Re: Hacked - FreeBSD 7.1-Release

2009-12-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
I guess some people travel a lot and use a multitude of ISPs, but surely it wouldn't take that long to build an appropriate allow/permit list. Ah well. Each to his/her own when it comes to solving this problem. Everyone likes something different/has a different method/etc. based on their need

Re: don't know how to make /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/lib/libusbhid.a

2009-12-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
x27;ve a feeling it's related. [1]: http://www.freshbsd.org/?branch=RELENG_8&project=&committer=thompsa&module=&q= [2]: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-December/thread.html (see bottom of page) -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Hacked - FreeBSD 7.1-Release

2009-12-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:16:07AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, David Wolfskill wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 03:20:37AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > ... > > > I've written my own script to do all of this. It parses periodic > &

Re: don't know how to make /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/lib/libusbhid.a

2009-12-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
stem from clocks which drift excessively (usually machines not running ntpd, or a machine which needs ntpdate or ntpdate -b run on it). It's a little odd (to me) that it'd recur in bthidcontrol every time, but hey... worth a shot. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: don't know how to make /usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/lib/libusbhid.a

2009-12-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
sing .h file): chances are your "old" /usr/obj may have contained the usbhid.h file somewhere (e.g. a previous kernel or world was built there *before* you added WITHOUT_USB=1 to src.conf), then later you added WITHOUT_USB=1 to src.conf without nuking /usr/obj. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Cannot list a particular directory through NFS with UDP

2009-12-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
guely recall that the problem went away when you used TCP > instead. Is that correct? Reading this thread and mention of IP fragments: I'm probably way off base here, but is pf(4) in use at all on the FreeBSD server? If so, see the pf.conf(5) man page, specifically the 'no-df'

Re: 8.0 regression: consecutive panics (iwi / wlan / zfs ?)

2010-01-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
tion get printed when ZFS initialises (in your case, when the kernel module was loaded). How or why it got loaded is beyond me. In this case would help to post these kinds of kernel messages taken directly from /var/log/messages instead of from dmesg -- the file in question is handled by syslo

Re: TIOCSTI possibly broken under 8.0 ?

2010-01-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
= c; > ioctl(0, TIOCSTI, &ch); > } > > fgets(x, 511, stdin); > printf("We got: %s\n", x); > fflush(stdout); > return 0; > } Adding Ed Schouten to the thread, who will probably be able to shed some light

Re: smb driver for Nvidia ION (intel ATOM) chipset

2010-01-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
mbmon support the exact model and revision of H/W monitoring IC on your board? If not, you're wasting your time. :-) It's easy to get confused by the state of hardware monitoring on not only FreeBSD but other OSes as well; they all make it sound like monitoring things "just magically w

Re: smb driver for Nvidia ION (intel ATOM) chipset

2010-01-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:38:31PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > If you look inside /usr/ports/sysutils/mbmon/work/xmbmon205 once > the port is built (e.g. "make"), you'll find there are other utilities > for attempting to find the slave address, such as "test

Re: smb driver for Nvidia ION (intel ATOM) chipset

2010-01-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
the board manufacturer/vendor and asking them -- that is, assuming there's a H/W monitoring IC on the board at all. If you have access to Windows 2K/XP, you might try using some software there called SpeedFan. If it works, you'll be able to at least figure out what H/W monitoring IC is u

Re: smb driver for Nvidia ION (intel ATOM) chipset

2010-01-07 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
er seen. I'd recommend going straight to the datasheets. If you'd like, I can code up something that uses LPC/ISA to communicate with this IC via port 0x290 based on the datasheet. It's pretty easy, but will require that the program be run as root (to open /dev/io). I won't in

Re: ZFS performance degradation over time

2010-01-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
hich is significantly less ambiguous and hopefully won't cause "but I do have 4GB!" confusion. [3]: src/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/arc.c http://freshbsd.org/2010/01/08/09/59/13 -- RELENG_8 http://freshbsd.org/2010/01/08/11/06/13 -- RELENG_7 It sure would be u

Re: ZFS performance degradation over time

2010-01-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 03:05:06PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > ... You can also explicitly enable prefetch by setting the > value to "1", and this trumps the how-much-usable-RAM check. This should have read 'setting the value to "0"&

Re: ZFS performance degradation over time

2010-01-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
number before I do that). It would help if you could provide the entire output from: sysctl kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: bin/115406: [patch] gpt(8) GPT MBR hangs award BIOS on boot

2010-01-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
o reflect > this." > > What exactly is "gart" and where do I find it's manpage, > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi comes up with nothing? Also, does > this mean that GPT is _NOT_ in fact fixed regarding this bug? It's a typo -- it should have read gpart

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
port is to be honest, but the 2nd port is what I'm used to using with an MRV LX-4016S device. If you'd like a bit more detail about "how it all works" (the software, the hardware, configuration details, wiring, etc.), I can describe it in greater detail. Just ask. [1]: h

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ice would be a good choice, since it's a standalone unit which doesn't need to be physically cabled to a "host" box (and often a good choice for those who want modem-based OOB access to devices, since it can house a v.90 modem). For those with less requirements and want to spend

Re: USB problems on 8.0-STABLE

2010-01-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C > > I don't know if it uses libusb. The makefile has the following: > > .if defined(WITH_USB) && ${OSVERSION} >= 800069 > CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-generic-usb > .endif > > Does this tell you? Please provide the ou

Re: Oddities in dmesg

2010-01-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
uite true -- use of the option (increasing the buffer size) appears to decrease the chance and/or severity of the interspersed output, but it still happens. This applies to both 7.x and 8.x. I'll note that I've seen Solaris 10 and (occasionally) Linux do this as well. --

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
#1 /dev/ttyU1 = P2 = box #2 ... You'd then tell conserver using its configuration file that "box name foo is attached to /dev/ttyU0, box name bar is attached to /dev/ttyU1" and so on. Then to get access to the serial console of either foo or bar, you'd SSH to the FreeBSD mac

Re: Regression with txcsum/rxcsum on vge(4) drivers on 8.0-Release

2010-01-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
PYUN Yong-Hyeon will respond to this I'm sure, but have you tried the vge(4) code from RELENG_8 (known as 8.0-STABLE)? I've seen some commits to this driver since 8.0-RELEASE: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/vge/ -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Regression with txcsum/rxcsum on vge(4) drivers on 8.0-Release

2010-01-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:40:18AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:32:42AM +0100, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: > > I've just upgraded on of my server from 7.2 to 8.0-Release and meet a > > problem with the vge(4) drivers: > > All my SCP transfer

Re: AHCI and ZFS: root mount error

2010-01-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
192bytes)cd0 > at ahcich1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0 > ada0: Command Queueing enabled > ada0: 238475MB (488397168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) > ada1 at ahcich2 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0 > ada1: ATA-8 SATA 2.x device > ada1: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UD

Recent ahci.c commit breaks buildkernel (RELENG_8)

2010-01-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ahci.c: bus_describe_intr(dev, ctlr->irqs[i].r_irq, # -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View,

Re: Drive light on all the time on 8-STABLE.

2010-01-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
model of Seagate? The reason I ask: I've seen what you describe, though it was many years ago -- but the similarity is that the disk was Seagate. I replaced the drive with one from WD and the behaviour disappeared. Footnote: I'm not slamming/insulting Seagate here, I'm

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

2010-01-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ind out if what you're seeing is identical: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-January/053949.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems

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

2010-01-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
nths. That's one every 2nd minute... and I was hit > by the Seagate 7200.11 fiasco too. Running on Samsungs now :-) Aren't Samsung's drives known for firmware bugs/quirks? The documentation associated with smartmontools discusses this quite a bit. This is one reaso

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

2010-01-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:07:24AM +0100, Gerrit Kühn wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:57:36 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick > wrote about Re: immense delayed write to file > system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues: > > JC> If you want a consumer-edition drive that's better tune

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

2010-01-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:44:59AM -0500, Gary Palmer wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 03:24:49AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > WD2001FAAS - WD Caviar Black, 2TB, 64MB, 7200rpm > > Do you mean WD2001FASS? I can't find a WD2001FAAS. Yup, typo -- bound to be at least one

Re: ZFS performance degradation over time

2010-01-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
a user process is growing or a > > large number of user processes are being created. I would expect ZFS's > > cache > > to increase the size of "wired" memory. > > > > Sorry, I have not followed this thread closely. Are you sure that the > > degra

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
nk you and regards, > >> Marin > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Boris Samorodov wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:14:44 +0200 Marin Atanasov wrote: > >>> > >>> > I'm thinking about the follo

Re: Multiple serial consoles via null modem cable

2010-01-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
y std.9600 ttyd0 > 534 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv7 > 533 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv6 > 532 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv5 > 531 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv4 > 530 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv3 > 529 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv2 > 528 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1 > 527 /usr

Re: make buildkernel failing on zfs

2010-01-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
amd64 739 01/21 17:44 FreeBSD Tinderbox (8.7K) [releng_7 tinderbox] failure on i386/i386 Normally I'd shake my finger at the committer for committing code to stable branches without testing, but I hold the committer (jhb) in very high regards and he has a very established

Re: 8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of /

2010-01-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ke /var goes awry (usually if bad blocks exist on the disk where that filesystem lies), you can temporarily work around it by rsync'ing as much data over to /spare, then remount /spare as /var to avoid use of the sectors involved in ad4s1d. I've had to do this on two se

Re: Pack of CAM improvements

2010-01-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
data... :-) For SATA disks part of a ZFS mirror or raidz[123] pool: - zpool offline - atacontrol detach ataX (where X = channel associated with disk) - Physically remove bad disk - Physically insert new disk - Wait 15 seconds for stuff to settle - atacontrol attach ataX (where X = previ

Re: posting coding bounties, appropriate money amounts?

2010-01-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
choice would be for someone here to make a list of issues which the community feels need attention, and put the pooled donations to whatever things had highest priority -- or, if that isn't plausible, then to what interested developers wanted to work on. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: make buildkernel failing on zfs - fixed but now everything is slow

2010-01-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t -i vmstat -s -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977.

Re: 8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of /

2010-01-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 09:04:57PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > [...] > > >While I'm here, I figure I'd share how I end up partitioning most of the > >server systems I maintain. I use this general "formula" when buildi

Re: Extra keys in multimedia keyboard doesn't work

2010-01-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
USB driver), so it sounds like RELENG_8 needs some work in this regard. If someone wants to take up improving the quirks for this capability, let me know and I'll be more than happy to send them a free Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 keyboard. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Strange symbols in man-pages

2010-01-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-January/053804.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard

Re: Extra keys in multimedia keyboard doesn't work

2010-01-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:47:46PM -, Krzysztof Dajka wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:43:14 -0000, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > > >If so: yes, FreeBSD's USB driver appears to lack support for these. Or, > >well, it did on RELENG_7 (which is a completely different US

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
se 2 for use in a FreeBSD8 ZFS NAS: > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H&IPMI=Y Any of Supermicro's hardware with an ICH9 will be decent -- but you should remembe

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ne about it. Choose wisely. :-) WRT the Intel 82574 series: em(4) supports this, just please be sure to run RELENG_8 as there's been em(4) fixes and improvements which RELEASE doesn't have. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/e1000/ If you have issues with the NIC(s), Ja

Looking for testers: atacontrol SMART support

2010-01-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
output from "smartctl -a /dev/adXX". I can work out the rest. Thanks. [1]: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-December/053464.html [2]: http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/atacontrol/ -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Paro

Re: Looking for testers: atacontrol SMART support

2010-01-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:38:26AM +0300, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > On 26.01.2010 7:40, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >- All of the code was written by hand; that is to say, there is no code > >copied/stolen from smartmontools, as it's released under the GPL. > > Hi, Jerem

Re: ZFS "zpool replace" problems

2010-01-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
hy didn't you offline the ad10 disk first? zpool offline tank ad10 2) How did you attach ad18? Did you tell the system about it using atacontrol? If so, what commands did you use? 3) Can you please provide uname -a output, as well as relevant dmesg output to show what kind of SATA cont

Re: ZFS "zpool replace" problems

2010-01-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
was infamous for their CMD640 IDE controller causing data corruption... back in 1995. As others have stated already: Intel could make a fortune off of a simple PCIe or PCI-X SATA controller card that's ICH9/ICH10-based. I guess there's more money in forcing people to buy mother

Re: ZFS "zpool replace" problems

2010-01-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 04:03:20PM +0100, Gerrit Kühn wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:30:21 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick > wrote about Re: ZFS "zpool replace" problems: > JC> 2) How did you attach ad18? Did you tell the system about it using > JC>atacontrol? If s

Re: em interface slow down on 8.0R

2010-01-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
for > > > >> for more detailed information as well as fix. > > > >> > > > > Good to know, but I am having a similar problem on another em(4) > > > interface that has no VLAN interfaces. > > > > > > FYI, I also have these issues witho

Re: booting off GPT partitions

2010-01-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
, Solaris 10, or OpenSolaris) which has used GPT. I don't know who's giving you the impression that "everyone and their dog is using GPT". Why is this feature a deal-breaker for you? Why are you giving it so much attention? -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: su password prompt to stdout instead of /dev/tty

2010-01-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
> echo -n "$myprompt: " ; su $somerole >/dev/null ... > > If that doesn't work anymore, I'll complain. ;-) OpenPAM is des@'s responsibility. Has anyone brought this up to him? -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.c

Re: 8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of /

2010-01-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
th perms 0755. I've always thought there might be security implications by that, so usually end up setting it to 0700 or possibly 0750 (still root:wheel). [1]: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-January/054269.html [2]: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermai

Re: 8.0-RELEASE -> -STABLE and size of /

2010-01-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 04:25:27PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 29/01/2010 15:40 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:29:51PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Ruben de Groot wrote: > >>>> I don't

Re: loading module sdhci causes panic

2010-01-31 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
plug in a card, should some message appear on the console? Will it > auto-mount? Can you please post your entire kernel configuration file (specifically the one which includes the above 3 drivers in it)? -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodiu

Re: terminfo missing?

2010-02-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ibrary on your machine which is trumping the ones in /usr/lib? Relevant linking: /usr/local/bin/vim: libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x30781000) libncurses.so.8 => /lib/libncurses.so.8 (0x308a) libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0

Re: patch for /usr/bin/mail

2010-02-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
For what it's worth: note that Outlook, by default, uses semi-colon as its delimiter between addresses in To/Cc/Bcc fields. The SMTP portion of the Exchange interface might turn these into commas though, but I'm not 100% certain (I'd have to manually check -- let me know if you

Re: 8-STABLE outgoing scp stalling frequently.

2010-02-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
and is the path asymmetric? > > The 2 hosts are going in on cables to the same switch. I've tried > other ports and hosts , but experience the same problem. Do you see this behaviour both directions, or just unidirectional? E.g. does the problem happen in both of the below exa

Re: 8.0 install fails to create filesystem ("unable to find device node")

2010-02-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
n you get this disk into a system (or the same system if booting off CD, etc.) where you can do the following to it and then retry the installation? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=64k count=1 No, this isn't a joke. This should also clear up the GEOM label error/warning you see. -- | Jere

Re: Inmutable bit in some binaries

2010-02-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ty sure others here have made use of read-only environments, such as read-only NFS root filesystems (sometimes accomplished via PXE) and/or /usr, or CD-based OS (good luck changing any files there). I can't help in that regard. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@paro

Re: FreeBSD 8-Stable with Samba too slow

2010-02-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
) (not ahci(4)). The above is what works best. "Worked best" means I can push about 40-50MBytes/sec reading/writing to/from a Samba SMB/CIFS share. Comparatively, FTP gets around 75-85MByte/sec with the same sysctl.conf configuration. This is using Samba 3.3.10, though I can

Re: ionice in FreeBSD?

2010-02-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
available to developers who could test such code + perform stress tests over long periods of time? I'm probably mistaken, but I was under that impression. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking h

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
kernel in > /boot/kernel.old. > > It may not be easy for me to download a ISO image. Can someone please help? Is the keyboard USB? -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX S

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
could be implemented into atacontrol(8). Of course, that would require reverse-engineering of the EXEs, which would probably induce DMCA-related lawsuits (in the US). Sad too, since documentation of said feature(s) would improve customer satisfaction. But hey, I'm just an engineer, what do I

Re: ATA_CAM + ZFS gives short 1-2 seconds system freeze on disk load

2010-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ere is > a long pause(exactly one minute, as the message below states) in this > point of the dmesg: This should probably be discussed in a different thread. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www

Re: ATA_CAM + ZFS gives short 1-2 seconds system freeze on disk load

2010-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
alue increased throughput[1] for them, but in my brief test (using dd) it doesn't appear to improve I/O speed at all. Anyone know of a good (non-X-related) repro test case which can induce the ZFS "bursty sluggishness" problem so I can try it with different loader.conf tuna

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
xisting LAN port on the mainboard. -- | 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: www/firefox: Firefox 3.6 crashes, Firefox 3.5.7 not

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
;mailto:freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org>" > > > > > >I tried again, left the 'make config'-options as they were set by > >default, delete/backuped .mozilla in my home and they restartet > >firefox3. Nothing better than previous

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:42:10AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > The DOS utilities submit custom ATA CMDs or data to all WD disks > > to toggle or adjust these features. If someone could figure out > > what the command(s) were, th

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
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 > >> > >> Super

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
. At least with regards to SCSI, I've seen quite a few of the QLogic SAF-TE chips get in the way of drive failures and start changing SCSI IDs of all the disks (yes you read that right) on the bus willy-nilly. That means that basically the CSE-M34T or CSE-M35T-1 would be good choices. Yes

Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
;m running out of ideas here... Would "zpool export" and "zpool import" be necessary in this case? Also, I'm a little confused as to the use of glabel in this case. In what condition do your disk indices (e.g. X of daX) change? Are you yanking multiple disks out of a syste

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
of it. For my needs (home storage server), > > this really doesn't matter, I just want oodles of online storage, with > > redundancy and reliability. > > A PM? What's that? Port multiplier. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.

Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel

2010-02-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
t;glabel clear" would probably be easier than dd if=/dev/zero'ing the entire disk. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA

Re: numeric sort(1) is broken on -STABLE

2010-02-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. $ locale LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-1 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.ISO8859-1" LC_COLLATE=C LC_TIME="en_GB.ISO8859-1" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.ISO8859-1" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.ISO8859-1" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.ISO8859-1" LC

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
can still be used without requiring the motherboard hardware to support > the full transfer rate???in so doing keeping design and implementation costs > down." Correction -- more than likely on a consumer motherboard you *will not* be able to put a non-VGA card into the PCIe x16 slot. I

Re: hardware for home use large storage / remote management KVM card

2010-02-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
There's also the PC Weasel[1], which does VGA-to-serial and provides reset/power-cycle capability over the serial port. 100% OS-independent. The concept itself is really cool[2], but there's 3 major problems: 1) PCI version is 5V; some systems are limited to 3.3V PCI slots (see

Re: Strange problem with 8-stable, VMWare vSphere 4 & AMD CPUs (unexpected shutdowns)

2010-02-10 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
> > Ok :) > > Is there a difference between "large pages" as they are commonly known > and "superpages" as in FreeBSD ? In other words - are you referencing > some specific mechanism, like automatic promotion / demotion of the > large pages or m

Re: ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address

2010-02-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
se Netif Expire default72.20.98.65UGS 241750em0 10.72.0.0/24 link#2 U 114265em1 10.72.0.122link#2 UHS 00lo0 72.20.98.64/26 link#1 U 0 102em0 72.20.98.122

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
er (the previous hardware), and the clock drift rate would be different than that of your newer[1] hardware. If that's the case, please stop ntpd, rm /var/db/ntpd.drift, and restart ntpd. Be aware it will take up to 72 hours for the clock drift to be calculated correctly. -- | Jeremy

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 01:29:47PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:25:15 -0800 > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > > Your machine has a rapidly drifting clock, usually an indicator of a > > hardware problem (crystal gone bad is a common one -- se

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:16:37AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:11:17 -0800 > > From: Jeremy Chadwick > > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org > > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 01:29:47PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > >

Re: ntpd struggling to keep up - how to fix?

2010-02-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:44:52PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:11:17 -0800 > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > Please try doing this: > > > > - stop ntpd > > - rm /var/db/ntpd.drift > > - sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=ACPI

Re: ZFS ARC being limited below what is defined in /boot/loader.conf

2010-02-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
;m concerned about adjusting vm.kmem_size, since vm.kmem_size_max is supposed to be auto-adjusting as of this point in time. How does adjusting vm.kmem_size affect things like kern.maxdsiz, kern.dfldsiz, and kern.maxssiz? These tunings are required for things like userland apps which require a larg

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ONLINE 0 0 0 ad10ONLINE 0 0 0 ad14ONLINE 0 0 0 cache md16 ONLINE 0 0 0 And removal: # zpool remove storage md16 # mdconfig -d -u 16 # -- | Jeremy Chadwick j

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ebsd-questions/2010-January/211009.html [2]: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-January/053949.html [3]: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-February/055073.html [4]: http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/test -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: kernel compile failure

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
colored Changes since revision 1.3.2.19: +36 -2 lines SVN rev 203893 on 2010-02-14 19:50:33Z by mav MFC r203421: Add Power Up In Stand-by feature support. Device with PUIS enabled require explicit command to do initial spin-up. Mark that command with CAM_HIGH_POWER flag, to all

Re: ACK and RST packets sent after successfully terminating TCP connection

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
s this?] > 14:53:01.168076 IP server.example.net.9002 > client.example.net.6547: > . ack 1055031876 win 0 > 14:53:01.168100 IP server.example.net.9002 > client.example.net.6547: > R 2849043654:2849043654(0) win 0 > 14:53:01.168393 IP client.example.net.6547 > server.example.ne

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:50:00AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Jeremy Chadwick (from Mon, 15 Feb > 2010 01:07:56 -0800): > > >On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:49:47AM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: > >>> I had a feeling someone would bring up L2ARC/cache device

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
count differ from what the OP provided. I should note that powerd(8) is in effect on this box; I probably should have disabled it and forced the CPU frequency to be at max before doing these tests. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodiu

Re: ACK and RST packets sent after successfully terminating TCP connection

2010-02-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
SOCK_STREAM, then I'd ask if the source is available publicly to be analysed to determine if this behaviour is intentional or not. Is there VPN and/or NAT involved between the client and server (re: NAT: particularly around the server)? Finally, is it possible to get "ifconfig -a" and

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
e should really be something like what's below. This should be much more manageable as well (@tunables that is), although I always worry when using grep()... -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/

Re: ZFS tuning [was: hardware for home use large storage]

2010-02-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
perlfaq and other reference material), but decided... fuck it! :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
sroot fails. Please let me (on the list) know if this fixes your problem. Footnote: This is why I tell folks to zero out the first 8192 bytes of any disk they've previously installed FreeBSD on (even if the disk has no filesystems/slices on it). The way FreeBSD determines the size of the di

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:11:36PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > The NFS root mount you see happening later is a result of the root > filesystem not being available. This is normal if mfsroot fails. A follow-up to my own post: The above paragraph is incorrect. The NFS root mount is

Re: netboot issues, 8.0, mfsroot mount failure

2010-02-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ases what GEOM thinks the total size of the disk is, so I can't say for certain doing some math + zeroing the last sector of the disk would actually work. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://w

Re: RELENG_8 ignoring TCP window size? [Was: Re: Help for TCP understanding wanted, ACK-MSS-Window [Was: Re: best practice to watch TCP parms of established sockets]]

2010-02-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
usefull tests. > But perhaps you can confirm that this behaviour is intendend, or > where the problem could be... Could you please re-run this capture (you're presumably using tcpdump) with the "-s 0" flag set? Also, can you state which machine/OS type is associated with

Re: trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode on 8.0-RELEASE (possibly bge(4) related)

2010-02-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
pci2 > bge1: Reserved 0x1 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xfdf6 > bge1: CHIP ID 0x2100; ASIC REV 0x02; CHIP REV 0x21; PCI-X Are the "bad VPD checksum" messages somehow responsible for this? They're both related to the bge(4) interfaces: > b...@pci0:2:2:0:class=

RELENG_8 -- NFSv3 credentials/permissions issue

2010-02-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
set, otherwise EACCESS is returned; I had to look in the tftpd source to figure this out. I'm not sure what the justification is there, given that use of -s and/or -u switches credentials to user/group nobody... -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com

Re: [7-STABLE] failure during buildworld

2010-02-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
> *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/src/gnu/lib. > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/src. > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/src. > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/src. > > *** Error code 1

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