Re: watchdogs

2013-02-25 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 2/22/13 8:47 AM, Mark Atkinson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/2013 11:36, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: Hi. I have a bunch of FreeBSDs that hangs (and I really want to do something to fight this). May be it's the zfs or may be it's the pf (I also have a bunch of r

Re: RFC: Suggesting ZFS "best practices" in FreeBSD

2013-02-25 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >>> #1. Map the physical drive slots to how they show up in FBSD so if a >>> disk is removed and the machine is rebooted all the disks after that >>> removed one do not have an 'off by one error'. i.e. if you have >>> ada0-ada14 and remove

Re: syslogd spinning the CPU, not logging…

2013-02-25 Thread Guy Helmer
Regarding a message of yours from a May 2011, I have an 8.3 i386 system where syslogd has been found spinning the CPU a few times in the past week. The stack trace is similar to yours: #0 0x4810cfa9 in _pthread_mutex_init_calloc_cb () from /lib/libc.so.7 #1 0x4810f890 in _pthread_mutex_init_c

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-02-25 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 16:04 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 04:43:33PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 13:24 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:19:57AM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 22:31 -0800, Jeremy C

Re: RFC: Suggesting ZFS "best practices" in FreeBSD

2013-02-25 Thread Karl Denninger
On 2/25/2013 8:31 AM, Tom Evans wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: #1. Map the physical drive slots to how they show up in FBSD so if a disk is removed and the machine is rebooted all the disks after that removed one do not have an 'off by one error'.

Re: RFC: Suggesting ZFS "best practices" in FreeBSD

2013-02-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 02:31:26PM +, Tom Evans wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >>> #1. Map the physical drive slots to how they show up in FBSD so if a > >>> disk is removed and the machine is rebooted all the disks after that > >>> removed one do not have

Re: RFC: Suggesting ZFS "best practices" in FreeBSD

2013-02-25 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Mon, 25 Feb 2013, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [snip] > For systems with hot-swap bays/enclosures, most come with stickers that label > each enclosure (starting at either 0 or 1 -- intelligent vendors give you > stickers starting at 0). Sidenote: Really intelligent vendors provide you with stick

Re: svn - but smaller?

2013-02-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 08:54:39AM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 16:04 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 04:43:33PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 13:24 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:19:57AM -0700, I

RE: RFC: Suggesting ZFS "best practices" in FreeBSD

2013-02-25 Thread Dewayne Geraghty
Jeremy, Thank-you very much for an enlightening explanation that has changed my current disk naming/labelling approach. glabel continues to have its place with usb memory sticks. I'd glanced at cam(4) but didn't absorb the beneficial significance. Regards, Dewayne. _

Re: FreeBSD-9.1 would not boot on pentium3 laptop

2013-02-25 Thread Mikhail T.
15.02.2013 08:49, John Baldwin ???(??): > Were you able to test this patch? Yes, with the patch my laptop boots -- even after I removed the work-around (hint.ichss.0.disabled="1" from device.hints). powerd is also able to regulate the frequency -- I'm not sure, how else to test the functionalit

Re: RFC: Suggesting ZFS "best practices" in FreeBSD

2013-02-25 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 25.02.13 18:44, Karl Denninger wrote: On 2/25/2013 8:31 AM, Tom Evans wrote: Using GPT labels is easy to do, and provides a cast iron guarantee that your disk will not EVER be mistaken for a different drive. I put a GPT label on the drive, and then write it in permanent marker on the top o