Re: bin/121684: : dump(8) frequently hangs

2008-09-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 02:38:56PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > ... I'll try to find the thread (it was a year or so ago) > where a developer told me more or less what was going on. The problem > was that UFS2 snapshot generation, over time, becomes slower and slower > to

Re: bin/121684: : dump(8) frequently hangs

2008-09-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 02:38:56PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > The problem was that UFS2 snapshot generation, over time, becomes > slower and slower to generate (this is what dump does on UFS2 systems, > with or without the -L flag), and is a known design issue. Clarification: dum

Re: bin/121684: : dump(8) frequently hangs

2008-09-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
at PR got addressed in HEAD on March 13th, 2008, and the fix MFC'd to RELENG_7 on April 19th, 2008. It was never MFC'd to RELENG_6. If there are users on RELENG_7 with kernels built with sources after April 19th 2008 who are experiencing the problem, then the PR is probably not rele

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ch will accomplish what you need. You'll still be booted into a command prompt, but that's how UNIX is; FreeBSD is not Kubuntu. I think what you might be looking for is, believe it or not, PC-BSD. I believe you can install PC-BSD and get a working X desktop with a browser and all that

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:22:30AM -0400, Jim Pingle wrote: > Also, is not Ubuntu a "downstream" release of Debian, much like FreeSBIE and > PC-BSD are "downstream" of FreeBSD? Re: Ubuntu -- Yes, it is. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
alled csup(1) which supports the same command-line arguments, is written entirely in C / doesn't rely on ezm3/modula3. It behaves the same way, and speaks the CVSup protocol. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ometimes more is needed. I've CC'd the maintainer of msk(4), PYUN Yong-Hyeon, who can work with you and provide patches to get support for that NIC. (Please note that when referring to him, his first name is Yong-Hyeon, not Pyun.) -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: How to disable NFS fnctl in /etc/fstab?

2008-09-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
s) reverse-engineer all this software to find out if it's compatible with that scenario is added proof. The fact you're doing this on a mail server running an MDA is even more scary. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
eems to be intialized > after applying the patch but link establishment seem to fail. :-( Yong-Hyeon, I can purchase and send you a Marvel 88E8040 NIC, assuming we can find a PCI or PCIe card somewhere that uses one. Otherwise, I could purchase a motherboard which uses the IC

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 03:06:42PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:54:23PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:22:32PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wr

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:26:33AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 03:06:42PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:54:23PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: >

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 01:12:29PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > On 5 Sep 2008, at 9:43 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> I cannot find a single PCI/PCIe card that uses the 88E8040. > > I wonder how Ubuntu supports this ethernet chip? It is amazing that > only two Dell's use this

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 05:50:36PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > It appears Linux got support for the 88E8040 in September 2007 (revision > 1.2.73). Support for the 88E8040T was added in June 2008 (revision > 1.330.1.3). > > The 1.2.73 commit also added support for the 88E8048

Re: WOL (Wake On LAN) no longer working

2008-09-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
igb(4) > implements WOL with its own way and does not honor interface > capability configuration of ifconfig. CC'ing Jack Vogel (driver maintainer), who should be able to help with this. Ideally, the "wol" flag of ifconfig *should* be the standard interface for sa

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:27:11AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Ironically, I just bought an Inspiron 1525 for a friend of mine's son > > as a birthday gift, so I do have access to one indirectly, and can > > probabl

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/netstat Makefile bpf.c inet.c pfkey.c route.c sctp.c

2008-09-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
86 or HEAD amd64?) is that HEAD might have the variables in bpfdesc.h declared as something like unsigned intmax_t, which might be a better solution, but MFC'ing that could break things. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Fixing cvsup bus error

2008-09-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ve it as /usr/ports/lang/ezm3/Makefile Take the second URL and save it as /usr/ports/lang/ezm3/files/extra-patch-fcntl Then follow the same steps I listed above (starting with the pkg_delete). Hope this helps. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com

Re: Intel ICH7 SMBus support, ichsmb(4)

2008-09-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
working on a hardware monitoring tool, possibly it would just be best for me to include support for it in bsdhwmon. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administra

Re: Fresh 7.0 Install: Fatal Trap 12 panic when put under load

2008-09-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
the machine, with regards to RELENG_7, will not help. This is a known limitation which has been fixed in HEAD/CURRENT (where the limit has been increased to 512GB). See the "Kernel" section below; you'll see the applicable item. http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_

Re: Fresh 7.0 Install: Fatal Trap 12 panic when put under load

2008-09-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:08:47PM +0200, Michael Grant wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:38:36AM +0200, Michael Grant wrote: > >> My box crashed again: > >> > >> pa

Re: alpm(4) I/O range is claimed by ACPI

2008-09-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
g USB-centric, shows someone trying to load alpm(4) on RELENG_6 and getting a map allocation error back in 2003. Not sure if this is of any help: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-April/000190.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-April/000192

Re: Intel ICH7 SMBus support, ichsmb(4)

2008-09-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
r [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could you resend it? > I have some Sun Fire X2100 M2 (nVidia chips), IBM x335 (Intel), IBM x336 > (Intel) servers and one Supermicro X6DHP-8G (Intel) server. Thanks. I'll add these to my list of servers that I should try to focus on in the near future (since you h

Re: Intel ICH7 SMBus support, ichsmb(4)

2008-09-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:40:24AM -0400, Michael Butler wrote: > Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > > Miroslav Lachman wrote: > >> Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> > >>> I suppose a lot of these could be addressed if I released the code in a > >>> prelimin

Re: alpm(4) I/O range is claimed by ACPI

2008-09-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 03:14:46PM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> ... >> Might mention this to jhb@ to see if it's related to the SMBus changes >> made 1.5 years ago: >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/pci/alpm.c >>

Re: Any working ichsmb(4) platforms out there?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
s, and the risks involved when using a hardware monitor that blindly hits certain registers (this is especially risky with ISA bus interaction). I'm trying my best to make things better, doing things purely from a userland perspective and using SMBus exclusively (since the interface

Re: Any working ichsmb(4) platforms out there?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
h file or directory Does your kernel include all 3 of the following devices? device smbus device smb device ichsmb -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Sy

Re: Any working ichsmb(4) platforms out there?

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 01:12:34PM -0500, Chris Ruiz wrote: > > On Sep 12, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:19:55PM -0500, Chris Ruiz wrote: >>> I have an ICH9 system and get the following: >>> >>> First, my kerne

Re: sio => uart: one port is gone

2008-09-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
io devices are found 'on acpi0' as > opposed to uart now being found on 'isa0'. > Maybe this is another difference. > > Maybe sio was attached using some information from acpi, so hints were > not that important. But maybe the same acpi information is not appli

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
pecific semantics (e.g. what does this IC register do, etc.). I'm talking about the surrounding pieces. I *have* hacked on the em(4) driver, but all the surrounding pieces made me say "hmm, do not touch". Any time I see the words VFS, BIO, mtx, or uma, I back off. -- |

Re: Help debugging DMA_READ errors

2008-09-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
7;re seeing are the "same thing" others are seeing, then you are not alone. As I said initially, finding the source of these problems is difficult, and they are often "unique" to each individual's machine. For some, replacing cables, the entire motherboard, d

Re: Help debugging DMA_READ errors

2008-09-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:19:03AM -0700, Clint Olsen wrote: > On Sep 16, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > acd0 is a CD/DVD drive. ad4 is a hard disk. What exactly were you > > doing with the system at the time these errors appeared? Were you using > > the CD/DVD drive? Was ther

Re: Help debugging DMA_READ errors

2008-09-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 03:34:07PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 02:54 PM 9/16/2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> However, there's no sign of DMA errors in the SMART log. I'm not sure >> what to make of that; I really would expect there to be some. > >

Re: Keyspan USB serial adapter

2008-09-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
7-STABLE right now? Since you're still in the market: I've heard wonderful things about any of the USB serial adapters that use the Prolific chip; see uplcom(4). Others apparently are known for dropping characters on occasion. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Help debugging DMA_READ errors

2008-09-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 04:16:55PM -0700, Clint Olsen wrote: > On Sep 16, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > That's very strange then. Something definitely tried to utilise acd0 at > > that hour of the night. What is acd0 connected to, ATA-wise? Again, I > > assume it's

Re: Supermicro PDSMI failed to boot on fresh RELENG_7/amd64

2008-09-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
boxes which do not exhibit this problem. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: 6.3 reboot -d doesn't work

2008-09-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > Sep 17 07:28:12 Z2873 savecore: no dumps found > > Is this broken? It's a known problem. If when the machine reboots, you forcefully enter single-user, you should be able to get the kernel dump using savecore. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?p

Re: 6.3 reboot -d doesn't work

2008-09-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 01:03:46PM -0400, Ed Maste wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:25:37AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 07:36:46AM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: > > > I am trying to get a crash dump but am unable to with FreeBSD

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
a solution for it, other than extending support lifetimes per release. Mark's graphs show release lifetimes are getting shorter, which I doubt Jo would have a problem with, assuming each new release was somehow guaranteed (more or less, cut me some slack) to not break previous releas

Re: floppy disk controller broken

2008-09-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ly be formatted, in the past. Perhaps i > remember badly, i have not used floppies since years, but > in this case the behavior with Windows, Linux and ancient FreeBSD > was that you could write to the floppy, but could encounter errors > while reading. Using dd c

Re: RELENG_7: something is very wrong with UDP?

2008-09-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ble response. Yes, I am fully aware traceroute uses UDP as the default protocol to induce said ICMP. That said, does the erroneous behaviour go away when using -P tcp? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking h

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ed", and express both frustration and concern, but I don't see anything insulting in them. Possibly this topic could be discussed amongst interested parties at meetBSD. I will be there, and would be more than happy to participate in such a discussion -- or at least take notes. -- | J

Re: floppy disk controller broken

2008-09-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ays /dev/fd0 is a character device which is > unbuffered, i.e. your dd(1) command goes straight to the > disk, and if the drive reports an error (typically sync > mark not found if the floppy is unformatted), it goes back > up to dd(1) immediately and you get Input/output error. Ah ha

Re: RELENG_7 hangs on boot w/Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H MB

2008-09-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ite contains ISOs built daily, rather than monthly: http://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/ -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator M

Re: RELENG_7 hangs on boot w/Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H MB

2008-09-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
tek Semiconductor' > device = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' > class = network > subclass = ethernet Regarding the Realtek issue: I've CC'd PYUN Yong-Hyeon (surname in caps), who maintains the re(4) driver for Free

Re: RELENG_7 hangs on boot w/Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H MB

2008-09-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 09:45:10AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 07:04:56AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 08:24:29AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > > 1) It would be helpful to know if you installed i386 or amd64 FreeBSD, >

Re: Supermicro PDSMI failed to boot on fresh RELENG_7/amd64

2008-09-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 08:11:51PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > JC> > 3 of 4 times this machine failed to boot, panicing somewhere in late > kernel > JC> > initialization phase (before /sbin/init is executed)

Re: Freebsd custom installation cd

2008-09-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ation because what you posted lacks newlines. Additionally, you said you're using a "custom FreeBSD installation CD", which may be part of the problem as well (since you admit the Live CD works fine). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | |

Re: floppy disk controller broken

2008-09-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
21 12:14:05 kg-work2 kernel: umass0: CBI bulk-out stall clear failed, > TIMEOUT > Sep 21 12:16:15 kg-work2 kernel: umass0: CBI reset failed, TIMEOUT Remove "device udbp" from your kernel configuration and try again. The problem with bulk pipes is somewhat well-known

Re: Freebsd custom installation cd

2008-09-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
limpse shows your kernel configuration looks fine, although incredibly bloated. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA

Re: freebsd 7 with sata drives

2008-09-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
g raptor(This weekend's test hardware). Others are having this problem, though not prompted with a mountroot> prompt (others are experiencing a hard system lock-up after the "Mount root from ufs..." message. I doubt the problem is you. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: RELENG_7 hangs on boot w/Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H MB - maybe the 8650?

2008-09-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 09:57:15AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 01:50:24PM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 08:05:33AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 09:45:10AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > >

Re: Installworld deletes libc

2008-09-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
problem. > > Any ideas? Sounds like kern.securelevel is in the way. See security(7). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY

2008-09-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
es to clear/fix > whatever to the questions posed as fsck runs. What does this all mean? Are you running fsck on the filesystem while its mounted? Are you doing this in single-user or multi-user mode? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | P

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY

2008-09-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
u could also consider using clri(8) to clear the inode (190). Do this in single-user while the filesystem is not mounted. After using clri, run fsck a couple times. Also, are there any kernel messages about ATA/SCSI disk errors or other anomalies? -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Freebsd custom installation cd

2008-09-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
sd7 installation cd is not giving any error. Can you please provide exact FreeBSD versions and not just generic strings? We need to know if you're talking about FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, 6.2-STABLE, 7.0-RELEASE, 7.0-STABLE, 7.1-BETA, etc... -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Install -S Not Safe was: Re: Installworld deletes libc

2008-09-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
-g wheel -m 444 -fschg -S libc.so.6 /lib > install: /lib/libc.so.6: chflags: Operation not permitted > *** Error code 71 > > Stop in /usr/src/lib/libc. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/lib/libc]# ls -lao /lib/libc.so.6 > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY

2008-09-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
with no error. With regards to this specific item: can you provide the full smartctl command you're using (including device), and all of the output? I have an idea of what the problem is, but I'd need to see the output first. -- | Jeremy Chadwickj

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY

2008-09-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 05:40:40PM -0700, Clint Olsen wrote: > On Sep 21, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > With regards to this specific item: can you provide the full smartctl > > command you're using (including device), and all of the output? I have > > an idea of what the p

Re: fxp multicast forwarding problems

2008-09-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
orcibly unloading the kernel module and reloading it > Unpatching and repatching at the switch (a cheap 10/100 one) > Enabling and disabling promiscuous mode > Twiddling dev.fxp.0.noflow > > The link status looks fine, but the card will not send or receive traffic. > A warm reboot

Re: fxp multicast forwarding problems

2008-09-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
w, so unless there's no alternative I'd rather not. > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:46:25AM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Whilst doing some QA wo

Re: buildworld fails immediately

2008-09-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
; maybe I missed something there. Your previous mail (Subject: CPUTYPE Now Required?) answers what's happening quite clearly. Look closely at the -f argument being passed to make. I cannot help you with jails, as I know nothing about them. But it appears to me you have a very

Re: CPUTYPE Now Required?

2008-09-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
tions of processor. > > What is a person to do? If you've tinkered with make.conf at all, you may have some quotation madness going on there which is running amok. Regardless, this very much looks like an issue specific to your system. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

make-delete-old-libs not removing some libraries

2008-09-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
THOUT_INET6=true WITHOUT_IPFILTER=true WITHOUT_IPX=true WITHOUT_KERBEROS=true WITHOUT_LIB32=true WITHOUT_NCP=true WITHOUT_PROFILE=true WITHOUT_SENDMAIL=true -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodi

Re: buildworld fails immediately

2008-09-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:58:34PM -0400, Gary Palmer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 08:43:20PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:03:15PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > > I am trying to build RELENG_6. I receive the following errors. > >

Re: vm.kmem_size settings doesn't affect loader?

2008-09-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. You will need to run -CURRENT if you want more. 2) Tune ZFS aggressively. Start by setting vfs.zfs.arc_min="16M" and vfs.zfs.arc_max="64M". If your machine has some small amount of memory (768MB, 1GB, etc.), then you probably shouldn't be using ZFS. -- | Jeremy Cha

Re: vm.kmem_size settings doesn't affect loader?

2008-09-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
nd-user who has very little experience with BSD kernel code and absolutely no experience with kernel memory management. Proper tuning is all that's needed, regardless of your knowledge set. Please try installing 2GB of memory in your i386 box, and then use the exact loader.conf values I spec

Re: vm.kmem_size settings doesn't affect loader?

2008-09-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
s, such a guide (documenting "how it all interconnects, memory-wise") would end up being tailored to the technical, which won't help end-users. The existing "ZFS tuning guide" for FreeBSD keeps things vague for a good reason -- I'm absolutely 100% positive an extensive d

Re: Make buildkernel fails

2008-09-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ed/replaced or added for needed features. I assume your CK config is outdated since the box was last built in July. I recommend doing cp GENERIC CK and then editing CK to your needs. 2) Did you rm -fr /usr/obj/* before starting this build? If not, try it. There may be old cruft in there from J

Re: vm.kmem_size settings doesn't affect loader?

2008-09-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
7;s kmem or not), which could mean you're decreasing the amount of memory available for ZFS/ARC as well (e.g. panic more likely). > This is amd64 with 3GB of real memory. ZFS pool is used to serve music, > digital pictures and video to the rest of household, as well as pro

Re: rl0: watchdog timeout + 40, 000 ms ping with 7.1-BETA-i386-disc1.iso

2008-09-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
sed for PS/2 devices (mice, keyboards), and I see rl0 is sitting on that IRQ. * Read the BUGS section of the rl(4) manpage; these NICs are known to be questionable in many regards. The CVS commit log for this driver also has quite a list of other documented (major) bugs. "User beware

Re: regarding 1 Gig Chelsio SFP support

2008-09-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ss-reference "T304" on the > chelsio web site, but perhaps it's based on the T3 chipset and will > "just work" :) > > Follow the instructions in the man page with a BSD 6.3 machine to see if > it works. > > If it doesn't, please repost the outp

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
) This could be relevant, but rwatson@ will need to help determine that. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-September/045109.html -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodiu

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
.69MB/s 0.96s 16.64MB/s > > Average: 75.8633.00 > > the nfs filer is a NetWork Appliance, and is in use, so i get fluctuations in > the > measurements, but the relation are similar, good on 7.0, bad on 7.1 Do you have any NFS-related tunings in /etc/rc.

Re: buildworld fails in csh

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
kefile), as you can see from -DHAVE_ICONV. You might have to end up giving someone access to your box to solve this problem. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Admi

Re: Rare problems in upgrade process (corrupted FS?)

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
oot the machine (because of I suspect a very weird FS problem), > boot in single user mode and do a 'fsck -fy'. Effectively, the fsck(8) > found and repair several errors. Epecially, one error claims my > attention: SUPERBLOCK. Superblock problems w

Re: buildworld fails in csh

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:14:49PM +0200, Tobias Roth wrote: > On 09/26/08 11:59, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:46:28AM +0200, Tobias Roth wrote: >>> On 09/25/08 15:14, Andreas Rudisch wrote: >>>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:49:42 +0200 >>>

Re: HELP DEBUG: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p3 TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA + other strange behaviour!

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
nd decreasing the amount of cards you have in that system, or get a motherboard that has an APIC and preferably some reliable on-board networking (read: Intel chips). Toss the rl0 card if possible, and consider replacing the Promise controller with a different one. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Rare problems in upgrade process (corrupted FS?)

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
27;s df -k have to say about this? This is truly bizarre. Can you truss the csup process? Something like this should work: truss -o truss.out -s 256 csup {...flags from above...} Then put truss.out up somewhere where we can get to it? -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Rare problems in upgrade process (corrupted FS?) [SOLVED]

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t be a good place. The next time you install world, /usr/share/examples will be overwritten, and you'll lose your changes. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ign_test: 498351 > > -vfs.nfsrv.realign_test: 5005908 > +vfs.nfsrv.realign_test: 0 > > +vfs.nfsrv.commit_miss: 0 > +vfs.nfsrv.commit_blks: 0 > > changing them did nothing - or at least with respect to nfs throughput :-) I'm

Re: 7.1-PRERELEASE freezes

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
what's going on here: 1) Is this machine running the latest BIOS available? 2) Are you running powerd(8) on this box? 3) Does disabling ACPI (it's a menu option when booting) help? 4) Does removing "device cpufreq" help? -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at

Re: sysctl maxfiles

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
n out of some other resource which this maxfiles was protecting. You're asking for trouble setting these values to the equivalent of unlimited. Instead of asking "what would happen", you should be asking "why would I need to do that". Regarding memory implications, th

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
use ZFS and shut up". *sigh* [1]: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-December/069114.html [2]: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/173501.html -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
g/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon02/mckusick/mckusick_html/index.html [2]: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-June/064043.html [3]: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/general/full_papers/seltzer/seltzer_html/index.html [4]: http://lists.freebsd

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY

2008-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ation. PC-BSD does, AFAIK. So on FreeBSD, you have to go > > through a bunch of rigmarole[5] to get it to work (and doing this > > after-the-fact is a real pain in the rear -- believe me, I did it this > > weekend.) > > > So until both of these ZFS-oriented issues c

Re: Recommendations for servers running SATA drives

2008-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 03:16:11PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> Let's be realistic. We're talking about ATA and SATA hard disks, hooked >> up to on-board controllers -- these are the majority of users. Those >>

Re: sysctl maxfiles

2008-09-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:14:09PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:10:01AM +1000, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: >> >>> By default FreeBSD 7.0 shipped with the sysctls set to: >>> >>> kern.maxfi

Re: rl0: watchdog timeout + 40, 000 ms ping with 7.1-BETA-i386-disc1.iso

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ios. > > Got to go out now > > Ill go back to rl0 too & report back soon > > thanks for help both ! > > I'm wrong it is Not working. > (I typed my own own card address of 192.168.x.x by mistake, > not the 192.168.x.x of anot

Re: 7.1-PRERELEASE : bad network performance (nfe0)

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
get about 10M/s. Very odd. > Did a tcpdump and saw lots of bad checksum errors. This is probably because checksum offloading was being done on the NIC. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com

Re: Request for testing - top 3.8b1 in the base system

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
2 0:34 0.05% compiz > 47263 nikola 440 21M 13M select s 0 0:20 0.05% > scim-panel-gtk > > Is it normal to have 100.64% for cc1? I would assume so, as your machine has more than one logical or physical processor. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Blacklisted ACPI Prevents Boot

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e/2008-September/045080.html -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977

Re: Request for testing - top 3.8b1 in the base system

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 03:46:45PM -0400, William LeFebvre wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 02:24:09PM +0200, Nikola Le??i?? wrote: > >>> Is it normal to have 100.64% for cc1? >> >> I would assume so, as your machine has more than one

Re: 7.1-PRERELEASE : bad network performance (nfe0)

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) > status: active I see 100baseTX there, not 1000baseTX. This speed is being selected via autoneg (auto speed/duplex negotiation). Whatever switch you're connected to is not properly negotiating the speed. What brand and model of switch is

Re: 7.1-PRERELEASE : bad network performance (nfe0)

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 06:30:03PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 06:15:43PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Ga

Re: Old Libraries After 6.4 Upgrade

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
aries, you have to explicitly enable building of such. > Can these be safely deleted? Probably. Those are library archives (.a) and not shared libraries (.so), so removing them will not impact any software during run-time. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at paro

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
last link in the chain to provide gjournal + gmirror + gchecksum > (addressing points 1, 2, 3 and 4). Equally, maybe gchecksum could work like > gjournal. Dunno --- that would probably be expensive in io ops. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Pa

Re: HELP DEBUG: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p3 TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA + other strange behaviour!

2008-09-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ght I wasn't able to login for about an hour and > >> after that the machine came back up again by itself!!!that's in the lan > >> - but it wasn't accessible at all from the outside - strange thins is > >> that it replied to ping but I wasn't

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY

2008-09-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 05:36:17PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2008-Sep-26 23:44:17 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:35:57PM -0700, Derek Kuli??ski wrote: > >> As far as I know (at least ideally, when write caching is di

Re: Recommendations for servers running SATA drives [hot-swap]

2008-09-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e old disk ID/string is still shown. In this case I had to do a "detach", remove the disk, insert the new disk, "reinit", then an "attach" for things to work. Finally, I've also seen the kernel panic or hard-lock after running "reinit", but this may have

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY

2008-09-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
with for solving this out-of-the-box. I have a feeling I'm going to get told "so who's going to do all the work?" or downright flamed, but I hope it induces a discussion of ideas, specifically with regards to new FreeBSD installations. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

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