Error compiling FreeBSD-Stable with MFC'ed iconv locking

2009-02-14 Thread Jens Rehsack
Hi John, after I updated my system (-STABLE) I received following compilation error while building the kernel (having ICONV built in): cc -c -O2 -frename-registers -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -march=nocona -std=c99 -g -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototype

Re: HEADS UP: Major CAM performance regression

2009-02-14 Thread Scott Long
Ivan Voras wrote: 2009/2/13 Scott Long : Ivan Voras wrote: Scott Long wrote: I have committed a fix for this problem for FreeBSD 8-CURRENT as of SVN revision 188570. FreeBSD 7-STABLE will be updated with the fix in a few days once I've gotten confirmation that the fix works and doesn't cause

Re: HEADS UP: Major CAM performance regression

2009-02-14 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/2/14 Scott Long : >> I'll try your suggestion if you have one. > > I don't have a magic universal testing suite in my back pocket, sorry. > You need to look at your expected workload and develop tests to simulate > it. When I do testing during driver development, I try a lot of > different p

Re: HEADS UP: Major CAM performance regression

2009-02-14 Thread Svein Skogen (listmail account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Long wrote: > All, > > A major performance regression was introduced to the CAM subsystem in > FreeBSD 7.1. The following configurations are known to be affected: > > VMWare ESX > VMWare Fusion > (using bt or lsilogic controller options) >

Problems with samba and vista on 7.1-STABLE

2009-02-14 Thread Goran Lowkrantz
I have few Samba servers running FreeBSD 7.1 were we have a problem with connection blocking from a few Vista systems that run programs that watch directories and files on the samba shares. On my test setup I have managed to get a hang in about 30 min. Samba is built with minimum functions and

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-02-14 Thread sam sirlin
I've just upgraded to the latest xorg on my amd64 box 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #0: Fri Jan 16 07:33:20 PST 2009 I have a radeon graphics card, drm0: on vgapci0 - had to add the option mentioned in UPDATING Section "ServerLayout" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" ... Things seem mo