Re: Timing of 9.0-RC1?

2011-10-17 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Brett Glass (br...@lariat.net) wrote: > Thank you! Did not know to look for this in the source tree; now I know. You can get an Atom feed to monitor it for you here: http://freshbsd.org/search?project=freebsd&q=file.name%3Anewvers.sh&branch=RELENG_9 -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst http://h

Re: ICRC's

2008-08-11 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Larry Rosenman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm getting the following on a zpool scrub: > > ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=54817587 > ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=187521229 > ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying requ

Re: ICRC's

2008-09-02 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Jeremy Chadwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:58:22AM +0100, Thomas Hurst wrote: > > * Larry Rosenman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > ad8: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=154593293 > > > > > > NA

Re: Request for testing - top 3.8b1 in the base system

2008-09-29 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Edwin Groothuis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have made an update for the top(1) utility in the FreeBSD base > system to get it from the 3.5b12 version to the 3.8b1 version. Looks good, thanks! IO mode seems to have changed a bit, giving different values to 3.5, it seems while 3.5 gives you t

Re: visibility of release process

2008-12-10 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Patrick Lamaizière ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ruben van Staveren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > Though experimental, I'm greatly enjoying > > http://www.secnetix.de/olli/FreeBSD/svnews/?p=/stable/7 > > Nice. There is also http://freshbsd.org/ (really cool IMHO). Thanks; I write/run that.

Re: em(4) interface hangs under 8.0-RELEASE

2010-03-06 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Jack Vogel (jfvo...@gmail.com) wrote: > Its using MSI? Given that its PCI-X I have no idea how robust MSI is, > how bout you compile it with that disabled, use legacy IRQ and see > if that makes any diff. I'm seeing similar issues with a quad port 82546EB card, and they're not using MSI as far

Re: em(4) interface hangs under 8.0-RELEASE

2010-03-06 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Steven Hartland (kill...@multiplay.co.uk) wrote: > If that's a supermicro then em3 is usually the IPMI shared card so perhaps > that's the cause? No, it's a Tyan K8WE: http://www.tyan.com/archive/products/html/thunderk8we.html With a quad port Intel NIC in one of the 133MHz PCI-X slots. The

Re: em(4) interface hangs under 8.0-RELEASE

2010-03-07 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Jeremy Chadwick (free...@jdc.parodius.com) wrote: > It's been mentioned in the past that for "simple" SATA expansion cards, > a good/affordable choice at this point are cards using the Silicon Image > 3124/3132/3531 chips (driven by the siis(4) driver). Avoid the 3112. > > The reason I say tha

Re: "ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" type errors with 7.0-RC1

2008-01-25 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Chuck Swiger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Jan 25, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Joe Peterson wrote: >> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED >> WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE >> 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 114 071 006Pre-fail Always >> - 8242294

Re: Disk I/O Question 7.0-STABLE

2008-04-11 Thread Thomas Hurst
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Re: Disk I/O Question 7.0-STABLE

2008-04-11 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have disks on the internal ICH7 adapters (on the motherboard), SATA, > and also a TWE controller with two disks. > > When hitting the TWE controller hard I can hose the I/O performance on > the primary (onboard) adapter quite severely to the point t

Re: nfs-server silent data corruption

2008-04-24 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Jeremy Chadwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I added it directly to the 2nd CPU (diagram on page 9 of > > http://www.tyan.com/manuals/m_s2895_101.pdf) and the problem > > seems to be the interaction between nfe0 and powerd : > > That board is the weirdest thing I've seen in years. K8WE

Re: Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max sysctl.

2008-05-16 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Evren Yurtesen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I guess one good question is, how can one see the number of PV entries > used by a process? shouldnt these appear in the output of ipcs -a > command? No, PV entries are a VM thing, not limited to SysV IPC. > Another good question is, in many places t

Re: Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max sysctl.

2008-05-16 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Evren Yurtesen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How do I see what process is sharing memory and how much memory? Guessing is normally sufficient; typically it's processes with the same name and similar size/res. On 7-STABLE you can use procstat -v to look at the VM mappings for a process, but typi

Re: regular user can destroy disk label?!?

2007-07-04 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Julian H. Stacey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Either: > - You made a typo with ar0s2 & meant ad0s2, > - Or you really mean "ar" - man 4 ar reports a comms card ! ataraid(4) exposes ATA RAID devices as ar%d: -% man 4 ataraid |grep /dev /dev/ar* ATA RAID device nodes -- Thomas 'Fre

Re: problems with Hitachi 1TB SATA drives

2007-07-26 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Jeremy Chadwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * I'm left questioning why a disk manufacturer would process drives > (by this I mean the manufacturing process) differently based on their > transport type. It would cost a *huge* amount of money to have > separate fabs for SCSI, SAS, and SATA/PATA.

Re: default dns config change causing major poolpah

2007-08-01 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Doug Barton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If there is a consensus based on solid technical reasons (not emotion > or FUD) to back the root zone slaving change out, I'll be glad to do > so. I think it would be very useful at this point if those who _like_ > the change would speak up publicly as we

Re: IPMI & SuperMicro

2007-08-06 Thread Thomas Hurst
* G?t Andr?s ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On these you've to forget the ipmi console, because once bge(4) loads > it blocks the bridge that the ipmi uses for remote console. There was > a patch for an older bge(4) driver, but on the 6.2 i couldn't patch > the driver. (I looked the source, but the

Re: large RAID volume partition strategy

2007-08-18 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Vivek Khera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'll investigate this option. Does anyone know the stability > reliability of the mpt(4) driver on CURRENT? Is it out of GIANT lock > yet? It was hard to tell from the TODO list if it is entirely free of > GIANT or not. Yes, mpt(4) was made MPSAFE in

Dubious VM behavior scanning large files

2007-09-16 Thread Thomas Hurst
I'm currently verifying a 50GB filesystem dump with sha1 at about 40MB/s. This is resulting in a small but annoying amount of swapping, including my IRC client, text editors, even syslogd. Larger processes like my .5G-each mysqld and squid don't seem to be effected: Mem: 2045M Active, 5025M Inac

Re: amrd disk performance drop after running under high load

2007-10-16 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Alexey Popov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So I can conclude that FreeBSD has a long standing bug in VM that > could be triggered when serving large amount of static data (much > bigger than memory size) on high rates. Possibly this only applies to > large files like mp3 or video. I've seen high

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-10-30 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Jeremy Chadwick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > There's a periodic script (/etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman) which > rebuilds all the catman pages for you. However, it makes an immense > mess of your weekly system mails due to all the manpage/nroff > formatting mistakes. Have a look: > > http://l

Re: Swapping caused by very large (regular) file size

2008-01-14 Thread Thomas Hurst
* John Baldwin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > We have noticed an issue at work but only on faster controllers (e.g. > certain mfi(4) drive configurations) when doing I/O to a single file > like the dd command mentioned causes the buffer cache to fill up. The > problem being that we can't lock the v

Re: Swapping caused by very large (regular) file size

2008-01-16 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Excellent. I've been seeing this behavior for a long time, mostly on >> backup runs (RAID-1 amr SATA -> 1 disk Marvell ata). It's pretty odd >> seeing a system with 8G of memory, 60% of which is just cache, swap >> out half a dozen things for no appa

Re: Swapping caused by very large (regular) file size

2008-01-19 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Thomas Hurst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >> Excellent. I've been seeing this behavior for a long time, mostly on > >> backup runs (RAID-1 amr SATA -> 1 disk Marvell ata). It's pretty odd > >> seei

Re: Swapping caused by very large (regular) file size

2008-01-19 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I don't understand your test procedure, can you elaborate? The spikes from last night are from: (/sbin/dump -$level -LuaC128 -f - $fs | /usr/bin/tee ${target} | /sbin/sha1 > ${target}.sha1) Followed by: nice -n 19 /home/freaky/bin/par2 c -t+ -r5 -m2

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release process starting...

2009-03-21 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Robert Watson (rwat...@freebsd.org) wrote: > It would probably be worth skimming svn logs for stable/7 to see what > other testing focuses would be particularly useful. In case it's of use, I have full searchable SVN history here: http://beta.freshbsd.org/?q=branch:RELENG_7 -- Thomas 'Frea

Re: interrupt routing

2005-02-09 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Doug White ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ah, so they are all on the same bus. Yuck, performance is going to be > sucky. Bad Tyan, no cookie. That'll also explain the limited number > of interrupts available. I don't think there's anything we can do to > help the situation, sadly. Buy a PCI-X

Re: getting garbage faster using FreeBSD?

2007-02-20 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Bill Moran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Are you actually using /dev/random and not /dev/urandom? > > /dev/random is "military grade" random data. It will block if it > feels that it hasn't gathered enough entropy to satisfy your request. > It will never provide random data at any reasonable spe

Re: any success with new sun "M2" product variant for X4100 and X2100

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Vivek Khera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Has anyone successfully booted FreeBSD 6 on the new "M2" variants of > sun's X2100 or X4100 boxes? I have three X4100 original versions that > works stunningly well (but I don't use the internal disks) with > FreeBSD 6.1. I was just curious how the new o

Re: top shows ''

2007-05-09 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Bill LeFebvre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The <> are only used when the process flag PS_INMEM is clear, which > is supposed to indicate that the process is or is not "in memory". > This flag is only ever cleared in swapout, called from swapout_procs. > My bet is that the processes are being

Re: freebsd and securelevel question

2007-05-11 Thread Thomas Hurst
* G?t Andr?s ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So. The simple question is: Why FreeBSD has securelevel 0 if init sets > it to 1, if it sees at boot that the level is 0? :) So when you boot to single user mode you can turn off immutable/append only flags etc, without letting those capabilities propagat

Re: Tyan K8WE BIOS v1.03 and -STABLE

2006-04-19 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Damian Gerow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I tried updating the BIOS on my K8WE (S2895) yesterday to 1.03, but > after the update, FreeBSD (RELENG_6 dated March 26) would randomly > freeze after booting. > > As I was updating from v1.01, I suspect it may be the updates to > the nVidia SATA firmwa

Re: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related?

2005-05-21 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Søren Schmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > No, my only advise is to use the ATA mkIII patches or better yet - > current.. In a similar vein, I'm seeing the same WRITE_DMA timeouts and system lockups using ATA mkIII patches as I did using the standard RELENG_5 driver, on two seperate systems. I

Re: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related?

2005-06-04 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Søren Schmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Save me Søren! > > You have picked some of the most dreaded HW out there thats for sure, > so I'm not sure I can do that :) Meh, the BP6 might be old, but what's wrong with it? I've used it for the past half a decade practically 24/7 and this is the

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-10 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Steve Roome ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > We're trying to get FreeBSD to perform reasonably well, in comparison > to Linux, or even what we should expect to see. We're getting about > half the performance we get from gentoo on the same application > (mysql). Fancy giving CURRENT a try? For the

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-17 Thread Thomas Hurst
* David Sze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > super-smack select-key > 5.4-RELEASE ~20,000 queries/second > 6.0-CURRENT ~24,000 queries/second > CentOS w/async ~36,000 queries/second > CentOS w/sync ~26,000 queries/second Uh, this should be an

Re: Problems with PCI SATA controller (bug in ATA driver? both ATAng and ATAmkIII)

2005-10-24 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Brooks Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The SII3112 is a piece of crap that won't work reliably. Order > something better (Soren recommends Promise cards). Are all Promise cards currently supported? Even their 8/16+ port "SATA-II" RAID6 cards? PCI-Express? The list of supported controlle

Re: Gmirror'd SWAP: no dump?

2006-01-19 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Christoph Schug ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > IIRC I had the problem that 'gmirror insert' without '-h' not always > inserted the slice specified by the entire block device (e.g. > /dev/ad4s1 vs. /dev/ad4). Apparently there is some auto detection > code and/or gmirror cannot differ correctly, but

Re: portupgrade: integration with the main FreeBSD tree?

2001-12-19 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Nuno Teixeira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > - why not integrate portupgrade with the main FreeBSD tree? The main tree wants to be small; it's installed on all machines, from little gateways sitting in the corner and *just* fitting on the drive, to big-ass servers. Many of these machines

Re: Proposed Solution To Recent "firewall_enable" Thread. [Please Read]

2002-01-28 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Andrew Cowan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It is really to much work to change the script variable names in > current, so that they relate exactly to what they do? eg. > ipfw_load_firewall_rules={yes,no} > ipfw_firewall_rules_file={open,simple,etc,/etc/myfirewall.rule} The -stable

Re: HEADS UP: sendmail 8.12.2 MFC'ed

2002-03-27 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Helge Oldach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Count this my strong vote against removal of packages that are > traditionally part of the base system. I hate sendmail with a passion. I use exim; hence it's just added bloat sitting in my rather full /usr. The existance of more up-to-date ports fo