Re: classes and kernel_cookie was Re: Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
ll about. I'm also happy to patch the code but feel that both PXE and BOOTP should be consistent and I'm not sure which is the correct approach. >BTW, it would be kind if the line in the pxeboot(8): > As PXE is still in its infancy ... >can be changed :-) Well, there ar

Re: sed is broken under freebsd?

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
; and/or setting POSIXLY_CORRECT. This is part of the GNU/FSF "lockin" policy that encourages people to use their non-standard extensions to ensure that you don't have any choice other than to use their software. -- Peter Jeremy pgpd7zj0Dn2kG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: system crash during make installworld

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
picture of the screen showing the issue). -- Peter Jeremy pgptX1VTtosbn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Linker set issues with ath(4) HALs

2011-03-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
_hal", rather than the hardware-specific HAL fix the problem? -- Peter Jeremy pgpL0aiDu3NMN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Linker set issues with ath(4) HALs

2011-03-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-Mar-05 11:48:54 +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote: >On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 07:50:05PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> I have a Atheros AR5424 and so, based on the 8.2-STABLE i386 NOTES >> and some rummaging in the sources, I tried to build a kernel with: >> >&g

Re: Automatic reboot doesn't reboot

2011-05-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
ng http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2011-March/010862.html (note that mailman has split it into at least 3 threads). -- Peter Jeremy pgpQGveibDZlq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: current status of digi driver

2011-06-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
e have about 55 modem ports over ten 8-port Xr cards (PCI) that connect >remote sites via dial-up. I've only got access to PCI Xem cards that are used for serial console concentration so it would be useful for you to test both the Xr cards and dial-in support. -- Peter Jeremy pgpjTK58Q

Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors

2011-07-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
by the local OS rep (this was a Motorola SVR2). -- Peter Jeremy pgp9GiYFCh7fP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SATA 6g 4-port non-RAID controller ?

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
understand; I think I can recall reading about issues >with the 915 chipset. I agree a "check, don't assume" warning is >reasonable. I have also run into problems (wouldn't POST from memory) trying to use a NIC in the x16 slot of Dell GX620 boxes, which use an i945 chipset. -- Peter Jeremy pgpxVKRjcgfQY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS directory with a large number of files

2011-08-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
(including Solaris) behave badly in this scenario but 4.4BSD derivatives will release unused space at the end of a directory and have smarts to more efficiently skip unused entries at the start of a directory. -- Peter Jeremy pgpmdeH6w8Ny5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: bad sector in gmirror HDD

2011-08-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
t for visible bad sectors (and Solaris UFS still reserves space for this, though I don't know if it still works) but the code was removed from FreeBSD long ago. AFAIR, wd(4) supported bad sectors but it was removed long ago. -- Peter Jeremy pgpzqxeB9mDZP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 32GB limit per swap device?

2011-08-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
pseudo-random pattern and then verify). -- Peter Jeremy pgpo8PkzVBfqo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fsck_ufs out of swapspace

2011-12-19 Thread Peter Jeremy
inal result. >A PR has been submitted. sparc64/163460 for the record. Thank you for tracking that down. -- Peter Jeremy pgp7m3HL1diGx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FLAME - security advisories on the 23rd ? uncool idea is uncool

2011-12-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
ng holiday period) but I think the SO made the right call. Hopefully, this was all that was holding up 9.0-RELEASE and RE will be giving us a more welcome Xmas present. -- Peter Jeremy pgpJ5YZU425S5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FLAME - security advisories on the 23rd ? uncool idea is uncool

2011-12-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
in posted, the SO had to decide between two unpalatable options and, IMHO, he made the correct decision. The details and fixes are now available - it's up to you to weigh up the risks of patching vs the risks of not patching. -- Peter Jeremy pgpwPaYsswqdf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Booting problem for FreeBSD SPARC64

2012-01-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
are not listed in http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html and it's likely that they aren't supported. >Is there any work around/solution for this issue ? If you wanted to assist with support for the M3000, I suggest you start a thread on freebsd-sparc64. -- Peter Jeremy pgpsIPp38DaXh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Can't boot 9.0-RELEASE on sparc64

2012-01-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
like the RAM layout when a SB1500 has 2GB RAM. There's no problem with 1GB or 4GB RAM. The OP has created sparc64/164227 -- Peter Jeremy pgpg7mKRrjkxp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: disk devices speed is ugly

2012-02-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
side of the "each FS does its own caching" in that the caches are all separate and need careful integration into the VM subsystem to prevent starvation (eg past problems with UFS starving ZFS L2ARC). -- Peter Jeremy pgpa3o0LQ2kfG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Another ZFS ARC memory question

2012-02-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
re absorbed by vm.v_cache_min and vm.v_free_reserved in the first instance. The current vfs.zfs.arc_max default may be a bit high for some workloads but at this point in time, you will need to tune it manually. -- Peter Jeremy pgpb0kzq1SDsY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: zfs, 1 gig of RAM and periodic weekly

2012-02-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
r auto-tuning. I'd strongly recommend against running ZFS on i386 as anything other than an experiment. -- Peter Jeremy pgpsJbLUQk3mc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Seeking 6.4 make source for ports

2012-06-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
ake (and any other build infrastructure it needs) for RELENG_6_4 or later and run "make" in that directory. You could even grab the files from the 6.4-RELEASE src install bundle on an FTP site. -- Peter Jeremy pgpF0FRK4GTke.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Xorg in swwrt

2012-06-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
en logging out of X. This is with X.Org X Server 1.10.6 and a "ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro" on 8-STABLE r235229. The problem seems to go away after a couple of hours. -- Peter Jeremy pgpiZRKfLAQrH.pgp Description: PGP signature

sh(1) exiting on SIGWINCH

2012-07-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
66 sh RET close 0 1766 sh CALL exit(0) Does this ring any bells with anyone? -- Peter Jeremy pgp5N9G6c8SWr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sh(1) exiting on SIGWINCH

2012-07-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Jul-04 20:03:32 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >I've recently updated a box from 8-stable to 9-stable/amd64 (r237995), >compiled with gcc, and now sh(1) exits if I change the window size >(ssh'ing to the target system within an xterm). I don't recall ever >se

Re: sh(1) exiting on SIGWINCH

2012-07-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
stigating fixes to libedit but do not have a solution yet. There is a possibility that sh(1) is relying on bugs in the old libedit. At this stage, it seems likely that the libedit update (r237738) will be reverted for 9.1-RELEASE. -- Peter Jeremy pgpUCwQdtnSJm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Stable 7] CPIO breakage/

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
solute-filenames disables this behavior. This definitely reduces security and would seem to be far more dangerous than being able to create symlinks to absolute pathnames. -- Peter Jeremy pgpiAgVPvZVj0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
keyboard... I have had similar problems on one of my USB-only desktops. In my case, moving the keyboard to a different USB port solved the problem. All I can suggest is to work your way through all the USB ports you have available and see if they all behavee the same. -- Peter Jeremy pgpHkZwBBtkAL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Jul-08 18:10:48 -0400, "Mikhail T." wrote: >08.07.2010 17:06, Peter Jeremy написав(ла): >> On 2010-Jul-07 14:22:22 -0400, "Mikhail T." >> wrote>>>1. A picture, that one of the systems was displaying at boot (and >>> then us

Re: Serious zfs slowdown when mixed with another file system (ufs/msdosfs/etc.).

2010-07-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
inactive" or "cache", some quick checks suggest it also helps (though I need to do further checks). See http://people.freebsd.org/~mm/patches/zfs/head-12636.patch -- Peter Jeremy pgpqfU3ecAmS4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Serious zfs slowdown when mixed with another file system (ufs/msdosfs/etc.).

2010-07-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Jul-12 19:38:18 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >I have been using the attached arc.patch1 based on a patch written by >Artem Belevich (see http://pastebin.com/ZCkzkWcs ) >for about a month. I have had reasonable success with it (and junked >my cronjob) but have managed to wedge

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Jul-29 16:50:24 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: >Install ports/sysutils/dmidecode and type (as root): > ># dmidecode -t system -t baseboard > >It will tell you the vendor and product name, among >other things. kenv(1) (in the base) should as well. -- Peter Jeremy

Re: zfs destroy snapshot doesn't free space

2010-08-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
the problem? -- Peter Jeremy pgpbzS5ldbnfc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 8.1R ZFS almost locking up system

2010-08-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
599 which fixes a mismerge) should help. Your very high kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.memory_throttle_count suggests this is your problem. I have a more extensive patch in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=146410 -- Peter Jeremy pgpVn6Q2Ml3YY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Freebsd 8.1 + xorg + radeonhd hang

2010-09-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
nless it's explicitly specified. Also, specifying EXA acceleration is fairly mandatory: The default XAA acceleration is broken. -- Peter Jeremy pgpuqhaZGDnMJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
e. How did you test them and what were the results? Do you know what revision your /usr/src/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/arc.c is? (Or when/how did you last upgrade your source tree). -- Peter Jeremy pgpAFG55c53N0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Sep-21 20:02:09 -0700, Bryce wrote: >On Sep 20, 6:17 am, peterjer...@acm.org (Peter Jeremy) wrote: >> On 2010-Sep-18 08:32:32 -0500, Bryce Edwards wrote: >> >> >I have a Supermicro with the C7X58 motherboard and an i7 930 cpu, and >> >it is nowhere near

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Sep-22 01:43:10 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >To the OP: ... 4) Check the CPU core temperature (via coretemp(4) or similar) and make sure the heatsink is correctly attached. -- Peter Jeremy pgp049hzGw1N5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: safe mode

2010-11-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
me software image as you currently deploy. Your new hardware would therefore seem to provide an ideal opportunity for you to also move to a newer OS (and still supported) version of FreeBSD. You could then choose whether to maintain the older software on the existing deployed base or validate the newer software on the older hardware and older units as required. -- Peter Jeremy pgpxRiAnUDqbI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS backups: retrieving a few files?

2010-11-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
on import. BTW, the entire export is performed at the current compression level - recompressing existing data. -- Peter Jeremy pgpJ45k6nVaUR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS backups: retrieving a few files?

2010-11-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Nov-24 11:07:23 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >Quoting Peter Jeremy (from Wed, 24 Nov 2010 >06:32:07 +1100): > >> BTW, the entire export is performed at the current compression level - >> recompressing existing data. > >Are you sure the compression is do

idprio processes slowing down system

2010-11-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
TNESS and WITNESS_SKIPSPIN, 8GB RAM, src and obj are both on ZFS. -- Peter Jeremy pgpTYgNUsxZxp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: idprio processes slowing down system

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Nov-28 02:24:21 -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: >On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> Since all the boinc processes are running at i31, why are they impacting >> a buildkernel that runs with 0 nicety? > >With the setup you presented you're goin

Re: 8.1 livelock/hangup: possible actions

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
_free_count); at the top of the function. This fixes the worst bug but there are lots of other fixes if you upgrade. -- Peter Jeremy pgpMi5QjNUH8u.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: root mount error

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
aditional info I'll give it all, just ask. What is the SVN revision of a kernel that works? What is the SVN revision of a kernel that fails? Can you please post a verbose dmesg of a successful boot. Can you please post a dmesg of an unsuccessful boot (see above). -- Peter Jeremy pgpHUhVzb3Hvu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
which is a known issue with ZFS. -- Peter Jeremy pgp9CvWOJe1I9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
intensive than UFS and a more powerful CPU may help - especially if you want gzip compression and/or sha256 checksumming. -- Peter Jeremy pgpRE0BXxVZbL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
bout ½day tracking that down - not helped by the lack of any documentation or a useful error message (though there is a comment in the code when you eventually track it down). -- Peter Jeremy pgpObQwMbJjKU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
everal incompatible ways) but none actually work. A quick look at -current suggests that the situation there remains equally broken. Has anyone else tried to use any of this? And would anyone be interested in trying to make it actually work? -- Peter Jeremy pgpVVITD1dFyb.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2011-01-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
rg/dokuwiki/doku.php/zfsraid Note that, even for a home system, backups are worthwhile. In my case, I backup onto a 2TB disk in an eSATA enclosure. That's currently (just) adequate but I'll soon need to identify data that I can leave off that backup. -- Peter Jeremy pgpOSt5NCO7Do.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: i386 vs amd64?

2008-08-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
reeBSD/amd64 can happily run 32-bit Linux and FreeBSD/i386 executables (though there's no easy way to build FreeBSD/i386 executables on FreeBSD/amd64). This does not extend to KLDs so 3rd-party 32-bit KLDs (eg the nVIDIA graphics driver). -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result

Re: lagg(4) and failover

2008-08-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
primarily used to increase the bandwidth between the host and the switch whilst failover is used for redundancy. With lacp, all the physical interfaces must be connected to a single switch. With failover, the physical interfaces will normally be connected to different switches (so a failure in o

Re: lagg(4) and failover

2008-08-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
g in Linux is capable of doing this and solaris too. It shouldn't be too difficult to create something that behaves functionally similarly to Slowaris ipmpd (and with marginally more effort, you could create something that could be configured to behave sensibly). -- Peter Jeremy Please ex

Re: the future of sun4v

2008-08-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
rtual disk or virtual network, actually getting FreeBSD running there presents somewhat of a challenge. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpYZcaPY2ZT8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
sn't been touched since November 2006 and suggests that the only critical issue is lack of serial port support. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpBk7ynbGdXo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
t only covers the US-I/II families and there's no mention of sun4v. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpoen3snXqeK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sun4v arch

2008-08-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
et and can you point me to the code, It seems that the latest OpenBSD runs on sun4v. I haven't investigated how well supported it is. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches thei

Re: Is it safe to delete /bin/[ && /usr/bin/false?

2008-09-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
ly/ don't want to wipe the disk(s) and start all over. I'm not sure how this will help. > This >issue is not new to me - see thread:[: -le: argument expected for details. You haven't mentioned where this thread exists - definitely not here. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any del

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
ld be removed from disk1 to make space for the above? -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgp0pnQt3pGGi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
. >These total 27696575 bytes or 26.4 MB. Including the full list of runtime dependencies, FF3 needs 120 packages, totalling 89MB (already bzip'd) on i386. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is eithe

Re: crossbuilding of RELENG_7 broken?

2008-09-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Sep-15 18:18:28 +0200, Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Peter Jeremy wrote: >> On 2008-Sep-14 18:21:45 +0200, Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Building them works fine, but when I nfs-mount /usr/obj and /usr/src on the >>&g

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

2008-09-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
d repair several errors. Epecially, one error claims my >attention: SUPERBLOCK. It might have been useful if you had kept a record of the exact messages. If you repeat the fsck, does it now report any problems? If you are using an up-to-date CVSup mirror, my next suggestion would be hardware pro

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

2008-09-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Sep-26 13:23:12 +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Connecting to cvsup.de.FreeBSD.org Edwin's script reports this as up-to-date. ># cd /usr/src ; ls -la >total 0 But something is obviously wrong. Can you post your supfile please. -- Peter Jere

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

2008-09-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
hat the master/slave/MB sockets on the cable are plugged into the correct device. If you want to slow down the ATA bus, I suggest you do it in software. >4. ? anything else? Try disconnecting some of the disks and see if the problem goes away - this would help rule out PSU problems. -- Pete

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

2008-09-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
port, as could overheating. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpwR8dFmRPsS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY

2008-09-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
itten to non-volatile storage - which tagged queuing provides. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgp72bNCQab19.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sysctl maxfiles

2008-09-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
c values (possibly with a '*' appended) in the FD column. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any easy way to detect shared file structures (for inode-based files) using either fstat or lsof. In the case of apache, there are at least 6 file structures shared by each httpd pro

Re: sysctl maxfiles

2008-09-28 Thread Peter Jeremy
;Files'. You can check with 'vmstat -z|grep Files' -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgp96NLXV1r3U.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Help me to develop a FreeBSD patch for gcc-4.2.1

2008-10-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
ayout to make a patch. The original sources for gcc can be found in /usr/src/contrib/gcc - note that this is not a complete gcc 4.2.1 distribution as parts of gcc that are not relevant for FreeBSD have been deleted. Refer to the FREEBSD-* files for details. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse an

Re: Help me to develop a FreeBSD patch for gcc-4.2.1

2008-10-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
e FreeBSD gcc is not built using the gcc configure script. Instead, all the target-specific configuration is under /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claim

Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Peter Jeremy
ndows side if the Unix side has files differing only in case. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgprbYRrbivYj.pgp Description: PGP signature

System hanging during dump

2008-10-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
he snapshot meta and rollback data would have occupied the 20GB free (and no 'out-of-space' messages were generated). Is there some limit on the number of inodes that can be updated whilst a snapshot exists? Has anyone else seen anything similar? -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays

Re: System hanging during dump

2008-10-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Oct-15 01:35:38 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:24:28PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> Last night, I attempted a full, compressed backup of my 181GB /home >> (on a PATA disk) to a remote system. The backup started at 2

Re: System hanging during dump

2008-10-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Oct-15 02:08:48 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:58:43PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> On 2008-Oct-15 01:35:38 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:24:28PM +1100, Peter

Re: System hanging during dump

2008-10-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
, though that's not a problem until you wrap it in a loop). -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpvU81MKcZ1y.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: System hanging during dump

2008-11-02 Thread Peter Jeremy
clean up after itself (my hacking included hard-wiring the options so I'm not sure my cleanup code is complete in the general case). As a low priority, I'll create a PR covering the strdup's. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to im

Re: System deadlock when using mksnap_ffs

2008-11-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
ld be made >a little more dynamic but I wonder if it would show any real performance >difference and might risk more bugs. FWIW, I've been running the patch since I first saw Doug post it in Feb 2006 and don't recall ever having problems with mksnap_ffs since applying it (I did bef

Re: _nyssin undefined

2008-11-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
you will need to recover it from backups or a live filesystem CD. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpEiIzafN6xO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: _nyssin undefined

2008-11-17 Thread Peter Jeremy
"enter shell pathname" prompt? If so, does specifying "/rescue/sh" give you a shell? -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpmSqvmvDY6d.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Possible regression in ifconfig under7.0 - removes validdefault route

2008-11-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Nov-17 23:36:19 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Oh yeah, since we're in wishful thinking mode, I want interface >descriptions too... Have you looked at the 'name' and 'group' keywords in ifconfig(8)? If this isn't what you want, please expand on your w

Re: Integrated RTL8168/8111 NIC not assigned interface

2008-11-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
revision, so you can't tell from the pciconf output whether it's supported or not. Can you report the output of 'pciconf -r pci0:1:0:0 0x40' (which should report the hw revision) and 'pciconf -r pci0:2:4:0 0x40' (which gives me a double-check). You could try booting

Re: RELENG_7_1: Laptop mouse (psm0) disappeared??!?

2008-11-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
set the aux device. > psm0: the aux device has gone! (reinitialize). My son's HP v6107 running 6.4-PRERELEASE/amd64 does this occasionally as well. I haven't found any solution other than reboot either. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inabilit

Re: RELENG_7_1: Laptop mouse (psm0) disappeared??!?

2008-11-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Nov-27 00:09:39 -0200, "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Peter Jeremy ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My son's HP v6107 running 6.4-PRERELEASE/amd64 does this occasionally >> as well. I

Re: sysinstall automatic partition labelling/sizing problem

2008-12-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
maybe use growfs and eat into your swap) 2) Avoid building unwanted modules via MODULES_OVERRIDE. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpDpdRtIhm2G.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: lagg(4) and failover

2008-12-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
th a load balancer >is almost always less expensive then excessive component-level >redundancy/ha (RAID Disk, RAID RAM, Dual Power Supplies, Dual >Backplanes...) That's a different topic, but yes, you should evaluate your requirements at a system level, rather than just making every componen

Re: visibility of release process

2008-12-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
ical with gnats. >[3] I've also made an attempt to have Atlassian use Fisheye to >produce an friendly overview of the repository, I've had a look at several of the fisheye sites and am not sure what it would buy the Project, other than some pretty graphs. I don't see how t

Re: lagg(4) and failover

2008-12-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
nd that you'll still need multiple FreeBSD boxes to prevent them being a single point of failure. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpRg83tFxR9k.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [ATA] and re(4) stability issues

2008-12-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg06694.html that claims the AMD/ATI SB600 lies about supporting 64-bit DMA in AHCI mode. I have a SB600 but it doesn't have >4GB to test on. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is ei

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-12-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
owhere else). If scroll lock still works, you can take pictures of earlier output (and if caps/scroll/num lock don't work, that is a useful piece of information). -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-12-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Dec-24 17:29:05 +0100, Jack Raats wrote: >Main problem is: >ad0: FreeBSD check1 failed This is produced when the ATA subsystem is trying to read RAID metadata off the disk and just means it failed to find any. It's not an error. Can you post more context please. -- P

Re: rdump stuck in sbwait state (RELENG_7)

2008-12-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
n or so packets in each direction. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. pgpL79vKz7BI4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: rdump stuck in sbwait state (RELENG_7)

2008-12-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
ta out of OpenVMS). The '-C' and '-W' options to tcpdump will help. > Shouldn't this get torn down by a keepalive at some point? It has been >sitting for 9 hours or so at this point... On FreeBSD, keepalives are off by default. You change change the default with sysctl net

Interval timers firing early

2008-12-31 Thread Peter Jeremy
19.979058 0.010942 10942 1230777119.991065 59.998935 59998935 1230777179.978597 0.011403 11403 1230777179.991610 59.998390 59998390 1230777239.979139 0.010861 10861 1230777239.991142 59.998858 59998858 -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to impleme

Re: "vr0: rx packet lost"

2009-01-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Jan-10 19:15:22 -0800, David Ehrmann wrote: >Wow. That really is a lot, but I might just wait for the final release, >though with this command, it might not be such a big deal: > >freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RC1 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE has been available for nearly a week

Re: interrupt storm

2009-01-15 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-Jan-14 22:57:46 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: >Opening the case, reading the m/b: > > K9A2 Platinum MSI Tangentially related: For any decent M/B, kenv(8) should tell you this without needing to open the box. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP'

Re: System borked: loader stack overflow.

2009-01-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
kernel/kernel) See the following for a more complete description: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=boot&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE&format=html Alternatively, you could boot off a "live filesystem" CD. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays

Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade

2009-01-30 Thread Peter Jeremy
de. > This update also brings in support for a >lot of people who are running newer hardware. And breaks support for lots of people who used to have functional X servers. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either

Re: impossible packet length ...

2009-02-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
hat NIC are you using and are you seeing any network errors? Are you able to capture a protocol trace showing the transaction including erroneous packet? -- Peter Jeremy pgpu4kjVvzpv2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: impossible packet length ...

2009-02-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
t least until you find a real fix) then there's no need to change NICs. -- Peter Jeremy pgpvjmeZt076h.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: impossible packet length ...

2009-02-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
sum off-loading? This should make the kernel drop the corrupt packets instead of trying to process them. If practical, you could also try (temporarily) plugging in a different NIC. -- Peter Jeremy pgpuJJeSAGTcl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Pendrive 8G+CAM_REQ_CMP_ERR

2009-02-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
/messages)? What are the exact error messages (or a sample thereof)? What does 'usbdevs -v' report about the pendrive? -- Peter Jeremy pgpk3xDlL4o7j.pgp Description: PGP signature

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