Re: NO_ knobs in /etc/make.conf

2008-01-21 Thread Pete French
> In earlier releases, /etc/make.conf had various NO_ knobs such as > NO_SENDMAIL or NO_IPFILTER to avoid building specific parts of the system > during buildworld. In FreeBSD 7 they seem to be gone? They turned into 'WITHOUT_XXX' > I'm specifically curious about NO_SENDMAIL. WITHOUT_SENDMAIL=

Re: panic: vm_fault: fault on nofualt entry, addr: 81423000

2008-01-24 Thread Pete French
> Can you print out the table header length in the madt_map_table() routine? Sorry, just realised I never re[plied to this! It's 60, and the length matches with the following check in the table itself. -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: panic: vm_fault: fault on nofualt entry, addr: 81423000

2008-01-25 Thread Pete French
> Hmm, so that's fine. What pointer is returned by madt_map_table? 0x800e7610 I also put some prints in afterwards to try and see how far through the loop it was getting: count = (xsdt->Header.Length - sizeof(ACPI_TABLE_HEADER)) / sizeof(UINT64);

Re: Well-supported SAS RAID card for 6.3?

2008-01-27 Thread Pete French
> and confusion about chips/cards. Does anyone have experience with recent SAS > cards or machines with integrated chips? The P400 controllers from HP work beautifully under FreeBSD. Have run them on both 6.3 (i386) and 7.0 (amd64) and they are stable and perform well. We have sixteen machines ro

Re: panic: vm_fault: fault on nofualt entry, addr: 81423000

2008-01-28 Thread Pete French
> That isn't page-aligned which is unexpected, though it should still > work fine. I am wondering if the non page alignment is what is causing the trouble here. I discovered my printfs were causing panics themselves, so am re-doing a lot of my results as I have been generating some red herrings.

Re: panic: vm_fault: fault on nofualt entry, addr: 81423000

2008-01-28 Thread Pete French
o.k., done some investigative work, and I think i have actually tracke dodnw what is going wrong, though i do not know how to fix it. mapping the header calls madt_map_table, which in turn calls madt_map to do the actual mapping: madt_map called with pa 0x7fec7f40, offset 1, length 60

Re: panic: vm_fault: fault on nofualt entry, addr: 81423000

2008-01-31 Thread Pete French
> I think the problem is that the header for the FACP table crossed a page > boundary so we had to map 2 pages to map the header, but the code assumes > only 1 page is needed so when the second page was mapped, it overlapped with > the page holding the XSDT. Here's a fix: Excellent, that fixes

Re: [: -le: argument expected

2008-01-31 Thread Pete French
> After several failed attempts to get a /stable/ installation of Apache13-ssl > and friends built and installed from source (see thread: /usr/bin/objformat, > for more background). I chose to look at the possibility of using Apache 2.0. Out of interest, why did you choose 2.0 and not 2.2 ? When I

Re: [: -le: argument expected

2008-01-31 Thread Pete French
> also already subscribed to the Apache dev list). My conclusion was that > the ultimate migration to 2, would be a lot smoother, and easier if moving > to 2.0 - the layout of both the server, and conf files are /very/ similar > (to 1.3). O.K., that makes a lot of sense - I can't remember how I di

Re: [: -le: argument expected

2008-01-31 Thread Pete French
> Well, to be Frank with you ( even though my name is Chris ;) ), having > to migrate ~50 conf files/layouts on top of "mastering" the /new/ Apache > way of doing things, on top of aquainting myself with the way the > modules /now/ do things, just isn't going to fit in my schedule. Oh sure > I hear

Re: [: -le: argument expected

2008-01-31 Thread Pete French
> I may try that. But I'm at a loss as to what that has to do with > getting php5 to build. As (mentioned earlier) I am unable to find > where php5 does anything more that to ask if I'm using Apache 1.3 || 2. This puzzles me - my php5 from ports doesnt ask this at all. You just build it and it fin

Asus m2a-vm hdmi

2008-02-11 Thread Pete French
> FWIW, I have the almost the same motherboard (m2a-vm hdmi) with an AMD This is completely off topic, but which BIOS are you using ? I bought one of these today and it refuses to boot BSD at all from an IDE drive or a USB drive. The only thing which boots is the CD - all others complain that they

Re: Can't delete IPV6 addresses with ifconfig

2008-02-14 Thread Pete French
> But I can't remove it, viz.. > [midget 22:27] ~ >sudo ifconfig fxp0 delete 2002:792d:8527::1:1/64 > ifconfig: 2002:792d:8527::1:1/64: bad value Try ifconfig fxp0 inet6 delete 2002:792d:8527::1:1 I think you need the address family in there and no netmask on the end. That certainly sto

Re: Dual Core Xeon / i386 install w/ more than 4gb of RAM

2008-02-20 Thread Pete French
> Does anyone have any alternative solutions that would provide a more > reliable environment other than PAE? I was faced with a similar problem last autmumn - we had been running 6.2 on a set of servers with 4 gig or RAM, but purchased new servers with 16 gig in them. I experimented with various

Re: Dual Core Xeon / i386 install w/ more than 4gb of RAM

2008-02-20 Thread Pete French
> Architecturally, it's a nasty kludge. As far as stability on FreeBSD is > concerned, my only machine under PAE with 4 GB RAM (without PAE it would > use a bit over 3 GB) is very solid on 6-STABLE. To the original poster - does a PAE kernel actually boot on your 16 gig machines ? My problem was t

Re: packet loss with re(4)

2008-02-25 Thread Pete French
> Unfortunately 7-stable does not have latest fixes for re(4). > For 7-stable or 7.0-RELEASE use the following files. > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/7.0R/if_re.c > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/7.0R/if_rlreg.h Ah, thats is very interesting - I have an identical motherboard to Tor,

Re: packet loss with re(4)

2008-02-25 Thread Pete French
> I couldn't see anyone lese in this thread whos name starts with Tor... > so I guess you were adressing me. Ah, yes, sorry, not quite sure how I lost the end of your name there! > I used this patch http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/re.HEAD.patch > and it worled well for me. Thanks for this,

Re: make KNOBS

2008-02-26 Thread Pete French
> Note that the phpmyadmin entry in our make.conf has no *functional* > purpose, because phpmyadmin uses the OPTIONS framework. It's used > solely as a "reminder" whenever I do "make rmconfig" and need to re-pick > what options to use. Is the idea to move all the ports over to the OPTIONS stuff ?

if_re losinbg ability to communicate, even with latest patches

2008-02-28 Thread Pete French
yesterday I had my first experience of an if_re interface simply stopping responding. I ma running 7.0-RELEASE on the machine, but with the lates files taken from here: http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/7.0R/if_re.c http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/7.0R/if_rlreg.h Luckily

Re: if_re losinbg ability to communicate, even with latest patches

2008-02-29 Thread Pete French
> running a RELENG_7/amd64 as of 2008-Feb-22 with the re(4) driver from > the URLs above. As a precaution, I disabled all kinds of hardware > offloadings. ...and it is stable for you ? I will defintely go and turn these off in that case! Also, I note your are runnign RELENG_7 and not RELENG_7_0 -

Re: 7.0-STABLE amd64 kernel trap during boot-time device probe

2008-03-01 Thread Pete French
> I also receive "Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode" while > trying to boot a HP Proliant DL580G3 from the 7.0-RELEASE amd64 disc1 CD. Does it boot with ACPI disabled ? I have an HP workstation which did the same, and got a patch for it in the end, but thius might be an utterly unrel

Re: INET6 required for SCTP in 7.0?

2008-03-05 Thread Pete French
O.K., have snipped all the above IPv4 stuff, which actually seems quite reaosnable (though appears to foorget about STF), but this line... > In the meantime, I'd like to only enable IPv6 on IPv6 enabled networks. ...I fail to see how not wanting to enable it leads to you wanting to remove it from

Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it

2008-03-06 Thread Pete French
> Agreed. But at this stage I can't justify the effort to do anything > more than have a very cursory glance it at. What benefit would I > derive from setting up an IPv6 network and attempting to experiment > with it? My ISP won't support IPv6 and I'm reasonably certain my > cable-modem doesn't

ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-06 Thread Pete French
I want to take a disc partition on one box and make it available to another box to be mounted. Under 7.0 it looks like I have a choice of using either ggated to do this, or the new iscsis initiator. Does anyone have any opinions on what is most reliable ? Instyinct says iscsi as I have used that in

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread Pete French
> Last time I used it the iscsi-target port had some significant bugs, but > looking through cvs it looks like those may have been addressed. I can't > really speak to performance. Reliability should be all right as long as > you don't have frequent network issues. Thanks for the warning - do y

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread Pete French
> According to at least two reports, iSCSI initiator in 7.0-RELEASE is > buggy and has problems that manifest in very low performance. There are > patches for it which should be committed soon. > > See this thread: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2008-February/003383.html Thanks

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Pete French
> What I'm looking at is a DL360 G5, probably with one E5335 (quad 2.0) > and 4G of RAM and 4x 146Gb SAS disks on the Smart Array P400i card. ... > So.. Does anyone have any experience with this combo (DL360 G5 / P400i)? We have around 20 machines like that and they work beautifully. We run 7.0/

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Pete French
> How long have you run 7.0 (before release)? From all the other > responses it seems lots of ppl use 7.0 on these without any problems > at all. I've been running it since last september - never had any problem with it, and am pretty convinced it is stable. > This is where I'm a bit curious

Re: recovering from the 6.3 xorg mess

2008-03-17 Thread Pete French
> G550's are very old cards, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect > that someone doing RC testing would have one installed. I missed the original posting, but I had a G550 (I think - may have been a 450, but I am fairly sure it was a 550) in my workstation here until a couple of weeks ago, an

Re: Jail crontab crashing?

2008-04-02 Thread Pete French
> Also, why must you run Apache with the worker MPM? I've personally > (meaning I'm talking about my experiences, not a general statement) > never seen threaded Apache work -- only prefork. Threaded Apache works as long as all you are doing is serving filees or running stanadlone CGI scripts. I r

Re: sched_ule performance on single CPU

2008-04-11 Thread Pete French
> I have noted early April that RELENG_7 is upgraded to > sched_ule by default and gave it a try with sched_ule > until today. My desktop is a 3GHz single Intel Pentium > 4 processor with 512MB RAM. I have noted by desktop > response wise sched_4bsd is better, ie. the desktop is > more responsive.

Re: sched_ule performance on single CPU

2008-04-11 Thread Pete French
> What I refer is, when quickly open multiple tabs (7 or > 8) in firefox and click on the fist tab to type user > id while other tabs still downloading, its seems there > is a minor yet noticeable delay that I did not > experience with sched_4bsd. Ah, O.K. - havent noticed that, and it wouldnt bot

Dreadful gmirror performance, though each half works fine

2008-04-17 Thread Pete French
I am trying to run a system with a pair of drives mirrored under gmirror, one of thhem being local and the other remote using ggated. I've measured the performance of both the local and the remote drive individually, and they are both fine - can get about 70meg/second out of them. I've also create

Re: Dreadful gmirror performance, though each half works fine

2008-04-17 Thread Pete French
> I have experimented with this rather extensively and have operationally > decided not to use ggated in combination with gmirror --- it doesn't appear > to work as well as one might expect. Ah, thats unmfortunate :-( I oroginally started off using the iscsi initiator and target, which did work O.

Re: Dreadful gmirror performance, though each half works fine

2008-04-17 Thread Pete French
> In the end we found that ggate was crashy after a week or two of heavy use, > too... dispite it's performance problems (which can be somewhat fixed by > telling gmirror to only read from the local disk) That last part interests me - how did you manage to make it do that ? I read the man page, an

Re: Dreadful gmirror performance, though each half works fine

2008-04-18 Thread Pete French
> Some problems with the iSCSI initiator were found a bit after > 7.0-RELEASE was made, they should have been fixed by now in 7-STABLE. If > not, try the patch that appears in this thread: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2008-February/003383.html= Ah, excellent, thankyou. This

Re: Dreadful gmirror performance, though each half works fine

2008-04-21 Thread Pete French
> I would suppose you might have to sync the mirror and then break off and > forget the local copy and then sync again. In our case, I'm not sure --- it > was awhile ago, but a number of them are also in the 'load' state --- as the > higher latency network drives would normally show a higher load.

Re: Dreadful gmirror performance, though each half works fine

2008-04-21 Thread Pete French
> You should complain about it :) Try to get a backtrace of the situation > on the server (enable kernel debugging, enable keyboard hotkey to kernel > debugger; see > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kern= > eldebug.html), > then start a new, properly named threa

Re: Best-performing disk I/O options for a DBMS server on 7-STABLE

2008-05-08 Thread Pete French
> I assume SCSI is the best path forward (either SA/SCSI or traditional) but > have been out of the loop on the card(s) that work properly for a good long > while. HP P400 cards are PCI express and SAS - they work very well under FreeBSD. I've also used the cheaper E200 and that appears to be fine

Re: Dreadful gmirror performance - suggested changes to 'prefer'

2008-05-08 Thread Pete French
I am just looking at this again, and am in a bit of a mood for writing some patches, so I wanted to run the following idea past people as regards the priority system in the 'prefer' balancing method. Just to recap, creating a gmirror creates the first device with priority zero. Adding extra device

Re: Dreadful gmirror performance - suggested changes to 'prefer'

2008-05-08 Thread Pete French
> Couple of ideas: > > - Don't use "128" as the default since it will lead people to think > there's an 8-bit quantity behind the setting (and subsequently develop > weird theories about how the setting works), when it isn't so. Use 100 > or 1000. Are you sure it isn't an 8 bit value underneath ?

Re: Dreadful gmirror performance - suggested changes to 'prefer'

2008-05-08 Thread Pete French
> Hmm, it would seem you need "N-and-upper" and "N-and-lower", but this is > inconvenient. Your original idea is probably better. Certainly simpler to implement. Ideally, of course, you could change the priority on the fly (which would solve all of this) but the fact that it is stored in priority

Re: Dreadful gmirror performance - suggested changes to 'prefer'

2008-05-08 Thread Pete French
O.K., heres an initial version of the patch - relative to 7.0 release. Please test and let me know if there are any problems. Patch should apply cleanly if you are in '/usr'. cheers, -pete. begin 644 gmirror.patch.gz M'XL("",/(T@"`V=M:7)R;W(N<&[EMAIL PROTECTED](TC_+?\6$JRQV;($D/P!S MX5L6G,1U8/:,

Re: 7.0 issues fixed? upgrade timing?

2008-05-12 Thread Pete French
> FWIW, I had major troubles with re(4) around 7.0-release, and a while > later (I had to use patches). After upgrading to 7-stable on > 2008-04-12, re(4) is working for me without patches. I havent tried a recent 'sup, but I also had problems which were fixed by turning off some stuff using "-tso

Changing an installed system from i386 to amd64

2008-05-13 Thread Pete French
I have a box currently running i386 which I want to change over to run amd64. I have installed a second drive into the machine on which I have put a basic install of amd64, and have compiled up the world and kertnel from source. Can I simply switch the original partition over by mounting it up and

Re: Changing an installed system from i386 to amd64

2008-05-13 Thread Pete French
> I did roughly the same but slightly different method: ah, and did it work o.k. ? -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Changing an installed system from i386 to amd64

2008-05-13 Thread Pete French
> In the 64 bit FreeBSD world, /usr/lib32 contains libraries > for the x86 binaries and /lib, /usr/lib contain 64 bit > libraries so a straight install may mess things up. At the > very least you should backup your 32 bit root partition -- > but I have a feeling my advice is already too late :-)

Re: Changing an installed system from i386 to amd64

2008-05-13 Thread Pete French
> If you run only the latest standard binaries you are right > but typically one acquires useful things over time and it is > not always possible to recompile them and also, why bother. true, but in this case I want to change a more or less vanilla 7-STABLE/i386 to a more or less vanilla 7-STABLE/

cron hanging on to child processes

2008-05-15 Thread Pete French
I have a process which is run daily from cron that stops mysql, does some stuff, and starts it again. The scriput outputs a number of lines which are emailed to me in the output of the cron job. What I have noticed is that my emials actually lag by a day - it turns out that the cron job appears to

gmirror patches

2008-06-05 Thread Pete French
Has anybody else had a chance to try the gmirror patches I posted here a few weeks ago ? I;ve had no feedback so far - not sre if thats good news or just that nobody tried them. they can be found here if people are interested: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=123630 I;ve been running th

Re: gmirror patches

2008-06-06 Thread Pete French
> Patch is gzipped and can be easily gunziped after download. (and > uuencoded in webpage view) Ah, yes, sorry about that - thought it would be obvious. I always submit changes that way as I find that whitespace has a habit of breaking otherwise. > It is true that patch is better in plaintext di

6to4 suddenly stopped working to 2001: addresses

2008-06-25 Thread Pete French
I've got three installations of FreeBSD using 6to4 in three different physical locations, attached to three different ISPs. Sometime in the last few days all of them have stopped talking to IPv6 addesse which are not also 6to4. I can still talk to 2002: addresses, but not to 2001: addresses. This

Re: Multi-machine mirroring choices

2008-07-15 Thread Pete French
> However, I must ask you this: why are you doing things the way you are? > Why are you using the equivalent of RAID 1 but for entire computers? Is > there some reason you aren't using a filer (e.g. NetApp) for your data, > thus keeping it centralised? I am not the roiginal poster, but I am doing

Re: Multi-machine mirroring choices

2008-07-15 Thread Pete French
> You install a filer cluster with two nodes. Then there is > no single point of failure. Yes, that would be my choice too. Unfortunately it didn't get done that way. Mind you, the solution we do have is something I am actually pretty happy with - it's cheap and does the job. We never wanted 100%

Re: Multi-machine mirroring choices

2008-07-21 Thread Pete French
> The *big* issue I have right now is dealing with the slave machine going > down. Once the master no longer has a connection to the ggated devices, > all processes trying to use the device hang in D status. I have tried > pkill'ing ggatec to no avail and ggatec destroy returns a message of > gctl

How to handle the pack files now we have switched to git?

2021-01-05 Thread Pete French
So, for me the switch to git went very smoothly. I havent moved to etcupdate yet, but will probably do that soon. Hopwever I did hit one issue. What I do is to build on a single machine, and then send that to a number of places using rsync. But what seems to happen wuth git is that it has a bi

Re: How to handle the pack files now we have switched to git?

2021-01-06 Thread Pete French
On 05/01/2021 15:58, Chris wrote: Brilliant minds think alike. I use nearly the same routine. ;-) Always good to know that I am not doing something completely idiotic ;) OTOH it won't be (easily) possible to "up" the repo(s) from the receiving hosts w/o the .git. Yes, this is my issue re

Re: How to handle the pack files now we have switched to git?

2021-01-08 Thread Pete French
On 06/01/2021 15:47, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: That's not entirely correct. The packfile will only be rewritten if a) enough other stuff has accumulated b) you force a repack. You are fighting against git's GC mechanism a bit here, but you can still make it work. On your source of truth host, do

DHCP and chnaging the MAC address on a network card

2021-02-10 Thread Pete French
I have a machine runnign 12-STABLE, which gets its upstream IP address from my ISP using DHCP over a cable modem. What I just tried to do was to set the MAC address on that interface at boot time, but if I do that then it no longer acquires a DHCP address from the upstream. Is there something

Re: DHCP and chnaging the MAC address on a network card

2021-02-11 Thread Pete French
On 10/02/2021 23:50, Eugene Grosbein wrote: Try changing your command a bit: /sbin/ifconfig $1 ether d0:bf:9c:46:a3:7c up Ah, interesting, yes - I did wonder about that, but looking inside network.subr it seemed to run ifconfig_up regardless of the result from ifcsript_up - but theres a c

Re: DHCP and chnaging the MAC address on a network card

2021-02-12 Thread Pete French
On 10/02/2021 23:50, Eugene Grosbein wrote: Try changing your command a bit: /sbin/ifconfig $1 ether d0:bf:9c:46:a3:7c up So, this worked. I also turned off the cable modem for five minuets before rebooting as well, but I suspect it was simply this which did the trick. thanks, -pete. _

Re: FreeBSD 13/stable and zpool upgrade

2021-02-19 Thread Pete French
On 19/02/2021 22:30, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: e.g., on one system BIOS-booting system, /boot/rewrite-bootcode.sh: -- #!/bin/sh -x for i in /dev/nda0 /dev/nda1; do gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ${i} done -

geli - is it better to partition then encrypt, or vice versa ?

2021-04-17 Thread Pete French
So, am building a zpool on some encrypted discs - and what I have done is to partition the disc with GPT add a single big partition, and encrypt that. So the pool is on nda1p1.eli. But I could, of course, encrypt the disc first, and then partition the encrypted disc, or indded just put the zpo

Re: geli - is it better to partition then encrypt, or vice versa ?

2021-04-18 Thread Pete French
On 17/04/2021 21:06, Alan Somers wrote: The answer depends on why you want to partition in the first place. What do you intend to store on those disks besides ZFS?  If the answer is nothing, then don't bother partitioning; just write ZFS over GELI over the whole disk. Well, actually thats

Re: geli - is it better to partition then encrypt, or vice versa ?

2021-04-18 Thread Pete French
On 17/04/2021 21:18, Karl Denninger wrote: This also makes "geli groups" trivial in /etc/rc.conf for attachment at boot time irrespective of whether they physically come up in the same place (again typically yes, but in the case of a failure or you plug it into a different adapter.)

Does FreeBSD 13 disable the VEV cache in ZFS ?

2021-05-14 Thread Pete French
Am just upgrading my machiens, and have noticed an oddity. This is on a machine runnign 12.2 # zfs-stats -D ZFS Subsystem ReportFri May 14 08:30:50 2021 -

Re: Does FreeBSD 13 disable the VEV cache in ZFS ?

2021-05-14 Thread Pete French
> Could you check the values of the following sysctl variables: > > vfs.zfs.vdev.cache_size > vfs.zfs.vdev.cache_bshift > vfs.zfs.vdev.cache_max > kstat.zfs.misc.vdev_cache_stats.misses > kstat.zfs.misc.vdev_cache_stats.hits > kstat.zfs.misc.vdev_cache_stats.delegations As predicted, all zero, apa

Re: Problem with link aggregation + sshd

2012-08-28 Thread Pete French
> No answer, so it seems that link aggregation doesn't really work in freebsd, > this may help others with the same problem... I used to use LCAP a lot - this was a few years ago, but the critical point was that it only worked if all the cables went to the same logcial switch. Using a pair of swit

Re: Problem with link aggregation + sshd

2012-08-29 Thread Pete French
> Link aggregation can never work with two separate switches! LACP and > static trunking require both sides to bundle the same trunk. which is > impossible for two separate switches. These switches had a port where you could connect them together and then configure each to know about the other swi

Re: Problem with link aggregation + sshd

2012-08-29 Thread Pete French
> Have you checked that Windows really did LACP in your case? Sounds like > it was no real hardware stack, so probably Windos just activated RSTP. > FreeBSD doesn't detect any LACP/RSTP configuration features, but windows > does with some NIC verndor's drivers. That is quite possible - I didnt set

Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas?

2012-12-12 Thread Pete French
> Is the SVN revision gonna disappear from the uname -a output ? I hope. This comment surprises me - having the svn revision there is one of the best thigns about moving to svn from csup for me. I can look at a running machine, and know how to chekcout precisely the code is was built from. Very us

Re: Proposed MFC to hastctl: compact 'status' and introduce 'list' command

2013-05-24 Thread Pete French
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/248291 ... > The reason I'm asking is that it could lead to changes in hast-related > scripts > which one use in production. Any chance we could do this is 2 stages - first being to add 'list' to give us a chnace ti change scripts over, then make the

pfsync between 8.4 and 9.2

2013-10-01 Thread Pete French
I just started rolling out 9.2 to all our production machnes, which are currently on 8.4. We have tested it pretty throughly internally and are very happy with it, but as part of the deployment have hit a problem. We have a pair of boxes running as a firewall using carp and pfsync. One of the - the

Re: pfsync between 8.4 and 9.2

2013-10-02 Thread Pete French
> Warning: I don't know internals, I'm just a user. but one who reads the doucmebtation closer than I do apparently :-) > According to pf(4), FreeBSD 9.2 matches OpenBSD 4.5. > Specifically, pfsync(4) says: > > The pfsync protocol and kernel implementation were > significantly modified betwee

Re: pfsync between 8.4 and 9.2

2013-10-02 Thread Pete French
Just to follow this up for anyuone finding the thread, after upgrading the other firewall to 9.2 as well, pfsync works fine agai. The failover actually seems a lot faster in fact, so it looks like a big improvements. thanks, -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@fr

hast and zfs trim possibly causing some problems in 9.2

2013-10-09 Thread Pete French
I just had a machine fall over on my for the first time in ages - one of a pair of machine we have running hast with zfs on top. I havent got any concrete evidence of what made it die as yet, but I did notice the logifles filling up with thoursands of lines like this just prior to the crash: serpe

Re: hast and zfs trim possibly causing some problems in 9.2

2013-10-11 Thread Pete French
> If the device on the secondary node does not supports DELETE, but the > device on the primary does, HAST will report to ZFS that DELETE > succeeded (although it failed on the secondary), and ZFS will not > disable TRIM. Pete, isn't this your case? Afraid not, both machines are running normal "sp

Re: hast and zfs trim possibly causing some problems in 9.2

2013-10-11 Thread Pete French
> You showed only "Remote request failed" errors from your logs. Do you > have "Local request failed" errors too? Yes, I have both - heres a fragment of the log: Oct 9 11:06:47 serpentine-active hastd[1502]: [serp0] (primary) Remote request failed (Operation not supported): DELETE(8594203648, 2

Re: hast and zfs trim possibly causing some problems in 9.2

2013-10-11 Thread Pete French
> You should also see them in "local errors" statistics from `hastctl > list' output. Unfortunately I think those couters were reset when the machine panicd - they are all showing as zero. -pete. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: hast and zfs trim possibly causing some problems in 9.2

2013-10-11 Thread Pete French
> What do you see from: > sysctl kstat.zfs.misc.zio_trim > > You should be seeing none zero unsupported and zero failed. If this is > not the case its likely hast isnt setting bio_error to ENOTSUP. Again, unfortunately, the systems are now running with trim diisabled so these statsitcs have all be

Re: Is there a linux_base available for RELENG_9?

2015-03-10 Thread Pete French
> Indeed. Having read UPDATING prior to the attempted upgrade, I > followed the advise to add 'compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.18' > to sysctl.conf(5). And rebooted. If you rebooted then it should have been set - and you should not have needed to do it manually. > But what turned out to be the *actual

Re: No sound on 10.1-RELEASE

2015-03-11 Thread Pete French
I havent really followed this thread in great detail, but I just remembered that I also have an MSI motjherboard with onboard sound, pyus a graphics card with sound on it. I have to ouyht this in sysctl.conf hw.snd.default_unit=1 to make sure sound comes out of the onboard port not the gr

CARp comatibility between 9 and 10

2015-06-07 Thread Pete French
I have a pair of firewalls running FreeBSD 9 to upgrade to 10 next week. I know CARp was rewritten, but I was wndering a few things before I started. Mainly is it possible to have one machine running 9 and one running 10 with the failover working between themproperly. The reason I am wondering s th

Re: CARp comatibility between 9 and 10

2015-06-08 Thread Pete French
> I did this a while ago - and it actually worked. > (CARP between 9 and 10). > > I think I have each IP assigned its own VHID, though. Thanks for this, someone else has confimred that 10 orks with multiple IP's per VHID, so I am good to go. Do I still need to compile a separate kernel with pfsyn

Re: Upgrade SRC built i386 8.4 to 10.1 questions

2015-08-04 Thread Pete French
> 1. can I use freebsd-update to migrate to 10.1 i386 not qualified to comment on this, to go from 8 to 10 I wuld recommend going via 9, as I am not sure it can be done in one step. > 2. can I use freebsd-update to migrate to 10.1 amd64 > 3. can I use source buildkernel + buildworld to migrate i3

Latest stable (r287104) bash leaves zombies on exit

2015-08-25 Thread Pete French
I updated to stable yesterday, plus updated all my porst to the latest pecompiled packages, but I am now seeing odd problems with bash on exit. Sometimes it quits, but leaves a zombie process... e.g PID TT STATTIME COMMAND 44308 v0 IW 0:00.00 -bash (bash) 44312 v0 IW+ 0:00.00 /bin/sh /

Re: Latest stable (r287104) bash leaves zombies on exit

2015-08-26 Thread Pete French
As noted yestterday, this issue only happens in an xterm as far as I can make out. When back becomes a zombie then the xtrem enters state urdlck according to ps. I tried removing and reinstalling all ports today, in the hopes that might fix it, but the problem is still there. Is anyone else seeing

Re: Latest stable (r287104) bash leaves zombies on exit

2015-08-27 Thread Pete French
> Hi Pete! > > I cannot reproduce the error, but I'm using fvwm. Can you give a step-bystep > instruction to reproduce the error? > > nik Hello Nik, thanks for looking at this for me - I havent yet found a reliable way to reproduce it unfortunately. It seems to happen on wiindows where I have run

Re: Latest stable (r287104) bash leaves zombies on exit

2015-08-27 Thread Pete French
> I can reproduce this easily, although not every time. Ah, thats good to hear, as it means I am not going completely mad, thanks! :) > Running 10.2 under KDE, with bash as a default shell: > start xterm from a KDE 'konsole', then move to within the xterm > and try closing it (^D or exit). More o

Re: Latest stable (r287104) bash leaves zombies on exit

2015-08-27 Thread Pete French
> Try to obtain the backtrace from the hung xterm. Ideally, you would > rebuild xterm and the system libraries (rtld+libc+libthr) with debug > symbols and get the backtraces after that. I can try this tomorrow - what do I need to set in src.conf to add debug symbols in when I do a buidlworld (that

Just updated to 12 from11 - did ld change ?

2018-11-12 Thread Pete French
Just trying out the BETA4 version of 12, updating from 11-STABLE. All went nice and smoothly, but when compiing coe I had to make some tweaks to the arhuments I am passing to 'ld' when part-linking objects against static libraries. Did something chnage here ? Its not on the release notes that I can

Re: Just updated to 12 from11 - did ld change ?

2018-11-12 Thread Pete French
On 12/11/2018 22:12, Dimitry Andric wrote: If you are on amd64, ld is now LLVM's lld. You can check this with "ld -v": $ ld -v LLD 6.0.1 (FreeBSD 335540-125) (compatible with GNU linkers) Ah, yes, I am on amd64 - that would be it then, thanks! Worth menioning in the release notes mayb

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

2018-11-26 Thread Pete French
Foolwing up an old thread I know, but my ssystem ahs been pretty stable until recently, when it started locking up about one a week at least. This co-incided with me doing two things to it: 1) Doubling the amount of RAM in it to 16 gig, using RAM which runs a bit faster than the original stick

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

2018-11-26 Thread Pete French
On 26/11/2018 16:28, Eric van Gyzen wrote: My Ryzen has never run 11, but I have never seen a single problem on 12. As you suggest, it's probably due to the particular hardware combination. If updating the BIOS doesn't help, I agree that lowering the memory clock is the best next step. I

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

2018-11-26 Thread Pete French
On 26/11/2018 16:30, Mike Tancsa wrote: Interesting, I too have noticed my one test box have the odd lockup.  I think it started around the BETA series. Is it possible something "undid" one of the fixes ? I brought the box in question upto 12.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 12.0-PRERELEASE r340724 and its

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

2018-12-04 Thread Pete French
On 04/12/2018 15:04, Mike Tancsa wrote: Well, another lockup. This time after ~ 10 days of uptime. Box was idle at the time and just a solid freeze. This is an ASUS PRIME X370-PRO running BIOS from 09/07/2018 (latest).  Not sure if BIOS related or OS related. I have another motherboard (MSI) th

Re: Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ? (with sort of workaround)

2018-12-04 Thread Pete French
On 04/12/2018 18:26, Mike Tancsa wrote: I think I will downgrade the box that was having issues to RELENG11 to see if the problem is there too.  Unfortunately, the issue took ~ 10 days to show itself My issues showed up on releng 11 as well as releng 12 - I didnt ry the last 11 stable for l

Re: Congratulations on the Silver Anniversery Edition of FreeBSD

2018-12-12 Thread Pete French
> Glen, > It is just a bit shy of 25 years and 1 month that I shipped > the 1.0 Release. Its been a long road, but we are here now! Its alwasy really nice to see poeple who have been with the project since the start still around :-) So, time to start upgrading everything to 12.0! well done

Any suggestions for a layer 3 load ablancer for 12, as relayd doesnt work anymore

2019-01-14 Thread Pete French
So, until the middle of this afternoon I was, doing my load balancing using relayd from ports and PF. My own fault for not checking, but I upgraded one of the firewall pair to 12 and then discovered that the relayd port is no longer available. Am now puzzling over solutions to this - I dont really

Re: Any suggestions for a layer 3 load ablancer for 12, as relayd doesnt work anymore

2019-01-15 Thread Pete French
On 15/01/2019 10:24, Mark Blackman wrote: On 14 Jan 2019, at 18:44, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: haproxy does proper failover and allows custom health checks either via URL or real world traffic of external scripts. Traefik has lots of container oriented features. Dave There’s also the very vener

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