Re: ZFS - benchmark & tuning before and after doubling RAM

2011-01-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, Dan Langille wrote: I've been running a ZFS array for about 10 months on a system with 4GB of RAM. I'm about to add another 4GB of RAM. I think this might be an opportune time to run some simple benchmarks and do some tuning. Getting more out of the system is not a prior

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: KDM> I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for those of you with LSI 6Gb KDM> SAS hardware. [snip] Again, thank you very much Ken. I'm planning to stress test this on 846 case filled with 12 (ye

Re: Kernel memory leak in 8.2-PRERELEASE?

2011-04-04 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Finally, please note that most of the stuff you'll read online for ZFS tuning on FreeBSD is outdated with 8.2. E.g. you should not need to set vm.kmem_size and you should never need to adjust vm.kmem_size_max. Slight tangent, does this apply to i386

8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-17 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello, Not sure if it's worth troubleshooting this too much before upgrading, but we recently had an 8.1R/amd64 box hang in a way that suggested everything was waiting on disk access. It's remote and we had to resort to a power-cycle to bring it back (we have serial console, but it hung after

Re: 8.1R possible zfs snapshot livelock?

2011-05-17 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 17 May 2011, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 17/05/2011 15:23 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: So for Charles' situation, the next time it happens what would be useful for him to provide? The best I could come up with was to induce doadump then reboot to get the system up/working again, and

Re: zfs arc and amount of wired memory

2012-02-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Feb 8, 2012, at 7:11 PM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 08/02/2012 12:31 Eugene M. Zheganin said the following: >>> Hi. >>> >>> On 08.02.2012 02:17, Andriy Gapon wrote: [output snipped] Thank you. I don't see anything suspicious/unusual there. Just c

Re: zfs arc and amount of wired memory

2012-02-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Feb 8, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Artem Belevich wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 01:11:36AM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > ... >>> ARC Size: >>> Current Size: 1769 MB (arcsize) >>> Target Size (Adaptive): 51

Re: 9-stable from i386 to amd64

2012-02-10 Thread Charles Sprickman
t; > ___ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.or

Re: zfs, 1 gig of RAM and periodic weekly

2012-02-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Feb 27, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Nenhum_de_Nos > wrote: >> On Mon, February 27, 2012 15:33, Chuck Swiger wrote: >>> On Feb 26, 2012, at 9:07 PM, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: >>> [ ... ] all with zfs and one gig of RAM. >>> >>> This isn't a s

Re: Support for releases

2012-03-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mar 27, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Brett Glass wrote: > Everyone: > > I've just noted that as of this month, there is no release of FreeBSD -- on > any branch -- whose EOL is less than a year away. Should there not be at > least one release with extended support? That will be 8.3: •

Re: Documenting 'make config' options

2012-06-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
f this is that it would work with existing ports, and give the > ability to use longer descriptions. The disadvantage is that dialog(1) would > probably need modifications. If we're talking about changing dialog(1), let's make sure there's also an "uncheck all"/"c

7.2 filesystem corruption

2010-05-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello all, Not sure where to go with this post, I've tried -fs and -scsi previously in trying to track down some panics in the softdep stuff. Perhaps the more general audience here can shove me in the right direction. I have a box (Dell PE 2970) running FreeBSD 7.2/amd-64. 6 GB of ECC RAM,

Re: 7.2 filesystem corruption

2010-05-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 21 May 2010, Bob Bishop wrote: Hi, On 21 May 2010, at 09:04, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hello all, [...]I have a box (Dell PE 2970) running FreeBSD 7.2/amd-64. 6 GB of ECC RAM, and a Dell-branded LSI RAID controller (mpt driver). [tale of woe elided] For any case of spooky

Re: Locking a file backed mdconfig into memory

2010-06-01 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 31 May 2010 2:45:25 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:25:51AM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote: Jeremy Chadwick writes: Is the mfsroot file compressed (.gz extension)? Reason I ask is that the OP states he's using RELENG_7... Yes

amd64 mainboard compatibility list

2010-06-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
While trying to find how not to get burned like we did with some older oddball Supermicro boards, I came across this page: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html There is a request up top for new submissions (there are no 8.x entries), is feedback still wanted? If so, I've g

Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-20 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, alan bryan wrote: --- On Mon, 7/19/10, Dan Langille wrote: From: Dan Langille Subject: Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool To: "Freddie Cash" Cc: "freebsd-stable" Date: Monday, July 19, 2010, 7:07 PM On 7/19/2010 12:15 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Mon, J

Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-20 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, alan bryan wrote: --- On Mon, 7/19/10, Dan Langille wrote: From: Dan Langille Subject: Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool To: "Freddie Cash" Cc: "freebsd-stable" Date: Monday, July 19

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Dan Langille wrote: Why '-b 34'? Randi pointed me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table where it explains what the first 33 LBA are used for. It's not for us to use here. Where SOMEVALUE is the num

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure of the criteria, but this is what I'm running: atapci0: port 0xdc00-0xdc0f mem 0xfbeffc00-0xfbeffc7f,0xfbef-0xfbef7fff irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 3:30 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure of the criteria, but this is what I'm running

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:15:41 -0400 Dan Langille wrote: On 7/21/2010 11:05 PM, Dan Langille wrote (something close to this): First, create a new GUID Partition Table partition scheme on the HDD: gpart create -s GPT ad0 Let's see how much space we h

Re: Supported SAS controllers (single port)

2010-12-07 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 08/12/2010, at 3:51, Mike Andrews wrote: On 12/7/2010 8:00 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for one? I am looking to connect a LTO tape drive to a FreeBSD 7 or 8 box and I've only ever used Adaptec 19160 and similar c

Re: unable to pwd in ZFS snapshot

2010-12-26 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, Daniel Braniss wrote: On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 09:26:13AM +0200, Daniel Braniss wrote: this is still broken in 8.2-PRERELEASE, there seems to be a patch, but it's almost a year old. http://people.freebsd.org/~jh/patches/zfs-ctldir-vptocnp.diff Setting snapdir to vi

Recommendations for servers running SATA drives

2008-09-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
I'm forking the thread on fsck/soft-updates in hopes of getting some practical advice based on the discussion here of background fsck, softupdates and write-caching on SATA drives. On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Let's be realistic. We're talking about ATA and SATA hard disks, ho

Re: Recent Problems with RELENG_7 i386

2008-10-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:51:02AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > Well, I believe HZ was increased from 100 to 1000 long ago (RELENG_6?) > as a default. I'm really not sure of the implications of decreasing it, > besides having less granularity for some th

7.x and multiple IPs in jails

2008-10-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello all, I've been searching around and have come up with no current discussions on this issue. I'll keep it brief: In 7.0 or 7.1 is there any provision to have multiple IP addresses in a jail? I'm stumped on this, as I just started a new hosting project that needs a few jails. At leas

Re: 7.x and multiple IPs in jails

2008-10-29 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Robert Watson wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Chris St Denis wrote: Serious question here (not trolling). These patches have been around for years, why have they never been committed to trunk/stable? ... The current patches Bjoern is preparing address most of these concerns

7.1, mpt and slow writes

2009-01-29 Thread Charles Sprickman
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Re: 7.1, mpt and slow writes

2009-01-29 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Richard Tector wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: Hello, I think this needs a few more eyes: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2009-January/003782.html In short, writes are slow, likely do to the write-cache being enabled on the controller. The sysctl used

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

Re: 7.1, mpt and slow writes

2009-02-02 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Gary Palmer wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:48:46AM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: 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

7.1 Panic on degraded disk w/mpt

2009-02-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
build completes, I'll capture that one as well. Please let me know how to proceed - I can open a PR if this is truly a bug, or bring it over to freebsd-scsi if more appropriate. Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet

panic in 7.2 (ffs_alloc.c?)

2009-11-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
Howdy, I'm not expert at getting info out of a dump, but I'll do my best to provide some information. This is a Dell PE2970 w/PERC6/i RAID running FreeBSD 7.2/amd64. Brand new box, has been doing very light work for about two weeks. Last night I started a very long mstone run on a jailed m

Re: panic in 7.2 (ffs_alloc.c?)

2009-11-23 Thread Charles Sprickman
nyone that wants it. Thanks, Charles On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Charles Sprickman wrote: Howdy, I'm not expert at getting info out of a dump, but I'll do my best to provide some information. This is a Dell PE2970 w/PERC6/i RAID running FreeBSD 7.2/amd64. Brand new box, has been doing

7.2 serial console/getty problem

2009-11-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
I get the same garbled output. CTRL-D again gives me a proper prompt. Once I'm logged-in, there seem to be no issues. "vi", "top" and other things that rely on the terminal being sane work fine. Any ideas? Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-12 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Jan 12, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:14:44 +0200 Marin Atanasov wrote: I'm thinking about the following situation - 1 system acting like a host with a serial port hub, each port of the hub is connected to a different machine on sio0, using null mode

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-12 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Jan 12, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:14:44 +0200 Marin Atanasov wrote: I'm thinking about the following situation - 1 system acting like a host with a serial port hub, each port of the hub is connect

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-12 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 02:50:29PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Jan 12, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:14:44 +0200 Marin Atanasov wrote: I'm thinking

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Gerrit Kühn wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:24:49 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick wrote about Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues: JC> > JC> If you want a consumer-edition drive that's better tuned for JC> > JC> server work, you should really be

32-bit jails on a 64-bit system?

2010-01-20 Thread Charles Sprickman
into this jail, except for perhaps "ps", "top" and other utilities that might have issues. Any pointers appreciated... Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net sp...@bway.net - 212.655.9344 ___

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Hi, I'm looking at creating a large home use storage machine. Budget is a concern, but size and reliability are also a priority. Noise is also a concern, since this will be at home, in the basement. That, and cost, pretty much rules out a commercial

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Also, it seems like people who use zfs (or gmirror + gstripe) generally end up buying pricey hardware raid cards for compatibility reasons. There seem to be no decent add-on SATA cards

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 06:53:26AM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 05:21:32PM +1100, Andrew Snow wrote: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H Supermicro just released a

ZFS on root, serial console install

2010-02-11 Thread Charles Sprickman
Any hints on that one? I finally got around to getting dhcp/tftp/nfs setup on an internal network to perform normal installs (and with some pxelinux hackery, the ability to boot a DOS disk or memtest86 disk images). Sysinstall in general is kind of an unweildy beast over serial, but one thin

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Dan Naumov wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After creating three different system configurations (Athena, Supermicro, and HP), my configuration of choice is this Supermicro setup: 1. Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping)

Re: ZFS on root, serial console install

2010-02-15 Thread Charles Sprickman
rently the machine's locked up as it's confused about a ro root... Thanks, Charles http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ2 On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: Any hints on that one? I finally got around to getting dhcp/tftp/nfs setup on an interna

netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
Howdy, I'm having some problems getting 8.0 to install over the network. I've got my dhcp, tftp and nfs server working well, and I've tested all three services from this host before attempting to boot over the network. pxeboot seems to work, and I see it get loaded via tftp. The kernel boo

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 08:28:03PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: Howdy, I'm having some problems getting 8.0 to install over the network. I've got my dhcp, tftp and nfs server working well, and I've tested all three services from t

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: Howdy, I'm having some problems getting 8.0 to install over the network.  I've got my dhcp, tftp and nfs server working well, and I've tested all three services from t

7.2-p4: panic: ufsdirhash_lookup: bad offset in hash array

2010-02-26 Thread Charles Sprickman
/?l=freebsd-stable&m=125901173424554&w=2 Before last night's crash, it was up for 93 days. Nothing has changed in the past few days as far as software or overall load. The crash did happen during or shortly after the daily periodic run. Any interest in this one? Is it something to

Re: Does zfs have it's own nfs server?

2010-03-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: On 17-3-2010 9:27, Matthias Gamsjager wrote: sharenfs does work in freebsd but iscsi does not. I'm not sure about smb. about nfs: you should take a look at /etc/zfs/exports On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Hello,

Re: Does zfs have it's own nfs server?

2010-03-22 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: On 20-3-2010 0:50, Charles Sprickman wrote: Just wondering, is this using the base nfsd/mountd, or is there some in-kernel nfs code strictly for zfs? I haven't found much info on the share* options in the manpage or wiki. There'

Re: Results of BIND RFC

2010-04-02 Thread Charles Sprickman
Can we do sendmail next April 1? Sent from a device with a tiny keyboard On Apr 2, 2010, at 1:22 PM, "Reko Turja" wrote: Based on the inspection of the source tree, I want my bikeshed mauve. I've not been had by AFD jokes in a while but Doug pulled this one off... -Reko

Re: ZFS: separate pools

2010-05-03 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 2 May 2010, Wes Morgan wrote: On Sun, 2 May 2010, Eric Damien wrote: Hello list. I am taking my first steps with ZFS. In the past, I used to have two UFS slices: one dedicated to the o.s. partitions, and the second to data (/home, etc.). I read on that it was possible to recreate that

Re: list spam

2008-03-10 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Mike Lempriere wrote: I've had it with the list spam -- is the any possibility of moderating this list, or changing it to must-be-subscriber-to-post? I have a humble suggestion that perhaps the FreeBSD Foundation could handle... Seeing as Cisco recently bought a company t

Re: possible zfs bug? lost all pools

2008-05-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 18 May 2008, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Sun, 18 May 2008 09:56:17 -0300 JoaoBR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: after trying to mount my zfs pools in single user mode I got the following message for each: May 18 09:09:36 gw kernel: ZFS: WARNING: pool 'cache1' could not be loaded as it was

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:20:42AM +0800, Eugene Grosbein wrote: I fully understand and second efforts on educating people how to configure BIND to be stong to attacks and keep them from using "query-source address" with "port" option but how about bi

Re: named.conf: query-source address

2008-07-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 16, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:34:38PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: The 'query-source' options don't have to be specified: the system will just choose some appropriate address according to the state of the

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 and BIND exploit

2008-07-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Kevin Oberman wrote: From: Max Laier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:38:46 +0200 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 21 July 2008 21:14:22 Doug Barton wrote: Brett Glass wrote: | Everyone: | | Will FreeBSD 7.1 be released in time to use it as an upgrade to |

Re: FreeBSD wiki offline for a bit

2013-01-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Jan 8, 2013, at 3:10 AM, Bas Smeelen wrote: > On 01/08/2013 09:08 AM, Alexander Yerenkow wrote: >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide >> >> Seems not working :) >> > > Works here! What's odd is that it looks like some changes were reverted. I'd asked someone with write privs on it to

Re: So I whip out a FTDI-based multiport Serial USB Adapter....

2013-02-04 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Feb 4, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 14:58 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: >> On 2/4/2013 2:06 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: >>> On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 12:57 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: ... and plug it into FreeBSD 9.1-Stable with the rev ID FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #16

Re: So I whip out a FTDI-based multiport Serial USB Adapter....

2013-02-04 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Feb 4, 2013, at 5:00 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 16:31 -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: >> On Feb 4, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 14:58 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: >>>> On 2/4/2013 2:06 PM, Ian Lepore w

Re: Apparent fxp regression in FreeBSD 8.4-RC3

2013-05-23 Thread Charles Sprickman
On May 24, 2013, at 12:40 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:42:44PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: >> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 08:38:06PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >>> If someone wants me to test DHCP via fxp(4) on the above system (I can >>> do so with both NICs), just let me

Re: Apparent fxp regression in FreeBSD 8.4-RC3

2013-05-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
On May 24, 2013, at 1:47 AM, YongHyeon PYUN wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 09:49:19PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 09:40:35PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:42:44PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 08:38:06PM -0700,

Re: Apparent fxp regression in FreeBSD 8.4-RC3

2013-05-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
On May 24, 2013, at 1:47 AM, YongHyeon PYUN wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 09:49:19PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 09:40:35PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:42:44PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 08:38:06PM -0700,

Re: Possible 8.4 regression

2013-06-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jun 8, 2013, at 5:45 PM, Hiroki Sato wrote: > Alexander Pyhalov wrote > in <4fffaaf8a6667175fca94ce32f25a...@sfedu.ru>: > > al> Hello. > al> > al> Just wanted to share a notice. > al> I had a 8.3 system with PostgreSQL running in a jail. > al>

Re: sshd didn't run after upgrade to FreeBSD 8.4

2013-06-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Jun 19, 2013, at 7:37 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > >> You're missing my point totally. The line is commented out in the >> official source of 8.4 and there for I have very hard time believing >> that it would show up uncommented on a fr

Re: request for your comments on release documentation

2013-06-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Jun 27, 2013, at 7:24 PM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Mark Felder wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:49:21 -0500, Hiroki Sato wrote: > > [...] > >>> 3. Is there missing information which should be in the relnotes? >>> Probably there are some missing items for each release, but this >>> question

Re: Change in loader or kernel: won't boot with kfreebsd in grub2

2013-08-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Aug 14, 2013, at 11:40 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> On 14.08.2013 07:22, Thomas Mueller wrote: >>> How do I make a photo when I don't have a digital camera? > >>> If I had a digital camera, how would I convert the picture to text? > >> You can attach images to email, or just share somewhere,

Re: Boot problem if a ZFS log device is missing

2013-08-29 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Aug 29, 2013, at 5:01 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 29/08/2013 11:27 Maurizio Vairani said the following: >> >> I am able to boot the PC without a cache device but not without a log >> device. Why ? > > The log could potentially contain uncommitted entries. Without the log device > there is

Re: 9.2-PRE: switch off that stupid "Nakatomi Socrates"

2013-09-29 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sep 29, 2013, at 3:28 PM, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On 28.09.2013 11:32, Phil Regnauld wrote: >> Teske, Devin (Devin.Teske) writes: >>> If you work seriously on serious issues long enough... you'll become burned- >>> out. Let me just come right out and say it... >>> >>> I coded it. >> And tha

Re: Circular dependency between local_unbound and ntpd?

2015-07-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Jul 14, 2015, at 10:47 AM, Paul Mather wrote: > On Jul 14, 2015, at 10:33 AM, krad wrote: >> >> As >> >> $ grep REQUIRE /etc/rc.d/ntpd >> # REQUIRE: DAEMON ntpdate FILESYSTEMS devfs >> >> >> You could set something similar to the following in the rc.conf >> >> ntpdate_hosts="a.b.c.d w.x.

Re: FREEBSD_4_EOL tag, last known index file?

2007-07-15 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Jonathan Dama wrote: From Erwin Lansing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 12:59:50AM +0200: On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 03:05:30PM -0700, Jon Dama wrote: Is there a port index file that corresponds to the FREEBSD_4_EOL tag? I am unable to rebuild the index from the tagg

long pause in startup

2007-07-17 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, Any ideas on this one? This machine (one of those ancient VALinux 2U boxes, Intel L440GX+ board, dual PIII) hangs for a very long time between the second processor launching and geom_mirror kicking in. It does always boot, but the hang is more than a minute - just enough to make one

6.2, USB wedged

2007-08-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
xec/nut/tripplite_usb -a colo1 Also any pointers to more info on USB for users would be appreciated. Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 212.655.9344 _

Re: BIND 9.3.1 - How to get rid of AAAA querys?

2007-09-13 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Darren Pilgrim wrote: Andreas Pettersson wrote: Mark Andrews wrote: Why don't you go the other way and get yourself IPv6 connectivity. You do realise that you will require it to reach many sites in about 3 years time as they will be IPv6 on

Re: Freebsd.org is down

2007-09-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Gary Palmer wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:26:33PM -0700, Jon wrote: Check the freebsd-questions list for more info For those, like me, who are not subscribed to freebsd-questions, the list archives can be accessed at: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questi

/usr/lib/compat and updates

2008-01-15 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, I've been doing a number of 4.11 -> 5.5 -> 6.2 upgrades. All of them I've done have gone very well. One that was handled by someone else following my step-by-step directions ended up missing some items from /usr/lib/compat and all the timestamps on the files in that directory are qu

Re: Why does firefox keep locking up on me?

2008-01-15 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hey all, On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Christian Walther wrote: Hello Bob, On 15/01/2008, Bob Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been having a problem on one particular machine with Firefox locking up on me, requiring a hard kill to get rid of it. The problem is thus: Firefox starts normally, bu

Re: /usr/lib/compat and updates

2008-01-16 Thread Charles Sprickman
Just following-up to myself, please correct me if I got anything wrong... On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi all, I've been doing a number of 4.11 -> 5.5 -> 6.2 upgrades. All of them I've done have gone very well. One that was handled by someone else follo

Re: Various route locking fixes merged to stable/7 (was: Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-()

2009-02-25 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Robert Watson wrote: Just a minor heads up: I've merged both Kip Macy's lock order fixes to the kernel routing code, and the route locking and reference counting fixes from kern/130652 to stable/7. These fixes should correct a number of reported network-related hangs. We

setting quotas from inside a jail

2009-03-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
t my provisioning box to have to hit the host just to alter quotas in one jail that needs them. Just looking for any warnings/caveats about the above and what might be different 6+ years later... Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet

Re: LSI Logic raid status

2009-03-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org " Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet ww

Re: LSI Logic raid status

2009-03-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote: Peter Ankerst?l wrote: On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:20 PM, Scott Long wrote: Peter Ankerst?l wrote: On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:00 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: dev.mpt.0.nonoptimal_volumes: 0 Don't test whether the "nonoptimal_volumes"

Re: setting quotas from inside a jail

2009-03-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Michael R. Wayne wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:05:05AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: The subject describes my goal. I'm aware of the usual caveats - if there's more than one jail, no UID overlap, this will really only work in one jail if all jails are o

6.1 quota issues

2006-07-07 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello all, I'm in the process of rolling out a new shell server and for numerous reasons have decided 6.x is the best fit (jail improvements, SMP improvements, 3Ware driver, pf). The shell server is within a jail, and the uids there are unique so that quotas remain sane. There are about 500

Re: 6.1 quota issues

2006-07-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:56:47PM -0400 I heard the voice of Charles Sprickman, and lo! it spake thus: Trying again, it reported the same inconsistencies then sat there for more than an hour taking up all the available CPU on the box until I

Re: 6.1 quota issues

2006-07-09 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:41:07AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:56:47PM -0400 I heard the voice of Charles Sprickman, and lo! it spake thus: Trying again, it reported the

Re: 6.1 quota issues

2006-07-14 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:39:01AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:41:07AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006

Re: 6.1 quota issues

2006-07-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Charles Sprickman wrote: Hello all, I'm in the process of rolling out a new shell server and for numerous reasons have decided 6.x is the best fit (jail improvements, SMP improvements, 3Ware driver, pf). The shell server is within a jail, and the uids there are unique

vr speed issues

2006-11-28 Thread Charles Sprickman
/www.bway.net/~spork/6.1p2-dmesg.txt http://www.bway.net/~spork/6.2-dmesg.txt Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 212.655.9344 ___ freebsd-stable@free

Re: vr speed issues

2006-11-29 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Philipp Ost wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: [snipped] Performace with scp was around 200KB/s, ftp wavered between 300-500KB/s. This did not appear to be a duplex mismatch - unmanaged switch showed them all at 100/Full, put some other hosts on the same ports/cabling and

Re: vr speed issues

2006-11-30 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: I also did a little more digging and noticed that once I start pinging from one of these hosts using large packet sizes, I get about 50-60% packet loss (ie: ping -s 1500 other.vr0.host). If I ping

Re: vr speed issues

2006-12-01 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Jamie Clark wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: Hi all, I spent some time trying to track down slow tcp performance on a small office switched 100 LAN. We just put in a number of whitebox PCs running FreeBSD 6.1-p2/PC-BSD 1.2 that all have onboard Via Rhine 10/100 ethernet

Re: vr speed issues

2006-12-04 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Jorn Argelo wrote: Jamie Clark wrote: Steven Hartland wrote: Charles Sprickman wrote: Backing up the 4.10 box was within an acceptable margin of wire speed (~8MB/s on 100M ethernet) given that a router was in the middle. That's roughly how the box has always perf

pf killing NFS

2006-12-12 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, I'm running a 6.2-RC1 box (cvsup'd today) that has two broadcom nics. One is an internal network (nfs) and the other is external. PF has this rule for all traffic on the private net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/jails]# pfctl -sr|grep bge1 pass in quick on bge1 inet from 192.168.1.0/24 to

Re: Adaptec 2100, asr driver

2006-12-13 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Jim Pingle wrote: Willem Jan Withagen wrote: So the 1000$ question: is there any chance of getting at least the state of the RAID and its disk out into the open? It shure would give me a much better feeling, knowing that at least serious trouble would be detected by me. Ins

Re: pf killing NFS

2006-12-13 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Pete French wrote: I'm running a 6.2-RC1 box (cvsup'd today) that has two broadcom nics. One is an internal network (nfs) and the other is external. ... Doing something like "ls /usr/ports" will just hang until interrupted. Using tcp for nfs makes it workable, but very sl

Re: OpenBSD's spamd.

2006-12-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Christopher Hilton wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Dimitry Andric wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > What does stuttering mean? Is it similar to sendmail's > > "greet_pause" feature? > > See here: > http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/nycbug06/spamd/mgp00014.html OK, so the ans

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Heinrich Rebehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Colin Percival wrote: John Smith wrote: Support for FreeBSD 4.11 is going to end sometime in late January. Originally, FreeBSD 6.2 was supposed to be released back in October. This would have given ev

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