to whether 6.3 is on average > >more stable than 6.2. I really hav

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-06 Thread Michael Gratton
On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 12:08 -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Clifton Royston wrote: > > > Speaking just for myself, I'd love to get a general response from > > people who have run servers on both as to whether 6.3 is on average > > more stable than 6.2. I really haven't go

Re: MFC of em/igb drivers

2008-06-06 Thread sthaug
> Have you tried disabling speed and duplex negotiation and explicitly > stating speed and duplex like so? > > ifconfig_em0="... media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" Disagree with this piece of advice. > Cisco switches have a notorious history of not being "friendly" with > non-Cisco hardware.

[nvidia | shared irq] umass disconnects [was: panic dd-ing from a USB "disk" ]

2008-06-06 Thread Arno J. Klaassen
Mikhail Teterin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > > I had some troubles mounting the filesystem from: > > da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da0: 1.000MB/s transfers > da0: 3886MB (7959552 512 byte sectors: 255H 63

Java binaries for FreeBSD 7

2008-06-06 Thread Stefan Lambrev
Greetings, From http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ "We are working on providing Java 1.6 support for FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0. The binaries for 7.0 will be available by June 1." Any news? :) Where I can read more? P.S. I understand that this is not the mailing list to ask, but I can't find better.

6.3 stability and freebsd-update (was: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3)

2008-06-06 Thread Royce Williams
>> On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Clifton Royston wrote: >> >>> Speaking just for myself, I'd love to get a general response from >>> people who have run servers on both as to whether 6.3 is on average >>> more stable than 6.2. I really haven't gotten any clear impression as 6.3 has been stable for

Re: 6.3 stability and freebsd-update (was: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3)

2008-06-06 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:34:01AM -0800, Royce Williams wrote: > >> On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Clifton Royston wrote: > >> > >>> Speaking just for myself, I'd love to get a general response from > >>> people who have run servers on both as to whether 6.3 is on average > >>> more stable than 6.2.

6.2-STABLE => 7.0-STABLE Upgrade root partition more full

2008-06-06 Thread Gavin Spomer
I successfully did my first FreeBSD upgrade yesterday after looking at the manual, and cross referencing with Googling and getting help from our network engineer here at CWU. Before the upgrade, running df showed: Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a507630

Re: Java binaries for FreeBSD 7

2008-06-06 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 06 June 2008 19:39:59 Stefan Lambrev wrote: > Greetings, > > From http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ > "We are working on providing Java 1.6 support for FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0. > The binaries for 7.0 will be available by June 1." > > Any news? :) Where I can read more? > > P.S. I understand

Re: 6.2-STABLE => 7.0-STABLE Upgrade root partition more full

2008-06-06 Thread Clifton Royston
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:37:51AM -0700, Gavin Spomer wrote: > I successfully did my first FreeBSD upgrade yesterday after looking at the > manual, and cross referencing with Googling and getting help from our network > engineer here at CWU. Before the upgrade, running df showed: > > Filesystem

Re: 6.2-STABLE => 7.0-STABLE Upgrade root partition more full

2008-06-06 Thread Skip Ford
Gavin Spomer wrote: > I successfully did my first FreeBSD upgrade yesterday after looking at the > manual, and cross referencing with Googling and getting help from our network > engineer here at CWU. Before the upgrade, running df showed: > > Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mo

TMPFS: File System is Full

2008-06-06 Thread Lin Jui-Nan Eric
Hi, I found when we exhaust memory, tmpfs will not be able to write anything into it and cannot mount it. I use ZFS and TMPFS at the same time. Florence# cd /usr/src && make buildworld > /dev/null & Florence# uname -a FreeBSD Florence.tamama.org 7.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 #5: Mon May

Re: freebsd-update 6.2-R -> 6.3-B1 rollback failed

2008-06-06 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Colin Percival wrote: Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: In short, as long as you don't build a custom kernel but call it "GENERIC" or "SMP", FreeBSD Update should automatically DTRT. That is exactly my question. On 6.2-RELEASE, I sometimes used a modified ld-elf.so.1 or a single patched module with

Java Status

2008-06-06 Thread Deb Goodkin
Dear Stefan, I'm responding to your inquiry about the Java binaries. I just updated our website with the current status. We have completed the certification testing of Java 1.6 on FreeBSD 7. We are now waiting for approval from Sun. We anticipate it to take another two weeks. Please let me k

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On June 6, 2008 11:53:49 AM +0200 Manfred Usselmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What you are saying sounds like a contradiction to me. On one side it is just a hobby site and generates no income and on the other hand it is a critical server with millions of hits and the box can't even go down f

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On June 6, 2008 3:08:25 PM +0200 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] I reacted in anger because I felt the OP was being savagely attacked rather than being responded to with professionalism. Later in the thread some folks got around

TMPFS: File System is Full

2008-06-06 Thread Lin Jui-Nan Eric
Hi, I found when we exhaust memory, tmpfs will not be able to write anything into it and cannot mount it. I use ZFS and TMPFS at the same time. Florence# cd /usr/src && make buildworld > /dev/null & Florence# uname -a FreeBSD Florence.tamama.org 7.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 #5: Mon May

Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

2008-06-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
2008/6/7 Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Not only is this wrong, but it completely misses the point. Why should Jo > have to upgrade to find out if his servers will fail under the conditions > already articulated in existing, unresolved PRs that affect hardware that he > is presently using?