Swap on zvol - recommendable?

2012-02-06 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi, all, is it possible to make a definite statement about swap on zvols? I found some older discussions about a resource starvation scenario when ZFS arc would be the cause of the system running out of memory, trying to swap, yet the ZFS would not be accessible until some memory was freed - lead

Schedule for 8.3-RELEASE...

2012-02-06 Thread Ken Smith
Just a quick note to say the target schedule for 8.3-RELEASE has been set and is available here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.3R/schedule.html The summary of the target dates is: Code Freeze:Feb 15, 2012 BETA1 builds: Feb 17, 2012 RC1 builds: Mar 2, 2012 RC2 builds:

make buildworld fails with 8.2-RELEASE amd64 building STABLE

2012-02-06 Thread Michael L. Squires
"make buildworld" fails when trying to "make buildworld" (no options) with 8.2-RELEASE with 8.2-STABLE sources as of 2/6/2012 updated at 9:15 AM from ftp.freebsd.org. The compile fails in the same spot every time; this is not a random failure. I have seen some evidence, however, that there ma

Re: serious packet routing issue causing ntpd high load?

2012-02-06 Thread Vlad Galu
Hi Qing, Any luck with this? Thanks Vlad On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Li, Qing wrote: > This endless route lookup miss message problem is reproducible without > FLOWTABLE. > The problem is with the multiple FIBs. I cannot reproduce this problem in > my home network > but the problem is easi

VOP_WRITE is not exclusive locked but should be

2012-02-06 Thread Eugene M. Zheganin
Hi. I have a server with an 8.2-RELEASE/amd64. It's primary use for routing/ipsec+gre tunneling. It's also running zfs. Sometimes it's locking up: it stops to respond to the network, but the console is still alive, though it doesn't log me in - the 'password:' prompt never comes up (I only can

Re: FreeBSD 9: Group quotas increase but don't decrease automatically

2012-02-06 Thread Adam Strohl
On 2/3/2012 21:48, Konstantin Belousov wrote: This is a bug in +J code (even if you do not use +J). Do you have softupdates enabled on the volume ? If yes, try the following patch. diff --git a/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c b/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c index 5b4b6b9..ed2db79 100644 --- a/sys/ufs/ffs/