RE: /dev/cuau* ports hang after a while

2009-01-30 Thread Timo Rikkonen
Hi, With 'hang' I mean the stop of the data flow. There's a measurement device connected to the serial port, which sends every minute data to our computer. The line is never closed but after a while data is no longer received. Tried already building kernel without uart, and the ports really cam

Puzzling change in performance

2009-01-30 Thread Borja Marcos
Hello, The attached graphs are from a server running FreeBSD 7.1-i386 (now) with the typical Apache2+MySQL with forums, Joomla... I just cannot explain this. Disk I/O bandwidth was suffering a lot, and after the update the disks are almost idle. Any ideas? I cannot imagine a change betwe

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-30 Thread S.N.Grigoriev
Hi list, after upgrading to Xorg 7.4 from the FreebSD ports tree I've got my USB stack completely unusable. If Xorg is started (manually or via xdm) my USB printer and external HDD become unreachable (timeouts). It is not enough to kill Xorg to restore the USB functionality. FreeBSD has to be res

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-30 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 30.01.2009 um 10:16 schrieb S.N.Grigoriev: after upgrading to Xorg 7.4 from the FreebSD ports tree I've got my USB stack completely unusable. If Xorg is started (manually or via xdm) my USB printer and external HDD become unreachable (timeouts). It is not enough to kill Xorg to restore the U

Re: Puzzling change in performance

2009-01-30 Thread Borja Marcos
On Jan 30, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Borja Marcos wrote: Hello, The attached graphs are from a server running FreeBSD 7.1-i386 (now) with the typical Apache2+MySQL with forums, Joomla... I see that the attachments didn't make it. Disk I/O bandwidth was an average 40 - 60 % before the update and

RE: /dev/cuau* ports hang after a while

2009-01-30 Thread Timo Rikkonen
Hi, The speed is 9600. Actually I already tried with 7.1-RELEASE, with same results. I'll try the device.hints-changes, thanks. -Timo -Original Message- From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:m...@sentex.net] Sent: 29. tammikuuta 2009 22:34 To: Timo Rikkonen; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re:

Re: Replace Cisco IOS/CBOS with freebsd - possible?

2009-01-30 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Chris H wrote: ... I know Peter Grehan was looking at getting FreeBSD onto the Cisco 827 a while back. That's good news. I'll have to see if I can get more info on that. I just purchased a "lot" of cisco *DSL/routers on ebay, in an effort to push this project forward (I can experiment on the

RE: /dev/cuau* ports hang after a while

2009-01-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:50 AM 1/30/2009, Timo Rikkonen wrote: Hi, The speed is 9600. Actually I already tried with 7.1-RELEASE, with same results. I'll try the device.hints-changes, thanks. Not sure if the code is in 7.0, so make sure you try it with 7.1-RELEASE ---Mike -Timo -Original Messag

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-30 Thread S.N.Grigoriev
30.01.09, 12:59, "Markus Hitter" : > Am 30.01.2009 um 10:16 schrieb S.N.Grigoriev: > > after upgrading to Xorg 7.4 from the FreebSD ports tree > > I've got my USB stack completely unusable. If Xorg is started > > (manually or via xdm) my USB printer and external HDD become > > unreachable (timeou

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-30 Thread keneasson
I have to agree with you that this latest update was most problematic for me. I keep my system very up-to-date, usually every 3-5 days. FreeBSD 7.1 RELENG (Which is stable at the moment) on Toshiba X200-AX1 Two major problems both noted in UPDATING but still cause of a huge number of problems w

Re: Replace Cisco IOS/CBOS with freebsd - possible?

2009-01-30 Thread Chris H
Hello Bruce, and thank you for your reply. Quoting "Bruce M. Simpson" : Chris H wrote: ... I know Peter Grehan was looking at getting FreeBSD onto the Cisco 827 a while back. That's good news. I'll have to see if I can get more info on that. I just purchased a "lot" of cisco *DSL/routers

Re: Replace Cisco IOS/CBOS with freebsd - possible?

2009-01-30 Thread Patrick Mahan
Chris H presented these words - circa 1/30/09 7:03 AM-> Hello Bruce, and thank you for your reply. Quoting "Bruce M. Simpson" : Chris H wrote: ... I know Peter Grehan was looking at getting FreeBSD onto the Cisco 827 a while back. That's good news. I'll have to see if I can get more in

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
As a general note, this is the second time in a row that an X.org upgrade broke X for a significant number of people. IMO, this suggests that our approach to X.org upgrades needs significant changes (see below). X11 is a critical component for anyone who is using FreeBSD as a desktop and having u

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-30 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 06:53:11AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > As a general note, this is the second time in a row that an X.org > upgrade broke X for a significant number of people. IMO, this > suggests that our approach to X.org upgrades needs significant changes > (see below). X11 is a critic

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-30 Thread Alex Goncharov
,--- You/Peter (Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:53:11 +1100) * | X11 is a critical component for anyone who is using FreeBSD as a | desktop and having upgrades fail or come with significant POLA | violations and regressions for significant numbers of people is not | acceptable. Fully agree with this. | I

Re: Replace Cisco IOS/CBOS with freebsd - possible?

2009-01-30 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:50:34 -0800 Chris H wrote: > a /27 segment for my home network. Which is currently running over > a cisco 837 GW (adsl/router). I'm not really keen on it (the > router/modem). So I thought to myself that it couldn't be /that/ hard > to build a box with FBSD that could repla

Re: Puzzling change in performance

2009-01-30 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:50:05 +0100 Borja Marcos wrote: > I see that the attachments didn't make it. Well, it would be quite easy for you to just put them on the web somewhere and then link to them, perhaps? > 1- there's an important improvement on file caching from 7.0-STABLE- > August to 7.1-

Re: NFS writes calling FSYNC and ASYNC not consistent

2009-01-30 Thread Brent Jones
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Apologies for being terse, in a hurry here. > > 1) -o async doesn't work with NFS, don't use that. > 2) how big are the text versus binary files? I tested with a 6MB text file, and a 2GB binary file. Text file would go ~1MB/sec, issuing F

Re: Replace Cisco IOS/CBOS with freebsd - possible?

2009-01-30 Thread Chris H
Hello Patrick, and thank you for your reply. Quoting Patrick Mahan : Chris H presented these words - circa 1/30/09 7:03 AM-> Hello Bruce, and thank you for your reply. Quoting "Bruce M. Simpson" : Chris H wrote: ... I know Peter Grehan was looking at getting FreeBSD onto the Cisco 827

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-30 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
S.N.Grigoriev wrote: I thank you for your response. I've applied the patch to pci.c from kern/130957. Unfortunately there are no positive results. USB is still unreachable with X. Just following up to confirm that you are seeing exactly the same symptoms with USB and Xorg 7.4 as I see on my am

Re: Replace Cisco IOS/CBOS with freebsd - possible?

2009-01-30 Thread Mike Andrews
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Chris H wrote: Please take no offense. But as I look inside, the CPU does, in fact say Motorola. The documentation for it also confirms that most of (if not all) of the 800 series also used the Motorola RISC. Cisco's used several CPU architectures in their IOS routers over

Re: Replace Cisco IOS/CBOS with freebsd - possible?

2009-01-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 29, 2009, at 1:50 AM, Chris H wrote: Greetings, I'm RP for a fairly large chunk of IP real estate. I carved out a /27 segment for my home network. Which is currently running over a cisco 837 GW (adsl/router). I'm not really keen on it (the router/ modem). So I thought to myself that it

Re: 7.1, mpt and slow writes

2009-01-30 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Gary Palmer wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:43:11PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: [ snip ] Any idea what happened to the sysctl? Is there some other method to verify the loader tunable took (other than testing the throughput)? Boot with -v. If the loader tunable t