Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
). I've mentioned this in the past (specifically "back in the days" when the ARC piece of ZFS on FreeBSD was causing havok, and asked if one could work around the complexity by using L2ARC with md(4) drives instead). I tried this, but couldn't get rc.d/mdconfig2 to do what I w

Re: NFS - DNS fail stops boot in mountlate

2011-01-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
o mean "if -o bg is used, the system should not hang/stall/fail during the boot process". Dumping to /bin/sh on boot as a result of a DNS lookup failure violates those statements, IMHO. I would agree that DNS resolution should be part of the bg/retry feature of "bg" in moun

Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 01:40:52PM +1100, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: > On 7 January 2011 12:42, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > DDRdrive: > >  http://www.ddrdrive.com/ > >  http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/05/ddrdrives-ram-based-ssd-is-snappy-costly/ > > > > ACard

Re: ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

2011-01-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
me-insight-into-the-read-cache-of-ZFS-or-The-ARC.html Both: http://nilesh-joshi.blogspot.com/2010/07/zfs-revisited.html ZIL: http://blogs.sun.com/perrin/entry/the_lumberjack ZIL: http://blogs.sun.com/realneel/entry/the_zfs_intent_log Enjoy. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j..

Re: faulted zpool , do not resilver

2011-01-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
com/osol/docs/content/ZFSADMIN/gbbwl.html > > I did.. I can't find what this metadata: bit referes to though ZFS is stating that the data which was permanently lost was metadata for ZFS itself, not an actual file on the filesystem. What the implications are of this I have

Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE

2011-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. My impression is that ZFS isn't the problem in this scenario. In most cases, post-mortem debugging on my part shows that disks encountered some CRC errors (indicating cabling issues, etc.), sometimes as few as 2, but "something else" went crazy -- or possibly ZFS couldn't mark th

Re: Panic 8.2 PRERELEASE WRITE_DMA48

2011-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ad4 The SMART output should act as a verifier as to whether or not you really do have a bad block on your disk (which is what READ/WRITE_DMA48 can sometimes indicate). You may also want to boot the machine in single user mode and do a manual "fsck /dev/ad4s2f". It's been prov

Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE

2011-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 01:42:13PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: > On 01/09/2011 01:18 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 12:49:27PM +0100, Attila Nagy wrote: > >> On 01/09/2011 10:00 AM, Attila Nagy wrote: > >>>On 12/16/2010 01:44 PM, Martin Ma

Re: Panic 8.2 PRERELEASE WRITE_DMA48

2011-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
bout this and they confirmed it. The feature also existed on SCSI drives (and still does, I think), but is disabled by default. Here's relevant reading material: http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/ibm_email_aware_of_adm.txt http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-current@freebsd.org/msg07222.html The A

Re: Panic 8.2 PRERELEASE WRITE_DMA48

2011-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 09:02:16PM +0100, Tom Vijlbrief wrote: > 2011/1/9 Jeremy Chadwick : > > > > > errno 6 is "device not configured".  ad4 is on a Silicon Image > > controller (thankfully a reliable model).  Sadly AHCI (ahci.ko) isn't in > > use

Re: Panic 8.2 PRERELEASE WRITE_DMA48

2011-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 07:13:57AM +0100, Tom Vijlbrief wrote: > 2011/1/9 Jeremy Chadwick : > > > > > Not to get off topic, but what is causing this?  It looks like you have > > a cron job or something very aggressive doing a "smartctl -t short > > /dev/ad

Re: tmpfs regression in recent -STABLE

2011-01-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
se search the below page for "tmpfs runs out of space" for all relevant posts: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-January/thread.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.par

Re: Enabling DDB prevent kernel from panicing

2011-01-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
vs. ttydX), plus add the uart entries to /boot/device.hints. I'm mentioning this as a workaround. Also worth considering is that the sio(4) ISA probe may be touching something Bad(tm) as a result, so you might try adding the following lines to your loader.conf (not a typo) to disable sio(4)

Re: important NFS client patch for FreeBSD8.n

2011-01-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
intended for cheap desktops. CC'ing Yong-Hyeon Pyun to assist in debugging/explaining the above error. In the interim, can you please provide output from the following commands: # uname -a # dmesg (please include relevant nfe details and miibus) # pciconf -lvcb (please only include n

Fwd: [releng_8 tinderbox] failure on i386/i386

2011-01-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rror code 1 > > Stop in /obj/i386/src/sys/LINT. > *** Error code 1 > > http://tinderbox.freebsd.org/tinderbox-releng_8-RELENG_8-i386-i386.full - End forwarded message - -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: FreeBSD 8.1 re0 shows half duplex

2011-01-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t could be a driver bug, but it could also very well be a bug in the switch. In these scenarios I tend to buy a different brand of switch. HTH! -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX S

Re: 8-STABLE/amd64 semi-regular crash with "kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled" in "process 12 (swi4: clock)"

2011-01-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
r system first) to see if there's any improvement. For Jack -- the core/stack trace, and dmesg are at the below URL as attachments (and bzip2 compressed): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-January/061168.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Keyboard repeat issues with Dell Optiplex 980s

2011-01-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e more than > happy to provide pciconf or other output if requested. Try adding the following to /boot/loader.conf then reboot and see if the "excessive repeat" behaviour changes: hint.kbdmux.0.disabled="1" It would also help if you would state exactly what brand/mo

Re: tmpfs is zero bytes (no free space), maybe a zfs bug?

2011-01-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
reebsd-stable/2011-January/060867.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others

Re: top shows only part of available physmem

2011-01-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
appgsin: 8573 >vm.stats.vm.v_swapout: 5287 >vm.stats.vm.v_swapin: 2975 >vm.stats.vm.v_ozfod: 83338 >vm.stats.vm.v_zfod: 2462557 >vm.stats.vm.v_cow_optim: 330 >vm.stats.vm.v_cow_faults: 1239253 >vm.stats.vm.v_vm_faults: 5898471 > >

Re: High interrupt rate on a PF box + performance

2011-01-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
would be able to confirm for sure; CC'ing him here. Could you please provide output from the following commands? * pciconf -lvcb (only include igbX entries, thanks) * sysctl -a | grep msi Thanks. I can't help with the CARP-related issues or other stuff you&#x

Re: High interrupt rate on a PF box + performance

2011-01-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 06:31:29PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > On 1/27/11 6:27 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:57:14AM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > >> Hello list, > >> > >> I have a problem with interrupts, network ca

Re: High interrupt rate on a PF box + performance

2011-01-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
cture. You can no longer rely on a single machine to handle this amount of traffic. As for the network errors you see -- to get low-level NIC and driver statistics, you'll need to run "sysctl dev.igb.X.stats=1" then run "dmesg" and look at the numbers shown (the sysctl com

Re: High interrupt rate on a PF box + performance

2011-01-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 09:38:22PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > On 1/27/11 8:57 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > <...snipping out stuff...> > We're also considering moving to faster machines but I don't think that > will help much with our problem. > > I suppo

Re: Error produced by static ip setting: ifconfig: inet: bad value

2011-01-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ng like "inet", "inet6", etc. address = something like 1.2.3.4 or, or a CIDR address like 1.2.3.4/24 (which would expand to "inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.0") parameters = dependent upon the interface you're configuring. Fore wireless interfaces, y

Re: Issues with ar0(Host Raid) adaptec after upgrade to 8.2

2011-02-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
es you went from tag RELENG_8_1 to RELENG_8. When you installed 8.1-RELEASE, did you choose to install src? If so, did you "adopt" your source tree? The below FAQ for cvsup also applies to csup: http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#caniadopt I would recommend you start clean, and make a bac

Re: panic in tmpfs_valloc_vp() in 8-STABLE r217160

2011-02-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. At this time do not mix tmpfs with ZFS: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2011-01/msg00344.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Admi

Re: Xorg in swwrt

2011-02-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
at far-fetched. It would also help to know when your kernel was built (uname -a), since there have been changed during the 8.2-PRERELEASE lifetime to the above code file. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/vm/swap_pager.c procstat -kk and procstat -v on PID 21787 might also be hel

Re: Xorg in swwrt

2011-02-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e starting. > Another thing that is standing out is huge wired count. Regarding the large wired count: I'm willing to bet ZFS is in use on the machine, which would explain this (specifically ARC usage). -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius

Re: 8.1 amd64 lockup (maybe zfs or disk related)

2011-02-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
_DMA48 errors could indicate you have a hard disk with bad blocks or is going bad in a different manner. Please install ports/sysutils/smartmontools and provide output of "smartctl -a /dev/ad0" here and I can help you determine that. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: bind 9.6.2 dnssec validation bug

2011-02-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ntrib/bind9/ http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/contrib/bind9/README As for whether or not this will be backported to the RELENG_8_1 tag, I would say "probably", but Doug would be authoritative on that. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.

Re: 8.1 amd64 lockup (maybe zfs or disk related)

2011-02-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ave this problem). If they give you a replacement firmware, you'll probably need a DOS boot disk to accomplish this, and need to make sure your BIOS does not have AHCI mode enabled (DOS won't find the disk). You can always re-enable AHCI after the upgrade. If you don't have a DOS bo

Re: 8.1 amd64 lockup (maybe zfs or disk related)

2011-02-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 02:50:42AM -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > > > Given that you're running 8.1-RELEASE, what sort of ZFS tunings are you > > using in /boot/loader.conf?  Tuning is required on this versi

Re: 8.1 amd64 lockup (maybe zfs or disk related)

2011-02-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
u please provide output from "dmesg" after the machine comes up? I'm curious to know what sort of hardware is in this machine, especially with regards to its storage controller. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: 8.1 amd64 lockup (maybe zfs or disk related)

2011-02-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
27;Quiet (see cpufreq(4) man page). Are you running powerd(8) on this system? If so, try disabling that and see if these go away. > GEOM_ELI: Device label/1tbgreendisk.eli created. > GEOM_ELI: Encryption: AES-CBC 256 > GEOM_ELI: Crypto: software > {...} There was no me

Re: 8.1 amd64 lockup (maybe zfs or disk related)

2011-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:43:20PM +1100, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: > On 7 February 2011 20:03, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > They're discussed practically on a monthly basis on the mailing lists > > (either freebsd-fs or freebsd-stable).  Keeping track of them is almost

Re: 8.1 amd64 lockup (maybe zfs or disk related)

2011-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
my problems right now, > but i would like to fix it. Yes that's an accurate ps/grep to use; powerd_enable="yes" in /etc/rc.conf is how you make use of it. Could you provide output from "sysctl -a | grep freq"? That might help shed some light on the above errors as we

Re: 8.1 amd64 lockup (maybe zfs or disk related)

2011-02-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
il powerd started. Then, assuming the system wasn't under load, it would gradually decrease the clock speed: 3000MHz -> 2625MHz -> 2300MHz -> 2012MHz -> etc... (see sysctl above). When the system needed to do more CPU processing, the clock speed would increase in those increments,

Re: statd/lockd startup failure

2011-02-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rvices can be bound to a random port number by default, and on occasion during a reboot two things will try to map to the same port number. It's very annoying when it happens. Running "rpcinfo" on the machine can help determine what's bound to what. Loc

Re: NFS client over udp

2011-02-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
twork card Is ZFS in use on the system which sees rising wired memory? -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA

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

2011-02-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
stable/2010-January/054489.html Buyer beware. :-) And remember, it's not an issue with the brand/vendor, just certain models. Caviar Black drives don't appear affected (and don't let the TLER stuff make you lose focus), which is one reason why I advocate them.

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

2011-02-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
#x27;m plannign to use ZFSv28 to be in place, wouldn't be > /dev/random more appropriate? No -- /dev/urandom maybe, but not /dev/random. /dev/urandom will also induce significantly higher CPU load than /dev/zero will. Don't forget that ZFS is a processor-centric (read: no offloadi

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

2011-02-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:05:21PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:13:06 -0800 > > From: Jeremy Chadwick > > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org > > > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 02:05:33AM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > > >

Re: About "panic: bufwrite: buffer is not busy???"

2011-02-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
drive ? Not to mention, the error string the OP provided (see Subject) is only contained in one file: sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c, function ffs_bufwrite(). So, that would be some kind of weird filesystem-related issue, not NIC-specific. I have no idea how to debug said problem. -- | Jeremy Ch

Re: vlandev interface up on start up

2011-02-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
this is pretty common when it comes to things like bridging and so on. I ran into this situation myself a few weeks ago when playing with bridging. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.c

Re: 8.1 amd64 lockup (maybe zfs or disk related)

2011-02-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:05:00AM +, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 00:55 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > # NOTE: Systems with 8GB of RAM or more have prefetch enabled by default. > > vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable="1" > > I think ZFS is e

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Release, ZFS + Samba, running out of memory

2011-02-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
s CPU time doing something else"? Try hitting NumLock on the system's keyboard to see if the LED toggles on/off; if it does, the system isn't frozen, but is catatonic to some degree. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networkin

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Release, ZFS + Samba, running out of memory

2011-02-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
nly Samba, but there is little-to-nothing one can do about it. If you want to verify it's Samba, enable ftpd on your system and do FTP transfers instead (do both a GET and a PUT for testing speed in both directions). Good luck. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@paro

Re: ZFS - abysmal performance with samba since upgrade to 8.2-RELEASE

2011-02-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e... kern.maxvnodes=25 # Set TXG write limit to a lower threshold. This helps "level out" # the throughput rate (see "zpool iostat"). A value of 256MB works well # for systems with 4GB of RAM, while 1GB works well for us w/ 8GB on # disks which have 64MB cac

Re: ZFS - abysmal performance with samba since upgrade to 8.2-RELEASE

2011-02-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:23:54PM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > > > > >  # Set TXG write limit to a lower threshold.  This helps "level out" > >  # the throughput rate (see "zpool iostat&

Re: How to bind a static ether address to bridge?

2011-02-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
or em1 and 192.168.200.0/24 for wlan0). This works without any hitches, no MAC issues, etc.. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View,

Re: 8.2-RELEASE pf rules not loading

2011-02-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
les and not rebooted until I upgraded. > the rules in question are: > > pass in quick on $gif_if inet6 proto udp to $ext_if port $udp_services > keep state > and > pass in quick on $gif_if inet6 proto tcp to $ext_if port $tcp_services > $sf_tcp > (ext_if = "ue0") &

ath(4) panic + stuck beacon issue

2011-02-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rivers? I was under the impression Atheros cards were reliable/decent compared to, say, Broadcom. Is iwn(4) reliable? -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: Change in behavior to stat(1)

2011-02-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ot;+" on the end is not a typo, see the man page) Otherwise, possibly someone should add a flag to stat(1) that inhibits falling back on lstat(2). -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ |

Re: FYI: Userspace DTrace MFC to stable/8

2011-03-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e and make it extra clear: this is for RELENG_8. HEAD/CURRENT is a completely different story. All of this is documented, albeit in a roundabout way (please be sure to read EVERYTHING SLOWLY and do not skim), here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/DTrace -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-03-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
.img" Not to mention, the block size specified doesn't jibe with what's in the FreeBSD Handbook (which uses bs=64k): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html Other users have pointed this out to me on my blog, wondering exactly wh

Re: CPU0: local APIC error 0x40 CPU1: local APIC error 0x40

2011-03-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ovide full output from a verbose boot. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since

Re: CPU0: local APIC error 0x40 CPU1: local APIC error 0x40

2011-03-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 09:32:58PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 3/1/2011 9:04 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 08:50:17PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >> I had a machine deadlock just now and the only thing on the serial > >> console was > >&

Fwd: [releng_8 tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2011-03-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
in /obj/src/sys/LINT. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /src. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /src. > TB --- 2011-03-03 02:16:07 - WARNING: /usr/bin/make returned exit code 1 > TB --- 2011-03-03 02:16:07 - ERROR: failed to build lint kernel > TB --- 2011-03-03 02:16:07 - 5

Strange performance issue with grep -r -i as non-root user

2011-03-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
8 1984234 27910862 7%/usr make.conf contains: CPUTYPE?=nocona There are lots of things I can try to see if I can narrow down the behaviour to a certain piece (such as removing CPUTYPE optimisations), but I wanted to see if others could reproduce this as well. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Strange performance issue with grep -r -i as non-root user

2011-03-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:01:40PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:45:14PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > This is a strange one, and the more I started debugging it (starting > > with truss, comparing fast vs. slow results, where all that appears > &

Re: Strange performance issue with grep -r -i as non-root user

2011-03-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 08:49:46PM -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > On 5 March 2011 20:43, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:01:40PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:45:14PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> > This is

Re: Strange performance issue with grep -r -i as non-root user

2011-03-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 09:46:04PM -0500, Gary Palmer wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 03:45:14PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > This is a strange one, and the more I started debugging it (starting > > with truss, comparing fast vs. slow results, where all that appears > &

Re: Strange performance issue with grep -r -i as non-root user

2011-03-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 09:04:50PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 07:07:20PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > ... > > $ unset LANG > > - Result: still 80x slower with -i > > $ unset LANG LC_COLLATE > > - Result: still 80x slower wit

Re: ZFS performance as the FS fills up?

2011-03-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
offset increases, resulting in graphs like this: http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4776/1tb2.png Given this info, it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that adding another vdev (effectively adding more disks to the pool) greatly helps in relieving this issue. -- | Jeremy C

Re: statd/lockd startup failure

2011-03-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ly posted is to see why > this might have popped up in 8.x, as it never happened in 7.x. This problem has happened on our RELENG_7 systems in the past, though the port binding failed because something else had bound to a port number that (if I remember right) mountd randomly chose/tried to b

Re: ZFS performance as the FS fills up?

2011-03-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 11:56:49AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 08.03.2011 12:48, schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 12:26:49PM +0100, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > >> we use a big JBOD and ZFS with raidz2 as the target > >> for our nightly Amanda b

Re: [releng_7 tinderbox] failure on ia64/ia64

2011-03-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
llowing recent commit, associated with kern/155321: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/imgact_shell.c -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Admini

Re: MAC address / per-proto ARP caching in 8.1-RELEASE

2011-03-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ld recommend setting this in sysctl.conf and rebooting; I don't know what happens in the case you set it on a live system that's already experiencing the MAC issue you describe). net.inet.flowtable.enable=0 Details: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2009/workshops/presto

Re: FBSD 8.2R does not probe sound card

2011-03-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
nowledge of snd_driver 2) It tries to set hw.snd.default_unit=1, which fails (changes nothing) because that's a sysctl registered with snd_driver which isn't loaded yet 3) You manually "kldload snd_driver", which pulls in the driver-level sysctl default of 0 for

Re: happy hacker lite 2 keyboard

2011-03-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ent in this area between 8.0 and 8.2, but I stopped tracking the efforts and switched everything FreeBSD I had over to PS/2 because I can't chance it any longer. I would love to know how Linux solved this predicament, if at all. God I love PC architecture. ;-) -- | Jeremy Cha

Re: FreeBSD partitioning

2011-03-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
there. P.S. -- Just because learning BSD is more difficult doesn't mean BSD is better (yes, you read that right). Every operating system has its pros and cons. Please keep that in mind. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: Firefox startup impacted by distributed.net client

2011-03-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ed post (memory usage and firefox-bin): I can't explain what "ucond" represents in top. That is to say: I know what the STATE field is about, but I can't tell you code-wise what "ucond" represents functionally; my guess is some condition relating to a kernel mut

Re: Firefox startup impacted by distributed.net client

2011-03-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 07:09:11PM -0400, George Mitchell wrote: > On 03/23/11 18:52, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 06:24:05PM -0400, George Mitchell wrote: > >>On 03/23/11 17:57, Matthias Gamsjager wrote: > >>>Have you tried 8 stable? > >>

Re: deadlock or bad disk ? RELENG_8

2011-03-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rts of mailing lists, talk to users, help generic non-technical end users out, etc.). It takes up a lot of my time, but I try my best. Sometimes I feel like my brain needs checksumming... -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: deadlock or bad disk ? RELENG_8

2011-03-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 03:37:55PM -, Steven Hartland wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Chadwick" > > > >I apologise in advance if I have already reviewed your situation, but if > >you could please provide full "smartctl -a" output

Re: deadlock or bad disk ? RELENG_8

2011-03-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
SI disk. I believe the ARC-1220 handles SATA disks. I would say "try smartctl -d ata" or "smartctl -d sat" but I'm willing to bet those throw errors in this situation -- or they might do something like show the drive model string, etc. but not get SMART attributes (yes

Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD

2011-03-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. If NetBSD, awesome. If Windows XP, awesome. If OS X, awesome. With virtualisation out there -- things like VMware Workstation, Xen, etc. you can experiment with a new OS without leaving your current one. Maybe that would be a better choice for you right now? -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD

2011-03-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
pendencies -- the worst of which by far is anything that pulls in X-related things -- which I don't want to deal with. The only packages we use are 1) perl and 2) python26, and that's because the defaults there are decent/work great for us. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: zfs, nfs and zil

2011-03-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
d up again connection to the network is reestablished > (ip-wise). Can you remove ESXi from the picture and see if the problem continues? If it does, we should probably pull Jack Vogel into the discussion, as Supermicro predominantly uses Intel-based NICs. He'll need output from "pciconf

Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD

2011-03-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ciation Day (last Friday of July) really needs more attention. And us SAs should be sure to appreciate other SAs too. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Adminis

Re: ahci.ko in RELENG_8_2, what about atacontrol cap?

2011-04-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
formation (NCQ support, > write cache status, ...) with the new driver? You want "camcontrol identify adaX". DO NOT confuse this with "camcontrol inquiry adaX" (this won't work). identify = for ATA inquiry = for SCSI See camcontrol(8) man page for specifics. --

Re: Kernel memory leak in 8.2-PRERELEASE?

2011-04-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
need is the equivalent of Solaris sar(1), so that you can see memory usage of processes/etc. over time and find out if something went crazy and started going malloc-crazy. If the kernel itself ran out, you'd be seeing a panic. Sorry if these ideas/comments seem like a ramble, I've been up al

Re: ahci.ko in RELENG_8_2, what about atacontrol cap?

2011-04-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 12:21:55PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hello, > > Am 02.04.2011 um 11:40 schrieb Jeremy Chadwick: > > You want "camcontrol identify adaX". DO NOT confuse this with > > "camcontrol inquiry adaX" (this won't work). >

Re: Kernel memory leak in 8.2-PRERELEASE?

2011-04-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ow it's just going to happen again if I reboot > >>>the machine. It is still up in case there are diagnostics for > >>>me to run. > >>Try r218795. Most likely, your issue is not leak. > > > >Thanks. Will update to today's 8-STABLE and report bac

Re: Kernel memory leak in 8.2-PRERELEASE?

2011-04-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 08:56:10PM -0400, Boris Kochergin wrote: > On 04/04/11 18:43, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 04:56:31PM -0400, Boris Kochergin wrote: > >>On 04/02/11 11:41, Boris Kochergin wrote: > >>>On 04/02/11 11:33, Kostik Belousov wro

Re: Kernel memory leak in 8.2-PRERELEASE?

2011-04-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 09:48:17PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > 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 > &g

Re: Filesystem strangeness

2011-04-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
tput from "ffsinfo ad4s1e" 9) Output from "tunefs -p ad4s1e" 10) Output from "smartctl -a /dev/ad4" anyway (for my review)? I think that's about all I can think of. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius N

Re: Filesystem strangeness

2011-04-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 12:54:26AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > 2) Tried booting into single-user to run "fsck -f /dev/ad4" anyway? Sorry, this should have been "fsck -f /dev/ad4s1e". Derp. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com

Re: Cleaning temporary build tree failed

2011-04-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e absolutely nothing is left. I've seen "make clean" not catch things before. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator M

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
me problem happen on an 8.x branch? sio(4) was deprecated on 8.x with the default becoming uart(4), which "plays nicer" with ACPI. You should be able to download a LiveFS CD image and enter the above 3 commands at the loader prompt manually before doing "boot" to se

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
and not via IPMI or out-of-band management modules (re: BMC). So, one should not be too surprised that there may be "oddities" seen with those. I imagine that UART enumeration/initialisation might differ on such modules, so this sort of problem doesn't surprise me much. Marcel

Re: ZFS root on MB Intel S3420GP

2011-04-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
l MatrixRAID", "Intel HostRAID", "Intel Embedded Server RAID Technology", "Intel Matrix Storage RAID Technology", and many other terms. Intel keeps changing the term/labelling of this BIOS-level RAID, almost certainly for marketing purposes. [2]: http://e

Re: ZFS root on MB Intel S3420GP

2011-04-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e > > disk geometry and other mechanics are completely lost given use of > > Intel RST, and *especially* with regards to the boot sequence. > > > > Furthermore, the bootstraps you're using imply use of GPT; did you > > configure your setup using GPT? I&

Re: ZFS root on MB Intel S3420GP

2011-04-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
intenance tasks, I tend to do as much possible to ensure the kernel/system knows what I'm about to do. :-) If you want me to perform an actual disk failure (literally yanking a disk out of a bay while the disk is in use + part of a ZFS pool), I can do that without any worry and provide th

Re: ZFS root on MB Intel S3420GP

2011-04-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:45:38PM +0400, Lystopad Olexandr wrote: > Hello, Jeremy Chadwick! > > > > > With regards to AHCI mode: Most of us strongly advocate use of ahci.ko > > > > (not ataahci.ko; they differ), which does SATA<->CAM translation. You > &g

Large number of SATA commits (MFCs) to RELENG_8

2011-04-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
X61XX to relieve I/O timeouts when doing lots of I/O (common with ZFS). Below are the commits. Users should absolutely use cvsweb or similar tools to examine the commit message and see if anything relevant to their storage subsystems was modified. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Large number of SATA commits (MFCs) to RELENG_8

2011-04-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 07:44:42PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 4/19/2011 7:50 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > I would advocate that folks rebuild world/kernel and make sure there > > aren't any issues seen, or any quirks which were previously needed are > > no longe

Re: buildworld FAIL.

2011-04-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
gt; NO_OPENSSH=true > NO_X=true > NO_BIND=true > BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=38400 > PERL_VERSION=5.10.1 > WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj > > # added by use.perl 2010-11-10 06:40:47 > PERL_VERSION=5.10.1 What tag are you following / FreeBSD version are you using? I ask becaus

Re: buildworld FAIL.

2011-04-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
cleaning up your make.conf and moving the appropriate settings to src.conf. src.conf(5) man page should help you. The variables are not named 100% identical either, so don't just copy-paste. I understand "it's a machine from the FreeBSD 4.x days", but that's no excuse for

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